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A motivation-biz guy came through our office in the '90s who famously only slept 4 hours a night because life was too beautiful and amazing to sleep through it. But it turned out to just be cocaine.
Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
Takaichi caused a stir last week after she summoned aides to her office for a 3am meeting to prepare for a budget committee hearing
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has said she gets by on just two to four hours sleep a night – prompting concern over her commitment to a better work-life balance among the country’s fatigued employees.
Pointing to the bags beneath her eyes, Takaichi told MPs that she survives on minimal sleep – a habit she shares with her political hero Margaret Thatcher – after being asked how she would tackle Japan’s notoriously long working hours. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
A motivation-biz guy came through our office in the '90s who famously only slept 4 hours a night because life was too beautiful and amazing to sleep through it. But it turned out to just be cocaine.
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Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat out a door you thought was closed.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat out a door you thought was closed.
Straya.
criminalisation is for poor people.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Straya.
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What’s the most TR-808-alike (hardware) drum machine? Surely some Hackaday genius will sell me a kit with a bare PCB and capacitive touch keys.
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What’s the most TR-808-alike (hardware) drum machine? Surely some Hackaday genius will sell me a kit with a bare PCB and capacitive touch keys.
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Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
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Note the class dynamics on display in both this and the Epstein story--these were wealthy men preying on girls made all the more vulnerable by their poverty
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Note the class dynamics on display in both this and the Epstein story--these were wealthy men preying on girls made all the more vulnerable by their poverty
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Why aren't we collectively punching these Nazis?
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Civil engineer identified among those who attended Neo-Nazi protest
Around 60 men attended a protest at NSW parliament organised by the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network on Saturday. Without masks, it gave the ABC the opportunity to identify some of them.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Why aren't we collectively punching these Nazis?
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Wood chipper, feet first.
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Wood chipper, feet first.
110,000km was yesterday.
104,000km. Couldn’t get back out of Sydney fast enough.
101K was last Friday, 102,000km driven will be next time I get in the car.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
110,000km was yesterday.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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We want people to be afraid to profess Nazism in public.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We want people to be afraid to profess Nazism in public.
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Their political ideology killed millions. We won’t let Nazism resurge.
You want to spread Nazi ideology, we’ll make you a persona non grata everywhere
You want to spread Nazi ideology, we’ll make you a persona non grata everywhere
The incongruence. “You people want us unemployed, kicked out the street, want our family broken up and my newborn to starve. All because I disagree with you politically. What you try to do to us personally is far worse than any of our general political ideology.”
www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw...
Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney
Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.
www.theage.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Their political ideology killed millions. We won’t let Nazism resurge.
You want to spread Nazi ideology, we’ll make you a persona non grata everywhere
You want to spread Nazi ideology, we’ll make you a persona non grata everywhere
Nazi yobbos must die.
'A senior member of the neo-Nazi group which held an anti-Jewish protest outside NSW Parliament is a South African national who works for a major engineering firm that has held contracts with the Australian Defence Department and NSW government.'
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney
Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.
www.smh.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Nazi yobbos must die.
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one of the reasons police and politicians love expanding the criminal law and giving police more powers and protections and increasing carceral penalties is because criminal laws are not, as a general rule, enforced against police or politicians.
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
one of the reasons police and politicians love expanding the criminal law and giving police more powers and protections and increasing carceral penalties is because criminal laws are not, as a general rule, enforced against police or politicians.
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the answer to police cock ups is always giving police more powers. Same as the answer to police causing poverty and trauma and criminalising children is giving police more powers to cause poverty and trauma and criminalise children.
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
the answer to police cock ups is always giving police more powers. Same as the answer to police causing poverty and trauma and criminalising children is giving police more powers to cause poverty and trauma and criminalise children.
Straya.
the answer to police cock ups is always giving police more powers. Same as the answer to police causing poverty and trauma and criminalising children is giving police more powers to cause poverty and trauma and criminalise children.
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Straya.
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Hey, come along to our Joy Boost webinar today!!! 💃🏻
Online from 12-1 (NSW time)
Run by Mindarma for the Black Dog Institute, we'll talk about how to build the joy in your life and why it's good for you 💞
Register for the session here: discover.mindarma.com/_events/2025...
Online from 12-1 (NSW time)
Run by Mindarma for the Black Dog Institute, we'll talk about how to build the joy in your life and why it's good for you 💞
Register for the session here: discover.mindarma.com/_events/2025...
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hey, come along to our Joy Boost webinar today!!! 💃🏻
Online from 12-1 (NSW time)
Run by Mindarma for the Black Dog Institute, we'll talk about how to build the joy in your life and why it's good for you 💞
Register for the session here: discover.mindarma.com/_events/2025...
Online from 12-1 (NSW time)
Run by Mindarma for the Black Dog Institute, we'll talk about how to build the joy in your life and why it's good for you 💞
Register for the session here: discover.mindarma.com/_events/2025...
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TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
55m-year-old eggshells unearthed in Queensland may be older relative of infamous ‘drop crocs’
Scientists believe new discovery to be the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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...yep sewn into the fabric of our society.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
...yep sewn into the fabric of our society.
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old enough to remember when bikies were the reason politicians gave the public for giving the police moar powers. Barry O’Farrell and Campbell Newman were big on this particular copaganda strategy.
bsky.app/profile/kkar...
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#60mins reporting via a whistleblower that a bikie linked security gang has partnered with our own Australian Federal Police to manage refugees on Nauru. Wild. Tragic. Outrageous. Corruption. This is a genuine scandal. #60minutes #nauru #albanese
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
old enough to remember when bikies were the reason politicians gave the public for giving the police moar powers. Barry O’Farrell and Campbell Newman were big on this particular copaganda strategy.
bsky.app/profile/kkar...
bsky.app/profile/kkar...
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I'm not Australian but I call sandwiches sangers just to be obnoxious
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm not Australian but I call sandwiches sangers just to be obnoxious
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My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.
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They know they fucked up when they got the white women out in their handmaiden costumes. That's the big guns.
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
They know they fucked up when they got the white women out in their handmaiden costumes. That's the big guns.