2/ TIL : 'Now as Australia’s 31st Prime Minister, his faith in “serving a neighbour for the love of God” in large part can be attributed to his own Christian Brothers education at St Mary’s Cathedral College in Sydney.' web.archive.org/web/20231022...

Plibersek (JUL 2) : 'The [National Redress Scheme]'s operating expenses are met by taxpayers, who also step in as a funder of last resort for compensation payments, so the financial impacts obviously go beyond the victim-survivors themselves.' www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

To disable, open Instagram app, tap your profile then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Scroll down to the Sharing & reuse tab. Here is a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.

I've read a fair few articles today saying USA are bombing Iran because Iran attacked some ships - now if I were a journalist I would provide proof or otherwise of the initial attack. But I haven't seen it at all (yet). If anybody can point me to the proof, I'd appreciate it.

Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

Facebook continues to act like folks are the biggest rubes to ever exist.

“That's despite Meta committing to spending a stunning $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone” Imagine if a single tech bro had a moral compass.

The best time to delete all your Meta accounts was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

Listen to all four episodes of an Australia Institute podcast series exploring why an amnesty is needed for the estimated 7,000 people who have "disengaged" from the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 📖 Read the full piece: https://theaus.in/4p7MCKv

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

MURDER, SHE WROTE SHOWRUNNER: Our new show needs a theme song, it's about a widow who constantly stumbles onto corpses whose murders she has to solve COMPOSER: So you want something heavy & somber to reflect all the death? MSWS: I want—look at me—I want the jauntiest little ditty anyone's ever heard

Why can’t banks and government organisations have email contacts so you can clearly outline what you want, what has happened and what the problem is without having to go through layers of menus & speech recognition that doesn’t understand what you’re saying

The sheer depravity of this — whatever has been or will be done to the statues of Lachlan Macquarie — it will never be enough. From Barry Corr's Surveying the Wild Abyss (2026)

We know they were massacred, died of introduced diseases etc but the idea that millions lived in good health and plenty without burning coal ? Can’t have that.

Terra nullius: fake it til you make it

Unfortunately, we spent all the money we had saved up for creativity on building 30 billion pounds worth of data centres, so difficult decisions had to be made

The useful thing about economics is that it proved, ages ago, if you take away all the activity people do, there's loads of money left over.

I've tried to take a few days off from badgering you all, but apparently today an anonymous donor is doubling every donation under $500.01 - so I feel it is my duty to remind you to reward cancer sufferers for my monumental sacrifice, grog-wise.

a media outlet in the US with some clout needs to run the headline...... Mitch McConnell dead. and then in the words of LBJ ..."make the sonsofbitches deny it"

Israel slaughtered an almost an entire convoy of first responders in occupied Palestine 's Gaza, leaving one survivor, and the response from the so-called 'world community' in the following 13.5 months has been to do nothing. No consequences whatsoever. bsky.app/profile/mler...

"LGBTQIA+ people were the only group for which the government did not accept any recommendations." i love this for us. (Where "us" is "non-het and non-cis people.) Would it help if we identified as gambling and fossil fuel businesses? #lgbtqia #lgbt #australia #auspol

"Ostrovsky’s testimony received substantial mainstream media coverage in Australia, with an ABC report leading with his remarks to the Commission without providing context of his past statements or his pro-Israel advocacy."

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

A pro-Israel lobbyist at the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council - who once said "there are no civilians" in Gaza - testified at the antisemitism Royal Commission last week on online hate speech ... www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...

🤬 #NoFishFarmsInTasmania

the fuck it will

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

In case you missed this Ketan thread.

I don't know why you would pay a podcast company of a podcast you've been on to advise you whether or not to go on more podcasts. You can't guess what their advice is going to be?

I think the Betoota Advocate's podcast company should stop accepting money to tell the Prime Minister to go on podcasts.

AND ANOTHER THING. Why is the prime minister on a podcast. Go to work bitch

Is the Australian Financial Review making up "news" with AI? (Good thing @news.abc.net.au's embracing too, eh? SARCASM font)

🚨🇺🇸 The @hindrajabfoundation.be welcomes reports that Ben-Gvir has canceled his NY visit following legal action by HRF and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Israeli leaders have traveled the world expecting impunity. That expectation is beginning to erode. ➡️ More →https://bit.ly/4pmTunv

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

In the future, and especially on election day, remember the ones in power who have decided that genocide is a necessary part of economic health. Vote accordingly, not often we get such a clear choice these days. (it's not like socialist peaceniks could be worse economically).

Transphobes don't give a damn about fairness to girls & women. They're anti-feminists who literally believe men are just naturally better at... everything.

#OtD 5 Jul 1948 the UK National Health Service (NHS) was founded to provide free universal healthcare. The Labour Party started permitting charges in 1949 and it has been under attack ever since. It's up to us, the working class to defend it stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1053...

We couldn't stop Pret, 'spoons, or Nandos planting their flag here. But we must be vigilant and make sure that there is never a Greggs in the Republic.

Lemme tell ya, seeing a dog licking a baby’s foot and the baby giggling is one of the cleanest hits of serotonin you’ll get

My new goal is to sell 7 copies this month. It's supposed to be disability pride month, so buy a copy if you're uhhhh proud of me for being disabled? Idk, the book is real good; you probably don't need another reason.

💢 BREAKING: Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a water desalination station near the Samer Junction east of Gaza City, according to local reports. The victims were identified as: ➤ Ahmad Yahya al-Batsh ➤ Jawhar al-Bal’awi

🇵🇸 A four-month-old Palestinian infant died Sun. evening after Israeli soldiers blocked his urgent medical transfer at the military checkpoint sealing his village of Deir Ammar, west of Ramallah, according to Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam. Ahmad Ma’rouf Zeid was in critical condition and needed...

🔸 Maher Abdul Latif Younis, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners & a prominent figure in the prisoners movement, has died at 68, 3 & a half years after his release following 40 years in Israeli prison. Palestinian factions said Israel bears responsibility for the deterioration of his...

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

#Ecocide #auspol 👇 www.instagram.com/p/DaOqyYIynt...

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Going with my mum to the supermarket and this meme pops into my head every time. I’m 54.