Remember when we said we shouldn’t back the guy with the Nazi tattoo?

I don’t have any evergreen tweets/posts, but this is as close as it gets.

The book in question, Careless People, had been in my Kobo wishlist (bc to hell with Amazon). This prompted me to buy it. Good job, Meta! Long live the Streisand Effect!

There is always kindling for my burning hatred of AI

Thrilled to announce that our Linkage Project grant application, "Schools as safe workplaces: Improving educator safety in Australian schools", has been funded by the Australian Research Council!

Right so just ignore the Supreme Court?

New paper: we found exposure to smoke from a coal mine fire predicted an increase in cardiovascular deaths up to 3-9 years later. Troubling long-term implications, especially considering our findings almost certainly underestimate the magnitude due to immortal time bias.

Whatever it is, it’s got golden hemorrhoids, obviously. 1 Samuel 6:17: “And these are the golden hemorrhoids which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord”

Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk Oasis - Listen Up Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill Weezer - Say It Ain’t So Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End The Wrens - I’ve Made Enough Friends Beatles - A Day in the Life Beach Boys - God Only Knows Pixies - Hey Meat Load - Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Nah, people around the world asked a specific question about the shooting, got told “no,” and then stopped caring

📢 New Publication: Cognitive changes can show up years before cardiovascular disease is diagnosed. Brain and heart health aren’t separate - they age together through shared vascular aging, long before disease becomes apparent. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I just did a survey for OUP, which was largely about how I would like to use an AI assistant. How about, I would not like to use an AI assistant?

TRUMP: the strait is now open and we totally won the war THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF: jesus christ dude

New paper on agreement between COVID-19 self report and N-protein serology. While overall agreement was only fair, we found much better agreement for more recent cases and among those reporting no history of COVID. Given waning seropositivity, this is what you'd expect if self-report were accurate!

lol, it me

Every day you wake up in Australia and see a list like this and wonder what the hell is going on.

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

This man is very public about his faith which explicitly forbids this sort of thing. Like, he even wants that rule displayed in classrooms.

The videos from Afroman’s album documenting the raid are worth watching.

Wow. That worked!

"Raising rates while petrol prices soar shows the RBA ignoring reality and basic economics" me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Never so glad that I left America two decades ago to pursue academia overseas. Just…woof.

What does God need with allies

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I live in Australia and had a Kamala sticker on my work laptop until well after the election.

My “never support people with Nazi tattoos” rule hasn’t failed me yet.

Literally laughed out loud several times

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A couple of other necessary changes to those proposed by Jack White: -repeal the 2nd amendment -pack the Supreme Court -federal mandate independent commissions to draw electoral districts -reassert the 14th and have it apply to anyone convicted on Jan 6th -repeal pardon power

Red states get way more back from Washington than they send; the opposite is true for blue states. Do goons like Mullin and Graham think it's tenable to further than imbalance, but to do it punitively? Like, good luck with that.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Effects of PM2.5 from coal mine fire smoke on long-term incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.26345097v1

DHS is now going after the Haitian community in Springfield, who are in the U.S. legally. This is the same community targeted by the racist “eating the cats, eating the dogs” lie during the campaign. Again, they’re in the U.S. legally. MAGA objects to their race, not immigration status.

Federal agents are kidnapping ethnic minorities and sending them to concentrations camps where they are denied both due process and adequate care. Some have died. They’re also hurting/killing those who object. I’m willing to bet Anne Frank would recognise these terrible things.

Look, I hate Trump and everything but he has: 1) outed the secret Nazis in my social circle 2) made them look like the dumbest hypocrites

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

When bigots can only ever get halfway there, we call it Xenophobe’s Paradox

Some gold jokes here and in the replies

Look what we can accomplish if we put our mind to it!

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

A firearms instructor?! So he is supposed to be one of those “responsible gun owners” we keep hearing about?!

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Long-term ambulance, emergency, and hospital use following mine fire-related PM2.5 exposure: analysis of linked data doi.org/10.1088/2752... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

2nd amendment enthusiasts always prattled on about how gun rights were the guarantee of freedom from a tyrannical government. We always knew it was bullshit, but it is still surprising how eagerly they turned into Brownshirts.

New environmental health paper. In the years following a coal mine fire in rural Australia, respiratory symptoms like chronic cough increased with smoke exposure. But! A decade or so later, some evidence of attenuation, possibly indicating recovery!

These two men deserve praise for their service.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

How can we debate policy meaningfully with people who don’t understand reciprocals?