“ @albomp.bsky.social Government has appointed Robyn Denholm, global chair of #Tesla, to lead Australia's review of our research & innovation system, even as Tesla & her other business interests could stand to gain from the policies she's helping to design.” Insane. www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...

I'm sure the famously proactive and infrastructure-minded UK government will get on this immediately, and not just kick the can down the road forever until London becomes Atlantis-on-Thames.

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Levels of bad faith on the right must be really high for Fraser Nelson to break ranks.

You'd like to think TIME Magazine was trolling tRump but likely not. Like other American mainstream media they're falling in line by even putting him on the cover BUT what an insight into the tiny self-centred mind of a dictator, saying the quiet bit out loud! Look how he gets away with it!

The Minister for Everything was all along building his post politics consultancies and wealth while on the surface, pretending to serve the Australian people And who in Australia is completely confident that similar things are not right now happening behind closed doors by our so called "leaders"

Things will keep getting worse until there is large scale disruptive direct action and civil disobedience that doesn't stop until all the criminals in power are out.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. “We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.” That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

It’s worse than you think — the entire architecture of @atproto.com is deliberately designed to make privacy and actual blocking impossible without a hard fork

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

Everything is for sale.

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

Called it months ago. "'Zohran, to me, is more of a progressive capitalist,' Wolf told me, adding that he was convinced by their private interactions that Mamdani understood the importance of the private sector thriving in his New York."

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

Looking at the Supplement, it doesn’t say they tracked what filters were in the central HVAC (MERV13?), or how often they were changed. Only Winter and (highly-collinear) relative humidity had more impact. The error bars in this study are so large (coarse) particle counts are almost not significant!

These kinds of studies & articles are endlessly frustrating. If there was a study that showed that if you gave someone 1/10 of a dose of a vaccine it was not tied to protection, would you conclude that vaccines don't work? No? Then why do it with other things?

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "How can societies effectively balance immediate adaptation needs with long-term sustainability goals in the face of a rapidly evolving climate?" www.sustainability-times.com/climate/they...

No one could have predicted this

January: Elbows up. July: Elbows down. October: Elbows nudge nudge, wink wink.

Until a few years ago, it was a criminal offence in Canada to scare the Queen of England The Carney government's new hate crime proposals have a similar aim—to protect the ruling classes from discomfort and political dissent My latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...

Restore postal banking! Keep door to door delivery! Canada Post is a public service - it's not there to make a profit. Let's see it start serving the public better by supporting @cupwsttp.bsky.social and its proposals @mark-carney.bsky.social

Woof, I'm going through this survey and it's all "AI acceleration" rather than responsible use and growth.

depressing morning reading about all the pretzel logic and out and out lies going into supporting expansion of Canada's oil and gas industry. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

The natural progression for vax and relax + let it rip. Downplaying viruses to be 'mild' and not worth worrying about, makes people complacent. This is the fuck around and find out for living with COVID, a virus known to impact your immune system. FAFO...

UK: "COVID experts list crucial ways to protect yourself as cases continue to rise" COVID hospitalisations in England are up 60% in a month. Experts urge people to get COVID and flu shot if offered and to wear masks in crowded areas such as public transport to help protect themselves and others.

“Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Antibiotic resistance is accelerating.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Great @nickfeik.bsky.social comments here on how some elements of Australian media centres the political messaging on climate and tends to downplay the science (whereas climate and environment reporters do a good job focusing on science, tech, society) 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/how...

Me: (political editor of the Times newspaper) The government has completely changed its justification for this highly dubious and obviously crooked scheme. How will that work out for them? Stay tuned to find out

Govts around the world, no matter which side, are busy jumping over themselves to maintain the wealth and power of the people & things they actually represent. Only when we get money out of politics, will we see any real change towards making life easier for the masses. #Auspol #TaxTheUltraWealthy

Groundbreaking research released today measures the health impacts that Woodside's Scarborough Gas Project will cause. It shows the harm to our health and the health of our environment. We cannot pretend that greenhouse gas emissions from any one fossil fuel project don't count.

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The salmon population of the Wye is in collapse, and Atlantic salmon are now endangered in the UK. Those bringing the court case argue the needs of intensive farming cannot be permitted to outweigh the needs of fish, wildlife + river users. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Malaysia: "COVID or mystery disease? Malaysia shuts schools after nearly 6,000 students infected." "Schools were urged to follow preventive steps like mask use and avoiding large gatherings. Officials haven’t said how many schools have been closed so far." Source: archive.md/1pUKE

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat. Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this. www.afr.com//policy/ener...

It's not "about time". It's too bloody late. They've known all along and they've been lying to us.

the thing that sucks about being a living human is that i will never have the resources to compete with a data center for clean water

If this government is too gutless for some very mild reforms to super for the uber wealthy, there’s no vested interest they won’t cave in to. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/14/j...

This. And this again.

Yep, and the only people who won't be surveilled are the techbros and their criminal networks. Its an overthrow of the system that permanently cements them on top. This cannot stand!

📢 The numbers of high-profile politicians, including the NSW premier and opposition leader have been made available online. 👉 Latest bot: NZ Transport Agency - Auckland & Northland

Colonel Goodhead: If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions. This movie came out in 1943. Good to see the US is keeping up traditions.

Don't worry Admiral Donitz, the defense of Berlin may look tricky, but you got this! Here's some helpful pointers to get you started: 1. Getting those children into the army was a great idea! They're sure to bring some fresh ideas to the table! 2. The issue of white genocide in South Af

And still people wonder why more women don't report sexual assault www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@bylinetimes.bsky.social is highlighting that it exposed Nigel Farage’s anti-abortion grift a year ago. All of us in the West need to be searching out the reporting on how our political/commentariat actors are networking with extremist “Christian” groups from US with 💰💰💰 Motivated by 💴 or ⛪️? #auspol

So, does this mean that those approving these developments could be charged with endangering life?