“Calvin and Hobbes” — Bill Watterson 🌏🕊️☮️

Remember this next time anyone in the govt says they can’t afford to raise the rate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Several hundred thousand Airbnbs sitting empty most of the time, entire homes, some of the biggest ones in any area also: dwellings that could be actual homes that are deleted from the available shelter to sit mostly empty and leave their bins out constantly.

Oof.. Cathy Wilcox has a go at deciphering the rules.

The ‘No Actual Consequences Commission’, by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

"Fifteen cops to arrest one girl." An 18yo woman was arrested for wearing a singlet with a banned phrase. Another man was arrested for speaking the phrase outside Queensland parliament. Premier David Crisafulli's criminalisation of speech will now be tested in court. #qldpol

Grace Tame silenced from speaking events. She gave her final presentation for the year at the No to Violence national conference in Hobart. Based on the last 24hrs, if she uttered the banned phrases in Queensland she would probably be arrested. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Who voted to cut science funding.. so that we could continue to give away 56% of the gas to exporters..?

The NACC has been an utter waste of public money. Its sole achievement so far is to further persuade everyone that consequence-free corruption and bastardry are fixed features of government in this country.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Just watching an auction and cheering for the young couple buying a home winning against an investor. But they could have had a home for at least $200k less without the investor bidding it up. That's $200k that did not need to be pissed away except for our tax laws.

Can I just say what joy it brings me to hear a quiet, non diesel fume spewing, EV bus going past in Sydney. More please. Had we had leadership that wasn't in fossil fuel pockets: could have had this decades ago.

The idea that the entire spectrum of software systems won't need to exist because of LLM's surely is the most fucking stupid thing the hype cycle has coughed up on the carpet lately. Like thinking databases went extinct because someone invented a UI or an API.. You can't AI-autocomplete everything.

We should be doing this in Australia. Time for the major parties to get in the bin with their corruption.

Australia: this is what you can do instead of backing racist fuckwombles. Just shows just how bad Australian Labor is: refusing to tackle housing, climate, tax, education, unashamedly double-standardsing, letting it all fester as "blame the migrants" while banging on about "social cohesion". FFS

What's one word to describe Anthony Albanese? A difficult one.. "Meh" "Spineless" "Sellout" ?

Department tells the Ombudsman they've built an app to track some unlawful provider decisions - to try to get themselves out of trouble for not monitoring anything So, the Ombudsman asks for information about this app. Department says: actually, we haven't finished building it yet

Stellar @chaser.com.au headline. #auspol #IStandWithGraceTame

Magda posted that she's done with chemotherapy and is in remission 😭 amazing news to kick off mardi gras weekend 😭

This is completely untrue. He said "if there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise", which is not an apology. He then went on to dissemble about what he had meant when he called her "difficult", and he offered no apology at all to Grace.

It still doesn't sit well with me that the long talked about crazy conspiracies about global elite paedos cover up was actually bang on. Do they make a casual/temporary tinfoil hat for these occasions?

Difficult. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I’m seeing a pattern. You? #auspol

These are so revealing. Absolutely petrified of saying something that might cost him votes on the right. Also "WEIR: ISIS brides? PRIME MINISTER: Made their bed, they’re lying in it." He really is the Scott Morrison of John Howards.

When posts line up perfectly. #ausPol

If Albo is right that children are obliged to lie in the bed that their mother made, why is he sleeping at the Lodge and not a public housing flat, while the children of the "ISIS brides" must remain in a refugee camp in Syria? Seems a little inconsistent, logically, just saying.

The spineless two up front should know better.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highly uncapable perhaps?

Albo channeling his inner Tony Abbott

Ode to Labor: Roses are red, violence is blue, NSW is a police state, thanks all to you!

Can you have yr spine broken, unprovoked, by police & get no compo? Is that 'reasonable' justice in NSW now? @wendybacon1.bsky.social on the Minns laws rushed in, the judge, and the Inquiry #auspol #Herzog michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...

One for @purplepingers.bsky.social

Wong about as believable as that time she defended ALP's official homophobia (the ban on same sex marriage).

*chef's kiss* Couldn't even be bothered with anything more than "thing".

I see from the preview pic that they invited representatives of the world's largest abuse support and enablement network.

We should all get a public holiday whenever the major parties collapse on themselves and spill.

The lapel pin is a nice touch @nordacious.bsky.social ..

Wonder whether Herzog signed any of these ones before they were dropped? Can't think why people might be protesting his tour-o-genocide. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Ever relevant

When they say "calls are being made" about grace tame, they should really disclose it is from a sack of anti womens' rights, hypocritical family values/home wrecking, booze head rolling around in the street. May even have been from the horizontal position making those calls like has been pictured.

Just discovered $3 billion in extra nuclear sub spending between May and December $15.4B → $18.6B Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice" That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.

Oh yes: What you need when you are at your weakest is to swap to a man so utterly piss weak he praises his own social media posts.

I went out before today's Herzog protest at Parliament and saw this massive police surveillance tower. This is completely unnecessary, and intimidating, at a peaceful protest. Police need to be protecting protesters, not snooping on them, or attacking them.

Morning. ☕️

Very concerning that we are paying an envoy to learn from the UK, who have arrested thousands of people for peaceful protest.

So @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social wants us to consider the full context before judging videos of police brutality online. Ok, let’s zoom out

Social Compliance, more like.