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Aussie dad with Irish streak. Legislative drafter. Whitlamite. My interests are pretty niche: sports, music, movies, games. GWJ. May contain traces of Partridge. Walking on Ngunnawal land.

hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again

goddammit ... I watched ONE video about who the real life person Moe Green from The Godfather was based on, now my YouTube feed is exclusively Gangster Movie Explainers

Thumbnail for a Godfather 2 explainer video showing senator Geary and Michael Corleone, with the caption "What Happened?". 

You know how you find out what happened? You watch the fucken movie

We needed corruption findings for Robodebt, not just to punish the evil fuckers who did it, but also to ensure that it didn't happen again. Instead, we got a delayed finding of 'technically, it's OK' and now automated assessment is finding its way into aged care and the NDIS

First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care

Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t always the case.

theconversation.com

far-right terror: throwing bombs into crowds, bashing people far-left "terror": setting fire to empty trucks and doing graffiti on a building the right always wants to equate property damage with assaulting actual people

Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘@vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 22h ago

Authorities investigating an arson attack on a Victorian defence manufacturer last year are now considering it a possible act of far-left terror. ABC News Australia.

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Saw The Odyssey on the weekend ... we absolutely loved it! It was so fun to see a big-ass movie on a big-ass screen with big-ass sound It didn't feel too long, we just enjoyed the journey. We didn't mind the accents either - made it feel relatable rather than "you are watching ye olde thing"

knowing ahead of time that Reacher is about a really large man who appears to have grown his muscles exclusively for the purposes of respecting women did not even slightly prepare me for how large he is or how much he respects women

“Indigenous Aust’s say racist & hateful comments they receive on social media are "taking a toll". A national inquiry examining racism towards 1st Nations people was told online hatred increased in recent years. Advocates warn racism is causing a "deep social divide"” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Cooking, fishing videos the target of racist trolling on social media

Young Indigenous creators specialising in topics as innocuous as fishing and cooking have been met with torrents of abuse social media companies are reluctant to do anything about.

abc.net.au

government and business: don't worry about mailing us or coming to our offices, we're doing everything with Apps and phone notifications now! government and business notifications: all these scammers are impersonating us, don't reply to anything that looks like we sent it