Craig Read
catharz.bsky.social
Craig Read
@catharz.bsky.social
Aussie, living in Burrinja on Wurundjeri land, working with Elixir and playing with Unreal.

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Honestly, "at least half a dozen" is less than I expected.
February 15, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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“We ask public schools to compete against private ones, but we do not give them the funding or resources to do so,” says the principal of a comprehensive public secondary school. “We then fill them with the most disadvantaged – and so most expensive to teach..”
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February 14, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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government giving billions of our dollars to “non-government” anything is such a load of shit. They give our money to wealthy elites is who they give it to.
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 11:25 PM
if I was his teacher, I'd give him a pass for PE based on his "attitude".
February 15, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I can remember Hinch getting in trouble for not voting. He said something like “it only encourages the bastards”.

That was before he became a politician to get on the gravy train himself.
February 14, 2026 at 8:22 AM
I can just see the articles on “the left” being mean and biting the head off first.
February 14, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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The newly Albo govt-approved Middlemount Coal Mine is jointly owned by Peabody & Yancoal

Not to be confused with Glencore's Hail Creek Coal Mine which is also applying for an extension, & that will also kill koalas (probably more, 👀 next post)

There're 42 Coal mines in the pipeline
The utter sham of offsets, yet again...

“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say
Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:18 AM