@matchingpegs
I believe in evidence based policy. I work on websites for local government. I sew, 🪡 🧵 and despite being a lifelong Melbournian, I don’t wear black. My curiosity is my superpower. 🇦🇺 🦘 Living on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung of the Kulin Nation
Carbon emissions from Australian data centres have jumped 16 per cent in a year, with the country’s largest operators more than doubling their outputs since the start of the decade ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
I don't understand how anyone can be this greedy.
Couldn’t agree more.
I don’t understand why Labour aren’t scared of the younger voters. It’s going to hit them so hard when the baby boomers are all gone and us Gen Xers are declining. The younger generation will hold them to account!
Fucking barbaric. Australia, hang your head in shame. Neither major party deserves to govern with they way the treat the vulnerable.
Three-panel meme showing a woman speaking and a man listening from behind a wall. In the first panel, she says “Masks don’t work,” and the man replies “Be honest.” In the second, she says “I don’t want to wear one,” and he again says “Be honest.” In the final panel, she says “I just don’t wanna be reminded of the scary pandemic,” and the man responds, “Thank you.”
This is what it really comes down to.
Masks are a reminder the pandemic isn’t over.
🔹COVID is airborne
🔹Each infection carries cumulative risk
🔹Long COVID has no cure
🔹The pandemic isn’t over
🔹Wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to protect yourself and others
Stay informed. Stay safe.
Wrote this Friday. Beyond furious today.
Howard's disturbing legacy: Fear and misdirected compassion
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
This article is so spot on Amy. Howard is at the genesis of so much of the things that resulted in our rapidly widening inequality, and our mean-spirited beliefs. I loathe him so much.
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
When my uncle was diagnosed with schizophrenia, the prevailing wisdom from the medical profession was that cold, unemotional “refrigerator” mothers caused it. I think about that sometimes and think it’s one of the cruelest things ever. Why are mothers always blamed!?
Still true
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
I don’t want to hear Australian leaders bullshitting us about the importance of a rules based world order. You can’t support illegal invasions and attacks and bang on about “rules” with a straight face.
“You have got to be fucking kidding,” the Rest of the World has remarked, as the US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing.
Absolutely, these are all great.
“Pachinko” is excellent, and why we first got Apple +. “Silo” has been a family favourite and “Dark Matter” (Joel Edgerton) is also fabulous if you like sci-fi. Enjoy!
This needs to be posted regularly so the world won’t easily forget what pathetic, stupid arseholes most of the USA Ice Hockey team is
Explicitly capitalist media is telling you that getting/continuing to get COVID is really bad for you and is, mortifyingly, still doing more to warn you than most public health leaders are.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
🎁 Link below
So many bad drivers of inequality were born from his initiatives. He was so regressive. I will always give him his due on his gun laws, but if I give him his due for that, I have to do the same for all the things he fucked up. E.g. He let the for profit industry write the Aged care policy!
Australia Weekly COVID Update, 20 Feb 2026. SA up +36.5% (weekly update; 5 deaths). WA up +34.3% (weekly update; avg 18/day in hospital). VIC up +29.0% (fortnightly/weekly update). QLD up +15.8% (weekly update; 37 in hospital). NSW up +13.0% (weekly update). TAS monthly reporting, next update 6 March. ACT Health ended weekly reporting for 2025; will resume in autumn/winter 2026. NT no longer publishes data. Aged care: Australian Government no longer publishes weekly COVID-19 case data.
AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 20 Feb 2026
🔹SA: ⬆️ (+36.5%) 5 deaths reported
🔹WA: ⬆️ (+34.3%) Avg 18/day in hospital
🔹VIC: ⬆️ (+29.0%)
🔹QLD: ⬆️ (+15.8%) 37 in hospital
🔹NSW: ⬆️ (+13.0%)
🔸TAS: Next update: 6 Mar
🔹Aged Care: The Australian government ended weekly COVID-19 reporting.
Couldn’t agree more. David P is one of the best politicians we have!
The Australian values test :
Congratulations, that’s fantastic! 💚🧶
84 disability group homes in Victoria have closed since the state government privatised their operation to five providers in 2019. These are highly specialised homes and staff are not easily replaced www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
A naked admission that their investment model relies upon renting substandard residences.
Nikki Savva is adding some much needed wisdom here. ‘ISIS brides are citizens, most have not committed a crime, especially the children. Are we as a nation going to punish them for the rest of their lives?’ #insiders
“People are mad at how much energy and water our digital pollution machines use, but did you ever think about how much energy and water YOU use?” is an actual argument Sam Altman is making.
Read this as a warning if you're still using Facebook and want to create an event using it.