Steph

Good evening, sports fans.

stephlug on Bluesky

[Steph @stephlug]

when ariana finally embraces her true brittany murphy roots instead of the audrey hepburn/alex st mleux hybrid act her alleged comedic chops will be validated

[Steph @stephlug]

alexandra leclerc's influence...

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Ariana Grande has released the music video for “hate that i made you love me.”

Watch: https://t.co/YrXGaqJF4d

[Steph @stephlug]

welcome back susanalbumparty

[sᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴛᴠ @superTV247]

Susan Boyle is teasing a new era.

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Why is Newscorp *especially* keen on the Coalition and One Nation in Victoria?

We have a few theories.

Keep in mind that 65% of Newscorp’s total market value is held in Real-Estate interests when reading this.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

15 reports of sexual assault including rape from Flotilla volunteers. The blatant murder of paramedics in Lebanon. Another round of Israeli war crimes and nary a peep from our “progressive” elected officials. This is how history is erased and atrocities are normalized

[MercurialJester (ジェスタ)🌡| PNGTuber ✊ 🇵🇸🍉🇱🇧✊ @MercJestr]

Something to be aware of here is that right now the govt is actively courting "A.I." which will push more people into unemployment, where they will effectively be punished with poverty for the crime of being sacrificed for the wealthy.

#TheyDoNotWorkForYou

[Strewth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @StrewthQueen]

Australian cops murder Indigenous people without consequence, & the Australian settler public gives no shits

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

This seems like a critical and under-discussed point.

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"The government is right to wind back a system where taxpayers spend billions lining the pockets of those who treat housing like an asset class, not a basic need" 🫡
https://t.co/I2O2f2fIjm

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Counterpoint: the financialisaton of everyday life isn't a success story. It shifted responsibility for economic security from the state & employers onto ordinary workers, to transform themselves into risk-bearing investors

Your "success story" resulted in a housing crisis

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Our economy is literally designed to keep hundreds of thousands unemployed. How can we justify punishing those people for that?

Any employment services reform that fails to abolish mutual obligations and put the system back in public hands isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

The privatised job services model has been a disaster, enriching unaccountable providers and causing harm to millions of people through coercive compliance and payment suspensions and cancellations.

And the Ombudsman says the system isn't even operating lawfully!

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Labor’s own inquiry into employment services in 2023 concluded that privatisation had failed and that ‘fundamental change is needed’.

The reforms suggest that Labor hasn’t read its own report.

[Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycent]

"The mutual obligations system has been roundly criticised, including in two Commonwealth ombudsman's reports which found the suspension of many people's welfare payments for failing to meet their jobseeking requirements may have been unlawful."

[Tom Studans @maximumwelfare]

Mutual obligations is not and can never be 'effective' at getting people into work. That's not the point.

There's no 'mutual obligations' compliance system you can design that can be lawfully administered by government nor companies. That's not the point.
https://t.co/WMx64igEKz

[Tom Studans @maximumwelfare]

This approach succeeded for many years, when there was not decades of evidence of our failed 'employment services'.

Where Treasury has noted the mutual obligations system represents an unquantifiable liability, you are basically announcing your intention to get hit by that bus.

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

We've got 30 years of evidence that privatised employment services and mutual obligations make finding work harder. It's insulting to people trapped in this harmful, failed system for Labor to simply fiddle at the edges and label it "reform".

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

“Anti-technology extremism” includes threats to data centers — so US spying and surveillance agencies, like the FBI, are also going to town halls, education board meetings, and community forums, etc. where people share disapproval for AI data centers to label people “extremists”

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

They scraped the internet for every last bit of data, stole information from books, articles, art etc. all created by HUMANS, and now want to sell it back to you at a premium because you all have convinced yourselves this is the future and it’s inevitable lmao

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

California’s billionaires currently pay such a low tax rate that even if ALL of them left the state, guess what would happen?

It would take 25 years for the loss of their income tax payments to surpass the amount collected with the 5% one-off wealth tax.