Jess Utting

Career Mum to two future feminists. Proud creative. Progressive. Passionate about climate, politics and equality. She/her.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@waitmaya 31. 3-1=2, 7-3=4, 15-7=8. Pattern is 2,4,8 (jump doubles) so next is 16. The answer then is 15+16=31.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@cotonunya @HydecomLorraine @realRick_AUS Not necessarily in the first gen, I understand some cultures are more traditional and some more progressive (not unlike right v left). But their kids, and their grandkids become integrated. The difference is they choose to live in progressive country - that’s their values.

[Lorraine Hyde @HydecomLorraine]

@realRick_AUS So you never eat pizza, go to a Chinese restaurant, buy Thai take-away, grab a Turkish coffee, order an Indian Curry..? We are so lucky in this country today to have such diversity of food alone…let alone all the other cultural gifts/expertise, this country now experiences.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@realRick_AUS Nice in theory but Japan has one of the lowest birthrates in the world. Less working population: less pension, less gdp to afford healthcare, education, less labour for infrastructure businesses etc. They’re a small island - regional Victoria needs people or they’ll disappear.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@toraiseright @Acyn As opposed to the current republican president who called those wounded in service losers, including John McCain. If you’re willing to not call out behaviour like that in politics, you open the floodgates.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@PaulineHansonOz You don’t support pro choice, mat leave, funded childcare, #metoo women…you’re an anti trans bigot using a minority as a scapegoat to stoke division.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@_lilyhowell_ @PaulineHansonOz I’m getting a little tired of people claiming to be for women when the people they support have shown little support other than anti trans. She is anti abortion, she’s not a supporter of #metoo, she’s mocked women of faith, she’s never supported funded childcare or, mat leave.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

“If Angus Taylor tied housing to migration now, he’d have to increase it.” Look at the actual numbers Liberals and One Nation. Cultural wars, dividing and supporting the disproportionately wealthy. #Insiders

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@AlphaMageSos @AusPoll6 Housing has grown too fast to meet wage growth. It doesn’t grow Australia’s wealth, improve housing supply or grow businesses. Negative gearers sit on asset growth, so the bigger question is how you think it helps first home buyers? Like honestly?

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@_lilyhowell_ @PaulineHansonOz Just going to leave this here…

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@Silverback_MD What you’ve said is the exact reason they changed it. Property has become an investment sport, driving prices ever higher, rather than a right for each individual. Invest in stocks, in new builds, in gold, in businesses. Housing prices need to slow or stop.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@FergusonSt95800 @JackHellstorm @ausstockchick Or, with less competition from wealthy rental investors, will now have to lower rent prices to attract good renters. It will also mean that more money is poured into building homes which will support supply rather than focus on holding existing homes that don’t increase supply.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@ausstockchick 4. Buying an investment property does not contribute to the economy like work. It is gaining wealth by sitting and waiting for house prices to rise so you can buy more properties from your equity. 5. Don’t pretend it’s about rental supply. People can’t afford to buy so they rent.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@ausstockchick God the pity party wealthy people are throwing is ridiculous. 1. It is a TAXPAYER funded discount. 2. Rich people were actively using trusts and negative gearing to PAY LESS TAX. 3. The people who are hurting most from PAYING TAXES can’t afford one home, let alone multiple.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.

When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."

— Bertrand Russell

[pilotfella @pilotfella787]

@StateDept What a circus.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@news_australian NO. NO. HELL NO. NEVER. NO.

[Jess Utting @made__you__look]

@thehealthb0t The NHS link does not say that. This is fear mongering lies. The chicken pox vaccine is a mild version of the live virus and will protect kids from getting chickenpox and shingles as adults.