People who take up scarce mental health resources because their cat died (or some other entitled, vacuous nonsense caused by their choice of cultural baggage) and prevent those resources from being used where it actually matters to save lives and material well being.

If anyone wants a chill band to kick back to - great to go to sleep to - and one of my fav bands, the Brothers Landreth from Canada. They're also extraordinary musicians. youtube.com/@Thebroslandre…

The externalities of an underfunded, second rate mental health system and where it intersects with counterproductive drug laws are real enough to have left 7 people dead today in a violent circus. But Australia is not a grown up country where that can ever be the debate.

Uh oh….they are on to us….

As an aside, this is also a map of all the states where citizens get to vote on changes to the US constitution. Constitutional change in the US doesn't involve democratic referendums. Outside observers from places like Australia go 'there are holes in the Republic'

When you're a twitter dipshit arguing 'what about men' over a public endometriosis clinic, and you get burned so hard that you have to fuck off and start again with a first-name-bunch-of-numbers account

We are getting used to these kinds of numbers now, but the swing implied here is unprecedented. If repeated in the GE, it would mean an 18.5 point Con to Lab swing. Nearly twice as large as the swing Blair achieved in 1997 (10 points) or Attlee achieved in 1945 (10.7 points)

This is what all of Twitter would have been like in 1300s

Absolutely.

Let us know when you get endometriosis and we'll book your appointment.

I'm still not sure what Dutton's metaphor was between Howard's response to Port Arthur, and a protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza? Does he want a Palestinian buy-back scheme? A national framework to ban all protests that the government doesn't define as a 'genuine cause'?

Uhlmann Sky sounds like one of those forgettable characters from a bad swords and sandals novel, that ends up dying in a meat grinder for his King.

A non-exhaustive list of things that are broken about US elections:
Weekday voting
Barriers to enrolment
Restrictions on pre & postal votes
Minority voters queuing all day
Partisans (like me!) drawing boundaries & running elections
No central independent election authorities
FPTP

Such a good read (make sure you get to the bottom for a great appraisal of the key factors Judge Lee will be considering).

The legal fallout from the aborted prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann is next level

From integrity inquiries to numerous defamation actions, here’s a list of all the legal actions linked to Bruce Lehrmann

Now here's a first: a Bruce Lehrmann tattoo! 👇