About time someone came for the babies and their disastrous impact on social cohesion

Can't believe it's been 10 years of being told that you mustn't call ignorant bigots ignorant bigots. You just have to politely live with the mess they've made

Tax fraud by businesses is far worse than NDIS fraud, yet we hear about NDIS "rorts" all the time. More on this soon.

David Pocock urges Albanese to stop tech companies training AI models using Australian content www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This "ai code/art is already everywhere and impossible to avoid so you should just relax about people using it" shit has to stop, it's not remotely true. Same exact shit as "it's the inevitable future!" or "you can't put the genie back in the bottle!!" We can literally do whatever the fuck we want

I want to give a big shout out to @davidpocock.bsky.social for (again) standing up to the Labor government, this time on the AI copyright issue, which would be an egg that can’t be unscrambled. Artists and creatives need to be compensated for the use of their work. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Just gleefully ignoring the reality that many treatments are simply unavailable in someone's local area, and ones that are theoretically available might take them years to access under the public system.

Hey mates! The literary landscape has been drying tf up but Overland continues to support staunch voices traditionally excluded from mainstream media. If you have the means, please throw some support behind Overland 🙏

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

New poem about the primary kind of friendship I have these days while raising my kids.

AHAing at Macquarie University next week? We're here to help :D

Labor’s proposed cuts to the NDIS represent one of the most serious attacks on the rights, independence and dignity of disabled Australians in recent memory. The Greens will do everything we can to stop this bill.

#Auspol A reporter on the ABC asking about lower house prices harming retirees wanting to sell as they get less for the house. Newsflash, if they are downsizing to free up cash, the smaller property they buy will have dropped as well. It's a non issue

A quick update on the fight to stop Labor’s NDIS cuts: the Greens have delayed these cruel cuts by another 8 weeks as we work to stop them entirely.

my body is a machine that transports authentication codes from my screen to my phone and some other supporting auxiliary functions

The weird thing people aren’t really talking about with the #NDIS cuts is the economic benefits of social and community participation funding - all the day programs (admittedly an outdated model), individual support workers, etc. What will the sector employment impact be? #Auspol

There is so much money in hate. It's not even a belief system for most of these people - as laid out in the books Nazi Billionaires and Big Business and Hitler (both recommended reads for this moment btw) it was purely 'opportunity' which drove fascist support. Which is what we're seeing again

I found this a really thought provoking read as I am embarking on some writing that kind of feels a bit like a 'leap of faith' in my PhD...it really captured the feeling of risk both personally and professionally in stepping into a new writing project. Lovely piece thanks @damonyoung.com.au

In case a hideous curse befell you (i.e. you missed my newsletter), here's my latest. What is a "leap of faith", and what's it got to do with writing a book?

It's maddening to watch the New York Times quoting a vendor on how transformative the vendor's products are. THEY'RE SELLING SOMETHING. YOU'RE HELPING THEM. The hype is so obvious.

"Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly ... urged educators to accept that most future writing would be produced in a partnership between artificial intelligence & human discernment." Powdered rhino horn seller urges doctors to accept that future medicine will contain powdered rhino horn.

What did @regimecpa.bsky.social know?

Just remember the purpose of houses is as residences not commodities. So houses not looking like great investments is good news for home buyers who want to live in them. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

me when JD Vance says “us millennials”

Suraj has a point.

the idea that there is a stigma attached to straight attraction to men seems to be entirely a function of experiencing the world online and in a handful of hyper-specific social milieus

I did it again! 2 days in a row! #PhDSky

Equally true of academic publications. For people like me, trying to keep half a foot in academia while no longer actually being *in* academia, it's incredibly valuable to hear about the preprints, articles, monographs etc. everyone has coming out So please, keep talking about them!

every fiction book i've bought this year has been because someone on here posted about it. Not once have i regretted it. if you like a book TELL THE WORLD. this post brought to you by Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning which is MAGNIFICENT. Go read it. my thanks to whoever shared that on my feed

🚨On Monday July 27 at 2pm AEST, every phone in Australia will get very loud. 🚨 If you are vulnerable, with a phone as part of your escape plan, please make sure that you take steps to protect yourself. If you aren't vulnerable, please help get the word out to protect those who are.

Still better than asking chatgpt

"Just fact check and verify what the 'ai' puts out, you'll be fine." (libraries gone; textbooks gone; web search gone; personal libraries logistically impossible; no time in newly abbreviated deadlines for verification) "OK. How?"

"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content

Given the tax excludes family homes and farms, and is only applicable to quite large amounts of inherited wealth, perhaps we should be calling it a nepobaby tax

BBC News went live to Cabo Verde and then Cabo Verde scored a goal. Absolute scenes.

Honest to god this is jokerfying me. No matter how how far rightward a centre left party goes, the media continues to make up extreme left governments to get mad at.

Starmer being able to lay out his own departure timetable (potentially over months!) is silly. You don't give a PM a farewell tour, you do the numbers over the weekend, roll him at 10am, and tell the voters he's gone to live on a nice farm in the country. You amateurs. You absolute toddlers.

One of the best feelings tbh.

Just in case anyone is unsure why fewer women work than men... and whether childcare is important. live.thepoint.com.au

The Greens have suspended standing orders in the Senate to debate a motion calling on Labor to withdraw its devastating NDIS bill. This bill must not pass.

Happy Father’s Day to the king of Father’s Day posts

I made the mistake of going over to threads and after 3 minutes of "book threads" I fear many of these people might be genuinely illiterate

Man, I would sell my soul to be able to think and write like this man. archive.md/SSLbJ

I'm trying to create a new habit of getting an hour (eventually 2-3) of study done in the morning before work because I am finding my brain is struggling in the afternoons at the moment. I finally got up with the alarm this morning and did it! What a rush, to achieve something on a *Monday*. #PhDSky

they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!

Does a dishwasher have feelings? Does an iPad feel regret? Can a calculator mourn? FFS. Bonkers. Can these people hear themselves?

So the ratings are in for the #Socceroos match against the USA, and it's impressive. 2.1 million on average, watched the 5AM AEST kick off. Amazing areas. I could imagine what's going to be like later in the week, when we play against Paraguay.

Ms 13 and I binged all 3 seasons of Heartstopper (for about the 5th rewatch) while we went about our weekend and it never fails to make me feel every emotion. I'm so happy that my kids are growing up in a world where a show like it exists and wish I'd been as lucky... What might have been.