Enjoying the weekend? Thank a union — and Frances Perkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8y3Y6w-b4w

#Bloomsky Aztec lily blooms a second time. Loves this heat, humidity and rain.

“But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Big hugs for Nanna Alex who has just made it back to the beach after her arrest. She’s here with @risingtideaus.bsky.social and says she decided to take direct action to stop the coal ships because as a Professor of Public Health she knows the risks. Wake up #auspol #RisingTide #ClimateAction

REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>> techwontsave.us/episode/304_...

The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

Come on #Ipswich get behind the free shop! #CostOfLiving #Homelessness #Community www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Plibersek is burying herself in this portfolio. Although it really brings out her true colours.

The federal government will expand a "lifeline" service for survivors of sexual violence, which advocates say is fully booked.

“Big Tech is actively promoting the integration of generative AI across all sectors of life—public & private, personal & professional—with little regard for whether we can sustain the infrastructure behind this,” says @jillmcardle.bsky.social in new @reset.org. 🗞️ en.reset.org/the-new-oil-...

Lol. You can trust AI. So they tell us...

A Long-footed Frog (Cyclorana longipes), one of many, many frogs we encountered at Bullo River Station last week after some of the first big rains if the season. #WildOz

Ecuador just delivered a stunning WIN for the planet! Voters kept the constitution that made it the first country to recognize nature’s rights - protections that have stopped mining, defended forests, and saved endangered species. A clear stand that nature is worth defending.

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

Relying on algorithms to assist NDIS support planning can cause significant harm to people living with disability, says Dr Georgia van Toorn from UNSW’s School of Social Sciences www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-...

Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages

"A study by AI watchdog group the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that half of AI chatbots’ answers to vulnerable teens were dangerous. They gave teens plans to use drugs, develop eating disorders and commit suicide." #SocialWork #Psychology #AcademicBluesky www.usatoday.com/story/nlette...

Not an export to be proud of #AusPol

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

frogmouth chicks are so cute

ChatGPT as a therapist has caused suicides. If Chat with Jesus is a literal thing programmed on the Bible, could be trouble.

ai in education causes huge increases in workload for no increase in pay. It dramatically lowers our productivity for our employers and gives it to the pervert billionaire sector. Time for being an academic instead goes to ai guidelines, ai interviews, ai detection and referral, ai this, ai that.

it is US billionaires who decided to swap out a liveable planet for slop machines.

Queensland's youth detention system was already overwhelmed before the election of David Crisafulli but his law changes mean more kids are destined for them. Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber denies the report's findings of poor conditions & practices. #qldpol

The 50 years of 4ZZZ celebration will this Saturday feat. a panel on activism @4zzzradio.bsky.social with #Disability advocate Belle Behan talking about Only Human. ❤️ Vent Space, 1:30-2:30, 23 Glenelg St, South Brisbane. Also see the poster exhibition of 50 years of #4ZZZ #CommunityRadio

Beyond time to declare Nazism a terrorist organisation #AusPol

Clear which governments don't care about poverty here.

Gouldian finch #photography #flowers #plants #blossom #BloomScrolling

This is a hard read. AI Chatbots can't be tweaked to have empathy or even understand what they are saying. They should be banned just like hard drugs are. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

❤️ COVID infection poses a higher heart risk in children than vaccination, according to the largest study of its kind involving 14 million kids in England. Read more - www.thelancet.com/jo... #COVID19 #Vaccines #HeartHealth #ChildHealth #Research

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

'In Australia...Ministers for the Environment are also there to speak up for environmental exploitation, and that needs to change." - Bob Brown unpacks just some of the issues with proposed changes to our environment laws #auspol

6PR talkback radio listeners are having none of it – they say allowing police & ministers to cut Centrelink payments before conviction is "hypocritical", "the government can't arbitrarily impose punishments on people" and that "this is the thin end of the wedge". Full interview:

Oh, so another Melbourne Cup Day has rolled around. Just remember—

“It just gives you a sense that there are some people for whom the whip is being used so relentlessly, they can’t escape it” @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org Was #robodebt, now #robodole. The Albanese govt continues to punch down on the most vulnerable, to profit dodgy employment services. #auspol

The walking irises love this heat and humidity. Just opening, fully opened. #BloomSky

In the wake of the release of Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment, Renew Australia for All is holding a Melb launch of a plan to make climate adaptation & resilience a national priority. actionnetwork.org/events/clima...

Run monkeys!!!!

I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!

A Queensland court has overturned the state government's freeze on puberty blockers. Sanity prevails!! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'The Albanese government has not completed promised reforms to automated decision-making by federal agencies that the Robodebt royal commission said were urgently needed more than two years ago.' www.innovationaus.com/robodebt-tec...

#AcademicSky #AcademicBluesky

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

Queens Park Toowoomba #BloomSky

AI still harming people despite assurances. #NoEthicalAI #AcademicSky

Australia’s chief statistician, David Gruen, has defended the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ recent public debunking of far-right claims of “mass migration”, as he said the agency “stands ready to respond” to “egregious misrepresentations” of its data. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s. n.pr/3JeW2Dj

While professionals continue to insist that ABA is the gold standard for supporting autistic kids, "most autistic participants who had experienced or observed ABA view it negatively, with only a small minority mentioning neutral or positive effects.” At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/when...

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏