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Be good to people, try it.
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As ever, straight talker #TimWilliams dismantling many myths around housing supply that so distort our politics & society.
As practiced in Europe, Govts must step up & build public housing themselves - stop pretending anything else will work
thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...
As practiced in Europe, Govts must step up & build public housing themselves - stop pretending anything else will work
thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...
The UK and Aus ‘inspire’ each other on housing failure. Both need to remember public housing works
The housing crisis is international. It is not confined to Australia or New South Wales, though, from the hysteria of NSW property lobbyists, you would assume that the problem is caused by public sect...
thefifthestate.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
As ever, straight talker #TimWilliams dismantling many myths around housing supply that so distort our politics & society.
As practiced in Europe, Govts must step up & build public housing themselves - stop pretending anything else will work
thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...
As practiced in Europe, Govts must step up & build public housing themselves - stop pretending anything else will work
thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...
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Percentage of *social housing* in 🇦🇺Australia is 4.1%. Down from 4.7% in 2013.
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Percentage of *social housing* in 🇦🇺Australia is 4.1%. Down from 4.7% in 2013.
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
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The fascism-curious New York Times convened a warm, obsequious, all-lies-permitted interview with one of the most notorious war criminals of the modern era.
December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The fascism-curious New York Times convened a warm, obsequious, all-lies-permitted interview with one of the most notorious war criminals of the modern era.
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Notable absence of hemming and hawing and “critics say” bullshit here. The NYT is getting closer and closer to calling t murder. Good on ya. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/trump-boat-attacks-killings.html
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Notable absence of hemming and hawing and “critics say” bullshit here. The NYT is getting closer and closer to calling t murder. Good on ya. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/trump-boat-attacks-killings.html
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"Since that truce took effect, #Israel has conducted near-daily attacks across #Lebanon that have killed more than 300 people, including at least 127 civilians..."
Lebanese army officials have documented 5,198 Israeli violations... including 657 air strikes..."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Lebanese army officials have documented 5,198 Israeli violations... including 657 air strikes..."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israel hits multiple towns in southern Lebanon as attacks intensify
Strike on Jbaa follows warnings for more attacks as Israel continues daily attacks despite year-old ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Since that truce took effect, #Israel has conducted near-daily attacks across #Lebanon that have killed more than 300 people, including at least 127 civilians..."
Lebanese army officials have documented 5,198 Israeli violations... including 657 air strikes..."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Lebanese army officials have documented 5,198 Israeli violations... including 657 air strikes..."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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“Yeah man, I was 12 mph over the speed limit in a school zone, but it’s the municipality that’s in the wrong for ticketing me.” JFC.
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Yeah man, I was 12 mph over the speed limit in a school zone, but it’s the municipality that’s in the wrong for ticketing me.” JFC.
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Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Australia is paying $750m to a US prison company and $2.5bn in a secret deal to Nauru, yet the hundred or so asylum seekers in Nauru are starving.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
It’s called corruption, and someone in authority should look into it.
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Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A Tai Po based journalist reports that plainclothes police officers are actively patrolling the Tai Po fire memorial site at Kwong Fuk sitting out area to remove signs that voice disapproval against the government.
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A Tai Po based journalist reports that plainclothes police officers are actively patrolling the Tai Po fire memorial site at Kwong Fuk sitting out area to remove signs that voice disapproval against the government.
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Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, and Slovenia refuse to participate in next year's event after calling for Israel to be bann
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel’s inclusion
Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, and Slovenia refuse to participate in next year's event after calling for Israel to be bann
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, and Slovenia refuse to participate in next year's event after calling for Israel to be bann
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Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today.
He is a monster.
He is a monster.
Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today.
He is a monster.
He is a monster.
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Louis and Clark being like
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Join us today from 4 PM CET as we countdown to the release of the Louisiana DLC, with special guests involved in its creation, giveaways & more! 🙌
Tune in at:
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December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Louis and Clark being like
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That 12 mph could be the difference between life and death for a pedestrian who gets hit by a driver
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
That 12 mph could be the difference between life and death for a pedestrian who gets hit by a driver
Goddamn annoying when the Ai bubble bursts, it's not normies who benefit in any way.... okay maybe a glut of Herman Miller chairs. But the computing hardware that will be liquidatated will end up cheap for the big tech companies to do dumb or basic shit.
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
www.pcgamer.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Goddamn annoying when the Ai bubble bursts, it's not normies who benefit in any way.... okay maybe a glut of Herman Miller chairs. But the computing hardware that will be liquidatated will end up cheap for the big tech companies to do dumb or basic shit.
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Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told
Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told
Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirmed
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Participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme will in most cases no longer be able to appeal their total amount of funding support to any external review body, executives have confirmed, after revelations about automation to be introduced to the organisation.
The minister for disability and the NDIS, Jenny McAllister, and National Disability Insurance Agency bosses were peppered with questions at Senate estimates on Thursday about changes to the way NDIS support plans will be generated under a new planning model coming into effect from mid-2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told
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Tonight's sunset
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight's sunset
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Remarkable to see this finally being uttered out loud but I'm wondering why it took half a decade (including three years under the Labor gov't) for it to be even acknowledged as a problem.
The Free Market sucks at causing a rapid energy transition. Gov't policy can potentially not suck.
The Free Market sucks at causing a rapid energy transition. Gov't policy can potentially not suck.
Australia could miss clean energy target as solar and wind investment slumps, investors warn
Expert warns large pipeline of potential projects will not deliver required energy capacity unless companies make final investments
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Remarkable to see this finally being uttered out loud but I'm wondering why it took half a decade (including three years under the Labor gov't) for it to be even acknowledged as a problem.
The Free Market sucks at causing a rapid energy transition. Gov't policy can potentially not suck.
The Free Market sucks at causing a rapid energy transition. Gov't policy can potentially not suck.
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North Sydney Council really need to do something about the Miller St south exit to Victoria Cross station. A ton of pedestrians verses traffic trying to race for a green line. Dicey!
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
North Sydney Council really need to do something about the Miller St south exit to Victoria Cross station. A ton of pedestrians verses traffic trying to race for a green line. Dicey!
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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A: Who gives a fuck apart from racists?
B: His figure is wrong. 71.2% of Glaswegian children speak English as their first language.
C: So that's 28.8% who speak it as a second and I'll bet you they speak brilliant English and that it's much better than most Reform voters I've met online.
B: His figure is wrong. 71.2% of Glaswegian children speak English as their first language.
C: So that's 28.8% who speak it as a second and I'll bet you they speak brilliant English and that it's much better than most Reform voters I've met online.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A: Who gives a fuck apart from racists?
B: His figure is wrong. 71.2% of Glaswegian children speak English as their first language.
C: So that's 28.8% who speak it as a second and I'll bet you they speak brilliant English and that it's much better than most Reform voters I've met online.
B: His figure is wrong. 71.2% of Glaswegian children speak English as their first language.
C: So that's 28.8% who speak it as a second and I'll bet you they speak brilliant English and that it's much better than most Reform voters I've met online.
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There’s also 0 evidence that Waymos are sufficiently replacing human car trips. The data from Uber and Lyft’s similar rollout suggests that Waymo might actually be replacing transit/walking/biking trips more than *half* the time. That’s a lot of extra cars on the road for minimal returns in safety.
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There’s also 0 evidence that Waymos are sufficiently replacing human car trips. The data from Uber and Lyft’s similar rollout suggests that Waymo might actually be replacing transit/walking/biking trips more than *half* the time. That’s a lot of extra cars on the road for minimal returns in safety.
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speaking of which
there's TOO MANY FUCKING CARS AAAAAAAAAA
there's TOO MANY FUCKING CARS AAAAAAAAAA
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
speaking of which
there's TOO MANY FUCKING CARS AAAAAAAAAA
there's TOO MANY FUCKING CARS AAAAAAAAAA
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when i'm on the bus on chestnut street and traffic is totally bunged up from taxi pickup and drop-offs and it's faster to walk, that problem isn't alleviated whether the taxis are autonomous or merely unlicensed and app-based
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
when i'm on the bus on chestnut street and traffic is totally bunged up from taxi pickup and drop-offs and it's faster to walk, that problem isn't alleviated whether the taxis are autonomous or merely unlicensed and app-based
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i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
What? Ashleigh Moolman Pasio doing the inverse of the contract breaking, she's not retired in 2026. #CouchPeloton
open.spotify.com/episode/7cP3...
open.spotify.com/episode/7cP3...
S13 Ep152: This Time for Africa
open.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What? Ashleigh Moolman Pasio doing the inverse of the contract breaking, she's not retired in 2026. #CouchPeloton
open.spotify.com/episode/7cP3...
open.spotify.com/episode/7cP3...