This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue? NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy. The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton. His position is untenable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I think it's only respectful for Dick Cheney's funeral that he gets a 21 gun salute where they shoot a bunch of his friends in the face.

bom weather site (Australia) - big oops

SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE HAS EARNED THEMSELVES A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: medium.com/extra-extra/...

That the Catholic church claims any moral authority is grimly hilarious. They refuse to be held accountable for their crimes. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Giving way to the hard right doesn't work. It will never be enough:

TGA has dropped the ball on sunscreen testing in Australia. Yet the Americans banned these products. Leads me to wonder what other health products might the TGA not be inspecting appropriately. Are they captured by business www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

fixed that for you

Another good one from Ian Verrender www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Bravo Daniel Ziffer and Gareth Hutchens Terrific article www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Sshh- Still no definitive answer to the question: would Australia’s AUKUS N subs be deployed operationally in any US war with China? MKoziol SMH/Age reports “yes” assurances may have been given by @almp.bsky.social to Trump .. but our PM won’t confirm.

Curious about this story and who is pushing it; perhaps the Doctors Union (ASMOFQ)? Dr Pain went to the QIRC in January; was granted the info requested in April. Why is this public now www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution. Sing it, Alanis.

A prescient thread from @buziashvili.bsky.social, which should be read by so many people in so many nations. Courage is a tough thing these days, but we need to recognize it when we see examples worth emulating.

confirming what anyone with the most passing familiarity with the political science literature on the topic has been saying for years already, and will continue to say, whether politicians or some/many in media listen or not

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Nixon must be feeling so dumb for not saying "actually, I'm totally a crook"

Another reason why "mutual" obligations must be abolished. Allowing perpetual high unemployment to exist is just one of many ways that the federal government has shirked its obligations to unemployed workers.

Shark nets are an absolute joke. All surfers, lifesavers and regular beach-goers know it. The nets don't work and yet capture whales, dolphins and turtles. Govts too gutless to remove them because people don't understand the nets don't protect them. theconversation.com/more-whales-...

Major Sean Glass, commander of the "Vampire Empire" company within Israel's 52nd Battalion under the 401st Armored Brigade, gave the order from inside a tank to open fire on the car carrying Palestinian child Hind Rajab and her family, as well as on the ambulances rushing to rescue them. 👺

Lol

White House looking good. No pesky red tape Heritage protection getting in the way of progress by the look

Is there any info on what the "$8.5 billion critical minerals deal" between #Albo and #Trump actually entails? Who will sell and who will buy? Oz government doesn't own any minerals, or even any deposits. Or is this another of Trump's big announcements that amount to vague statements of intent ?

How much money is needed to be spent to counteract election disinformation, that wouldn’t be required to be spent if there were truth in political advertising laws? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

It's unclear what incident Israel is claiming as a violation by militants in Gaza. Hamas said to Al Jazeera: “We have no knowledge of any incidents or clashes taking place in the Rafah area, as these are red zones under the occupation’s control..." aje.io/9vjwb5?updat...

Police chief Cheeseman wants people to do his job for him: [a hardcore group] “…are standing with the larger group, and the other group are not intervening, they’re not telling them to stop. So in a way, they’re offering their support, which is unacceptable.” www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2025/10...

Last Friday I appeared before a Senate committee to talk about the Commonwealth's proposed changes to FOI laws @withmeaa.bsky.social, in my capacity as a working freelance journalist. The changes copy FOI regimes at the state level -- two hours later, one of those states hit me with a charge: /1

FFS tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/cement-...

Thinking about all those folk who insisted “All Hamas has to do is return the hostages and the Israeli bombing will stop”

According to the speaker of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Pletenchuk During the night attack of Ukrainian drones on Crimea, Russian forces shot down their own aircraft. Preliminary Su-30SM with hull number 107.

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

Thankyou Ian Verrander for some clarity. after all the media noise about 'huge backflip', at last a sensible assessment of the increasing tax on large superannuation balances. As per Grattan Institute report, more is required, but this is progress www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

- this is called aphantasia, by the way, a lot of people don't even realise they have it, because why would they? Surely everyone reads books the same way! Turns out they don't. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Despite all the complaints about Santos and its failure to pay tax and deliver gas to the domestic market at a reasonable price, it might be the complaints from business that gets the attention from government www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Donald Trump has his hands in this deal. Meaning this is not even close to over. Ya know there is another scam, lie, and Epstein file distraction attached to this turn of events. Beware for worse days ahead.

Albo's government is disappointing

I feel like today is a good day to remind everyone that just last year Barnaby Joyce called on a crowd of cookers to say “goodbye” to 3 Labor MPs inc the PM by getting ready to “load that magazine” & think of a “bullet” when casting their vote. And received no penalty or censure.

Climate Integrity asks the ACCC to investigate claims made by the gas lobby in its submission to the government's Future Gas Strategy, while raising doubts about EY modelling

Australia's new generation of gun control advocates led by Stephen Bendle doing a fantastic job undermining the relentless fantasies of our local Dad's Army gun lobby www.croakey.org/why-we-must-...

Nice work, people of Perth. I wonder what would have happened in some of the other capital cities. The folks on the road might have been taking their lives in their hands www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Seriously, Guardian? You think they "overlooked" him? They looked at him, guffawed and moved on.

Will Netanyahu torpedo the ‘Gaza peace plan’ sooner rather than later? Here’s Noam Chomsky explaining the cyclical pattern of Israel reaching a ceasefire with Hamas, and then openly breaking the ceasefire and resuming the slaughter.

The current freakout over Stephen Miller saying “plenary” is a classic example of how terrible coverage of the Trump era is. Miller didn’t say something by accident then mute himself. He’s been saying the President has “plenary authority” for months. It’s one of his favourite things to say.