Albanese must lead a strong response to the Boorloo Day of Mourning bomb attack. After the horror at Bondi we saw that leadership on violence and racism is possible with political will. The same urgency is needed on rising threats against First Peoples. My response: nit.com.au/28-01-2026/2...

Australia popularised this in the early 2000s. It was against international law then and it still is now, but it has bipartisan support from our major parties. Our camps are run by for-profit prison companies such as GeoGroup and Serco. Trans women have been put in male centers. All under Labor :)

Racism is so entrenched in Australia that when someone throws a bomb into a peaceful protest, of 2000 First Nations Peoples and their allies, that we call it unacceptable instead of what it actually is, terrorism.

Fingers crossed the government approving some more coal mines & gas projects will help. And if not, then surely the total obliteration of the systems which sustain life on Earth is a small price to pay if the already massively wealthy become insanely so?

"With gentle hands, we will bring all that is lost back into the world. Green shoots uncoil from the darkness."

this book opened me up to just so many ideas. it changed me. and I couldn't recommend it more

“why do they keep talking about vote fraud when repeated analysis of voter records show extremely low overall rates of voter fraud?” because they’re lying

Seems to be the most dramatic breakthrough in preventing/slowing dementia & alzheimer's ever. But it's a vaccine, so it doesn't get headlines. Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

find finished year of the rat by @harryshukman.bsky.social. fantastic read, and really dives into whats going on in the far right, the factors that are leaving people vulnerable to the far right, the way the leaders take advantage of that, and all the grifting. absolutely recommend

The social media ban was always just the govt doing something to look like it was doing something. That it was being pushed by media and FM hosts was a major 🚩 There is no success/fail test that the ban is being judged by, but we do have a shirt load of vibes.

journalists never take the cops at their word 2026 challenge

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock" www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Anyway, donate to charities if you can. I support quite a few. But really, every charity is just a govt failure, especially in a world where we give the richest 10% $18bn a year in tax breaks for capital gains thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Too bad, slopguy

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi. 🫡 to those on the list

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Schneiderman (1882 – 1972) was a Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. She is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses," to indicate a worker's right to something higher than subsistence living.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

love, love, love sgj. i feel like these books really just come from an absolute love of the game (the horror genre). can't wait to finish this series, can't wait to reread it all again as well!

love logging into my streaming services that i pay for to see a bunch of cool movies. that i can buy or rent if i want :) awesome thanks its like paying to get into blockbuster

And in response to the line that anti-genocide protests and immigration caused the Bondi terror attack, Labor has said "oh, that's true, we're sorry", and they're going to apologise themselves into opposition www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

may every trans child grow into a trans adult

Cannot emphasise enough how intensely fascist / violent it is to criminalise the act of being publicly opposed to civilian murder on false pretences It is not hyperbole at all to present these government actions as something that will cause serious harm in a bunch of different ways

Minns and Albanese are being played like puppets by the Israel lobby and Mike Burgess is too busy hoping nobody will notice the failure of his agency to neutralise a terror cell unassociated with the public sympathy and marches for Palestinian liberation. No one in leadership is doing their job.

I've been saying lately that it's not just a win if you can get good things to happen, it's also a win if the worst that might happen gets derailed or delayed. So, whatever happens going forward, I'll take this moment as a win. No batshit declaration of war tonight is one more day without it.

Oh yes, kindergartens, those incubators of hate. Imagine if the same approach was considered to address all forms of bigotry, or violence against women, or any of the issues that are genuinely rampant among the population.

A disgraceful end. Melbourne University is a captured organization with no backbone

Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack. No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.

media in this country is so completely cooked

We can't be burned out in time for whatever comes next. Even if I am I can't be. I'd like to stfu and not leap into this grotesque pit of people sharing gore and private info and calls for mass deportations. But at the end of the day, I'll be there for what comes next in real life. We will be.

What a nightmare. Looking at these videos on shores you've walked down plenty of times. Thinking it could be people you know. For some of us it is. What a tragedy for so many.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said that Hillary Clinton sought to sweep aside young people’s moral opposition to genocide by incorrectly blaming social media and “propaganda.” “Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit amount to outright genocide denial.”

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"

have a friend who LOVES chuck wendig so I'll be mining these for potential chrissy presents

I was right he did need a top hat.

An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour. - Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times - 10% of daily German household use - 5.5 hours of Netflix - ~4hrs of gaming This is probably a huge underestimate www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

The trajectory to 2035 matters. Coal generating a lot or a little before 2035 is the difference between massive climate impacts and very little climate impacts. This narrative of 'inevitability' is dangerous and stokes severe complacency.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

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