Mark Butler’s NDIS cuts will force people with disabilities like mine to withdraw from society | Clem Bastow The inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart by ruthless, ableist bureaucracy

Really important article from Clem Bastow www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme

The Disappearance of the Public Bench Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."

NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

Albanese says his mother would have been eligible for trimmed-down NDIS Anthony Albanese has provided a bit of detail on who would be eligible for the reformed NDIS: people like his late mother, who he described as “crippled up with rheumatoid arthritis”.

ah ok, all good then

towball

Oh you think it's "cool" to do a heist? To assemble a crew of specialists, each with a unique backstory, to create a beautiful ballet of theft? You think it's "cool" to purloin beautiful treasures under several redundant layers of security? You people sicken me. Next you're gonna say you use drugs.

Talking ourselves into inequality: the new fuel ads, the NDIS and "social cohesion" show how neoliberalism has colonised our tongues Under the pressure of decades of right wing culture wars—which have run parallel to cross party support for neoliberalism—the traditional vocabulary of welfare, redistribution, egalitarianism, and cla...

. @timdunlop.bsky.social on @thepointau.bsky.social "Talking ourselves into inequality: the new fuel ads, the NDIS and "social cohesion" show how neoliberalism has colonised our tongues"
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You are being lied to. And there's only one man who knows the truth. Jim Haggerty returns, only on InfoWars.

hated landlords until I became one - tenants are just ungrateful Rhiannon Picton-James

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck

Wrapping changes to NDIS and aged care – and responses

Wrapping changes to NDIS and aged care – and responses www.croakey.org/wrapping-cha... #publichealth

The Point Live: Business and gas companies have their say on gas tax proposals. Representatives from the Business Council, Shell and ConocoPhillips are among those fronting the gas tax senate inquiry today, while the health minister lays out proposed changes to the NDIS.

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: Are there more or less coal mines today than there were in 2022

HEWSON: I don’t have the precise number in front of me.

SHY: Luckily, I do. Luckily I do. So let me, let me. Let me tell you, in 2022 there were 53 there’s now 58 it’s gone up.
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"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

“When AI takes away everyone’s jobs, the government will have to implement Universal Basic Income!”

The Government:

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

This was a brief pop-in but I did mention @ember-energy.org's new report showing demand for gas is seeing weakening growth particularly in Asia - Australia's main customer

We want a managed transition, not a chaotic painful one. Tax helps achieve that!

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Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

As a lapsed fan, asking me to rewatch the longest one, with the selling point that it's now even longer, is not compelling

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir? Not if you ask the NSW Government! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

"Some cultures are dysfunctional and regressive," say the white guys deliberately trying to make ours dysfunctional and regressive.

the most personal of attacks

Campaign group behind attack ads on Labor, Greens and teal candidates was funded by coal industry lobby Australians for Prosperity received most of its funding last financial year from Coal Australia, according to disclosures made to the Australian Electoral Commission

'A campaign group that attacked Labor, the Greens & teal independent candidates at the last federal election was almost entirely funded by a coal industry lobby group, analysis of political disclosures reveals'.

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A succinct history of why there hasn't been a wrestling union

That's Not What Unc Means You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

Adam Morton Chris Bowen to begin Cop31 climate summit president's role remotely Chris Bowen's role as president for negotiations at the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey later this year will kick off remotely. With the fuel crisis raging and Bowen giving daily press conferences on the government's response, the climate change and energy minister said he would not fly to Berlin next week for the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an annual meeting of representatives from about 40 countries. A spokesperson for the minister said he "considers his travel carefully" and would not fly for the meeting hosted by the German climate action ministry on Tuesday and Wednesday. "In this instance he will take advantage of the virtual attendance and continues to engage closely with all his international counterparts. Australia will also not be represented at ministerial level at the first global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels in Colombia starting next Friday.

Australia's energy minister is skipping global meetings on accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels because he has to stay in Australia to deal with the fallout from not phasing fossil fuels out fast enough.

I find the youtube essay thing of 'here's my bulletproof thesis presented over an hour+' and then at the end they tack on their 'oh i forgot about this one huge thing that invalidates it entirely' to be an extremely weird thing that keeps happening.

And it was good!

is paying a movie company to feature a gun that isn’t available for purchase but IS currently in US military weapons trials the arms dealer equivalent of a For Your Consideration oscar bait billboard