My most charitable thoughts about Pauline Hanson are when I’m not thinking about her at all.

The eligibility reasons to postal vote or vote early are not strictly enforced.

You could say you’re travelling on May 3rd (even though you don’t have firm plans to do so just yet…) you would be far from the only one making the same claim.

You don’t need to provide proof.

Up to $55 now, not at all unreasonable, but just a little too much to justify a short style on a pension.

I’ve had to part ways with my legend of a barber-to-the-stars after his (very justified) price increases. I’m not on consultancy salary anymore.

Not every 'do at Just Cuts has been a winner, but each time I end up with something slightly different and it’s kinda fun getting a different take on a bog-standard men’s haircut. This month’s is nicely textured and sits really well on my head straight out of the shower.

Also these eggs from Aldi are so good, what a Reese’s peanut butter cup would taste like if it was made with good chocolate and peanut butter.

Interesting article in Crikey about this today ;)

It appears to be April the one-hundred-and-sixty-blepth.

I got mine yesterday, definitely a bit of a kick to it this year! 😵

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This is actually super interesting. Consider screenshotting it all and send a tip to the Guardian. I’m sure the Libs aren’t the only ones using these predictive analytics stuff though.

This is why political patties want your email and phone number – so they can add you to a database and enrich it with data scraped from profiling platforms, data brokers, ethnicity predictors and other commercial data sources.

It’s spooky and feels wrong.

I’ve only done privacy frosting before but the application process is the same. It’s a very easy DIY job and the film is inexpensive on ebay and I’m sure other places. All this to say you could definitely set aside an hour or two to DIY it and see the result.

Definitely a few slightly more forceful reasons why people get tripped up by this.

1. Group voting tickets were only abolished 4 federal elections ago, and are bizarrely still a thing here in Victoria and Melbourne City Council. So, people’s belief in this is not totally irrational, but likely carried more by lore than facts.
2. Many folks look at elections as a chore rather than a precious gift. They would rather remain ignorant about how they work. “Don’t vote for candidate X because they just send their preferences to candidate Y” is more of a meme (in the broad sense of the word) than a well researched political opinion.
3. There are people that benefit from stoking uncertainty and confusion about the Australian election process. Many of them are not Australian citizens. Just look at the AEC’s Twitter “Replies” tab. Cookers and Russian agents.

Unreasonably annoyed at an old boss who went out of her way to criticise me for ordering Who Gives A Crap toilet paper for the office because I “didn’t understand how women’s bodies work” and that “women need soft TP”. Mind you this was when WGAC was brand new and before the order had even arrived, and we were a fellow Melbourne startup so I thought pretty good karma at least to support their brand.

Caught her several years later on social media saying how she has always loved WGAC. No babes. You have not.

Anyway, I think of this anecdote whenever I refill my toilet roll. Haha.

I’m glad you’re calling in for some support :)

That sounds awful, it definitely makes sense that you’re feeling more than a little over it.

Have you been able to get a hold of someone you know IRL to let them know that you’ve been feeling particularly crappy tonight?

Tell us more, what do you mean?

So good.

So so good.

You’re the voice that will make history.

Could not agree more.

If someone asked, is the industry you work in one that you’d recommend they could start their career in?

Thank god you’re here to show us how it’s done.

Tough call but I think cheese.