Well, the masks weren’t on very tight to begin with, but they’re fully off now. Weak, pathetic, hateful, insecure weirdos.

I am a bit taken aback how many powerful people didn't realize that Trump taking office was an inflection point marking the zenith and downturn of "antiwoke" and not the dawn of their glorious era. Anyone who has been alive more than a few years has seen an oversaturation and then backlash cycle.

Two truths about submarines. 1) Small non-nuclear subs will outperform large nuclear subs in shallow water. 2) Modern affordable conventional subs that can be delivered will outperform costly nuclear subs that never get delivered. #AUKUS #auspol

John Menadue: “US parrots about ‘rules based international order’ to replace UN order. Code for US hegemony, domination. And to top up its cynicism, US then cherry picks rules that it decides to support. The US is a dangerous ally, as Malcom Fraser warned us.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Never Bloody Forget.

Jeez. Nearly a full one third of new fossil gas expansion in the US is specifically for data centres. It's 12% in Germany. It should be 0% in both!!!! www.urgewald.org/shop/fossile...

What our right-wing politicians are doing is dividing the nation. It's a dangerous game that must end. Never forget. "Shifting the political debate to a divisive culture war is exactly what Howard and his conservative fellow travellers are hoping for..." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Same vibe #auspol

what a spectacle. Avi Yemini, a domestic abuser who works for Rebel Media, standing right next to Hanson the entire time. And the 7 News journalists basically acting as PR / comms for Hanson. Fucking disgusting www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zbm...

I know there's no bottom level to Australia's media but also seeing Pauline Hanson elevated to Expert Commentator status is fucking shocking considering SHE WAS RECORDED CLAIMING AUSTRALIA'S WORST MASS SHOOTING WAS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION Immediately memory-holed. Like it never happened.

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

OMG www.denvergazette.com/2025/12/14/c...

While Richard Marles refuses to reveal what’s in the US review of AUKUS, Crikey readers have questions about an under-discussed aspect of the deal. Where will the nuclear waste go?

I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it

The shittest Australians you can think of are touching themselves right now. They've got engagement brain. They're thinking about posts, snap rallies and their 'brand'. They're hoping they can get a Cronulla going and hurt a bunch of random innocents while the engagement is still fresh.

One of the best, and most fascinating, of industrious @raypadgett.bsky.social ‘s interviews within the extended Bobverse. open.substack.com/pub/dylanliv...

This comment under Tim Dunlop's excellent article on the social media ban is spot on. The social media ban is highly reactionary (& a result of a wedge) and is 'neat, plausible & wrong' Tim's article here #auspol > tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

Choose your own adventure … #home

A sample NASA brought back from an asteroid contained amino acids, yet showed no signs of life. But how will we know what is alien life? A new machine learning approach could help scientists distinguish between chemistry that merely looks alive and chemistry that actually is. buff.ly/hOuFLF5

It's heartbreaking. In my opinion, what the State Library of Victoria staff have been put through in the last few years by senior management is a particularly heedless, cavalier sort of cruelty. Carolyn's article is both brave and exemplary.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new data center in Louisiana will use 3x more electricity than ALL of New Orleans — and guess who’s paying for it? YOU. Billionaires like Zuck are passing the cost of their corporate greed onto everyday Americans with higher water and electric bills.

"But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." -Neil Postman Somehow, they made both Huxley and Orwell right.

Albo haggling with states over $30b health funding while spaffing $360billion+ on Aukus for Trump’s fascists. #auspol Time the media got a harder edge on the Defence rort talking points.

This is a MASSIVE story. Our universities have been sabotaged by right wing neoconservative ideologues. It’s time to value AND FUND education from birth to death… life long learning. There’s plenty of money. It’s just being spent in the wrong areas. Like AUKUS.

Almost daily someone wants to tell me that I should mind my own business and stay out of US "politics". So almost daily I have to remind them that Trumpism affects global economics, environment and peace. I'll do what every concerned global citizen should do. I'll express my opinion. Loudly.

And Australia will be locked into the US criminal enterprise thanks to Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles and the rest of the Labor government. It's not as if the warning signs that Trump's regime would be thoroughly evil weren't there... #auspol

A lesson for the religious right. If this were truly a Christian nation. #Pinks #ProudBlue #ChristianNation

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Remind us when Albo’s submarines will finally get here? #AsymmetricWarfare #auspol

Also

I made it a bit more honest

This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.

"The reality of Aukus, from Australia’s perspective, is that it is not, fundamentally, an agreement that will deliver this country nuclear-powered submarines. It is a plan that will further enmesh Australia into US defence strategy..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

If you live in a walkable railway suburb with a job in the city and choose to drive everywhere and whinge about traffic, you should be forced to give up your house to someone economically forced to live in a dismal car suburb who would prefer not to. Without compensation.

and all those lovely gambling ads fill our sports media........

I do too.

The President of the US is now inciting the mob at a white supremacist rally. Is this who Australia wants as our closest ally, @albomp.bsky.social ? #AUKUS #auspol

Of course, Labor could’ve forced the social media gurus (and the Murdochs for that matter) to clean up their various acts … instead a big announcement that ultimately does squat. The at risk kids will still be at risk. Meanwhile, Albo sits it out as climate fries & his Aukus mate Trump lies #auspol

Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world

So instead of requiring gas exporters to supply gas to Australian manufacturers at reasonable prices, the cost would be transferred to taxpayers. Let’s gas cartel keep price gouging Australians, and taxpayers foot the bill. Really!?! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Current state of the Labor party and #Auspol

If Anthony was corrupted by Richardson he was a voluntary victim. There is no hidden, better version of Anthony that is inhibited by circumstance. There is only a man with a formidable lack of self-awareness and repeated poor judgement. He is all about the machinery of politics rather government

So much for AUKUS eh ? #auspol

Stay true to your creative self. Individuality is a gift. #JanisJoplin

The size of Albo’s ambition for the nation. (1:1 scale) #auspol

The size of Albo’s ambition for the nation. (1:1 scale) #auspol

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Hitler German minister who was executed for his opposition, explained that you cannot reason with stupid people. Effectively, you can only motivate them with fear and anger, and once that's been accomplished, you can only deter them with more the same.

My great great grandparents were part of settling a town where Indigenous people were forced off their land. The town is 150 years old, the fish traps in the river 1,000s of years older. They did what their culture told them was right, but it wasn’t right. I apologise for my family too.

One practical improvement would be for Hegseth to be imprisoned for being a murderer. Another would be to punish the ALP at the ballot box. A third might be marches to Canberra to end this dangerous alliance.

LEAVE Twitter already, folks. Get the fuck off there.