“Some of the most important events in our lives occur in liminal spaces. In the gap between more significant, named spaces, we make discoveries and experience epiphanies.” Please read this marvellous mediation by @emmadavidson.bsky.social greenagenda.org.au/2025/09/fore...

The concept of trying to implement geoengineering solutions to #climate change is like trying to design a complicated, expensive, unreliable helmet while you're still hitting yourself in the head with a 2x4.

My heart is broken in a million pieces. There’s so much tragedy in the world, but today this is mine. This magnificent creature gave so much love and joy for ten years. My beloved Midnight has left us, after a long illness, curled up at home with me and my daughter. She was the bestest.

🤣🤣🤣 this ChatGPT Edu announcement is approaching the levels of opprobrium @inaturalist.bsky.social achieved when they announced their participation in Google's genAI program they'll get there with a bit more time (though I think people care less about Uni of Oxford...)

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS IT’S FAT BEAR WEEK

Pro tip: You’d get better press if you weren’t a corrupt, racist POS.

“Where are we now with AI?” “Well, we’re eating up the whole world in order to put a few million middle-ranking white collar workers out of work.” “Ah, progress is a wonderful thing!”

AI is literally killing us. @ketanjoshi.co has the scoop, of course. He's found the fine print on why the Climate Council revised down its analysis of what climate targets are "achievable", and they point the finger at AI and data centres... www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/19/d...

This “soft secession” thing is real. The Disintegrated States of America coming soon

It’s time we believed Labor when they tell us they are quite happy to see countless people, not to speak of creatures, die in fires, floods, droughts and storms, so as to enable the fossil fuel industry to keep making profits a while longer. The old world is dead. Time to birth the new.

RIP

Truly, this is such a great piece. I guarantee you probably have no idea just how deeply and profoundly the "AI for good" narrative has become embedded into the superstructure of so many progressive movements - not least the climate movement. Go read @abeba.bsky.social's piece:

So grateful that Simon Copland wrote this excellent takedown. I thought I needed to write one, so was slogging my way through its arrogant, narrow-minded and turgid prose. Enough now. Abundant, one might say.

The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

Great to hear this from the government minister - pity they’re also expanding coal mines and fracking www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Louder for those at the back.

Worth noting the timing: this was released after the North West Shelf and billion-dollar Scarborough project was nicely squared aware, Woodside was given a cosy deal over the rock art, and the Prime Minister has returned from his tour of the Pacific to try and promote regional security partnerships.

Other networks have fired people, including very recently, for saying things that don’t come anywhere close to this level of violence and inhumanity. But this is Fox News. So it’s entirely possible he was told to say it, to test the reaction and continue the normalization of the monstrous.

I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"

Betteridge's law of headlines* strikes again. * Any headline framed as a question can very confidently be answered with the word "No".

Ahh, how good is the mute function?

This is one of the more interesting pieces I’ve read on the Kirk assassination. Meme wars as “politics”… www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Everyone talks about various things being a distraction from the Epstein files, but in a very real sense, everything else is a distraction being dragged in front of us to stop us noticing this.

There’s so much evil in the world right now. So much in your face obvious evil that this unforgivable omnicidal act by Murray Watt and the ALP probably slides below the surface. But the impact of this on countless people and species, and First Nations culture, outweighs much of the rest. Despicable.

A War Memorial that refuses to grapple with the complexity of war, and Australia’s engagements in war, is a very sick institution. Thanks, @gabriellecj.bsky.social for telling this important story.

“Distinguished Professor Bell”? More like EXtinguished Professor Bell, amirite?

Crikey! A bit of a violent over-reaction from Penny. #auspol

Siri, what is jujitsu?

Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors. Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

Prime Minister gets doggy toy from INPEX. INPEX gets Australian gas for free, sold for $50 billion. Cool and normal. @australiainstitute.org.au @markogge.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social

Slightly diminish a book The Origins of Somewhatitarianism

Superb longish thread

The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out. it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.

So I had a long rambly chat with Tom Ballard for the Serious Danger podcast, in which we discussed the rise of the far right, capitalism, the destruction of the state, and the limits of liberalism and electoralism. I also explained that I’m leaving the Green Institute soon… Have a listen:

How utterly humiliating

These are surely the death throes of capitalism I mean, it cannot last Either we get our shit together and replace it quick smart with a grassroots, regenerative, commons economy OR there’ll be guillotines OR technofash dictatorship on the path to extinction I’d prefer the first option

Today we are told that the 🍉 symbol is antisemitic Remember when Musk’s heil was described as clumsy? Nazi salute? Not antisemitic Fruit? Antisemitic The inanity of this would be funny if it weren’t so incredibly dangerous. As a Jew, this devaluing of real antisemitism scares the shit out of me.

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Well said, @greenj.bsky.social

In a speech today, the Prime Minister said Australia had vast, untapped reserves of pretending nothing is wrong. theshovel.com.au/2025/09/04/l...

Brought my beloved baby home from hospital and she got straight into a nice cardboard box. Steeling ourselves for saying goodbye. Can’t bear to think about it too much. Not clear how much longer she will be with us. #FuckCancer

Ben Roberts-Smith is a war criminal And still the only person in prison for these crimes is the man who blew the whistle

Meanwhile, per the linked article, there are 15 executives at University of Melbourne making more than double what they provide(d) to Meanjin each year. I think we all know where the real value for money is (or was) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.

As an activist who helped lead the campaign against Robodebt, I can only think back to the days when legal scholars told us we had no chance of winning in court, and how I thought, fuck it, we’ll keep fighting anyway The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history

Aaaand the Albanese Government has approved its first fossil fuel expansion of the new term. We're all (legitimately) focussed on genocide, while governments like ours are actively pursuing a policy of omnicide. How nice to have a stinking parliamentary majority and use it for ecocide.

Great, at a time of heightened tension between religions, a leading politician decides to play favourites. Separation of church & state PROTECTS religious freedom, for ALL people of faith & this nonsense undermines that freedom. Stunts like this--WITHIN parliament!--are unconscionable. Disgraceful.

So… I’m going to start a newsletter. It’s clearly The Thing To Do. I see that a lot of people are still joining Substack, despite all the bad stuff about it. I’d rather use Ghost, which seems to be far more ethical. Is there any reason not to? Like, does it get blocked? Harder to find? To use?

Remember this one?

Until it became a nazi bar they all regularly said "twitter isn't real life" but now apparently it is