We now see you for what you are. The three war parties: One Nation, the Coalition and Labor who have never seen a US war they don't want to back in. Millions of Australians disagree with you. They want a government of principle, they want a government of peace.

🧵Spotted on Sunday Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: An athletic woman (40s?) is walking with a teen (14?) towards the markets. With a cheerful smile at the blue sky overhead she says: "It's such a nice day, we shoulda gone bare feet!" (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aoteaora New Zealand: A mustard yellow VW Kombi is motoring along a winding country road. Past vineyards, cow paddocks and apple orchards. A happy looking black dog (staffy?) poking its head out the window. Eyes closed in doggy bliss, getting smell drunk as they go. (1)

🧵Spotted A Little While Ago in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (70s?) is sitting with his grandson (2?) on his knee. They're reading a book about farm animals and he's relishing doing the piggy noises. Small human is copying in between chortling with glee. (1)

🧵Spotted Recently While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two men (late teens?) in boardshorts are chilling at the beach on camp chairs next to their campervan. Pouring heaped piles of cereal into bowls. Energy drinks by their bare feet. Undies draped over their van's side mirrors to dry. (1)

🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tall woman (50s?) radiates pure affection while watching her vibrant petite mother (80s?) walk out of a cafe. Speaking to friends, she proudly says: "She's a powerful unit, my tiny mum." Her friends laugh and agree. (1)

🧵Spotted at an Asian Food Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (5?) is walking from food stall to food stall. Dad asks what he wants but it's SO hard to decide! Laksa? Mee goreng? Roti? Dumplings? Hmm. Ah! An idea! He'll ask his tummy what it wants! (It wants dumplings!) (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) is waiting at a pedestrian crossing with Nana but the light is taking SO LONG to go green. With a huff, she lays down like a starfish on the footpath and says: "Tell me when we can go Nana! I'm SLEEPING NOW!" (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cheerful robust woman (50s?) spots a friend across a supermarket carpark and bellows: "Come here and give us a hug ya big loner! It's been ages!" Her friend laughs and hurries forward to meet her in a huge happy hug. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (30s?) handing out flyers for an upcoming ceilidh* is chatting to a woman (20s?). He says: "If ya like laughing and having a good time, why not come along?!" She smiles and says: "I might! I hear laughter is good for the heart." (1)

🧵Spotted While Recently Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (30s?) in a suit, holding a take away coffee cup, leaves an office, swaps his shoes for sneakers, drops a skateboard on the ground and rolls away. Sipping coffee, expression content. Work's done for the day, now's the time for play. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (20s?) is walking down the street, holding a tiny human (1?) who is wearing a blue bobble hat. Mum is softly smiling to herself as she window shops. Bobbing up and down, humming under her breath, soothing Tiny Human to sleep. (1)

🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (70s?) says to a friend: "Do you ever feel like chucking everything in and running away to join the circus?" Her friend laughs: "Sometimes. But then I remember how much I like sleeping in my own bed. I REALLY love my bed." (1)

Yess! Tech is easy, people are hard. And collaboration is power. Another great piece of writing from Tim.

my aims when meeting a new doctor: please treat me like someone who knows stuff and has a brain, but also please never treat me like someone who remembers things...

good on Grace Tame for being difficult. Being difficult is how we make progress! adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...

Putting together some clips of my speaking and this story about @linseymarr.bsky.social proving that flu is airborne and not droplet spread gets me every time. youtu.be/4ySzpyJH5_0?...

Where I come from, if a dog kills or even attacks someone, it gets put down. Between this and the kids who have killed themselves on its prompts, it’s past time to take OpenAI behind the barn.

Long time coming and a long way to go to address the damage - but so grateful to everyone who has ordered a copy of Where It All Went Wrong (including through your library!) I’m still so angry - and I hope it makes you angry too (so we can fix it) x

Lemme put my cards on the table here. I miss what the old Twitter did for my career; I got a lot of work there. I also met some good people, many of whom I still know. But Twitter’s gone. It’s the fascist site now. For me, no “relevance” is worth staying there. I’m here to meet good people again.

I am trying to narrow down ten pieces of writing to 3, and HOO BOY it's hard. Each one I read is my new favourite. Love the one you're with, I guess!

If there's something you really REALLY want people to know, the more ways you present that information the better, whether we're talking about graphs or train stations! adsei.org/2026/02/23/c...

repeat after me: I would love to speak at your #IWD event. I have a speaker fee because of course we will not be celebrating IWD by asking women to work for free.

From me: The architect of the Robodebt scheme, who was told it was unlawful even as he delivered it for the government, is still employed in the public service, now at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. And in a senior governance and risk role. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...

I do wonder if Scott Britton has to put Scott Britton on the risk registers he maintains for the federal prosecutor’s office

If you're going to donate to Eric Dane's GoFundMe, why not donate the same amount to a random person living with ALS's GoFundMe who doesn't have the publicity to get their financial amount hit quickly?

Rick's newletter is a precious thing of joy among the chaos and trauma. Go subscribe. This week's is particularly delightful.

Let's be clear. Kids aren't addicted to screens. They, like adults, are addicted to deliberately addictive algorithms designed to keep them on platforms.

Wearing my Raising Heretics t shirt on the train and someone is looking at it hard and seems very concerned.

Are public transport buses unusually noisy and lurchy, or is it a special form of torture designed particularly for pt? Could they be less likely to fling passengers through a window while turning corners if they were designed better?

Intergenerational asset transfer? Get out of the way dad! www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

The AI Hype industry wants us to believe that megascale LLMs developed and operated unethically and unsustainably are the only possible path to the future, that's nonsense. Smaller systems designed to do one thing really, really well can be game changing. adsei.org/2026/02/18/p...

Oh, you think it's ai because of em dashes? Where did ai get em dashes from? WHERE DID IT GET THEM, MOTHERFUCKER?

so many good questions!!!

Did you know gum blossoms don't just attract bees - Australia's eucalypts rely on a huge range of species for pollination! Stay tuned for more stories about #OurEucalyptHome in the lead up to National Eucalypt Day on March 23rd! Cartoon in collaboration with @eucalyptaus.bsky.social!

it's a dumb question i guess: but how long will the racist hard right rump of this country determine immigration policy and a host of other social programs and positions? what kind of misjudged cowardice lets that happen?

100% this has always been my biggest complaint about most conferences: the complete and utter lack of seating outside the session rooms. Provide places in the halls, or provide additional rooms with chairs and tables where nothing is scheduled.

If anyone in Sydney would like to improve accessibility then the team at Accessible Arts will be happy to advise ❤️ aarts.net.au

Please make your events accessible. This means not merely making it possible to get into the room, but creating networking/conversation spaces where it is easy to sit down without leaving the conversation - a mix of bar stools with high tables and lower chairs with coffee tables, for example.

I spoke to @abcnews_au to help people be aware of this entangled whale. This whale was last seen in Victorian waters on Friday 13/2/26. If you see it, call: @deeca_vic emergency hotline: 1300 136 017 @orrcaaustralia : (02) 9415 3333 #entanglement #humpbackwhale #victoria

One day there will be a fascinating study done into the Renée Leon lobby. One day I suspect I will write it.

I'm putting together a 45 minute workshop & I maintain that the only way to do a really good workshop that responds to the needs of participants is to prepare a lot of material that you're prepared to ditch to roll with the flow. Otherwise it's just a lecture, & you might as well be a recording.

new favourite word just dropped. it me. I am the snackrifice.

100% accurate.

It's a bit unnerving, in 2026, just how lightly you only need to scratch many conservatives to have them admit that believe white people are supreme...

These "Australian values" sound pretty good! Especially the bits about "freedom of speech", "freedonm of religion", "mutual respect", "tolerance" and "compassion for those in need" ... wonder if we can get some of our state premiers to sign up

Every whistleblower I've ever spoken to believed (correctly) they were doing their public duty, bc others failed. None wanted to become a "whistleblower". Yet they're punished by systems designed to destroy them. Labor promised to protect them but have only tormented them with inaction & gaslighting

PLEASE share this, far and wide. This kid has trained, relentlessly and meticulously, for over 6 months.

🧵Spotted While on a Camping Trip in Aotearoa New Zealand: A little furry black dog sits by the entrance of a country inn, monitoring people coming and going. His human is chatting with other locals, but Little Furry Dog is vigilant. If there's anyone to quietly woof at, he's the one to do it! (1)

Hello lovely people, just in case you need to snatch up a small moment of happiness today, you can find Tiny Moments of Joy here in both print and ebook form. www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...