"The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors." independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

the cloud is just someone else's computer

A (long) summary of others’ investigations into the well-funded international Islamophobia networks & Australian links, reflections. Palestinians are slaughtered because power elites have accepted the indoctrination. & Palestinians forbidden to mourn 😡 open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... #auspol

The weekend might be a good time to catch up with this. The Right (formerly free speech absolutists) is crushing our speech, cultural treasures & protest rights bc they despise us. They despise Muslims even more than us “woke” irritants. Networked & funded hate. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?

🧪 seems like wildly irresponsible journalism at best, and wilful disinformation at worst, to post this, and not mention that all of the most strident criticism linked to is produced by "scientists" directly funded by plastics manufacturers and chemical companies.

MAGA: "NO ONE IS LAUGHING AT US NOW!" The rest of the world:

Hey everyone, please be very careful when using odourless thinners. They lull you into a sense of non-toxicity. Thinners are usually toxic, and many oil paint pigments will seriously damage your health. I use very stinky thinners to remind me to open windows and mask

there is no link between Palestinian authors, Palestinian activism, or Palestinians and the Bondi massacre, and if you believe there is you are either extremely stupid or evil or (most likely) both

Meanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...

Many people are saying 2+2=5, and who are we to judge if they’re right?

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?

idk what people mean when they say american industry is in decline, the US seems to be very active in manufacturing consent

An essay from a man in Nairobi talking about the social, psychological, and emotional toll of working as a chat companion

A dozen former athletes call for a royal commission: the government must heed this demand 100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble

Will Stencil wrong again. American interventionism since the end of WW2 has been a rolling set of disasters, enacted upon sovereign nations with bipartisan support, causing the death and displacement of tens of millions of people. They just didn't do the key jingling part for pundits this time.

Checking in on the TikTok knitting lady who insists the military would never follow illegal orders, and she is insisting that by the letter of the law this was legal because... well because otherwise her grift of telling liberals comforting nonsense falls apart, I guess.

I guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here. It will only embolden them.

They have no need for the patient escalation other administrations have conducted to incite the conflict they desire. They've seen what the world will tolerate. They won't stop until the American order is collapsed. And there's no external force that can or will.

The "rules based international order" has always been a facade constructed by the most powerful nations to lend legitimacy to their conflicts of greed and power. Gaza was the nail in the coffin for what little reality there was.

"NSW records the highest number of road deaths in eight years" A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

While far from impossible, it does take concerted effort to inure people to violence and atrocity to the point where they're comortable enacting it, and the stuff happening with grok gives me the same sickening feeling that listening to radio broadcasts from Rwanda leading up to the genocide does...

About three and a half hours until this cursed year draws to a close. Good riddance, 2025. Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026. To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.

This entire opinion piece by Chip le Grand does not mention ISIS a single time. Not once. Instead it repeatedly suggests that the cause of the Bondi attack was Labor's failure to crack down harder on Gaza protests and related antisemitism. www.smh.com.au/national/lab...

I don’t know man, if you earn your money through the simple act of having a lot of money to start with, and the work you do is calling people to check in on your money, that’s pretty unskilled

“hey leena how’s your day going?” “WAKE IN FRIGHT WAS A DOCUMENTARY”

Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right, writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...

@tashtaylor.bsky.social hey! Didn't know you were on here, but remember having a great time talking after meeting you at the 2019 equs workshop. Would love to chat and catch up sometime. Hope you've been doing well :)

At this point, Segal could call for the torching of mosques and Muslim homes and no one in media or power would bat an eyelid

Western countries gearing up to annihilate or enslave anyone darker than olive-skinned again while purporting to be the pinnacle of civilisation and inventors of human rights is astounding to watch

The world has changed since the emergence of Covid-19. So have our brains: news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...

Wrote something for @OverlandJournal about the scapegoating of the Palestine solidarity rallies overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...

John Howard is enormously out of line attacking the government over social cohesion. He personally signed off on $500,000 given to far-right race hate group “Advance” (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...

It’s a tribute to the Israeli indoctrination program that it’s only a third. The moral injury done by that indoctrination starting in early childhood, dehumanising Palestinians constantly, is a crime in itself.

seeing Netanyahu smugly use the dead at Bondi to further justify Israel’s genocide perhaps one of the more evil things I’ve heard in my life

The gunman- tackling hero being an Arabic fruit shop owner from the Shire who copped a couple of gunshot wounds will do far less to neutralise the 'mass deportation' Australia for the white man narrative than it should

What a nightmare. Looking at these videos on shores you've walked down plenty of times. Thinking it could be people you know. For some of us it is. What a tragedy for so many.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is a crucial spin on the meme.

Feels wildly irresponsible for anyone who cares about science and has read even the first three dot points to uncritically repost this. Bad faith science communication like this is at best misinforming people, and in reality is actively destroying public trust in the very concept of science. 🧪

FBI classifying transgender people as domestic terrorists, now. Congratulations to all the people who said this wouldn't happen www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

God I hate how anti-intellectual out times are. I’d rather be sitting here reading interesting books, or learning about astronomy stuff, or making a movie about weird shit - but I gotta spend energy constantly explaining my existence to a world that empathizes more with Nazis then marginalized ppl.

UW and Fred Hutch researchers, and many others, are bringing us closer to a cure for HIV. In Washington state, we're proud to thank our scientists today on World AIDS Day.

another rave review of NOCK LOOSE, this time in the final ever edition of Meanjin. see replies for my full statement haha

Tyler West, @notesnowhere.bsky.social recently died at the young age of 30. I'm lucky to have known him. His contributions to historical scholarship will remain important www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/an-obituar...

🚨Fossil fuel operatives  – like anti-Voice group "Advance" - are duping cash from unsuspecting Australians by lying + falsely claiming to be “grassroots” movements. Top misinformation expert says vested interests using sham fronts to "dupe" public... theklaxon.com.au/b8jt

who thought dick cheney dying would only be the second best thing to happen that day

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