AJ Sadauskas
ajsadauskas@mastodon.social
<p>My new profile, after increasingly growing frustrated at the limitations of self hosting.</p><p>Australian urban planning, public transport, politics, retrocomputing, and tech nerd. Recovering journo. Cat parent. Part-time miserable grump.</p><p>Cities for people, not cars! Tech for people, not investors!</p>
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@stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net Glebe Point Road is just around the corner. There's a couple of cafés there like Sappho's (https://www.sapphobooks.com.au/ ) and Dirty Red (https://dirtyred.com.au/ ) that shouldn't be *that* busy at 10:30am on a weekday. I'm sure if you called ahead of time, mentioned you're planning a podcast, and give them a shoutout or two, they'd be amiable to letting you record there. I've also recorded interviews in the UTS Library before.
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A private equity firm fucked up running a 188-year-old department store chain, which had survived two world wars and the Great Depression. So now low-paid retail workers are being told that they'll lose their jobs just weeks before Christmas. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-11/david-jones-to-close-stores/107372854 #auspol #capitalism @latestagecapitalism
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A new FediScam just dropped on Pixelfed. So the past few days, I posted some photos on my Pixelfed ( https://pixelfed.social/ajsadauskas ) about an exhibition on Sidney Nolan at the Art Gallery of NSW. I got a reply from a bot if "my" artwork was available for purchase. (Not unless you want to rob a gallery.) Pro tip for spam bot operators: Update your bot's text so it doesn't read "I came across your profile through Facebook" when you spam people on Pixelfed. #fe...
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A fascinating little piece of Australia's early computing history: The MicroBee. In the early 1980s, a group of engineers in Gosford designed and built a home-grown computer that competed against the likes of the IBM PC, Apple 2, and Commodore 64. At one stage, Apple even offered to buy the company to get a foothold in Australian schools. Here's the story of the rise, fall, and return (?) of the MicroBee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idt-g_UQbqw #MicroBee #retrocomputing #retrocomp...
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Is pixelfed.social down for anyone else at the moment? @dansup@mastodon.social? #Pixelfed