kauer

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2026-09-06 04:22:42 GMT

To the tune of "Money for Nothing", by Dire Straits. Just a first draft. I don't recall when I wrote it. I'm not sure I did write it. I was lying when I said I wrote it. I'm not sure. I couldn't say. Possibly.
I want it, I want I-C-A-C
I want it, I want I-C-A-C
I want it, I want I-C-A-C
I want it, I want I-C-A-C
Hah, now look at that yo-yo, that's the way you do it
You tell 'em nothin' at I-C-A-C
Advice ain't workin', that's the way you spin it
Money for nothing and your cheques for free
No, that ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya, that ain't "income"
It ain't working if all you do is talking
Main thing now is to just play dumb!
They just reject all these allegations
Then they tell some outright lies
That doesn't prove they took it from the bag-men
All they need to do is act surprised
See the little arsehole with the grey suit and the haircut?
The little arsehole in the witness chair?
That little arsehole's got his own cash pipeline
That little arsehole is a millionaire
They just reject all these allegations
Then they tell some outright lies
That doesn't prove they took it from the bag-men
All they need to do is act surprised
He shoulda learned a bit about tax law
He shoulda learned when not to write things down
Look at that lawyer, she got him sweating on camera,
Startin' to suspect she finds this shitshow fun
Commissioner? What's that? "Clarify please"?
Makin' him look stupid, like a chimpanzee
If that ain't workin' everyone would do it
Money for nothing and your cheques for free...
#ICACRadio

2026-08-27 01:16:06 GMT

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OVERSTATE. You cannot OVERSTATE how good it is.
Sorry, one of my pet peeves. If you "cannot understate" how good something is, then however good you say it is, it is less good than that.

2026-08-25 09:26:14 GMT

In Merimbula there are tall street lights along the bridge and continuing into town. The poles rise high, then curve to bring the actual light over the edge of the road, so there is a short horizontal piece of support with a big flat light fitting on the end of it.
Pelicans love the street lights. A solid "branch" to perch on, a safe surface to sit on, both far from all but airborne predators. Only space for one, so a solitary space, where a pelican can cogitate undisturbed.
Locals know to glance up before walking below them, and to note and avoid the poo patterns on the ground.
The local council - not the sharpest tool in the shed, at least not collectively - decided that pelicans on street lights was a bad thing, so they took steps. They affixed to the top section of each streetlight a rotating arm, free to rotate horizontally as the wind moves it. The arms, moved by the wind, sweep out a circle maybe a metre in diameter, across the top surface of the light itself and some of the support.
They don't work. At all. The pelicans have broken several, and just stop the others if they want to sit there. One or two still work when there is no pelican present. Some have swivelled to hang sadly below or half-around the support.
People, locals and tourists alike, love the pelicans. They love them in flight, on the water, perched on boats, perched on cables, perched on jetties, perched on poles, on buoys and on street lights. They are painted, drawn, and photographed. Children call to them. There are even sculptures of pelicans sitting on poles. Some arsehole stole one a while ago - if you ever see a pelican made out of scrap steel in someone's back yard, let the police know.
A pelican gliding in to land is majestic. A pelican sitting atop a pole or a streetlight tells you that everything is OK.
That is all.

2026-08-19 14:51:35 GMT

Watching a movie set in Australia and someone with a broad Australian accent referred to getting "lost in these woods". Grating.

2026-08-19 13:55:37 GMT

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Weird. For me they are largely set and forget. I don't do Big Routing with them, though.

2026-08-08 13:54:00 GMT

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At laeast in the web UI, I have to click on the specific profile from the list, then I get a three-dot menu with includes "Block". It's similar in Tusky - I have to be viewing the profile to block it. I don't have to unfollow first in either case (referencing @npub1s20…twmm 's comment).

2026-07-30 11:06:35 GMT

Fuel for the outrage machine.
Bega Valley Shire Council just chucked the Merimbula Muslim community out of their premises. They paid their rent, they held gatherings, plenty of which involved non-Muslims, and they prayed five times a day. It was completely inoffensive and brought together people of all faiths and none; basically a community centre with twenty minutes of prayer a day. The Council won't say *why* they chucked them out beyond saying they've deemed it a place of worship. The State government is saying "no comment".
The power they used to kick out these people is very recent, and a direct line can be drawn from the Bondi shooting to those powers to this absolute dick move. One wonders what would have happened if it had been Jewish people, or Christian people, who had set up such a community centre. For fuck's sake, they say five minutes of prayers every day at every RSL in the country, do they have zoning permission for that?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/merimbula-muslims-confused-by-community-centre-closure/106962694
#AUSPol

2026-07-05 06:16:53 GMT

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Ooooh, now I have two! And on the same day! Thanks :-)

2026-07-05 03:36:45 GMT

Its enjoyable to encounter an English word that I have never seen before. It happened today. Do you know, without looking it up, what a "placket" is? Sometimes spelled "placquet". Feel free to boost. And, without revealing the actual answer, feel free to suggest likely meanings :-)

2026-06-28 01:58:45 GMT

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There is still a dam named after that disgusting corrupt mega-arsehole Hinze? Why has it not been renamed?
Jeez Queensland, get your shit together.

2026-06-21 08:00:23 GMT

Found this. Sorry, no source recorded. Thought Pauline might be interested.
#AUSPol
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2026-06-19 13:46:09 GMT

Google is about to do something extremely nasty to Android phone owners. ALL Android phone owners.
If you didn't know about it, now you do:
https://keepandroidopen.org
Please boost for reach...

2026-06-17 07:51:53 GMT

Pauline Hanson: "Under the failed policy of multiculturalism, all cultures are allowed equivalence to ours. Surely opposing that is not racist, it's common sense".
Simple question Pauline: Who is the "us" that "ours" refers to? And why exactly is that group better or worse or worth preserving or advantaging over any other groups? Don't use dogwhistles like "us" and "ours", be specific.
I'm pretty sure you mean "white people", and that is by definition racist. And common though it might be, racism is not ever common sense.
While you're at it, detail exactly how multiculturalism has failed. It's easy to say, but it's just another dogwhistle unless you back it up with facts and arguments. Since I don't think you have any facts or arguments, I'm guessing that your opposition to multiculturalism might be, hm, there's that word again, racist.
#AUSPol

2026-06-13 05:12:42 GMT

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Except that the workers ARE proceeding...?
#USPol

2026-06-13 05:08:43 GMT

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It has taken an unbelievably long time to take down the lettering though.

2026-06-02 01:06:00 GMT

I worry that Australia will do the same thing the USA did with Trump - not take the rise of a clownish, right-wing, well-funded arsehole seriously. Laugh at them, call them deplorable, don't engage. Assume the country could not possibly be so stupid as to elect them. Not swing real resources into a real fight. Then spend three or four years stunned into hand-wringing inaction as the clowns destroy, destroy, destroy.
It feels as if *exactly this* is happening with One Nation now. Preferential voting might soften the blow, but to get an idea of what it will be like, imagine the Howard years again, but with Pauline Hanson.
#AUSPol

2026-05-18 02:33:07 GMT

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I really feel he had some kind of breakdown from which he has never recovered.

2026-05-02 02:03:14 GMT

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I didn't know that Dawkins had gone the full nana.
Very sad. Given his position as a respected scientist and science populariser, also very damaging.

2026-05-01 07:05:21 GMT

Bank = St George Bank.
Partner about to go overseas.
Partner advises bank "going overseas!"
Bank acknowledges.
Partner arrives overseas.
Cards get blocked.
Partner contacts bank.
Cards unblocked.
"This won't happen again, will it?"
"Definitely not"
One week later, cards blocked again.
Partner arrives home; cards still blocked.
Multiple phone calls "y u block cards?"
Two days later "Y U BLOCK CARDS?!?"
Bank: "Card's are unblocked"
At NO POINT did the bank, which has all partner's phone numbers and email addresses etc, make any attempt at contact. Not before blocking, while blocked, nor after unblocking.
End result of above: Bank loses one customer.

2026-03-09 06:20:39 GMT

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buying what amounts to an extra tankful doesn't seem like "hoarding" to me. Rolling up with six 200l drums on the back of the HiLux and filling them all - that's hoarding :-)

2026-03-04 05:21:30 GMT

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"Help me Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda" just started up in my head, accompanied by imagery of someone having, er, difficulties. Curse you! :-)

2026-03-02 00:40:42 GMT

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So save us all the time: What's the consensus? And what do YOU think? Lift or no? I was always taught "release all pressure without actually lifing the hands off the chest; You don't want impact, you want movement".
Luckily for all concerned, the only recipents of my ministrations (so far) have been entirely made of plastic.

2026-02-19 05:03:56 GMT

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it was a private place, but not a cardiologist, not a hospital. They do all sorts of scans, ultrasounds etc. I made an appointment, it was in maybe a week, rocked up, and they did the echo and bulk billed it.

2026-02-19 04:01:56 GMT

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weird, mine was free...

2025-08-24 07:34:42 GMT

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Tiny little Tathra in NSW got (I estimate) between 200 and 400 people along. On a cold, rainy Sunday deep in the off season. Who all walked a couple of k over the bridge and back. No counterprotesters as far as I could tell, but a lot of motorists tooting their support.
Amazing and heartening.
PS: My estimate was very conservative. It seems the attendance was probably over 600. There was an official count done at the start of the march that reached 590, then an unknown number of people joined the march at the bridge.
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2025-07-02 14:42:07 GMT

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The word "expecting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Saying "everything will come up roses!" and actually expecting everything to come up roses are two very different things.
It's possible it was error or delusion, but I doubt it was anything more than a simple lie. Probably not even that. A lot of what gets said has no underlying structure at all, it's just a sort of deflective reflex. Stimulus: "What about jobs? Reponse: "There'll be a hundred thousand more in June!"

2025-05-29 00:28:52 GMT

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Dunno if it's common in the US as well, but here in Oz we have long had the phrase "seagull manager". That's a manager that flies in, makes a lot of noise, steals stuff, shits all over everything, then flies out.
Seems like a perfect description of Musk, if possibly a little unfair to seagulls (noble birds that they are).
#USPol

2025-03-11 07:36:42 GMT

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@ spyhunter@ mastodon.social is a troll. Don't engage; block.

2025-03-02 08:53:41 GMT

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In Oz at least, businesses are required by law to provide a tax receipt on request (or by default). If you pay by card at the counter they are also required to provide a transaction receipt.
You could try pointing that out to them if you are in a country with such consumer protections.
A lower-friction solution might be to provide fake details, making it clear that this is a workaround for their apparently inflexible system.

2025-02-08 05:38:40 GMT

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I was at the Canberra "protect trans youth" rally. They had at least 400 people show up. A couple of media types seemed to be on the case, so hopefully some coverage. Good speeches, if predictable :-) A VERY diverse crowd, quite uplifting to see.
I didn't get the feeling anyone was in the RG Menzies building. If there was, they didn't have the guts to show themselves.
I didn't feel comfortable taking pics so you will have to just imagine the bust of Robert Menzies guarding the entrance wearing a bright purple scarf, raybans and a white hat of the sort worn by bowls types. He looked very fetching.
Then, because the Merimbula one didn't start until 2pm, I got back in time to go to that one too! Well, the last 20 minutes of it. I missed the speeches but saw the people and made it into the group photo :-) I reckon there would have been 50 to 70 people there, which is pretty good for little Merimbula (and surrounds, I guess).
If the other rallies got proportionally similar turnouts, I feel a solid message will have been sent to David Crisafulli's lot. You never know, maybe they'll listen.
What IS it with the right that they are determined to bring darkness, when with no more effort they could bring light instead?
#ProtectTransYouth
#AUSPol

2025-02-07 13:42:46 GMT

Rally in several locations around Oz. Be there.
"Protect trans youth" - a response to Qld LNP moves to cut treatment for trans kids.
More info at https://qnews.com.au
#AUSPol

2024-09-21 23:52:13 GMT

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sorry for possibly silly question, but what are they blocking, exactly - and why does it matter?

2024-08-30 09:14:13 GMT

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the one thing we know about your ancestors for sure is that they definitely did have kids :-)

2024-08-23 09:28:05 GMT

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In theory, theory and practice align. In practice, they don't.

2024-08-03 14:16:56 GMT

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When and why did this "call everything Trump does 'weird'" start? He's not weird in any usual sense. He's a fraud, a rapist, a felon and a pathological liar. And that's just the provable things, he's a lot of other bad things besides.
Why obscure all that behind an inoffensive, vague description like "weird"? It's not bad or harmful to be weird.

2024-06-05 07:55:25 GMT

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not your best work.