Reminder to Australians: If you want a secular state, you might need to stop saying Christian or similar on the Census. Especially if you haven't graced the doors of a church in years or decades.

What's the fuss? Don't you guys do the smallpox blankets ritual at Thanksgiving?

Val @ BOOM Goes the Bride!!@valwrites.ca · yesterday

And they say americans have no culture, smdh

Queensland planning to send young people out in the bush again. To 'build character'. I fear we're going to be back investigating institutional child abuse again in 20 years time.

Apparently it's a thrice microwaved cup of tea and homebaked cheese and bacon toast morning.

Must have a drivers licence. Such an innocuous requirement. Turn back the layers. Young people in households without cars, young people in abusive households, young people in households characterised by neurodiversity, mental health, chronic illness. Jobs at a single site. This is exclusion.

This...

TheGreatWombatso@thegreatwombatso.bsky.social · 2w ago

The job system was always designed so the middle class would power trip over the lower and underclasses.

It's nice of the Guardian to keep track of my reading of their articles and I'm proud to say that I'm reading a lot less Guardian articles now than I was a year or two ago and loving much better local content that covers the issues that I'm interested in.

This sums up the gaming industry, the patriarchy, the oligarchy, and one of my cats (the belligerent one).

Angela, Dragoness At Large@starkat1138.bsky.social · last mo.

They have reached the top and they are so unsatisfied

Not an hour ago I saw an Audi and wondered what happened to the Quatros they were giving away on Sale of the Century about a century ago. And here I am drinking the last Tennents of my Glasgow trip, and a black Audi with black trim and black air dam with Quatro in silver reverses into a tenement.

I'm not a big footie fan, but I'm even less of a fan of cutting people just because it doesn't suit you. So I wrote an email to the AFL supporting the Kynton Women's Football Club, the Wedgies.

Eating pickled something and wondering if it's ok to cry at the Palestinian restaurant for something as innocuous as spices. #StopTheFuckingGenocide

Arrived in Glasgow today for a conference next week. I arrived 63 hours after I left home. Living regionally demands a time tax on international travel.

I thought the benefit of the robots was they wouldn't need to be fed human food. But like for a person lost in the desert, once the human water is gone, we won't be needing the human food either.

'Michael's Mum' on Facebook just described the NDIS atm as clearly as I have seen it done. I also think some honesty, transparency and integrity from government would go a long way to repairing trust and the system itself.

Interesting ad placement on Reddit...

Spell check strikes again. What do you think I was trying to type Word? I can see 'part curly', ok, but 'Parti curly' with a capital P?

GeoffHiggins 🍉@geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What happened to the spell check that worked? Two letters were missing, and Word couldn't imagine what I was trying to write?

It's ok google. I fixed it.

A bit of a longshot, but is anyone I interact with on here in Glasgow, or attending the IACD conference there the week after next?

That Mansfield Park is a thing isn't it? I would not like to be in Jane Austen's head. 😰

I just typed the word 'archetypoes', and I cannot continue my lit review until I post this for all of you. Beware of the coregiver, the roler and the autist, for they may vex your character arc.

Watching lots of ads from the Aust govt about having a conversation about child sexual abuse. Must be that no Australians are listed in the Epstein Files, since this is our best chance at solving child sexual assault.

Curious to see over the next couple of years how hackers respond to the honeypot of personal data that's been collected banks and other financial institutions due to Australia's money laundering regulations.

Winnie the Pooh's Honey Delight

ALT: Winnie the Pooh's Honey Delight

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Important work. Indigenous mental health hardly understood in western practice.

Dr Tracy Westerman AM@drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

36 hours ago my paper on Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory went live It’s now #8 in Clinical Psychologist. Top 4% of 32M research outputs globally This is what happens when a question has been waiting to be asked. Share, repost, comment-every interaction counts doi.org/10.1080/1328...

I made some pita things with my youngest the other day.

@proctor&gamble is super proud of this product packaging. RECYCLABLE BOX proclaim on a green tab. P&G and others might notice that these 8 cartridges could have fitted in a 24 pack of paracetamol, with room left over for all 24 caplets. Late stage capitalism just keeps on letting us all down.

Thanks for nothing AI. Yes, I typed 'abd' instead of 'and' — for about the thousand millionth time. And the AI suggested:

It's interesting how few people on social media think, I'd better say where I am, so people reading this will not panic thinking it's happening in their state/country/continent/hemisphere/(soon) planet.

I see the future of the Nationals at dire risk of disappearing up their own fundamental. Libs only need one partner to govern. Anything else is just messy. Two's company, three's a crowd.

Surlysimon@surlysimon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The LNP believes that a one nation member will be easier to unseat at the next federal election than an independent, this is based on their experience with the independents elected in 2022

Oof.

Daniel Cohen@danielcohen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s what the billionaires always wanted. So now we have a choice between Gutless Labor and The Racism Parties.

"Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed." is peak dystopia.

Peter Butler@peter-butler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

decent reporting from Truthout, but it relies a lot on the paywalled NYT report www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u... here's the archived version archive.ph/q29RN