Ooh - I did a 6 week stint at QUT as a Project Support Office, but each week involved 'x' hrs training at a Russo College, in Brisbane - inc. touch typing & bookkeeping.
The training was very good - the college abysmal... but I did meet Her.
(and, boy, wasn't someone high on their own supply!) 😯
“Once the men were on the patrol boat, the US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer, Palacios said.”
multinationals know this one weird trick
Interim AG Todd Blanche now claims #SPLC (that has one of the critical hate trackers) “is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” It’s another tyrannical attempt to deny racism is real & be a sword against civil rights groups rather than a shield protecting our civil rights. #WeStandWithSPLC
"UQP has indulged the complaints and outrage of lobby groups actively complicit in laundering Australia's economic and political investments in genocide, causing extreme distress to your staff and authors."
Shamefully, UQP has put #ZionistMcCarthyism ahead of integrity. #auspol
JUST IN: A federal judge has tossed a defamation lawsuit Kash Patel brought against former FBI official / pundit Frank Figliuzzi.
Figliuzzi’s claim that Patel spent more time in nightclubs than at FBI HQ was “rhetorical hyperbole,” the judge rules.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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just because it's worth sharing...
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Photo of an adult male Gang-gang Cockatoo, portrait from the neck up. It is grey with light grey/green bars on the edges of its feathers, and bright red feathers on its head and crest. Its eye is dark and its stout beak is white.
As before, but a different, younger male Gang-gang Cockatoo. Its red head feathers aren't fully developed yet. It is biting the end of a stick.
As before, but an an adult female. its head feathers are grey and its belly feathers have cream, yellow, and orange bars.
Today there were *nine* Gang-gang Cockatoo in our garden!
#birds
Sarah Hanson-Young skewers BCA Chief Exec Bran Black after he tries to keep his "consultations" secret while he lobbies against taxing gas giants.
SHY: “Embarrassment is not a stance for public interest immunity.”
“You can’t hide because it’s uncomfortable for you.” 🔥 #auspol
#Trump: "squandered at least 45% of the US's precision-guided missile arsenal in just seven weeks -including half of all THAAD missiles and nearly 50% of Patriot interceptor missiles."
Hopefullly China and Russia aren't reading this.
#Iran #defense #TACO
Sarina has been a good friend to everybody, you should see her photo collection. 🤦♂️
That said, I understand that due to security reasons, none of her business tentacles are allowed near Defense Dept units... sadly, our precious media has never pulled on that particular thread. 😕
Not sure why the government chose this way to manage the NDIS - it'll create unnecessary nonsense over the next few years. They should have forced provider registration, with increased compliance and audits last budget. Then used how that played out to get a more accurate cost of growth areas now.
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Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran
Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad.
Coming soon:
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.
Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed.
Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
(and, from this crew, you'd expect nothing less)
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Good on her for *daring* to expand her horizons.
However, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, she certainly got her monies worth from her 'asset restructuring'.
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The alertness of a single security guard led to the discovery of one of the most heinous crimes of the century. Without that initial catch, Gisèle Pelicot might never have known the horrific truth of what was being done to her.
In September 2020, Dominique was caught by a security guard at a French supermarket while trying to film under the skirts of three women. Thinking he was just a voyeur, police searched his phone and home computer. They discovered a folder named 'Abuse' containing over 20,000 images and videos. Only then did the police realize he had been orchestrating the rape of his wife by strangers for 10 years. If he hadn't been caught in the mall that day, his horrific crimes might never have come to light.
Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years for drugging his wife, Gisèle, and inviting dozens of men to rape her over nine years. This landmark case in France has sparked a global conversation on consent and the resilience of survivors.
#JusticeForGisele #MazanTrial
Nah, that's on me.
Just ignore the idiot in the room.
I was, momentarily, confusing my SPECSchic with my SKEPchick!
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mm... in any crime, follow the money.
if someone is claiming 'loss', then the profits are going somewhere... to someone.
Come on Albo @albomp.bsky.social and Jimbo @jimchalmers.bsky.social - surely you guys cannot be that stupid. You want to save money? @senatorwong.bsky.social Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel nuke subs NOW and NOW - $300B. Fucken $300B
#auspol #AgedCare
If anyone needs another compelling reason to avoid (if possible) ever going into residential aged-care, surely this must be it...
hellocare.com.au/australias-l...
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Something I keep seeing more and more of (exacerbated by the crisis in the industry) are ads for unpaid "job offers."
We can't call a collection of collaborative projects, favors, and wishful thinking an industry.
This, at best, is a pastime, a hobby, leisure... but not an industry.
Cartoon shows ghost on a psychiatrist couch telling him “I used to be somebody.”
cartoon by Lee Gatlin
PSA… men love fat women. Not every man… and I certainly don’t care if you do/do not
Autistic men, neurotypical men gym bros, young, handsome, old, middle aged, rich, poor🤷🏽♀️ ERRYBODY
Being big is not a moral failing or a threat to you cutie skinny ppl.
Desirability is desirability 🍑🤟🏾
#oursky
Bridget McKenzie, who resigned in disgrace over Sports Rorts, tells Sunrise that the NDIS will only survive if we “stop the rorting.”
Extraordinary hypocrisy. From the same party that left the NDIS without fraud protections for a decade. #auspol
Well then,
though we are not friends, Rebecca,
allow me to paraphrase Franklin D.:
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies [we] have made."
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(I'm aware I'm quite late to this observation... )
Palantíri:
eg. the Stone of Orthanc, is one of Tolkien's Middle Earth far-seeing stones that, because they were all plugged into Sauron's evil, corrupted the user.
Maya Angelou:
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
