Doesn’t want to go home right now 😂

In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people.

Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too.

So every year prices go up more than wages.

It's not complicated why things are only getting worse.

It's billionaires

Sounds like too much maga for me

Oh god, Phil Anschutz? I live in Colorado Springs. He’s the local supervillain who owns the Broadmoor Hotel, Seven Falls and the local rag, The Gazette, where he platforms his conservative nonsense. I didn’t make the connection with AEG.

oh, please!
Coachella was created 1993 to protest against bloated ticket prices by Ticketmaster.
2002 it was sold to AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group), he is known to spent money between 2011 and 2013 to Alliance Defending Freedom, which opposes the right to abortion, same-sex marriage,

It takes two to make alliances and the US may run away first As US commitment to alliances wavers, Australia faces urgent questions about its security, independence, and place in a rapidly shifting global order.

johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 China condemns US seizure of Iranian cargo ship, calls it a "forced interception."

Ontario has a mini Niagara Falls with fewer crowds and it's more 'spectacular' in the spring Ontario is home to some truly breathtaking natural wonders, and while Niagara Falls may steal much of the spotlight, there's another spectacular cascade in the province that feels especially magical i...

#Ontario has a mini Niagara Falls with fewer crowds and it's more spectacular in the spring #Canada

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In Iran, the regime has indeed changed: It’s less restrained, more hard-line After the U.S.-Israeli war’s “decapitation” strikes against top Islamic Republic political and military leaders, who is this new generation that has taken the reins in Iran? They are more hard-line th...

Well done, Netanyahu.

“…analysts say the decapitation campaign has, instead, enabled the rise of the most hard-line elements of the IRGC, which now feel freshly emboldened and less willing to compromise to end the war.”

www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...

Japan tsunami alert issued following powerful earthquake off northern coast – follow latest People in affected areas urged to evacuate as quake registering 7.5 magnitude occurred off the coast of Sanriku

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

A powerful earthquake has struck off the northern Japanese coast, and the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami alert in the region.

Useful summary.

A letter to act on.

Of course, Pope Leo was never interested in debating Donald Trump.

The Pope is so far above him that they’re not even speaking the same language. One is dealing in faith and humanity, the other in noise and cruelty.

Oh gawd I hope not. Remember when Foster was a business advisor to Cherie Blair and co-owned real estate with her or something, if I recall?
I just applaud Indigenous folk finding export markets for sustainable bush foods and wish them luck!

Yay! The only glass I recycle is tomato sauce bottles (one a year?) and an occasional jam jar. Ginger beer stubbies or other drink bottles get me a 10c refund. So I wouldn't fill a purple bin if I tried for the rest of my life. Vegemite & peanut butter even come in plastic now.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

The mega selling True Colours by Split Enz was number 1 on this day in 1980 spawning hits like "I Got You" and " I Hope I Never" - that was 46 years ago.

We heard they are cutting the snow gums on Mt Macedon & anyone going onto the site will be arrested. Was feeling forlorn. Got a fire call up in the pine plantation. Working with good folks & being focused on driving the tanker on dirt tracks weirdly helped with my mood. Back to the mountain tomorrow

Great, tell us all their dirty secrets.

Australian bush tea hits shelves in Asia The product is being sent from a remote property in the Northern Territory all the way to Japan, Korea and China.

"We need to stop ploughing ground and putting fertilisers on when there's natural things going on." 👏

Anthropic's constraint isn't ethics. It's liability. Autonomous kill decisions mean trillion-dollar lawsuits when AI errs. Governments push because they want deniability. Companies build moats by refusing.

... and send it off to find a certain person using its AI brain and "detain" them, but oh woops, it made a mistake and shot them. The we start comparing the kill rates for human ICE agents and robot ICE agents and decide robots are safer anyway ... #madness

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks.
Still, I'm with Anthropic on this one (if nothing else).
It's terrifying that only the will of a company stands between people and robot soldiers.
Certain ppl probs hv wet dreams about the day they can feed a name into a Boston Dynamics monster ... /2

Fri 17 Apr

Labor & Josh Burns frequently cite the Safeguard Mechanism to fob off constituents' concerns about Australia's grossly inadequate emissions reduction

Turns out the claimed 7 million tonnes of SGM emissions reduction for 2024-25 is entirely undone by North West Shelf Gas Extension (👀🧵👇)

Victorian councils rubbish statewide mandate that all homes must have four wheelie bins Local governments have until 1 July next year to introduce a four-bin recycling system, but some councils – and waste experts – say it’s unnecessary

This ruins the Rasta colour scheme we've got going on with the other three bins. At least Qld won't be woke enough for this for ages. According to ABC reporting yesterday, our Containers for Change scheme is on the skids, with Coca-Cola saying they might pull out.

The reality is, there is no practical need for anyone to be a billionaire. People who "need" to have obscene amounts of wealth are compensating for some kind of emotional of pschological deficiency.

All billionaires should be required to attend mandatory therapy.

“…the stock market is not the economy.”

I said those exact words to a public finance professor in grad school and was ordered to leave the class immediately.

That’s when I learned about the power of capitalism and how the system can turn even the sharpest minds into its ambassadors.