Jenny Leong attempted to present premier Minns with community accounts of the NSW police brutalisation of the public at the Herzog rally, and for her trouble, the Greens MP was kicked out of the chamber 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pre...

Albanese telling people to reconsider driving is incredible optics. Mate, you built a country where driving is mandatory. A country where cyclists, pedestrians, and anyone not using a car is treated as a second-class citizen. Car-dependence is baked into every major policy you have architected.

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

Nothing says 'not a crisis, don't panic' like the prime minister deciding to hold a covid-style address at 7pm on the last day of parliament for a month, ahead of a hastily arranged press club address, just to prove that yes, this government does hold a (petrol) hose.

"This is what genocide looks like. It is not only the killing—though the killing has been vast & documented. It is also the deliberate dismantling of everything a population needs to survive: their hospitals, water, food supply, civil registry, police, medics." johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

The past decade has shown that giving evil people a platform, even in the guise of an “interview” or press conference, is always a failure. They never admit error, and they use the platform to spout lies and propaganda. Take your “hold them to account” naivety back to the 1980s

Not even in apartheid South Africa, were executions for one race codified into law. Genocidal.

the first report on Australia's teen social media ban is a red flashing light: - 7/10~ parents with kids on social media pre-ban say they're still on it - cyberbullying/image-based abuse reports are unchanged - using facial scans on youngest users deemed a "poor practice" www.crikey.com.au/20...

"In the last 15 years, military officials have killed 373 journalists. More than 60% of these killings took place in the last three years, a time period in which Israeli forces were responsible for all but 21 of these journalists' deaths" Committee to Protect Journalists via @grogsgamut.bsky.social

On this Trans Day of Visibility, please enjoy & learn something from this fascinating & clarifying read from @madeline-eppley.bsky.social, @andylee.bsky.social, Robert Dellinger & @allydefduf.bsky.social Read👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (🙏 for this excellent work & actionable recs!)

It is no longer appropriate to call Israel an apartheid state. South Africa apartheid didn't include this level of legally institutionalised racism.

The yet still increasing car dependence in Melbourne is a serious problem, for basically every reason you can think of under the sun.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Israel admits to purposefully targeting journalists in Lebanon for death. Then conducting a double kill strike by killing the paramedics who went in to care for the journalists. Israel has already killed 51 paramedics in Lebanon. It is Gaza-style terror all over again.

Tons of real accounts with mutuals following are all doing this on every big post now

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Games Done Quick's long, difficult journey to a better gaming future aftermath.site/games-done-qui...

Sometimes the origin of a story is just a passing comment, like a casual mention of the 92yo rare books expert who often just drops by the State Library with an extremely valuable book in his pocket to donate. I was very taken by this, so I found the guy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer,” said Patrick Bigger of the Climate and Community Institute and co-author of new analysis about the climate impacts of the war on Iran, in @theguardian.com:

"I did not imagine... the number of colleagues killed would triple – the death toll is now more than 390... It is incomprehensible that a UN entity has been allowed to be crushed as #Unrwa has, in violation of international law, with total impunity..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #Israel

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... We use about 130 million ltrs of car/truck fuel per day. A jerry can holds 20 ltrs. If filling jerry cans is having any effect you would need to fill 6½ million - every day. It's not jerry cans Chris it's a stupid fucking war that you have supported. #FuckWar

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social cc @senatorwong.bsky.social THIS! 👇 #IsraeliTerrorism btw You're complicit. 😠 #auspol

In the shadow of war in Iran and Lebanon, other governments are using this as a distraction to commit atrocities. Pakistan just carried out an appalling strike on Afghan civilians in a rehabilitation centre. We absolutely condemn this attack. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

collective punishment is a war crime

New research out showing the South Australia algal bloom has already caused at least a quarter of a billion dollars damage to the South Australia economy. Fishing and tourism industries are being hit hard with jobs and business survival at stake.

Saying that Muslims are booing you because they're terrorists outdoes calling a CSA survivor "difficult", in the insensitivity stakes.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs— "Even George Orwell could not have made this up." Must watch. #GreaterIsraelWar

"Not included in any of Anthropic’s research are extremely popular uses of AI such as “create AI porn” and “create AI slop and spam.” These uses are destroying discoverability on the internet, cause cascading societal and economic harms. " www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-...

Journalist Steve Sweeney was reporting from the ground in Lebanon when a projectile exploded directly behind him. There is a video of him receiving aid in a medical facility, so he survived.

The Albanese Labor Government supports this war based on a series of lies. The US now admits that Iran was not on a credible pathway to getting nuclear weapons, yet this is a core justification the Labor Government continues to use. Again, we see the war parties mislead the public to support a war.

Israel is levelling down entire buildings in central Beirut

persona 4 vibes

“1 mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, 1 mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” The #’s may vary, but the truth is the same.

Here's @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social. "The media wants disabled people to be locked inside until they die"

"The political process seems designed to make us think of these policies in the abstract... But the CGT discount and negative gearing aren’t just accounting tricks, they affect us all." – @artistaffame.bsky.social on what we should do with $21 billion instead of the CGT discount + other tax breaks

"DLSS5 fuses controllability of everything about the game with [dogshit]," Huang continued. "Developers can still fine-tune the generative [dogshit]" to make it match their style, as DLSS 5 adds [dogshit] capability to the existing geometry of the game." www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

A journalist filed a brief live blog entry on an apparent Iranian missile strike that hit no one and caused no serious damage. Next thing he knew, angry Polymarket users were demanding he change the story—and threatening his life and family if he refused. My story: wapo.st/4lI6Pon (gift link)

i love the piaggio porter because it's the funniest shit ever to just stumble upon what is clearly a japanese car pretending to be an italian car being used to do the most random shit all around europe

Blood tech: The UK ambassador, the sex offender, Palantir, and Gaza https://aje.news/i6at3w

No member, current or previous, of the IDF should be allowed entry into Australia. Go rest up from your genocide in The Hague.

DLSS 5 OFF / DLSS 5 ON

Australian employers have revealed the rates at which they are excluding candidates over 55, who live with a long-term or mental illness, are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or who live with disability.

It is persistently fascinating to me that rapid data centre expansion threatens the *exact* same type of blackout related to the 2016 South Australia blackouts that changed climate and energy politics essentially permanently in Aus And it gets zero attention 🫠 www.aemc.gov.au/news-centre/...

More Edelgard discourse lets goooooo

"Blowing up oil fields isn't war. It's climate terrorism. You aren't just killing your enemy; you are killing the future of every species on this planet. Despicable. Shameful. #Ecocide"

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

Hi everyone. Things have been happening in the fan-translation scene and I've been overdue in talking about them. For the first time ever I've made a long writeup. Please read it and feel free to reach out to me with comments.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!