spotted on r/sydney… www.reddit.com/r/sydney/s/M...

This is the worst news. The NSN is taking out the First Nations camp / memorial in the domain. I hope there is as much outrage as when a statue is defaced.

The 'Australian Sikh Gurdwara Council' has issued an alert over the March for (White) Australia on Sunday, urging followers to stay vigilant & avoid areas in which the rallies are occurring.

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Always interesting to see which groups political leaders say have a right to protest and which are declared enemies of the state.

"Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Bob Katter about his Lebanese ancestry." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The incredibly muted political response to sovereign citizens being responsible for the murder of four police officers in 12 months is remarkable. The police / spook / political / media extremist framework is clearly only designed to be deployed against Islamic extremism, any other form breaks it.

So excited about this Mitch Brown news. Can you believe the AFL was the only major sporting league where no man had ever come out as bisexual or gay 🫠 www.instagram.com/p/DN1x3HA5Pn...

An actual child could do a better job of describing politics in the US right now than our most sophisticated pundits are doing, because a child wouldn't be concerned whether or not he sounds like a sophisticated pundit.

I hope the damages are unmanageable. I hope OpenAI collapses under the weight of the liabilities and Altman is left destitute. I hope it serves as a warning to the others

Me reading my teen journal entries, making notes for my therapist

Au contraire! The fastest animal on earth relative to its body size is an ex-Minister for Resources running to their new job at a mining company.

No. At this point, you don't get to claim "mishap".

Today we went to the Eltham miniature railway, an amazing institution entirely run by volunteers. There were queues down the footpath of all different cultural groups. Nothing unites like a bunch of cute little train!!

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

The same people who think consultants should be anywhere near government are the people who think Gen AI is a net good actually.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I SWEAR TO GOD JAMES

this saga was so funny cause Choice was like 'hey so this sunscreen doesn't work' then the company was like 'who are you going to listen to us or a consumer watchdog?' and then a bunch of influencers started going 'i did chemistry in high school, so i know that Choice is wrong'

The Australian offshore oil and gas regulator is not required under law to investigate fossil fuel company plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on new projects even where they lack sufficient detail, the federal court has found. My latest in @reneweconomy.com.au:

If LLMs are widely being used to give legal, medical, and financial advice, why are they not being regulated accordingly

lot of you seem very optimistic about who'll be writing the history of all this

Many have claimed Australia’s diplomatic position is of no major consequence … Israel’s strong response indicates it matters.

everyone loves to hate on the simpsons now but when the simpson family voice actors start dying off you’re going to see millennials come to terms with their own mortality on a scale you could only dream of seeing happen to your least favorite generation

404! La Trobe Uni scrubs mention of the Bendigo Writers Festival from its website. www.latrobe.edu.au/m...

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.

Melbourne pastry alert 🚨 Absolute angel Zahara from Beurre Cakes made this luscious lemon earl grey cake for our baby shower and she’s opening up a shop front on Maling Rd in Surrey Hills this weekend! She’s @beurrecakes on IG

Stopppp reading the AI overview it’s bad

The truth emerges. The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A. (A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw). Important scoop:

so the secret seems to be, lie, keep lying, lie some more, maybe even admit some lies, but never, NEVER stop asking for infinite money gizmodo.com/as-people-ri...

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

With the social media now including Youtube and TikTok, the kids know no other option. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

Hearing a lot of 'let's hire all these American researchers!' talk, and it's a lovely thought, but: where do you think the people who couldn't get jobs *here* were trying to go? In HASS at least the US was the last anglophone country that still had anything like a functioning academic job market.

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

"The ABC calls on Israel to again allow international journalists to report independently from Gaza, to allow all journalists to move in and out of Gaza and to ensure journalists in Gaza are safe." www.abc.net.au/about/media-...

well. at least there's new worms

Kudos to the Wapo for producing this horrifying account: every death in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023. wapo.st/3IRLZn6

The fact that I get dressed in proper work clothes during my third trimester is frankly incredible.

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. It's the the first-ever planned migration of an entire country. Read more: www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

we have to kill the computer

My favorite Bluesky moment…

Minns government environmental integrity condemned as ‘nonexistent’ amid 40% surge in land clearing Independent MP Jacqui Scruby says she saw ‘fresh koala scratchings on trees just metres from clear-felling’ in parts of proposed Great Koala national park #NSWpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Six hundred lives lost since Australia's Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

We have always made delightful little guys.

“Israel's parliament — the Knesset — this week voted 71-13 in favour of annexing the occupied West Bank. It was a symbolic, non-binding vote but one that gives a window into the mindset within Israel that is feeding the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Thrilled for him (and his parents who will get a car!)

There’s not words to adequately describe these crimes

It's wild that this guy's constantly popping up to tell us all about the horrible problems he plans on causing for the world and he's somehow not universally treated as a villain.

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.