New blog post, taking a look at the concept designs of some new stations in Melbourne's west the-iron-road.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-...

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A new blogpost from me, analysing One Nation's preference flows in the South Australian state election and beyond and why it may be tougher than expected for them to knock off regional conservative incumbents. alisonrambles.ghost.io/can-one-nati...

A new blogpost from me, analysing One Nation's preference flows in the South Australian state election and beyond and why it may be tougher than expected for them to knock off regional conservative incumbents. alisonrambles.ghost.io/can-one-nati...

Not something I get to say very often but this cop is entirely right. Especially with rising antisemitism, allowing one specific organisation centred around a particular religion to carry weapons, but no others...it could create really poisonous discourse.

Accidentally causing the shutdown of an airport because of a laser hair removal device and hot chocolate is an extremely Alison thing to do. I'm not entirely convinced I didn't do this.

exciting news: there’s a profile of me out in The Needle by @marleywrites.bsky.social if you want to find out why I’m like this theneedlenews.com/2026/05/nove...

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

Not a city but I will never forgive Avenel, Victoria for its wrongdoings.

I wonder if there's a term for this sort of leftist indignance I see wrt hard-right parties' election results being proportionally reported on. In any case, I don't care for it. Reform won so little because only a portion of councils were actually up for election, but they won a plurality of seats.

The Farrer results more or less confirm my priors (with how high One Nation are polling, they're going to secure a swag of regional seats and make it very difficult for the Coalition to form government) but even with that, I am shocked at just how low the Coalition vote fell. Not even 25%?

Greens are issuing an open ticket in the Stafford by-election (Qld). Broadly I am opposed to this sort of preference foolery on principle, but it seems especially indefensible here given that the LNP is in government and doing some pretty indefensible stuff. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

If you're currently looking for a) a kitten, b) a challenge, and c) the opportunity to boast that your cat was captured personally by the second-most-cited Kierkegaard scholar in Australia, I have excellent news: www.maaw.org.au/pet/ember www.maaw.org.au/pet/diego

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-... The Urban Myth That "Sack Dan Andrews" Was A Labor Front #springst

The Electoral Commission of South Australia has made a bunch of errors this year but the fact that it's almost been 24 hours since the declaration and I still can't see how much Clare Scriven won against Katie McCusker for the final seat is my own pet gripe against them.

Have finally changed my handle to be something slightly more approachable. Liked the old one but it is a bit aggressive on first read.

The SA Legislative Council count is finished, with Labor's Clare Scriven winning the final spot as expected. Elected MLCs are: ALP 5 (+5 continuing MLCs = 10) ONP 3 (+0 = 3) LIB 2 (+4 = 6) GRN 1 (+1 = 2) Sarah Game Fair Go 0 (+1 = 1)

Haruspicy will abound next week as analysts inspect the entrails of this weekend's Nepean by-election trying to divine prospects for November's Victorian state election. And next week's Farrer by-election. #springst #nepean antonygreen.com.au/vic2026-nepe...

I wrote about making your Miis say things like "penis" and how it feels emblematic of our exact moment in online culture.

In light of the news about BRS being arrested for his war crimes in Afghanistan, and the sickening attempts from racists to excuse his villainy, this week’s throwback poem is from my third collection, Non-Essential Work.

Google Photos keeps giving me this notification and I can't stress how much I never ever want to see this odious little drawing again.

One Nation's Jason Virgo was today confirmed as the new MP for MacKillop, but has a colourful political history, having previously stood for the Sex Party in 2010 and 2013. This link from the Internet Archive has a candidate photo all but confirming it: web.archive.org/web/20130908...

It's #saparli election day, so it's time to post all the how-to-vote cards I picked up last week while I was in Adelaide!

A ‘few scallywags’ gossiping or a premier under threat? Inside Labor’s push to ditch Jacinta Allan

Me in South Australia: Hey why are all the number plates South Australian

Good morning Alison fans

I really can't get over how insane Stephen Pallaras' flagship policy of abolishing parole is. Both Liberal and Labor have given him and his party extremely favourable preferences despite this crackpot idea.

@kevinbonham.bsky.social This opinion piece in InDaily, about David Speirs, suggests that he'll require more than 50% first prefs to win Black due to Libs putting him last. Would you know anything about the primary vote needed in cases like this (say, third party pref'd last by both ALP and Libs)

I attempted an infographic.

I think the fact that the TikTok youths haven't yet rediscovered Pauline Pantsdown is a sign of serious American cultural hegemony. How has this banger not gone viral again yet? m.youtube.com/watch?v=D4tZ...

Interesting poll in South Australia. Drawn most to the absolute shitfight for that last seat, which the folks at DemosAU seem to think could go to any of Connie Bonaros, Chris McDermott, and Stephen Pallaras. Actual poll figures somewhat support this. www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

El Jannah is very prime for gentrification because broadly it is a very nice place to sit in and do WFH at. You'd sooner die than WFH at a KFC but I can see El Jannah becoming the thinking man's WFH destination.

Mentions suddenly filled up with talk of the Korean Peninsula so I am suddenly reminded of this image I have saved

Found this frequency graph from Alan Thomas to be super useful, especially with illustrating the frequency upgrades that come into place today as a result of the Big Switch! Note specifically the big upgrades on the Sunbury line. atlight.github.io/transport/me...

Went to the City Loop today to take photos with my DSLR of High Capacity Metro Trains, as the Metro Tunnel's "Big Switch", scheduled 1 February, will mean that the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines will no longer run through here, mainly. These are the best of a pretty middling bunch of pics:

Would obviously only apply to Victoria but I am partial to 12 December as a public holiday -- the day last year that Treaty was adopted. (Although it would likely be too close to Christmas to be viable, much as the mentioned 14 December of the Corangamite by-election would be.)

@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @leopuglisi6.bsky.social SA-BEST announces first candidate in the 2026 state election!

Jacinta Allan's Metroid Dread Tunnel

This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn’t exist – it’s AI Blakface theconversation.com/this-tiktok-...

Great stuff at Benalla station

Really not a fan of the Dan Murphy Chavez Eyes at Southern Cross

Twas the night before New Years' Eve, and not a creature was stirring, except for the courier delivery trucks.

And, if we're being honest, we need to be able to see the tendencies towards hate, sadism, etc. in ourselves, and catch ourselves on it. Because we all do it. The best of us actively work to minimize it.

AFL clubs, the Grand Prix and Victorian govt have distanced themselves from a private security group accused of worker exploitation, tax evasion, and ties to a bikie gang. Why is the Albanese govt still paying MA group to guard asylum seekers on Nauru?

This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.

Can people stop using the AI overview as a citation for facts ffs? It hallucinates, makes stuff up. Cite a news source, a primary source -- hell, even Wikipedia. Just not something a computer vomited out at you.

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