“CONAN HOLDS YOUR PRIVACY SACRED Our encampment processes personal data, wielding the power as cautiously as Conan wields his sword. Should you wish to cover your footsteps and forbid us from sharing your secrets, strike at the 'I wish to cloak my presence' rune. I WISH TO CLOAK MY PRESENCE”
Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.
Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.
The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.
The fundamental problem with the NDIS is that it was designed by Productivity Commission with its characteristic focus on competition and choice, rather than on service provision by committed professionals. This invariably opens the way to fraud. criminality and inefficiency - see FEE-HELP #auspol
Bumped into an old friend on Whenua Hou the day before yesterday, while I was working on the webcam. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife
Selective incrementalism
This is Evelyn Araluen (UQP’s most successful recent author) not fucking around,
Via Lamestream:
You just can’t have a cultural industry sector that’s so implacably at odds with Australian cultural practitioners. The sector was asked to choose between artists and the Murdoch press and has repeatedly favoured the latter. Untenable cowardice.
No matter what Labor does, the right and even the centre will always tar them with the brush of tax and spend. It’s the only talking point. So embrace it you numbskulls! Expand every fucking bit of welfare to the extreme! Build a constituency, and make it impossible to reverse!
I can not get past an actual university publishing house, one where so many Blak writers are loved and respected by countless readers and a dedicated literary community, is pulping 5000 books, childrens books, a river story, by an Aboriginal poet. My throat constricts when thinking about this.
social licence: politicians attributing their neoliberal priorities to the public
pub test: journalists attributing their political opinions to the public.
social cohesion: police violence against the anti-genocide public.
the public: pays their mortgages.
University of Queensland directs UQP to cancel & pulp an Aboriginal writer's environmental-focused book for children. Jazz Money has done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve to be treated this way. Her book is important for young readers. Shameful
So we can only have 600,000 disabled people in Australia. Huh.
A naive question: How do you model something when you don't know the criteria you are going to impose?
The ABC's piece was straight out of Morrison's "Labor want to take away your weekend away" campaign and John does a great dissection of it.
The gas tax committee is at lunch for half an hour. My favourite of the morning was Susan McDonald saying coal seam gas "puts bubbles in your drinks"
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Canberra Times newspaper headline that reads Sweeping changes to NDIS will save $15 billion a year, Mark Butler says
Labor wouldn't need to make any changes to the NDIS if it implemented the proposed tax gas which is estimated to earn Australia $17 billion!
They'd even get a little bonus...
MARK BUTLER To AUSTRALIANS: Have you tried being less disabled?
The RBA nods along sagely.
Holy moly.
The head of the Queensland Resources Council just told the Gas Tax Committee "all Australians are benefiting from higher prices"
live.thepoint.com.au
I'll need to refresh my memory on that. Chibnall defeated me only a few episodes into Whittaker's run and I've never revisited it.
So tonight we FINALLY got back to playing D&D after three weeks off (it felt like years) and were again confronted by a horrible floating eyeball monster from another plane of existence — or as we call him, “Greg From HR.”
(I assume HR stands for Horror Realm)
I have no musical comprehension whatsoever, but have always preferred the older theme arrangements. Of the new ones, only the version for Capaldi's Doctor even came close for me.
a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers
thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool
07.19 AEST NDIS savings redirected to aged care Tom McIlroy Tom McIlroy The health minister, Mark Butler, will detail savings from the NDIS on Wednesday, and reveal that some of the savings will go to help older Australians with the provision of essential services like showering, dressing support and continence management. Labor is winding back elements of its aged care reforms, removing out-of-pocket costs for non clinical services in the Support at Home scheme. The government has faced criticism from advocates for elderly people, experts and aged care providers, who said these personal care services are essential for people’s independence and ability to stay at home. The minister for aged care, Sam Rae, said the changes will be effective from 1 October this year. Showering, dressing, continence care – these aren’t optional extras. They’re the basics of ageing with dignity, and no older Australian should miss out because of cost. Older Australians, their families and providers told us these services needed to be protected. We’ve listened, and we’re acting.
Don't you fucking dare pit one group of disabled Australians against another
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I want and NEED my disabled family members to have adequate care and supports whether they're autistic or had a stroke or have another rare genetic condition. They shouldn't be used as pawns against each other because of age or when they got their disability of what that "primary" one is
Greens say community has ‘no confidence’ proposed savings from NDIS will help disabled Australians Jordon Steele-John, the Greens’ spokesperson for disability inclusion, said there is “no confidence” in the community regarding proposed savings from the NDIS, set to be revealed by health minister Mark Butler today. Steele-John told RN Breakfast this morning: People cannot understand, quite rightly, in my opinion, why a government facing a budget, which is ultimately always about choices, would choose to cut their services rather than make the gas exporters pay their fair share of tax, tax Gina Rinehart or Clive Palmer a bit more, or maybe … buy one fewer submarine from Donald Trump rather than take away their ability to connect with their community or get the absolute basics they need to live. Steele-John went on to say disabeled people and their families are “sick of being used as political footballs”. We’re in a situation right now where the state government is saying we cost too much. The federal government is saying we cost too much. And in the middle are disabled people and our families who will end up receiving Less services and support. We will end up without the supports that we need to live. photo of a man in a suit with glasses talking at a mic
"We’re in a situation right now where the state govt is saying we cost too much. The federal government is saying we cost too much. And in the middle are disabled people and our families who will end up receiving Less services and support. We will end up without the supports that we need to live"
Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day
And if anyone knows about failing kids, it's the Queensland Government.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The unstated goal of the south-east Queensland councils is to drive all the homeless into northern NSW before the Olympics.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
Don't believe the empty threats from the gas industry that they'll leave if Australia taxes its gas exports properly.
Inpex are looking to invest RIGHT NOW in high-taxing Norway. They're taking the piss.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
