10/ Joint Councils for Civil Liberties Submission to Terrifying ASIO Powers 'The CCLs submit that these immense powers are contrary to basic democratic principles & would characterise ASIO as a secret police force, rather than an intelligence gathering agency.' www.nswccl.org.au/media_statem...

the ideal task for it is: something that takes more work than it's worth and doesn't need to be perfectly right, but is important enough and enough work that it justifies dicking around with an agent that will get it mostly right some of the time... which is what exactly?

ew, mugwump jism

RFK got out of there like someone was ODing

With apologies to all other arachnophobes, but this is horrifyingly fascinating.

John Menadue: “Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....

Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C. www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...

"people are so desperate for health services that they turn to turbo-eliza; government continues to refuse to fund these services." there we go, first draft of a revised blurb, you fuckin dipshits.

and now it’s time to see what Charlie Kirk has to say about Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral election. you’ve been awfully quiet, Charlie! something stuck in your throat?

It's still an hour until Missing DOS Monday but... I FOUND IT. archive.org/details/MAGP... #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing #MSDOSMonday

heh

Oh my GOD lmao

The press gallery won't ask a question like this because they are also still happy to drench their brains in the same Nazi sewage.

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Did I share this a few months ago when I first read it? I forget, and I still love it. The whole thing is sparkly with righteous anger - and there are many WHAT THE FUCK moments throughout but I quite like this early one. www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...

it's "no nuts november" so it's time to sharpen your harvest knives...

User guide cover art for the Matra Alice computer by Moebius, 1983 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_A...

#BREAKING 🚨 FOI documents show AI-tainted Deloitte report was 'much worse' than previously thought (by YOU?) or disclosed. It appears DEWR Secretary Natalie James may have misled the Senate in relation to the conduct of her previous employer. ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social www.afr.com/politics/ai-...

Just attended the launch of Art For Takayna, and here we are standing in front of (ahem) my painting. bobbrown.org.au/event/art-fo...

chmod 777 > Liber 777

Sydney Centre for Ear, Nose & Throat warns patients of potential email data breach www.cyberdaily.au/security/128...

[intense bubbling sounds] PHEV... jimny... [cough]

Junk AI reports harming NDIS users: disability groups www.afr.com/politics/jun...

International Day of People With Disability is coming up, and as a rural non-binary person with disability who works in disability support I would like to suggest your organisation please invite me to speak (or at least invite me to the brunch)

every fucking time i remember we're spending 400 billion smackaroos on bullshit subs we have no sane use for and will never see, i get mad all over again.

Australia’s health records at risk: The myth of anonymous data independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

fuckin amazing

Well, unbelievably, Tanya, we actually have ministers in the Albanese government who are arguing that giving police more powers to cause poverty will stop rape or murder or child abuse, that police should cause more poverty and trauma despite never reducing rape or murder or child abuse.

police investigate about 15% of the minuscule proportion of sexual violence victims who report to police. Most people know not to boost police data while being ridiculed and disbelieved and traumatised by violent misogynists. Tell us how police causing poverty stops rapists, Tanya. We are all ears.

Rock Chugg might be the hardest name ever.

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bluesky never put me in the newsletter but they cropped my name to put me in a slideshow. good enough lmfao

Thu plan: 0900 AEDT auDA ICANN84 debrief www.auda.org.au/news-insight...; laundry; podcast post-production, probably, or maybe a nap; 1730 drinks and dinner with a former colleague, Katoomba.

Do some High School physics about how fast this dude was going to destroy a rail bridge with that truck. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

One lesson of Mamdani is if you say something is a major problem then promise to do a major thing to fix it. If you say something is a major problem but your solution is a little fix, voters know you are full of it, and will eventually drift to those who say it's not a problem at all.

Many are saying you should read Neither Settler Nor Native by Mahmood Mamdani

When the wave of 'neoliberal' reform of state & society began under Hawke & Keating, such outcomes were predictable & indeed predicted; also, proceeded from an understanding of the basic mechanisms of state & capital. Lots of ppl have written about it. You can read it in B&W.

I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes: 'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different. shutting the fuck up is free.

none of us are safe until all these people are driven into hiding.

Lots of fun to be had! Okay maybe not FUN. Unless your idea of fun is people with odd names punching each other then doing pint-of-wine induced murder. Which mine is. This is from 1692. Two blokes "falling out about their Pedegrees to such a height" that one of them ended up dead:

Let's not allow Mamdani's victory erase Ghazala Hashmi's hard-earned achievement in Virginia.

17k ppl with medical conditions were able to renew their QLD digital drivers license without medical checks

ahhh, crap

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no noise november. everyone shut the fuck up

back to competence porn for old farts (Slow Horses)