Australian Atheists Forum

A couple of gems from the 1930s:

FFS, if any journalists still think Xitter is a tool for their job, they would have to be a complete tool themselves! The very thought of it makes me feel slightly ill. Actually using it or contributing to it and its toxic owner is unthinkable. If you have an account there it is imperative to close ...

I can't remember if it's already been posted here before, but the compendium of the greedy bosses' recurrent mindless gripe is quite entertaining: "The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore". I present it here as part of today's third anniversary celebration of me leaving the workfo...

I think Patricia Karvelas meant to say Australians are uninterested in politics. The Electoral Commission would strive to be disinterested and that would be a good thing. This one of those distinctions which is at risk of dissolving, as the mistake becomes so commonplace that the meaning of the word...

Overshoot , I just read, was written in 1980. 43 years is the blink of an eye in terms of the climate, but not many people have been able to articulate what is just around the corner. Plenty of people still can't do it even now that we are so much closer to the catastrophe. This reminded me of an a...

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:50 amThat's the sound of Michael Pezzullo, Dutt's pet Dept Of Home Affairs head, interfering like a beaut.

Ooh, it's the Deep State!

ABC/Washington Post poll has Trump leading Biden 51-42. The Post says it looks like an outlier because the other polls are all more favourable to the Dems. But be afraid. Democrat-leaning voters favour "someone else" over Biden, 62-33. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-ree...

Jeff Sparrow summarises the situation we are in. He might have mentioned Murdoch, who has helped create this environment where Labor has to be Liberal lite just to get into power. Although reading this, it's not that "lite" any more. The Voice referendum is the exception. With so much sick...

Ursula le Guin, leader of my tribe!