Ewen Wallace

Founder: @CADtoNetbox @CableSchedules, @CADreplace. Designs: Broadcast TV systems. Likes: kindness.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

@cmclymer The Sun needs more exploring.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

Most unstable app on Windows 11: Explorer. It has been downhill all the way since Windows 7. Bloat kills good things.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Her father, Lang Hancock, said on national television in 1984 that Indigenous Australians he described as “half-castes” should be rounded up and have their water “doped up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.” Donnell Wallam — only the third Indigenous woman ever to represent Australia in netball — privately requested that Rinehart publicly denounce those comments. Rinehart refused. Wallam was then denied an exemption from wearing the Hancock logo on her debut, and under unbearable pressure eventually agreed to wear it — at which point Rinehart pulled the $15 million sponsorship anyway, describing the players’ concerns as “virtue signalling.”
This is who funds One Nation. This is the legacy behind the money.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

@duchovny64 @TracyWesterman Anonymous uneducated dickhead says what tribal right-wing nonsense?

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's been a surreal experience watching interviews with these NASA astronauts.

They're stridently rational and unflappable, and yet, they come across as normal people who enjoy what they do and get along with their colleagues, although all of them have had to be extraordinary through an insanely competitive process to get there.

So, it feels very odd right now watching the pervasive dysfunction of the U.S. government--largely being run by incompetent clowns, shameless hucksters, and nepo babies--juxtaposed with video and images of some of the most competent people you'll ever see in one of the most demanding jobs you can conceive and knowing they got there based on merit.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

@Peter_Fox59 I wonder how much of that money is laundered. No idea if they audit those things.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Things scientists have blamed for climate change since 2020:

- Beef
- Dairy
- Lamb
- Wool production
- Cheese
- Leather
- Burping cows
- Sheep on hillsides
- The British uplands generally

Things scientists have not been given equivalent grant funding to investigate:

- 100 companies producing 71% of global emissions
- Aviation doubling since 1990
- Container shipping running on bunker fuel
- Data centres consuming more electricity than entire countries
- Fast fashion producing 10% of all carbon emissions annually
- $13 trillion in annual fossil fuel subsidies

Gerald's methane budget for the year: about 100kg.

Estimated annual emissions of a single superyacht: 7,000 tonnes.

One of these has a lobby group.

Spoiler: it's not Gerald.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

@cmclymer I think you misspelled… oh, nevermind. Keep up the good work and work for good.

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

because women weren’t allowed credit cards w/o a man’s permission, many professions were closed to them, they cd get fired for being pregnant, were denied abortion care, & it was legal for a husband to rape his wife -

I beg u ppl to pick up a history book or just read Wikipedia

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

@RCdeWinter Drop Bears are totes real: https://t.co/K1arsf9R2c <- yes, this is the legit Australian Museum website.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

Windows 11 is demonstrably worse than Windows 10 which was worse than Windows 7. Windows 8 was a drunk uncle.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

@cmclymer They should be back in the shed where they belong.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

The hardest 2 things in software development…
- naming things
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- off-by-one errors
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[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

The replies.
Also, FUCK NO.

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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

No mentally healthy person wants to rule the world.

Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire.

We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species. The most wounded, neurotic and sociopathic among us. The least wise, caring and insightful.

What drives a person to claw their way to the top of a wildly sick society and become a lord of the dystopia?

What compels someone to amass obscene amounts of wealth in a world where so many have far too little?

What causes someone to ascend to political leadership of a power structure that's built for the purpose of robbing and oppressing the most underprivileged populations on earth?

Nothing wholesome, to be sure. That impulse is never coming from anywhere good.

The worst among us are striving to prevail in this dystopia by riding the tides of its ugliest inclinations, while the best among us are striving to dismantle the dystopia and replace it with something kind and equitable. This causes the worst of us to be elevated to the top and the best of us to be smacked down to the bottom.

Under our current system easiest way to set yourself on a trajectory from millionaire to billionaire to trillionaire is to exploit workers, crush your competition, plunder the available resources of the global south, externalize the costs of industry onto society and the ecosystem, bribe the government to advance your corporate interests via lobbying and campaign donations, contract with the most murderous military and intelligence agencies in the world, and psychologically manipulate the public into consuming products and services they don't need.

Who is going to be most successful in this endeavor? The very worst people alive. People whose hearts and minds are so stunted and dysfunctional that they see other human beings as tools for their own personal enrichment, to be used up and discarded like juice boxes or condoms.

These are the people who are touching the most lives on this planet. These are the people whose decisions affect the most people.

Michael Parenti has passed away after a luminous life advancing powerful ideas and insights about the abusive dynamics of human civilization and how best to address them. He did not die a wealthy man. The mainstream papers did not report on his departure from our world. Only a relatively small percentage of the population is aware he ever lived.

But everyone knows who Elon Musk is. Everyone knows who Jeff Bezos is. Who Bill Gates is.

The best of us live and die in relative obscurity, generally being subjected to scorn and derision from the ruling establishment the entire time. The worst of us become plutocratic demigods.

It's an uphill battle. You spend your life swimming against dystopia, and you are not handsomely rewarded for your efforts. You'll get deplatformed, censored and smeared. You might even get shot by government agents for standing up for the disempowered. And you'll definitely never be a billionaire.

But it's absolutely worth it, and you should do it. Fighting for truth and justice in a civilization made of injustice and deceit is the only way to live. It's the only way to feel satisfied with your efforts during this life. The only way to be sure that when you are on your deathbed you can look back and know you spent your time here in a right and admirable way.

It costs a lot to fight for a healthy world. But it costs a lot more not to.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch one.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers, “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

They never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere.

Now you have a better understanding of how the cryptocurrency market works.

[Ewen Wallace @CADbloke]

The reason Italian chocolate is not widely available in retail is because their car industry has commandeered it all to manufacture their suspension bushes.

[@germanbini 💚🌹☭ HumanKindness matters 💗 @germanbini]

@kamaufranklin 2025's version of The Grapes of Wrath 😳😨🤬😭