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27/06/2025

Yield Giving

Following her divorce, Mackenzie shared a passage from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life, explaining how it had 'inspired her over the years.'

It read: 'Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book… The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now.

'Something more will arise for later, something better… Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.'

Reflecting on the piece, Mackenzie drew comparisons to her own life and 'impulse to give.'

She wrote: 'No drive has more positive ripple effects than the desire to be of service.

Pieces of trash at the poolside

Posing and losing their cool

Gonna get smashed on this free ride

Twenty bucks saying that’s all

While the world gets bombed

They all play along

While the people long

For a drink of water

And a breath of air…

Submission on regulatory standards bill

21/06/2025 @7.56am

Does this bill enable law making to be more transparent? No- it would appear to have the opposite effect.

We are faced with the concept of legislation to legalise the retrospective regulation of existing laws and regulations and those being brought to parliament, boundaried by a set of principles undefined in terms of human compatibility.

I believe this proposed bill to be unnecessary, in fact obfuscatory to the law making process itself in that it proposes to tie up all laws with an extra layer of bureaucratic tape with a regulatory board unanswerable to any but a minister for it’s own ends.

The language of parliamentary bills is pretty much incomprehensible.

When making a submission, whether it be to local council, one’s member of parliament or the parliamentary website the time available is consistently short. Unless one is a full time lobbyist or secretary to a member it is highly unlikely that a proposed bill can be assimilated by the average human being.

The parliamentary website is simple to navigate, however, the technological interface is mostly incompatible, a phone is not suitable for typing any kind of submission and the mail service is no longer fit for purpose.

In the wake of the myriad publicised and unpublicised technological advances it does seem odd that so many words, paragraphs and obscure concepts be continually applied in the law making process.

Crap

25/06/2025 5pm

https://theconversation.com/is-the-brain-parasite-toxoplasma-manipulating-your-behavior-or-is-your-immune-system-to-blame-116718

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