At the recent Victorian election, premier Daniel Andrews led the Labor Party to a victory, retaining majority government1. After it became clear, from assorted opinion polls, that it was unlikely…
A funny thing happened on the social media site, Mastodon. Someone made a comment about the name of the site and illustrated not a Mastodon, but a Mammoth. This was…
While many people steer clear of Twitter for various reasons, some of which are due to the mainstream media’s constant whining about how it is a ‘sewer’. This is mainly…
As mentioned in a previous item here, the behaviour of the Murdoch media during the Victorian election was the most appalling I have seen in my few decades of watching…
As expected, the cookers whose favoured conspiracy theorists did not get elected in yesterday’s Victorian election have started their whining about the election process, stating that it was fraudulent. I…
Victoria’s opposition leader, Matthew Guy, and his former chief of staff have, Mitch Catlin have been the subject of an investigation by the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) over allegations that…
A scientific paper by researchers at the University of New South Wale (UNSW), recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change, undertakes modelling of the weakening or collapse of the…
In a previous item, I related a discussion I had with a cooker regarding one of his favoured conspiracy theories, that of chemtrails. That discussion ended when he ‘left the…
There are a few cookers* who follow me on Twitter, probably to see what non-cookers are doing. I had an … um … interaction with one a couple of days…
As is clear from data all around the world, religion is in decline. I have written about this before, initially with regard to anglophone countries generally1, and subsequently, on more…
One of the other alternatives to Twitter is Mastodon. It had been suggested that joining mastodon.social was the best server to subscribe to. I didn’t have an account so I…
Tribel1 is an alternative to Twitter and, to see what it was like, I joined up. The setting up of an account is clunky. I just wanted to use my real…
Billionaire Elon Musk has bought Twitter, and has sacked numerous people, including the board of directors and has named himself CEO. Musk stated “The reason I acquired Twitter is because…
Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the US House of Representatives, and her 82-year-old husband was badly beaten by a Trump supporter who had broken into their home in San…
Much has been made of the Starlink satellite internet system operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It consists of a constellation of some 3,000 small satellites in low earth orbit, and…
Rob Scott is supposedly a journalist and states he is the “Federal political reporter for Seven News in Canberra/ These opinions are my own and do not reflect those of…
When the appalling violence against women and children by their partners or ex-partners is raised on the media, the vacuous little RWNJs who feel affronted by the fact that it…
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