Australia's new hate speech laws are hazardous for artists. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Republic now

Oh, look, complete mandatory training (CYA for the organisation... not the employees) and the phishing test email arrives, like clockwork. 🙄

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Things that annoy (#476) - blanket bloody compliance rules and bureaucratic trivia because some fuckwit screwed it up in the past so now the 999/1000 of us who don't fuck it up have to do far more bullocks then needed. Sigh.

If you are over 80 you should have a driving test every year. This accident, plus the poor child killed earlier by an old driver, and I know of another CBR old person hitting a pedestrian as well. Has to stop. Driving is a privilege not a right. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/917743...

The reason LLMs suck at chess is the same reason they initially sucked at drawing fingers and currently suck at counting to 100: state space Hands are photographed and drawn from every angle, all chess books show every piece in every position, every list of numbers up to 100 shows every such number

Yeah, as my dept’s (& apparently my whole uni’s 😅) expert AI detector, I usually start my little talks/workshops by saying to never use these. I’ve caught 100+ students through much more reliable methods. Learning how AI actually works is always the best strategy if you really care about detection.

Wuthering Heights… hot people you say… yet one of the most boring things I’ve seen in a very long time. 😴

Who is going to buy Microsoft Office 365 Licences then? Like, if this is true, Microsoft is worth $0

A beautiful and funny tribute for Jon Kudelka from First Dog on the Moon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Generative AI, in nearly every piece of software you try to use these days. #AI #SpeirGorm #GenAI

George LuCat doing the cat in a box (luggage bag) thing.

If you're still on Substack, just a reminder that since the end of 2023 they've confirmed they're cool with paying nazis to spout nazi shit. They haven't changed.

A bee on mint flowers in my yard. #flowersofmygarden

OMG what I’d give to see them do a rendition of hot potato and wake up Jeff!

Medicinal cannabis patients face inaccessible vaporiser devices, inconsistent product labelling, workplace discrimination, and criminal charges for driving while not impaired. We're going to keep pushing to fix this broken system.

If a student at my uni submitted this as their work I’d have to start an academic integrity investigation…https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/10/concerns-ai-slop-used-by-sydney-university-based-institute-to-lobby-for-20m-gambling-education-funding?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“You’ve had a good show”, organisers were told by police. The show came to a violent end as police kettled and pepper sprayed those protesting the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

Cool, so we can all work from an island paradise now?

Really LinkedIn? Read the room... #epstein

Vale, Jon Kudelka. And as always, Fuck Cancer.

Vale Jon Kudelka (Captain Quoll) gone way too soon💔💜 Ahead of his times or just still politically current today, drawn in 2019… #Auspol

I like the winter Olympics because it's the one where I'd die if I did most of these sports

Fuck these fucking thieves

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why is it so many of #Epstein 's male friends, inner, outer, bestie, acquaintance, have never decried or confessed to seeing something suspicious or concerning in his conduct or environment, while the few women who have spoken, thought it was blatantly obvious he was an "abhorrent" creep? #Misogyny

Pauline Hanson’s first act in Parliament after returning following suspension for appalling divisive behaviour is with One Nation to turn their backs on the Acknowledgement of Country. What a disgrace.

I’m not kidding when I say that this is the most apt description of my current work life that I’ve seen so far.

After yet another terrible no good day, here is a cat. George LuCat doing his favourite of sit on a thing on a couch.

Freedom comes from the barrel of a whistle?

It’s part of the grand conspiracy to keep smart curious people endlessly busy creating strategic plans and drafting changes to bylaws so that we don’t ever actually change the world.

There's no such thing as "underage women" - they're children. That's the word we already have, because that's what they are. Children. Also, for the record, there's no such thing as "sex with a child". The word we already have for that is rape. A child cannot consent to sex. So it's rape.

Love it, absolutely fucking love it when you specifically get advice on a matter only to have the people who were 100% sure their advice is correct change it weeks later after you've relied on it. FML

Academic workload expectations are moving from unsustainable to truly absurd

Despite all its success selling profitable tech people want, the company remains well behind its rivals in creating unprofitable tech people don't want.

My "What You Need To Know About Tear Gas" thread: First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.

"When a crowd of Aboriginal peoples can be targeted in a city square and the response remains a quiet procedural shrug, it is worth asking what kind of security we are really protecting, and for whom."

In 20 years, you're going to look back at pictures of yourself as you are now and realize how stupid you were for thinking you weren't hot. Start living like you already think that now.

#ClimateCriminals, #Australia - #auspol #Media #ABC

White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.

“An out-of-control bushfire burned in the Otways..near areas that just 2 weeks ago faced flash flooding. Labor continues..opening..new gas fields that could operate for decades, including in the offshore Otway basin..Thermal coal expansions still get greenlight” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whenever Scott Morrison pops up with another bigoted brain dead idea, it is always worth remembering that Albanese and Marles think he is a foreign affairs and and defence policy genius and so love his AUKUS.

#ClimateReality #Heatwaves, #Australia - #auspol Brought to you by #ClimateCriminals.

40,000 ADF personnel served in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021. 47 died, and 261 were wounded. Trump has insulted them and their service. When will @albomp.bsky.social condemn Trump and demand an apology? Appeasement never works. #timeToTakeAStand

Yeah, cause Australians didn't die and get wounded over there for you, America. youtu.be/R5iIBNrJ9eA

And number 1 in the #h100beers No surprise in Mountain Culture Status Quo. Mountain Culture had a huge 2025 and this kind of tops it off. Also Captain Pat wins again. mountainculture.com.au/products/sta... #beer #ozbeersky

Drinking the BEST* Indy beer in Australia… can’t believe it dropped to 4th… what is wrong with you Australia? *Moutain Culture’s Status Quo is very, very good. They should share 1st. #h100beers

Does not deserve second. So many superior Pales out there.