@metaning@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

It takes a special kind of stupid to halve the #Covid vaccine frequency for immunosuppressed people at the same time as you end all public funding for Covid vaccines, which will lead to a huge drop in the background immunity level of the populace.

But Australian #Labor #ALP has so much of the stupid, that it's a wonder the rest of the population aren't Einstein average. #AusPol

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Duck likes to hang out while we have a drink by the river.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Preach it, Ben.

"How about I tell you this, Albo: Find me an artist in Australia who wants to “opt in”? We are unified. We opt out. Full stop."

#NoAI #AusPol

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nice-work-on-the-medicare-hack-albo-but-you-re-still-letting-ai-steal-my-art-20260924-p60zp3.html

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

What's the point of Richard Deniss' new #Podcast "What's the Point?", if the #AustraliaInstitute doesn't include an #RSS feed link for the show? #AusPol

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

#SackAlbo #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/hannah-ferguson-cheek-media-comment-australian-election-politics-pm-anthony-albanese

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

The Futurist Caterpillar dreams of dynamism, strife, conflict, and progress... and having fewer legs to coordinate once it metamorphoses.

D'Viants Vs. Screaming Assault Sirens. 72, of 126.

https://www.golgotha.com.au/derby-daze-volume-1-second-edition/

#DerbyDaze #RollerDerby #LongExposure #Photography #DRMFree #EPUB #eBook #PictureOfTheDay

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@BenjaminHCCarr Morning's conversation: "So, here's a thing, the Chornobyl Fungus..." "Stop right there, nothing good happens in a story that starts with 'The Chornobyl Fungus'"

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

The final of my original #Destructure #Photography series in #BlackAndWhite, documenting the effects of #PredatoryGentrification near my home in #Noosa.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social The business model is selling *darkness* to places that will be denied night time unless they pay up.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@gatesvp@mstdn.ca The rest of the world piled in to finance and support Germany's, and Japan's reconstruction. No one, NO. ONE. will pay a cent, or give a fuck about USia's "recovery". "We will never trust you again."

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@davidho@mastodon.world In Australia, we cut down a 50 year old tree, to protect a 5 year old pavement...

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@fesshole@mastodon.social If it worked for Michael Jackson, It'll work for Saville. There's still hope for your nan.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lisamelton@mastodon.social tech people ignoring, or disregarding, or not even considering consent. Whoda thunk it.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gwynnion@mastodon.social FWIW for anyone who didn't know the history of it, The Rest Is History recently did a 4 part podcast series ~5 hours worth on the Klan and it's three more-or-less unrelated, and quite different incarnations. It's stranger, and more terrible, and more ridiculous, and more popularly supported than the general "history of another nation" vibe I'd ever known.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@Su_G@aus.social @mojo@aus.social I’m sure they’d tell us, if they hadn’t been banned from social media.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Red and solid, Vs Green and incorporeal. While most photography freezes time, when you play with longer exposures, and especially longer exposures with movement, time gains a texture; an abstraction. It can be stretched, moved through, immersed within.

D'Viants Vs. Screaming Assault Sirens. 74, of 126.

https://www.golgotha.com.au/derby-daze-volume-1-second-edition/

#DerbyDaze #RollerDerby #LongExposure #Photography #DRMFree #EPUB #eBook #PictureOfTheDay

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

And now a single Screaming Assault Siren Jammer carves past the D'Viant pack, including one in reverse.

D'Viants Vs. Screaming Assault Sirens. 71, of 126.

https://www.golgotha.com.au/derby-daze-volume-1-second-edition/

#DerbyDaze #RollerDerby #LongExposure #Photography #DRMFree #EPUB #eBook #PictureOfTheDay

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Cdespinosa Yup, everybody you see say they use AI, is someone who would happily enslave another human, if there were no negative consequences for them

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@aj Lived in Petersham from 2002-2014, watched it go from cheap, a bit dilapidated, to "the tittybar closed and became a family-friendly hipster place where deep fried chicken and craft beer are the menu". The gentrifiers will destroy everything.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@fesshole@mastodon.social ...are you an X-Files Monster of The Week?

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@derekheld@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange One of the greatest triumphs of modern medicine, and unfortunately *edit WAS* accompanied by a ghoulish bit of cost / benefit determinations; the drop in male cancer is in mostly confined to the men-who-only-have-sex-with-women population... ...based solely on removing women as a vector. So the men-who-have-sex-with-men population will continue to suffer from HPV cancers, and remain a reservoir for reinfection, all because health systems are too cheap to vaccinate boys.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@rkd993 @sashin @nordacious The values of a political party, are what they do.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nordacious I don't think there's any indecision, sweating, or hesitation in that choice by the Greatest Class Traitor.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@shlee@aus.social that is the best webpage on the internet.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@coachgowron@tenforward.social Welcome back, coach.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@tallandtrue@aus.social You have to shoot someone in the head, look at the filming camera, and say "I love doing that." before Albo or Wong will have the bravery to criticise your actions.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@gatesvp@mstdn.ca I don't think any country seriously believes the US dollar is going to be worth more than the combustable energy value of the paper it's printed upon in 5 years time. Oil will trade in Euro and Yuan. USia has no utility to the rest of the world for anything in which stability is a requirement. Countries will pull their gold stockpiles for more stable locations, etc.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@CaringKinderSociety@aus.social Yes, but we know that Albo is so thin-skinned, so jealous of his need to be a Great Man Of History, like Gough, that he won't support anything The Greens propose, for fear of giving them the credit of achieving anything. Starving The Greens of any perception of effectiveness is literally his highest priority.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social "How about saying "vote blue, no matter who", and then calling them racists if they don't?"

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sundogplanets Surely the astronomy community has a few people who could build a rocket to go meet Reflect's "darkness as a subscription service" platform? #KesslerNow

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@backupbear "so why aren't you doing that?"

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jalefkowit Was this version of the film literally commissioned and produced by the CIA, like the original animated version?

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@NIGHTEN Kawase is the artist, and representative of the artistic movement (shin haga) that makes the artistic tradition of all Manga make sense, from Tezuka forwards.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@tante@tldr.nettime.org I use the term / metaphor “enslaved labour”, because it is trained on the non-consenting, forced theft of people’s work, and the duration of their life they chose to spend on that work.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

The creator of Beat is one of the good people. #Software #Developer

https://www.beat-app.fi/uncategorized/on-politics-of-beat/

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io @trib@aus.social "Competence" is no shelter for refusing to have the priorities the electorate demands. If the career civil servant has nothing to offer but austerity, neoliberalism, and rich people paying no tax, then firing them is a virtue in isolation. You'll note that in Britain, the second-highest-polling party is The Greens. So, is Labour going to support them as the junior partner, or are they going to try "government of national unity" with the Tories, to maintain the duopoly.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@trib@aus.social @johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io yup, but what's hilarious about Britain, is first past the post will see the Greens as the official opposition to the Reform government. Labour & the Tories are on their way to being the new Libdems, or Whigs.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Interesting in the context of Japanese whisky getting more, and more expensive.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/sep/29/scotch-distilleries-pause-production-whisky-loch-scotland

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@chockenberry@mastodon.social How is this even possible? Isn't the point of *mac*OS that you have a virtual memory system, and this can't happen?

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Not a judgement on his qualities as a leader, or humanity, but just purely on the photos I've seen, of a person I know nothing about... Victoria's new Premier Ben Carroll looks like he just came out of a clone tank, having had a crash-course of age acceleration to be "suitable" for leadership, before the emergency tank-yank. The short nose and full head of hair of youth, the puffy, pasty complexion of a face that has only now come to experience air, and gravity.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@trib@aus.social Sometimes it's more important to fire the person who is bad at their job, than it is to get someone better than them to replace them. Australian politics has always operated like this; we fire incompetence and failure to meet KPIs, we don't hold open audition for whomever is best each election.

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Matt Godden @metaning@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social I see he's using his real name, after "Beeple" became most associated with "scam artist, Beeple" thanks to his #NFT grift.

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