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 π 42 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0@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.
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 π 42 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0How 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...
Friday arvo, chikoo!
Enjoy your weekends! Have a number 3 for me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO5G...
hear hear! it's always first thing I think of when I hear the phrase
07.11.2025 04:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 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 π 13653 π 6886 π¬ 124 π 101I 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...
RockStar are union busting.
We are boycotting RockStar
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. βResearchβ 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 βwokeβ 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 π 2632 π 918 π¬ 24 π 33I can't get over the different sizes of Trump's hands -- right is way puffier than left
07.11.2025 01:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0can't wait to turn on the radio in GTA6 for some scathing satire about corporations being corporationy
07.11.2025 01:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I 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...
totally normal shareholder behaviour
06.11.2025 22:52 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The 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 π 649 π 142 π¬ 31 π 60who are these knucklehead Tesla shareholders?
06.11.2025 22:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm glad the Greens are not letting up on Robodebt
06.11.2025 22:45 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0one 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 π 131 π 19 π¬ 1 π 0Kid Gorgeous was funny β¦ cheers!
06.11.2025 11:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Incredible 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 π 84 π 32 π¬ 6 π 1thanks! will check out the whole thing
05.11.2025 23:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0oooh sounds interesting, from which special?
05.11.2025 23:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0these live action remakes are always missing something (like an anvil)
05.11.2025 23:31 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0after all, a University is merely an investment vehicle and an alumni contact list to hit up for donations
05.11.2025 23:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
05.11.2025 12:13 β π 19844 π 5905 π¬ 267 π 749a scheme to steal from the poor & give to the rich, and tell the poor it's their fault.
05.11.2025 23:10 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0'Community and Public Sector Union criticise employment services as βa complete failureβ The CPSU has said Australiaβs employment services system are βa complete failureβ, 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 taxpayersβ 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 isnβt success at all β itβs 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. Itβs 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 Australiaβs employment services system are βa complete failureβ'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
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 βBloodline.β
05.11.2025 22:42 β π 31 π 5 π¬ 8 π 1Albo will be the first to pay respects, you watch
05.11.2025 22:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0John fucken Howard is going to die old, rich, comfortable and revered like Dick Cheney and that steams me
05.11.2025 22:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 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"