2026-04-21T10:29:25Z https://yabu.me Amo a Sam amat https://yabu.me/npub1a5n9n4fdjqyfe2l3vr7rzxrw84cutuuqqxl2qtzh0025mnksng6sh4yklr https://mediacdn.aus.social/accounts/avatars/109/306/722/759/049/174/original/0ed9b7b653704f76.jpg https://mediacdn.aus.social/accounts/avatars/109/306/722/759/049/174/original/0ed9b7b653704f76.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9jzrzq80jkss9x33txfpae42vfl6qwaxhxtu0jxvenepqgz6uvsszyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2ddss5n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgrt8j7zk77ctt65z76nxhhtcxus9suw9n2fy6v3h7xn4pyyfvnegjelxur'>nevent1q…lxur</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Droppie, my completely ordinary two years experiment found that there was no possible scenario that made private health insurance a &#39;win&#39;. Even adding a price for &#39;peace of mind&#39; does not balance the book. <br/><br/>Insurance companies employ people to make sure the odds are strongly, permanently, consistently in their favour. Us mug punters? We have neither the information nor the skills to beat them at this game.<br/><br/>(Don&#39;t even get me started on their grasping desire to get their hands on DNA info. Ick.)<br/><br/>They are as immoral as the tobacco, hydrocarbon and gambling companies. Profiting from fear? A filthy business. 2026-04-13T23:26:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszktjqs22rjv6fu3aaxakj7kh3tjfu375x4ssw6wwmdywmnuhsaeszyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr27f0aqw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8m0vtqkghw69mexaf5vylddx7pr8d9p0pahx74nr0d5wr7f6nv2q74803d'>nevent1q…803d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The letter I wrote to my MP just yesterday:<br/><br/>Subject: Moral and ethical objection to the Tax Act encouragement of private health insurance.<br/><br/>Dear &lt;snip&gt;,<br/><br/>Many years ago, we endured the nightmare years of the Howard Government.<br/>In order to funnel money to their rent-seeker friends, they imposed a private health insurance &#39;surcharge&#39; on our taxes.<br/>To add a lie on top of the steal, they called it the &#34;Medicare levy surcharge&#34;<br/>It encourages people to take out private health insurance, a scam product with no possible benefits to the buyer.<br/><br/>I am over-the-moon happy to pay for Medicare, a real insurance product, with real benefits to the buyer (and to everyone else in the community). <br/>More of that please. Raise the Medicare levy by all means.<br/><br/>I have just paid my &#39;surcharge&#39;. I cannot record my moral and ethical objection to private health insurance, and the Government&#39;s active encouragement of it on my tax return, so I am asking you to it on my behalf:<br/>Please, <br/><br/>1. Use parliament to say &#34;private health insurance, turning a profit from people&#39;s fears, is unethical. The cost of private health insurance far exceeds the benefits; both to the individual and to the community&#34;<br/>2. Rename and/or remove this unethical element from the Tax Act<br/>3. Remove government subsidies of private health insurance, and <br/>4. Put all the money into Medicare, where it belongs 2026-04-13T21:49:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0hmkp7qqj25xpuz5nwz8h7374qgjr2fy96dqtm0ma6rq4u7gh36gzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2f4h0xy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqkdtfd0vefz4vqe604hzfwaapgr26unyjmmuzxd8dm42rhd6de0sqj6rjp'>nevent1q…6rjp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I suspect this has something to do with it. My goodness, you can buy the #ALP for cheap. Actually, this may even be BOGOF territory, if the silence of the LNP is any indication.<br/> <img src="https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/116/287/731/210/257/292/original/a415218b6a2b96f1.png"> <br/> 2026-03-25T03:40:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx4gw53t49hccke7xe3hap47nvlz7h06su0ug83grjeqh4gcrcsggzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2j0rw7l &#34;But man, I thought we were done with this prick.<br/><br/>That’s all I wanted to say today.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/aliensideboob/p/the-evangelical-creepshow-returns">https://open.substack.com/pub/aliensideboob/p/the-evangelical-creepshow-returns</a> 2026-01-30T03:21:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst8wusd4vph98k5vuwzq48qda75xd89c8h9d6gfqhplhpszp6llhczyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2exf253 #Macropodstodon<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/115/730/823/121/688/313/original/90ec253d21246c33.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-12-16T19:12:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszaskrgf47d3vqzq8e6s463mcq447eh67aywc4vrznx34vhwul28gzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2cq42yr Oh #arse. <br/><br/>I have double-booked myself for a #Greens meeting and also for the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band fillum.<br/><br/>I buggered up my calendar for last month&#39;s Greens meeting too, so regrettably, no Conway brothers for me.<br/><br/>Poo.<br/><br/>Does anyone want my two #tickets? It is at 1pm, National Film and Sound Archive. (I imagine it is BYO rubber chicken / kazoo)<br/><br/><a href="https://tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Whoopee-Blues-The-Life-and-Times-of-the-Conway-Brothers-Q-A">https://tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Whoopee-Blues-The-Life-and-Times-of-the-Conway-Brothers-Q-A</a><br/><br/>#canberra #NFSA #pureAndAppliedSilliness 2025-12-05T01:13:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvupvwzkwenxzw96dn3jvejpjyzccaqht6dag6erkeug2ndast77gzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2cl4yea In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs90kngl6349pdp5yxhedm3w02xg55qmd6xle7wcfxvc07q5zmhlksw006v8'>nevent1q…06v8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My grandmother&#39;s arthritis medication came in a plastic bottle with a &#39;child&#39;-proof cap that required her to grab forcefully, squeeze and twist. <br/><br/>When people put the &#34;It is more likely a mistake than an intention to harm you&#34; thing to me, I always remember my grandmothers arthritis medication. <br/><br/>The designer of that bottle is old now and I hope hope hope they have an arthritis of their own and have been forced, literally, to take their own medicine.<br/><br/>Still makes me white hot angry. It is fifty years ago now. 2025-12-04T04:18:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrtc2ede70clqg0v7lczqn9vc4jt7fxyqp2rmwsjevh6m9z9zts6gzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr26tsgjz #ev people, I am after something #notACar that can:<br/>Take me the 7km to Bungendore and back with shopping. (There&#39;s 100kmph roads on the way, and no safe verge to retreat to.)<br/>Get me out of my house with the cat and the &#39;go&#39; boxes in the event of a bushfire.<br/>Carry firewood during the winter over a not-great &#34;road&#34;.<br/><br/>Is this a thing that might do those jobs?<br/><br/> I saw a postie riding something very much like it on Friday. Any mastodontists used one?<br/><br/>Gaius Efficient and Sustainable Electric Vehicle Rapide 3<br/><a href="https://www.gaiusauto.com/en/2023/10/26/gaius-electric-vehicle-rapide-3-esg/">https://www.gaiusauto.com/en/2023/10/26/gaius-electric-vehicle-rapide-3-esg/</a> 2025-11-30T05:42:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszxdt04hqus6ukeeqvn8jg07xmwuwaz9jyappw5ga8gksdmmja37szyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr24mugfm Another day, another disappointment.<br/>Deciding not to punitively tax superannuations greater than $3M?<br/><br/>Evidence mounting that it is Albanese personally stepping in to make sure the government does nothing &#39;contentious&#39;. Chalmers, not known for his rabid communism, had his chain yanked. For the heinous crime of? Taxing rich people. Yep. That one.<br/><br/>I will guess that Albanese said: <br/>&#34;It&#39;s dead, Jim. The focus groups smell franking credits wafting around. Remember, the great party elders, Howard and Menzies. They *never* spooked the focus groups.&#34;<br/><br/>#ALP would the last one of you out turn off the light on the hill? Ta.<br/>#auspol<br/>If you want different, vote #Greens 2025-10-13T03:37:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxf4hpgzye98ex20mwu8jya7s9mn9xeeurjpd8277tpqk3pu7ksygzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2zszw87 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2dcmfwkrafvsrm9cpml06q0d9pys4jyqmx7yuaqeldl2g0te5ps8js3c6'>nevent1q…s3c6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Dear Support@spatulacity.com<br/><br/>Regarding your question &#34;Could you go to the depot to pick up the spatulas?&#34;<br/><br/>The spatulas are apparently in #Sydney (according to Random Courier Company, that you employed, I have no relationship with RCC, and they certainly don&#39;t care about my needs very much.) <br/><br/>Please google &#34;Sydney&#34;.<br/>I am in #Bywong. <br/>Please google &#34;Bywong&#34;.<br/>Isn&#39;t it lovely? Just outside our capital.<br/><br/>The trip from Bywong to Sydney and back takes six hours, with the necessary breaks for; micturation, hydrocarbon injection and dealing with the almost inevitable kangaroo death.<br/><br/>No, I will not pick up the spatulas.<br/>Sam 2025-06-17T22:37:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz2dcmfwkrafvsrm9cpml06q0d9pys4jyqmx7yuaqeldl2g0te5pszyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2fgjalk Dear support,<br/>You sent me an automated &#39;Delivery is due today&#39; gumpf from &#34;support@spatulacity&#34;. <br/>Then, when I replied saying &#34;where&#39;s my delivery?&#34;, you said:<br/><br/>&#34;From: Spatula City Support &lt;support@spatulacity.com&gt;<br/>Reply-To: Spatula City Support &lt;support@spatulacity.com&gt;<br/>To: Sam x &lt;sam.x@gmail.com&gt;<br/>...<br/>Subject: [DO NOT REPLY] - How to Contact Us 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️<br/><br/>***This is an AUTOMATED message.***<br/>Hey spatula friend, <br/><br/>We&#39;re so sorry, the email address you&#39;ve responded to is only used =<br/>for outgoing messages. We&#39;d still like to help, though! <br/>To get in touch with our Customer Support Team, &lt;b&gt;please create a new ticket&lt;/b&gt; using our &lt;a href=&#34;<a href="https://heresafuckingchatfuckbot.spatulacity.com&#34;&gt;AI">https://heresafuckingchatfuckbot.spatulacity.com&#34;&gt;AI</a> Assistant.&lt;/a&gt;<br/><br/>It is 2025.<br/>1. Learn about reply-to: and from: fields. They are there for good reasons. Have been there these past TWENTY FIVE YEARS, at the very least.<br/>2. Don&#39;t send mechanised shite from your support email address. No, not &#34;just a bit&#34;, fuck me, can you be any more stupid? NONE. It must be for people, from people. That&#39;s it. No more.<br/>3. Don&#39;t send me a email in reply to say you are not going to reply. Either pony-up and pay the people to handle email, or SHUT DOWN the fucking email channel. How the fuck dare you fucking send me fucking emails, but refuse to read my (much shorter, emojii-free direct and to the fucking point) replies?<br/>4. AI Assistant? <br/>Really? <br/>cunts<br/><br/>#support #email #lateStageCapitalism #rant #reply-to #noreply 2025-06-16T01:04:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz0tpn2n5e5f4uw4seqgkp2e5gxpgmd93knyv0c2vh86lpmvmzg6szyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr20ldrmz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswdpv35xh7s4g3vxq4vpfazdw5k8k8r5uwd4srxh73eck486qs2wgkr8lf4'>nevent1q…8lf4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there was a kanji cp/m or ?mp/m? I am going back too far in my grey squishy memory, but let me try some free association meditation and I&#39;ll get back to you if something floats up.... 2025-03-29T23:51:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspjwak6tarksru0frmc3qtkx5mgpwkm02ufqjz90wwe4lc56tn3vszyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr25phw6d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxslgz32ew3putj5l26fh4f6z2z26788ypftj6yqnyx6zss3xmtgqfnhhz4'>nevent1q…hhz4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>RGB lights are never a good idea. 2024-12-08T21:29:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9vvk0mrlp3hc8mwa8e58usa6jend2k5sv9ccwvfw4kn27jtkpjdqzyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr20c7q8r My mum, who is 83, was called &#34;by a nice man from [the ISP] who told me my bank account had been attacked. It&#39;s OK, he fixed my computer. He told me there&#39;s no need to talk to the bank, he&#39;d stopped the attack&#34;. <br/><br/>Oh mum. That nice man, he wasn&#39;t nice. Not at all. <br/><br/>My mother is now being taken to a physical branch, to see exactly how bad the loss is<br/><br/>I do hope, when they stole her money, that they saw the only deposits are; every fortnight, labelled &#39;old age pension&#39;, and tiny. <br/>I do hope these fuckers have mothers too, and that one day they will have the same conversation with her that I just had with mine.<br/><br/>[It looks like the fuckers spent 4 hours trying to install their windows rootkit on her Chromebook. Maybe those wasted hours protected some other target little old lady by keeping the fuckers busy. A small positive?] 2024-09-27T23:28:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd3kuv4kv0h9qxend90xwzj9yatah9hlsec3e8u7jgu4zmcqf7hfszyrkjvkw49kgq389t79s0cvgcdc7hr30nsqqmagpv2aaa2nww6zdr2zzppff In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrctgjcdfazlz0rtj0n5p60xqe9jz9nkcwp63r3u5es8gd4a5k7lcedcp4g'>nevent1q…cp4g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure it is a problem. I needed an easy way in. I had to scratch the &#39;gah, no more twitter&#39; itch, not analyse the breadth of options.<br/>Once in, and comfortable, then the rest of the fediwhatsit opened up. <br/>I think mastodon.social is an important thing for the same reasons. &#39;Start Here&#39; clearly marked. Then wander off into the hills. 2024-08-31T21:20:46Z