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Dr CactusCocktail retweeted
Oh Melbourne skybus, you antiquated piece of giant red Lego, you. Man behind me is snorting amd regurgitating gross throat oysters. On a train I could move. A full bus not so much. Such world-leading livability!
Dr CactusCocktail retweeted
WHEN YOU REALIZE THE BABY BOOM WASN'T JUST SOLDIERS COMING HOME HORNY.
It was soldiers coming home to the GI Bill free college, 0% down home loans, low-interest business loans.
It was strong unions. Pensions. A house that cost 2 years of salary.
It was confidence that the future was actually going to be better than the present.
That's what produced a baby boom. Not romance. Security.
You want a higher birth rate now?
Give people a future where they know their kids will actually be okay.
That's the whole formula. It's not complicated. It's just expensive, and nobody in charge wants to pay for it twice.
The useless cunts at @woolworths deli cant even fucking count to eight.
The world is fucked.
Dr CactusCocktail retweeted
This is the national ABS data and it confirms housing finance is weakening.
New dwelling loan commitments: −5.4%
Owner-occupiers: −3.3%
Investors: −8.6%
First-home buyers: −2.9%
Investor lending is taking the biggest hit. But an important distinction: falling loan commitments show housing credit and demand are weakening, they don’t, by themselves, prove a housing crash. Now watch mortgage arrears, forced sales and price movements. If those begin deteriorating alongside credit, that’s when the warning lights really start flashing. Eyes on.
Woah. Wait. What the actual fuck?
This will not end well for Australia.
You see this post about the NDIA and - Palantir? Two words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence, but here we are.
A bit of an explainer for those who aren't aware of the background.
In 2023 the then COO of the NDIA, Sam Porter, took a personal meeting with the Australian President of Palantir. Palantir is the American spy tech firm that runs the software behind ICE deportations, the Israeli military targeting system in Gaza, and every prisoner file in Victoria's jails. Peter Thiel is the co-founder. That Palantir.
Sam Porter's words to them, in the FOI: "I'd appreciate the opportunity to get together for a demo, particularly to hear about your work in the insurance and healthcare space."
Insurance and healthcare. Us.
The NDIA's own security architect, Chris, flagged that Palantir did not have an IRAP assessment. That is the basic govt tick a box for touching Australian data. The meeting went ahead anyway. Then the pitch moved from fraud detection to payments transformation and SAP. You know, like they plan to deliver in the new Bill, which enables this?
In November 2025 Palantir cleared IRAP at Protected level. Which is the level participant files sit at.
Now have a look at what has been built since.
$83.9 million to the NDIA in 2024 for 'fraud case management', 'claims assessment' and 'identity proofing'. That is Palantir Foundry's exact product page.
$358.5 million in the 2026 Budget for a new NDIS digital enrolment and payment system, live 1 July 2026.
The Integrity and Safeguarding Act 2026 gives the NDIA the power to make claiming electronic only. No electronic ID, no payment. No payment, no support.
Participants are already being told they must accept myID binding, biometrics, behavioural monitoring, liability waivers and overseas data sharing to view our own plan. To view it. On a screen.
Providers move to myID and RAM by September 2026. Micro providers and disabled-led services without a passport get locked out. And after this Bill goes through, it means a hard no to small business, block funding to megaproviders like Aruma and the private equity funded Big Disability orgs like Aidacare (led by former NDIS CEO Martin Hoffman) and a tidy link between our personal data, myGov, the Feds and American spy tech bros. As well as data sharing between Australian government depts.
24 agencies in the Fraud Fusion Taskforce sharing data about us, between themselves. NDIA, Services Australia, ATO, ACIC, AFP, AUSTRAC, the NDIS Commission. AUSTRAC has used Palantir since 2017. The Future Fund holds $100 million in Palantir shares.
How will they use it? Well, I am guessing that we are the guineapigs for the rest of you, because it is no coincidence that ATO's John Dardo was employed in this role. It's all - again - about payment clawback.
This is not just about the disabled. Because remember, they are calling this a 'pilot'.
So what should have happened before the NDIA opened its door to an American company built to join data, find patterns and point state power at people?
Before Palantir got a meeting, the Agency should have published a privacy and human rights impact assessment, mapped every data flow it was thinking about, put the procurement on the table, and tested any of it with disabled people, independent tech people and Parliament. None of that happened.
Instead the Bill now sitting in the Senate hands the NDIA search, entry, seizure and forced-answer powers under Schedule 2, new sections 73ZSA to 73ZSE. It lets computer programs make decisions with the CEO's authority under Schedule 3, sections 59B to 59E, and section 59E(3) says an automated decision still stands even if the safeguards were not followed.
It turns needs assessment into a set of capped budget cells under Schedule 4, sections 32K and 32L, where a rule can tell the assessor what they are allowed to see. It quietly removes review rights under Schedule 1, sections 48, 99 and 100, and under new section 34A a Ministerial cut to your funding is not a reviewable decision at all.
Told you this was all about illegal durries and spying on the general public. Hah.
Parliament cannot hand a Commonwealth agency this much machinery while the Palantir question is still unanswered and hope a commercial contract will put back the rights the Act takes out. The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 must be rejected.
The Royal Commission into *this* is going to make #Robodebt look like teatime at the CWA.
@senatorpennyqld @SenatorPayman @SophieScamps @Mon4Kooyong @DavidShoebridge @MichaelWestBiz @crikey_news @SatPaper @westaustralian @australian @SkyNews
Dr CactusCocktail retweeted
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
I dont even eat Bunnings snags but yeh this is an erosion of a tradition and culture.
BREAKING: Bunnings has fallen.
The classic Aussie sausage sizzle is dead.
In its place: Butter Chicken, Samosas and “Authentic Indian Food from the Heart of India” right under the green canopy.
Not even the great Aussie tradition of a snag can be left alone by “diversity”
Is nothing in Australia sacred anymore?
Our culture is slowly being erased.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is an AI-generated image. Bunnings continues to host regular sausage sizzles at its stores.
bunnings.com.au/about-us/in-ou…
I just got tickets. Ive heard various takes that match the below review.
Looking forward to more Hollywank disappointment.
Just saw The Odyssey. Despite what you may have heard, literally all of the criticisms by conservatives were entirely correct. The movie is just as woke as you fear, if not more so. The DEI casting is atrocious. Completely takes you out of the story right from the beginning. But even worse than that is Nolan’s decision to turn Odysseus into an anachronistic whiney, solemn shell of a man plagued by “trauma” and guilt. It’s impossible to overlook these flaws because the film itself is not terribly entertaining or well constructed. For the most part it is disjointed, dull, self-serious, disenchanted, somehow feeling both verbose and overly rushed at the same time. The dialogue is some of the worst I’ve ever heard in a “critically acclaimed” film. “On the nose” and “clunky” are descriptions that can’t even begin to describe this script. At no point in the story does Nolan ever transport the audience to the ancient world. You never feel like you’re 3,000 years in the past. You feel like you’re watching modern Americans put on a pageant, because you are. Nobody would be calling this thing a masterpiece if it was made by a director not named Christopher Nolan.
Dr CactusCocktail retweeted
Give that judge a fucking medal.
@ShereleMoody
ALT Screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/auslaw community sharing an excerpt from a news article about a Queensland District Court sentencing. The post quotes that defence barrister Mr Gates said his client pleaded guilty “on the basis that the penile intercourse lasted five minutes, not more than that, and he desisted.” It then states that Judge Ryan Haddrick immediately stopped proceedings and ordered the courtroom to remain silent for five minutes “to feel the gravity of those moments”. The quoted exchange continues with the judge saying, “Sit down for a second, just sit down for a second,” followed by, “In fact, sit down for five minutes, starting now.” , “Thanks to Dean Evans who brought this to my attention.”: “Judge forces court into five-minute silence over child sex act horror.” The subheading says a Queensland judge stopped court proceedings after a barrister attempted to minimise a man’s sexual offence against a child. The article is by Jon Mendelsohn and dated 10 July 2026.
Dr CactusCocktail retweeted
MDMA used to be a legal couples-therapy drug in America.
Therapists called it: "𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭"
They prescribed it openly to break down emotional walls between spouses.
Then it hit Studio 54.
By 1985 it was Schedule 1, alongside heroin. Therapists begged the DEA not to ban it, but...
The DEA banned it anyway.
40 years later we're still arguing about whether it counts as medicine.
