nobody is blackmailing Lindsey Graham. No one is blackmailing Glenn Greenwald. No one is blackmailing Donald Trump.
These people are all doing evil things and saying evil shit *because they are evil and want to do evil things.* 1
“I’d rather be difficult than disappointing.” 🔥
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This article (£) in the FT shows the scale of the global supply shock. It’s not just oil. It’s naphtha, sulphur, bromine, helium, urea. All are key inputs into strategic industries like semiconductors, petrochemicals, agriculture and metallurgy www.ft.com/content/dd24...
A flyer taped to a utility pole It features John Fetterman’s face with the eyes and mouth replaced by elements from American printed money , under the words “call your senator” and “I love bombing children with your money while you can’t afford healthcare “ and “call me” with his office number I assume
Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but
The fact is that the NACC is NOT fit for putpose.
All six officials should have been charged, rather than hand off blame to a dead woman.
#auspol
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except that the tone is pretty consistent through many of the excerpts I've read - these examples specifically in this thread bsky.app/profile/jere...
Mission accomplished
Screenshot of part of the article which reads: Morrison was the cabinet minister responsible for both Social Services and Human Services matters, and if he was a "junior" minister in the Coalition government, then he was also seen as its biggest conservative rising star, fresh from having so infamously "stopped the boats" with a stop-at-nothing approach to border security. He was a man on the make in private and championed as such in most of the mainstream press. Campbell had a preternatural talent for managing politics. It's what made her so effective at the job and her own survival. In any event, what transpired was that both Morrison's and Campbell's career prospects took off after robodebt. Campbell was promoted to lead the senior policy department in DSS and then, by Scott Morrison himself as prime minister, handpicked to lead the Department of Foreign Affairs in a move seen as cronyism and widely considered to have been a disaster. One does not need to prove beyond doubt that these could be conceived as rewards for her loyalty and fervour, only to recognise the mind-boggling folly of a deputy commissioner of the NACC writing — in ink! — that the potential rewards for Campbell in her hypothetical reconstruction of motive "could never have been more than an unprovoked hope" that this "junior minister" of another department could "determine, and be able, to secure the public servant's career advancement". His motives aside, that is in fact exactly what happened. For Kilgour to argue in this manner casts serious doubt over the rest of her findings.
I mean, come on. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...
The Editorial Board's post, with a deleted post above it in the thread
was theirs the first post in that thread though? this is what I mean
There was a period in Chinese television where every single show was about WW2 and it was less to do with public demand or even concerted efforts by government than it was a low risk way of getting past gatekeepers and actually producing anything at all
yup
it might be the OP - the post he replied to is deleted. I couldn't see a "some people can reply" or anything like that, and it can't be changed if a post is deleted by a replier
yeah even if literally every person who voted for not Trump from 2016, 2020, 2024 turned out to protest, there would still be zero chance of Trump altering course
he does not care for their opinions, and everyone knows it
hey look !
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
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The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.
Bogotá's famous Transmilenio bus rapid transit system is 25 years old. I just visited the city and have two new articles, one a general tour of the infrastructure and the other a deep dive into network design, in English and Spanish .... 1/ 🧵
Mattyg/ezra klein outsourced to a ghost writer would be the funniest twist
using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him
what's truly incredible is his reason for the heel turn away from marxism - that he disputed their calling of Howard as a racist
“So I got into an argument and thought ‘these guys are idiots’
(~2000 if he was 20 at uni at the time)
actually make that 3 up the chain
one of the quoted posts, two up in the chain reads apocryphal little baby jesus did a lot of fucked up shit tbh by elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog 17h ago
omg
Lots of people under-estimate the amount of batteries soon to come online on Australia's NEM.
Within a few years the NEM will have 15GW/40GWh of utility battery storage.
Plus a similar amount of residential batteries.
40GWh is sufficient to completely flatten these demand profiles
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Since Starlink has been deactivated for Russian forces in Ukraine the internet traffic has dropped by 75%.
Imagine that 3 out of 4 terminals were in Russian hands.
Source: Kentik
im tired out of my mind, and I just thought up an easy improvement:
alert vs alarm
as in "it's just just an alert, stay on alert, be alert"
and "be alarmed, tornado alarm etc etc"
“We also have a situation where ministers are able to evade responsibility for these policy choices. This is because they have plausible deniability. They can simply use the phrase: “I was not advised””
It’s difficult to describe the amount of sheer “they wouldn’t do this sort of thing now would they” hand waving in the NACC Robodebt findings
This is such a disingenuous process and despicable outcome
