About
A hall, not a campaign
Can’t Explain collects low-evidence, high-emotion accusations, pins each one to an original source and a Git-timestamped file, and presents them with observational humour. The joke is the gap between the volume of the claim and the thinness of the evidence.
Same family
This site is the noisy sibling of a quieter rule. The Ministry of Doubt asks how you tell conspiracy from failure without becoming programmable. The Australian Election Tracker records who is standing, with sources, as open data. Can’t Explain keeps the same evidence habit and applies it to the claims that arrive already shouting.
- Ministry of Doubt — Suspicion is not proof. Authority is not proof either.
- Election Tracker — Sourced Australian election ledger. Not a forecast.
- Oze Unleashed — Longer essays. Still sourced.
Longer argument belongs on Oze Unleashed. A card here is a claim, a URL, a file, and a caption — not an essay.
Independence
- Not affiliated with, funded by, or directed by any political party, candidate, campaign, lobby group or newsroom.
- No party or target has a right of review before publication.
- Launch is Hanson-heavy because that is where the pattern is loud. The standard is the same for every figure.
- Editorial rules live in the repo: tone, fields, method.
What this is not
- Not a news site. No daily file. No live blog.
- Not a how-to-vote. We do not score parties or tell you where to put a 1.
- Not a comments section. Tips can come in; publication stays human.
- Not complete. Absence from the hall is not a clean bill of health.
Legal
Plain language: disclaimer, privacy, terms, and a FAQ that is allowed to be funny.
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Author
Colin Dixon. Physics, mathematics and IT background. Australian voice. Builds public evidence tools. Published by Oze.