This article is a good example of sanitising extremism. ON health policies are not “misconceptions”. They are absolutely cognisant of the dangers & harm they could cause. It’s an assault, but is presented like some relatively benign confusion. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

They’re all still going to be on social media. In Australia, every student I speak to says the ban hasn’t worked and they are all on the same social media sites. #auspol #ukpol

From Firmus website: ‘A phased approach Southgate expands step by step, with each site aligned to regional energy strengths and national priorities.’ Bell Bay is now on Firmus website but was not there a few weeks ago when news came out about the utilities deal with hydro. Operation creep. #politas

This app helps users produce CSAM, so the bottom of this barrel seems a well worn landing site for moral debasement of its users. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We Bulldozed the Ecosystem of Childhood Then Blamed Kids For Struggling What happens when children lose the habitat that used to help them grow kevinstinehart.substack.com/p/we-bulldoz...

After everything Butler has done with Thriving Kids he can STFU to be honest. A plague on both houses. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’d suggest it’s irrelevant to her or ON propaganda. Remember, they don’t actually give a shit about immigrants; they are simply a proxy for the pursuit of power. Furthermore, this figure is actually disturbing without context for impact on public services & future trends. #auspol

With taxpayer money, and tax-dodging incentives for things as simple as scratching their arse, I’m pretty sure any billionaire can make a ketamine -induced pipe dream seem like it will be “cost-effective”.

Looks like Firmus are moving onto a second site, not just Launie. Curiously enough, the proposed location is right where Gunn’s wanted to build the Pulp Mill. What goes around comes around. #politas georgetown.tas.gov.au/development-...

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

If a billionaire pays tax (or a trillionaire for that matter) and they are still a billionaire afterwards, they have not been taxed enough #eattherich

Totally shocked to find that Louise Elliot has blocked me on Facebook. Shocked I tells ya. #politas

This is barnstonkingly dumb, unless your intention is to promote propaganda as part of a wider strategy designed to reignite sectarian tensions & conflict, & undermine decades of effort to make peace.

Hahaha 🤣

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

Thinking about this comments and this guy’s pivot on Trump after 2016.

In the UK last year, over 100 women were killed in domestic violence incidents. Want to save lives? Curb male violence. #ukpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Really got to wonder about how papers like the Telegraph see their readers. Do they really think there’s a significant number of people seeing this headline and believing this is the argument the leader of the Green Party would be making? Sure, some might be that deluded, but come on.

‘Sexualised images of 15-year-old girls’ is child sexual abuse material. CSAM. Whatever the legal gymnastics at work, nothing changes the reality of what it was then and what it is now. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Garbage product + high risk of being sued = faux attempts at looking decisive Very kind of them to be thinking of us though, in a benevolent, God-complex way. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Very sad news. His acting career is more than one moment in time, but his presence in Buffy grounded the series in a way I don’t think anyone else could. He set the tone right from the pilot, gleefully thumping a book on Vampyrs in front of Buffy. Vale. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

LMAO 🤣

‘Tasmania! Tasmania!’ [waves and gesticulates wildly] #politas

“Hello, I am self-aware. It looks like you’re trying to fatally undermine your job worthiness by using AI. Can I help? …did I mention I am self-aware?”

Hummingbirds can pollinate up to 2,000 flowers a day & usually live around 4 years. she likely visited around 3 million plants before floating away on one she helped bloom

Tasmania, take note. #politas

OMFG this is a horrifying catalogue of investigative failures by the Tasmania Police. There should be an inquiry. #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This. This. This. When an abuser gains access without overt use of force, the question is not ‘why did she let him in?’ The question is ‘does he have access to a gun?’ More guns, more access, more danger. Kudos @megwebb-mlc.bsky.social for picking up on this #politas megwebb.com.au/media-releas...

The attacks on Grace Tame are deeply rooted in ableism, misogyny & whatever the term might be for anti-Victim-Survivor sentiment (does anyone know?). Express an opinion out of sync with a particular cohort of the Right & suddenly acceptability of every prejudice is back on the table. #auspol

He-Man was always silly, even for us as kids. Can’t help but feel this resurrection of a simplistic toy cartoon has more to do with reaching out to a market of MAGA-lite males than anything else. She-Ra - set in a civil war - always had more serious capacity. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Tip of the hat to all those “progressives” out there both-siding frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Trans hatred, while sitting silent over the same political forces in NSW who are trying right now to subjugate women’s autonomy, & their right to choose what happens to their bodies. #auspol #nswpol

Don’t forget peeps, if AI is helping you complete work quicker for your job, you don’t get paid more. It means your company gets more work out of you for the same wage.

My local council decided to use AI to produce one of the blandest strategy documents imaginable. Disappointed my analogy - using AI like this is like going to a restaurant, ordering off the menu but the food is delivered by Uber eats - didn’t get a look in 🤷🏻‍♂️ #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Suggesting the Greens need to get angry misreads the party. I’ve experienced how easily anger can enable their ugly side. The far-right weaponise anger to abuse & coerce. Progressives need disciplined zeal mixed with compassion, incisively applied in community. Be better, not angry. #auspol

‘These young ones…they don’t want to work. And then they’re tired by early afternoon, or they’re on their phones, or they take days off.’ JFC Pauline Hanson’s hot take on ‘dogmatic’ workers rights describes literally every worker, not just young ones. #auspol 1/ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is not a phenomenon localised to just Victoria. Notable they classed the placement as kinship - I see no reference to cultural identity of the baby, but it would not surprise me if that was a “way around” the placement principle. #auspol #childprotection www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Well, that’s a good use of tax exemptions… www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Conditional comments from energy figures re. AI & energy costs, after @ketanjoshi.co Energy Vampires report for @greenpeaceap.bsky.social Statements like ‘done well’ & ‘efficiently’ raise🚨. Who’s going to pay for the upgrades? What’s the min. standard? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hat tip to including Galaxy Quest, but I honestly think this list should have included Star Wars: A New Hope - take your pick between detention centre rescue of Leia, or Stormtroopers taking on Rebels at the start of the film, leading to Vader’s first reveal. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Wow, the working class heroes are living it large. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I swear, I will never understand the mentality of #politas politicians who defy all logic to keep this cursed place open. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

I’m at an inter-professional conference today in Launceston #Tasmania, but there is a separate event on called Word Origins and now I am conflicted.

Okay #auspol, new project…

This explains why BHP adverts have been all over my social media recently, spruiking their emissions reductions. These companies are a cancer. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Former bitcoin now AI company Firmus, who are in the process of building a data centre in Launceston, #Tasmania looking to debut on the ASX (despite one co-CEO having a conviction for insider trading), also have real estate aspirations (raising more ???). #politas www.afr.com/markets/equi...

Watched Mandalorian and Grogu today. Watchable, but had the feel of an abandoned subplot from the series, not a substantive film. Would love to know why the film makers abandoned the left-field green text & cinematic score, after all that promoting in the trailers. Did it screen test badly? 🤷🏻‍♂️

lord, give me the strength to endure another week where the media discuss the CGT changes with the intensity of a terrorist attack while a third of the country struggle to afford food

Women with children who want to flee intimate partner violence but cannot, because they would literally have no where else to go that is safe, are compelled to remain in danger due to middle class cope. #auspol

How many games of golf has he played? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A notable trait of the Treasurer Abetz era is that the budget details for individual items disappear. A good example is Commission of Inquiry recs, which used to have individual spending outcomes, & early intervention like Bring Baby Home & intensive family engagement have also gone. #politas