Please please please, can we get any CEO or boss, who pushes the AI bandwagon, to be forced to live in an AI designed home 🙏🙏😂😂😂

The Arts do more than make money, they tell us who we are.

They’re an investment in culture, community, critical thinking and social cohesion. They shine a light on what it means to be human. ❤️ Maybe that’s why authoritarians hate the arts"

But, paper patterns are a good option for many people for various reasons, I’d be sad to see them disappear.

Absolutely. I haven’t bought from the big 4 for quite a few years. I use mostly pdf patterns from indie designers. I have a non standard body shape and have loved designers who provide patterns for large busts and curves. Thinking I might even try projector patterns one day.

My understanding is that indie pattern makers who provide paper patterns, use the same printers as the big 4. So this is a potential problem for all pattern makers who provide paper patterns.

A cold Sunday morning is for staying in a sunny bed.

The problem with it being “normal” is it will never be investigated further. Coming from a menopausal woman who just found out that her periods were “abnormally heavy” because of fibroids 😞

I heard it too! I think he was mixing up Dutton and Dickson, but I don’t care 😂😂😂

At 8:25 Antony Green says LNP can’t win a majority 🎉🥂. Labor will form government weather minority or majority

hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...

Growing food is difficult. It’s good to try, but don’t have to rely on it.

Hundreds of thousands of working Australians will be getting penalty rates when working over Easter. The bosses are trying to remove them. Labor has just committed to changing the law to protect them forever.

Not just too low, but the insane hoops and punitive nature of the application process is ridiculous for such a small amount. Honestly, given how much a difference it makes to those who need it, the application and administration needs to be so much easier.

I don't want efficient government.
I want effective government.

The talk of "efficiency" is thinly veiled austerity. And there's no reason for it. It's irrational. It's a greedy agenda being pushed by a population of self-important wannabe aristocrats - the parasites of civilization.

No, he’s not “allowed” on the table.

My beautiful boy helped me with my photography homework.

Happy #caturday

It’s time we asked: what is the cost not just to the budget, but to society, when the richest are helped to get richer? The question ‘how do we pay for it’ only seems to come up when the government spends money on things that help low and middle-income earners

“Worried about how the government will pay for $8.5bn over four years? … the richest 10% will get $27bn this year in tax breaks from the capital gains tax discount, negative gearing and the superannuation tax concessions” Greg Jericho #auspol
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Absolutely! This analysis is what is missing from journalism.

This is so frustrating. I want them to go further. Talk about policy, then get experts to discuss how these policies might actually impact different sectors.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

I need some DOGE insignia gear so I can turn up at a bunch of shadowy Australian departments and walk in like I own the place

The Saturday Paper
"10 dead after welfare glitch ignored by Gov" Page 1 story.

The LNP don't actually care about rural folk 😁👍

Doesn't the water have to be below a certain temperature? I thought that was why they are normally beside the ocean, large lakes, or rivers.

😁👍 and we never have droughts either!

the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022.

they had two options to arrest the decline:

1. win back trust with good governance & good policy
2. rig the system

tonight they chose to rig the system.

a dark day for australian democracy.

Yep, that about sums it up. Carbon offsets have been a huge distraction from efforts to cut actual emissions from fossil fuels for too long - time to focus on ‘real zero’ and the need to burn less fossil fuels.

Its the fossil fuel companies that benefits from distractions and faked complexity

I can assure you that Nanango (one of the proposed sites) is rather a long way from the ocean, or any major rivers. Not sure where they are getting the water from 🤷🏼‍♀️

Examples of four moods. Dragon - I need coffee. Rowdy dragon - I need a nap. Dismissive dragon - I need a vacation. Perplexed dragon - I need duct tape, rope and a shovel.

Every time I watch any news at the moment.