ROWDY PARROTT
12.03.2026 01:40
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ROWDY PARROTT
There was a big brown goshawk in my backyard scoping out my creatures! He wanted to take away my creatures!!
not your creatures!!!
thinking about becoming "bone idle"
anyway, gen AI maliciously targets neurodivergent people
i appreciate your commitment to the bit
A photograph from a page of a Palestinian folktale book that depicts a scene in a magical marketplace underneath the earth. The scene shows a woman walking around asking the people about her fart. Someone points out to a cafe where the personification of the fart sits with his legs crossed and wearing a cashmere suit with a fez on his head. He tries to defend himself when everyone blames him for the woman's embarrassment, but he later apologized by giving gold to the woman every time she says "let the earth open and bring me up."
A photograph of a book titled Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales, gathered by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana. The book cover is black with a simple, abstract illustration of a white bird.
One bizarre tale in this Palestinian folktale book is about a poor woman who tried to serve a meal to a guest, but wished the earth swallow her when she farted. She actually fell into the earth and met the remorseful personification of her fart in a market, who apologized with gold. #WyrdWednesday
table of contents for the newly released robodebt sealed chapter
Sealed chapter of the Robodebt Royal Commission has now been tabled in parliament - the day after the release of the incredibly useless NACC report
You can read it here: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Traer, IA
yeah especially when you’re talking to the bloody prots!!! what the hell is a “sola scriptura”
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
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i’m letting the grass in. fuck it. wallaby grass take the wheel
just had the locksmith over and he said “see you in six months“ on the way out
god, i wish
right like “underconsumption core” is already a thing on tiktok i’m sure
this one goes hard if you’ve lived on highly reactive clay soil
Instantly went in the memory hole. Australia is like a house with fucked stumps and nobody ever coughed up for restumping, the rising damp is the racism that’s been left festering, and people try to pretend there’s no probs while whole rooms have floors wobbling like jelly. Still working on this one
More views of SA Liberal candidate emerge saying Islam 'poisonous, wrong', trans agenda 'insanity' Exclusive by Evelyn Leckie Topic:State and Territory Elections 35m ago
dude is clearly a fuckhead but why is abc running 'trans agenda' headlines without quote marks?
accuracy of advice provided to the Cabinet under their names. Those were and are requirements of the principle of Cabinet solidarity. But that does not mean that the presenting and portfolio ministers were (or presumably are) expected to examine or interrogate each proposal they brought to Cabinet with the time, skill and insight of the departmental experts whose role it was to ensure that the NPP complied in all respects with Cabinet requirements. If the department failed to ensure that an NPP was compliant, the presenting minister and to a greater or lesser extent the portfolio minister were ultimately responsible; but not necessarily, if at all, because of any personal failing on the part of those ministers to do what was to be expected of a competent minister in the presenting or portfolio minister’s position. Neither presenting ministers nor portfolio ministers had or presumably have the time, or in most cases ability, to reinterpret or re-examine matters covered in the checklist; especially the question of whether legislation is required. Ministers were, and presumably still are, expected to and did rely on the warranty of the secretaries of the departments who had signed off on their Cabinet submissions.
NACC lets Morrison off the hook, believing Ministers shouldn't be expected to "examine or interrogate" new proposals like Robodebt. They say Ministers also don't have the time or ability (??) to ensure programs are compliant with the law.
What...do they think we're paying these people to do?
Secondly, if Mr Morrison had suspected the NPP was misleading, I think it probable that the last thing he would have done was refrain from speaking up in the hope of OCI being adopted without further delay or investigation. For, as a member of parliament and minister of many years standing, he would almost certainly have foreseen that, were he to do so, there would be a high chance of the deception soon being discovered and of his and his government’s subjection to the inevitably adverse political consequences that would follow. Rather than being a reason to suspect a dishonest failure to inquire, the fact that Mr Morrison did not make further inquiries appears more probably consistent with him not having perceived there was a need to do so.
"We don't believe Morrison would act dishonestly, because he was a member of parliament for many years" is a very funny argument. I'll give them that
Given Ms Campbell’s delegation to Ms Golightly of management responsibility for OCI; Ms Campbell’s lack of involvement in drafting the NPP once the PAYG Clean Up proposal had been approved for development; Ms Campbell’s belief that no substantive change was made to the proposal after it was approved for development (as was reflected in the fact that once approved for development, the projected savings did not alter); Ms Campbell’s belief, and the fact, that legislative compliance was the responsibility of DSS and, therefore, something about which she need not be concerned; Ms Campbell’s focus on costings; the sheer volume of NPPs with which Ms Campbell had to deal within a short time; and the speed with which she must have had to deal with each one, I do not find it ‘implausible’ that the changes or their significance did not register with her. It presents to me as well within the bounds of reasonable possibility they did not.
NACC disagrees with the Royal Commission that Campbell deliberately misled the ERC. The Morrison defence is again wheeled out to clear the Department Secretary: she was simply too busy and stupid to participate in corruption
accountability yesterday accountability tomorrow but never accountability today
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National All Cowards Commission
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
What a fucking crock.
Two mid-level officials found to be corrupt by the NACC, but the big guns get off scot-free forever.
The Royal Commission found that “Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal” and “a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms.” The Royal Commission made 56 recommendations, all of which were accepted or accepted in principle by the Government.
The government is still persisting with the claim that there were only 56 recommendations out of the robodebt royal commission, when there were 57 and they just didn't like that last one.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#BREAKING 🚨 NACC eventually finds Robodebt corruption following immense public pressure, years-long conflict of interest scandal embroiling Commissioner Brereton and agency.
Government has confirmed the #RobodebtRC sealed section will be tabled in Parliament now the investigation has concluded.
I'm a free agent now, I suppose. Bit daunting. Subscribe to my silly newsletter? rick-morton.ghost.io/i-quit-my-job/
