This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service

Can we just have a media moratorium on mentioning the orange one? One week would be good, but even one day would make us saner (including T adjacent stories)

here’s the thread; it’s going to be great!

Ah man, as a wean he was the first umpire I knew by name. Helluva knock at 92; I guess somebody finally gave him out LBW?

I’m fascinated by the arrogance of thinking you know when the Rapture is coming. Anyway: youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

dear train stations, what is preventing you from looking like this?

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Here she comes!

From a lecturer whose seminars get high attendance & excellent evals: let’s stop infantalising students! They are there to learn & engage with serious content, not be entertained! The lectures I remember as a student were ones that got me thinking and excited to read, research and learn more…

It’s Tuesday, no Rapture in sight (although I haven’t checked on Kiribati).

✨️Restructures!✨️

Just encountered a fake captcha on a site so uh, watch out, if you "fail" a captcha and it tells you to press windows plus r and then ctrl plus v that's some shady shit that's gonna run something on your computer so don't do that. Be aware that's a thing that exists to try and trick you.

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

#Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, should have assumed a leadership role in the region. However, under President Prabowo Subianto’s leadership, its policies and agreements with the United States and China lack of direction, impacting the #ASEAN as a whole. bit.ly/3Iv7H0k

This is terrible news. 😞 #AusPol #MultipleSclerosis #NotForProfit

Flinders University has abolished the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Another destructive restructure is about to happen.

Look we don't need so much coverage of America full stop. It's hardly as if their toxic politics isn't being shoved at us from ever other direction. We hear just about zero from what's been happening in Thailand, The Phillipines and Indonesia recently. If foreign news, make it regional!

If you donate to Donald’s vanity construction project, then you, a private donor, may have your name etched into the stone of the new White House ballroom! So far, Google, tobacco company R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin have all donated. trib.al/5crQbwg

Hong Kong police have defused a 450kg World War II-era bomb discovered at a construction site, prompting the evacuation of more than 2,800 residents. Authorities said the device was still ‘fully functional’ and could have caused mass casualties if mishandled.

I am a bit baffled as to why this is even a question or a priority?? Kind of feels like being so profoundly off track for 82% by 2030 is the significantly more pressing issue? Or like - there's no target of any kind for winding down coal and gas exports? What is going on here

Dutch far-right: where is Antifa now?

Extreem-rechtse demonstranten in Den Haag roepen “waar is Antifa nou” (video via Telegram)

Yes. This is not news to scientists. We only needed basic genetic sequencing and analysis to discover that. That’s why there is no biological basis to race per we

It's important to understand that these are not mere bugs. LLMs are designed to impersonate intelligence, not to be intelligent.

I wish the Global North would look at #Myanmar less as an exemple of deterrence, than with the understanding that “we” are also responsible for Myanmar citizens’ suffering: we watch and we let it happen and then it’s politics as usual. But it shouldn’t be. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

Not a Joke. Oklahoma. This is sometimes a contradiction.

Couldn't agree more with the quote from Shorten below. But then you read the piece and there's just nothing but the vapid consultancy speak - modularity, agility, stackabilty - that prevents universities from allocating resources in a sensible way in the first place.

"The road... is filled with people fleeing unpredictable falling bombs, the continuous attacks on their homes, public facilities and shelters." Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud describes the grim situation as Israel pushes deeper into Gaza City and forcibly displaces Palestinians.

'The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.' Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle - by Max Bearak #oceans www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c....

Yes! I just spoke to a librarian and they are spending time trying to find fake citations - they are being given pages of fake references to find via inter-library loan Again, digital asbestos - quick to produce, but so much cost and labour to clean-up.

Australia and its climate targets - a dismal history (1988-2025) allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/20/a...

Dear Americans, please stop sending your complaints about the axing of Jimmy Kimmel to ABC Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

half a trillion dollars incinerated on a product we only use because it is unavoidable. Watch as techbros lean harder on “education” - exploiting children and young people - to monetise their slopaganda machines. Like big tobacco, or religion. And rapists. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation (how do we stop this disinformation) when you should really ask a second (how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)

AT A GLANCE: The cabinet of new Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul was endorsed by the King today, with a mix of familiar faces that were ministers before but also many technocrats tasked to steer an interim minority govt for 4 months before snap elections are called next year.

That's a Labour government minister berating university students and staff by saying that 'too often people go to university to "explore research and knowledge"'. I'm very glad of our students who study history to explore research and knowledge.

The next part in my series on the hideous mess in Australian universities. I'm in despair. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...

At least 679 titles blacklisted, from books on human rights and women’s rights to Western political thought.

English version

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social Rebecca Kenneison's 'The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence', reviewed by Augustine Meaher @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The fact is we have probably $150bn in the last 9 months put into data centers for demand that is almost entirely imaginary, with zero chance of exit liquidity the SECOND that one tries to sell, or a tenant drops out because their company.

The problem is that this isn't true. It's what people with money & power & a real lust for antidemocratic censorship want you to believe about a few annoying youngsters and some slightly over-sensitive HR policies. Nobody on the right was ever actually "cancelled" in the way they claim.

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

Hunting is not the only factor making survival difficult for the slow lorises; the constant loss of habitat is also taking its toll. Java’s population of 145 million people means it has one of the highest population densities in the world. www.fairplanet.org/story/the-co...

This is very grim reading.

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

Anti-science is not an accident of modern times but is organized & deliberate, driving the climate crisis & diseases. Such a big part of the COVID-19 story for example. Not a surprise but powerfully put in this OpEd by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social - pls read their book!

Australia's going to release its 2035 target today....here's my prediction. Going off remarks, rumours and murmurings it might end up with a much lower actual target (in the low 60s), with an even more egregious aesthetic 'range' to make it sound more ambitious