Mike Funnell

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Yet another Twitterautus, testing new waters.
Recovering SysProg, now payments specialist who hasn't (quite) managed to retire. Sydney, Australia (most of the time.)

I’ve not been here for some time since I’ve been deep in creation mode without time for consumption

but the first thing I saw when I logged in was this seriously thought-provoking thread by @grimalkina about maladaptive high achievement and wow —

I know we’re over The Other Place by now but I can’t recall the last time I logged in there (before I lost account access) and had my brain quite that tickled by a thread

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/110834092480717069

In 2025 Tennessee will hold a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial where a high school science teacher was prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution. Florida will commemorate the event by prosecuting an actual teacher.
Good morning from the United States, where an entire political party is pretending that a conspiracy to upend an election is somehow protected by the First Amendment #uspol

My idea: CLOTHES SHOP FOR DADS

You roll up at the facility, drive over to the JEANS hut. Dinnerlady-type in her wee hole says "What size luv," you go "thirrehfourthirrehtwoluv" while making a mental note to go easy on the pies so you can get back to 32/32, she goes "Right you are luv, tenner alright?" and chucks you a bin bag full of dead blokes' jeans that aren't too far gone and you give her a tenner and you're done, move on. T-shirts next.

T-shirts are more complicated, your jeans were the simple one to ease you into it. Pull round to a bloke eating a pasty. He asks "Size," you go "Medium or large depending y'know," he nods, "You wanting colour, drab, black or mixup?" you think about it a moment and go aye, go on then, "Mix it up mate, colours and drab," he goes "Plain or wi' shite on, plain's two quid extra," you're sure as hell not gonna advertise some bugger else's T-shirt business on your body, so you give him twelve quid and he hands you Bin Bag 2.

There's a pub on-premises that'll do you some chips or a pasty and you can watch the JCB sorting out the clothes while you drink your pint and furtle through your bags to see what you've bought.

It'd be brilliant. Buying clothes would have nae stress at all, plus if you ended up wearing shite and looking a bit of a muppet you could just go "Aye well it were in the bag weren't it" and everybody'd nod and go aye, fair do's

“When there was a public vote about our lives, the majority of Australians stood with us, and now it’s time for us to pay it forward.” #Yes23 https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/nine-out-of-10-lgbt-australians-says-they-will-vote-yes-voice-survey/225368
Nine Out Of 10 LGBT Australians Say They Will Vote Yes For Indigenous Voice: Survey - Star Observer

Twenty-two LGBTQI groups from across Australia have joined forces to advocate for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, marking a significant milestone almost six years after the national postal survey on marriage equality. 

Star Observer

Monument.

My @smh cartoon.

I am so, so tired of hearing people say that we will face a climate crisis unless we reduce carbon emissions immediately. The opportunity to avert a crisis ended around 2000. Since then, we've had the opportunity to make the crisis less devastating, with the minimum possible level of horror and misery increasing with each year we fail to act. What's more, even if we halted all carbon emissions tomorrow, global warming would continue for decades.

We are in the crisis RIGHT NOW.

#ClimateChange

National Gallery of Australia hands back ninth-century Cambodian sculptures it believes were stolen

NGA investigation finds ‘on the balance of probabilities’ the three Cham sculptures bought from the notorious UK dealer Douglas Latchford were looted and sold illegally

The Guardian

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.