RanTLaw

I love how the orthodox answer to all policy problems in the English-speaking world is “moar capitalism”

My telco keeps sending me updates for an internet outage at my place when it is still on and their outage search page doesn’t show an outage at my address. Lovely work, champs

Sooner or later someone was going to see that slide that a computer should not make a management decision because it cannot be accountable and think that sounded like a good idea.

That the Cheesecake Factory is a full restaurant is unfathomable to anyone not an American

I had to download an app yesterday and am still worried whether I missed a '1' replacing a 'l' in the address bar of the ostensibly reputable site I downloaded it from. I hate a lot of things about the modern world.

I called off today's interval session on Zwift after 2 of three sets due to a severe case of 'nup not doing this.'

It’s too early in the morning to take the bait of a Matt Yglesias bit

The reason they do this rather than pursue taxes the rich and companies dodge is that those groups can afford to lawyer up, where recipients of benefits often cannot. That there is no effective limitation period on these 'recoveries' is also unconscionable.

As someone who covered Robodebt in part, it's clear nothing has really changed. Worse: the politics of federal Labor on social security are baffling. We keep hearing about how people have "lost trust in institutions". Wiping these debts seem a simple answer to help. Instead, they rewrote the rules.

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

I am now the owner of a ridiculously large computer monitor. If I ever complain of a bad neck, this is the cause.

At least Elon and Mark are sad

How is Greenwald taking this result?

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Let me tell you a story about the politics of Australia: Over the last 28 years generally, but over the last decade particularly, I've done a lot of politics outside of Australia. Last week, an organisation I work with called me in for a meeting mostly among people like me around the world /n

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

Why the hell was the Eagles Nest never bulldozed in the first place?

The re-emergence of fascism is getting a bit too on the nose

There is no truth to the rumour Albanese had his staffers researching whether this could be retrospectively applied to Grace Tame.

Legitimately a dream to write something that inspires a reader to "go Martin Luther Mode."

Pick the American in the discourse.

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

I have a lot of respect for a lot of journalists trying to make sense of this week’s events. But what I’ve mainly taken away from the bulk of the analysis is how out of touch most of our media and political class are with the lives of ordinary people

For those seeing that article about the driver "passing too close" to cyclists. This is what "passing too close" looks like in the particular circumstances.

This seems designed to inflict psychic harm on @kels316.bsky.social