CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Responsible governance? This isn’t it.

TLDR: not at all.

Signatories to the International Energy Agreement (IEA) have an obligation to maintain fuel supplies to cover 90 days interruption in supply. Australia has 30. It is held by private companies.

See chart in reply, it’s outrageous.

Those who see fossil fuels as essential & normal have cultivated denial about the vulnerabilities of supply. Successive governments have failed to address this.

Talk about lala land.

#AusPol #Governance #AbrogationOfResponsibility

Seven charts that reveal how unprepared Australia was for the fuel crisis

Disruptions to Middle East oil shipments have rippled along the world’s longest supply chain through Asia – and there’s no knowing when the pressure will ease

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Don’t get distracted by the bluster. Renewables are happening.

#AusPol #governance

The fuel crisis shows the energy future has arrived. All Barnaby Joyce and One Nation have to offer is bluster | Adam Morton

It’s worth comparing the One Nation MP’s views with those of an expert – the executive director of the International Energy Agency

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Researching the corporate bullshit generator (it’s a thing).

Findings? People who fall for the corporate bullshit consistently make worse decisions.

Who is surprised? Not me.

For folks who can parse language & think clearly, failure to challenge incoherent pap indicates obedience & a tacit agreement to keep critical & ethical analysis out of the workplace.

For those who don’t see through it (or who doubt their own assessments), compliance gives the comfortable feeling of ‘the smart people know what they’re talking about, if I stay with them I’ll be ok’.

In many workplaces this is a necessary condition for career advancement.

To often it is the case in academia also.

Who benefits perpetuating this crap? Those who wish to manipulate populations via bullshit.

We see you.

#CorporateBullshit #deception #incompetence #control #CriticalThinking #education #powet

Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds

New study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

@dianea

@dulcedemon So unjust. Also so hard to manage the big feels ️‍🩹

@cobalt123 I’m sorry this is happening to you. Heartbreaking & so common. How can our grown up kids learn to be adults if their dad does not behave like one ️‍🩹

@leahmac

(figshare.swinburne.edu.au)

Great article about the kinds of mental load involved, for women, in domestic labour.

Sadly, this is old news.

Twenty years ago I completed a PhD thesis that unpacked & examined these aspects of domestic life.

By interviewing parents & kids separately, asking the same open ended questions - ‘what gets done, who does what, is it fair, & how do you think it should be?’, which I ran through 3 times, first for domestic tasks, then for the work of identifying what needs to be done & making sure it happens, then for noticing how everyone is feeling & keeping every happy in the process - then taking the family as my unit of analysis, I showed that men & kids were unaware of much of the physical & almost all of the intangible work women did in their homes. Boys & men thought everything was fine. Girls did not want to assume, as adults, the domestic servant role they saw their mothers placed in but had no strategies to achieve this beyond ‘I’ll just tell them’.

There was a hierarchy of work in these families in which men’s work & leisure time had highest priority, then kids’ schooling & leisure, then domestic work of all kinds. Womens paid work & leisure was lowest priority of all.

The families that lived without conflict were those in which the hierarchy of work was not disputed. Where women sought to disrupt the hierarchy there was conflict - which became another part of the domestic load she was expected to manage.

My findings showed that contrary to popular narratives of ‘progress’, this dynamic was not likely to change until men as well as women recognise the dynamic & choose to shift it.

This argument was not popular.

Twenty years later, here we are.

I wish I had been wrong.

#DomesticLabour #EmotionWork #MentalLoad #sociology #research #women #mothers

Women carry bulk of the mental load, but men are active in one stage

While research has found mothers do more in all four stages of cognitive labour, there was one stage where men were more active than others.

(www.abc.net.au)