Religions are already tax free. Funding their centres, Mosques, Synagogues, Churches & Temples has to stop. They're belief systems, not cultures.
Federal gov't grant for Islamic community centre in Melbourne cancelled amid 'social cohesion concerns'
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Submissions are open for the federal Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs' inquiry into racism, hate, and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Mob, I know you've got something to say.
Mates, spread the word.
Such terrible news. Aside from his great work, I'll miss his dry wit at the state of things here very much.
@kudelka.bsky.social was a bloody good egg.
if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry
"I did not hit her, I did NAHT. Oh hi Grimace!"
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.
Special guest star Brad Dourif
The 5 words every woman wants to hear
We cannot heal as a nation until we work out why 4G coverage is so shit in QV.
You will be visited by three spirits
Nothing but respect for my president.
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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Albo ban Letterboxd for gen x
Anyone who doesn’t love Willie the Pimp will be first against the wall when my imaginary and entirely arbitrary revolution comes.
Bonding with son by forcing him to listen to Captain Beefheart.
Recoiling from son while he insists I listen to Steely Dan’s Bad Sneakers.
I am reading The Worst Novel Ever and I can’t stop reading it Because I am The Worst Person ever but also need source material for my whining.
I remember reading it 4 years ago (that little?) and yelling a full on “UMAHHHHHH” when the smoking was revealed.
You should say that more often.
A classic
This is delightfully and may stop me from buying antique ciggie dispensers on Etsy that can never accomodate modern cig dimensions.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with talent or intellect. Honestly, you’re always 5 years ahead of everyone else on a bad day.
God, I remember this. So good.
8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
It really does. What a treasure.
BRING BACK UDO KIER RIGHT NOW. THAT'S ENOUGH SILLINESS.
He remains the worst.
