Machinator68 ⚙ bsky.social

The bugs were always already there and the guys with a $250M SIGINT enabling budget are probably pissed they got fixed

This aggressive bullshit towards our female parliamentarians has been going on for years. I remember the "chaff bag" remarks directed towards PM Gillard by a certain radio person. There is no place for threatening personal aggression in political discussions.

People with annual incomes less than the full time minimum wage are paying income tax. Companies earning millions or billions in profits are not paying company tax. Wealth is not taxed at all. Waste is tax deductible. Job search expenses are not tax deductible. These need to change.

I hate writing to my local member (and don't even suggest I use an actual telephone) but maybe now is a good time to contact them & say, "if it turns out this attack was caused in part by mental health issues, can you pls advocate & vote for more govt funded healthcare & a higher rate of the a DSP"

"A tribute to Helen Haines" a cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social View the cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/new/261020-a-tribute-to-helen-haines

I'm old enough to remember when Pauline Hanson was so offended at being lampooned by drag artist 'Pauline Pantsdown' that she took her application for an injunction against PP all the way to the High Court. Seems the admonishment to 'have a laugh' only goes one way.

This is horrible. I hope MP Haines makes a full recovery.

Bullock: “I wouldn’t like people to think that because we’re seeing a slowing, and a rise in the unemployment rate, that means that we have to reverse course. Actually, we need that.” Well, you got it. thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

She is paid by the public 60x the JobSeeker rate. What makes her 60x more valuable than the people she has trapped in poverty?

The economic system NEEDS about five percent unemployment. Then we demonize them and send them into poverty.

I think it's important to interact with AI in a very carefully controlled way: specifically to understand exactly how toxic and terrible it is I only get it to return text in two conditions: (a) a topic I know well and (b) a question I **already answered**. You learn v quick how bad the answers are

Quite a wild story here. A wind project next to a data centre in Southern Norway was cancelled due to fears that.......a wind turbine blade would call on the data centre 😵‍💫 www.europower.no/vindkraft/da...

Power Without Glory Holes A Clockwork Orange Felon A Brief History of Time Wasting The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Malfunction

Make landlords put them on all rentals

Did you know there can be different heart attack symptoms in women & men? 👇 #Health #HeartHealth

Mutual obligation requirements for employers: none. Mutual obligation requirements for "job service providers": none. Mutual obligation requirements for governments: none. Mutual obligation requirements for the Reserve Bank: none. "Mutual" obligation is an Orwellian lie.

Andrew Leigh @aleighmp.bsky.social banging on about experimenting with the lives of JobSeekers even though there's so much data already saying that compulsory mutual obligations don't work, cutting people off their payments harms people, and the payment is way too low to start with

Every billionaire is a policy failure. - Oxfam. To which, I add this: Every trillionaire is a government failure.

These wages range from $7.15 to $9.80 per day, far below the minimum wage in the community. This means that incarcerated people working on Victoria’s roads will be paid as little as 90c per hour. End forced and underpaid labour in Australia @ourfairgo.bsky.social

Every time you fill up your car with fuel, you're paying more tax (fuel excise and GST) on that single tank of fuel than Santos has paid in company tax in more than TEN YEARS.

Here’s me talking about my heart attack www.nine.com.au/lifestyle/he...

So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture ... The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all ... It was a place impossible to enter except on official business ... -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Data centres.

I love our unemployment system. Oh you’re unexpectedly out of work? We’ll pay you half your rent a fortnight from three months in the future. Good luck!

OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj

🚨 New report from the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare on mortality rates of working-age welfare recipients between 2012-2022 makes for grim reading, could be hugely improved tomorrow by raising rates as per the Government's own committee. @aihw.bsky.social www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cent...

Don't allow your pets anywhere near a sick bird. Dogs sniffing near them will inhale the virus & likely develop a sub clinical infection which makes them dangerous carriers. Cats living with the dogs will get very sick & die.

Here's a protest idea to highlight the excessive red tape in social security law. Print out the legislation in 12-point font on red paper as a single very long line and tape it together. Walk this tape across a busy street. This strip of paper would be about 8 km long.

Excellent post by @antonygreenelec.bsky.social on the absurd results of elections under Group Ticket Voting which Victoria will hopefully dispense with this week. Defeated Leader Ratio is a very useful metric. antonygreen.com.au/how-gvts-hav... #springst

Job services providers should be defunded, abolished and replaced with a recruitment-based system. Nothing less is acceptable.

You can read the Who's Rorting Who report here, including the whiney letters CICTAR got from APM's lawyers 👀 cictar.org/all-research...

If this is a typical example of their lack of competence and knowledge, I wouldn't trust One Nation candidates to run a chook raffle in a pub.

I'm back after nearly two weeks of computer issues.

The USA claims that forced labour is the justification for imposing tariffs. The USA is being hypocritical. It allows forced labour in prisons by the 13th Amendment. Some of its supply chains include industrial prisons and leasing of prisoners by private companies.

Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says

The only stakeholders who are relevant to the design of support services for unemployed workers are the unemployed workers themselves, and the employers who would employ them. Why does the government exclude these groups?

Breaking: Telstra has admitted in Estimates they were repeatedly warned since 2022 by the software manufacturer that their outage-causing software was out of date inc a reminder early 2026, & Telstra even discovered a “fault” with it themselves in Oct 2025, but still did nothing.

I'm sorry Anthony..

FIFA has 211 member countries and one team wins the FIFA World Cup every four years. On average, a particular country wins it every 844 years. England won it in 1966. If they're an average team, they're on track to win it again in 2810. Maybe they'll have learnt how to defend a lead by then.

Stolen goods. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Private actors are increasing their control over the essentials of life in energy, fuel, housing, food, healthcare & education. They drive inflation & drag down living standards. We need price controls & more public delivery to protect Australia from inflation & profiteering. My op-ed with SMH.

Oh my heart. 💔 One of my favourite actors. This is so sad. #RIPSamNeill

“It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to have a guy standing on stage playing dress-ups. He is just a walking publicity stunt – not serious at all. At least we’ll have a candidate wearing a bin on his head to provide a more serious alternative." Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/07/09/j...