Does the magic rectangle make me sad or am I already sad and I'm just looking at the magic rectangle in an attempt to either Not Feel or perhaps Feel Something Else

I would love it if my choices were between take-away coffee and private education or coffee at home and public education. Instead, my choices are between my one meal per day or the fuel in my car so I can buy more groceries.

'When will this be?
Never.'

A bleak assessment from A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel.

Peter Dutton is pushing a $600 billion nuclear scheme, that will be funded by cuts to critical services and push up bills.

The Coalition’s own modelling confirms his plan is to undo hard-won energy reform, and instead cap affordable renewables to extend expensive, unreliable coal plants.

Tony Abbott, 2013: "There shall be no cuts to education, health, or the ABC and SBS."

Peter Dutton, 2025: "There shall be no reversal of women's rights."

Yeah. Right. And if anyone actually believes this, I have a bridge on Sydney Harbor I'd like to sell you. #auspol #LiarsLie

Also, I feel like there are issues with the whole, ~he literally made her~ thing. Like, it should be his child, not his wife. /🧵

Like, how to say "women are objects meant only for sex and breeding" without saying it. /🧵

Screenshot of the Wikipedia article about Pygmalion of Greek mythology. "According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cypress practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. There, too afraid to admit his desire, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. Aphrodite had granted Pygmalion's wish. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos, from whom is derived the name of the city. In some versions, Paphos was a son, and they also had a daughter, Metharme."

I'm mad about the story of Pygmalion. It's essentially a shitty dude getting rewarded by a goddess for building a sexbot, and this reward involves giving consciousness to the literal object he made. /🧵

what a crock this whole debacle is

If only there were some way to instead turn $1 billion into better housing, healthcare or education for the state, as more and more Tasmanians are dying, starving, or sleeping rough 🤔⁉️

Self-driving cars found to be safer - except at dawn, dusk, or when turning, according to study --Sky News, 18 Jun 2024

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (June)

I hope everyone has a simple pleasure or three to celebrate the new year with. Mine is clean sheets 😁

Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.

Push against listing Maugean skate as critically endangered A submission to the federal environment department on the conservation status of Tasmania's endangered Maugean skate argued population estimates were a "miscalculation" and "underestimates" the true n...

Australia: Both State and Commonwealth Departments of the Environment relinquish their responsibilities to protect yet another endangered species.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

A list of categories on the Kmart Australia website that includes the line "kitchen draw organisers" with the word "draw" circled in red.

Of all the stupid, little things that annoy me, but have no real impact on my life, it's spelling the word "drawer" (as in, chest of) as "draw" (as in, what artists do) that annoys me the most, for some reason. I hate that it annoys me so much 😭

Just in case you didn't know.

IYKYK

SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT! Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!

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Jeannie on a Zucchini 😁

Orange you glad to see me? 🧡😻 This kitty's got the cutest little face.

Credit: miyavlikedicikler
#cat #catlover #cats

People who've never been dependent on a paycheck should not get to decide how long you can go without yours.

Housing is a Human Right. Build more social and public housing services!

Queensland council bans pets for rough sleepers amid homeless crackdown The City of Moreton Bay issues a blanket ban forbidding homeless people from keeping pets or publicly sleeping in vans.

This is a moral obscenity. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Children do not “belong to parents”. Children are not property. They are people with rights and parents and guardians are responsible for upholding those rights

This is just one of many reasons why Housing, Education, and Social Security Services need to be expanded. If people are afraid they won't be able to survive when they lose their jobs then they will cling to them with all they've got.

This pic is at least a decade old, I saw it on FB in like, 2014 or something

The West Coast Council asked for this. Source: www.westcoast.tas.gov.au/council/coun...

Letter from West Coast Mayor to PM. Found on page 95 of the West Coast Council Meeting Agenda for the December 2024 Council Meeting, linked.

The West Coast Council asked for this. Source: www.westcoast.tas.gov.au/council/coun...

An infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope showing the dark cloud L1527 IRS with a forming protostar. The image displays an hourglass shape with vibrant blue and orange hues representing different densities of dust and gas. The protostar is located in the darkened 'neck' of the hourglass, surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, with blue and orange clouds highlighting the voids and pathways of material flow from the star's formation process.

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I know this might be shocking to some but women can be the protagonist in your video games and they don't need to meet your requirements for beauty

Last time I checked the only requirement for a game is being fun

Samus is giving yall side eye