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Welcome to the 21st Century STILL no flying cars, but your doorbell in the UK stops working because of a DNS misconfiguration in Virginia, USA. Now THAT'S progress, right there. Still working on hunger, disease, poverty, you know, that boring stuff.

Grand Theft Accounting open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Narcissism and wilful blindness in one headline... #auspol #gaza #palestine Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists. Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.

I know this is news ("news") to nobody but I am moved to register my continuing disgust at State Media (sorry, the ABC) "reporting" on the atrocity that is Gaza. After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵

What's the atomic weight of Hopium, again? This research on plant metabolic pathways is fascinating, until talk turns to using it to sequester Carbon. Let's do some *arithmetic* shall we? Headline: Planting 1.1 BILLION trees ≡ 0.000003% reduction in current emissions🙄 🧵 phys.org/news/2025-07...

Folks, I commend to you "The Night Piano", three jazz piano compositions by Natasha Moszenin, good friend of mine for many years. I don't usually do recommendations, but if you like lyrical jazz piano, you'll like these. (Also, full disclosure, some photos by me ☺️) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCj...

So: how the hell is @bsky.app choosing to dish out verification ticks? There are several thousand climate scientists, major scientific institutions, climate journalists etc who haven't been verified, but Bsky actively chose to verify a performance-fatalism casino tricks vlogger........

Golding.

Compelling article on what should be our defence priorities by ever-excellent #HughWhite in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au Such clarity & strategy so absent from ‘political debate’…

I'm picking this post at random, so the comment isn't aimed at it specifically, or the poster, specifically. It's just this: when bad-faith chaos agents start to destroy your social fabric from the inside, facts & logic mean as little to them, or to people who STILL support them, as your existence

The Governor-General and the Council of the Order of Australia have sullied the Australian honours system today. #auspol

Unfortunately the only juxtapositions influencing the new government are its arse and ministerial leather, and lobbyists and their credit cards. #auspol

Vale Loretta www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Our government, with an unassailable majority, continues to ship arms and voice “concerns”. Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice. They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol

The Decline and Fall of the House of Walmarticus open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

It’s pretty straightforward, isn’t it… When parents fear for their children’s health, education, even shelter they’re not going to have time let alone the audacity to fight their employers over $7.50/hour for 15 hours a week.

The first of what I hope will be many deep (and deepening) dives into Australia's single most significant climate policy - also somehow the most widely ignored and memory-holed. For @crikey.com.au - new data shows Safeguard is worse than we expected -->> www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/e...

No doubt many political candidates are grubs, but isn't it wonderful the collective amnesia of the political press once someone's elected? They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Dear @lintonbesser.bsky.social ABC News' Insta during the election period: Some good posts explaining how-to-vote & preferential voting. No posts providing a politician's bio for anyone but Dutton. And only a "Why Should Gen Z vote Liberal?" video. None for any other party. 🤔 #auspol #AusVotes25

#auspol #ClimateCrisis Not everybody has voted. Not everybody has made up their minds. Please spread it around, just in case... www.climate200.com.au/campaign/chi...

Francesca Albanese— "Is Gaza an extermination camp? Yes of course. How else to call a place absolutely closed, sealed, where no means of livelihood can enter, where everything has been destroyed, where refugee camps are bombed and people, adults and children, are burned alive." #FreePalestine

Used @hf.co's new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy) New post - on how big tech is trying to recreate the plastics crisis in the world of software www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...

Fuckity bye RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death. The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation. Rest in power ✊ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Nothing in this article is untrue (so far as I know). What makes it shit journalism is what it doesn't say, and when it didn't say it. This is horse-race political coverage. The gambling decision wasn't during the campaign, it's not even compared to the LNP, & WHERE ARE THE ALTERNATIVES PLATFORMED?

When Supreme Court justices react in hours to a question that usually takes days, or weeks, or months, the jurisprudential implications are crystal clear. This has nothing to do with a threat to the people being deported. Nothing to do with the Constitution. EVERYTHING to do with job security.🧵

Dutts! Dutts! - Yeah? What if we call them AFRICAN wasps? - You’re not helping… Well, how about CLIMATE CHANGE wasps - You’re fired… #auspol

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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

#FOI is a tool intended to allow us to participate in democracy and scrutinise our government. In opposition @albomp.bsky.social promised to “reform FOI laws so they can’t be flouted, as they have been by [Morrison’s] government”. Yet, Albo did NOTHING! 🤷‍♂️ #auspol

Quiet Beach gas approval takes govt's new fossil fuel project approvals to 17 - at least. Zach Szumer with the drill #auspol michaelwest.com.au/beach-approv...

A sickening video targeting a crossbench woman shows just how low politics has sunk. Abuse, lies and now a metaphor for violence—while women die each week from gender-based violence. Silence from male leaders is not good enough. The women of the crossbench won’t be cowed.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde @cathywilcox.bsky.social from 2022. Hasn't aged a day. #auspol

This is a nice pictorial demonstration of Chomskian restriction of debate (not a criticism of @cathywilcox.bsky.social). It's absolutely true that ALL of these elephants are being ignored by the duopoly. What's also true is that the MSM is doing its damndest to restrict debate TO THE DUOPOLY.🧵

Strength to all trans women today. The bigots are out in force, but always remember their hate says everything about them not you. Trans women are women, and a bigot is always a bigot.

"Peter..." "Yes, dear?" "The children want to have a sleep-over and play board games" "What? Children.. Over... Board? CHILDREN OVERBOARD!? Yes!! CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE! CHILDREN OVERBOARD, I'm saved, I'm saved!"

What an endorsement… Neil Young in an open letter. A great read. 🇨🇦💪

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

For the upcoming #election in #Australia, the @publichealthaus.bsky.social published its Election Scorecard today, rating the #commitments made by the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Liberal National Party (LNP) Coalition, and the Greens against seven #priorities put forward by #publichealth experts

Never mind trust indices, I want an anodynanometer, reading from 99.9% to 100%. Also something for Gaza articles that measures toxic omissions.

Coding in America in 2025 www.youtube.com/shorts/CCS7Z...

Apparently Gina Rinehart doesn't like THIS portrait of herself either. Peter Dutton has reassured her she looks lovely. Albo reckons she'll be looking better by 2050. Probably. #auspol

House of Representatives Party Leader Key words, "represent" & "lead". Yet leaders' policy is driven by focus groups, which while ostensibly "representation" is NOT leadership, & "representatives" who are stunningly silent on issues crying out for representation. Failed both ways. #auspol

No surprise, except perhaps for the framing of 54% as a "pass". "Tell me, children, would you prefer a 54% chance of surviving the climate crisis, or a 98% chance? Now think carefully, your mummy and daddy still aren't sure"

"It is this pattern of underreporting and whitewashing of Israel’s war crimes that raises the question of the media’s complicity," writes Dr Assal Rad. "After all, what is more newsworthy than Israel resuming its genocide in full force?" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The only reasonable applications for a machine that spits out unchecked text is mass disinformation. Any use of a generative LLM outside of this is just infecting other fields with a torrent of confident bullshit.

Why am I thinking of Cathy Wilcox’s Socialist Birds cartoon right now?