Pat

Genuinely would consider buying a carriage to keep as a home office

Summer storms

Also Ernie says “Theo” is short for “Theania” (???)

You’ve forgotten something (doesn’t get better by 5 unfortunately)

Exclusive: Albanese shut down hospital talks to pressure states In an attempt to force the reallocation of NDIS costs, Anthony Albanese has halted funding negotiations for state hospitals – a move that could ‘bankrupt’ the system.

Albanese shut down negotiations with states over hospital funding for six months last year, using the crisis in health funding to force states and territories to agree on disability supports outside the NDIS. There has been no agreement on either score. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Both legal and “consulting” on regulatory issues etc via a related entity too - the University I work at uses them.

Well I for one am shocked

checkin' the ressentiments

Great to come across this great write-up about pioneering Cameroonian forensic linguist Endurance Dissake and her groundbreaking work.
She is also the first member of our Law and Linguistics network from Cameroon ☺️

One of cinemas greatest visionaries

david lynch had an insane aura

Bubu Shuttle-50? Tiny little yellow car

What I would describe as like, a bread tuk-tuk. Three wheel metal car with shelves of baked goods in the back

Squat little white boxy car

1982 Mercedes-Benz Nafa. Looks like a horizontally squished minivan that holds two people and has a plexiglass rear end

gonna compile my posts of little toriyamobiles into a thread. Here are some new ones

A screenshot of catchwords from a legal decision. It reads as follows. Catchwords: APPEALS — Appeal on question of law – Scope of question of law APPEALS — Procedural fairness – Whether Tribunal member fell asleep during hearing APPEALS — Revocation of order dispensing with hearing of appeal.

Litigation can be an emotional business

“A total of 201 out of 260 staff specialist psychiatrists working in public hospitals in NSW have handed in their resignations in an extraordinary mutiny prompted by concern over declining quality of patient care amid decades of scant funding for mental health.”

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

“Will pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Disputes Report | Sarah Missen | Substack A weekly newsletter of industrial disputes and union news from Australia. Click to read Disputes Report, by Sarah Missen, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Australian employment law/union people might enjoy this newsletter that collects details about industrial disputes: disputesreport.substack.com

I would really love if people could repost this especially those in Australia. Aje is a friend from Korea and we are all deeply concerned for his safety:

Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well “Nobody asked for this or wants this.”

The obvious solution here is to stop visiting this platform. Rinse and repeat with every other platform that does this, even if that is all of them. You won’t miss them. www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243...

SOON

Whatever happened to putting on goggles and becoming legless avatars in space to sign off on change management comm’s plans

There is no supply of 25mg tablets of quetiapine [also known as Seroquel] in the entire country. I just bought the last after 100km of travel to five pharmacies [I live in the bush]. So when will it be back in stock? “Suppliers have told us they cannot guarantee supply.” 1/4

Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Fossil fuel combustion is linked to premature deaths from fine particulate pollution.

hsph.harvard.edu/climate-heal...
Twenty percent of all deaths are due to fossil fuel pollution.

Stop blaming climate activists for inconveniencing you with their protests and calls for urgent and dramatic action. They are the good guys.

The deadly climate criminals are getting off scott free.

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

hard to avoid seeing the Tech Right as new neocons: elite cadre within the party, unconnected with concerns of the base and therefore with a limited shelf life. but that historically short run can be massively consequential anyway

How do I get my five year old to stop referring to me as mate

US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year Liliana Goodson travelled to Australia to attend clown school with the gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage

Not sure what my favourite part of this is, that the offender had a golden gun, that they were going to clown school, or that their claims to have accidently brought the gun were disproven by a calendar reminder to 'pack the gun'. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...