David Sligar

I do like our the culture warriors kept trying to push the “latte lefty” epithet, apparently unaware that lattes had been routine in coffee shops (including McDonalds) in virtually every suburb and town in the country for decades.

Now barista coffee is practically Australiana

lmao

when did everything become matcha this, matcha that? was this a “green tea” rebrand?

retirement villages are scams

also lol that this is flagged as “adult content”. Cut and paste a crappy dating article from news dot com

SPLASH: Ick - the new way youth are hooking up. Older generations would NEVER.

Story: they like to have authentic conversation.

lmao

It sounds to me like her position is more aggressive than just nationalising key infrastructure (which would be a significant break from current practice but hardly world historical radicalism). But she should have said “socialise the economy” rather than nationalise.

all looks darkly comic after Victorian Labor’s law and order spectacle about treating 14yo as adults

conservatives relentlessly cram positions with ideologues - to the point of hard right poster, Gray Connolly, on AAT.

But then small l liberal progressives wring hands about jobs for the boys and prevent anything similar on the left side. This asymmetry accumulates and entrenches the right.

Stacking out the machinery of government with progressives is good actually.

he showed me the top few lines, went away and added MMT, then asked me what this new bit meant. 4yo

universe is trolling me. my son went off and wrote the letters "mmt" on a post-it note, brought it over and asked me what it means.

Minding your mind: Understanding your mind, taking control of your mental health. Ian Hickie and James O'Loghlin.

future amartya sen scholar

It would usually be roughly flat except for the times the payment has been increased.

Collin Rugg on X: "NEW: Streamer Hasan Piker says Communist China is the best example of a country that the United States should learn from and model after. Konstantin Kisin: Is there a country that has done socialism the way that you like? Piker: I would say China is probably the closest https://t.co/EXzeak1QQX" / X NEW: Streamer Hasan Piker says Communist China is the best example of a country that the United States should learn from and model after. Konstantin Kisin: Is there a country that has done socialism the way that you like? Piker: I would say China is probably the closest https://t.co/EXzeak1QQX

cracking up at this answer - Hasan is literally an abundance lib
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I agree this is a good feature, but imo the worst feature of means testing is that it under taxes the wealthy. A means test caps out at 100% of the benefit value lost - someone $1 over loses as much as someone $1M over.

Tax them more.

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The Mother of Rock and Roll.

The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.

‘And maybe she’s right. Maybe in a media landscape where institutional authority has collapsed, where nobody trusts anything anyway, where personal brand is the only thing that survives platform collapse and industry implosion, Nuzzi is simply ahead of the curve.’

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Suppose you wanted to persuade politicians that universities were just a bunch of money-hungry lobbyists, concerned more about profits than educating our young people. What would you do? The Group of 8 (lobby for "sandstone" unis) decided to join "an alliance of industry groups". #universities

Acoss research found the cost of fully indexing tax thresholds to inflation is $38B by 2031, with half going to the highest 20% by income.
So that's not the solution.
Closing tax shelters is.
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interesting - Marshall Islands introduces universal income funded by dividends from national investment fund

Meant to bolster moderate Dems relative to left Dems by providing a narrative that decentres redistribution. Mamdani was smart to say “oh yeah I’ll do that!” when it neutralised his opponents’ attack and really means nothing.

build more and not less, make bureaucracy good and not bad etc

Abundance and the Left Ezra Klein talks with Bhaskar Sunkara about Abundance, Zohran Mamdani’s victory, and why progressives need a state that works at the speed of their ambitions.

admittedly I haven't read the book, but discussions seem to lack specifics and fall down a a vague vibey "do betterer"
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Owner charged over allegedly abandoning dog Arnie after claiming he was stolen Queensland Police had been investigating the alleged theft of a vehicle and Arnie the German shepherd, from Brisbane's bayside.

there was a 50k strong petition demanding the qld government enact "arnie's law" to ratchet up jail times. and then it was revealed the car theft was a hoax and the perpetrator was the owner

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CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
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