Francesca Albanese— "The international community is made of 193 states. This is the time to give the USA what it has been looking for—isolation."

Quite a story: "A South Park writer anticipated President Donald Trump would rename the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after himself, so he bought domain names connected to the Trump-Kennedy Center."

"We urge PM Albanese to reconsider this invitation in light of the significant condemnation of the State of Israel in the community and the conclusion by UN Commission of Inquiry that President Herzog has incited the commission of genocide." Please sign and repost. www.change.org/p/reverse-de...

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People must grasp the idea of “media capture.” It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account. It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power. In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.

Little over a month left to submit an abstract to #EuroBioC2026 (eurobioc2026.bioconductor.org/pages/submis...), which will be held in Turku, Finland. Here are a couple of Finnish Christmas traditions that you might not know:

I think my pants are on their last legs

America is at an inflection point. We can't wait 3 more years, we need to stand up now, while there's still something salvageable.

fucking NT beating up on what they themselves admit to be "a handful" of gender diverse kids in the state........ profoundly morally bankrupt, squalid state of affairs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Transphobia, like fascism (very like fascism) is ideological capture. It comes from the top down, from wealthy intellectual spaces: universities, the media, the government. It has to come from the top down because most normal people aren’t spiteful weirdos.

And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... drumroll ... Scott Morrison! Vics get $1k, we pick up Scomo's $461k legal bill although *he knew* @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs are back. #MerryChristmas #auspol michaelwest.com.au/biggest-comp...

Greta Thunberg arrested at a protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Smuggling video produced by reporters in the regime back into the regime to support the dissident faction. It hits hard when you say it like that.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Exciting new paper out! @allanaschooley.bsky.social and Sergey Venev led this project that let to the discovery of two chromosome folding programs: one inherited via mitotic chromosomes and one mitotic inherited through the cytoplasm! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #Neurosky #publichealth Evidence for accumulating neurophysiologic dysfunction in persistent #postCOVID fatigue points to neuroinflammation, altered brain structure & function (particularly in the basal ganglia & frontal regions)

Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

Victoria, you just lost your democracy too. The Labor government will make it illegal to protest against the genocide in Gaza. Any peace protesters will be arrested. Empathy is now criminalised. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

Get on board. The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is a great and important organisation jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

I am both shattered & quietly determined to stand with my Jewish brothers & sisters in this deeply traumatic time. Please join in an attempt to stop the hateful & divisive rhetoric being broadcast at volume by craven opportunists, and which is just compounding the horror and grief being felt.

"[P]arties [to the Rome Statute] face a choice: Continue to capitulate to the bullying of the US, or meet the challenge posed by the sanctions ... Which choice they make will reveal the actual values of the states who as a matter of law are pledged to combat atrocity and impunity."

Sussan Ley is clearly so far out of her depth that she deserves to be sacked by her party, purely for her own good. This is perhaps the most contemptible thing any political leader has ever said in this country. The sooner she f*cks off to obscurity the better for Australia.

Day 21: rhub - Multi-Platform Testing (Thread) Test your package on multiple platforms before CRAN submission. Resources: r-hub.github.io/rhub/ #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025

If you’re booing someone at funeral, you should probably take a look at yourself

‘Trans’ was never just a wedge issue trying to separate the T from the LGB - Billionaire media barons jumped on it as a tool to divide feminists, unions, and those working for EQUALITY. The Times gave a platform to TERFs to create dissent, not because it cares about women!

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

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I protested against genocide then, and I will protest against genocide again. This blaming of the march against genocide, with the anti-semitic terrorist attack in Bondi is appalling, and does a huge disservice to democracy and freedom of speech. It does not make any of us safer.

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

While the USA threatens Venezuela for their oil, by their own admission, I thought I'd post this for no reason at all. unctad.org/news/unreali...

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

There is no place for antisemitism. Terrorism, such as occurred in Bondi, is abhorrent. Peaceful protest is fundamental to democracy & not the cause of terrorism. Banning peaceful protest takes society to a dark(er) place, including passive support for genocide. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

and there will also be lectures and workshops for #MassSpectrometry - based #proteomics and #metabolomics analysis in #rstats with @bioconductor.bsky.social 😎

I am shocked by Premier Minns- trashing democratic freedoms in NSW to appease authoritarian extremists who characterise the March for Humanity as violent. A violent lie to protect genocide.

This is a terrible mistake, borne of laziness and cowardice, and will be one of Anthony Albanese's longest lasting and most destructive legacies. Considering how we teach the Holocaust is one thing; entrenching pro-Israel ideology in our education system is a whole other thing.

Tom Sewell's #nazi gang is assembling in Sydney from January 24--26 & participating in the March for White Australia on #InvasionDay. I reckon several hundred nazis leading a larger contingent of c00kers & flagwits to promote white nationalism is 👎. slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=53822

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It was never about protecting women, it was never about women's sport.

I'm with the Jewish Coalition on this. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/11/jewi...

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And it bears saying again - if you are a Canadian with a gender of ‘X’ on your passport you should NEVER be crossing the US border and please go to the Global Affairs website before you book for advice on other destinations. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

📣 Opportunity for Pre-conference Workshops - EuroBioC2026 EuroBioC2026 will host on-site pre-conference workshops on 1–2 June 2026 in Turku, Finland, ahead of the main conference. If you’re interested in hosting a workshop, submit your interest here by 30 Jan 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/16MR...

And may the name Warren Bebbington be forever associated with the shame of shutting down Meanjin, an 85-year-old literary institution.

⏰Reminder: EuroBioC2026 Call for Abstracts Submissions are open for short talks, posters, and workshops. We encourage you to share your work at EuroBioC2026. 🗓 Deadline: 30 January 2026 👉 Submit your abstract: openreview.net/group?id=bio... #EuroBioC2026 #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.