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pharanbrush-log · 3 months
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I wanted to have a post to link to that visually demonstrates why, even you don't plan to use any of the other rulers and features, Lazy Nezumi Pro's smoothing alone is reason enough to get it for Photoshop.
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Here's our baseline. Photoshop without smoothing.
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Now here's a comparison between the smoothing options.
This isn't a paid ad. I just think...
well, LOOK AT IT. "Smoothing". C'mon!
(I want to make a separate post for CSP. CSP's stabilizer is an order of magnitude more sane, but it has some huge weaknesses as you crank the stabilizer higher that requires a few more gifs to really show)
Here's affiliate link: https://lazynezumi.com/?ai=pharan
I *DON'T* get a kickback from the link, but if a lot of you use it, it does help me justify being annoying to them. :p
Lazy Nezumi Pro is an amazing feat of engineering/one-time purchase pen smoothing and rulers plugin application for Windows. It works with all sorts of digital art programs (there's a compatibility list on their site). You get free updates for one year.
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disredspectful · 2 years
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Antony Green called the election: the Liberal/National government is defeated
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twitterexile · 5 months
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radicalgraff · 2 years
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"Representing Corporare Donors"
Corrected Liberal Party bilboard in Launceston, Tasmania
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fagm77 · 2 years
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the beast is demonic in nature
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thesobsister · 4 months
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Two-party systems seem to be the bane of Western democracies even as multiparty systems often get mired in deadlock and uncertainty. Not sure what the answer is beyond knowing of a certainty that an imperial presidency under the orange fuckwit would be worse than COVID.
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Australians Are Really Dumb
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Australians are really dumb if you go by their behaviour over the last 20 years. They have bought the whole anti-union narrative spruiked by conservative politicians like John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and their ilk. These guys demonised and attempted to criminalise unionists and their ALP mates. The whole anti-Bill Shorten campaign painted Bill as some union crook – for which there was no real evidence. Despite this voters bought it hook, line and sinker. Now, we are where we find ourselves with record low wage growth over decades. Unions stripped of power by laws. Labour hire companies ripping off workers. Workers with bugger all rights. Big companies lording it over little workers with no bargaining power.
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Shabby Australians Deserve Qantas
Qantas has finally been pulled up by the High Court of Australia – after the unions took them on and fought their appeal against the wrongful dismissal of 1, 700 baggage handlers during the Covid pandemic. Australians didn’t stand up to Qantas, the Coalition government backed them with billions of tax payer’s money, whilst Virgin went down the gurgler. Australians have become pretty shabby people, sitting back and watching workers being shafted by Corporate Australia and not saying boo.
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Alan Joyce has been an absolute disgrace, as Qantas CEO for years and years. Under his leadership this once great company has become a vampire for shareholders. Sucking the life out of long serving staff and treating its customers like shit. “ "It now stands their actions against these Qantas families as the largest sacking in Australian corporate history that has been found to be illegal," Transport Workers' Union national secretary, Michael Kaine said in the minutes after the landmark verdict was handed down. "These workers have been put through hell. Their families have been put through hell. Their lives have been dislocated, some of them forever … that's the consequence of this illegal decision.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-14/qantas-workers-high-court-illegally-sacked-twu-compensation-bill/102848854)
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Qantas flying off with your money
Joyce Took Australia On A Joy Ride At Our Expense
Australians are only just waking up to the litany of unfair and low life actions taken by the airline’s management and board. Joyce has walked away with $24 million in bonuses, after destroying the culture and reputation of a once mighty business and brand. Australians and Qantas shareholders should hang their heads in shame really. We all sat back and watched the destruction of people’s lives and livelihoods. What for? All for money, of course. We have very few standards of morality left in this nation, especially after a decade of Coalition governments under the guise of liars like Morrison and leering scumbags like Abbott.
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Dirty Deeds Done In Australia Think about Robodebt and the disgraceful and unlawful scheme of these same jokers. Vulnerable people, wrongly accused of owing thousands of dollars, killed themselves. Ponder on the billions of dollars going to companies like PwC and KPMG, who have been taking the Australian people for a very expensive ride. These are Coalition initiatives and trends massaged and mined for every penny possible. Insider mates getting all the plumb jobs and big government contracts without the normal scrutiny that the public service would be under. Opaque transparency in shady town. Stuart Robert and Alan Tudge have scarpered already to avoid taking any responsibility. Marise Payne has likewise ducked out of the building, just in case people are actually held accountable. I would not hold your breath, however. Australia is a white collar crime and corruption Mecca. Only poor and powerless people get prosecuted and go to prison.
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Neoliberal champions who led us where we find ourselves - ripped off by our own economy! Governments Need To Get Back In The Game Of Building Things Will Australians awake from their slumber and pay attention to WTF is going on? Neoliberalism still haunts the halls of power and politics, despite having delivered zero results for the majority of us. The ALP needs to get its head out of its arse and stop playing it safe. The ALP still sucks on the teat of neoliberalist economic beliefs. The housing crisis is a direct result of government neglect in this regard. The market will not take care of everything – that is complete bullshit. Pull your finger out Albo! The housing fund is a cocka-doodle crock of monetary madness. We need governments to get back in the game of building infrastructure – like houses where the working poor can live. It is an emergency and the market is not going to magic up a shit load of social housing.
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Richard Goyder Must Go Goyder must go, as he has been the enabler in the whole Alan Joyce disaster. Qantas has been accused by the ACCC of selling seats to 10, 000 customers, which had already been cancelled. This could cost the airline a fine of $250 million. Australian must get back to holding Corporate Australia accountable for its actions. The LNP anything goes days are over. Australians would be best served to remember who has led this trashing of our standards. John Howard used to boast about making us all shareholders. Well, the vast majority of Australians are not shareholders but we have been screwed by Corporate Australia. High prices and rising inflation have been caused by a profit-price-spiral. Record profits have been announced by Qantas and the banks. The duopolies and oligopolies means that they can set the prices in most markets. The ACCC has failed us in terms of protecting competition. Our governments have been asleep at the wheel or looking the other way on the back of grift and graft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKnazRIEc8 Australians Are Not What They Used To Be Australians are only really arcing up right now because airfares are really expensive. Self-centred shabby Aussies did bugger all when Joyce was sacking airline staff left, right and centre. Neoliberal economics has pervaded the leadership of our nation and gutted things like mateship and social justice. People are just out for what they can get. Scumbags are the new normal downunder. You know unions have done a lot for this country over the journey. Apart from protecting the basic rights of workers, they have been involved in preserving things like our historical buildings, anti-apartheid campaigns against South Africa, fighting for equal pay for Australian women, and getting equal pay for Indigenous workers on cattle stations. “In January 1965 the North Australian Workers’ Union lodged an application with the Arbitration Commission to delete the provision of the award covering workers at cattle stations that prevented Indigenous workers from gaining equal rights. A campaign of public pressure in support of the claim for wage equality was launched across the country. The Cattle Producers Council submitted a series of racist arguments to the Commission, degrading the contribution of Indigenous workers to the industry.  In March 1966 the commission handed down its decision in favour of equal wages – but in a racist insult to Indigenous workers, deferred this equality until December 1968. Indigenous pastoral workers took action, demanding equality immediately. “ - (https://www.actu.org.au/about-the-actu/history-of-australian-unions) If you have ever lived or spent some time in regional Australia you will well know the heightened level of racism in these communities. Not everyone, of course, but far more blatant expressions of racism than in the city are frequently voiced. You have to ask yourself why is Queensland, especially in the regional parts so racist and anti-union? A history of blackbirding – the indented servitude or enslavement of First Nations people – exists there. The current folk are the descendants of such people. The Lutheran German migrants and other European migrants are well known to be anti-union on the basis of their experiences in their old countries. They hand these attitudes down to their progeny for better or worse. Interestingly the polls predict that Queensland and Tasmania will be bastions for the No vote in the October referendum on the voice to parliament for Indigenous Australians. Two states where massacres of First Nations people were prominent in our history. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom. ©WordsForWeb
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nando161mando · 7 months
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Nothing like complaining about how screwed the country is while still voting for the same parties that refuse to do anything about it.
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enchantix-warrior · 9 months
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Woohoo! I’ve finally got the cover done for my Au! Late Night Patrols
Feel free to ask away or guess any of the characters from the cover (two are definitely obvious) and I am hoping to put up the master post for LNP later this weekend with some more details.
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peppers-ghost-posts · 2 years
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Non- Australians, what comes to mind when you read “The Barnaby Army”?
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commonpeople2359 · 2 years
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Download free posters and social media images from the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-9i-rB4kbMzOkZIu8QzHglG39_bVU5zJ
Put them on your socials. Post them to forums. Send them to your friends. 
Print them out and paste them up around your city, neighbourhood, work, universities.
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twitterexile · 5 months
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radicalgraff · 2 years
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Murals in Sydney by Scot Marsh denouncing the Liberal-National government of Australia, the Murdoch media empire and mining magnates Gina Rinehart & Clive Palmer.
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fagm77 · 1 year
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Negative Gearing Needs To Have Limits
Of course, negative gearing needs to have limits imposed upon it, as does the capital gains tax offset. It has only been political expediency, which has maintained these inequitable economic policies for so long in Australia. Yes, there will be howls of protest coming from those benefitting directly and indirectly from these policies. The real estate sector will be up in arms and crying that the sky will fall down upon us all if these changes are made. The aspirational voter (those who see property investment as their pathway to riches) will be dead set against any changes to either negative gearing or the capital gains tax offset. Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels.com
Unaffordable House Prices & Negative Gearing
“As I will explain in more detail later, three main things pushed up demand for housing after 2000: a sharp lift in immigration that increased the number of people needing a place to live; capital gains tax breaks and negative gearing, which represent a $96 billion per year subsidy for buying houses; and federal first home buyer grants, which represent a $1.5 billion direct addition to house prices each year.” - (https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2023/11/the-great-divide/extract) Alan Kohler, in his recent essay on why property prices in Australia are now so unaffordable for many ordinary Australians, summed the situation up pretty well. He puts the changes to the capital gains tax by John Howard back in the 1990’s as the main economic cause for the shift in the value of the average Aussie home from 6 times annual income to around 12 times. Kohler cites the fact that his parents and he himself purchased their family homes at the lower rate and that his kids are now faced with around double that rate in the 21C.   Nothing will change in this regard unless we do something about the economic polices causing it, he concludes. Negative Gearing & Capital Gains Tax Subsidies Think about that figure of $96 billion going missing from the Australian tax revenue on a yearly basis. That money is going into the pockets of wealthy Australians at the expense of those that can least afford it. It is time that we honestly add up all these tax breaks and subsidies that we are providing to some of us and to big corporations. Australia has historically bent over backwards in return for international investment. This has morphed into economic policies which are exceedingly pro-investment. The fact that some sections of society and big business are taking undue advantage of these economic settings has produced a widening divide between the haves and have nots. This gulf is greater than it has ever been in our history as a nation. It is time to reassess these overly generous inducements for investment and to grow up as a country. Mature nations have a greater sense of their own worth. Our politicians have to stop being small men and women when it comes to negotiating resource extraction deals with multinationals. Self esteem does not come naturally for nations and individuals. The daughters and sons of a once convict dumping ground and isolated land at the bottom of the world map may need to work on their sense of self worth and that of their nation. Photo by David Peterson on Pexels.com Our Politicians Are Landlords Money makes many folk feel more secure and amassing lots of it can provide a modicum of greater self-worth, according to some. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why some people are motivated to keep on making more and more money. There are Australians who own hundreds of residential properties and use negative gearing as a key factor in this extreme wealth creation. Most of our politicians own multiple dwellings and earn incomes from rent as landlords. It is said that Peter Dutton is worth some $300 million from property investment and a string of child care centres. The Leader of the Opposition is dead set against any changes to negative gearing or capital gains tax. He is the champion of the aspirational vote in this country. Private wealth vs the public good is the age old battle within most modern economies. Private Wealth vs Public Good The acquisition of private wealth when it comes at the expense of the public good or the common wealth produces unfair and inequitable societies. Australia has to ask itself which road it is going to go down in 2024 and beyond. The Coalition, who had 10 years in federal power, took the country further down the ‘user pays’ neoliberal economic model of governing. The Stage 3 tax cuts were part of a regressive flattening of the tax rates which reward the wealthy at the expense of the working poor. Wealth in Australia is going to the rich at a rapid rate via the concentration of market share in too few corporate hands. The ACCC and the governments behind it have failed to preserve competition and overseen multiple mergers at the expense of consumer power. Big business has had the tacit and overt support of government in its bid to form behemoths in duopolies and oligopolies. Corporations have too much money and legal fire power to be concerned with toothless tigers like ASIC and the ACCC. Australians are too tame and apathetic to do much about what their leaders get up to in boardrooms. I cannot imagine the French in Paris putting up with what we meekly go along with. Stage 3 Tax Cut Amendments Fairer The Albanese federal government amended the stage 3 tax cuts to halve the largesse being afforded the wealthier and share the spoils with poorer working Australians. This managed to wedge the normally virulent Dutton and his LNP party with too many Aussies happy to get a lick of the ice cream. Now, the Greens have arced up and are calling that negative gearing needs to have limits. Perhaps, this may result in something being done about the inequitable economic policies which have seen property prices become unaffordable for many younger Australians. There is a severe rental crisis happening here, also, with a shortage of rental stocks pushing up prices. There will be a stoush over this, with the industry claiming that negative gearing is essential for investors to build more rental houses and flats. Obviously, the state governments have to pull their fingers out and build much more social housing as a matter of some urgency. Australians have a choice, which comes down to the kind of nation they want to live in. Do they want to live in a fairer and more equitable country or is squirrelling away a s***load of private wealth more important? Will this be a dog eat dog society or can they see the value of looking out for their neighbours in a community? I suppose political leadership may be important in which way we go too. https://youtu.be/xiA3Lku-3v0?si=7C5gyI6HdLhHtxQm “The Greens have demanded limits on tax discounts for property investors in exchange for their support for the government's "help-to-buy" housing scheme, which will be debated in parliament this week. The federal government will likely need the support of the Greens to legislate a program that will allow some first-home buyers to pay just a 2 per cent deposit for a home. Under the scheme, the government will cover up to 40 per cent of a home's cost and become a co-owner of the home, with homebuyers able to purchase that stake back at a later date. But the Greens say with income limits and property price caps affecting which buyers and properties are eligible, that scheme will help only 0.2 per cent of eligible buyers each year — and would only further push up house prices.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-12/greens-demand-negative-gearing-help-to-buy-negotiations/103453342) Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom.  ©MidasWord Photo by Nextvoyage on Pexels.com Read the full article
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