A year ago, I was up against Matt Goodwin - now Reform UK's candidate in the crucial by-election this week - on Question Time. Here's what happened. www.thenational.scot/news/2493544...

The media has the memory capacity of a particularly gullible goldfish

Turns out Birmingham & the Big4 banks skipped out on the Capital Gains Tax inquiry, despite being in the building.🙄 Australia Institute Economist @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social gives a clue as to why: Bcoz the CGT discount pushes up houses prices, banks lend more, & make more money💰 #auspol

Call them parasites instead, much more accurate

Congratulations to HarperCollins for discovering the scientific formula for the worst book in the world

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Letting agentic AI fuck with systems running on COBOL would basically be kicking the entire infrastructure of the modern world square in the nuts

Government policy settings for the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) Scheme enable modern slavery. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

commitments include "walking the dog", "grocery shopping" and "taking a nap"

The admin of the Balmoral community noticeboard on FB dealing well with ABC’s investigation of two footballers found guilty of rape. 😒

what even is the fucking point

Vetting the brides. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Racists freely doing racism at racist Australian conference in Sydney "speakers at the Advance conference issued warnings about communist plots, "cultural replacement", and "civilisational identity" "Abbott delivered a speech with the title 'Mass migration across the Anglosphere must cease'"

Whenever someone mentions nuclear power in Australia, start laughing at them and never stop. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #AusPol

Sex pest tower going up on the Gold Coast where they aim to privatise a beach

Bloke wearing another countries' flag and supporting their genocide gets hit, oh no

Absolutely SHOCKED to find out that neo-Nazis are not filled with the milk of human kindness!

this is what it feels like when people are nice to me btw

We’ve arrived at “what does the commemoration of The Great War mean for Sydney house prices?”

We present a typology of traps to avoid: 1. Believing that AI systems are minds 2. Believing that AI systems are theories 3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated. Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems. 3/🧵

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Mmm... let's check-in on Smart Traveller - this kind of risk seems something we should warn Australian travellers to the US about.. ... oh... wait.

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Trump’s Truth Social is allowing ads that appear *on his profile* purporting to be a Nine News link. These link to a “news” article that uses fake Penny Wong interview to sell a dodgy cryptocurrency platform.

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! OI OI OI www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

This but for all the senior positions in the ADF @kels316.bsky.social ?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... That’s the party surging in the polls. Thats who they are.

"if a business can't afford to pay its employees a living wage, it shouldn't exist" → if a person cannot do something without an LLM, that thing should not be done.

Joyce was busy at that time?

welcome to bluesky, where the discourse is made up and the likes don't matter

This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

I always thought the whole "they want you dead" thing was just hyperbole. But I guess this makes the entire raw milk, no vax, more asbestos stuff make a lot more sense.

independentaustralia.net/politics/pol... This is not an Australia we want, surely, where a small but inordinately powerful group of zealots gets to dictate to government, via a corrupt media, what and who we should hear.

Police have seized five posters from the window of a Canberra bar "depicting Donald Trump, J.D Vance, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin dressed in Nazi-like uniforms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Next month we'll hit 1000 days since the Murphy Report into gambling harm was handed down. More than 3 in 4 Australians want stronger gambling advertising laws, but the Govt continues to stall. Politicians from both major parties continue to accept donations, gifts & perks from gambling companies.

Luv 2 have social cohesion when we can't even be bothered supplying clean water to first nations people www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

muuum it's happening agaaaaaaain > a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

60 million poms about to discover Michelangelo uses nunchuks 🤯

AI company offering $1.50 per good RAW format photo to train from you know what to do: generate with a diffusion model, apply glaze, convert to RAW format, send in petapixel.com/2026/02/18/t...

Another amazing Capitalism article. What's the answer to the headline? > Your employer breaking the law and not paying you super, or you not consolidating super and paying *gasp* two sets of fees www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

No one invited Pauline Hanson to Ramadan Nights in Lakemba did they? Oh well, see you there Sunday night inshallah!

Luv 2 capitalism > with no adequate offset www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fire services say during rescues of this sort that they used “small tools to release the victim”. I bet they were microscopic tools.

That’s like giving me a dire warning I might get hit by a car while I’m wedged under the wheels of a truck. About 20 years late to this warning.

Yet they're all still free. Collecting a paycheck. Still doing the same things.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

How could [checks notes] Robo-Care go wrong? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I say this like 3 times a year, but we really need an entrance exam for politicians