Captain Quoll

1/2 “Corruption follows cruelty and it breeds in secrecy, and that’s the Nauru deal and offshore detention all over.”

Thank you @davidshoebridge.bsky.social for pursuing.

The Austrac report was clear, so why did the government proceed with this dodgy deal?
Perhaps corruption was a feature? #auspol

It’s high time for a spill

Plus the ongoing catastrophic incompetence of course.

Good times

I expect they factored in Tasmania’s eagerness to hand over the wallet to grifters

So funny

It is an absolute fucking disgrace and anyone even peripherally involved should resign from public office immediately.

Just as well

This will play during the end credits of the ALP, but the bag will be a very tattered version of the bingo teatowel.

"Still a load of pissants, I see."

Looking forward to hearing from you again.

I just noticed that.

“Quietly” is a clear euphemism for “sneakily” in this instance.

Escalating disappointments until Gough’s angry ghost hurls a thunderbolt and incinerates the lot of them.

Nothing better than those pfeils

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The platypus print plan is entirely unrelated to the rest of this

We bonded over surfing stories.

Also I have a very cunning plan for that platypus print.

As an added bonus, I scored a couple of tickets to tomorrow night’s Crowded House concert. Not feeling quite as sorry for myself now.

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Might be a while

Feels good. Glad I came in.

Half finished masterpiece

Back on the tools

POND RULES: No swimming, jumping or gallivanting. Do not disturb the pond witch. No fishing with dynamite. Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS! Taunt the crows at your own risk. If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away. Do not feed the weretrout. Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger! They’re not ducks. Run. Have fun!

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

Another day of the Anthony Albanese Disappointment Advent Calendar

I really know we've never been at global lower levels of Holding Two Ideas In Your Head At Once but please: consider it

#1 - deviation from the worst scenarios

If fossil fuel use had grown at the rate it did in the 2000s, global CO2 emissions would be ~5-10 ish gigatonnes (a few percent) higher than they are today

They did not - and they deviated pre-pandemic, too.

The trouble there is an inherent lack of merit.

a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field ALT: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field

"Oh if we appoint one of them, they'll be bipartisan when they are in power!"

Yes we should all give up and die