Dry land grain grower, working thru the challenges/mistake of setting up a 15m CTF system. Generally sceptical of both sides of most arguments. Binya NSW.
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Jeff Mickan retweeted
What happens when you take the operator out of the sprayer and let robots handle the work?
In this real-world story, Lachlan Dunn shares how two SwarmFarm robots “Lenny” and “Gary” covered nearly 40,000 hectares in a single year across wheat, barley, and canola.
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Instead:
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Jeff Mickan retweeted
Dear AFL, no one ever has gone to the footy and thought, ‘man I hope the DJ is on fire today and that crowd announcer is loud enough’ piss the music and douchebags off.
Signed everyone
Jeff Mickan retweeted
Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.
Tax his car, tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his ass.
Tax him good and let him know,
After his taxes he has no dough.
If he hollers, tax him more,
Tax him ‘til he’s good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
“Taxes drove me to my doom!”
And when he’s gone, we won’t relax,
We’ll still be after the inheritance tax.
Jeff Mickan retweeted
I'm still not sure that interest rates are the right lever to curb spending in the situation we are in right now.
People are spending a lot of money on essentials to survive, not big tellys and jewellery.
Australia’s central bank raised its key interest rate for a third consecutive meeting, underscoring its determination to tame stubbornly strong inflation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jeff Mickan retweeted
Read the room grdc, you're wasting growers money on dog shit, stop being dictated by Canberra Muppets and research what actually benefits growers
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Jeff Mickan retweeted
“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.”
When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough.
Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?”
Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime.
He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks.
That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.
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Jeff Mickan retweeted
He’s right, and there isn’t a single coherent counter-argument. We’re letting politicians destroy both the economy and people’s everyday lives for nothing more than virtue-signalling.
Jeff Mickan retweeted
Albo was booed by the entire crowd at the Australian open
😆👏🏽
I don’t believe the polls…
Aussies hate this traitorous man.
Jeff Mickan retweeted
I own a small bakery. Business has been slow. Rent is up. I was thinking about closing.
Last Friday, a teenager came in. He looked nervous. He counted out change for a cookie. He was short 50 cents.
"It's okay," I said. "Take it."
He ate it at a table, looking at his math homework. He looked stuck.
I used to be a math tutor.
I walked over. "Quadratic equations?"
He nodded. "I don't get it."
I sat down and helped him for 20 minutes. He got it. He left smiling.
The next day, he came back with two friends. They bought cookies.
The day after that, five kids came.
Apparently, he told the school, "The lady at the bakery helps with homework."
Now, my bakery is the after-school hang-out spot. It's loud. It's messy. There are backpacks everywhere.
Yesterday, I found a note in the tip jar. It was wrapped around a $20 bill.
"Thanks for helping my son pass math. A Mom."
I'm not closing the bakery.
I think I finally found my purpose.
It's not cookies. It's community.
Jeff Mickan retweeted
So let me get this straight. Two muslins with guns kill innocent people and all gun owners are being punished.
With that logic shouldn't all Muslims also be punished. I mean its their religion that caused it.
Jeff Mickan retweeted
Not a good look is it?…
Absolutely no honesty or integrity!!
Muslims: 1,200% over-represented in deradicalisation programs. ASIO confirms it.
Albanese won’t name it.
The evidence is in. And Anthony Albanese is playing a dangerous game with Australians’ lives.
ASIO data shows hundreds of people are in government deradicalisation programs right now.
Muslims make up roughly 3% of Australia’s population. Yet more than a third of those in these programs are Muslim.
That is massive over-representation, more than 10 times, about 1,200% compared to population share.
This is not theory. This is not online noise. These are the facts.
And still, silence. No straight talk. No naming violent Islam.
Just euphemisms and avoidance.
Why the cowardice?
Because calling it out might upset voting blocs.
Because naming violent Islam risks offending “communities.”
Because political goals have been put ahead of public safety.
So Anthony Albanese won’t say the words that matter, even as young people are radicalised, intervention programs fill up, and the same ideology keeps appearing in terror cases.
Let’s be clear.
This is about a violent Islam that recruits, radicalises, and kills and a government that refuses to confront it.
History is brutal on leaders who ignore warning signs.
When governments refuse to face reality, ordinary Australians pay the price.
The evidence is in.
The warnings are clear.
And the silence from Canberra is no longer neutral.
It’s deadly.
#MikeFoster
Jeff Mickan retweeted
Hi @AlboMP. Jewish Australian here.
Don't you dare claim your "Hate Speech" laws are helping me or my Jewish community.
Don't you dare.
You've given people 2 days to respond to a sham 'public consultation'.
You had 2 years to respond to violent speech at the Sydney Opera House, violent speech on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, violent speech on CBD streets weekly, violent speech at universities... You didn't. You did bugger all for 2 years. Oh, except recognise 'Palestine' and import thousands of potential Jew-haters from Gaza.
It took you 4 weeks of dodging a Royal Commission when it should have taken you 4 seconds to call for one.
Don't you dare use the memory of dead Jews at Bondi to try and pretend you're solving a problem. You helped create the problem. You've had two years to say something and you didn't. Yet now you want to prevent the rest of us from saying things.
Well for the next day or so while it's legal, let me say this:
Violent Islam is the problem. Not guns, not memes, and not random dickheads with an old tattoo they've forgotten about.
You plan to exempt religious texts from your laws in any case. So I won't be able to say "Violent Islamist Imams need to be jailed and deported" but they will be able to say this:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him".
They'll be able to say it in the mosque and in the street. Why? Because it is a religious text (and so happens to appear in the Hamas Charter). And we know all too well exactly where that ends.
People getting murdered. Every single time. Always starting with Jews.
Meanwhile the cops will be arresting people like me for posting truth bombs to social media. Just as they arrest the Jewish guy with the Israeli flag at the demo but not the hundreds of people calling for Jews' death.
You are guaranteeing we follow the UK in their footsteps - a disaster - when we should be running, not walking, the opposite way.
Shame on you. Shame on you for what you've done to this country. A country the Jewish people migrated to in order to escape antisemitism. Now they are packing their bags.
Eventually as ordinary people get swept up by your new laws, or lose their beloved hobby, who do you think they'll blame? Jews! Jews will cop it, after you claim you spoke with representatives of the Jewish Community and this is what we wanted.
Well as someone with more social media followers than any Australian Jewish organisation (except @AustralianJA ) you didn't speak to me. Or anyone I know.
You did nothing for two years. Nothing. Yet now you want to ram a pile of legislation as thick as your arm on 2 days notice so you can announce you've solved the problem.
As Ronald Reagan said in 1986: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I’m from the government and I’m here to help." and you sir are no Ronald Reagan.
And don't bother throwing shekels at the Jewish Community thinking it will buy you some gratitude or silence. We shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars of our money or other taxpayers' to build giant walls and steel doors around our buildings while you leave the door of the entire country wide open for extremists.
How many Gaza visas has Tony Burke cancelled? How many?
We know the answer. Because given the choice between the Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership or our security and the future of this entire nation, you lot will always choose the one with the cocktail on arrival.
While the rest of us are being murdered.
-Daniel Lewkovitz
Jeff Mickan retweeted
Holy sh*t.
I’ve been banned from traveling to the UK. They revoked my ETA.
"Your presence in the UK is not considered to be conductive to the public good."
3 days after posting this about Starmer.
