Matthew Toohey

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2025-11-08 06:40:44 UTC

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Do you not value your sleep?!?

2025-11-08 06:39:35 UTC

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Definitely glass half-full thinking, Mark.

2025-11-08 06:37:17 UTC

Graham Richardson was only 76?!?!
Hoo, all that factional powerplaying must've really messed with his DNA. I could've sworn he was in his mid-80s!
#AusPol

2025-11-07 12:39:05 UTC

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F***ing koels! I had one nesting in a tree next door when I lived in Narrabundah. Started squawking at about 2am and never stopped.
And, yes, they make sulphur-crested cockatoos seem quiet by comparison.

2025-11-04 09:34:35 UTC

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The Liberals aren't an alternative, though.
What we really need is a rump of Labor MLAs with the intelligence and drive to be ministers (which rules out several of the current frontbench) supplemented by the most talented crossbench MLAs.
(I can't help but think of @npub160s…rss9, whose talents are sorely missed!)

2025-11-04 09:16:49 UTC

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Yeah, there's something irritatingly predictable about the timing of anything that's disruptive to Canberra voters: major change and inconvenience in the two and a bit years after the election, then a period of consolidation and return to 'the new normal' in the year and a half before the election.
Rinse.
Repeat,

2025-11-04 08:37:07 UTC

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Yeah, the kind of forced non-apology apology that is about as sincere as ... something that's absolutely insincere. (My imagination fails me.)

2025-10-30 04:23:15 UTC

This morning: had to deal with some HR-related bullshit in order to get health care and support that I need now.
This afternoon: shoving as much junk food into my mouth as possible while rewatching favourite TV shows.
Sadly, a familiar pattern.

2025-05-23 01:34:08 UTC

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I'd be less worried about this project if the company involved wasn't Chinese.
The CCP already has too much reach in Australia. This would only increase it.
Can't we attract investment domestically or from less concerning overseas sources?

2025-05-15 10:11:00 UTC

Experienced my first "taken aside for a more detailed inspection" at Adelaide Airport today.
Not sure what triggered it, though I suspect it may have been my continence pad. (Urinary incontinence secondary to hydrocephalus and benign prostatic hypertrophy FTW! 🙄)
Having to lower my pants for two not-especially-friendly security blokes is not my idea of fun.
A humiliating and unnecessarily degrading process. Do better, Adelaide Airport security!
#YetAnotherTaleOfAirportsUnnecessarilyUpsettingAPersonWithDisability
#AdelaideAirportSecuritySucks

2025-05-13 10:04:40 UTC

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Abu Dhabi airport (Etihad) is far, far worse than Dubai.

2025-05-07 05:38:17 UTC

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A pattern is emerging, isn't it? It seems Price wins the 'standard' booths and Smith the 'non-standard' ones.
It looks like Antony Green has given Bean to Price. I doubt he'd get a call wrong, especially after a surge of two-candidate preferred counts have come in.

2025-05-06 02:54:38 UTC

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Yeah, the federal Liberals are in a similar shambolic state to WA Labor after the Brian Burke scandal.
Who'd want to be the Liberal version of Carmen Lawrence, right?

2025-05-05 20:30:06 UTC

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Perhaps it's one or both of: (a) it's a 'non-classic' contest; or (b) the AEC's pre-election guess of who would be the last two candidates was wrong (I think they call these 'maverick' seats) and so their usual two-candidate preferred measures don't apply, with a subtle "we don't know what the f*** is going on" instead. 🤷‍♂️

2025-05-05 20:24:32 UTC

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Good question!

2025-05-04 00:52:35 UTC

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The counting itself was less therapeutic than I'd hoped but the result has certainly had a positive impact on my mood.

2025-05-03 06:52:55 UTC

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🙋‍♂️
That's a stellar combination of composers.

2025-05-03 05:30:39 UTC

My day so far:
Voted 9/10
Had a panic attack (first full-blown panic attack in almost a decade) 0/10
Correctly self-diagnosed panic attack as panic attack rather than heart attack 3/10
Walked into an Urgent Mental Health Care Centre and now know what it feels like to be a unit of production in the mental health care factory 2/10 (still better than presenting to emergency, which I can confidently predict would not have exceeded 1/10)
After an inauspicious start, successfully performed the role of docile body 3/10
Developed a migraine in the brightly lit clinic 1/10
Made it to the loo just before The Lower GI Distress Fairy arrived 2/10
Finally ended up speaking with a social worker, who organised a referral to a service that might actually provide me with the help I need 9/10
Retreated to darkened room at home with bucket at the ready for impending visit of The Nausea Fairy 2/10
It's been a wild ride - and the counting of votes hasn't even started!

2025-04-28 02:57:42 UTC

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Just received another Trumpet of Patriots SMS so I tried calling Harry Fong's mobile. Went straight to voicemail and I couldn't leave a message because his mailbox is full. (I can't imagine why!)
Then I tried calling his landline. Also went straight to voicemail, but I was able to leave a message (in which I politely asked him to stop sending me SMSs). Not sure what good it will do, though it was mildly cathartic.

2025-04-26 11:32:16 UTC

It is not known what passive voice is. 😉

2025-04-26 10:22:33 UTC

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Here you go. Happy texting/calling!
https://aus.social/@npub1qjq…5pat/114403484230302701

2025-04-26 07:41:51 UTC

I don't know about you, but I just can't stop thinking about Virginia Giuffre.
After everything she endured, she fought and fought and fought for justice.
In the end, it seems, the rich and powerful got what they wanted: she got too tired to keep fighting.
RIP Virginia

2025-04-26 04:02:15 UTC

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One *ahem, another social media site, ahem* I saw someone had posted Harry Fong's mobile and landline numbers and suggested that people might like to contact Harry to let him know how they feel about the ToP SMSs.
Might that provide some kind of cathartic relief?

2025-04-21 10:13:58 UTC

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Looks like we're set for a repeat of the aggro that saw #Vera bumped for a Lizziefest when QEII died.

2025-04-12 05:31:34 UTC

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I couldn't work out why David Bradbury's name was familiar. So I looked him up and was reminded he's a filmmaker.
Any chance the good burghers of Grayndler take a shine to him?

2025-04-10 02:53:13 UTC

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Ugh. Any chance you could fight fire with fire? I've found that playing The Queen Of The Night's two arias from The Magic Flute back to back at high volume can get the message across.
Also, Der Holle Rache sounds like it matches your mood right now. (Understandably so.)

2025-03-24 07:09:13 UTC

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Literal journeys are obviously exempt from my ire.
I'm planning to spend most of July in north Queensland. Perhaps our paths will cross ...

2025-03-24 03:22:24 UTC

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Bonus points (but not too many because it was pretty obvious) if you guessed that I've encountered 'journey' just a few too many times in my recent attempts to get better support for my disabilities.

2025-03-24 03:21:51 UTC

Hey #WordNerds,
You know how 'unprecedented' needed a long spell in a good paddock after being absolutely flogged during the early years of the #COVID19Pandemic? (Reminder: #COVIDisNotOver)
I think the metaphorical use of 'journey' (esp. in health settings) needs a similar chance to recover.
What say you?

2025-03-22 00:21:51 UTC

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An understandable mistake, Mark.
There's plenty of fresh dill in #AusPol right now.

2025-03-21 14:05:06 UTC

#Foodie tooters: if you were making these gluten-free, dairy-free sweet potato polenta cakes for someone for whom coriander tastes like soap, what herb or spice would you swap in for the coriander? #AskingForMe
https://cooktogether.com/recipe-items/sweet-potato-and-polenta-cakes/

2025-03-18 05:01:56 UTC

I love a good #Landline story.
This is #ourABC at its best: a thoroughly-researched and well-edited piece on feral cat eradication on #KangarooIsland from Kerry Staight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJY3fjWzyA

2025-03-12 08:44:35 UTC

If you were equidistant from a KFC and a Red Rooster and couldn't be bothered making your own dinner, which would you choose?
(Yes, this is a "please help me decide what to have for dinner" post. My brain has made enough decisions for today and refuses to make this one.)
#AskingForMe

2025-02-28 05:01:19 UTC

Are there expressions that really annoy you?
I had the misfortune of receiving a phone call from my bête noire at the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation today and, among the other HR/management buzzwords with which her speech was overly salted, she told me:
"I don't have visibility of [the issue about which I'd contacted CSC]".
Why can't people just say "I don't know anything about [X]" instead?
#ExpressionsThatGrindMyGears

2025-02-19 01:51:41 UTC

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All those years in Canberra weren't wasted on me: when speculation about an election being called reaches fever pitch, always check on the G-G's whereabouts! 😉

2025-02-19 01:36:33 UTC

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The G-G is currently in WA, having just toured the HMAS Sydney Memorial in Geraldton, so unless she's back soon I'm not sure Albo will be driving down Dunrossil Dr this weekend.

2025-02-18 20:24:07 UTC

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At this point, I'm even questioning whether the Reps will sit next week and Additional Estimates hearings will happen as scheduled.
The only thing that makes me question my instincts is that there's usually a delay of at least two days between the election being announced and the writs being issued.
I think this weekend is too soon but next weekend is looking ever more likely.

2025-02-18 20:18:27 UTC

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Yeah, I have to agree with you. There is no world in which Albanese hasn't discussed the date of the election with Chalmers.
#AusPol

2025-02-17 07:57:24 UTC

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My mum and you would have such an interesting conversation on this topic!
"The eighth letter of the alphabet" or "The letter between G and I" are alternative ways of identifying the letter without having to violate your ingrained prohibition against the aspirated H.

2025-02-06 02:36:18 UTC

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Well, first I ended up with a cocktail of respiratory infections that could best be described as "everything except COVID". Then I ended up with some particularly nasty lawyers 'investigating' one of my public interest disclosures. But I'm doing a little better now.

2024-11-12 07:45:21 UTC

I've been neglecting Mastodon in favour of the bird site for the last few months. (Insert quote about a dog returning to its vomit here.)
But a dictatorial owner, recent events and a pronounced exodus (mostly for Bluesky, it seems) has me thinking I should refocus my social media time and energy here for a while.
Who and what have I missed?