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Pro game developer turned burned out hobbyist Play Five Plants (among others) at https://mcccclean.itch.io/ Other pastimes: criticising the Australian government, worrying about climate change, occasional jokes they/them

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Two kids with cancer died at Westmead Children’s Hospital due to mould in the wards. This is unacceptable and unbearable. Sorry is nowhere near enough

06.03.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.

06.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 380 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6
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Children’s graves dug for Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war. This image speaks a terrible truth in answer to Labor’s lies about this awful war they support.

04.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 220 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9

the distaste you see among these politicians for genuine activists and advocates is irritation that they're not willing to play the game for power, ignorant that it's the game that's killing us

26.02.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

starting to think the fella who giggled about going to kyle sandilands wedding might be a shit bloke

26.02.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Excerpt of article.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised if his labelling of 2021 Australian of the Year and child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame as "difficult" was misinterpreted, saying he was referring to her "difficult life".

He made the comment when asked to give a one-word response to a rapid-fire list of people and news topics as part of a word association game at the Future Victoria conference, presented by the Herald Sun newspaper and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce.

"If there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise," Mr Albanese told reporters.

"She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to. What Grace Tame has done is turn that difficult experience that she had into being a strong advocate for others."

Excerpt of article. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised if his labelling of 2021 Australian of the Year and child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame as "difficult" was misinterpreted, saying he was referring to her "difficult life". He made the comment when asked to give a one-word response to a rapid-fire list of people and news topics as part of a word association game at the Future Victoria conference, presented by the Herald Sun newspaper and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce. "If there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise," Mr Albanese told reporters. "She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to. What Grace Tame has done is turn that difficult experience that she had into being a strong advocate for others."

ughh this lady has the unyielding-moral-compass flavor of autism and is mad at me. I know, I'll tell a transparent lie on the record. that'll smooth things over.

26.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Georgia Tacey makes an incredibly important point here.

23.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also according to the article "you can keep serial killing for another 18 months while we consider your petition to be allowed to murder people"

20.02.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a pet theory that most MPs conceived of themselves as a kind of landlord or small business owner, but then COVID hit and they had to start making life-or-death decisions in a way that wasn't possible to pretend away, which caused many of them to completely numb out

15.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Israel doesn’t control the US. It’s the other way around. The US uses Israel as a colonial tool to prevent global liberation movements.

11.02.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Why the fuck would we β€œsocially cohere” for monsters?Β  - The Shot Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to...

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

10.02.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 743 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 33
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

β€œFour of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. β€œI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

10.02.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 12806 πŸ” 6985 πŸ’¬ 379 πŸ“Œ 867
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Human Rights lawyer Chris Sidoti condemns the visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia. #auspol #CancelHerzog

07.02.2026 07:51 πŸ‘ 378 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 9

someone should probably ask the prime minister whether he supports the upcoming us strikes on iran & whether he considers it to be in the national interest for australia to be implicated in such an action through the use of pine gap

30.01.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

30.01.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...

A white guy threw a homemade bomb into a crowd protesting colonialism in Australia and the media have broadly reframed it in more gentle terms, eg this describing it as a "device" that was 'designed to explode'.

28.01.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 1068 πŸ” 377 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 20

did this guy not notice Yahtzee or AVGN or what? the crowds love it when the reviewer pulls out the stops and gets mean! what's he thinking!

28.01.2026 03:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Australia has no business being in league with the US. Our alliances with them have cost us more than it could’ve ever yielded.

25.01.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Same state that tore down 800 year old birthing trees to make a road a couple of minutes quicker

23.01.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal

i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

18.01.2026 10:09 πŸ‘ 2639 πŸ” 744 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 52

I think it's less that Trump doesn't understand the structures of democratic governments, and more that he can't perceive the illusions that keep civil society running smoothly. When people cite a rule as the reason they can't do something, he is left wondering "why don't you just break that rule?"

19.01.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is correctly aware that the Norwegian PM has the ability to pressure the Nobel committee to influence their decision; the only meaningful obstruction is norms, and the thing Trump can't grasp is some people care about not violating those.

19.01.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The United States is now punishing close NATO allies because they oppose him invading and stealing Greenland. The response of the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition is silence, pretend it’s normal and build even more US bases here. They are endangering our national safety.

17.01.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 417 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 17
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Penny Wong doing her part to destroy international law

14.01.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Sometimes I feel bad for our leaders - clearly it's really difficult to speak out against the US's interests, even pre Trump. But then I remember how much money and effort they put in to getting into that difficult position; how dirty they're happy to fight in order to stay there. Despicable.

14.01.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Israeli president Isaac Herzog's visit a good thing' despite backlash from Labor party members
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β€’ Australia news live Penny Wong says Israeli president Isaac Herzog's visit a good thing' despite backlash from Labor party members Follow updates live

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

13.01.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 616 πŸ” 297 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 12

This comment, in addition to being defamatory and racist in the extreme, incorrectly likens all Muslims to ISIS, and all Jews to Zionists. It’s racist, Islamophobic, and antisemitic all at once. Truly extraordinary.

13.01.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

13.01.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 854 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 45