Thomas McMahon

@Mark_Graph @TMFScottP The PBO costed things for us in the two day period between budget and budget reply when I worked in the opposition leader's office...

@TMFScottP Yeah - but to be fair - it takes a government around 5 months to construct and cost a Federal Budget - with all the resources of the bureaucracy. The Budget reply speech gets 2 days. Vibes is the most you can reasonably hope for.

Sarah Ferguson: "What is it going to cost the Budget?" Taylor: "The biggest question is what it means for Australians" He doesn't seem to know. #BudgetReply2026

@kotecinho a box out the back of a terrace house - who would've thought of that.

Quarry House Melbourne 🇦🇺 Winwood McKenzie

@mayumi_dunedin Looks so good.

クライストチャーチに新しく完成したラグビースタジアムでスーパーラグビーを観戦🏉なんと素敵なスタジアム✨ 3日間で5試合が行われるスーパーラウンドで、各チームのファンが集まり盛り上がっています！ 市内ではサイン会もあり、ハリケーンズのディアンズ選手と写真を撮らせていただきました😆

@BMcSport What was the rationale for the starting 9/10, brumbies looked way better the moment the switch happened.

Too good in the conditions, in the end. Brumbies got sucked into playing a Fijian game when they couldn't keep hold of the ball..

@Jonathan_Nolan_ @cmkusher Just tell Claude about Matt’s package then it’ll be easy.

@cmkusher Is the data inside this package? If so I would instruct Claude to use that package to get the data. github.com/MattCowgill/re…

Trying to figure out how to get Claude to access the ABS website and update all my spreadsheets and charts automatically. Quickly realising it’s going to be way easier and quicker to continue doing it manually.

@martyaskew @ChristypDoran Complete and utter nonsense.

@thmcmahon @ChristypDoran Apparently, swain “he made a late movement” he didn’t but any way a no arms shoulder charge to the head is fine because of that

Fair effort from the Force tonight despite going down 31-23 to the Hurricanes in NZ. Darby Lancaster superb, as was Nathan Hastie off the bench. Defensive Lineout good too. 1-4 to start 2026, but they showed a bit this evening.

@mountainwesttax Living room and bedrooms, so 4. Then we did ceiling fans in the internal rooms without walls. We're in Canberra, Australia so get pretty hot summers 40c/100f+. Works well. I would love ducted central air conditioning, but wasn't willing to sacrifice for the aesthetics.

@thmcmahon How many?

is there any way to add central air to a MCM like this? (radiant heat)

@HuwTindall People come to the brumbies who want successful rugby union careers 🤷‍♂️

Wonder why the Force got it over Brums? few extra Twiggy bucks in there? More chance of game time? By all accounts the offers from Force and Brums were similar.

@MattCowgill those new tiny byds are popping up everywhere in Canberra.

this is a disaster of world-historic proportions. Non-massive cars are extinct

@MattCowgill My wife also thinks she has a claim to inventing the scomo nickname.

no one believes me when I say I made the “days since 100 cases x-axis, log scale cases y-axis” chart first

@cmkusher claude code

Serious question for any followers out there. I don’t know how to code at all but I have some things I want to try and build on AI. I’ve got pretty decent at prompting using Lovable. What tools would you recommend for building and for automating things I already do?

@stephendziedzic This appears to be the reading list he references at the end researchcentre.army.gov.au/sites/default/…

Excoriating, riveting, utterly unflinching speech from Deputy Chief of Army late last year. Warns Army is "polluted" by "managerial and advertising logic and doublespeak" which hints at "something rotten" - a detachment from the nature of war and violence youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6wQi…

@peter_tulip not gonna happen.

Retrospectively taxing capital gains that have already occurred is a more controversial measure than the ALP dared to take to the 2016 and 2019 elections. They judged then that the community would regard this as unfair and bad in principle.

@MattCowgill Is that when it did like an extra good job

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code github.com/MattCowgill/gg…

@thebigSkraal @Mikeyweal On the other hand the brumbies were all over the breakdown in the first 20 and got no reward for it. I don’t think the ref mattered.

@Mikeyweal Without a doubt the Brumbies were better. Some controversial calls, the Force being incredibly disappointing and the bounce of the ball never going their way is a recipe for disaster.

Brumbies player jumps over defending player on ground… Brumbies player shouts offside… Ref gives penalty to Brumbies #FORvBRU

@BMcSport Brumbies did a great job of staying patient during the arm wrestle in the first 20. Then had physical dominance and just took it away from the force.

Properly comprehensive from the Brumbies, good reward for impressive 1H patience. Huge result to come away with a BP in, after copping a trial loss in Perth only a few weeks ago.. #SuperRugbyPacific #FORvBRU