Simon Andrew

@simonandrew.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, leftie. On Dharawal land.

Winter solstice sunrise behind the trees
A speed radar "Drive Safely" sign is tipped over and leaning against a tree. It is showing a smiley face. There is a road running over a hill and down and around to the right. There are trees and blue skies.
Tables reserved for 'Jennifer'
Sydney Harbour as viewed from Circular Quay station
Sunrise and sunset times for Sydney on the equinox would be close to 6am, 6pm if not for daylight savings.
The sun just appearing above the horizon through the trees at the top of my driveway. Today is the equinox, so its due east.
A 20yr chart of Betashares Aus Equities Strong Bear Complex ETF (BBOZ) from https://www.marketindex.com.au/asx/bboz, showing a long downward trend.
Me in the backyard. I have small bells in my beard.
Weather forecast for Adelaide tomorrow, showing rain until 12:30pm.
A blue tongue lizard heating itself on the garden wall.
Younger me getting a spoil in on an NT forward's mark.
Two shots of the moon as seen from the Northern and Southern hemishpre.
Screenshot from the battery's app showing my 10 year old 8kW system producing 7.7kW
kWh per month to charge my MG ZS EV, km and km/day worked out on 18kWh per 100km
Home battery stats for the last 5 months showing kW charged and used, efficiency (out/in) and $ saved (out * grid cost - in * grid feed in rate)
Onion 'historic' front page claims Kennedy shot by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters and Freemasons; notably neglecting MGT's Israel theory.
The view from Sydney Circular Quay station on a Friday night when "Vivid" is on
Who is leading in how many seats (sums to 152, Wannon and Kooyong are dead heats)
Graph of ALP vs LNP seats from betting data. It made a big move today. ALP ~69, LNP ~59
Asked on Monday whether the government would repeal the tax break, Dutton said “we don’t have any proposals to change those settings”. “I want people to have choice. If people want to buy an EV, that’s fantastic. If they want to buy a Ford Ranger or a Toyota HiLux, or whatever it might be, that’s a choice they should have,” he told reporters in Melbourne.
The view from Circular Quay station
Table of simulation results. The chance of the ALP having more seats than the LNP has gone from 27.1% to 71.6% in less than a month.
An Easter moose, made of chocolate. Some assembly required.
Screenshot from a spreadsheet of seat counts, Labor 75, Coalition 63, Greens 2, then Allegra Spender, Andrew Wilkie, Caz Heise, Centre Alliance, Dai Le, Helen Haines, Kate Chaney, Katters Australian Party, Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggall Zoe Daniel
A desert from a 1970's cooking card. It is supposed to be food of some sort.
Dutton holding an Assyrian kid this week, versus the Biloela family girls.
A screenshot (with really, really tiny print) from my program that is looking at the federal election betting odds. T is 'incumbent trailing'. C is 'incumbent challenged'. There are 27 seats. There are very few Coalition seats under threat.
Screenshot of Chalmer' budget speech
Excerpt from 24/25 budget paper 2 re: Australian Innovation Fund
Screen shot from the 'Future Made in Australia' website showing investment in the renewable transition.
Bad AI rendered logo of Clive Palmer's new party with lion blowing on a trumpet
The BIG Prawn at Ballina.
A graphic from the attached article with a blue 'average' line that is higher than all the data points and a red 'average' line that is lower than all the data points.
A graphic from the attached article with a blue 'average' line that is higher than all the data points and a red 'average' line that is lower than all the data points.
Screen shot of the document properties of a memo from opm.gov
extract from the Remuneration Tribunal Determination 2024 Whip of a minor party with at least 5 senators gets a 9% pay bump.
quote from the article, Mr Dutton believes preselectors showed a "strong desire" to replace the outgoing member, Margaret May, with a woman and to choose someone who'd lived on the Gold Coast "for a long time".
Me in a suit on a city street corner.
Elon claiming tolerance to Ketamine
Christmas tree
Screen shot from OpenNEM showing average generation cost for all renewables were cheaper than black coal for 2024. Utility solar and Wind were cheaper then brown coal.
A map of the Gladstone area showing where the water and coal are
Schematic diagram of the Awoonga Callide Water Supply Scheme.
Excerpt from the Frontier Economics nuclear report.
Extract from the Frontier Economics report giving main reasons why they think nuclear is cheaper.