David Sligar
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David Sligar
@davidsligar.bsky.social
ex Treasury and min adviser, occasional poster on welfare states and egalitarian public finance. Studying psychology for a change of scene.
with no technological progress, all that’s left is marketing and cultivating addictions - the story of a lot of Silicon Valley tbf
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
jessie wtf

it has no substantive improvement, only designed to feed parasocial connections, placating the people mad at losing 4o. but attempts to make it even more of a pseudo-friend with more cross-conversation “context”. terrible
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
its ugh
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I heard he was to lie on the floor of the current House of Representatives
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
this is peripheral to what I intended this thread to be about, but it is part of my general gripe with everything requiring constant updates, even hardware.

(On this topic tho, I fell victim to hx stomp fad and man it’s annoying to use)
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I like it
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
now you buy anything - a guitar pedal! - oh sorry got to plug in to internet to update the “firmware”. lol what happened to just making shit that worked
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
They'll also interview friends and family about whether, in their opinion, you're an item.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Yeah, no matter how much advocacy work my comrades do, the "bludger" rhetoric has done soo much fucking damage 😔
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The partner income test perpetuates domestic violence. Victims of domestic violence without their own source of income cannot easily flee a violent partner because the perpetrators' incomes are counted in Centrelink's income tests even after the relationship is terminated.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Of course, if you're not a wage earner, you could always create a family trust of somesuch to distribute your income across your dependents so you pay fuck all tax. But then you have to vote for the Nats.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Yep, I made a few posts about this on Reddit. Just received a torrent of abuse saying the system isn't the problem, I am (or my partner is). Sick it up.

Amazing what anti welfare propaganda has done to people's brains.
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM