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I also have a thing for craft beer, and did so before it was quite as trendy as today.
I live in Meanjin/Brisbane QLD Australia - in Bardon 4065 - on the land of the Turrbul and Jagera people. I'm British and moved here almost seven years ago.
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“Riding” “Electorate” “Constituency” “Congressional district”
The same thing, in countries that speak the same language, but all have different words. I like Canada’s “riding”, though “electorate” in Aussie English means something different to “electorate” in British English which is weird
I’ve avoided them so far, but Dutton is currently doing a presser live on the ABC, on a TV I can’t turn off.
“Why did you put OneNation second on your preferential votes?”
“The best way to vote is to put us as number one.”
“But why did you put OneNation second on your preferential votes?”
“I’ve answered that question.”
Does he think the journos are stupid? Or the voters?
CBC just called the Canadian election for the Liberals. So that's nice.
(If you're #auspol what they really mean is the good people, rather than the conservatives, who are the equivalent of the nasty, racist liberals we have here, who you will not be voting for on Saturday because you're a good person).
How you know a public service broadcaster isn't doing a good job: they geoblock the results broadcast for their own country elections.
The big stories across Canada and around the world.
Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/business/dealbook/spotify-100-million-paid-creators-podcast-video.html
http://mediagazer.com/250428/p9#a250428p9
Media Watch pulls no punches in story about ABC Chair Kim Williams interfering in local content decisions: "a grave lapse of judgement"
I’ve got my #freshrss installation automatically updating its feeds now, so that’s nice.
Amazon Linux AL2023 doesn’t include cron, preferring to use systemctl timers. So I’ve added how to achieve this in my blog post here, which is really for me when I come to reinstall this box in years to come, but in case it’s useful to someone else..
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