probably about time for me to log off for a break over the FESTIVE SEASON and possibly longer given the general state of things. catch me on the elephant site aus.social/@nickevershed or email in bio
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host trying to remain impartial in the face of horrifying stories from renters:
but what if maybe there will be a smaller amount of rentals if a small number of investors have to sell
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i turned 40 the other day and now I'm getting angry at talkback radio, weird coincidence hey
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the impact of the housing crisis on these two groups of people are not in any way comparable! a small proportion of investors might have to invest in something else instead! can they not hear themselves speak what is happening
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lol discussion on about proposed rental freeze
landlords: but what if we can't afford our investment property any more
renters: literally cannot afford to live in a house in sydney, had to constantly move, change schools, essential workers forced out of town
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Some are saying that the BMJ study shows vaccines are a higher risk for causing severe myocarditis than covid.
That's wrong.
If anything it says you're ~4 times less likely to get myocarditis, ~23 times less likely to get heart failure, and ~80 times less likely to die.
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Any discussion of mortgages taken out when interest rate were 19% needs to also note that interest rates fell in the 1990s and 2000s - ie the period where they were paying it off.
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missed this in the donations data yesterday, but for anyone who was looking at total receipts - the Liberals haven't declared their AEC election funding yet, as I think they received it after the financial year ended. So they'll get ~ $26.5m in the next FY
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I’m sad to report that I am leaving to pursue other projects, which I will announce soon. It was an honor and a privilege to found five years ago to create an investigative newsroom that integrated engineers and journalists. /1
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so am I right in thinking the new 'for you' algo timeline has basically fucked up the visibility for people seeing regular tweets
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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incidentally if you added the election payment into the 2022 financial year, it would put their total receipts above Labor's, rather than below
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only found this out cause I was trying to figure out why their funds made some of the charts look odd
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missed this in the donations data yesterday, but for anyone who was looking at total receipts - the Liberals haven't declared their AEC election funding yet, as I think they received it after the financial year ended. So they'll get ~ $26.5m in the next FY
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also what's the deal with literally every streaming service besides netflix having a shit UI or being otherwise bad for playing videos
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an important addition to the field of hottest 100 data journalism from
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Dying for sex: endangered male quolls may be mating themselves to death instead of sleeping, scientists say
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The Mail and its readers will tell you that the strikes are about pay. They're really not! Workers in sectors that we all depend on are striking for the resources necessary to do their jobs at all. Read them in their own words – not those of some Tory-voting political editor
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Solidarity to everyone striking today. Do read these stories about how the privatisation of our NHS, education system, criminal justice system, transport and postal services is failing everyone. Reported by the brilliant @elle_hunt theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j
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who called it the Last Of Us and not the Walking Dad
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actually I forgot how stupid the system is - threshold is CUMULATIVE for donors, and not cumulative for parties. why is it like this? idk
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maybe it is under another name somewhere? it is all a a mystery
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the political donations declaration system really needs an overhaul - first pic is what the parties declared, second is what the donor declared 🤷
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Clive's United Australia party outspent other party groups in the latest donations data, which includes the 2022 election theguardian.com/australia-news
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Purple budgie smugglers and Chekhov on tap as Bonza the ‘bogan airline’ finally takes to the skies
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Top donors by total amount, lol Clive
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Clive's United Australia Party now has the highest total receipts for a single year, from a single party, on record (though major party branches grouped together get higher in a few years) #PoliticalDonations #AusPol
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Very sad news. A prolific, first-rate scientist and science communicator, and in my experience a thoughtful, generous and thoroughly decent human.
Will Steffen, ‘courageous’ climate scientist, dies in Canberra aged 75
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pretty sure history tells us the answer to this is no, but go ahead anyway I guess
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Hemisus guttatus - Spotted Shovel Nosed Frog.
From KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. tyroneping.co.za/amphibians/hem
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I thought this was a v good feature about ageing populations, but I'd really like to read/hear more about how economies can be changed to address a population that is no longer growing - in news usually lack of growth is presented as a big negative
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Here's 120 years of Australian immigration history condensed into 1 minute - and check out the link for the full interactive graphic with has much more detail theguardian.com/australia-news
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Studies show women wait longer for pain medication and wait longer to be diagnosed with 700 different diseases than men. Today on Full Story we unpack medical misogyny with , and women who've experienced it firsthand:
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just wrote the word "vlodcast" in a powerpoint slide and feel slightly bad about it
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What’s driving the potato chip shortage and when will it pass?
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This is a wonderful visualisation that highlights how Australia has evolved and changed for the better over 120 years.
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I’ve known John Hughes since I was 11. Last year, I was made aware that he had plagiarised me. That’s the top line of this story, but if you want to know more about its complexities, I wrote about it here.
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