Saturday 26th of April 2025

Gus Leonisky's blog

life was meant to be easy...

jobkeeper

Millions of dollars have been scooped up in CEO bonuses and paid out in stock dividends by corporations that also claimed the JobKeeper wage subsidy, a Labor MP claims, in a situation described as “disgraceful”.

rising methane, sponsorships and hot air...

PQ mag

The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said.

used to be sweating like a pig... now it's thinking like a pig (nothing new)...

SWINES   With a device surgically implanted into the skull of a pig named Gertrude, Elon Musk demonstrated his startup Neuralink's technology to build a digital link

double-speak in the times of forbidden double-entendre...

victoria

Marise Payne had been Australia's Foreign Minister for just over two months in early November 2018. 

when the weather influenced the course of history...

napoleon   We know that the results of some historical events were greatly influenced by the weather of the day.

'duck!': the problem with Sydney's new ferries...

end

Ten new Sydney ferries will not be able to pass under two bridges on the Parramatta River if commuters are seated on the top deck, the government has confirmed.

more than seven years in the making-ish...

ndis

Advocates are welcoming substantial changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) which they believe will make the system quicker and easier to navigate. 

 

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error...

theatre

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

the thin guy and the fat guy: chasing the windmills of democracy...

doré

In this illustration by Gustave Doré, we can see Don Quijote riding backwards on Sancho’s donkey while Sancho Panza (one guesses it means big belly) is doing the hard yards on foot while pulling the main nag in front…

 

 

Here, Gus’s twisted mind saw an allegory of gigantic modern proportions. 

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