Phaemons dog was right. “All great truths are obvious truths but not all obvious truths are great truths.” 一Aldous Huxley Modern day Thersites. Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. 一Heraclitus Banner says:: The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
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Last Notes npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Just going through the motions until it all goes away and they can continue to fleece us as usual. Any costs will be tax deductible. Once upon a time we owned a telco, and a bank .... npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) The chief executive of Telstra, Vicki Brady expresses her profound sorrow for the outage. She is, as yet, to link the firing of thousands of staff and the increases in charges to any service failure. We can all rest assured, however, that there are to be no consequences as regards her multi million dollar pay package. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/933/106/880/880/542/original/08a13df771a075a7.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Patricia Karvelas on the ABC really has the hots for little Timmy Wilson. In her three minute assessment of the budget no mention of Jim, no mention of Anthony, just what would little Timmy think. You can put your mind at rest Pat, Little Timmy doesn't really do thinking. #AusPol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668 Some war criminals are arrested. Others are welcomed with open arms. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/361/211/691/925/109/original/d52b6a0f019356ba.png https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/361/212/592/600/798/original/c49fa9fb9c404ed1.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Hate speech banned, hate actions government policy. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/28/nordacious-james-hillier-removes-artworks-queensland-police-hate-speech-laws-ntwnfb#img-1 How long before they begin burning books, or are they burning them already? #AusPol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/pine-gap-alice-springs-residents-conflicted/106468888 Sure, helping a madman to murder schoolkids is bound to make you uneasy, it's enough to put you off your beer. The last PM to want to know what is happening at Pine Gap got sacked, so Anthony is just letting them do whatever they like. #FuckWar npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I can't believe that is actually his name. It sounds more like a verb, you know, he was taken into custody for attempting to tudge someone. Or perhaps it is a noun and he *is* a Tudge. Anyway he has tudged off. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/14/robodebt-report-secret-section-what-does-it-reveal-ntwnfb So the 'Secret Section' has been revealed and I am therefore able to make public for the first time the contents of the 'Extremely Secret Section' Executive Summary: Disgraced former Prime Minister Scott John Morrison is a complete and utter fucking bastard. #AusPol https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/225/578/479/094/591/original/a434c1d272ce6da4.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) The difficulty is, that Grace knows about the hurt that comes from exploitation and power imbalances and Anthony has never met a millionaire he didn't like. #Grace4PM https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/145/946/917/991/690/original/58fe6c5f1ccc8a29.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) This is who he is. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/135/033/259/285/073/original/ac43642ad49dac56.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/26/grace-tame-suggests-anthony-albanese-labelling-her-difficult-is-misogynists-code-for-a-woman-who-wont-comply I wonder how labeling women as 'difficult' contributes to social cohesion. Somehow or other though it's never men. Anthony with mouth in overdrive and brain in neutral. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) It is difficult to get a person to understand something, when their salary depends upon not understanding it. I have seen this in large organisations. Half of the staff are too stupid to understand what is going on. Half tolerate criminal negligence because they are afraid to rock the boat. The other half keep their heads down and wait for a chance to get a piece of the action themselves. If that's too many halves it's because that's how modern bureaucracy looks to me. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) This fellow, and quite a few like him, see people as objects or devices. I despair. All my life I have been told that people are basically all the same inside. That is obviously quite wrong. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-24/simon-gordon-four-corners-allegations-premier-police-referral/106379430 Just imagine, if you will, that a woman had been removing men's organs un-necessarily. Government response may well be a little different. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Without wishing to intrude have a look at synesthesia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia Brains are even more extraordinary than one might think even if you think they are extraordinary. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I have just suffered the disturbing experience of walking through a room with Christopher Pine on the TV. Fortunately the sound was off but I had, very reasonably, assumed that he had slithered up his own arse and disappeared, I am still in shock. Defense minister turned lobbyist. What a bastard. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-police-target-sydney-home-over This sticker is apparently not acceptable. It would be a dreadful shame if it were spread all over social media. #FuckWar #FuckIsrael npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I'm putting in a complaint about 2026. 2025 was a delicious perfect square (452 x 452 = 2,025) and we won't get another until 2116 (462 x 462 = 2,116) which makes this year particularly boring and disappointing There's some hope., Next year 2027, is a prime number. Be still my beating heart. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Scheme designed by property investors to increase the value of property investment, results in increased value of property investment. #EatTheRich https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/869/350/491/245/622/original/c4b8389dfc998478.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/02/business-leaders-and-catholic-bishops-join-call-for-royal-commission-after-bondi-attack-ntwnfb Why is this conga line of grifters, irrelevant degenerates and public failures so keen for a Royal Commission? The obvious question is: ‘What’s in it for them?’ Royal commissions are justice delayed. Justice delayed is justice denied. #NoRC npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I also love the bit where Keating mimes fishing. Downer was always well out of his depth. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Yes but deliciously rejected repeatedly. They have had to park her at the IPA where intelligence and actual ability are never an issue. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Keating really knew how to get under Downer's skin. I'm not sure if it's in this YouTube clip but at one point, whilst Downer was squirming, Keating turned to him and said; "How are you going now Curly?" Downer's head nearly blew off. That, I must add, is debating, not 'it is, it isn't, it is ...' npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbmdyhIGZk&pp=ygUgcGF1bCBrZWF0aW5nIHZzIGFsZXhhbmRlciBkb3duZXI%3D Paul Keating: "Some people were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. With Alexander it was the whole cutlery set." npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I wonder if this warning came before or after he spied on the East Timor government and used the information to hand the Sunrise gas fields to Woodside, a multinational planet fryer. In completely unrelated news, Downer then resigned and took up a 'consultancy' with Woodside. #CurlySpy https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/817/903/198/459/754/original/82373a61da40052a.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) @npub1n80…z09m And today? npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) RUOK? npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/25/albanese-serves-hot-meals-with-a-side-of-hope-for-christmas-lunch?CMP=share_btn_url Charity is an admission of Government failure. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) it quite possibly will be but not for the reasons being pursued by Ley and company. Here they are today tying multiculturalism to the shootings without the faintest sense of contradiction. Oh I forgot, the jews they are 'supporting' are white Europeans. I believe the booing and the opposition's even more blatantly racist and hate filled bile than usual is encouraged and funded by the terrorist state of Israel. Far be it for me to defend Albanese but to suggest this is his fault is bizarre and deluded. Probably as bizarre and deluded as expecting him to do anything concrete any time soon. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) The suggestion that Australia's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the cause of the Bondi horror is a most egregious and grotesque example of the PsyOp bullshit that fills our twisted political hellscape. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) probably more hope looking for intelligent life from Alpha Centauri. You may know the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Calvin says; 'I think the best indication that there's intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that they have never tried to contact us.' npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Meanwhile, here on Masto, we have been reviewing 'Federal Intelligence' or rather the lack thereof, for some time now. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/760/069/814/563/874/original/ad0dd758de8b6ccd.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/10/linda-reynolds-vows-to-fight-until-bitter-end-to-defend-reputation-in-brittany-higgins-saga-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url Reynolds confirms that she sees no limits to her vindictive use of her wealth and her power to prove she is a kindhearted empath. She is determined to use the legal system to show us who she really is no matter what the cost is to Britney Higgins. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) We can now stop making excuses for him. What we have seen is who he is. There's no better Anthony wishing for an opportunity to be more humane and green. This is a highly conservative, weak, unimaginative, mediocre middle manager who is making repeated bad judgements. Little or no idea what to do with political power other than to hold on to it. Better to be a bad PM than a good Opposition. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/05/us-submarines-nuclear-weapons-australia-aukus?CMP=share_btn_url Who voted to make Australia a prime nuclear target? #AusPol #fuckwar npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Twins separated at birth. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/642/287/144/603/008/original/c1381c5d2cb91942.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) #Auspol #Environment https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/541/979/699/628/021/original/70c02dd10771e607.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Annabelle Crabb has the rare ability to trivialise the already trivial, to make light of the insubstantial and to smear humour around creating awkward frivolity. In the past the ABC was intelligent, original and creative but now we have Annabelle who is bland, anodyne and up herself. #NotMyABC npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/506/753/170/755/587/original/b1581d4dd1b3e02b.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I know you're right and I should have expressed that in my post. There are three nurses in my family so I will be admonished I'm sure. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Exactly. I am consoled by the fact that sumptuous private hospitals exist for the important people. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I taught at every level except preschool for more than 40 years. I only survived because I realised that I had to stop climbing the greasy pole and just do what I did best and enjoyed the most, which was to be a classroom teacher. I took a big pay cut and taught abused adolescents who saved my career really. I saw schools become battlegrounds where teachers were abandoned smouldering ruins genuinely unable to continue but utterly ignored by 'senior' staff. If there's a problem with a system that promotes the best teachers to non teaching positions and leaves the worst in charge of everything else, no-one seems willing to do anything about it. I thought I would never want to go but when the time came, long after retirement age, I couldn't wait. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australia-teacher-shortage-crisis-regional-disadvantaged-schools?CMP=share_btn_url Two short lessons in dumbing down a country. Systematically and deliberately drain teacher enthusiasm by appalling working conditions, poor pay and inadequate resourcing. Make parental support impossible because you need to work two jobs to afford food and pay a mortgage. In completely unrelated news the great majority of our fearless leaders went to private schools. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) They're a bit late really but delicious anyway. Unlike many coloured veges they retain their colour after cooking so a dish looks good too. I have yellow and green ones coming on. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Today's produce from the garden. Also, thanks for the rain everyone. #gardening https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/437/770/925/002/603/original/4aebd4711ecd8608.jpg https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/437/772/232/315/937/original/88ce5ea4c304ec18.jpg npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) You have gone to the heart of this matter. It's probably one of the greatest modern public relations coups. People are convinced that a person who has uprooted themself and or their family, risked undocumented travel and leaky boats is somehow bad. So much money to spend avoiding a domestic political wedge. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/us-private-prisons-operator-paid-790m-to-hold-100-people-on-nauru-in-quiet-expansion-of-contract There's always enough to keep people down. There's never enough to lift people up. #AusPol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) CCS is a petrochemical Ponzi scheme. Successive governments have poured $Billions into it with the total return being nothing. Zero. It just doesn't fucking work. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/19/labors-lame-emissions-targets-fantasy-carbon-capture/ If you think that pumping carbon into the ground to save the planet sounds like fucking bullshit that's because it IS fucking bullshit. #Environment #AusPol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I'm so pleased at the prospect of him being stood up that I'm going off to look up the meaning of the word schadenfreude. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/19/everything-is-on-the-table-trump-meeting-weighs-heavily-as-albanese-heads-to-new-york Anthony has new knee pads. His tongue has been fully reconditioned. He has been practicing grovelling every morning before breakfast. All he needs is an opportunity and the unctuous fawning, bootlicking, toadying and pandering can begin. #AusPol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) If you see an incandescent glow coming from my direction it emanates from none other than myself. I have unlocked my myGov account, dredged up the detail I needed and all in less than one lifetime. Congratulations welcomed. myGov is the worst most opaque website in the entire universe. #auspol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/08/11/weird-things-you-learn-about-food-when-you-garden/ In an increasingly violent, chaotic, absurd world gardening is my anchor. Gardening always makes sense. Plant carrot seed you always get carrots - never, for example, ham sandwiches or pickled cucumbers. #gardening npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/the-aged-care-crises-continue-under-a-labor-government/ Labor are committed to the rights of the providers more than they are to the rights of the aged. Aged care has become a commodity and there is absolutely no truth to the rumour that they plan to sell it in supermarkets. #AusPol #AgedDontCare npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) A living fractal. Romanesco Cauliflower. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/167/341/783/080/219/original/179913152d6e0665.jpg npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/venezuela-has-the-worlds-most-oil-why-doesnt-it-earn-more-from-exports Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. In completely unrelated news the US is attacking Venezuelan shipping without even the slightest proof of their drug running claims. #TruckFump npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I'm old enough to remember telegrams delivered by boys on bikes npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Just for a bit of perspective perhaps you should try fixed wireless with overtones of dialup on copper. Occasionally, when all the kids are at school in the afternoons, we can stream a movie. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/they-don-t-care-about-the-people-anger-bursts-to-surface-on-jakarta-s-streets-20250903-p5ms4g.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world In Indonesia protestors have broken into politician's houses and ransacked them. The problem with using this strategy in Australia would be deciding which house to pillage. #Eatherich npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/03/australian-politicians-reveal-their-housing-portfolios-with-some-owning-as-many-as-six-homes Homelessness isn't the fault of immigrants or laziness or bad luck. It's capitalism. Our fearless leaders are part of the problem and cannot be part of the solution even if they wanted to be. Politics + Money = poverty and homelessness. #Eatherich #Homeless npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/02/labor-in-home-aged-care-funding-greens-crossbench-coalition Aged care recipients who are waiting at home (such as myself) can take great comfort that there has been no delay whatsoever in the hundreds of Million$ given to the US for stupid submarines. There's enough for killing but not enough for living. #letdownlabor npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Genuine economists are a liability in politics. None of the budget provisions nor the forward estimates come within a bull's roar of eventual numbers which proves they are not anywhere as important as is made out. The government's job here is to ensure that bank shareholders prosper. On this basis they are a very successful government. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Chalmers blames higher prices on higher prices. #inflation https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/098/779/110/436/692/original/a2306eb7ae0ccd39.jpg npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-25/specialist-disability-accommodation-sda-empty-homes-four-corners/105685946 So it's not a housing crisis or even a greed crisis really, it's a competence crisis, it's a #capitalism crisis. So long as homes are seen as an investment opportunity rather than a right, people will sleep on the streets and houses will be empty. #disability #homelessness npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://michaelwest.com.au/the-many-hats-of-julie-bishop-queen-of-retired-politicians/ As Chancellor of ANU Bishop has flung money around on an opulent office, on international travel, on her own consultancy firm and on Covid contracts. Who does she think she is? A politician or something? #Auspol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/20/more-than-two-thirds-of-nsw-public-land-suitable-for-housing-sold-to-private-developers Not a housing crisis. A crisis of government lies, greed and incompetence. #homelessness npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/9/israels-starvation-denial-is-an-orwellian-farce?traffic_source=rss That’s how hasbara works – not by persuading people but by exhausting them. By turning every fact into a dispute, every image into a row. By pushing editors to “balance” a photograph of an emaciated child with a government news release denying he is hungry. #Gaza #fuckwar npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity-is-an-insufficient-word Our fearless leaders licking Merdeoch's arse and bowing down to their bigoted will. Never have we needed good leadership so badly and never has our government been so bad. Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. #auspol https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/013/185/387/189/076/original/49eddb094bff02c6.png https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/013/188/420/203/972/original/0b29c296806c89e0.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) On the ABC, Foreign Affairs expert and well-known original thinker, Anus Taylor, opines that recognition of Palestine is rewarding terrorism. In completely unrelated news, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, opines that recognition of Palestine is rewarding terrorism. #gaza #auspol2025 npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://futurism.com/the-byte/experts-ai-nuclear-weapons What could possibly go wrong here? Open the pod bay doors, HAL. #ArtificialNotIntelligent npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Hamas should surrender should they Susssssan? Well, actually the PLO did. They recognised Israel, renounced armed struggle and what did they get for it? Absolute humiliation and systematic ethnic cleansing. This is what popularised Hamas. It was the only alternative to genocide. #Gaza https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/114/969/030/771/283/383/original/8e9a2c4e4072abdf.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) my thoughts exactly but one has grandchildren . Also I worked in a tomato sauce factory once and I certainly don't eat that shit now. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Is there some sort of clue here as to why chips dipped in tomato sauce is so popular? npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/potato-tomato-evolution-hybrid/683721/?utm_source=feed I'm not quite sure why, but this newly discovered relationship between the potato and the tomato, make them both very much more attractive. #EvolutionaryGenetics #gardening npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) All this fellow had to do to be employed was to start a very low level TAFE course (not finish mind you, just start) and then jump a very low administrative hurdle, a Working with Children Check, and he is in like flynn. Why are we always playing catch up on these issues for fuck's sake? The political handwringing has begun and the dodging twisting and turning is scheduled for later this week. Many promises will be made, several high powered enquiries will be instituted and superficial and cosmetic changes will be made but nothing will be done to address the obvious cause. Greed. It's official - we value profit more than we value our little children. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/01/melbourne-childcare-worker-charged-child-sexual-abuse-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other And on 7:30 Sarah Ferguson asked could the problems with child care be due to having for profit childcare centres. Well, is the Pope Catholic? #auspol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Jewish people (such as myself) around the world are stunned and appalled at what is being done in the Middle East. The fact that this is a consideration for the Australian election shows how effective the Zionist disinformation machine is worldwide. If digging up your grandmother had the political backing that Zionism has, Little Timmy would be an advocate if not a practitioner. He is a shameless exploiter who actually believes in nothing except his own petty ambitions. The equation of anti Zionism with anti Semitism is, itself, anti Semitism. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) I have made a rash, ill considered reply here and I apologise. It demonstrates how far I am in time from my upbringing and from Melbourne, physically and mentally. Goldstein is, of course, far more complex than I have characterised it. Still, what a stupid, stupid choice. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) This is a mostly middle class Jewish area. I was brought up there (during the Cretaceous period) Little Timmy advertised his support for Zionism in the Jewish News, a notoriously right wing publication. Not just content to stand by whilst a genocide is being committed he is prepared to exploit it. A snotty nosed, elitist, self obsessed arsehole if ever there was one. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) It's been confirmed that the voters of Goldstein have given themselves a communal prefrontal lobotomy. #auspol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Many many Jews around the world (such as ourselves) don't approve of Netanyahu or his genocide. The equation of anti Zionism with anti Semitism is itself anti Semitism. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-14/fitzroy-crossing-night-place-reduces-youth-crime/105281556?gig_actions=sso.login Strangely enough if you take away the reasons for committing crimes, crimes are not committed as often. There's s good message here but it's far too obvious for governments to see it. #australia npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) If you got everything that was shit about Australia, ground it up as fine as possible and stuffed it into a hollowed out horse penis you would have a very good replica of Little Timmy. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Little Timmy Wilson is a putrid, pusillanimous prick if ever there was one. #AusVotes25 npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Someone or other called this a stunt. What does that make 1000's of dead salmon? npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) There's something fishy about the Australian government. Something rotten and repulsive. But it's not SHY's salmon it's Elbow's constant assault on the environment. #environment #auspol https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/114/227/155/292/242/239/original/52ba0ab59fa9d117.jpg npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) More rumours to deny; Tanya Plibersek has not retired to the prayer room to hang her head in shame. #environment #auspol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Donold hates this picture and has demanded its removal from a Colorado State Capitol building. Wouldn't it be shocking if people shared it across the internet so that millions of people could see it. Please don't re-post this picture. https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/114/216/727/608/310/934/original/33f99dddb60ad89a.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Time to trot out this old chart again https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/114/090/516/845/601/047/original/4586dfcbcd1156ce.png npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) You make some very important little understood distinctions here. There are many many Jewish people (such as myself) who abhor Zionism just as political/social beliefs vary amongst African Americans. I have maintained for years that the equation of anti Zionism with anti Semitism is itself anti Semitism. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Should this turn out to be true my repeated position that the equation of anti Zionism with anti Semitism is itself anti Semitism will be even more obvious. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) The ABC reporting that Israel has not presented enough substantiated evidence that hamas hides in hospitals. Or. A little more correctly. *Any* substantiated evidence at all. #Gaza #fuckwar #genocide npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-flu-has-spread-out-of-control-after-mistakes-by-u-s-government-and/ The stable door is open. The horse galloped of ages ago. *Now* the US government is starting up a testing program. What's it called again when an infectious disease starts spreading so fast it can't be controlled? #pandemic npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) So wars were not so good after all. Who knew? npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Michelle Bullock told homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages that “some may ultimately make the difficult decision to sell their homes”. Three weeks earlier, the Commonwealth Bank announced profits of $9.1 billion for 2023-24. It's not a housing crisis, it's a greed crisis. #auspol #bankgreed npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) The equation of anti semitism with anti Zionism is itself anti semitism. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Going back for her hat. npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Now that the Merdeoch cult has taken the trouble to point out Lidia Thorp's 62% senate attendance I'm sure they will be publicising Jacinta Price's 48% attendance and Poorlean Hanson's 56%. Lidia was injured during an assault but the others don't actually give a fuck. #auspol npub1qyl3qq2xfffhmfk9gys4nf0s2cggehcdnrtj6d5uy5rdej68uw3srn2lkq Nearly Normal (=>÷) Only a modern politician could campaign against violence committed by children and for violence committed against children. #auspol https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/336/604/100/118/349/original/bc5854e801f0dcb1.png https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/336/606/654/198/917/original/d56c2ecbfbbecd29.png