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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
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
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
"Note to All Nazis Fascists and Klansmen" by Langston Hughes You delight, So it would seem, At making mince-meat Of my dream. If you keep on, Before you're through, I'll make mince-meat Out of you.
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
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.
There's admittedly something quite poetic about a world-leading idiot accidentally crashing a rocket into the moon right by a crater named after a guy principally renowned for being clever as fuck.
A 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon tonight. Will you be able to see it?
While the impact itself probably won't be visible from Earth, observers may have a chance to spot a plume of debris rising above the lunar surface.
space.com
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
Look how hard this image is working to counteract the usual associations your brain would make for someone called "Poindexter"
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
Well, what do YOU drink while you’re herding goats through the Walmart
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
It's crazy how hard lockdowns were on school children and yet they're the ones who fucking thrash and bitch and moan about it the least
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
proud to be in a blue dot community ... Pearson is a good bloke picking up the pieces. Indigenous folks came to us kindly, asking for us to face the past with truth and the future with respect, and we said no. Shame.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article... Good bloke
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"
If you don’t want to get busted organizing in a group chat then don’t organize in a group chat! Use your noggin
This watering down of the term doxxing is going to have a devastating long term impact. Same with the “gatecrashing” framing of Nazis attending rallies they share ideology with. The members of the group chat were *outed*, or disclosed, or leaked, however you want to say it. It wasn’t sharing PII.
Antisemitism inquiry hears from Jewish Australian artist 'cancelled' after private group chat doxxing
Downplay a book or movie: "The Okay, The Subpar, and The Mid"
Downplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"
racism ain't ever gonna go away until white folks see it as a white problem to eliminate, instead of a Black problem to sympathize with
In the work toilet trying to get the automatic soap dispenser to dispense soap
Pulp Fiction: Confused Man
ALT: Pulp Fiction: Confused Man
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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