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Politics, running, running politics from an ill-informed perspective. Keep my informed opinions out of this. I enjoy neo-pronouns, they/them and she/her.
This is actually about a corporate landlord locking out the growers... The landlord is an asset manager with a business model based on asset price inflation premium of 1-2% plus the rental yields (AFR article in next post)...
Australian salad grower Dicky Bill enters administration, putting 180 people out of work before Christmas.
Sudden shutdown of Australian salad grower puts 180 people out of work
Australian salad grower Dicky Bill enters administration, putting 180 people out of work before Christmas.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is actually about a corporate landlord locking out the growers... The landlord is an asset manager with a business model based on asset price inflation premium of 1-2% plus the rental yields (AFR article in next post)...
This is 100% not my experience. I have not seen any real change in students' reading or texts or of course requirements. I've been tutoring (taking discussion sections) for... 10 years?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is 100% not my experience. I have not seen any real change in students' reading or texts or of course requirements. I've been tutoring (taking discussion sections) for... 10 years?
Pro-Library Discourse Online unreasonably raised my expectations of the range of reading material i'd be able to access through my four (4) library memberships
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Pro-Library Discourse Online unreasonably raised my expectations of the range of reading material i'd be able to access through my four (4) library memberships
Update, 1x Piper in top 3!
There are three women/girls named Piper in the Australian under 20s cross country race tonight
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Update, 1x Piper in top 3!
i'm getting more grumpy about this the longer today drags on and the more i wish i could look forward to watching sports tonight.
lots of big names competing in cross country trials, can't wait to watch the text-based results appear on rosterathletics dot com #running
lots of big names competing in cross country trials, can't wait to watch the text-based results appear on rosterathletics dot com #running
Too bad we don't have livestreaming technology in Australia 💀
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
i'm getting more grumpy about this the longer today drags on and the more i wish i could look forward to watching sports tonight.
lots of big names competing in cross country trials, can't wait to watch the text-based results appear on rosterathletics dot com #running
lots of big names competing in cross country trials, can't wait to watch the text-based results appear on rosterathletics dot com #running
Impressive setup for tracking runners at UT Kosciuszko! Marnie Ponton (marathon PB 2:31, idk if she's done much trail racing?) looks to be running with the leaders in the 100k
live.utmb.world/kosciuszko/2...
live.utmb.world/kosciuszko/2...
UTMB Live - Ultra-Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB 2025 - Kosci 100
Follow the race Ultra-Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB 2025 Kosci 100 live
live.utmb.world
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Impressive setup for tracking runners at UT Kosciuszko! Marnie Ponton (marathon PB 2:31, idk if she's done much trail racing?) looks to be running with the leaders in the 100k
live.utmb.world/kosciuszko/2...
live.utmb.world/kosciuszko/2...
There are three women/girls named Piper in the Australian under 20s cross country race tonight
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There are three women/girls named Piper in the Australian under 20s cross country race tonight
If you look closely you can see me and @old-black.bsky.social 😎
Solidarity to UTS members for their huge strike yesterday. Members were out in force to show management that staff deserve better and will keep fighting for much-needed improvements to job security, workloads and fair pay.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If you look closely you can see me and @old-black.bsky.social 😎
if australians have to be bombarded with 'black friday' ads, we should also be given time off work to focus on baking projects
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
if australians have to be bombarded with 'black friday' ads, we should also be given time off work to focus on baking projects
This is being a NSW person in Melbourne and the place names are AFL teams
To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country by train is to encounter lots of place names one vaguely knows from books/ movies/ TV shows in which the place name is meant to immediately evoke some highly particular class/ culture/ accent/ norms matrix, understanding none of it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is being a NSW person in Melbourne and the place names are AFL teams
This is really sad. Guy thought it was a residence not a synagogue and was in the midst of a delusional episode, probably very scary in itself. He has already spent longer in jail than the time he's been sentenced to, has been homeless, and again, is very unwell
A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue in July while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said.
Australian judge rules synagogue arsonist was motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism
An Australian magistrate says a man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue door while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is really sad. Guy thought it was a residence not a synagogue and was in the midst of a delusional episode, probably very scary in itself. He has already spent longer in jail than the time he's been sentenced to, has been homeless, and again, is very unwell
Reading this I find it hard to envisage a similar reaction if the same thing happened today. Hard to wrap my head around the implication 2000 was a high point in radicalism? 🥴
Partially because it feels like something that could happen again now, I was just thinking about the controversy leading up to the 2000 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, when there was a confederate flag flying over the Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina, the host city.
www.nytimes.com/2000/02/17/s...
www.nytimes.com/2000/02/17/s...
OLYMPICS; Running Into Controversy (Published 2000)
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reading this I find it hard to envisage a similar reaction if the same thing happened today. Hard to wrap my head around the implication 2000 was a high point in radicalism? 🥴
That's 15% of students enrolled...
21,000 K-12 students in Charlotte, North Carolina
missing on Monday as ICE terrorizes the city
btw news isn't covering this as it's hidden from them
but ABSOLUTELY CERTAINTY there are "KIDS IN CAGES" again
just this time the monsters learned to hide them
from press and protesters on military bases
missing on Monday as ICE terrorizes the city
btw news isn't covering this as it's hidden from them
but ABSOLUTELY CERTAINTY there are "KIDS IN CAGES" again
just this time the monsters learned to hide them
from press and protesters on military bases
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
That's 15% of students enrolled...
Truly disturbing insight into the cruel bureaucratic paternalism of our "welfare" system
The department's focus on behavioural change, via mutual obligation punishments, is criminally deranged.
“behavioural change can be achieved quickly” through “unanticipated life-threatening events (such as surviving electrocution after touching live electrical wires"
Fuck me dead
“behavioural change can be achieved quickly” through “unanticipated life-threatening events (such as surviving electrocution after touching live electrical wires"
Fuck me dead
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Truly disturbing insight into the cruel bureaucratic paternalism of our "welfare" system
what was it that bob brown imagined the greens to be? "not left, not right, but a two-winged bird flying straight ahead" (??) well
An analysis of the changing pattern between 2010 and 2025 of Greens support across electoral divisions, and the continuing increase in the flows of Green preferences to Labor. antonygreen.com.au/comparing-gr... #auspol
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
what was it that bob brown imagined the greens to be? "not left, not right, but a two-winged bird flying straight ahead" (??) well
"uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades" is the perfect description of this material, with the exception that it also includes business elites' grievances. (Business council quoted whinging about how hard it is to calculate payroll taxes klaxon!)
The SMH is doing a new long form policy series (good) on federation reform (great) but today’s first edition feels a little like an uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades. Tomorrow’s solutions article sounds promising but I struggled to find new insights in today’s.
Overgoverned, overtaxed and overcomplicated: How Australia was set up to fail
Our three levels of government will collect a record $1 trillion in taxes this year, but the federation is failing.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"uncurated list of grievances political elites have litigated for decades" is the perfect description of this material, with the exception that it also includes business elites' grievances. (Business council quoted whinging about how hard it is to calculate payroll taxes klaxon!)
This is disgusting and so... recognisable 😕
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is disgusting and so... recognisable 😕
Sydney Morning Herald ("here's to reason") doing the exact same thing today, next to their reprint of a Telegraph oped about the ban
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sydney Morning Herald ("here's to reason") doing the exact same thing today, next to their reprint of a Telegraph oped about the ban
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The modern olympics was founded on the exclusion of women, good to see some traditions never die 🙄
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
Les femmes aux Jeux Olympiques.
digital.la84.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The modern olympics was founded on the exclusion of women, good to see some traditions never die 🙄
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
"Nous estimons que les Jeux Olympiques doivent être réservés aux hommes. Et d’abord, en application du proverbe fameux illustré par Musset : il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée. (1/2)
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I'm not reading anything beyond the headline, i don't care if there's redeeming or less horrendous details, I'm logging off and reading Caster Semenya's autobiography instead
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I'm not reading anything beyond the headline, i don't care if there's redeeming or less horrendous details, I'm logging off and reading Caster Semenya's autobiography instead
✨️fuck this✨️
IOC moves closer to ban transgender athletes from female events in the Olympics: report
amileaminute.com/news/ioc-mov...
amileaminute.com/news/ioc-mov...
IOC moves closer to ban transgender athletes from female events in the Olympics: report
The International Olympic Committee moves closer to ban transgender athletes from the female category in the Olympics in time for 2028.
amileaminute.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
✨️fuck this✨️
Times like these i could really use a US politics filter
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Times like these i could really use a US politics filter
The woman characters in these two, on the other hand... johnny mnemonic's was ok. Chain reaction's was the most useless yet
CHAIN REACTION (1996) is easily in this category with an oddly HOME ALONE vibe
JOHNNY NMEMONIC (1995) has an "Alanis Morisette as God" vibe
JOHNNY NMEMONIC (1995) has an "Alanis Morisette as God" vibe
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The woman characters in these two, on the other hand... johnny mnemonic's was ok. Chain reaction's was the most useless yet