Andrew Loch
@lochutus.bsky.social
Husband/Father. Friend. Geek. Tabletop gamer. Unionist. Vincentian. He/Him.
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Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given
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LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
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Contact your countries politicians demanding they intervene to protect the flotilla.
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
Official Contacts - By Country - Global Movement to Gaza
globalsumudflotilla.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Contact your countries politicians demanding they intervene to protect the flotilla.
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
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WTF is wrong with #ABCAustralia these days? #auspol
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
WTF is wrong with #ABCAustralia these days? #auspol
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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Where’s all the hysterical media coverage on the violent Neo Nazi hate crime against First Nations people at Camp Sovereignty? Gone quiet now. Is that because it’s not at a synagogue?
September 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Where’s all the hysterical media coverage on the violent Neo Nazi hate crime against First Nations people at Camp Sovereignty? Gone quiet now. Is that because it’s not at a synagogue?
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Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
August 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
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NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro is now attempting Qld Premier Campbell Newman's boot camps. There's a whole Qld Auditor-General report on how wrong that went. As Indigenous people keep saying, governments don't listen on the issues. #ntpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
'Boot camps' and early intervention: The NT's plan to prevent youth crime
In the face of growing scrutiny over its punitive crime policies, the Northern Territory government says its early intervention program and "boot camps" are "making a real difference".
www.abc.net.au
September 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro is now attempting Qld Premier Campbell Newman's boot camps. There's a whole Qld Auditor-General report on how wrong that went. As Indigenous people keep saying, governments don't listen on the issues. #ntpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Racism is never the answer
August 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Racism is never the answer
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Give RFK Jr a break*.
He misspoke.
He meant to say “midichlorians”. He watched a medical documentary called “The Phantom Menace”.
*You do not in fact have to do this.
He misspoke.
He meant to say “midichlorians”. He watched a medical documentary called “The Phantom Menace”.
*You do not in fact have to do this.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?
This is an insane person.
This is an insane person.
August 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Give RFK Jr a break*.
He misspoke.
He meant to say “midichlorians”. He watched a medical documentary called “The Phantom Menace”.
*You do not in fact have to do this.
He misspoke.
He meant to say “midichlorians”. He watched a medical documentary called “The Phantom Menace”.
*You do not in fact have to do this.
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“ The Australian tried to ask ministers why people were required to pay to meet with them, before an LNP staffer said “You’re not welcome here” and ordered Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre security officers to remove journalists from the building.”
Ministers defend all-day cash-for-access fundraiser
Taxpayers have paid for senior government staffers to attend an LNP cash-for-access fundraiser, where businesses donated $8800 for 15-minute meetings with Crisafulli government ministers.
www.theaustralian.com.au
August 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
“ The Australian tried to ask ministers why people were required to pay to meet with them, before an LNP staffer said “You’re not welcome here” and ordered Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre security officers to remove journalists from the building.”
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'Leaders' have been ignoring these threats since before I was born
I'm 46 years old
I'm 46 years old
August 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
'Leaders' have been ignoring these threats since before I was born
I'm 46 years old
I'm 46 years old
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On Monday while most of Qld's media were speculating on GST pie & a nonsensical Victorian Yarra River ferry story the real privatisation agenda was being announced by the Qld LNP. Asset sales are back but most Queenslanders won't know about it. #qldpol www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
On Monday while most of Qld's media were speculating on GST pie & a nonsensical Victorian Yarra River ferry story the real privatisation agenda was being announced by the Qld LNP. Asset sales are back but most Queenslanders won't know about it. #qldpol www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
June 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
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1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
June 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
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This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking.
No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated.
Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian."
THIS is why Pride is important.
No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated.
Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian."
THIS is why Pride is important.
June 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking.
No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated.
Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian."
THIS is why Pride is important.
No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated.
Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian."
THIS is why Pride is important.
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Key line in the FWC's decision
June 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Key line in the FWC's decision
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Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor.
He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.
The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.
This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.
The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.
This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
June 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor.
He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.
The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.
This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.
The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.
This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
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Just a reminder that increases in Minimum Wages/Awards have no impact on inflation
June 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Just a reminder that increases in Minimum Wages/Awards have no impact on inflation
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Someone should do this for Australia
May 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Someone should do this for Australia
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I have been told by more than a couple of people that they had something in their eye after reading this, so maybe wear safety goggles as a precaution.
(Just reposting for the Saturday morning readers.)
(Just reposting for the Saturday morning readers.)
Here we go.
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
May 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I have been told by more than a couple of people that they had something in their eye after reading this, so maybe wear safety goggles as a precaution.
(Just reposting for the Saturday morning readers.)
(Just reposting for the Saturday morning readers.)