we'll always have Paris

Visited Bordertown - aka Bob Hawke-town - on my way back from Adelaide. Pretty cool!* *unlike neoliberalism, which is not cool 😂 #AusPol

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Academics and students fought for 5 years against research sponsorship at Monash University from oil and gas company Woodside. This week, we forced Australia’s largest university to abandon its greenwashing contract www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The world needs is even as the universities collapse. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Sing it with me everyone 😂 🎵 The Net Zero Hokey Pokey You put your policy in, You pull net zero out, You put Paris back in, Then you shake the logic out You talk some climate waffle ‘bout the lights going out And that’s what we’re all about!

At least Sussan Ley will be able to look back at her few months as leader secure in the knowledge she never once bothered to stand for anything

www.theguardian.com/environment/... “Libs & Nats never supported the idea of reaching net zero by 2050. Some individual MPs have but not the parties. We know this bc they haven’t backed a policy to help meet it since Morrison adopted target in 2021 to try to deflect rising pressure at home & abroad

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

One would expect "leaders" not to collaborate with people who would gladly stuff them and their constituents in a concentration camp without even a whiff of due process. But nope, not these seven. Btw, *this* is how democracy dies.

FWIW, the best tech people I know are ones who genuinely are interested in the humanities and also grasp that there are those who know more than they do (this also applies to people in general).

"Supporting net zero is a lot easier than defining it. The maths behind net zero is easy; in theory, if carbon removals from tree growth or carbon capture and storage match emissions, then net zero works. But the problem isn’t the maths. It’s the biology, the economics and the bullshit." #auspol

finally the ABC moves this up the page, hours after the story was posted by Guardian Australia and smh. Our ABC kept a copaganda piece about police feelings top of the NSW tab all afternoon. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

the nurses were sacked and are being prosecuted after speculating about imaginary Israelis to one person, who posted a video. The nazis making direct threats to Jews on the steps of parliament are not arrested, not investigated, not charged, and not prosecuted. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

hahaha omg Minns has made a statement saying it is likely the parliament has to give police more powers after police approved a nazi rally for today at NSW Parliament. There are no sunk costs more extreme than public money costs sunk into police.

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

Shocking that these worries would come from a newspaper owned by <checks notes> the world's fourth richest man and executive chairman of a retailer that employs over a million people in the US

"Living in poverty while at uni, that's not the way it should be for a society that's about mobility and opportunity." Professor George Williams discussed his new Vantage Point essay 'Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's future' on RN Breakfast! #auspol

The goddamn nerve of Jeff Bezos' newspaper to talk shit about raising the minimum wage at a moment when workers at Jeff Bezos' online superstore -- who are paid so little half of them in one study were on SNAP benefits -- are going hungry. The fucking arrogance.

David Pope in Canbera Times

PANIC!! My @smh @theage cartoon

"Alas, the Liberals appear to have forgotten many things about Robert Menzies. But perhaps the most important is that elections are won in the middle — wherever that middle may currently find itself." #AusPol #Liberals

Spoke to AAP yesterday about the Liberal coup speculations: 'Monash University politics lecturer Blair Williams said it would be a "terrible look" for the Liberal Party's first female leader to be dumped by a bunch of men. "Women are watching," she told AAP.' #AusPol #Liberals #Coalition

I’ve been interested in political speeches for as long as I can remember. I’ve listened to nearly every inaugural and major address, and I’ve given tons of public speeches myself. Zohran’s talent in this arena ranks among the best. He’s damn good. Hella good. Remarkably good. Crazy to watch.

Yep, agree, how can wanting equity for everyone be seen as radical. Billionaire controlled media & captured selfish politicians have a lot to answer for.

I mean #sorrysonotsorry WTAF makes someone a radical for wanting people to be fed and clothed and housed while the rich cunts shoring up their own riches and power and yachts get to just be ‘conservatives’ keeping the world afloat by capitalism. FRO.

I will never understand why the Australian media, especially the ABC, keep calling the new mayor of New York a radical leftist whilst referring to the far right weirdos in both America and Australia as merely “conservatives’.

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This is very true, and there are a lot of really good reasons why. I think a huge part is that, due to age and not being born in the U.S., he doesn't have the Obama-as-template fixation that so many on the left think is the default for a "good" speech. bsky.app/profile/jame...

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

My paper also highlights the UK press' complicity in mainstreaming the LGBA's anti-trans campaigning. The data shows UK press bias that whitewashes the LGBA and uses it as a weapon against the trans community in anti-trans stories. This contrasts with the media's attacks against pro-trans charities.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

So I went op shopping yesters and I found the perfect zip!!! Except it's attached to a dress. So I bought the dress. I'll take out the perfect zip, then replace it and give the dress back to an op shop. Circular economy, baby 😎

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

well this is just stupid and awful, Teen Vogue has genuinely been one of the best sources of clear-eyed political news for years infuriating to see talented people lose their jobs while right wing hacks fail ever upward across the media ecosystem

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It’s been a year since the bombshell Janke racism review at the ABC — but it hasn’t resulted in a more diverse ABC, its annual report reveals. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/0...

Karvelas not liking it one bit. 🤣🤣🤣😏😏😏🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Chance (a friend of the pod) just let me know that this project translating Ancient Gazan literature only needs $200 more to be fully funded! Some wonderful pod listeners have donated since I put out a call on instagram, and I’d love if we could help get this over the finish line. 🤩

Also, if you'd like to read more of my thoughts on Camila Galaz's "Unwelcome Visitant" (2020) and the MCA's "Artist Voice" series, mentioned in the review, I wrote about these for Art Monthly Australasia here: www.artmonthly.org.au/blog/art-of-..., and here: www.artmonthly.org.au/blog/artist-...

And in print, for those who can't access the online version! Happy to send a digital copy on request as well, if the text is too small in this photo 👀

My latest review for the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social! A reflection on my experience of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's mesmerising new cinematic installation for the Museum of Contemporary Art, "A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)", on display now until 15 February 2026 👇🏼

First time back in my hometown of Adelaide since April 2021!! It was a slog of a drive, but it's great to be back 😁 #HeapsGood