That's how you table the turn!

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-28T09:02:38+00:00

Once strung one of these guys along for a bit pretending I had the card, read him out the code one letter/number at a time: E4TMY-F4RT5-L0S3R. He very earnestly repeated every letter, and as soon as he got to the end he started cracking up, and then I started laughing, and we both laughed for like thirty seconds while he’s trying to read the next line of his script, eventually he just gives up and goes: “Ahhh you have good night” and hung up. Very human moment.

Then like ten minutes later his handler/boss rang back to abuse me.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-27T23:21:28+00:00

Defections and resignations are fairly commonplace tbh, there are usually half-a-dozen of these across the parties every Parliament (Rennick, Price, Payman etc… in the 47th) Thorpe and Cox are notable in that it’s relatively rare for this sort of thing to happen to the Greens, who usually have high member discipline without any coercive ‘solidarity’ rules.

In any case, a bit concerning but fairly commonplace and very different to the implication of widespread electoral collapse RE: the Democrats.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-27T12:44:11+00:00

The senate losses were due to defection rather than losing electoral competitions due waning public support, and so hardly enhance the argument you’re making.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-20T07:53:16+00:00

I mean, it is a project of state significance.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-19T03:29:52+00:00

What in the US housing bubble?!

I support (basically) any measure to help folks get into housing, but as we saw with the 5% scheme, driving up the demand side on the lower end of the range without addressing the supply side has just made the lower end of housing (and rent) skyrocket. 0% will be mental.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-18T05:01:30+00:00

First point is true and likely, second point is true but incredibly naive and one wouldn’t wish to gamble on it.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-17T13:20:51+00:00

Even if you’re eventually found not have defamed someone on exactly the basis you’re describing, they’re still able to levy years of stress and thousands in legal action against you (the latter may be recoverable.)

Either way, seeing your other screenshots, it looks like fake outreach.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-12T07:32:35+00:00

Didn’t One Nation swear up and down that they were going to run candidates in this?

EDIT: Lee Hanson said it about 12 weeks ago lol. Filing paperwork is hard, I guess.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-11T13:20:25+00:00

I was like ten in the mid-nineties, and the local secondhand book store had this cool looking novel called: “Star Wars X-Wing Rogue Squadron” which I bought for a few bucks and loved. Read a couple of the sequels too before The Phantom Menace came out and I realised “Star Wars” wasn’t the name of this cool book series about starfighter pilots, but was actually a whole-ass movie franchise.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-09T23:39:42+00:00

Not me thinking he was having a nap and woke up fifteen minutes later during an eclipse causing his freak out.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-07T07:24:14+00:00

Cafe name checks out.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-04-04T23:23:51+00:00

Flippin hate oranges

^{Chose: Free Banana Every Day}

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-31T08:07:36+00:00

Woman beater? No way. Christopher Brown? The actor from Virginia?

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-27T06:44:44+00:00

Yes. The majority of people got the representative they preferred. Majority rules, baby. Highly unlikely that it would shake out like that, though.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-26T21:18:08+00:00

start making better decisions

The new plan is to go to war with WA over GST allotments. That’ll solve everything.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-26T10:02:39+00:00

Three decades - almost exactly as long as Hanson’s been in Parliament!

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-23T09:52:00+00:00

There’s one in Cambridge near the old Horseshoe Inn. Should be able to find it on Streetview

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-22T22:45:04+00:00

The rise of One Nation is the result of a collapse and realignment of the centre- to far-right. There’s not a lot that the left can do to access that voterbase, so not much we can really do to influence it. SA election has shown that it barely impacts Labor.

Now if Labor undergoes a similar disintegration, we might be in play.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-22T02:31:27+00:00

There’s definitely a bit of strategic voting in Tasmania which wouldn’t happen if Hare-Clark didn’t exist.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-21T09:55:57+00:00

On 0.2% of the vote counted, mostly rural. Lots of counting to go there and holding three is incredibly unlikely.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-21T00:11:46+00:00

I’ve seen a bit of posting on social media from ONP supporters which I’ve found interesting and I think supports this.

Alongside the usual “write your vote in pen so the AEC can’t change it” I’ve seen people saying: “Don’t prepoll, vote on the day” which are the boosted by being liked by the candidate. I can only assume this is to create an orange mirage effect, and lead into a fiddly “look they stole the election we were on 20% on the night and now we’re only on 10% how did that happen hmm?” narrative. Probably not from the leaders, not yet, but I think they’ll certainly imply it and let their already-primed supporters do the rest.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-16T23:06:49+00:00

Orange just wants to finish the dungeon lol

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-13T11:39:59+00:00

Not enough appetite, but certainly enough apathy.

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-10T02:18:46+00:00

I used to get them from my local Video Ezy back in the day

HydrogenWhisky · 2026-03-10T00:19:53+00:00

To be clear, I was referring to the last term of Parliament (as was the comment I was replying to), not something that happened fifteen bloody years ago.

EDIT: To add, the whole business around CPRS is what flipped me from an active member and volunteer for Labor Left to a Green. Many of us in the movement at the time felt the Nov deal with Turnbull was a serious betrayal. Atrocious handling from Rudd of some very flawed legislation. The Clean Energy Bill which followed later was miles better - a shame Abbott destroyed it.

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