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rainynight65

rainynight65@aus.social

<p>I dabble. Mostly in trains - H0 scale and live steam. Sometimes in games. Professionally in tech. German living on Yuggera land in Australia. I post and repost in English and German. Trans rights are human rights.</p><p>(Previously <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rainynight65" class="u-url mention">@<span>rainynight65</span></a></span>)</p><p>Profile pic is a close-up of a model locomotive (Victorian Railways B Class B65)</p><p>Header is a picture of The Ghan, a tourist train, taken in Alice Springs, Australia, with locomotive NR75 prominently in the lead</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/nobots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nobots</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/noindex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noindex<

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    There is a difference between &quot;this is above my pay grade&quot; and &quot;I&#39;m not getting paid enough to deal with this shit&quot;.

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    @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social When everyone is rushing to dig for gold that may or may not be there - the surefire way to get rich is to sell shovels, pans and pickaxes.

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    After the devastating Farrer by-election loss, Jane Hume is asked whether a future Coalition would include One Nation. Her answer: &amp;quot;It is an impossible question to answer.&amp;quot; No it&amp;#39;s not. There is absolutely nothing impossible about saying &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; when asked if you&amp;#39;ll collaborate with fascists. Saying &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s impossible to answer&amp;quot; means two things: - You&amp;#39;re not opposed to the idea - You&amp;#39;re keeping your opti...

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    &amp;quot;Orban concedes defeat&amp;quot;. That&amp;#39;s the headline I wanted to wake up to today. #eupol #hungary

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    So, Inland Rail is done now. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/05/albanese-government-abandons-beleaguered-inland-rail-project-connecting-nsw-with-queensland I would have liked to see a properly conceived, designed and implemented version of this. But the way it was actually going to come about, with zero community consultation, bonkers decision-making and largely adverse impacts on the rural towns, it&amp;#39;s probably better left alone. #rail #railFreight #auspol

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    The fuck?

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    This is top tier bullshit. Both the fact that the leader of a fascist party is being gifted a private plane by Australia&amp;#39;s richest mining magnate, and how the need for a private plane is justified: politicians don&amp;#39;t want to be bothered by members of the public when traveling. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-29/gina-rinehart-gifts-plane-to-pauline-hanson-one-nation/106620808 #auspol

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    @cR0w It is unbelievable how much time this story spends on trying to convince the reader that this hunter was a really swell guy who did it all out of the goodness of his heart. An &#39;eager conservationist&#39; (I paraphrase) who hunted for legitimate culling reasons (and not to fill his mansion with animal trophies, perish the thought). As far as I&#39;m concerned, the elephants should have been allowed to keep his head for a trophy.

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    @mschfr @masek I worked in a company like that. We called it &amp;#39;waterfall with stand-ups&amp;#39;.

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    I normally wouldn&amp;#39;t comment on this kind of stuff, but this quote from currently erstwhile Sydney shock jock and consistently all-round piece of shit Kyle Sandilands is just too precious. &amp;quot;I just want to get back to work. I’ve got a family, I’ve got mortgages to pay, like everyone else.&amp;quot; Mortgage*s* to pay. Note the plural. The man is on a cool 7+ million base salary just for being a dickhead on radio. Several advertising and licensing deals put him considerably nor...

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    This lovely creature departed this world today. She had the DNA of three working dog breeds. Survivor of snake bites and chewed-through electric cables. She was just shy of her twelfth birthday. Rest in peace, Jasmine. #dogsofmastodon

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    RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116234880430380203 I love Firefly. I love Serenity. I rewatch both every few years despite Whedon and Baldwin. And this goes to show, because normally I would ban people like that and their output from my consumption. But this? I could not be less enthusiastic about this if I actually tried. Animated, set between the show and the movie? Not a draw for me, in several aspects. Those gaps have been filled by the comics, not always in the greatest fashio...

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    If there is one thing I loathe with every fibre of my being, it&amp;#39;s broadcast radio. As of yesterday, the workers on the construction site across from my rental have taken to carrying a portable radio with them. It&amp;#39;s loud enough that I can hear it through my closed windows at 30m distance. If I open my windows, I can clearly hear what the talking heads are saying. This is NOT helping me get through my day. #random #venting

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    The wealthy are no longer merely saying &amp;quot;Fuck you, I&amp;#39;ve got mine&amp;quot;. They&amp;#39;re saying &amp;quot;Fuck you, I&amp;#39;ve got mine, but I want more, so I will get more, and if that means you can&amp;#39;t get yours, fuck you even more.&amp;quot; #greed #thoughts

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    Fuck me, they really elected Matt Canavan as Nats leader? What the actual fucking fuck? What the fuck are the collective members of that party thinking? Are they *trying* to make themselves completely irrelevant?

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    @komislava I am one of them.