David McLeish

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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

Put it this way - the Greens got over 12% of the primary vote in 2022 but only ("only") hold four house seats. Their influence in getting policy deals out of Labor is proportionally higher than their presence in parliament, and they should be using that.

(Unless minority govt. Then things get fun.)

I'll admit I misremembered how many seats One Nation had in the late 90s - it feels like it was a similar level of influence but now that I look at it they only really did well in the Qld state election (and media attention)

Sure there's an argument whether Labor "really" disagrees with the Greens or just think they have to to hold the centre, I'm happy to listen either way but I think the practical difference is pretty marginal

Oh yeah I totally agree, but the point of minor parties has always been that they can talk ideological (for better or worse) while most of their actual effect on the election is to funnel preferences to a major party.

to be fair that also describes the Greens/Labor dynamic

My current feeling on this is if you're scared to deploy on Fridays then you have bigger problems. But, sometimes you DO have bigger problems. In that case, be honest about that and don't deploy on Fridays (but work on fixing the bigger problems).

Random #auspol thought: tariffs on politics. If you import your ideas wholesale from the US then 25% of your votes don't count.

Yes Clive I'm looking at you.

I spoke with Prime Minister Albanese over the phone this morning about strengthening Canada and Australia’s trade and defence relationship.
 
Against tariffs and a shifting global economy, Canada is working with reliable allies to build lasting and resilient ties.

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oh god, the people who were predicting Iraq WMD style fabrication of "fentanyl labs in Canada" as a pretext for invasion might have been spot on the nose

Huh, I thought I wrote a whole piece on why managers perceiving their role to be "shit umbrella" is a bad thing, but the only thing I'm turning up is this Twitter thread from 2023. 🤔

However, you specifically mention contracting and clients, and that can be a very different matter!

5 years ago today I said, in a video meeting, that the team should stop coming to the office.

RFK Jr is blaming a dead child for not exercising more

Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

noted

A top-down view of a table covered with the articles of a session of a tabletop roleplaying game - character sheets, grid paper, dice, pens and pencils, a DM screen, and a booklet titled "Cairn".

Doing my part to raise the next generation of nerds. I'm running Keep on the Borderlands - adapted to Cairn - for Mr 11 and Ms 9. #ttrpg #cairnrpg #dnd #osr

Meta and Google opt out of Sydney Mardi Gras amid move away from DEI in US Former sponsors walk away from 2025 event – while organisers say they do not meet partnership requirements

Jesus Christ what craven cowards. I know it's always been rainbow capitalism but this fucking hurts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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Also screwworm and rinderpest! And if you don’t know what those were, hoo boy, if you think beef is expensive now…

The swordfish were kind of a one-sided combat?

But, yeah.

I'm running my first game of pf2e in two weeks, can you put up the beginner guides, like, yesterday? ok that'd be great thaaaaanks

Black Mirror S6E04 came out a year and a half ago and Supermassive Black Hole is *still* stuck in my head

In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling.

I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on.

I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.

May we all live our lives so that social media sites don’t rejoice like Ewoks at the end of Jedi upon news of our death.