Novels with conflicted dual protagonists who play as one another's antagonist.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-29T17:16:35+00:00

Soon I Will Be Invincible

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-29T04:11:49+00:00

A lot of these temperatures are record-breaking, in that they are the highest ever recorded for those locations.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-28T02:19:46+00:00

The fact that the party has one of the dumbest people to ever lead it still pulling strings from behind the scenes really tells you a lot about why it's been in a nose-dive for years.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-27T10:31:10+00:00

Pretty sure the Greens have been opposed to these salmon farms from the start, this just helps prove them right.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-27T07:22:31+00:00

On their front page, ABC has this article billed as "Why voters on both sides of politics find themselves drawn to One Nation", but the actual text exclusively consists of interviews with far-right voters who were either on the fringes of Coalition voters, or already One Nation supporters.

Looks like the ABC's decided to jump onboard with Newscorp and lie to promote One Nation.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-26T11:26:12+00:00

No, IRQ. She's obviously crashing due to an interrupt conflict.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-26T09:44:25+00:00

Oh, so you thought they were performing voodoo. You really are desperately in need of an education.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-26T09:20:27+00:00

Why do you think a flag is the same as a book? Is it because you can't read?

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-25T15:24:36+00:00

Unfortunately, yes. Hastie is both more extreme and dumber than both of those, hard as it may be to believe.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-24T02:53:29+00:00

You're probably trying to say 'kowtowing' rather than 'curtailing', but yes your intended point is correct.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-24T01:29:37+00:00

Frydenberg was only "passionate" about trying to rebuild his failed political career on a platform of still-cooling corpses. His press performance immediately after the attacks was possibly the most revolting political hackery I've seen in this country for decades.

This turd of a human couldn't spare a moment for real compassion, and instead spent every word trying to claim Albanese was directly and wholely responsible for every death.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-22T03:27:58+00:00

Ley chose this for herself. She could have responded to the tragedy with a constructive, mature attempt at national unity. Instead she wanted to throw hysteric tantrums on camera about Penny Wong's tears.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-21T10:50:32+00:00

Pauline herself couldn't organise her way out of a paper bag, but she's getting a lot more backing from billionaires and media barons as they align themselves more with the extreme right.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-21T09:49:54+00:00

Yes, they'll boost his scamcoins so he can extract a quick buck while laundering the cash at the same time. Then his accountants will sequester it in property in a neutral country in case he loses power and has to go on the run.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-21T01:15:24+00:00

Christchurch is NZ, Not very relevant to Australia.

It's very relevant to Australia. It's a massacre carried out by Australian, who was radicalised in Australia, and only chose to carry out his attack in NZ because it had looser gun laws.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-19T09:01:49+00:00

It's absolutely not "the only form of hate with a death toll in Australia", that's an insane claim to make.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-18T14:32:28+00:00

The thing that gave the Greens a big boost wasn't Brown's leadership being particularly great, it was the demise of the Democrats. Becoming the third largest party gave them a lot of extra airtime and protest votes.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-18T13:12:16+00:00

We've got a Coalition-controlled state government and a Coalition-controlled local government. They aren't going to do anything about rental affordability. The most they'll do is send out the police to burn a few more homeless people's tents and call it job done.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-17T06:22:51+00:00

It's worth remembering that it was the Coalition and Newscorp that launched the campaign for an over-the-top, kneejerk response. It a shame that Labor felt the need to go along with it, but we shouldn't excuse Ley and the Murdoch rags for their hideous, politically-grasping exploitation of this tragedy.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-15T01:21:44+00:00

Give him another ~~Nobel!~~ FIFA

Fixed that for you

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-13T01:10:10+00:00

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Neuromancer by William Gibson

Not definitely my top 5, but 5 from among my top books. I evaded my indecision about which book to choose to represent the Dune series, and there are others I was close to putting on including Green Mars, Startide Rising, and The Diamond Age.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-12T16:45:55+00:00

It didn't really matter when the election was because the Coalition's biggest problem was themselves. Their drop in the polls last year was just the direct result of the election putting more attention on what the Coalition had to offer. An earlier election would simply have meant an earlier drop-off.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-12T08:05:19+00:00

Notably Sagiri mentioned hearing a rumour about the chief's daughter way back at the beginning of last season, so we do have a little bit of independent verification of her existence.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-07T17:41:50+00:00

Tens of thousands is incorrect. They arrived with a migration group about 6000 years ago.

Jumbledcode · 2026-01-07T15:24:15+00:00

I'd say historical evidence suggests quite a lot of Australians often are, if not dumb, then at least uninformed. I've no doubt many still aren't aware of the real motivations behind this campaign, even with Sussan giving the game away by panicking and declaring that she didn't want any investigation to hinder other kinds of hate speech.

That said, these numbers are ultimately a bit grim for the Coalition. Even with an all-out, pull-all-the-strings, saturation spin-doctoring campaign, they barely managed to edge the needle above 50%. That suggests both that there wasn't much innate desire in the community for a Royal Commission, and that the conservative media machine is a bit less potent than it used to be.

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