We invited @jbau.bsky.social over to cook burgers and he captured my very essence in this photo.

1.5kms to attempt some helth between Xmas and New Years

Oh *now* they believe in services for the public good. I thought that was an evil of socialism?

These clowns are just making up duties and rules and laws. Artists don't have any duty to sing for fascists, and only a fascist would try to force them to.

Italian immigrant communities into America in the early 1900s were subjected to the most appalling degrees of racism and bigotry and it led to the USA actively moving to stop migration from Italy in a series of acts including the Emergency Quota Act (1921) and the restrictive Immigration Act (1924)

This DJ replacing all of Nicki’s verses is truly doing God’s work www.instagram.com/reel/DSnHCSA...

When your friends are in their element and it’s super kind and sweet and lovely 🥹 (Especially when you know their normal debauchery from throughout the year 😛)

Late but very fun Friendsmas collage, photos courtesy of the awesome @jbau.bsky.social

“Restrictions” I mean come on. And who is behind these “restrictions” ABC?

I keep hearing that folk who don't use AI will be at a competitive disadvantage compared to those who do I wonder how long before that flips completely, and there's a big market for people who still have basic creative and research skills

12 years strong (the vet still reckons he’ll outlive me)

Merry merries to you all!

OpenAI marketing: Use our product for answers to everything! OpenAI disclaimers: Don’t trust our product for answers on anything. It’s your fault if our product lied to you!

I don’t understand how people see nationalism as an appropriate response to tragedy. Is this a new thing? I don’t remember people wearing Australian flag capes at Port Arthur memorials? It’s seems gross to me to parade nationalistic symbols when these things should be about the people impacted?

It’s too bad all those Harper’s letter signatories died in that tragic fire or else they would be aghast at the naked censorship executed by the Trump Administration.

What Bari is saying is true of course, but it's horseshit in this case. You don't spike a story after it's been signed off on by legal and standards and screened that many times unless you're covering for someone you work for or with. You're already past the point in the process she's bringing up.

Get on board. The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is a great and important organisation jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

Australia has a major problem with chugging (charity mugging) - major charities who outsource their fundraising to third party commercial fundraisers who target low income and vulnerable people. All they care about is signing up that direct debit, set and forget and locked in for years.

Someone needs to hack and leak it.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I’ve signed 👇

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

A reminder that the illegal actions of a state have nothing to do with a religion or a culture. A state that tries to conflate the two and use a religion and culture as cover for committing crimes is actively harming the people of that religion/culture.

This is a stunning piece of work by Global Witness laying out how Musk's chatbot software actively helps spread climate denial and disinformation. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Incredibly inappropriate piece from the ABC. Effectively saying: - Politician A aligned with the Zionist lobby good. - Politician B not aligned with the Zionist lobby bad. Therefore all Jewish people hate Politician B. It’s like saying the Australian Christian Lobby represents all Christians.

Why are we still calling them “anti-immigration” rallies - we know the clear links to Neo-Nazi groups and Neo-Nazi ideology in these marches. Why the euphemisms? A week out from the antisemitic Bondi attack and we’re not calling a spade a spade.

Whenever an industry publishes “literacy” resources (financial literacy, consumer literacy, etc) - it means they’re avoiding regulation and avoiding designing their product to be safe in the first place. They’re making you the problem instead of their shitty product.

Very cool!

One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.

Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist Full release available at the link in our bio.

"I don’t expect some of the conservative politicians who are making these mistakes to take on any of this advice. They are too far up their own backsides to see the derailed train they are on." www.facebook.com/kosmos.samaras

This from Kos Samaras, with whom I have often disagreed, is very well said: "Crises demand one thing above all else: national cohesion and calm authority. Protect people. Back the agencies. Target those who promote or plan violence, not peaceful communities. Speak like a leader, not a commentator"

Never forget it took less than a day for the right-wing conservative forces in Australia politics and media to turn the Bondi massacre into their own political grandstanding in order to sew division. Contemptible.

In the wake of the Bondi massacre, hate and misinformation is being peddled by far-right influencers, conspiracy theorists - and Israeli politicians www.deepcutnews.com/p/misinforma...

Your reminder that some of the loudest voices this week criticising the Government tried to water down Australia’s hate speech laws.

The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?

Meanwhile First Nations leaders are partnering with Jewish and Muslim leaders to support the victims and call for an end to hateful and racist rhetoric…but of course they get passed over in place of lobby groups and politicians in our media outlets.

Crusted-over politicians are mounting loud comeback campaigns off the massacre and the media are just breezily playing along without prominently and strongly questioning the basic structure of the claims being made in headlines and top paragraphs archive.ph/wip/Mhi5b

Australia's journalist class has basically collectively and immediately decided last weekend's terror attacks were the direct result of anti-genocide protests and the entire political response is now going to be guided towards actions that won't prevent another terror attack

As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.

Sussan Ley out there fostering hate and division. The Liberal Party has not learned one lesson from its election loss. They only now appeal to extremists. Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross. Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.

Meta made $16b from scams in just one year. Meta is cancerous to our society www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Don’t AI generate approximations of religious, cultural or racial groups. Go speak to, see, genuinely connect with and actually include people from those groups if you’re talking about them.

AI generated tribute pictures to Bondi are so incredibly fucking insensitive, inappropriate and draw on the same stereotypes and datasets that actively drive antisemitism. Don’t do it.

Ahmed Al-Ahmed had been very widely named by the time this piece was published. Wonder why his name appears exactly nowhere in the report.

The Sydney killings remind us of the importance of laws against hate. But laws alone won’t defeat hate. Neither will more hate. Building connections with those who are different inoculates society from the poisons of prejudice and violence. tasmaniantimes.com/2025/12/unan...

Help the Red Cross now with blood donations, they are urgently needed for the #Bondi victims. Most critically needed is O type donors. Booking link to donate blood is here: account.donateblood.com.au

Kids can see stuff on most of the platforms without being logged in, just quietly