Robert Stainsby

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On the unceded land of the Kaurna people, aka Adelaide in South Australia. Developer of apps for iPad and iPhone. Activist in Unionists for Palestine SA 🇵🇸🍉 and socialist group Solidarity. Proud to be gay. They/them or he/him.
I've written a preview of tomorrow's South Australian election for Solidarity magazine. There is a link to the article in this blog post, along with some further thoughts from me. https://amassofothergerms.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/sa-election-preview-right-wing-labor-dominates-but-racist-one-nation-is-growing/
SA election preview: Right-wing Labor dominates but racist One Nation is growing

Here is my preview of tomorrow’s election in South Australia, in the latest Solidarity magazine. It’s ironic that this election occurs on the International Day for the Elimination of Ra…

A Mass Of Other Germs

Pssst… most software development was slop before AI.

Sure, *your* code was beautiful and artisanal and custom crafted to be beautiful, performant, and not at all created to be shipped in a fortnight between countless meetings with unclear goals and zero understanding of the bigger picture or user needs.

But those other folks…

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Come and discuss the South Australian election and how socialists should respond. Message 0447 362 417 for venue.

Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.

#Boost #CallToAction

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.
@marcoarment that’s almost as annoying as when I’m listening to Overcast and my wife comes to ask me something, so I squeeze an AirPod to pause. She talks for a few minutes and goes back to doing her thing. So I squeeze an AirPod to unpause, and iOS has dumped Overcast from memory and starts playing something on Apple Music instead. NO, APPLE. NOT WHAT I WANTED TO HAPPEN. EVER. But it’s every single time.
This part.

"Personally, I believe in the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands head and shoulders over all other Negroid leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes. We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro, and national security."

FBI Deputy Director William Sullivan, after watching the "I have a Dream" speech.