Heart goes out to Senior English teachers having to pivot to a new novel. What is fucking wrong with people

“People across South and Southeast Asia are living the data,” @harjeet11.bsky.social says it’s time to talk about the legal and moral obligations of polluting countries to act on climate change. My latest for Al Jazeera on the deadly floods across Asia www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Had a great time in Newcastle this week! Now can someone please confirm or deny that Silverchair played the AARE conference when they were a still just a school band?

Happy birthday 4ZZZ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Did anyone else just stumble upon a request to assess in RMS without any email notification? I was submitting a DPEI27 and saw an FT request to assess just hanging there. I would not have known if I wasn't one of the cast of thousands throwing my hat in the ring for DPs @arc-tracker.bsky.social

Imagine being a National Party member? You’ve stuck with Joyce through all his drunken foolishness, his falling asleep as a slobbering mess in the chamber, his drunken ramblings as a slobbering mess on a Canberra street, then he repays your loyalty with a glib “ok fellas, I’m orf”. #AusPol

Enjoying neurospicy Kid 15's monotrope face and commentary more than Stranger Things 🥰

Grug in the sky

This will play during the end credits of the ALP, but the bag will be a very tattered version of the bingo teatowel.

Looking forward to #AARE2025 next week in Newcastle! I'll be talking about how Discord servers have substituted for school-based sexuality and civics education for queer and trans young people - and what that might mean for sex ed and wellbeing on the cusp of a youth social media ban 🥴 🌈🎓

As Qld government school teachers take industrial action again today, I'm impressed by the level of public support. When I was a teacher we were so demonised for going on strike. This is both good news for public education and sobering. Sobering because we're aware of current teaching conditions.

Most vile platform

Some moments of joy in the wild garden #earthlaughsinflowers

Have to spell out White Australia Policy these days thanks to Cardi B

“Do you believe in the right to “choose” a private education?” “Do you believe people’s property investments should be subsidised by taxpayers?”

Every time we remove knowledge from its roots, put it in a classroom, a textbook, an online worksheet or an AI platform, that knowledge becomes more and more statistical, more and more cerebral, more and more artificial. Teachers are tasked with the impossible of ensuring our intelligence is logical

Puppy has reached a milestone

'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday

This makes absolute sense to me considering the oldest chatbots are the oldest profession adjacent. Confession comes hard on those heels

We may be an authoritarian state but Qld really knows how to turn it on. Subtropical lyfe

I started giggling when Kathy was on the misty moors in a red dress.

Today a lady beetle flew in my mouth. I spat it out and it was ok. It tasted like dandilions

We have a cover

The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...

Union reps removed from curriculum authority and replaced by active campaigners AGAINST net-zero. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gave puppy his first chop. Now I know what Christmas looks like through an animal's eyes

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I have continuously grappled with the concept of neoliberalism and the uncritical use of the term that has become an empty signifier. In this blog I have come to a point where I will concede AI is neoliberal adjacent.

Why are the Napoleonic wars not considered world wars? In family history chats and my ancestors were considered naval fighters in the Napoleonic Wars when fighting the Dutch in Indonesia. Way to find out the horrors committed by ancestor ship crews in Timor-Leste as well 🫩

You can choose to opt out of betting* ads on SBS On Demand - help.sbs.com.au/hc/en-au/art... (*Or alcohol or fast food, but only one of the three)

I must say SBS is swamped with gambling ads. It seems weird the national provider would support this industry

I do think this is another dot com bubble but we have to remember that crash produced the BigTech we have today. So it is never proof that AI is going to disappear... we just need to place bets on which one will win. My money is on Google

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Dick Cheney passing on the same day as a Muslim socialist wins NYC is definitely evidence of a higher power.

The oven broke so we're having a play of between pizza in the airfryer vs on in a frypan on the stove. Airfryer wins

Australian outback ❤️

Computers used to be hulking machines the size of entire rooms. After decades of innovation, we’ve managed to make them as large as several cornfields.

Warheads have certainly lost their edge since I last had one.

Whose been nibbling at my house? 🧙‍♀️🎃

Pretty excited to be part of one of these projects. We're working on making public documents more accessible and not just "available online". Did you know Australia used to be great at public document archiving? Since the internet, so much has gone "missing" or deleted.

I finally got a bluetooth adapter for my stereo system. Why did I not do this sooner?

Whose your favourite Caesar? I hope all the kids from the 9 Qld schools are having a well earned sleep tonight.

This really was a massive fvck up but a massive alert to a school system in crisis and exhausted.

I'm on leave. Oh my goodness I've never needed leave more in my life

Late capitalism. My favourite hyper-optimistic phrase.

I love Wendy Brown but I should not read her when I don't want to be angry. Today am writing about teacher influencers. When you add Wendy Brown these teachers are just trying to buffer themselves from economic destruction, but are in the meantime actively reshaping education as we know it.

Hail #BrisbaneStorm

Me thinking of some of the Central Australian landscape artists (Namatjira, Streeton, Roberts, et al.): "Do the colours really look like that?" The landscape:

Watching the OG mean girls teen movie