hanrahan

@hanrahan@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad.⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta will be asking for anus scans soon and people will sit their asshole on their phone and think nothing of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Greens voter I don’t think theres much more the Greens can do ? Albeit I’m open to suggestions.

  As a long time Greens voter, their policy platfrom doesn’t sit with most voters (science and expert based mixed with kindness and inclusivety)

  The issue is, if they morph to recgonise that’s not what people want, they will need to look into the abyss and become the abyss and turn into something truly ugly like Labour have done. Albanese literately says that in the AFR today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret figures show Liberal party’s ageing membership in freefall in NSW and Victoria⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Andrew Hastie is the evil in the wings,. good looking (not goofy looking like Dutton) and a creationist, anti science, ex-soldier. He’s the horror thats a perfect fit for modern day liberals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret figures show Liberal party’s ageing membership in freefall in NSW and Victoria⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally in their name, Liberals… They lost that with John Howard and became the nasty party, so poular that their most repugnant policies were adopted by Labor, so where to go from there ?

  Even Malcolm Fraser resigned his lifetime membership in disgust and sided with Sarah Hanson-Young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens senator defects to Labor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah her comment about not affecting change from the cross bench was laughable.

  And her goals aligning with Labor ? Oh well, more climate destruction and science denial on the way :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a cowardly response

  Well yes you just have to look at what the Australian Jewish comminty representatives said about The Greens before and after the election to understand why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Stupid' or misled? Voters demand AEC explain booth's 45% informal vote⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, well, yes, same. But imagining I’m the average disengaged voter who hasn’t planned their vote ahead of time

  If you’ve put that much thought into our democracy, does your vote matter anyway ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So their kids don’t have to be with the poors ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we.could have started by viting Green and moving the Overton Window at the recent elextion but we fucking didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This iai going to be as drawn out as the SCO thing isnt it

  Or maybe more like the Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dicken’s Bleak House

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple is apple. They don’t make false claims about how walled off they are.

  That’s doesn’t make it a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Labor might not be left enough for you personally,

  Left enough ? They’re about middle right. The US Dems are more policy aliged with our LNP though.

  I’m not sure people get out much ? We’ve already done what the US is doing now. Australia’s refugee and immigrant policy is what America and the UK are using (off shoring), its just illegal to report on and the horror is widely supoorted by Australoans…

  We deport “criminals” if they have another nationally, as the US now does , we have a bunch of ologarchs, we have legal discrimination against LBGQT+ by fucked up religious organisations. You are not an Australian citizen if you are born here etc etc

  There was a strong consensus that Trump style culture wars are toxic in Australian politics

  Both sides are bad here in Australia, the horror is so many people disagreeing :(

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well using logic, only 34% percent of Australians voted Labor. The vast majority of Australian’s didnt want Albo as PM ether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens’ election hubris – how the minor party lost its way and now its leader⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much this, the Green vote was about stable, the issue was preferences. One Nation, Trumpet, Liberals etc ended up having thier preferences fall through to Labor.

  Bandts seat was realigned, he took in a new section around Pahran etc that was traditional Labor.

  As a long time Greens voter they’re not going to get much further then this, they don’t appeal to entitlement and greed and are more science and fact based. An old quote by James Speth sums up why

  As Anthony Green pointed out on election night, next election will be worse as the funding laws have now changed and vastly favour LNP and ALP.

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  I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don’t know how to do that." -James Speth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch Peter Dutton lose his seat, live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And now well get another true horror maybe like Andrew Hastie. A “good ol’ god fearing creationist nut job” from WA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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  I’m 58, so it’s been that way every elction I’ve voted in, getting worse seems to be de rigueue.

  Like Donald Hoarne I have very low expectations of voters, alas those expectations are mostly always met.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The games industry is screwed. [26:11]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

  www.monbiot.com/…/the-self-attribution-fallacy/

• Labor and Coalition accused of being on fossil fuel ‘unity ticket’ as thermal coal exports hit record highwww.theguardian.com ↗
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• Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland electionwww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There could be 100 votes in it’: Max Chandler-Mather faces close race in diverse seat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope Max wins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutton's trainwreck defence announcement was everything that is wrong with his campaign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the Greens can back their policies with numbers and details, even if you disagree with them. Dutton and Co, it’s just a lot of spooky handwaving and "oooo Labor baaaad! Vote for us! We’ll fix it by mumble mumble

  But the latter wins the votes LNP at the last election had the most votes of anyone with 35.7% Greens only had 12.2%

  *I’m a Greens voter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor and Coalition housing policies a 'dumpster fire', expert says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yes… They have been for decades, it’s why we’re in this mess, fuck voters :)

  theguardian.com/…/the-social-housing-secret-how-v…

  Vote #Green

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Satire] “A Minority Government Will Be A Disaster” Says Coalition Of Four Parties That Hate Each Other | Betoota Advocate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s beyond bemusing these bellends say this with a straight face, it’s Trump level shitfuckery. Nearly every Liberal Government is a minority.

• Coalition scores just 1/100 points for environment and climate policies from conservation organisationwww.theguardian.com ↗
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• Climate risk makes suburbs 'uninsurable'.www.abc.net.au ↗
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• Rightwing lobby group Advance says it makes ‘no apology’ for support given to anti-Greens groupswww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indwed, i have for about 20 yeats, this is the year boys ! (and girls)

  Its like Linux on the desktop… :) this os the year!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealand, Australia speak with EU, others about bolstering free trade against US tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish we’d (Aus) start talks about joining the EU. .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So she was “standing her ground?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clothing retailer Jeanswest collapses, with 90 stores to close and hundreds of jobs lost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That legislation waa brought in under the Howard governemnt from memory?

  It’s been awhile (so my memory could be faulty) but their was some large busines shit the bed back in the day and lots of employees were left missing their holiday pay, super etc and legilsation was subsequently introduced to cover it.