Whether it works or not isn't the lede - face-scanning everyone to access social media's fuck off dystopian. Government by Black Mirror.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/teen-social-media-ban-in-doubt/105435036
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I Do Not Give Consent
I do not give my consent to this war, to this unjustified violence.
To this illegal act, even if against a terrible regime, based on uncertain evidence of supposed nuclear capabilities.
I do not accept the civilian casualties, the horrifying cost that everyday people pay for the egos of "big" men.
I believe in upholding the international rules-based order, in which all are held to the same standard, where a war crime by one is as abhorrent as a war crime by another.
The alternative is a world of warlords and supplicants, organised by the cynical calculus of brute power, where humans are fed into the maw of the Great Game.
I denounce the media that fails in its journalistic duty, and instead does the work of warmongers, asserting a supposed objectivity where one country has a right to defense but another does not, where the killing of one child is worthy of attention but hundreds of others are not.
I scorn our spineless politicians who cannot even learn the lessons of recent memory, who lack the gumption to call out the abysmal behaviour of their supposed friend, who prefer the safety of acquiescence over the discomfort of standing up for what they must surely know is right.
I do not give my consent.
Lots of people told me that AOC cannot possibly win the US presidency. But I think she can, and I am not alone. https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-aoc-run-president-2028-110807645.html #auspol
Albo and the ALP Pty. Ltd. are now fully, overtly complicit with the US/Israel criminal war.
'Australia will provide military assistance to Persian Gulf states impacted by Iranian missile and drone attacks.'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/australia-to-provide-military-support-to-gulf-states/106435248 #auspol #USFascism #IsraelFascism #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #Iran #AIart
I have no idea how this site works. Complete muppet. But always keen to hear people talk with kindness and expertise on #Auspol #linux #basketball and anything else. Feel free to explain Masterdon to me like I'm 5, because I set up an account when Twitter died and then have mostly bluesky'd.
Columnist: I'm standing up for what I believe in! Protecting women's sport! And I'll keep standing up for it, no matter how much those snowflakes try to silence me and my right to free speech!
Citizen: That's fantastic! You know, female athletes have to put up with so much vicious misogyny and abuse, especially on social media. Some men really can be snowflakes when it comes to women's sport.
Columnist: No! I'm raising the big issue in women's sport, and I'm being /attacked/ for it!
Citizen: Really?! People are attacking you for saying female athletes deserve equal pay for equal work?
Columnist: Not that one! I'm talking about something far more serious, affecting the health and wellbeing of female athletes. And even the very integrity of women's sport itself!
Citizen: Do you mean how sports science focuses almost exclusively on male athletes, leading to women suffering anterior cruciate ligament injuries at six times the rate of men (citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/magazine/acl-tear-women-girl-sports.html )?
Citizen: Or do you mean how elite women's sport is routinely relegated to worse venues and TV coverage, with less sponsorship and promotion?
Columnist: No! I'm talking about protecting women's sport from the scourge of men transitioning for the sole purpose of winning at women's sport!
Citizen: Why would a professional male athlete who's not trans want to go through all the challenges and discrimination of transitioning for less pay, less TV coverage, fewer sponsorships, smaller crowds, less promotion, higher injury risk, worse venue, online abuse, and rampant misogyny, just to win at women's sport?
Columnist: Because *winning*!
Citizen: Can you give an example of where this has actually happened?
Columnist: ...
Citizen: And what do you propose to do about it?
Columnist: Totally dismantle democracy, install a totalitarian dictatorship, arrest or kill anyone who disagrees with said despot, and deport ethnic minorities en masse. Also we'll use it to justify rolling back all healthcare and civil rights to trans people, establishing that human rights exist at the arbitrary will of our overload, which the despot will use arbitrarily against all women and any other individuals or groups he disagrees with.
Citizen: That seems a bit... extreme.
Columnist: It's all to protect women's sport.
Citizen: And what will you do about the other issues I raised?
Columnist: Well, if any of them, such as research into sports medicine for women or facilities for women's sport, require public funding, then we'll cut the funding and give the money back to rich supporters of our despot as a tax cut.
Citizen: I see. Say, just out of curiosity, who do you think will win the grand final in the AFLW this year?
Columnist: I honestly don't care. I'm not into women's sport, sorry.
#AFLW #womenssport #transrights #auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics #feminism #terf #terfs #trans
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The old “this is why I need a ballroom” fake assassination attempt ploy.
Is Australia's myID really entirely coupled with ios and android?
linux on mobile is a real test of political health rn...
One Nation is a hate group, and need to be recognised as such by the Australian public + media. Why are they legally recognised as a political party?
"In its Australian report, the think tank describes One Nation’s ideology as one centred around anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-globalist, white nationalist and conspiratorial sentiment. "
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pauline-hansons-one-nation-has-been-declared-a-hate-group/
#AusPol #HateGroups #antifa #OneNation #gusseting
I have been on both sides of this story.
Graduating in the 1970s as an undx autistic woman I completely lacked the skills required to identify & apply for any kind of suitable work. I spent 8 years on dole. None of the help I received was useful & the constant rejection was soul destroying. After a while I decided to see the payments as an arts grant, & pursued deep dives into special interests, meeting likeminded people & having adventures. Eventually I joined the APS via the clerical entrance exam & that environment, with its clear hierarchies & explicit rules, suited me well. I worked across a lifespan of social policy areas & by the time privatisation of government services became a thing was in a role whose job was to make our part of the organisation look as if it was delivering the services we were funded to do while also providing services to commercial clients & running a surplus - all the while keeping our unionised professional staff happy by ensuring minimal change to their work. In practice this meant providing people on benefits with minimal services while recording them as greater than they were, providing lucrative services to our commercial clients & showing most of their payments as profit. This situation was intolerable to me & as I was unable not to name it my time there was colourful. When I returned to policy work it became increasingly clear that our job was to tell the minister what they wanted to hear, bc if the minister didn’t like what they heard from us they’d buy their research & policy advice elsewhere. We would routinely assess tenders for projects that were transparently designed to deliver the desired results. Escaping into a career in research saved my life.
I was completely unsurprised by #RoboDebt. Colleen Taylor is a hero.
In such environments the price of a career is collusion. No wonder autistic folx burn out & leave.
#PublicAdministration #AusPol #unemployment #ActuallyAutistic #ethics
When your livelihood of taking water from the environment for irrigation is under threat by global heating, it’s understandable that some people will be fearful of change.
But voting against the solutions to your problems doesn’t help your situation. 🙄
It’s not until the end of the article that we finally see what’s really going on here. It was never about the environment or renewables.
Voting to support a racist xenophobic bigoted idiot and then trying to claim “I’m not racist, but…” doesn’t do you any favours. Especially when the local migrant community points out the explicit racism they experience daily.
Thankfully not everyone in the town is a bigoted racist idiot. There are some shining lights in Hay.
It’s just disappointing and disheartening to see some people are finally happy to be out and proud racists.
#auspol #racism #OneNation #PaulineHanson #bigotry #environment #hay #renewables #australia #australianews
Tell me again #America how holding up signs & walking through your streets is going to #StopTrump.
You have lost your rights. You have lost your government & whether or not you win the election, #Trump will say you lost.
You’re living in a #dictatorship NOW - not at some far away point in the future.
Get out of the #US if you can. I can only foresee violence in your future from this point on.
Fash fools adore 'strong' leaders.
Will Puline manage to sustain her appeal after her embrace of Tommy the Neonutzy and Sicilian idyll with Ginaheartless?
Here's my latest cartoon depiction of the Queenslanduh demoness, huffing and puffing and signifying nothing. #OzFascism #AICartoons #AIart #auspol #cartoons
Today's artificial satirical fun - playing with book covers. #auspol #satire #AIart #AIcartoons #cartoons
Fabulous to see a massive uprising of ethical Australian students against Puline's racism today. #auspol #OneNotion #racism #AIart #AIcartoons
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"I still don't like it!" screams #Pulini. Tomatoes don't care about the names of foreign prime leaders and what voters think either. As long as Pulini's party isn't called "gay"! just shut up Baaaaarnaby!! https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/pauline-hanson-still-doesnt-like-mardi-gras-says-sexuality-should-be-behind-closed-doors/p6o9x70vb #AIart #AIcartoons #OneNotion #OzFascism #auspol
The Grabbit is backing Pulini's desperate last-ditch appeal in the Federal High Court to have two previous judgments against her despicable #racism against Senator Faruqi overturned, confirming the endemic, opportunistic racism of the Liberal party over which he presides.
Archived SMH link is here: https://archive.md/Xb0vS #auspol #OneNotion #WhiteSupremacy #satire #AIart #AIcartoons
Why call the rise of the Pulinistas the "orange wave" or "orange tsunami"? it's the racist "orange spew". #OzFascism #auspol #OneNotion #Pulini #AIcartoons #Aiart #satire
The ghastly #Pulini and her fash mob alienate us alright. However, neoliberalism and the inequity it fosters provide fertile ground for the PHONies and the ALP need to take responsibility for enabling it.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09/one-nation-is-the-symptom-labor-must-treat-the-cause/ #OzFascism #OneNotion #auspol #AIart #AICartoons
