This👇. I wonder what will replace Norway’s independent ethics council for the country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Will it mean decisions based more on politics rather than ethical concerns? I hate to think so.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with: The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I reckon if we deem you responsible and mature enough to face a 25 year jail sentence you're probably also mature and responsible enough to be able to use fucking tiktok

The capital gains tax discount & negative gearing have made housing less affordable & exacerbated inequality. On this episode, Maiy Azize, @purplepingers.bsky.social, Josie Lee & @amyremeikis.bsky.social discuss the origins of the housing crisis & how to fix the current mess. 🎧 theaus.in/49Y7n5w

The Global South is drowning in climate debt https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/the-global-south-is-drowning-in-climate-debt #auspol

Why the current Govt hasn’t fixed this anomaly in higher Ed yet is beyond comprehension

In addition to the extensive technology at its disposal, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is devising plans for a bounty-hunting program that would enlist private contractors to help carry out Donald Trump’s mass deportations.

The US military emits more carbon than entire nations, poisons people in both occupied & occupier nations & treats #ClimateChange as an opportunity for more extraction & domination. As @abbymartin0.bsky.social's new film argues, it's "Earth's Greatest Enemy". jacobin.com/2025/10/us-m...

How does the Australian government respond when citizens are wrongfully and arbitrarily detained overseas? @kmooregilbert.bsky.social develops a new evaluation framework to answer this question in this new article in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How did Australian universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years? By Prof George Williams "New students will b saddled w/ the consequences of Job Ready Graduates for the long term. Every day we delay a fix is a bad day for...students" theconversation.com/how-did-aust...

Powerful, intelligent, articulate condemnation of Western news media and US influence by an Egyptian woman in convo with CNN's Clarissa Ward, at the border with #Gaza. Superb. #USPolitics #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine #JournalismMatters

Appeared on this morning's edition of the @7ampodcast to discuss why the IRGC is interested in Australia, how it operates here and what listing it as a terror organisation might actually achieve 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/kyl...

If Australia wants to avoid American-style radicalisation and political violence, and save our tradition of political moderation, we'll need to reign in Big Tech.

Here I argue that the traditional left-right divide has been usurped by the politics of the chronically online vs. those of us who continue to primarily exist in, and interpret politics though, the offline world.

My monthly op-ed in today's Age / SMH www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

Heads-up! The outstanding academic @kmooregilbert.bsky.social is active on #BlueSky. She is absolutely very much worth a follow. btw If there are principled voices you know are on BlueSky, please feel very welcome to let me know, so I can follow them. 🙏 #HumanRights #MiddleEast #politics

Now where did I hear this earlier….

Maybe, but I'm somewhat hopeful that renewables are sufficiently entrenched that a majority of voters are no more than one degree of separation from someone with direct, +ve, or at least non -ve, experience of them. Though it's not impossible to convince people against their own reality, it's hard.

Fully funded by Gina & the fossil fuel industry *sigh*. It’s such a ridiculous argument. I’ve had solar here since Oct 21. No battery yet. Average bill $165 per annum. Previously solar in Pth since 2010. Bills were even less. But hey, renewables are scary, unreliable etc.

I expect the Libs are happy to lock-in: • fossil fuels industry donations • uncritical MSM coverage • the votes of 2GB listeners Young Liberals now have some hard work ahead of them. #auspol #NetZero

With thousands of voters installing solar batteries one can’t say the LNP are on a winning platform

Funded and pushed by the IPA ( read Atlas, Advance etc) who are absolutely crowing about this. See their performance in parliamentary committee. Their absolute disdain for anyone else is frightening. It’s Heritage foundation level.

They have the campaign already running in regional electorates. Local LNP on radios saying eg 152 jobs at risk in this electorate. Heard it in Capricornia Coast several times this week. There will be big money behind this campaign. I fear ALP has head up arse.

What do you at next election? It’s all they’ve done for at least the last decade!

Dan Tehan: the Liberals are dumping #NetZero bc: • Australia must have a stable & reliable energy grid w. affordable power for households & business • emissions should be reduced in a "responsible and transparent way" They're running a scare campaign on #renewables next election 😠 #auspol #climate

Disturbing to see CNN journalists reporting from #Gaza mistranslating what Palestinians are saying, to subtly push a narrative that Palestinians WANT to leave Gaza! They're misrepresenting what Gazans are saying to promote the Israeli & US Govt policy of ethnic cleansing! 😠 #GazaGenocide #journalism

Walmart, Amazon and TeePublic are selling t-shirts with unsubtle white supremacist messages. The #PaperBeatsRock t-shirt description declares "This t-shirt transcends mere attire, serving as a celebration of cultural heritage." I wonder if schools are aware of this trend #fascism #neoNazi #education

Israeli soldiers who admitted to raping a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teiman detention centre in July2024 were met with applause as they entered court this week. The video has been shared by Israeli Govt ministers, calling them "heroes." Zionist Israel is insane. #IsraeliTerrorism #IsraeliCrimes

Perfect post @demwar.bsky.social. #auspol #NetZero #ClimateCrisis

Video has emerged from the Miss Universe pageant of Miss Israel Melanie Shiraz rptedly scowling and glaring at Miss Palestine Nadeen Ayoub and giving her the side-eye. Miss Israel has denied the claims but there's too many moments like this. #FreePalestine #MissUniverse

This is why I do not follow any religion. Just be a decent ppl and live with respect, empathy and kindness.

I watched it on the @humanistreport.bsky.social YouTube channel.

Would probably be the same in AU which is why all religious institutions should be tax. They are not real charities anymore.

A US woman on TikTok conducted a social experiment where she filmed herself phoning churches asking for baby formula. Nearly every church refuses to help! Only a couple offer help, incl. a Muslim mosque! The bad churches then respond by vilifying her online!!! #religion #Christianity #charity

Dear people, When I find myself overwhelmed by grief at the horrors of world events, or I'm enraged by the complicity of our nation's leaders, I take a moment. Today's Lunchtime Concert on ABC Classic, hosted by Genevieve Lang, was an absolute delight. 🙏 #ClassicalMusic 🎶 #music

Listening to #ABCClassic Classic Drive this afternoon, as the wonderful host Vanessa Hughes plays listener requests. Superb. 😊 #ClassicalMusic #music 🎶 📻

When an article begins with "Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly", it may as well say "abandon all hope, ye who enter here" #uspol

Bullying through apps like Messenger, including group chats, is a much bigger problem for teens that anything that happens on Facebook. So, in an a**e-backwards kind of way, this wouldn't be such a bad outcome But there's always SMS, not to mention bullying in person #auspol

EXPERT REACTION: Libs dump net-zero (includes my thoughts on the need for Labor to adopt "real zero")

Here i am making the point in 2015, johnquiggin.com/2015... and linking to an earlier piece in 2012 (paywalled but first sentence gives the message) www.campusreview.com...

This disaster has been going on for at least 15 years. Time to kill for-profit education and training (and all human services) once and for all.

Can that be right? I’m aware that the hyperscalers are using massive amounts of electricity to scale up their models, but that’s a separate issue. We could just stop with the scale of existing models, and spend a modest amount to update withnew content. Can someone set me straight here?

Can someone check my arithmetic, please. I saw recently that ChatGPT gets 2.5 billion queries per day. Rounding slightly down that’s 100 million queries per hour. An average query is said to use 0.3 watt-hours, so that’s 30 MWh of demand, about the output of a single small-medium gas turbine.

In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat. They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues. This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service. www.crikey.com.au/20...

NYT: House Republicans released 23,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate after months of delays. The move came shortly after Democrats released emails suggesting that President Trump knew more about Epstein’s sex trafficking than he has previously acknowledged. Emails ⬇️

A generalisation, of course, but I haven't met a white South African yet that admits any responsibility for the problems being experienced in South Africa. I have worked there. I would be happy to meet one.

Why do they say we disagree with them politically? I disagree with them cuz they are racist fascist and my grandfather died b4 I was old enough to properly know him from wounds he reviewed fighting those pricks. So I simply want them gone.

> from his job not long after it emerged he was NSN & participated in the AUG March for White Australia along w the other schmucks. Following this, AHPRA suspended his licence.