Just flicked on the TV ... 43 to 44 is kind of limp for a grand final.

Wearing bacon lapels - great editorial www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

"A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information." libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...

My latest on the ever-deepening inequity in our school system. You know, the one we hate to talk about. In today’s The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...

An ABC investigation reveals Tylere Baker-Pearce, a former political candidate who has posted a selfie smiling outside Auschwitz, was the man charged with performing a Nazi salute at an AFL game.

University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

A London court throws out a terror-related charge against rapper Mo Chara of Irish group Kneecap for waving a flag of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, banned in Britain as a terrorist organization, during a concert in 2024.

Same. www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild

The country with an OxyContin problem trying to get people off paracetamol is hard to believe

There's nothing like watching a TV news economy report tI remind you that stock market reporters are actually smarter than stock market players. Oh, and the stupider ones are in command of your future wealth.

Two years later: Everyone got off scot-free, no-one has taken responsibility (or been held responsible), Ashley Youth Detention Centre is still open and will be indefinitely, whistleblowers are still unsafe and ignored, and the TAS government is paying hundreds of millions in compensation for csa

Read more from Ketan Joshi about carbon capture and storage sham: australiainstitute.org.au/post/expensi...

From the state and party that have the world Don Dunstan. Smdh.

This is a pretty good overview of Andrew Hastie, even though it trips on the question of why "populist" policies are so unpopular... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One is pretty convinced that three women called Pat, Lorraine and Margaret with an urn & a swear jar could have done a helluva lot better than this.

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

My god I feel like we have been screaming this from the rooftops for years. Why isn't this already government policy? How many more reports and class actions and failed deployments do we need. Do I sound tired? I feel tired.

“Agencies need to be willing to review automated decisions if there is a serious question about a decision”

wheeee SSWs are extremely rare in the Southern Hemisphere, with only two major events documented in the past 60 years — one in 2002 and the other in 2019, and both resulted in some of the most devastating bushfires in Australia's history. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Allow me to share what happens with an almost-imperceptible typo in an order for hundreds of one-foot ethernet cables.

Just after the sun had set, I was driving back to the campground from Dome Rock and thought I could see something on a rocky peak in the very far distance. I quickly popped the 2x extender onto my camera and - lo and behold - a wedge-tailed eagle was tending its chick.

Heh. This is so China. It seems that some vloggers have been banned for espousing the “Lying Flat” philosophy, as opposed to “marriage, childbirth, homebuying, consumption, and relentless hard work and sacrifice”. chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/09/tran...

CHOTINER: So tell me about this secret chord COHEN: it goes like this: the fourth, fifth CHOTINER: but it doesn't seem very secret, you told loads of people about it COHEN: (sweating) ok but it pleased the Lord CHOTINER: does he speak to you often? COHEN: Uhh CHOTINER: It's also not a chord

the threads screenshots of "this user is suspected of being part of antifa" are fake btw

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

I only did a little bit of reporting around Robodebt compared to others, but watching People vs Robodebt reminded me of very frustrating FOI times. www.crikey.com.au/2017/04/04/m...

Important thread:

Then let’s let him get on with it, shall we? 😂

"The decree prohibits all exports to Israel of defense material and dual-use products or technologies, and the import of such equipment to Spain, Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo says at a news conference."

Hastie really is working tirelessly to destroy the Liberal party. And don't we all just love the "Australians are being made to feel like strangers in their own land" angle? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

the “Big Merino snafu” lmao was in 2021. archive.md/2025.09.24-0...

Everyone needs a tribe, a purpose and a voice. I am lucky that activism has let me have all three

“We will track you down and you may end up in prison…” Did Miller write those lines for Tudge?

All I can say about Robodebt is: listen to what @asherwolf.bsky.social says, which has been true for 15 plus years.

I'm challenging the narrative that "A.I." is a multiplier in the hands of experts. I see it being repeated everywhere, but there's no credible evidence. If anything, an expert sees more problems in the output and spends more time fixing them. "It would have been quicker to write it myself".

The consumption of McDonalds started in the 1950’s and has rapidly grown. Narcissists have become increasingly common in the last few decades, especially in the US. Therefore McDonalds causes narcissism It should be banned Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Damn. This thread.

All episodes of 'The People vs. Robodebt' are now available to stream via SBS On Demand, ahead of the TV premiere of the first episode at 7:30pm. Please be aware if you've had a Robodebt or know others who have, it is quite intense. #ThePeopleVSRobodebt www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

..."a country that allows" ... Even that is chilling, and way less freedom than Americans tell themselves they have.

Murdoch's daily tele in Sydney, doing its very best to hamper any action on climate change. Different day, same old crap from the nepo-billionaire crowd.

“Do billionaires even understand the sci-fi they’re inspired by? | The Listening Post | Al Jazeera” (8 Sep) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOz... Tl;dr: No.

One thing so far is clear, it was Women who were the heroes that shutdown Robodebt. The People vs Robodebt #AusPol

I love 'weird' produce from home gardens. It's often 'accidentally' organic from thriving on neglect, and much tastier and interesting than the perfect but bland produce in stores.

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

EJA analysis indicates that approximately 310,000 people were not given the legally correct number of days to re-connect with employment services There were approximately 100,000 payment cancellations until they were paused on 4 September 2024 www.ejaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...

The ABC really just stepped on every rake. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

A Danish clean energy pioneer says Australia is poised for success with offshore wind, but there are lessons it can learn from abroad.

Angry 2GB listener breaks out of talkback queue and addresses UN General Assembly.

Dickhead politicians & cranks given a run up as "quirky" or "contrarian." Decades of reporting of climate change as if there was any real doubt about the science. Coddling anti-vaxxers. Telling people that "doing their own research" is like being the TGA. It all adds up.