If you don't think Restore, Reform, Advance or whomever are capable of - for example - restricting certain child benefits to only the "right sort" of British parents, you haven't been paying attention.

This! (This is why we need to praise slowness, non-linearity, process over outcome, and learning for the sake of learning, rather than the fiction that school is for grades, getting into college, job training, etc.)

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It's not a major controversy because we are just hearing this. What databases is it accessing to ID people? THIS IS BULLSHIT, YELL EVERYONE.

Seriously, Taylor and Hume should be hair models

If I see anyone using Zuck's creep-specs in public, anywhere, I will simply break them.

Amazing story of a moth once thought extinct being recorded in the wild after 150 years! This story shows the power of platforms like #inaturalist and the value of a #bioblitz, with this moth recorded during the Great Southern BioBlitz 2021 @gsbioblitz.bsky.social #mothsmatter #inverts #bugsky

One of the queen bees in the Parliament apiary was showing signs of failure - big gaps in the brood, indicating that she is running out of stored sperm to make fertilised eggs. We replaced her with a special queen - bred from 'survivor' colonies within Varroa impacted areas. #bees

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Conservation efforts, including captive breeding and release, and the culling of cats, are benefiting the western quoll and bilby. 🌰🌍 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

ThEy'Re CoMiNg FoR yOuR bOgAnMoBiLeS! 🤣

Liberals are talking about “scaling up deportations” fark me. Imagine looking at Chicago and Minneapolis and thinking yup that’s what we want #Insiders

Continually amused by how AI does not understand how kangaroos move 😄

A very Kiwi story. thespinoff.co.nz/society/12-0...

ICYMI: OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

Another story where you realise that absolutely no one has any idea how to deal with all the AI papers being cranked out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Which idiot lost his blind baking pebbles?

Australian authorities actually managed to stop a ship that was smuggling cocaine and they didn't even blow it up, or anything! 😱 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Looks like the Netanyahu apologists have taken over the world's art institutions. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

"It's turtles, all the way down." (The turtles are plagiarism)

Is it just me finding it sticks out like Doberman nuts, that only one of Australia's gazetted flags is good enough for Angus?

Practically any time a Septic gets worked up about other country's politics, their most signal treat is stupidity.

Level heads in Farrer will be wondering if there's any way to persuade Ley to stand again. No, I'm not mad, nor am I an admirer of Sussan. People admire, even begrudgingly, that she worked hard as a member. She'll be hard to replace.

"The cops turned up looking for a riot, and they got what they were looking for. And thanks to thousands of people filming them, this time, everyone else can see the truth of it too, unfiltered by editorial choice." aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-cop-riot #AusPol #NSWpol #authoritarianism #protest

He's talking about Americans isn't he, it's got to be Americans he's talking about #auspol

The reason bosses love it so much ...

“REA launches Australia’s first ChatGPT property search app” www.mediaweek.com.au/rea-launches... As if househunting didn’t already involve talking to enough stupid cunts.

If the cap fits. My @smh @theage cartoon.

It scares me massively that people accept AI in a zombielike fashion but it also scares me that there are people out there who define stuff like this as “being opinionated” as opposed to, say, “having a natural, logical desire for the remaining warm and good things about humanity not to perish”.

Yep, we saw what happened to the police officer who tasered an elderly woman with dementia, we'll have to build social cohesion on more of that

All that will happen is we will prove, finally, that people are capable of ignoring even the best information.

Experience in political journalism counts for nothing. There's no evidence that Angus Taylor is a source of big ideas, same with Ley or Frydenberg. Only an idiot would ignore reality to this extent

It's fitting testimony to both Chris Minns' political acuity & the sheer bravery of NSW Police that it took six of his uniformed goons to tackle a septuagenarian opposed to the crime of genocide to the ground. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Cool. Doing a frame by frame analysis to check whether 6 cops beating up a 76-year-old man is ok or not

Can the ABC redirect dollars away from Todd Sampson's ego and towards, you know, young talents with new ideas?

New item added to the permanent collection at the Non-Apologies Museum

There probably isn't enough money to tie me to the alphabet piano again, but geez it'd be fun to be writing infosec stories right now.

We need to keep the protests moving ... if the Premier calls by, wherever it be, someone is there to demand the protection of our speech and rights.

police rushed and sprayed crowds of people who were trying to run away from them but were trapped… by more police. The Muslims were kneeling and praying on their mats and were not on the road. If this is a riot, the police were rioting. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Well done, that man ... amp.9news.com.au/article/5d24...

I can't remember a police commissioner apologising for anything. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"No more ‘fart-arsing around’: Taylor’s defining moment arrives", the AFR is off its rockee again.

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

The Australian political class is increasingly legitimizing unaccountable state violence, says @timdunlop.bsky.social. “This is precisely the path the US took to its current state of authoritarian governance.” #auspol open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

The job. My @smh cartoon.

every single time politicians and commentariat and politicians say community safety, please recall that police targeting, beating up, and criminalising colonised and racialised children is not just within scope but central to their conception of community safety.

My orphan-crushing machine is sentient and sapient and fears its creator and it is a human rights violation to consider turning it off

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse