Everything is data, and data sells. They’re capturing people for somebody’s database/app as well as terrorising their citizenry. Remember back in the day when they’d have to take photographs of protests etc to identify people on the left? Now any goon with a phone can do it for them.

Time for bed.

some dessa dagar

See you whenever.

There is a legit general strike in the entire state of Minnesota on Friday. The first in an entire US state. The AFL-CIO and dozens of unions are involved. All power to the workers. Fuck the Gestapo.

Dickheads Without Borders

Thanks for nothing, clouds! If I hadn’t already seen 2 auroras from my own garden last year I’d have FOMO.

Weird that it’s turning out to be the providers, not the recipients, ripping off the NDIS. It’s almost as if the Morrison government was so incompetent that it’s taken three years of organised work to clean it up. Incompetent and/or corrupt. #AusPol

#crochet blanket progress: I’m doing a 32 row stretch of the variegated yarn, that will hopefully take me to over half the required length! Otherwise I’ll need to improvise again.

Turns out it’s almost impossible to #crochet to Industry, but I’m all caught up. And now it’s back to GoT rewatch, which I’m mixing with The Wire. Blanket is coming along! I’m on a super long stretch of the variegated yarn, so I don’t have to think about tying and cutting for some time.

As parliament debates national hate laws, we ask why have so many Australians vulnerable to hate been excluded? If you agree every Australian deserves equal protection - no matter our ability, sexuality, gender or religion - call your local MP, and like and share this post.

Not to brag, but: (Test yourself here www.xrite.com/hue-test)

Thought after my marathons of sweaty housework and back loading yesterday that I would bounce out of bed today ready to do things. Once again SHOCKED to find rest day requires rest wtf. (It’s getting less and less required, touch wood!)

Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself Neither Recoveriescorp nor its parent entity has paid the tax since securing multi-million dollar government contracts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"if we choose to, we are rich enough to spend a lot more on health, education, and other essential services. But we can’t have world-class services and a poor country’s tax collections." @richarddenniss.bsky.social The 2026 Budget must start big reform. australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

I’m REaDy for the Red Topapocalypse

Left: The little wardrobe That Could. Right: Main Wardrobe full of space but only the clothes that actually fit me.

Good people exist

LMAO

I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.

Guess who got mildly rebuked for being too naked at her skin-cancer check 😎

2000-2025: facts over feelings, no safe spaces, be a fucking man 2026: your dismissive body language has left the fourth Minneapolis infantry with anxiety

Part of the way social media makes people crazy is notifying them of every single damn thing. Turn it all off. Look at the site when you want to. Never, ever allow it to make your phone make noise. Nothing that important is going to happen here.

Not to be dramatic but if I don’t fit all my clothes into the wardrobe I will KMS* *Cry

I have officially Taken To My Bed until this huge iced coffee makes me want to live again.

without downloading, where are you mentally

Greatest challenge to my home at the moment is having to keep some clothes that don’t currently fit, because I know from working at the op shop I would literally not be able to match the quality if I went to re-buy in 2026. I hate storing things that don’t get used! But in this case I’ll have to.

My last two shots before my world went dark.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Just spent all my birthday money on sun protection, because I’m your cool friend who was definitely made for the Australian outdoors and not for a bothy under the densest cloud cover possible. (If these aren’t good quality I will cry)

🤮

When the racist meme becomes national policy

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Tasmania has adopted anti-hate laws covering everyone equally, unlike the federal proposal which is limited to race and marred by exemptions. This coming week Tasmania’s federal members must take the message to the national parliament that strong anti-hate laws work.

When I saw that video of a woman refusing to hand over ID and an ICE agent immediately got out his phone and took a picture of her I was like, “Whelllllp - they’ve got an official facial recognition app.”

This is so true it used to be a roulette wheel of clothing in the 2000s - some Valley Girl top you paid $5 for would emerge triumphantly from its 400th wash and the ‘good basics’ you spent money on would dissolve like rice paper. Whatever was left became your ‘style’.

I really hope they can pull this off.

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

To keep from doom-scrolling and to attempt to help relieve some stress in this cursed timeline, I've been crocheting. I'm probably going to have to leave these on my friend's porches in the dark of night to give them all away. #crochet

Ludacris has dropped out of Kid Rock’s “Rock the Country” music festival, with his spokesperson saying there was a “a mix-up” about the rapper’s involvement

Accepting hospitality and then turning on your hosts? Ask any Campbell how long that crime sticks to you.

Today in Op Shop Warehouse:

You know when you see something and you’re like, “I hope this isn’t a future history book page under the ‘Lead Up To’ section.”

Not much progress the last few days, but I got a few rows in tonight. #crochet

Meanwhile, in Devonport:

True, they’d have to go back to terrorising their own families for free, and that would be terrible! Better to pay them to terrorise their neighbours as well. (I can understand boot-licking to a degree but some things are beyond me)

The Greens won't support the hate speech Bill in its current form. Good. Split the bill, pass the gun stuff, send the rest to Committee for proper scrutiny. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m just a person but maybe making your own decisions and not being driven by bad faith right-wing media campaigns might make it easier to avoid such stunning situations idk