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• Elections #AusPol 2019 Thread

  By tigtog on 2019-03-15 • ( 3 )

  

  Hello, it’s been a while! I expect many may need to vent, although more substantive contributions are always welcome!

  Since I wrote this on Friday morning, the Christchurch terror attacks have made informed voting more critical than ever.

• ATO scammer time of the year again for Aussies

  By tigtog on 2017-09-19

  

  Just got a robocall from an “ATO officer” reciting a phone number that I was supposed to call or suffer dire legal consequence. I guffawed.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2017-09-17 • ( 5 )

  

  Hello! I had a sudden urge to revisit our rusty weekend Open Thread tradition. This one is hosted by an otter eating a carrot. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Missing Cassini already

  By tigtog on 2017-09-17

  

  Farewell, Cassini – the Little Spacecraft That Could.

• Abortion will remain in the NSW Crimes Act

  By tigtog on 2017-05-12 • ( 1 )

  

  Yesterday a bill to decriminalise abortion was voted down in New South Wales Parliament.

• Wonder Woman movie marketing machine tied up in knots

  By tigtog on 2017-04-30 • ( 8 )

  

  …and not in a knowing nod to the cognoscenti way. Shana O’Neill on SyfyWire wonders Where is the Wonder Woman movie advertising?

• Vale John Clarke #PutOutYourGumboots

  By tigtog on 2017-04-11 • ( 3 )

  

  Two nations have lost a great satirist, a terrific writer, and by all accounts a delightful human being generally.

• QOTD for IWD: Aung San Suu Kyi

  By tigtog on 2017-03-08 • ( 7 )

  

  It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. From Freedom from Fear I heard this quoted on… Read More ›

• This Week in Even More Unnerving: Darth Bannon’s dodgy history obsession

  By tigtog on 2017-02-08 • ( 3 )

  Bannon is portrayed as believing that a “global existential war” with radical jihadis (and maybe China as well) is inevitable, and that authoritarian politics in the USA is the only way to prepare the nation for victory.

• So I only just discovered the Tomlin Rule

  By tigtog on 2017-02-06

  

  The quote is about trying to stay informed by reading the newspapers, and seems to embody my own attempts at self-preservation in a world where duplicitous absurdities constantly gain more traction than rigorously scrutinised realities.