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@lancecalhoon.bsky.social

Aussie dad with Irish streak. Legislative drafter. Whitlamite. My interests are pretty niche: sports, music, movies, games. GWJ. May contain traces of Partridge. Walking on Ngunnawal land.

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masterclass in organising here. There is no official or perfect avenue for stopping a dangerous and oppressive law. Jump in. Mobilise. Tell em.

07.11.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.

How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue?

NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy.

The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton.

His position is untenable.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

07.11.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 15
Pete & Bas - Mugshot (The Northern Boys Remix) [feat. Queen Vic]
YouTube video by Sindhu World Pete & Bas - Mugshot (The Northern Boys Remix) [feat. Queen Vic]

Friday arvo, chikoo!

Enjoy your weekends! Have a number 3 for me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO5G...

07.11.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hear hear! it's always first thing I think of when I hear the phrase

07.11.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

07.11.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 13653    πŸ” 6886    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 101
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT β€˜goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

07.11.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8678    πŸ” 2325    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 394

RockStar are union busting.
We are boycotting RockStar

07.11.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. β€œResearch” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out β€œwoke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. β€œResearch” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out β€œwoke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

06.11.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2632    πŸ” 918    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 33

I can't get over the different sizes of Trump's hands -- right is way puffier than left

07.11.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

can't wait to turn on the radio in GTA6 for some scathing satire about corporations being corporationy

07.11.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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17 Essential Songs In 7/4 We\'re celebrating a quarter-century of \'Superunknown\' and \'The Downward Spiral\' by ranking an odd number of songs using septuple meter.

I don't think any of these are midwestern emo, but was surprised to learn of some famous songs in 7/4

www.stereogum.com/2034893/17-e...

06.11.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

totally normal shareholder behaviour

06.11.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The head of the American Healthcare System saw someone collapse and immediately ran out of the room, and the president waited to see how long he could go without looking at the guy lol

06.11.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 649    πŸ” 142    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 60

who are these knucklehead Tesla shareholders?

06.11.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad the Greens are not letting up on Robodebt

06.11.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one reason i like to recommend On Cinema to people is that the Trial of Tim Heidecker is a monumental achievement in comedy, and this guy was a big reason why

06.11.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kid Gorgeous was funny … cheers!

06.11.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gambling regulator stops accepting gifts from betting companies, for now The announcement comes six months after the ABC first reported the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission chair had accepted corporate hospitality from bookmakers.

Bribes.

Say it, say bribes.

Bribes.

#AusPol

06.11.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 409    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6
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Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.

Incredible that we spent so long asking for a proper NACC and they're like 'we can do better than that, we can have a useless NACC but also a guy whose one job is investigating Paul Brereton conflicts of interest'

06.11.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

thanks! will check out the whole thing

05.11.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oooh sounds interesting, from which special?

05.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

these live action remakes are always missing something (like an anvil)

05.11.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

after all, a University is merely an investment vehicle and an alumni contact list to hit up for donations

05.11.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

05.11.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 19844    πŸ” 5905    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 749

a scheme to steal from the poor & give to the rich, and tell the poor it's their fault.

05.11.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
'Community and Public Sector Union criticise employment services as β€˜a complete failure’

The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are β€œa complete failure”, after Guardian Australia reported earlier this week only 11.7% of jobseekers secured long-term work last year, while billions of taxpayer dollars were funnelled into private providers.

The current employment services system is projected to cost taxpayers $8.2bn over the next four years, and is dominated by only a handful of providers owned by multinational companies.

The CPSU said providers have been caught engaging in unethical behaviour while taking taxpayers’ dollars. Melissa Donnelly, CPSU national secretary, said:

Privatisation has turned employment services into a tick-a-box profit-driven industry that rewards providers for keeping people in a cycle of unemployment, and these numbers are proof of that.

An 11.7% success rate isn’t success at all – it’s failure. Failure to support jobseekers, failure to meet workforce demands, and failure to provide value for money.

Australians deserve better than a system that punishes jobseekers while lining the pockets of multinational corporations. It’s time to end this failed experiment and bring back the CES.'

'Community and Public Sector Union criticise employment services as β€˜a complete failure’ The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are β€œa complete failure”, after Guardian Australia reported earlier this week only 11.7% of jobseekers secured long-term work last year, while billions of taxpayer dollars were funnelled into private providers. The current employment services system is projected to cost taxpayers $8.2bn over the next four years, and is dominated by only a handful of providers owned by multinational companies. The CPSU said providers have been caught engaging in unethical behaviour while taking taxpayers’ dollars. Melissa Donnelly, CPSU national secretary, said: Privatisation has turned employment services into a tick-a-box profit-driven industry that rewards providers for keeping people in a cycle of unemployment, and these numbers are proof of that. An 11.7% success rate isn’t success at all – it’s failure. Failure to support jobseekers, failure to meet workforce demands, and failure to provide value for money. Australians deserve better than a system that punishes jobseekers while lining the pockets of multinational corporations. It’s time to end this failed experiment and bring back the CES.'

I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes:

'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are β€œa complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.

05.11.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
Day of the Dead: Bloodline
Final Destination Bloodlines
Hellraiser: Bloodline
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

Day of the Dead: Bloodline Final Destination Bloodlines Hellraiser: Bloodline Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

On a long enough timeline, every franchise will have a sequel subtitled β€œBloodline.”

05.11.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Albo will be the first to pay respects, you watch

05.11.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

John fucken Howard is going to die old, rich, comfortable and revered like Dick Cheney and that steams me

05.11.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"I still want Liberals and public servants to be prosecuted for Robodebt"

"m8 I still want them to be prosecuted for the Iraq War"

05.11.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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