About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

instead of further investigations - perennially the favoured course of action - why not build a debarment system for contractors who, on government projects, or outside of them, have done something very bad? this is standard elsewhere but practically non-existent across aus states and federally.

who needs steve smith anyway?

there are some european countries, inc france that publish a formal list of what markets a bookmaker can offer. this might be the way to deal with prop bets.

lol at this instance of nationalist bias in refereeing/scoring

This website has the juice.

step 1: assign endless responsibilities to the police, just continually making them the body responsible for things step 2: respond to any criticism of their behaviour with “well they have the most difficult job in the world”

I listened to an NPR segment - probably TAL - interviewing AI researchers and I felt like I was listening to a charming, brilliant man calmly explaining how he knew leprechauns were stealing his slippers.

less than half the number of guns in canada as in australia

"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ultra-nationalists add a bunch of names, including nazis, to the jewish council petition to undermine it. when it becomes clear there are some false names, they say "ha, you were trying to invent jews to boost your profile"

gregory clark is the guy who produces enormously high figures for intergenerational persistence using his surname method because he is motivated to say that inequality is primarily by biological variation

the first sentence of this post is just grammatically and conceptually nightmarish

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

Look I am not a fan of this arrangement but isn't their head of state King Charles www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

albanese keeps searching for stupid words to rationalise the fact that he is a little bitch and that is the only reason why he invited herzog

premier bavin of the nationalist party introduced a criminal offence of "unlawful assembly" in nsw in 1929, in response to trade union activity. despite protesting it at the time, no labor government has ever removed it.

by the looks of it, the consular service dfat is providing doesn't approach that of the US, UK and denmark www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

just 5000 was the expectation (small protest) and the gov invokes special powers, the police block a march on a historic route, they show up in their hundreds, and the proposed march to parliament (during a time of very low traffic) is in the opposite direction of where the president of israel is.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

NEW: Here's the list of the 144 processes Centrelink has flagged as operating unlawfully or erroneously There's so much to go through, including more false debts, failures to record ppl's circumstances & income properly, & the whole-scale fuck-up of Rent Assistance www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...

rent seeker’s paradise

In the DOJ's Epstein documents, Lawrence Krauss, facing a complaint of sexual misconduct, noted Australia's plaintiff friendly defamation laws: "We may need to initiate a lawsuit (and against Gizmodo in Australia, where basically anyone can sue and win)"

short pours somewhat rife according to the national measurement institute’s secret shopper trial of 400+ venues www.9news.com.au/national/pub...

Ummmm?? This is unexpected from the AFR. The times they are a-changin'?

probably should be more discussion among self respecting political elites about how what’s productive is also in some ways whats bad for the environment

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

The partner income test traps people in abusive relationships and dangerous households, and the Department is out here doing bad Bridgerton jokes about it

engaging in censorship to avoid an adelaide-like “furor”, which was centrally about censorship

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

the rationale for the 25% cgt discount implies that the 1 year holding period should be extended to like 5 years

"The assessing psychologist provided evidence to support the doli incapax presumption being upheld or partially upheld (i.e. for at least some of the child’s charges) in nearly one-half of cases (48.8%), and rebutted in 50.0% of cases"

new and good

would love to see an extended time series of pauline hanson's "approval" ratings, using all the available (admittedly limited) sources.

Wrote a piece for @crikey.com.au on how the media stopped discussing climate change www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/02/c...

abolish the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority

the results are in from the voluntary "safety pledge" initiative.

"Canberra instead has adopted the submarine principle for dealing with Trump, as detailed in a Financial Times profile last week of NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte: “You stay below the surface, don’t make waves, and surface only when you absolutely need to, to get something done.”"

bit weird having a belarusian facing a russian in the GF

when the rule of law is revealed to be a bit of a mirage

“The overwhelming liberal focus on disinformation misreads how digital platforms work…cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes”. Start of a new series by the excellent @robtoes.bsky.social

"While the combined Liberal/National/One Nation primary vote is very badly split, it has also been quietly going up, and it is now averaging 45.8% in polls this year compared to just 38.2% at the election - something that seems to not have been generally noticed."

excellent work by these guys

Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.

stop trying to make this happen

the trouble is we have a news media where for like most of it the reader becomes less informed than they were before the encounter. most prominent story on the biggest news site news.com.au is an antivaxxer thats furious that someone on a bike said "i hope the white genocide does happen"

interesting, would like see this method applied to hilda data