Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 2h"[We are] working alongside Jewish Australians who are fighting genocide, who are speaking up for core values that they hold dear," he said. The fact that Burns thinks this is somehow prejudicial or chilling is actually chilling. 13113
Reposted by Dash NehringAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also the source of “the purpose of a system is what it does” (POSIWID) is Stafford Beer 171
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After giving it some serious thought, I've decided to also put my hands up to become the leader of the Australian Greens. Am I a sitting Greens MP? No. I'm not even eligible to sit in federal Parliament; but I think that's a strength. Who better to speak truth to power than someone with no power? 140
Reposted by Dash NehringTim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m backing Cassian Andor and Leia Organa for co-leadership of the Australian Greens. They bring the right mix of insurgency and establishment to appeal to a large cross-section of voters across the galaxy at a moment like this. Plus, gender balance is crucial. 4317
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The ABC analysis on how interest rates will impact renters is woeful: "Some landlords may try to offset the impact of rate rises on their cash flow by raising rents over time, although there are constraints on how often and how much rent can be increased each year in most states." This is wrong.abc.net.auThe RBA just raised rates. It affects more than your home loanWhile the RBA's decisions are most felt through mortgage repayments, their impact extends well beyond home loans. 140
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Encourages people to save?! Does she think we all have spare money burning holes in our pockets? 030
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Comrades! I am trying to get my start in voice acting. I have a USB mic, but for most pro gigs they require an XLR mic and sound-treated space, which means I need to buy some gear. Luckily I have a walk-in wardrobe, which helps. I have set up a throne to try to fund some gear: throne.com/dashvox 110
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 just think it's interesting that in like Feb of 2025 (after the qld election) PHON head office invoiced a bunch of its 2024 qld candidates for expenditure which meant they had to amend their ECQ returns is all 150
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Isn't this similar to the plan that was allegedly floated by James Ashby like a decade ago? www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05...theguardian.com‘Cash grab’: One Nation demands up to $630,000 from Victorian election candidatesExclusive: Many applicants left feeling ‘used, lied to, misled and gaslit’, complaint letter seen by Guardian Australia says 020
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 24/09/20269 games that shaped me my9games.net/en/share/6e2...my9games.netMy 9 Games | Shared games picksA shared 9-panel games collage. 120
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI isn't a threat because it's intelligent. It's more like giving your toddler super strength and x-ray vision. But also: why was OpenAI doing research into public health expenditure? why did it take so long to notice and/or report the breach? what have they done with the information they accessed? 030
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How accurate are sites like www.lastdrop.au? Asking for a friend (me) who is panicking a bit about there being like 3 weeks of diesel leftlastdrop.auLast Drop — Australia's Fuel Security Dashboard — Petrol, Diesel and Jet Fuel Reserve TrackingAustralia's fuel security dashboard. Real-time monitoring of petrol, diesel, and jet fuel reserves. Days of supply, tanker tracking, prices, and crisis alerts. 020
Reposted by Dash NehringABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A Canberra Apple store is ordered to pay damages to a former employee who lived with a disability after the shop was found to have used its accessible bathroom as a storeroom.abc.net.auFormer employee sues Apple over store's 'unsafe' accessible bathroomA Canberra Apple store is ordered to pay damages to a former employee who lived with a disability after the shop was found to have used its accessible bathroom as a storeroom. 043
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There's a part in the report about job creation: "Industry estimates suggest that data centre construction has directly and indirectly supported more than 9,000 jobs to date and this could grow by an additional 18,930 jobs through to 2030". except 2/3 of those jobs are in the buildout phase. 5289
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A new curriculum focusing on "Western Culture"...but that's precisely what we already have? 140
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I already knew satire was dead, but get a load of this: "The Queensland police union has pushed for the changes to the definition of victim of domestic violence, in order to reduce paperwork for officers dealing with domestic violence callouts." 040
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Stafford Beer puts it best. "The purpose of a system is what it does. There is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do". Our unemployment system is supposed to be a safety net that supports people to find jobs. In reality, it is a misery farm. 0126
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026According to the AIHW, in the 22-64 age group, people on income support payments accounted for around 3 in 7 (43%) people who died due to suicide. Even if you ignore the physical health impacts of poverty, our below-poverty payments and punitive mutual obligations systems are killing people. 02113
Reposted by Dash NehringStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 25/05/2025you naive rubes think you can help people by posting. smart and wise people like me know that you can't effect any change by posting. and now I am going to change your mind and save you from your clueless bleeding-heart nature. I am going to do this by posting 938955
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Having to have a credit card for age verification on Steam is total BS. my Steam account is 15 years old. 0161
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026IDK why people are so shocked about corruption on infrastructure builds; it was literally the subject of a Utopia episode. Season 3 Episode 6: Snouts In The Trough. That episode also features the shocking revelation hat governments could run the builds themselves far more efficiently.youtube.comRorting Major Building Projects | UtopiaYouTube video by Working Dog Productions 032
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI companies could steal from workers under leaked government copyright proposal. 040
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A couple months ago, the Bank for International Settlements published a working paper by one of its Chief Economists. The paper found that AI is over-invested by ~1.5–3x efficient levels, and the circular financing models mean that stress in one firm could cascade.bis.orgThe AI investment race | Bank for International SettlementsThe AI build-out ranks among the largest technology-driven investment booms in US history. We study a dynamic contest in which firms competing for a few dominant positions over-commit resources. 111
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I looked at this data and the incredibly grim Figure 4. This shows suicide rates among unemployment payment recipients dropping in 2020 and rising again in 2021 (middle line) The top line is DSP recipients. Imo that rate increased later than the other payments because PIT changes ended in March 2021 22216
Reposted by Dash NehringTom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026⚠️ "People receiving an income support including disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate more than nine times higher than people who did not access the welfare system." What an epic waste of human life. Raise the rates. 7news.com.au/news/shockin...7news.com.au'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’ 27951
Reposted by Dash Nehringflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich 2993951701
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That "AI might kill us all in a few years" shit feels like the same marketing pattern AI companies have been using this whole time. It might kill a bunch of people but not because it gains sentience, but because someone fed it after midnight and it chewed through some vital infrastructure. 010
Reposted by Dash NehringCAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW: Dozens of AI data centre projects will escape Australia's proposed energy & water restrictions which aren't expected apply to green-lit projects. While the Prime Minister said they're "smaller", these projects are generally bigger and power hungrier www.abc.net.au/news/... 1312181
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's funny how on the one hand politicians say we need to build AI infrastructure quickly because it's inevitable. On the other hand we don't need to build renewables quickly because it's inevitable. 021
Reposted by Dash NehringTom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Beyond disgusting. 611433
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've been trying to make this point on other platforms and people seem determined to misinterpret my (imo) very reasonable point that the impact of the policy on future retirement savings is irrelevant if you are worried you won't have a future at all, much less a comfortable retirement. 120
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern queer millennial I'm overwhelmed and underpaid with anxiety general My education's overpriced and future's hypothetical It's given me opinions that are often called heretical 1288
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Responding to the PHON Superannuation policy with points about retirement savings is a mistake. I personally don't trust the global economy to be in a state to support me in retirement, full stop. Many people don't think they'll live long enough to retire. Retirement savings are irrelevant. 151
Reposted by Dash Nehringflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026T minus 435 days, and counting down. 725449
Reposted by Dash Nehringalex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 05/09/2026the word you're looking for is "complicit" stop thinking these cunts are ignorant naïfs without any understanding of contemporary events, they know full well what they're doing and they all have an outcome in mind that doesn't include anything good for us #auspol 33011
Reposted by Dash NehringJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you’ve never rocked out to Punjabi music, then I feel true pity and sadness for you. 2222976514
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's the same talking point that the pro-gun types use after a mass shooting. 061
Reposted by Dash NehringABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New police body-cam footage from the February Town Hall protest has captured police boasting about punching protesters.abc.net.au'I punched him in the head': Body-cam footage from Town Hall protest emergesNew police body-cam footage from the February Town Hall protest has captured police boasting about punching protesters. 31310
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I love that this implies that the content of submissions change what the government ultimately does.theguardian.com‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliamentExclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources 020
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Don't accept this framing, because voting should not be the beginning and end of political action. Withdrawal of labour is a far more powerful tool. Organise in your workplaces, your neighbourhoods, your churches. Build solidarity across communities. Don't view fundamental issues as distractions. 150
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026When I saw reports from the US that the top 10% of earners account for ~50% of consumer spending there, I wondered what the stats would show here. The fact that we don't have a similar source of data is truly bewildering. 040
Reposted by Dash NehringRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 27/08/2026The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...state.govDesignation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of StateToday, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati... 619787
Reposted by Dash NehringWelfare Rights Centre NSW @welfarerightscentre.org.au · 27/08/2026Centrelink payment suspensions and cancellations under the Targeted Compliance Framework restarts on 26 Oct 2026. These penalties were paused after serious concerns were raised about unlawful decision-making. They put people at risk. Our social security system should provide security not punishment. 12313
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Rental increase just came through. I worked out that I've paid over $200k in rent in the last 10 years 💀 remind me not to do the math again. 030
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I know Kon is referring to Labor's *espoused* values here, but it's clear from their actions since 2022 that they have shedded many of those values in pursuit of power. how's that going for them, I wonder? 010
Reposted by Dash NehringProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Honestly, so tired of people bashing the Greens, again. Do your homework about the CPRS & what actually happened. The safeguard mechanism is an oxymoron; again, do your homework. Now we're supposed to back this nonsense, despite experts saying it's flawed & a scam! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auA fight over carbon credits tests the GreensSarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis... 512842
Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I'm no finance guy but I feel like the private lending market (in the US and here) and US treasury bonds both going haywire at the same time are Bad Signs.abc.net.auASIC warns of 'first significant cracks' in Australian private creditThe collapse of a large and hugely indebted NSW property developer leaves several private credit lenders and their investors heavily exposed, while other major funds have started restricting withdrawa... 010
Reposted by Dash NehringBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“Here’s what we found: Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. The relationship was even stronger in lower-speed environments.”theconversation.comBig US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves itPedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found. 25628345