Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...

Just A few hours left of 2025 and it feels like a sucky year for most people. Haven’t done my end of year music fav playlist, but I think Floodlights Underneath is my top album of the year. watch it all performed live youtu.be/CAnIBwisQCc

Our Xmas/new year book haul 📚

This entire opinion piece by Chip le Grand does not mention ISIS a single time. Not once. Instead it repeatedly suggests that the cause of the Bondi attack was Labor's failure to crack down harder on Gaza protests and related antisemitism. www.smh.com.au/national/lab...

Israeli Gov's list of top 10 Australian 'anti-Semitic' orgs, politicians & people. No actual Nazi groups ie National Socialist Network. Most solely oppose genocide of Palestinian civilians - this is Not anti-semitic. Netanyahu's propaganda & true agenda are clear #Auspol

We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In local-history FB groups I’m already noticing how AI is destroying people’s trust in archives There was a post on the 1985 stunt where real turf was laid over Swanston St People were like “looks fake” “AI” Luckily others posted, “I was there, I saw it” But if an event is out of living memory…?

Found a load of old divs fawning over an AI clip claiming to show Margate in the early 1900s, endless comments about ‘times was great then’ and ‘what has are country become’ and couldn’t resist trying to get them to log off. Won’t work. We’re doomed.

Coles have hot cross buns in today if you are a fruit bun fan, or a hot cross bun purist and need something to moan about

Atrocious. There should be consequences for these constant attempts at capture. If you don’t like that a man said people made him feel uneasy there then talk to your people about how they’re expected to treat people, don’t tell the paper to pull the piece where he talks about it.

Incredible scenes in Tasmania, Australia on Christmas Day... Snow!! On Kunanyi / Mount Wellington from a lovely friend (on the other place)😳❄️🎄On

The most fun thing to do the day before Xmas eve is give a dentist your savings and have them perform a stressful torture on you for a few hours. Ugh, We really need dental in to Medicare, though anything like housing they’ll just put the fees up and it would still cost you the earth anyway

AI image generators have just 12 generic templates how many three-window rooms can one AI make www.youtube.com/watch?v=khys... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251222-ai-... - podcast time: 6 min 46 sec pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/22/a... - blog post

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

Happy Summer solstice! The longest day of the year! it’s raining and grey and being more autumnal than summer. Not complaining, it’s better than 39° again

Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄

todays treat youtu.be/BI1AZH2aRDM?...

I have had three hip surgeries. I have also had knee, shoulder, and jaw surgeries. You would not guess any of that from looking at me. I can walk, but a lot of times I definitely CANNOT walk through a large, busy airport while dragging bags. MOST wheelchair users are ambulatory to some degree.

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

An illustration of the 'commission-based' theory of evolution. The Pilot Whale www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...

Enjoyed Molchat Doma last night, old school goth vibes, and the singer demonstrated classic goth dancing like a tree moves. Buzzkull was also an excellent support who I’d been wanting to see for ages

This 'Aussie Christmas tree' photo is doing the rounds again - usually without attribution. It was taken by Layn Simpson of Gympie - in his backyard. An excellent snap. I have an invitation to visit next time I'm in Gympie so I'll look forward to that. You can find Layn on Instagram. Worth a follow.

In #melbourne today it's reaching 38°C, but that number doesn't tell the full story of what it'll be like in the city. We took these temperature readings at a bus stop and an unshaded tram stop in #Brunswick. Today is a great day to do the #SummerSurvey swelteringcities.typeform.com/summersurvey26

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Listening to the Low Xmas album and putting up the tree, done 🌲

This entire weekend

How can parents talk to their kids about the Bondi terror attack? theconversation.com/how-can-pare...

Important call-out for O type blood donors. Make an appointment if you can: my.donateblood.com.au/app/utils/lo...

Been rather dispiriting how much ink has been spilled by the gallery on MP expenses, while the report into mutual obligations has been pretty much ignored. @amyremeikis.bsky.social is on it #ThePoint (what is The Point? It’s not news, but it SHOULD be) thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban. www.crikey.com.au/20...

#Birbfest January drawing challenge list is out. Time to gather reference pics. I hope to get a few days head start so I don’t fall behind this time, but let’s see if that actually happens

Those fuckers will hound small creators who dare make fan art of their characters and then pull this bullshit:

interesting choice to project "LET THEM BE KIDS" onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the celebrations of the teen social media ban It's not a line that came from Albanese or the government — it's the name of News Corp's campaign for the ban.

Not that I would want to go, but there is no fricken way I would ever go now.

My ‘ bell icon’ new uploads in tidal is always at least half fake ai crud uploads, and seems to be worse than Spotify ever was. And at Spotify you could at least hit the do not play this track

A few scribbles from tonight. Last life drawing session for the year

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

RIP Martin Parr. Here are two of my favourite photos of all time. I get such a Proustian rush looking at them that I can hear the “fzzt” of a can of Quatro being opened.

Refused are really fucking dead So glad I managed to catch their final tour

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

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Tidal does a basic yearly wrap, here’s the wrap of the few months I’ve used it