Feeling a bit teary/tired about how much my reputation and career has been attacked just because I speak up against genocide. Whatever scarce work I do get is soon taken from me. I've no source of income on the horizon. But I'll keep speaking up, keep standing up, because it's the right thing to do

See this Ames?

“Cultural sensitivity” means destroying an entire arts festival rather than allowing a Palestinian person to come along and talk about her new novel.

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s response:

Regurgitative AI is now implicated in multiple deaths but still there is no sign of regulation. Meanwhile, governments are working to ban trans people from public life based on imaginary scenarios that haven’t happened. Not even AI could write a situation as stupid as this shit.

YouTube is upholding the removal of my videos about gambling on the false grounds violating its “sale of illicit goods” policy. This is tantamount to a false allegation, right? Especially with my professional rep, slinging that reasoning around is potentially harmful. Either way I’m disgusted.

Small Saga #AGDQ2026

people are withdrawing from Adelaide writers week faster than can be reported. In addition to the names listed here are Ren Wyld, Emma Shortis, and Fiona Katsaukas. Important detail: the only creative, Stephen Page, has left the Adelaide Festival board. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival. I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.

Somehow this article does not mention the one weird trick to cut aviation emissions without cutting journeys: replacing short/medium distance flights with train trips I guess it's just still too weird a trick for most of the Anglosphere

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

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We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

i am back at work today

Youtube's long noted to have problems with its algorithms and demonetisation, but this is a particularly blunt analysis of the kinds of problems it can cause, especially around the problematic relationships of a certain president.

Ok that's enough doom scrolling for one ni- Oh. Morning.

Our AUKUS partner showing off the shared values Richard Marles loves to talk about

No war on #Venezuela protests in #Australia. #HandsOffVenezuela #NoWarForOil #auspol

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

The US is a terrorist state and it's government is unsalvageable, Maduro offered Venezuela's oil to them and yet even that couldn't pause their imperialist wrath

Trump the terrorist warmonger rapist pedophile is illegally bombing the city of Caracas in Venezuela

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

I think a lot about this bit by Kazuya Niinou about how an RPG can be one thing on your screen and another thing in your brain

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

First rule of computers, per IBM

Dear @albomp.bsky.social please expel Israel's Ambassador to Australia Doctors without Borders (MSF) speaks with @sstephanietrann.bsky.social about Netanyahu expelling 37 humanitarian orgs from Gaza. michaelwest.com.au/israel-bans-...

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Millions of people have marched peacefully due to the heartache of witnessing a live streamed genocide perpetrated on their fellow humans. Beautiful beings full of compassion. And @albomp.bsky.social you weasel invite the perpetrators of this genocide to our country. You disgust me. #Auspol #Gaza

Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di...

Tech platforms censor words, not meaning. It’s frighteningly insidious. This kind of censorship explicitly empowers bad actors by robbing their critics of the language to criticize. Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.

Four of the five new officially extinct animals globally were *Australian*.

Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move. Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for. It’s pretty disgusting.

The treatment of the hunger strikers by the British state is truly barbarous they've been convicted of no crime, are being held w/o trial, & have been on remand for over twice the remand custody limit they've been subject to degrading & humiliating treatment, & are now in a critical state

Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos. You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.

On Wednesday the Sydney Morning Herald published an opinion piece by Cumberland City councillor Ahmed Ouf about Muslim-Jewish solidarity in the wake of Bondi. The piece was quickly taken down. We're publishing it here in full. www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors. “Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”

Poster by Sam Wallman in Sydney, denouncing the instrumentalization of the Bondi massacre by various politicians and media organizations to repress and denounce the Palestinian solidarity movement, despite the killers having no ties to the Palestine movement whatsoever.

It’s not just individuals of course. Its entire countries and sanctions are a tool they weaponize to preserve US dominance and enforce compliance with imperialist demands. Studies have found these sanctions punish the population severely, as internal systems collapse under their weight.

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM, will soon have 40GW/113GWh of storage (not including Snowy2.0). That's enough storage to power the grid for about 4.5hrs at average demand of ~25GW /1

I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did. We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.

"Genocide is a crime. Protest is not." 🇦🇺Protest near Sydney Town Hall condemning the disgraceful attempt to link the Palestine movement to the Bondi attack.

NSW Premier Minns has always been anti protest. His latest ban on peaceful assemblies & protests is racist & divisive. We will resist - silence on #genocide is unethical. Read this piece by Nick Riemer michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...

Albo blamefest should now be derailed (probably won't be) - due to revelations Bondi Shooter bought 3 shotguns, from same gun store, but raised no red flag. @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/bondi-traged...

Incidentally this is also why your boss and middle management tell you that discussing your salary is gauche and unprofessional, because if most of you learned about your salary gaps you might get mad as fuck at them. The only ones that benefit from decorum and professionalism are power brokers.