Mike Funnell

Former SysProg moved on to being a payments specialist - and now trying to fully retire. Same username over with the pachyderms. First+last name up in the sky.

[Serkan Öztürk @SerkanTheWriter]

We've finally found her tonight!!!! She is back safe and snuggly on the couch tonight. Thank you everyone for helping and keeping Supernova in your thoughts

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@MissIgraine @foldsproteinsII Being thick as two short planks happens.

Being a dickhead about it is a choice.

See: Poorleen 🤢

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@MissIgraine @foldsproteinsII ‘Dipstick’ is often descriptive.

Or ‘dropkick’ 🤔

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

[roweafr @roweafr]

aukus 2for1 @FinancialReview

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@twtrrr @BrissyisaBella8 “Constable Savage: why was’t your body-camera on?”

“Hardware failure sir.”

“Why does your body-cam only fail around Indigenous people, Savage?”

“It must be all the jarring, sir - all that kicking is rough on it.”

“Makes sense, Savage: carry on..”

🙄😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@RonniSalt Yeah: but you *really* wouldn’t want to ‘win’ that meat tray, now would you? 🤢

[🌹 Imogen 🌹 @twtrrr]

@FunnellMike The Supermarket’s are deliberately putting new staff with a high need for training on serviced checkouts. In an attempt to frustrate customers that insist on using a checkout with a human assistant rather than a machine. Removal of person to person contact is appalling. #auspol

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@twtrrr No: but fkn always 🙄

[melissa @ArtistAffame]

And you’ve left 3.7 million people below the poverty line

[Agent Smart @agentsmart]

🤣

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@twtrrr I point-blank refuse to self-checkout (for multiple reasons, though this is the most important).

I’ve abandoned shopping carts rather than self-checkout. If needed, I’ll do it again.

I know (to talk to a little bit) our local staff. I want them to keep their jobs.

I like them.

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@saltytoast8 @MissIgraine They do indeed: especially the ones you might ‘win’ in your pub’s meat raffle. 🙄

(I’ve sometimes looked 👀 and said: “the worst thing would be to win it” 🤭)

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Read that again: Pauline Hanson, who claims to be for the “Aussie battler” just opposed a pay rise for battlers.

Almost every single person in the bottom 3 million just got a pay rise. Meanwhile, Hanson announced that she would oppose it.

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@MissIgraine @saltytoast8 Really: on the BBQ — drowns out “BBQ conversations”, it’s so loud..

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@MissIgraine Essentially: “the raw prawn” story is one that’s hard to swallow.

Nobody, but nobody, believes you would.

[roweafr @roweafr]

bibi!! @FinancialReview

[Mike Funnell @FunnellMike]

@HappyNacho73 @GregMarSci Done.

[The Chaser @chaser]

"These state of the art vessels also double as a hat," said Defence Minister Marles