Possum

I take mine out once a week for a run to keep the battery working and the fluids moving around. It's a 500 horsepower street machine that's tuned to within an inch of its life, so I have to give it a bit of a pat on the head and a biscuit

I kind of like February, because I have to do insurance stuff and get to do the nerd thing

Premium European made saxophones on the second hand market appear to have appreciated in value by around 16% in 2025 in Australia, compared to premium guitars (made anywhere), which only appreciated by around 4% on average (but with an almost 9% plus or minus envelope per trade for CI @ 95%)

Doing weird paperwork stuff tonight. My Boganmobile drove exactly 722 km in calendar year 2025. It is kind of weird when you go and get petrol once a quarter and only put in a third of a tank so it doesn't sit and become stale and create those dramas.

As long as it takes for the first disagreement to occur is usually the way it works with unexpectedly large wins

Jesus Grandpa, you need to get some better quality nightmares! 🤣

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

I've spent the last two years going over the numbers required to build a team of 12-15 people doing 45,000 words and 40 hours of audio/video content a week and make it commercially viable and those people paid for their worth. It's just not there.

Among the half a million odd people who both saw/heard/read it *and* kept it in their brain for longer than a day because it was salient to them, 2/3rds of whom were rusted on to their partisan choice anyway- yeah.

Yeah. It's like a lot of bullshit in Australian politics mythology. He was already being seen as a crank by then, and the handshake didn't change the rate of the pre-existing trajectory of his support. Ultimately it just changed the length of that trajectory over the campaign time.

As much as we all like to think we change things in media, we do, but we also don't.

Old media death is an entropy death. There isn't the money that can be generated from our population to euthanise it quickly by commercial competition.

+1

Plenty - the universal rule of the large majority.

Crikey. Japan's diet usually requires coalitions to form Governments, and these are normally* headed by the LDP. Looks like the LDP will be able to get a majority in their own right.

*Almost certainly.

Fark! That will make the northern pacific interesting!

Haha!

YouTube video by PossumComitatus Pollytics.com

Oh Gawd. Someone just reminded me of this from back in 2007 from the old blog after seeing the pollercoaster. Cringey as fuck, but piss funny and would do again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPNW...

The third Coalition person on the ticket is more accurate *now*. But if it keeps going, the Libs will revolt, and the Nats wont get to ride on their coattails in the second position spot, and be relegated to third or split up. There's lots of drama to come!

Rebekha Sharkie: We need to ban the burning of our flag!

Australians: We are making stir fry from the animals on our coat of arms. Go fuck yourself and the performative emu you rode in on.

Replaces Nats with One Nation mostly. The 6th Senator elected in each state (maybe even the 5th and 6th in Qld and Tasmania, possibly WA) could be a bit chaotic though.

Politics is always the way it is eh! I stopped being depressed over it years ago - do good, make a difference, and laugh a lot. Anything else will send you barking mad.

You folks have all been funny fuckers tonight - good work! 😂

What - you think the Nats need more dinosaurs? 😂😂

At least they're consistent on something I suppose. 🤣

Bloodbath style

A substantial chunk of Liberal party preferences in some particular places if they come third will flow stronger to Labor than most people think. Greens will probably tighten up even further on the flows in some places too (but moving from 82% to 88% isn't a big deal there)

We should all send them those weird stinky flowers.

One Nation are the "hang them from 10 foot poles party" - but we in the National Party believe that people should be hanged from 20 foot poles!

Vote 1 National Party - 20 foot poles.

Yes, by far. They could survive, in the same sort of way that life on earth has survived before after profound mass extinction events.

Haha - sorry mate!