Nope

For the first time I can remember, I forgot a mask

Absolutely true and see my response to an earlier, similar post. The powerful hide their responsibility for the policy failure and the workers get the blame

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No, the government actually responded well to Covid, after a shaky start, better than most countries, in fact. Also, in my own experience, the public hospital system is fine (and free) but this is a private pathology lab in a small regional town - law unto itself

Nope

Many health care workers have limited or no paid sick days.

Important observation; the powerful avoid sanction for their lousy leadership and the workers bear both the cost of coming to work while sick and the criticisms of the clients

In writing

No, I haven’t- tell me more

The Vindication of Bidenomics Are we finally ready to acknowledge its successes?

Krugman

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Australia

The whole web is built on a primary grace: that the people visiting you are trustworthy. It costs a little something for me to serve my webpage to everyone who goes there. When the number of scrapers outnumbers the number of humans by an order of magnitude, this grace is fragile.

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

On the other hand, no one ever lost money by telling billionaires what they want to hear. The airwaves are full of the oligarchs' minions, reciting their creeds as if these were some kind of arcane truth they've stumbled across. Almost every political conversation is dominated by these elite lies.

Someone…..anyone….tell me this is not true( tho I suspect it is)

Kankles McTrumpskin with “the codes” ….i can see him waking up from one of his frequent daytime naps ….thinking he’s hitting the starter button on his golf cart …and half the world disappears….
A whole new meaning to “a hole in one”

The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.

I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

If you hate Santos as much as 🧶👵 do (for their greed and environmemtal abuse) you’ll love reading what economist & former secretary of Australian Department of Treasury Ken Henry (2001-2011) said to the Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources earlier today. Pass it round Nannas.

#OtD 21 Apr 1834 30,000 marched for the freedom of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, agricultural workers from the Dorset town of Tolpuddle who were transported to Australia as punishment for their trade unionism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9336...

EU ‘right to repair’ laws may save millions of phones from landfill Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that.

EU ‘right to repair’ law

The EU will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.

The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.

www.euronews.com/2023/06/22/n...

The AI slopaganda videos on fuel production have come to Australia....check out Leo's thread

A brand new one has just been posted and it's already getting engagement.

As ever, study the background at "Piccadilly Circus" for the AI slop "tells" - e.g. people just merging into each other when walking on the road and the neon "Shapftsebury" billboard making zero sense

A $71bn rebuild and 77-year setback: A 'catastrophic' crisis in the Middle East The cost of rebuilding Gaza and the "catastrophic" human toll of war have been laid bare in a new report.

A $71bn rebuild and 77-year setback: A 'catastrophic' crisis in the Middle East
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

If you have any interest in economics this will be a must read

I didn't mean to turn this into a short thread, but once I started ranting ...
So here it is, on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

Forgot it - first time

Principal and three teachers plead not guilty to assaulting students at regional NSW school Police allege educators, two men and two women, attacked boys at school between August 2024 and June 2025

“A man & 2 women are facing 1 charge each of common assault against 1 of the boys in separate incidents..Another man is separately charged with assaulting 1..boy on 2 occasions..The man is also charged with common assault against another boy in August 2024”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Principal and three teachers plead not guilty to assaulting students at regional NSW school Police allege educators, two men and two women, attacked boys at school between August 2024 and June 2025

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia news live: Angus Taylor says 25% gas levy would shut down industry; more unopened votes reportedly found in SA Follow live

Oh Angus; too candidate for things that never happened anywhere and will never happen anywhere

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