Jake and the Cross

Reader, knitter, cryptic-crossword enthusiast. Public service. Aiming to engage in real discussion. I want a nation that seeks to improve itself.

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

Me: Imagine if Twitter were just a place to discuss issues earnestly with other people, rather than a portal for sarcastic abuse.

Also me: Imagine if you weren’t a part of the problem, genius.

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@joshgnosis Best Take is marketed as a great way to get around the difficult faces your many children pull while having their photo taken. Louis is now infamous for it.

https://t.co/jnEmewgWIE

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@joshgnosis Isn’t it all likely a product of someone unwittingly using Google Pixel’s ‘best take’ function (or similar)? Phone camera AI chose the best faces but couldn’t merge the arm movement.

Easy to forget how ubiquitous this stuff is now.

[Sigden @SigdenC]

Diamond firetail near Condobolin

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@Tan3User @abcnews Oh no strong language how will No-voters ever recover

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@rachelrwithers “It is the legitimacy of the non-Indigenous occupation in this country that requires recognition, not the other way around”

#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

[blakandblack @blakandblack]

Former Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan on Mr “I don’t know”.

McGowan’s assessment certainly puts the “I don’t know” into perspective

[Tom Ballard @TomCBallard]

Great to see "moderate" Liberal MP @Birmo on #insiders defending war crimes. Love that sensible centre!!!!

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@DeanRosario ‘Make no mistake’ is an amusing rhetorical instruction to readers of an article in which the author will go on to make several mistakes.

[David Crowe @CroweDM]

Abbott: "And her further response to an obviously taken-aback, overwhelmingly politically correct audience that her convict ancestors had suffered scarcely less than her Indigenous ones."

I was there. The audience applauded. Many laughed at her quip about trauma.

2/3

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@blakandblack Oh no someone on Twitter isn’t satisfied

[PRGuy @PRGuy17]

Indigenous children's body SNAICC has slammed Peter Dutton and Jacinta Price for “repeating the same claims and calls they made earlier this year, again with no evidence and no credible solutions”, and says if anyone has any evidence, “they must report it to authorities”.

[Clare O'Neil MP @ClareONeilMP]

While Peter Dutton was in charge of our borders, he received report after report on how broken our migration system was.

And he did nothing to fix it.

He turned a blind eye while criminals abused our visa system.

[Dee Madigan @deemadigan]

The Opposition is pretending they care about indigenous people but when in Govt. they cut $534 million from indigenous legal aid, indigenous health, indigenous languages and indigenous child safety. Instead of trying to close the gap, they widened it.

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@bamboozled3 @LiberalAus Didn’t the No camp argue that all policies specifically for Aboriginal people are racist?

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@Kazz5b @Hellharbour Really not sure who your audience is here, but pretending all No voters understood everything about what they voted on and were in no way persuaded by pervasive racist messaging is… no in touch with reality.

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@Hellharbour Paid blue ticks love calling people ‘champ’ online.

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@Kazz5b @Hellharbour No amount of detail would have changed the result. Every detail would have been represented by No as further reason to reject it.

Pretending otherwise is bizarre.

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@KosSamaras This whole line of argument depends on the assumption that cutting the messaging another way would have significantly countered the lies and misinformation of the No campaign.

Do you have any examples of the way messaging could have been successfully adjusted to do this?

[Jake and the Cross @JakeSEH]

@timdunlop Where are all the outraged No voters? Weren’t we told repeatedly that it was just the mode that was the problem and we could all support an alternative referendum?

Was that all… a sham?!