This is appalling.

Fergodsake the whole point of reading is to learn about other ways of being!

'No cuts to frontline staff' said state treasurer Eric Abetz - but here we are. In particular, this service helped members of our increasingly aged population avoid an ambulance callout and/or the 50k trip to the nearest hospital.

This! ‘There's this recognition that on so many of these big challenges we are facing, it's not necessarily left versus right, it's actually vested interests and their stranglehold on the major parties versus the Australian people." #auspol #insiders www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

The Aussie Gaza flotilla captives (including Sam Woripa) have now been released from Israeli detention. Humanitarian civilians should not have to risk abduction, detention + military violence simply to deliver aid whilst Australia continues business as usual - no sanctions, continued weapons trade.

Went into the city yesterday and can I just say, I think women's interests would be better served by creating more public toilets than by fussing over who's allowed to use them.

Reason number eleventy million and forty-two not to use AI for every damn thing and not to believe what it says.

This thread! Yes, James, you're supposed to have read the sources you cite, it's called scholarship! Old mate also says it's actual 'academic malpractice' not to have an AI check your paper.

Basically the same deal Australia has signed up to with AUKUS except with more $$$, right @albomp.bsky.social ? #auspol

With all the media outrage over the budget and trlling us to feel bad for the wealthy. Just remember..... There are a hell of a lot more poor and not wealthy in the country. It's way past time to stop bowing and catering to the few. #auspol

It's not migrants who are a drain on government finances, Angus.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Good points in this piece from Chris Rapley: "Not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system... Sabotage is unthinkable – socially intolerable... We are doing to our planetary life support what no astronaut has done to theirs. "

You could replace 'sand' with any other resource and the same applies.

A great thread.

As I said: "We should be talking openly, regularly and brazenly about the need to both aggressively tax the fossil fuel industry while clamping down on it and managing its decline. It is strange and absurd to hitch a country’s fate to the sale of a product that cooks our life support systems"

This was a deeply unfair initiative, and Labor's failure to undo it was shameful.

People with mortgages on their homes will be poorer But the rich and businesses with investments will be richer with higher interest Check out who is on the board that makes this decision ...

Love a thread of weird facts and this one starts off strong right out of the gate

Time runs its hands over every memory until even the sharpest ones feel like something you can finally hold.

So the government allowed for-profit entities to control home care assistance such as showering – thus, who'd have thunk, driving up the price. The new price was too much for pensioners to pay. So now the government (taxpayers) will simply pay the extra to the profiteers. Have I got it right?

@australianlabor.bsky.social too gutless to hold providers accountable, too gutless to tax gas, just brave enough to pit the elderly against the disabled. #auspol

Huge thanks to @birmo.bsky.social for taking the time and having the skill to write the response that ridiculous ABC piece deserved.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

To be honest this basically is a Tarantinoesque Administration

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

'Israel ignores ceasefire, continues attack on Lebanon'

I would have loved this resource back when I taught US history. History is so often taught badly, when it can be both fascinating to students and an excellent way to develop critical thinking.

"A subscription shouldn't be a trap. That’s why we're banning subscriptions that lock you in because they're too hard to cancel." — AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social So, ... we're cancelling #AUKUS? 😏 #auspol #USPolitics

It's horrifying that after everything that's happened, 66% of Republicans still think Trump can make good decisions about Iran.

It's insidious propaganda to pretend AI is assistive. It's trained on stolen work, and trained to fit its output to specific parameters set by these companies. Then they say it will write for you. No it won't. It will write for tech fuedalism with your idea as fuel.

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.

Really? Please don't hoard fuel, and try to behave?

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

Renewable energy doesn’t have to pass thru the Strait of Hormuz.

Makes sense for Australia in so many ways #auspol “Battery powered trucks that can carry 60 tonnes already exist, and are purpose designed with 450 km plus of range and are capable of being recharged in an hour. They are better than diesel trucks in every way” reneweconomy.com.au/electrifying...

I've been saying 'morning!' to people I meet out walking the dogs here in suburban Melbourne just as I would at home. Some surprise me and say it back; a lot just nod/smile uncomfortably; but the ones who just look right through me – it's a bit soul-destroying.

That headline is pretty much what I said when I heard.

'Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows.'😂❤️

Just said this, not so pithily, in comments on a dev edit.

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters. The media is framing it in completely neutral terms. Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

This rolls on. Like a snowball. But made of shit. Remind me again @albomp.bsky.social why this site is safe for Australian consumption (& why you still use it)? #auspol

Let’s be super clear. Disallowing a protest of a foreign leader who has been an enthusiastic participant in a genocide leading to international warrants for the arrest of members of his government, is the most undemocratic, unAustralian and fascist action I have ever seen in Australia. Rise. ✊🏽

Could someone please remind me which search engines still work and are not corrupted by AI? I'm finding Google useless now.

What an excellent, detailed write-up of the copyediting process, showing how it's so much more than many people imagine. I'll have to give reading aloud as I edit a try.

I really miss those gift-wrapping videos that were filling my Instagram at Christmas time. So soothing.