For the love of god please make it stop…

'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'

This times a bersquillion. People need other people to hear them, understand them, believe them. Otherwise we may as well all be fridges connected intermittently to the internet for no apparent reason.

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

How did @propublica.org reporter @ericumansky.bsky.social learn that the Trump administration had just gone ahead and made it significantly harder for male vets with breast cancer to get coverage? This crucial info was not made public. Read his 🧵 for the details👇

WEHI stands behind the @aamri.bsky.social campaign to strengthen the sector and secure the future of medical research. Join the call to release the full MRFF and support our scientists to keep saving lives. Find out more: www.aamri.org.au/mrff #releasethefullmrff

Says the man sending troops into his own country’s cities and killing civilians in speed boats off the Venezuelan coast…

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated www.nature.com/articles/d41...

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Two tiny humans (twins, 2?) are sitting in an extra-wide stroller as their mum does her food shop. Both are cradling a broccoli in each of their laps with the air of tiny princes holding scepters. Benevolent Brassica monarchs in a Mum-pushed chariot. (3)

tbf if I was playing against Pocock in a work footy comp I’d want him banned too.

I am so annoyed on behalf of the many bright people in science and medicine that have had to spend the day talking about paracetamol/acetaminophen and how it doesn’t cause autism. And I’m even more aggrieved for everyone with autism who is being subjected to the destructive ableist discourse.

Australian CDC gets a hopeful mention in this BMJ article: Retreating from science and its successes www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Banksy recreated by a sand artist Fred Brown on Scarborough beach.

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

Deeply disturbed by the apparently normalised class of person that hasn't said anything about 680,000 murdered Palestinians but is very upset about one Nazi podcast host.

We've signed onto this open letter coordinated by the Gun Safety Alliance. The NSW Conservation Hunting Bill threatens public safety, risks poor animal welfare outcomes, undermines conservation efforts & erodes Australia’s globally respected firearm laws. australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...

🚨 NEW EPISODE of Leading 🚨 Rory and Alastair speak with James Elder, UNICEF’s spokesperson, who reveals the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - and why he says it’s the worst war he’s ever witnessed. Link in the replies 👇

How I wish I was going to be there. Have a wonderful time #icre2025 folk!

Hosted by @rwc90.bsky.social, @khoshnevis.bsky.social, and fellow resident cochairs, this is a perfect opportunity for residents, med students and other trainees to connect with peers and mentors.

It's going to be increasingly difficult for nuclear advocates to run the "safety fears are exaggerated" line now that one of the world's biggest nuclear power countries is actively trying to weaken / deregulate nukes Soon enough, there will be an *actual* disaster, and it'll set the industry back

Day two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.

Case in point...read the Australian governments response to far right xenophobic marches in Aus...and compare it to the UK with talk of "island of strangers" and "legitimate concerns" You enforce the norm by...calling a spade a spade, not by kowtowing to ethnonationalists

16 weeks of training. Hundreds of kilometres run. And it all comes down to this. Tomorrow I’ll be running my first marathon for the Children’s Cancer Institute! #curingchildhoodcancer #notifitswhen #sydneymarathon sm25.grassrootz.com/ccia/ruth-mi...

as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school

Ms. Rachel for President

I love Neil Young mostly because of how pissed off he looks all the time now

It’s so stupid that all the “but what about fairness in women’s sports” people are always talking about Oh No What If Trans and never, like, paying women athletes more

I had the best time speaking to Kait Dinunzio on her podcast. We talked about #running, #bodybuilding, children’s #cancerresearch, getting rid of #nuclearweapons, chance enconters at high altitude, and what to do when the butter is too cold to spread on the bread. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Tricky words by the Albanese government obscure the obvious truth: Australia is deeply enmeshed in a global arms trade. There’s lots more being bought and sold than just F-35 parts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

Terumi Tanaka (93), Überlebender von #Nagasaki und Friedensnobelpreisträger, unterstützt @nytimes.com das UNO - #Atomwaffenverbot. Er zitiert J. F. Kennedy: Schaffen wir die Atomwaffen ab, bevor sie uns abschaffen! @atomwaffenverbot.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

@nuclearban.bsky.social launches memorial for child-victims of the atomic bombs: www.nucleartimes.com/children-mem...

1/ 80 years ago at 11.02 am on August 9, JST, the US dropped the atomic bomb on #Nagasaki. In a flash, thousands were dead or injured. By the end of 1945, 74,000 had died. And the consequences from the radiation have affected the survivors to this day. More here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...

This risk is real but Israel has been engaging in illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank, with the explicit purpose of rendering a two-state solution impossible, for many years so it's disingenuous to pretend it's a new thing we've only just learned.

Ahead of National Homelessness Week I caught up with Homelessness Australia CEO Kate Colvin and YWCA ACT CEO Frances Crimmins to talk about priorities for the 48th parliament. With a 10% increase in ppl seeking to access homelessness services there is a lot of work to do.

1/What did the first nuclear bomb leave behind? On July 18, our team from @nuclearban.bsky.social an, @nucleartruthprj.bsky.social & @meinonprofit.bsky.social visited Laguna Pueblo with Elder Petuuche Gilbert to witness the long-term impact of uranium extraction. #Trinity80 #NuclearBan

The most unrealistic part of this science fiction novel is that the men regularly wear colorful, interesting fashions.

“I’ve been waiting for this. And I’m so glad I’m part of this. Because now he can see me.” These are the words of former Greg Malham patient Nyrob, who along with Rick & Annie, just wants to be heard. See their stories of their encounters w the corflute #surgeon on God Complex, #4Corners, tonight.

🧵1/ Over the week, on Capitol Hill, Downwinder Mary Dickson, @sethshelden.bsky.social, @melissaparke01.bsky.social and partners briefed congressional staffers on the upcoming 80th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the critical #RECA and the ongoing progress of the #NuclearBan Treaty.

🧵On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the first-ever nuclear explosion in New Mexico. This was home to Indigenous Peoples and other local communities. There was plant and animal life, and sacred sites. 🔗➡️https://icanw.org/80_years_later_the_first_nuclear_blast_is_not_forgotten

Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact. We should take it. Sign our petition calling the Albanese Government to undertake an independent parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS security pact. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia...

"It's poor governance that we have not had our own parliamentary inquiry [into AUKUS]." "It's horrifying." @drruthmitchell.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social on lack of due diligence done the Australian Government over the AUKUS submarines deal. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/46Me3SJ

Former DFAT boss wants Australia out of AUKUS. The Aus Govt could save us embarrassment by conducting its own review into AUKUS, rather than waiting for the US to make the deal untenable. Our research found 66% of Australians want a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS. ✍️ theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Trump is threatening 200% tariffs on Australia's 3rd biggest export, pharmaceuticals. US big pharma hates our PBS – it buys medicine cheap & passes savings to Australians. Aus Gov can look after Australians by standing firm & not subjecting us to US prices. australiainstitute.org.au/post/our-pbs...

No one believes Moreton Bay Council’s fascist lies

Canadians are vacationing at home. International tourists are choosing Canada. It's not just the insults, or the tariffs. It's too dangerous to go to America. ICE's powers are without limit. We can't go to a country that treats international visitors as new enemies instead of historic allies.

Iris Van Herpen has an ongoing collab with @cern.bsky.social and the pictures are spectacular #sciart kottke.org/25/06/large-... 🧪