My previous account was @dumblederp@aussie.zone I left it because Rowling has turned out to be a pretty shitty person and I don’t want the association.

Mostly I’m just here for idle friendly conversation over shared interests.

I can get caught up in my own stubbornness on some topics.

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Cake day: May 27th, 2025

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  • I’ve got some more:

    Wind back private health insurance. It leaches money from the population while providing worse health outcomes. The finance side has lobbyists to encourage the government to lean toward private health and away from public services. Private health at the very top, is just money and bankers, so when the global finance system shifts ever so slightly one way or another, entire branches of our health care services come under fire.

    Microtransit. Lean on states to regulate eBikes and eScooters with some reasonable legislation. Improve micortransit freeways around the cities and frankly through the country as well.

    Fast trains for transit and freight.

    Remove mutual obligations from centrelink payments effectively making it a soft UBI. If people want to work they will or at least will try to. If they don’t want to work they wont. It’s a waste of money to try to punish people who don’t want to work.

    Buy back our god dam services. Telco, utilities, government departments (eg, vicroads), public transport.

    Manufacturing. How much fucking raw ore do we ship overseas? At least process that here into iron, steel, etc.

    That Norway citizens fund thing that Whitlam got shafted over, do that.

    Build commie blocks for housing in every major city on top of train stations. 1-3 br apartments, with services on the ground floors.





  • All her life my Aunt looked like she was on top of her business. Owned multiple houses around the world, travelled regularly, lived in the inner city of a top tier European city. She was found dead at home in her 70s. As the finances were unwound to deal with her estate, she’s flat broke, everything was loans on loans, her sister who rented one of her apartments is set to lose her housing. One of my family members commented “I thought she was good at business”, I replied that she was, she died without ever having to clean up the mess she made, her finances were a disaster and now they’re someone else’s problem.