So the Australian Banking Association and the Insurance Council of Australia want a Royal Commission do they? Interesting.

This is appalling. Criminals are targeting, and stealing from, Meta's own users using Meta's own tools and Meta's chief concern is how to hide that fact, rather than to actually stop them. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

We need this in Australia. Does e-safety want to do something genuinely useful with its remit, or is it just for tilting at windmills?

You would think one fucking Very Serious Commentator would’ve realised this by now, but seems no

Please when, Australia?

Trump’s new immigration push shows a concerning shift: language from Europe’s neo-Nazi fringe is now shaping U.S. policy. As DHS embraces “remigration” — a term designed to justify mass expulsion — the administration is turning white nationalist fantasy into the machinery of the U.S. government.

When the Q&A arrived, I asked "How many of the 50,000 attacks per hour are real attacks, versus ICMP Ping messages?" Well, not only did I never get an answer to that question - I was asked to leave by the PR who organised the event. /4

I wrote this in 2018. We are now seeing the fruits of that change. And unfortunately the lesson that it will eventually lead to antisemitism is happening in real time, with still very little awareness of their role in it.

A really good example of how right wing pro-Israel rhetoric often bleeds into antisemitism. The concept of defending "Western Civilization" is rooted in white nationalist antisemitism, but since many right wing Jews have bought into white nationalism they can't see what they're saying.

When 15 people are massacred by terrorists in Bondi, Netanyahu blames Albanese - and the media follows his cue. But Netanyahu commits mass murder and enforced starvation every day, and it’s silence from Albanese and our media (oh, except for a ceremonial invitation to Israel’s pres). Pretty stark.

Shot 5 times. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

This is 100% preparing to push Content Provenance tooling on to average users in order to extract even more data so that your photos don't get labeled as AI. He talks about cryptographic signing, but Insta will be requiring the keys, I'm sure.

Gaza City's landscape was once packed with concrete residential blocks. In the weeks before a ceasefire in October, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found reut.rs/49fw0cd

"In July, Sam Richard Scott Brittenden chased a man and woman from Christchurch to Rolleston, rammed them into a low concrete wall and rained blows on their car window until it shattered."

Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere. From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it. We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.

The New Age of American Barbarism.

“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”

Spending 40 gorillian dollars and destroying the planet for Grok to do this

Given the ministry is one that puts in its weekly report of global antisemitism Greta Thunberg being arrested, the list is best treated with complete scorn

A foreign government making a target list of Australians and organisations is truly disgusting.

I’m no fan of Susli, but for eg suggesting Omar Sakr or Antony Lowenstein are antisemite for eg is truly dangerous stuff.

All timer

Also, this is the tweet that they selected as a key example of my antisemitism. Need I say more?

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'The new laws could impact the second rally for Dungay Jr and the upcoming Invasion Day Rally on 26 January, which will also highlight the record high numbers of Aboriginal deaths in custody.' Happy New Year from everybody in the NSW government. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi. 🫡 to those on the list

The Australian govt should be telling the Israeli govt to fuck right off. How dare they suggest this about Australians, including senators.

We won't begin to roll back the tide of fascism until white liberals come to terms with the fact that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actively, knowingly, support racist Gestapo policies. Tens of millions of racists were not deluded or misled. How will you adjust your strategy accordingly?

As the world is distracted by NYE celebrations, humanitarian groups are being blocked from reaching civilians in Gaza. Complete SILENCE from Australia.

When our mainstream news media reports on Australia's close friendship with Israel, they don't mention that in 2010 Israel forged Australian passports so Mossad agents could assassinate Palestinians in Dubai. Israel has zero respect for Australia. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism

When your conflicts become the story instead of the anti-corruption work you’re supposed to be leading, you know there’s a problem. That Commissioner Brereton claims he’s seeking a public hearing to “put questions to rest” only erodes trust further. He has to go.

We rely on the eco system for life and we were born to be custodians of it. It's all that matters. It's our only god

Geological.Biological. Hydrological. Climatic. These aren't just"natural disasters" anymore. They are nature's systemic response to human imposition. Our greed accelerates the frequency. It's not an "act of God," but a reaction to human action. #ClimateAction #Anthropocene

We are using Earth’s mesosphere and stratosphere—the layers above the surface-hugging troposphere—as an incinerator dump for space machinery. By 2040, it’s conceivable that more than 100,000 active satellites would be circling Earth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So Test cricket is a thing almost uniquely suited to whimsy, rhetorical flourish, dense irony and pop-culture riff - and old m8 @geofflemon.bsky.social does it consistently very well. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

You know what, I’m feeling marginally less flippant about this insanity now that I know I’m on a list in a dossier prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs as a “key influencer” of antisemitism. This is munted.

My mother, who suffers from dementia, keeps setting me nonsensical tasks. I feel like a hero from Finnish legend who is tasked with building a ship from a spindle, or tying a knot in an egg.

In absolutely no way, shape or form should anything resembling or approaching a private militia be allowed to operate in Australia with any government imprimatur. This is kicked in the head by a donkey stuff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

very convenient that the rich ruling class techbros solution to income and wealth inequality will be solved by letting them accumulate even more wealth

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

This advertisement brought to you by the letters A, B and C, the Minerals Council of Australia and ASPI. #auspol #China www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION: "The Regicide Report", the last book in the Laundry Files, is out on January 27th! British/EU edition: https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-regicide-report US/Canada edition: https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-regicide-report/?isbn=9781250373861&format=hardback

Fairly confident most people would agree that the solution to insufficient police presence is to do the obvious and increase police presence in future. It's not to start arming random community volunteers and calling in the army. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I love this guy. Absolutely in love with going to the hospital.

ah yes, nothing says 'social cohesion' like a government allowing a faction of one religious group to be armed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In the name of “social cohesion” Zionists will soon have their own exclusive armed special forces on Australian streets, in addition to special oversight of Australian media, arts, culture, and education by way of the Zionist envoy, Jillian Segal. Cool and normal.