Hope you’re doing ok after today. Many aren’t.

Crackdown on unregistered NDIS providers coming in bid to save $6b a year NDIS Minister Mark Butler will announce reforms to the disability scheme on Wednesday that will aim to save more than $6 billion a year by 2035 — and the largely unregulated market of NDIS providers i...

Shonky providers is what happens when you privatise any service
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

To be clear, my comment was about the handout, not about renewables.

But we can’t afford people with disabilities 🤬

@albomp.bsky.social you’ve just lost my vote after your ndis announcement today by Mark Butler. You’re disadvantaging large numbers of disabled people and many providers that do the right thing. You’ve just caused a great deal of anxiety today. There’s other people you should be gunning for #auspol

Huh. I didn’t think they were New Order so early. There you go.

Also, I was 10.

Ronald McDonald wants a word.

I’d suggest she is not the first to use that term.

"Love WILL tear us apart, but only at a time that's convenient for you. I'd hate it to be an imposition. Hope work's going ok and that your tendonitis is better"

Ian Courteous.

CD set of soundtracks from John Hughes movies.

Feels like a good time to bring this out…

Wordle 1,757 2/6

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I’ve seen a couple of excellent examples of ai being blatantly wrong in the last few days. Especially good when fools are using it as truth and others set them straight.

A small kitten sitting in front of her siblings. Everyone is black, and they have coloured collars on. They're fluffy and adorable. Myrtle at the front is sitting up with her head slightly cocker to the side. She has wide blue eyes and lots of fluff.

Look at my very perfect and very chonky babies. I have worked VERY hard on that chonk.

Myrtle is at the front.

There's only one left now. Plus, I don't cook.

Let it be known that a rapidly over-ripening banana has actually been used for a smoothie!

IKR?

Got nailed by Hot Physio yesterday...

...wait... needled. Dry needled. My mistake.

ALJAZEERA EXPLAINER News US-Israel war on Iran US-Iran talks in Pakistan: Who's attending, what's on the agenda? Islamabad hosts negotiations as US and Iran seek an off-ramp. But deep mistrust and regional tensions threaten talks.

On Saturday, the US and Iranian teams are expected to sit in separate rooms, with Pakistani officials carrying messages between them.

“omg in study hall today lisa told chris that taylor and tracy are going to PROM”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

A digital 4 panel comic. The first panel has a white cat that says "I try to be nice to everyone". The second panel has a black cat that replies with "ok now be nice to yourself." Third panel is the white cat staring in silence, and the fourth panel the white cat's expression changed into an angry one

But what if I don't wanna >:[

#comic #cats

Could you get ai to summarise for me? :P

Excuse me while I vomit up my ungovernable rage. I had a funny little column planned for today.

I have published my column. There was some ranting and intemperate language

Mud map from the PC report on the NDIS from 2011 that From a consumer’s perspective, the NDIS will give them the means to choose supports that best meet their needs that includes "private, for profit firms"

Whenever I see talk about the NDIS I go back to the original Productivity Commission report and I note a pretty obvious issue in the entire construction of the scheme

If you're in Melbourne and into chest binding for Gender Reasons, there's a free binding workshop at TransGender Victoria's Lygon Street Affirmation Station next week. 5.30pm Thu Apr 16.

Free, but you have to book.

events.humanitix.com/chest-bindin...

Wait what? Some alleged.
1. $3m for '92 Oral rape male 10yo
2. $1m '89 rape female 12yo
3. $3m '89 13 oral & anal rape male 11yo
4. $5m '94 rape & oral rape female 13
5. $16m '93 rape female 12
6. $ unknown anal rape male 11

That's just some of the people Michael Cohen paid off for Trump.

So pretty 😍

A guy took a Costco rotisserie chicken into the Rockies game and they let him because it was in a clear bag😂

Oh yes. I get plenty of that 🙄

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Sorry to hear this. Hoping all goes well.

"In Gaza, four toddlers play in the rubble. They place a tattered doll onto a tiny stretcher, hoist it above their little heads with eerie, practised coordination, carrying Dolly off to an imaginary hospital that, ideally, won’t be flattened by imaginary bombs."

#Fuck