Could making remarks outside court claiming the judge was "emotional" (typical white supremacost abuse of women) be contempt of court? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/v...

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

How to piss off all sexual offenders. #BelieveVictims

If the earth was flat, this is what Lunar Eclipses would look like. That's a tree branch. #astronomy #astrophotography #moon #seestar

There's a dramatic sunspot group bang in the centre at the moment. You could fit 10 Earths in it! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Always good to see these kinds of complexities to counter simplistic narratives around dopamine "levels"...

Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends

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Petition - worth signing! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...

Not wrong! "Hasty decision inflicts more pain and will cost jobs - The Australia Institute" australiainstitute.org.au/post/hasty-d...

The researchers point out ongoing gaps in the literature I suspect this won't be the last word on the topic; transphobes will be transphobes But the study shows that blanket bans on transgender people in sport are NOT supported by the best available evidence See also... time.com/7296246/tran...

"Science is intrinsically neither good nor bad; rather, it is usually competent, sometimes inept, occasionally inspired, and often humorous" Humor in Science, Edwin D Kilbourne pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11613444/

Doing some guest spots on @3rrrfm.bsky.social through Feb, and had a great chat to @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social about the rise of One Nation, right-wing politics, the state of the media, and his new venture Lamestream

Good visualization of this one by @authorjmac.bsky.social

So much this.

Globe and Mail cartoon

2/1/2026- WARNING! www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ja...

Epstein files. Today's cartoon by Naser Jafari. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein

Pork chart. Today's cartoon by Mariano Ruszaj. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #Trump #Epstein #fraud #misogyny

Will the Prime Minister be conducting a press conference today regarding the most important story in the world right now?? The admission by the terrorist state of israel that they have murdered over 70,000 Palestinians #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #auspol #FreePalestine

🤔You mean the *centrist* Dem responsible for killing good bills had ties to Epstein? Imagine that

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f.... #News

Children don’t need to understand politics. Adults need to understand responsibility. This was drawn in 2014. That it still rings true for children today, in 2026, is devastating. 💔

On the platforms used by real estate agents for renters, documents are exposed and accessible without any form of login, according to research. I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

So, 3 hour Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds set last night. The guy can definitely frontman. Also, Warren Ellis on the fiddle. Nice Melbourne areas.

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

Measles is airborne & very contagious. One person can infect ten more. They should be providing respirators to everyone in the camp. They should be cleaning the air. They should be protecting these children from a deadly & disabling virus. They don’t care if these kids die.

A periodic reminder that very little has been done to address the biodiversity crisis www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... The MOSSAD Trump Epstein Pedo Cartel infected the world #News

All right for some.

Australian Winter Olympics team staff test positive for COVID-19 ahead of 2026 Milan-Cortina Games. Two staff members with Australia’s Winter Olympic team tested positive for COVID-19 in late January. Both were symptomatic, are not competing, and measures are in place to contain any further spread.

Bargain.

Uni research survey on whether we'd trust AI in the judicial system, starting small with traffic offences. Given the current state of AI, hallucinating (to put it kindly) to invent academic papers for citations when lazy researchers use it.. uniofsunshinecoast.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I beg to differ Banking, Robodebt, Deaths in Custody etc etc Lots of fine words and righteous indignation but no real change for the better Re redress scheme overland.org.au/2025/06/sett...

...one third are murdered by cops. In other words, Americans are killed by their own government EVERY SINGLE DAY, and that has been true for decades. Y'all just never bothered to care when it was mostly black people, Hispanic people, American Indians, and those the government brands "criminals".

If all these oligarchs named in the Epstein Files are totally innocent, surely they’d be in favor of an independent investigation into Epstein’s crimes. Right?

The benefits didn't materialise. Many lives & businesses were disrupted, opportunities lost. We were estranged from our family. If you've had enough of it & want a brighter future, #JoinTheEuropeanMovement today & help us fight for a return to where we belong: as a full member of the European Union.

I can't think of anything less patriotic than allowing a corrupt pedophile to suspend the constitution so he can murder citizens, enrich himself, and imprison journalists.

10 of the best new protest albums to kick off 2026 https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1446/culture/10-best-new-protest-albums-kick-2026 #auspol

A declining empire – and how Australia should adapt https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01/the-morass-of-australias-foreign-policy-a-way-out #auspol

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

Sunday Shot is back tomorrow at 9am, so you can save yourself an Insiders migrane. We're joined by Aus Institute's resident historian @emmashortis.bsky.social, Michael Bradley of @marquelawyers.com.au, and I interview Nick Hanna, the lawyer challenging Chris Minns' anti-protest laws in court.

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

Fun Fact. Bruce Springsteen is not in the Epstein files.

Whenever I think it’s just me, a post like this turns up to reassure me I’m Ms. Average punter and there’s lots of folks who think as I do……

An Australian killed 51 Muslims in New Zealand and that warranted no introspection, no outrage, no legislation of any kind whatsoever.

The whole exchange is even worse live.thepoint.com.au/2026/01/the-...

The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

There's been a global decline in alcohol consumption since 2022. The vast majority of my LC patients are completely intolerant. The widespread availability of Gliptins may also drive down alcohol use. There is NO data that will be untainted by Cövid. We will need to rewrite much of it

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 @atranscendedman.bsky.social 🥵 alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...