According to the news, NSW police fatally shot a man during a welfare check. They arrived at 3.30pm, and made entry after 9.30pm. The man attacked officers with a screwdriver, but this only escalated after they entered the property. Does ‘welfare check’ mean something different in NSW? #nswpol

I’ve seen the video. DHS and Trump are lying. It was straight up murder. Utterly, utterly horrifying.

I genuinely suspected that Xai's permissiveness towards requests for sexualised abuse of women (including children of any age) would have been plugged by now in a sort of break-first-then-get-regulated Uber style approach but I think Xai has discovered that they're simply not going to get regulated?

Right now Fascist Twitter enables users to create CSAM, without any meaningful action being taken, & apparently able to convince a whole load of wealthy backers to give it $20bn. Meanwhile, peaceful protest is stifled in NSW. What are we doing? #auspol #nswpol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So, if a group of people were to protest against CSAM being actively enabled by a certain social media app via its human-instructed AI, they won’t be allowed (or, rather, be given ‘Form 1 authorisation’)? #nswpol #auspol

I don't think enough articles are running with the wording "global child sexual abuse magnate Elon Musk".

Curbing free speech because of police cope. Whatevs. TBH though this is hardly surprising from the coppers. What I find more *interesting* is how a government led by the Labor Party, the traditional political representation of the unions, is so at home with this. Times change, am I right? #nswpol

I think they’ll find more than one to be honest.

The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

Not for the first time, I highlight that this is a country that had to fight a Civil War just to agree that slavery is bad, and then spent 100 years trying to pretend otherwise. The idea of it imploding in a relatively short space of time is not exactly a stretch here.

You can claim that the narrative of the Wicker Man remake is basically the same as the original, but it doesn’t change the fact that it was shit. In the same vein, alternative facts are not going to turn up to justify the US attack on Venezuela. Weak. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.

Chris Minns wondering if anyone will think it is too early to ban protests against the US

It’s weird to think that this has come about partly because Americans thought they were going to get cheaper eggs.

Waiting to hear every Western leader - including #auspol PM - defend Venezuela’s right to defend itself (à la Israel with Gaza).

What in the name of holy fuck is this article? It’s a computer program; it does NOTHING without human input. ABC News needs to get its head in gear; this is human-engineered & enabled child sexual abuse. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

I don’t have any insight as to what has actually happened, so take this with as large a pinch of salt as you like, but my warning to Tasmanian Greens party members - conformity is not teamwork, and ego will kill the party if you let it. #politas bit.ly/4pn9ALY

In terms of cognitive amplification, I’ll just read a book thanks. 📖

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

In the USA in 2026 they have already had 133 people shot by a gun. 52 dead by homicide/murder/unintentional shootings. 3 mass shootings. Australia we can learn by this and be thankful we have a nation wishing to take action.

The normalisation of gun use. This is gun culture being actively promoted by the State; it is unsafe and utterly fucking sickening. #nswpol #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I think there is a powerful culture (fascist/far-right) that has a set agenda, working hard to justify CSAM & predatory behaviour. But don’t assume it is too dominant. There’s growing awareness of CSA, & ‘imagine if it was your child in that AI image’ is simple but effective messaging.

Sex offenders & enablers have been trying to rationalise their abuse since ever. It’s likely a sex offender already holds the US Presidency (likely in the criminal sense - it’s already demonstrated on civil law basis). The only real mitigation he has is to normalise, so this is not a stretch.

Reminded of how restaurants used to pay workers less than minimum wage, & top up difference at the end of the week. They would use credit/debit card tips to bolster the pay first, so essentially the staff member didn’t get the tip AND the customer unknowingly paid extra for their meal.

‘Daisies become new target of woke mind-virus hysteria’ Daily Mail headline (maybe) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So I am genuinely curious what it is that compels #auspol politicians to stay on this site. Even more curious about why and how it is allowed to operate in this country while people can apparently use it to create CSAM on a whim.

No, is the short answer (for me at least). Enhanced security need not be overt. As the paramilitary arm of the State, police should be discreet with how they display firearms. We mustn’t normalise a sense that guns are safe, whoever carries them. #auspol #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I have some questions for the company that runs Kik, & the #auspol government, because this isn’t the first time a SM company has been used to traffic CSAM. #politas pulsetasmania.com.au/news/tasmani...

The lesson here is that no system can be left to chance if extremists hold power. The machinations of the far right can’t be tolerated as a temporary diversion or occupational hazard. Their ability to corrupt systems, people and community is universal. #auspol

‘It turned out that several Imperial technicians knew about the vulnerabilities on the Death Star but followed the Imperial axiom that nothing need be “perfectly crafted the way we did it pre-Empire”.’ Could you imagine if these guys had been around when nuclear fission first became a thing?

Supports building a stadium in Tasmania that will cost the taxpayer at least 100x what was raised here. #politas

There is no rational way anyone can be stunned by Trump doing something like this.

If we took every penny every billionaire has, there’d be no billionaires. Like, if we factor in the additional economic costs to society from their actions, their absence would generate greater savings than their wealth alone. There’s no downside to making them extinct. Tax them into oblivion.

Just as with #auspol the biggest threats arising from fascism aren’t just fascists, but those who might otherwise be considered less extreme still willing to emulate them. And the fascists never care about the reason. They just want your conversion. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Merry Christmas from Minister Mark Butler, to all the parents of neurodivergent children that the Labor Government seems to think should outgrow their #autism, with the Parliamentary Thriving Kids inquiry report released just three days before Christmas. #auspol www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

“They already had the uncertainty around their future because of the closure and we’ve lost some experienced staff, which probably added to the situation,” Lost some staff you say? Elaborate. #politas #aydc www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...

A reminder that AI data centres are being proposed for Tasmania. #politas

I also have some questions about this guy on the left, and how much involvement Epstein had with the upper echelons of various religious institutions…

I struggle to fathom how society is so tolerant of an organisation like the Catholic Church & its behaviours, when if it existed in any other sphere it would be thrown to the wolves. Imagine if this were a trade union; the Right would be frothing at the mouth #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

The Tamar Valley Resort in Grindelwald reminds me of the Village in The Prisoner. I keep expecting to see a giant Rover. #tasmania

‘Gun makers are often changing the designs of firearms, which means laws rely on very specific definitions that need to be constantly reviewed.’ A sign of poor regulatory standards are laws that are constantly circumnavigated by the regulated industry. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

An oversized ute parked over two parking spaces. Didn’t even try to manage just parking on one. Seriously, &@%# this hyper-masculine BS.

Just so I understand this right, but peaceful protests are bad, AND we’re paying gun owners to give up firearms that they only have because politicians didn’t strengthen gun laws when they decades to do so? #auspol

"When a man whose son was investigated by ASIO for links to Islamic State extremists is able to enact mass murder with a stockpile of six legal firearms, it is clear Australia's gun laws are not working as intended." My Saturday column is up early > www.canberratimes.com.au/story/913773...

Pretty sure that the ‘unleashed forces in the community not otherwise being contained’ were two guys with legally produced, sold & licensed guns, fuelled by a part toxic masculine/part gun idealising/part fascist/part racist ideology. Banning protests enables those forces, not the opposite. #auspol

No one likes airing their dirty laundry, but the ‘winning’ that is going on now is almost all down to Trump’s unpopularity. There’s very little sign the Democrats are doing anything that cements their position or accounts for (more obvious) errors made. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So, to be clear, what the Coalition and their mates in the press are demanding is to intensify the precise approach that led to this security failure.

There’s gun use, gun ownership & gun culture. Registering the use of a firearm that you don’t have immediate access to (say, stored in a secure, centralised location which you access as needed) is the distinction between the first two being safe & dangerous. Gun culture is always dangerous. #auspol

Carlo Di Falco is right that we shouldn’t be rushing tighter gun laws. The reason we have to is due to decades of pro-gun lobbying & policy sabotage, creating ripe conditions for enabling two men to purchase guns nobody should been able to purchase. #auspol #politas www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...