Look, I really think the best way to handle all the latest #Morrison nonsense is simply to ignore him, give him no oxygen at all. Stop obsessing, people. #auspol 😵💫
#auspol#authoritarian
Australia shares its obsession in punishing whistleblowers with the #US and the #UK. It is:
"A country in which you cannot tell the truth. There are no meaningful protections for the people who do. The punishments that await them are extravagant and deliberately cruel".
There was a Windows update that killed 70% of my business (had to rewrite a shitload of code because Microsoft and Backblaze wouldn’t). Will try to write a blog post on that later.
Now trying to deal with a situation where I’m arguing about privacy and doxing and being caught up between Dun & Bradstreet, Apple, and the European Union. Will also write a blog post on how that probably didn’t end well for any other software developer like me.
Have a look at this preposterous dickweed harassing poor @cathywilcox (but it's happening on twatter, afaict). I admire her wit & forbearance so much! Onya Cathy!
It's hard to tell, actually, whether his nastiness is quite as large as his intellect is small; he entirely comes across IMO as being the classic thick as two short planks, ffs.
The eSafety commissioner has gone completely mad! The porn passport has now been extended to Social media and video games. Requiring a grandmother to register for a “porn passport” so she can see her grandkids on Facebook. Either that or set up a VPN. #auspol The porn passport will be hacked, and the number of places needing a porn passport will grow! Books, music, political commentary, medical site and sites discussing sexuality are next. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-19/age-verification-internet-use-children-online-pornography/103843886
Statements from ALP MPs “speaking out” over the Federal Government’s gas policy are strikingly similar, suggesting a behind-the-scenes government strategy to limit the fall out in urban seats. #AusPol https://theklaxon.com.au/blindsided-by-pm-its-a-gas/
Vincent Namatjira is in the news again because Gina Rinehart is a truly awful person.
I think his painting is a pretty good likeness. It's recognisable to the point of being iconic. It captures her disdain for Black people perfectly, just as his painting of Tony Abbott captured the fake smile and witless eyes of our former Prime Minister.
I want to congratulate the ABC journalist who appears to have found the reference photo used by the artist, Vincent Namatjira, and put the photo side-by-side with the painting.
Compare them.
Before you say "This painting is not a good likeness" or "The artist is trying to make her look ugly", look at both images.
Now, look at the shit Gina Rinehart has done to the land with her resource extraction while making herself one of the richest people in the world with an estimated wealth of $30 billion.
And, look at Gina Rinehart's refusal to separate herself from her father's appallingly racist words.
Here's a sample:
"Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it’s your ground, my ground, the Blackfella's ground or anybody else’s. So the question of Aboriginal land rights and things of this nature shouldn’t exist."
And:
"[Aboriginal people] that have been assimilated into, you know, earning good living or earning wages amongst the civilised areas, those that have been accepted into society and they have accepted society and can handle society, I’d leave them well alone.
The ones that are no good to themselves and can’t accept things, the half-castes - and this is where most of the trouble comes - I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in future and that would solve the problem."
On housing, Peter Dutton is attempting to divert us into a conversation about immigration so that we turn on each other. Let's not do that. What we need to do is get all the state & territory housing waiting lists down. Let's get people out of cars/tents & into a place. #auspol
“We will not be intimidated, especially when we are trying to stop a genocide,” he told the house.
“Any time police officers resort to the use of force against non-violent protesters, they violate these principles and undermine the consent and respect necessary for the police to do their job.”
Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.