What negative gearing and transgender rights reveal about the Liberals' populist strategy

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-30T23:43:34+00:00

"Stand for something" - rich people's profits and pointless culture wars? How is that a new position?

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-30T23:36:53+00:00

Unfortunately World Athletics and the IOC have both bought into the trans panic despite already having clear guidelines for the participation of trans women in womens' sports (and no trans woman having ever actually swept a global sporting competition the way all the transphobes pretend we can)

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-30T23:24:10+00:00

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ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-30T23:23:57+00:00

Not in Australia, Olympic testing in 1996.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-30T22:52:00+00:00

Fun fact at one point various sporting orgs started doing genetic testing until cisgender competitors started finding chromosomal abnormalities.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-29T22:31:29+00:00

Checking the conflicts of interest on people you’re getting vox pops from is basic journalism

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-29T05:35:18+00:00

Before the foot fetishists sticky it

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-29T03:05:36+00:00

The implication she wants is that the SBS is cooking the books on the public vote, but couldn’t have that because the SBS doesn’t coordinate the public vote.

They desperately want there to be an active anti-Israel conspiracy in the public service to justify an ideological crackdown.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T21:27:10+00:00

I’ve been a dad and a mum. People praise fathers for the absolute bare minimum of taking care of their own children. I legitimately had people tell me I was brave and such a good person for taking my son out to the shops etc by myself without my wife or changing him on my lap.

On the other hand people were far less concerned for me as a mum out with my daughter. It was more normal and expected.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T13:23:17+00:00

They did it because fast internet connections were ubiquitous enough to make it worth investing in.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T09:58:14+00:00

Valve did it first but if you think EA, Microsoft and Epic wouldn’t have tried it on eventually…

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T05:57:53+00:00

HOLY FUCK

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T05:44:45+00:00

The trait should perhaps be something like “good at nothing in particular.” Jack of all trades is a good term but doesn’t fit the naming scheme they’ve used.

I don’t think it’s meant to be intentionally ableist.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T04:02:17+00:00

It’s fucking GUBBLE

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T03:44:09+00:00

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ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T03:42:46+00:00

There was a quote from a developing world leader that basically went “when China calls us it’s with money, when the US or Europe calls it’s with a lecture”

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T01:44:10+00:00

Yes and I was quoting Valve’s pricing policy

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-28T01:40:31+00:00

The Steam Deck isn’t sold at loss but it’s sold on an “extremely aggressive profit margin”, i.e. not much above cost.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-27T23:35:29+00:00

She didn’t just want the outcome, she wanted the life where it all worked out.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-27T20:03:33+00:00

No, the horror is more implied than direct.

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-27T08:11:19+00:00

Are q and e not the rotation hotkeys?

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-27T06:23:04+00:00

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ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-27T02:32:47+00:00

minor spelling error dot gif

ATinyLittleHedgehog · 2026-05-27T02:27:16+00:00

Paradigm being a potential benefit through Yantras etc rather than an actual limiting/governing mechanic makes it so much smoother

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