'The disability and NDIS minister, Jenny McAllister, says the government has “thought really carefully about these reforms”. With respect, that’s deeply embarrassing.' Great stuff from Natasha.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Data centres are a blight on the neighbourhoods they're built in, use as much water as hundreds of thousands of people in one of the most drought-prone countries on earth, and are artificially propping up demand for dying energy sources.

“There is no life here, no water. They stopped the community kitchens. They even cut the municipal water supply to us. They have taken everything from us. They have taken away the possibility for life.” @dropsitenews.com Israel's #GazaGenocide continues. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-genoc...

The ABC’s Managing Director Hugh Marks said Charlie Pickering’s comments about Grace Tame didn’t breach the ABC’s code of conduct. Very weird given that Antoinette Lattouf was told she’d breached the ABC code of conduct for posting a factual Human Rights Watch post. www.youtube.com/shorts/ur9yu...

Guess what enjoys ASIO’s top ‘Zone 3’ protection? This massive data centre in a Melbourne suburb www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/11/m...

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

"We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot." I like this kid.

World's biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

Highly unusual for a journalism article to not be retracted when several sources and people mentioned in the article were misrepresented and have come forward about it — your move, @wired.com #LongCovid

Is every former British colony + Britain politically fucked right now?

I don't foodpost much, but I got gripped by a dinner idea & it turned out very tasty. Late-night style tofu kebab/yeeros/gyros & chips. The kebab marinade I made for the tofu worked so well, I'm chuffed. Nice to know that my recipe development skills are still kicking around. Sometimes 😆

I think we should replace every data center with a cat café.

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

I just pulled out weeds/grasses for over an hour, until most of the light was gone. For about 20 minutes or so, I had a companion of a young magpie, checking out all of the earth I'd turned over, hanging out at basically arm's length. The parents were there for 5 mins & then left the baby with me.

Anthony Head was the key guest at the first convention I ever attended. I was so nervous and he was so lovely. I stood next to him, shy and standoffish, and he cracked jokes and pulled me into this lovely pose. One of my favourite convention memories and photos. Farewell, Anthony Head.

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

Anthony Head as Frank-n-Furter. ❤️😢❤️

I think about this scene all the time. RIP Anthony Head

In honour of Anthony Head, I’d like to share this story. It’s lived in my mind ever since I first read it. He was good people. www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

O Antony!

Not Giles 😢 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Using AI to write without disclosing it is always wrong because it's a self-serving lie. "I wrote this." No you didn't. It's weird & gross that you wanna trick people into thinking you did. Of course, it's wrong to use AI if you disclose it, too, because it's a planet-destroying plagiarism machine.

Preventing the Wayback Machine from saving the news puts today’s journalism at risk of disappearing from history. 📝 Help push back. Sign the open letter calling on publishers to stop blocking web archiving 👉 www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

It's Pride! Follow trans writers before we're all banned go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound foreign aid flotilla accuse Israeli forces of abuse and torture.

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

Jun 6th - The night of The Unholy Masquerade ball, hosted by The Wellington Vampire Association in conjunction with the Lower Hutt Vampire Witch Club and the Karori Zombie Society. 📽️📅 What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

"fuck off"

Palestine’s ambassador to the UN was backed by envoys from the Arab Group and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation as he called on US President Trump to stop what they describe as Israel’s accelerating annexation efforts in the occupied Palestinian territories.

You couldn’t find a place more open to middle-class, “just asking questions”, platformed in the Guardian-style transphobia than Hampstead, and yet this is the reaction to a decade of relentless campaigning.

Google's parent company is worth $4.3 trillion and this is their search AI right now

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

you said it snufkin #sketchbook

The Final Report of the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine is out now. The reports documents case after case of censorship, surveillance, discrimination, disciplinary action, and bureaucratic obstruction targeting students and staff engaged in pro-Palestine advocacy.

New from me: Australia is getting Claude Mythos Preview. A spokesperson for the Australian Signals Directorate said the intelligence agency welcomed Anthropic’s expansion of Project Glasswing to include the Australian government and some private companies. Story on @information-age.bsky.social:

And stay down bish

Correction, Pickering was not on Avi Yemini's podcast, he just went out to the "protest" outside the ABC Melb building and allowing himself to be interview by Yemini (for no good reason). Problematic is treating Yemini with any credence. Absolute joke. www.smh.com.au/national/cha...

Palliative Care Australia (PCA) has warned that proposed amendments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Act risk leaving people with life-limiting illness without access to essential care and support newshub.medianet.com.au/2026/06/prop...

Health officials have revealed there was no consultation on the final algorithm to assess older Australians to determine what level of funding and home support they should receive thenightly.com.au/politics/hea...

DEWR is pushing ahead with AI implementation and assurance, despite early stumbles with automation and contractors www.themandarin.com.au/314036-dewr-...

This is a mad story, and it won’t be the last of its kind. We’re at a point where tech giants’ eagerness to cram the most AI into their systems is totally overriding their responsibility to their users: https://bit.ly/3REooLe

A coalition of 170 civil society organisations is urging the Albanese Government to support and implement an Australian Human Rights Act, following the introduction of a Human Rights Act private members Bill to the House of Representatives this morning www.hrlc.org.au/news/human-r...