One really big thing I want to see in my lifetime - the mainstream acceptance that the central bank *simply cannot* fix inflation by raising rates. It’s utter lunacy and it hurts millions of people. And it just doesn’t work […]

@jerry Hey didn’t realise you were taking over ioc.exchange! Things have been really broken for me at least the last few days though - most profile images aren’t loading and I also can only see 3-5 posts on Trending whereas before I would see dozens and dozens of posts there, I liked to scroll […]

Mozilla: we are developing our AI features for Firefox with user input and emphasis on user choice users: please stop. no-one who specifically uses alternative browser Firefox wants this. our choice is no Mozilla:

The Onion wins again

Even now, the story is "Labor was forced into this by the fossil fuel industry" No: Labor and the fossil fuel industry are ideologically aligned. We know this BECAUSE THEY CONSTANTLY SAY IT OUT LOUD

Line at the early voting at St. Stephen’s Coorparoo is *massive*! All the way around the corner and down the street. Moving fairly steadily at least though.

So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos. "The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It […]

@ajsadauskas Do buy electric; just don’t buy Tesla.

Wild... But from the start the whole caravan thing seemed super weird and didn't really make any sense. So not super surprised that it was a hoax... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-10/nsw-police-strike-force-pearl-caravan-dural-arrests/105032876

While we wait for #cyclonealfred, it's Interesting the effects what stopping most of the cars and trucks for a day or so can do...

Good read. "Trumpism, whether full-strength or in the watered-down form seen in Australia, is not an answer to the failure of neoliberalism. But until centre-left parties can escape the mental prison built by decades of soft neoliberalism, it is what we are likely to get." Neoliberalism is […]

News Corp in Australia are running campaigns to try and incite violence towards Jewish people, and film / report on the incidents - this attempt was botched and now the internal documents planning the provocation in News Corp's system are leaked @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/n...

News Corp specifically has been one of the main sources of violence, abuse, tension and disharmony in Australia. Hateful people, hateful company. They have both a profit motive and an ideological motive to stoke hate in the community, and they have gotten pretty good at it

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says it's a "disgrace" the social media ban bill has been "railroaded" through the parliament by the two major parties. She says the reason it's being rushed is because Dutton and Albo are worried if people knew the consequence they wouldn't support it.

Albanese is such a coward. "Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has intervened to scupper a deal with the Greens over environmental reform that Labor promised at the last election, addressing business concerns but circumventing his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. "This masthead has been […]