She & hubby gave $50k to #AtlasNetwork IPA/CIS spinoff Advance, which killed the Voice referendum with 'vicious disinformation' against First Nations for the benefit of fossil fuel corps, and now pumps out racist, AI slop anti-immigration memes. Social cohesion? theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

They can’t point to a single instance of antisemitism by an arts organisation, while there are dozens of cases where official pressure has silenced pro-Palestinian voices. This is pure political intimidation by the govt and its official pro-Israel lobbyist.

I've seen this coming for years: having instilled the idea that trans people are a moral threat to the republic, the next step is expanding who is "trans." If you don't conform to their narrow gender roles, you are "trans" and need to have your rights stripped. www.salon.com/2025/02/10/w...

Oh FFS Australia @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social Get out of this fascist alliance now

'Educational retention is critical....In the UK in 2024, 43% of 18- to 24-year-olds were in education, compared with 67% in the Netherlands. Among 18-year-olds, the figures are 66% and 80%. By age 24, twice as many young people are in education in the Netherlands (43%) as in the UK (21%).' 1/3

If only we weren’t spending half a TRILLION dollars on obsolete and nonexistent nuclear submarines… We could afford all the good things like: NDIS, CSIRO, aged care, dental in Medicare, cheap postage, quality state school education and housing, funds for First Nations & women, DV VAW… If only…

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

There’s a whole influencer bit going on lately where husbands talk about how easily their wife startles and make jokes about how they have to announce themselves before they walk in a room and it’s funny but also hey Hey Ever wondered why so many women are constantly on edge and hypervigilant?

The Queensland CCC has told the Qld Parliament that it is frustrated with the lack of progress in the creation of a Qld police integrity unit. This body would handle complaints, sit within the CCC & end police self-investigation. It was recommended 3yrs ago. #qldpol

every day is a reminder that political fascism is just personal narcissism squared

"A UN 2026 Report concluded the Israeli prison system had degenerated into a laboratory of calculated cruelty. The Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem published a paper, ‘Welcome to Hell: the Israeli prison system as a network of torture camps'." Stuart Rees michaelwest.com.au/gaza-flotill...

Forget "so-called ISIS brides" (Australian women returning home from Al-Roj refugee camp in Syria). When does the Australian media start reporting on the Australian-Israeli dual citizens returning home from "so-called" "serving" in Gaza? 🤔 #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide

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Dear @albomp.bsky.social, Given Israel: • murdered Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom • kidnapped, detained, and physically & sexually abused 11 Australian citizens from the recent Global Sumud Flotilla, WHEN will you sanction Israel, and expel the Israeli Ambassador? #auspol

Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. An important piece by @nickriemer.bsky.social. #auspol #Zionism #Antisemitism overland.org.au/2026/05/zion...

1/3 "No objective attempt to get at the truth about antisemitism in 2026 could reasonably block its ears to Palestine supporters, many of whom are themselves Jewish." Excellent dissection of the royal commission by @nickriemer.bsky.social. #auspol overland.org.au/2026/05/zion...

This is *quite* the take (and also love the contrived naivety - oh, if people don’t like it, they’ll just say no! As if billionaires don’t own politicians, the algorithms, the media and the culture)

Here we Joh again. Violent clashes as the Crisafulli government sends police in to destroy the Goori Camp Embassy at Barrambin Victoria Park, Queensland. Indigenous people & supporters vow to fight on, returning to camp at dusk. Bulldozers scheduled for Monday. #qldpol

Fucking fascists Where are all of the decent voters/people? #australia #disgrace #auspol #queensland #qldpol

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

This AFR editorial might be the most ignorant thing I’ve read for a long while. Pure bullshit fantasy. Written by a paper desperate to simp for rich people rather than defend democracy.

"Rather than a reset, the #NACC needs a serious overhaul. Picking the right commissioner and adjusting the balance between operational secrecy and public scrutiny is badly needed." Sure. But we're missing a key precondition: a govt committed to integrity, transparency and accountability. #auspol

"At a moment when support for Israel has never been so controversial, the Commission could not find time to hear a single anti-Zionist Jew or Palestine supporter in its first forty-five hours of public sessions."

Government priorities: 1. #NDIS costs rise too fast because slack govt standards allowed in shonky providers, but people with disabilities pay the price of cost-cutting. 2. Defence responsible for massive budget blow-outs and obscenely wasteful 'investments', and *no-one* held accountable. #auspol

In the 17 years since the future sub program commenced, Defence has spent 3,400 million NOT buying French subs 🤦‍♂️ and 1,000 million NOT life extending Collins subs 🤦‍♂️ and 5,000 million on US subs that WON’T arrive🤦‍♂️. #waste #CapabilityGap #AUKUS #aupsol

I think people forget the “you can’t change your sex” slogan is a newer line of GC rhetoric with only recent purchase. For nearly a century “sex change” was an accepted term, and while deployed clumsily and poorly, it was also understood as a reality the nuances of which were largely irrelevant.

We can't continue this decades-long tantrum about the fact the sex is more porous, mutable, and dimorphic than Catholics are comfortable with.

"changing sex shouldn't relegate you to an underclass" is also a broad statement that doesn't need to nail down every dimension of changing sex--social, phenotypic, or otherwise--while being concise about the heart of the issue.

Because MAGA is a war of men against women--against anything linked to despised and stigmatized femininity. The GOP is a phallocracy and they have a million ways to signal that, from the panic about "mutilizing your children" to Trump appointing penis experts to key federal posts (literally).

Post-rape harrassment & lawfare are unfortunately common, but most people don't know about it because no one wants to hear from stigmatized rape victims about anything. POTUS is now just the Abuser-in-Chief giving the country a master class in violent misogyny. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

Black Mirror episode, except it's real life: If AI companies can steal our lives' work and our image, if they can make a robot doll of us and sell it to others, then legal personhood no longer has meaning for anything but corporations.

Today in Phallocracy: Miller tries to gin up voters' horror and disgust by feminizing a man, because all things female must be ritually degraded and stigmatized.

There's chutzpah, and then there's asking members of the military to pay their own way to DC for a cage match...to which they will only be admitted if the administration deems them pretty enough.

I have bad news about what happens to a fetus if your murder a woman at the typical stage of pregnancy she would be getting an abortion...

Oh look, the white mans' justice system working as intended

The obvious leniency in which we treat young white men (esp. those in middle to upper classes) in this country is appalling and disgusting. I’m truly sick of it.

A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

No, I think that’s pretty coherent. Compulsory sexuality and compulsory sexualization, male desire as a gate keeping site for women’s social participation and acceptability, performances of virility by men for other men’s benefit—all of these seem like pretty straightforward disciplinary mechanisms.

What if women got to participate in public and civic life on dignified and equal terms even if they really were in fact ugly, unmarried, childless, gay, or otherwise broadly sexually unappealing to men? ha ha ha ha ha what if.

The popular superhero satire The Boys ended with Homelander, a character who is a Trump analogue, meeting his bloody and brutal end. This scared the hell out of conservatives, including Elon Musk, whose death was also parodied. They’ve been crashing out ever since. spitfirenews.com/p/the-boys-e...

The same GEO group the Australian gov pays to run private prisons in Australia? #auspol "GEO Group has been subject to a number of investigations that have exposed human rights abuses occurring at correctional centres across Australia" From 2020 share.google/oNdcb2v8whRW...

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

The same kind of thing happens in other male-dominated fields. But with consumer tech the intra-field abuses affect the population at scale, which is exactly what we’re seeing with deepfake sexual abuse.

Are men ruining the workforce (yes)

One of the first stories of deepfake sexual abuse I encountered was via the excellent documentary ANOTHER BODY. A male compsci student used AI to sexually abuse all of his female classmates. And then we wonder why there are fewer women in the tech space. It’s because men forced them out.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Gee I wonder why women and girls are less inclined to use tools that were popularized via their ability to create fake nude photos of women and girls

The whole "he hates women so much he must be gay" thing deflects from how lots of men who are married to women, dating women, and are attracted to women also really hate those women