Good morning.

"Mothers of [autistic &] disabled children deserved to be viewed & treated as the warm, caring, attuned parents they were. […] Yet in being cast as ‘refrigerator mothers’, they were branded a fundamental causal factor of their child’s disability" -Dr Kate McAnelly: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

So... I finished the front piece in late August. Then it took me two weeks to knit the first sleeve, and I started knitting the second... only to realise that I'll run out of wool!! 🤦‍♀️ I called the wool store I got it from, and they said they ran out of stock. AND the colour has been discontinued!

There is effectively only right wing political violence in the US

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

Having just inhaled SBS's incredibly important #PeoplevsRobodebt, the Morrison Government's clinical persecution of our most vulnerable citizens, driving them to despair & sometimes death, is shocking all over again. When will someone finally be held accountable for this cataclysmic failure?

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

The Trump-Albanese non-meeting is a classic case of media demanding it happen purely because the media think it matters. Not one journo covering the US visit could explain what good they would expect to come of the meeting. But they just assume it must be done.

I need a filter for bluesky that removes americans/US content (no offence but you guys and your crises are constantly overwhelming my feeds)

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

Neurodivergent people have existed far longer than Tylenol, but yes please find new ways to blame women for something with zero actual scientific evidence.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Absolutely 100% this. If they give up citizenship (which is what they have to do in the US to stop paying taxes) we also win.

It's not just Mamdani. Michelle Wu, Katie Wilson--the Dems may soon have a remarkable cast of young, gifted mayors www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This is an excellent point. 👇

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Wait wait wait wait wait wait... Tylenol (acetaminophen) is paracetamol???? And the orange stain thinks that causes autism?! 🤣🤪

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

✨️Restructures!✨️

Autism isn’t caused by medicine. Claims that paracetamol in pregnancy causes autism are false. We do not need to prevent or cure autism. Autistic people are valuable. Great guidance here from @contactfamilies.bsky.social for anyone who is worried or concerned with the news today.

The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.

Join the Luddites! "Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process"

Good options: *BBC News / BBC World Service *Deutsche Welle (DW News) *France 24 *Al Jazeera *The Associated Press (although U.S.-based...it operates globally and is widely regarded as a fact/reporting wire service more than opinion.) *Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty *CBC News (Canada)

Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

People should look up Horst Wessel and how the Nazis used his murder to create a martyr and accelerate their movement and march towards fascism.

Putting clean air infrastructure into the built environment (in schools, daycare, long term care homes, shopping centres, offices, airplanes, buses, taxis, cruise ships...) is more important than ever. Because giving people the "choice" has led to lower vaccination rates and a refusal to mask.

To prevent the spread of #measles you need to 1. vaccinate 2. implement airborne mitigation measures COVID was the nail in the coffin. Those that advocated for vaccinations, clean air AND masking were ridiculed and isolated because airborne precautions are HARD. Now, measles is back.

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Guy with weekly column blames the left for 'censoring right wing opinion' which btw is code for hate speech and censoring it has been impossible. Whenever the right is held to account or exposed for their hateful ideology, it's always somehow the lefts fault. #auspol

Not enough people blame Reagan and I think we should go really hard on blaming Reagan.

Gen-X gripe here: I’ve already checked your help pages, and don’t want to chat with a stupid, useless bot (that will only direct me to your help pages), I want to talk to a human (one who can actually solve my problem). BRING BACK HUMANS!

Monbiot- “The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30km in a crowded city is so sensible. 'If a car hits a pedestrian at 50km/h, there is just a 10% chance the pedestrian will survive. That chance of survival goes up to 60% if the car is travelling 40km/h, and up to 90% if hit at just 30km/h.' Clover Moore #auspol #nswpol

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Remember when calling Trump a threat to democracy was just a radical left wing witch hunt…ah memories

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

"As a trans journalist, I know how hard it is to find any role at all in the Australian media landscape. I can’t even imagine at what point the establishment starts taking an interest in the plight of my community. Even scarier is thinking about when that point might happen" @nataliesqrl.bsky.social

Standing against fascism is now domestic terrorism—by presidential decree. Anyone committed to fighting fascism can now be deemed an enemy of the state, arrested, and held—possibly without full due process—on the claim that they're a "terrorist." Just like that, we lost America.

We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.

Exactly this

You can never appease a tyrant.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

We cartoonists have been saying this for years! The canaries in the coal mine for democracy. N’est-ce pas @anntelnaes.bsky.social ?