She was letting her freak flag fly, and more power to her

Time to Switch 2 a Steam Deck.

Caption: “we’re all looking for the guy who did this”

and witch who fly upside down always have crack up

The lower house, which legislates, is not proportionally represented, so even with preferential voting, Duverger’s Law applies and pushes towards two main parties (though not as strongly as under FPTP). The federal Senate is proportional, and there there are plenty of parties, with the government needing to deal with crossbenchers to pass legislation.

The Canadian part can hold all the “woke” books (actual histories of the Civil War, books on immunology/germ theory, anything by LGBT or PoC authors, anything about WW2 that might hurt a Nazi’s feelings) and hold drag queen storytimes, leaving space in the US part for lavishly bound AI-generated memoirs by right-wing talking heads that nobody actually reads, but that exist solely to launder payment through book sales and self-help books that advise you to drink bleach.

Sweden should strike the same deal with Ukraine and base its Maguras on Gotland (which will be a flashpoint should any shenanigans happen in the Baltic).

This is my surprised face.

During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Nazi Germany toned down its rhetoric as to appear normal to visitors, and “No Jews allowed” signs disappeared from public places. The moment the Olympics were over, they reappeared.

This has the same energy.

Spoiler: it’s plastic explosive

See also: Elon Musk’s how-do-you-do-fellow-geeks shtick (“it’s the car Blade Runner would drive”)

In America, this got lumped in as “Mod”, despite that word having a more specific meaning (sharp suits taking cues from Italian tailoring).

Only 4 weeks? In much of Europe, 5-6 weeks is the norm.

Before Milton Friedman and his colleagues popularised the term “trickle-down”, it was known as “horse and sparrow economics”, in reference to the distribution of oats.

Given that Labor have a lower house majority but not one in the Senate, where the Greens hold the balance of power, this will not change the need to negotiate with the Greens (or the coalition) to get legislation passed.

It still sucks, though. Bandt has been a capable leader and has presided over the transformation of the Greens from a mostly-single-issue environmental protest party to a broad party of the left of the sort that Labor can no longer claim to be, pushing issues like rights for non-homeowners and expansion of Medicare. Fingers crossed that he scrapes through.

At Facebook, that sort of thing would just be called an ordinary workday.

and ducks evolved opposable thumbs

Farewell to a real one

Superheroes from the “what if the sideshow weightlifter was also a vigilante?” phase of the industry

Those new Xiaomi phone cameras are something else