Patrick de Rooy

Musician @tpbc_band #bassist #guitarist #vocalist #pilot

[Patrick de Rooy @patrick_derooy]

I'm just here for a laugh ayy

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

This bloke doesn’t recognise that he’s a part of a generation that has never or will never exist again.

A generation with cradle to grave prosperity.

Never before in history has a generation benefited so much from the hard work of their parents and the economic circumstances of their adulthood.

Bouris has less in common with his hard-working father than a young Australian trying to make ends meet in uncertain times.

He speaks of the accumulation of property as some form of human right, that it’s some form of Australian story, but it’s really a situation and a mindset that has only been enjoyed by a small group of Australians.

Bouris literally made his fortune giving Home loans away in the first homebuyer grant period of the early 2000s, and he helped to contribute to an industry that is the most overinflated economic property Bubble on the planet.

Bouris probably doesn’t remember Australia, whereby governments build houses as a human right, where Menzies era governments of both persuasions owned the lions share of rentals in the country.

Not rich immigrant property magnates, not money obsessed Australian entrepreneurs.

The only reason this fellow can talk like this, it’s because his lived position allows him to do so.

A point not lost at all on the people who can’t really do anything right now.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Real-life burlesque queen Beverly Powers appears in the nightclub scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961).

A longer version of her performance was filmed but ultimately trimmed for the final cut.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Every time a German Messerschmitt pilot wanted to escape a Spitfire on his tail, he did the same thing.
He pushed the nose down.
In a dive, the German engine kept running — it used fuel injection. The British Spitfire's engine cut out. For one and a half seconds the Merlin went dead, the aircraft shuddered, and by the time it caught again the German was gone. Worse: if a German was behind a British pilot and the British pilot dove to escape, the German could follow and keep shooting while the British engine was silent.
Pilots were dying because of a carburetor.
The engineers at Farnborough knew about the problem. They were working on a long-term solution — a redesigned carburetor that would take years to perfect and manufacture.
A woman named Beatrice Shilling fixed it with a washer.

She was born in Hampshire in 1909 and was the kind of child who spent her pocket money on Meccano sets and tools. At fourteen she bought her first motorbike. Her mother, with the inspired instinct of someone who understood what her daughter actually was, found the Women's Engineering Society and arranged an apprenticeship at an electrical firm.
She went to Manchester University — one of the first two women ever to study engineering there — graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, stayed another year for a master's in mechanical engineering, and in 1936 joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as a scientific officer.
By the late 1930s she was one of the best carburetor engineers in Britain. She was also one of only three women to hold the British Motorcycle Racing Club's Gold Star — awarded for lapping the Brooklands racing circuit at over 100 miles per hour on a motorcycle.
She had reportedly told her future husband, an engineer named George Naylor, that she wouldn't marry him until he earned his own Brooklands Gold Star first.
He earned it. They married in 1938.

The problem with the Merlin was specific and lethal. The SU carburetor used a float chamber to regulate fuel flow. Under negative g-forces — the forces experienced in a sudden dive — the fuel flooded to the top of the float chamber and starved the engine for 1.5 seconds. Just enough time for a German pilot to turn the tables entirely.
The RAF had known about this since the Battle of France. The formal solution — a redesigned pressure carburetor — was in development but wouldn't be ready for years.
Shilling was thirty-one years old, working in carburetor research, and she designed a fix in weeks.
A brass thimble with a precisely calibrated hole in the center — later simplified to a flat washer — fitted inline in the fuel line just before the carburetor. It restricted maximum fuel flow to just enough to prevent flooding without cutting off power. The key breakthrough: it could be fitted without taking the aircraft out of service. No downtime. No factory return.
The old guard at the RAE looked at it and called it a plumbing fix. They called her a plumber. The first batch of 5,000 units was made by a Birmingham firm that normally manufactured plumbing fixtures, which they found embarrassing.
The RAF pilots who flew Spitfires with Messerschmitts on their tails called it something else.
They called it Miss Shilling's Orifice. With deep affection.

By March 1941 she had organized a small team and was personally touring RAF fighter stations across England — traveling between bases on her old racing motorcycle — fitting the device to every Merlin engine they could reach. Squadron leaders all over the country were demanding installations. The word spread faster than the official channels could keep up with.
The Germans noticed. They couldn't explain why British fighter pilots had suddenly started following them into dives. They were baffled by the new aggression. They didn't know about the washer.

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[Shayne @ShayneALong]

This is the biggest issue Australia needs to address: gross incompetence in management. It’s a national crisis. Large corporations in Australia are being led by incompetent management on a scale that threatens the nation’s development. At the same time as executive salaries exploded exponentially, the quality of management decreased exponentially. We see the scale of their incompetence whenever grilled by senators.

[Patrick de Rooy @patrick_derooy]

@PopBase @ChappellRoan Somewhere in the world, a parent is comforting their child and saying “see, I told you she’d do it again”. What a lesson in karma.

[The Chaser @chaser]

"We all need to make sacrifices, that's what I told the help" said the RBA boss

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

Profiting from human need is morally reprehensible (also Eddie in the black shirt owns 180 properties).

[Patrick de Rooy @patrick_derooy]

If petrol prices rise any higher, I'm gonna start carjacking people just to get to and from work.

[Ol' BeefCat @BeefCat1992]

@AcepilotAV

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

no shade to sombr but this song belongs to the veronicas now

[Lee @caseyleemoore]

I did not think we’d be getting a new live version of “Untouched” by The Veronicas in 2026 but I’m grateful it happened

[State of the Scene @SOTSPodcast]

Matthew Lillard (Scream) and Spencer Charnas (Ice Nine Kills) stun in the Scream 7 Premiere Red Carpet.

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

“Commonwealth Bank has laid off hundreds of workers in Australia and launched a hiring spree in India just weeks after recording a $5billion profit.

The bank increased its India-based workforce by 21 per cent to 6,788 in the year to June 2025, a 138 per cent increase since 2022.”

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More bad news on the economic front today with inflation coming in higher than expected.

As usual the response from the pundits is that interest rates need to rise.

Rather than impose more austerity on hard working Australians by lowering demand isn’t it time that the Government actually looked at increasing supply by building more infrastructure to improve productivity.

Using the blunt instrument of manipulating interest rates is not solving structural imbalances in the economy including excessive government spending.

Furthermore the government needs to stop service jobs going offshore.

A week after the CBA announced another record profit, it’s been revealed they are sacking staff in Australia whilst recruiting staff in India.

The CBA employs almost 7,000 staff in India which is just intolerable.

People First intends to rectify these issues by abolishing the Indian Free Trade Agreement, restoring the Military Apprenticeship Scheme and implementing an Infrastructure Bank to fund the construction of Infrastructure.

Sign up today at https://t.co/PeAaJW2pjF if you want to give our children a better future.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

And... it all makes sense now! 🤣

[grizzy @Furbeti]

Epstein mural in Sydney Australia

[Doc Pete Chambers @DocPeteChambers]

Lessons I learned through the years. Leadership can be lonely at times. You don’t get to complain down.

[State of the Scene @SOTSPodcast]

Ice Nine Kills have released the official music video for new single Twisting The Knife featuring McKenna Grace!

"When we learned that Mckenna Grace is a fan of our band, it made perfect sense to invite her to sing."
https://t.co/P6aX9CQqVH

[rabbit guy 𓃹 @rabbitechoes]

having a partner whose rlly into guitars has made me aware of like how expensive guitars can be so like if i see an indie band i’ve never heard of playing rickenbackers or something like that i’m immediately like “ahhh so they have MONEY money”