It isn’t surprising to any woman who has spent anytime in the university sector that male academics feature in the Epstein files. Sexual predation is built into the brickwork of patriarchal places. I am intrigued by his coordinating role as a community coach for their actions against whistleblowers.

I just learned that there's a book titled "The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900" and it's going straight onto my list of favorite academic book titles academic.oup.com/north-caroli...

cool. glad we protected her identity at least www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...

This is like a scene out of Monty Python. ICE agents get a name back from face recognition and multiple agents start calling out "Maria! Maria!" to see if a woman in custody reacts. (Presumably if she does that's a match???) It didn't work, so they ran the app again and got another name.

‘The People vs Robodebt’ won Best Documentary at the AACTA Awards

Apparently the only way to restore social cohesion is to keep saying "Randa" in a scary voice until she disappears in a puff of smoke

Clearly it’s time to appoint a permanent officer in the government to look over all the festival programs. Some fellow in a centralised office where all the art can be submitted beforehand, to make sure it’s socially cohesive. Some kind of Chief Approver, if you like www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The Newcastle Writers Festival organisers can see the rake. They understand how a rake on the ground works. They know what happens when you tread on the rake. They’ve seen the swish-thwack of a trodden rake on other festivals. Can they resist rake-stepping?

On Monday, a man threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of First Nations families and allies, and we get: a reluctance from police and media to call it an act of domestic terrorism, the attacker’s identity suppressed to protect *his* safety, and some empty platitudes from politicians.

Funny/terrifying thread demonstrating the extent to which governments bask in the glow of, and keep adding fuel to, the dumpster fire that is AI hype.

I've only just been made aware that there has been a backlash against astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Australian of the Year. I've been over on Facebook responding to (mostly male) critics who clearly have no idea how astronauts work. We can't let them be the dominant voice. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Man appropriates his partner’s pregnancy to interview men who appropriate other people’s creativity to fuel their fintech visions.

Just to join in the fun, this is the only screening of 'Melania' in Auckland today. Two tickets sold for a very small screen.

A white guy threw a homemade bomb into a crowd protesting colonialism in Australia and the media have broadly reframed it in more gentle terms, eg this describing it as a "device" that was 'designed to explode'.

OMFG.... They are showing the Melania film at selected Hoyts (haven't check other cinemas) in Australia... You know how no tickets have been sold in the US... Guess how well it is going in Melbourne.

Wow. Powerfully combining the actual and the bin fire that is everything at the moment.

These are documented massacres of First Nations people between 1788-1930 Happy Australia Day

Salient words for times like these: heated.world/p/i-dont-kno...

Very happy to see this actual book in my actual hands (hat tip to global postal infrastructure)! With thanks to the editors @alanyliu.bsky.social @jamessmithies.bsky.social and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger.

So very pleased to announce that From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026) is now available to preorder! I invite you to share 🙏🏼 www.ubcpress.ca/from-red-dre... @ubcpress.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social @janisirwin.bsky.social

Sorry. Not sorry. pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Something I learnt while researching this post about Kubla Khan — thanks to J.C.C. May’s excellent edition of Coleridge’s poetry — is that the poet almost certainly pronounced ‘Khan’ as ‘Can’, giving the first line an almost palindromic vowel structure: ‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan’ (I AAU I UAA)

Has he ever met a movie lover?

Periodically I’m inspired to wonder how such patently unsuited people rise to positions of leadership then I remember - old boy’s club.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Can my submission just be: hey what the fuck

I heard him say ”Miss” which I found disrespectful at so many levels. As well as repeatedly butchering her name.

TL;DR: the huge amounts of funding put into the human genome project meant researchers kept chasing funding to find genetic causes of disease, but it’s looking more and more likely that only a minority of disease is caused by genetics—even diseases that can be genetic are more often environmental.

Sleeper issue in all this 👇

St ASS?

data seems to match this theory

“Alberta, the heartland of Canada’s energy industry, is pitching itself as an attractive place for artificial intelligence-capable computing power because of its vast, cheap reserves of natural gas.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

the huge productivity costs of ai can not be recouped with more ai.

ShatGPT is all I’m calling it from now on TY

Kudos to the Victorian EPA.

techbros learning how a thermos works by blowing up a trillion dollars worth of shit in space

An economist can correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it, the system as *designed* REQUIRES ~4-5% unemployment. It then punishes those people for being unemployed, including a payment so low it actively hinders seeking employment. Then blames them for being unemployed. DARVO as policy.

The Shovel has it right

Australia has recorded its highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979-80. The shameful statistic shows how little progress has been made since the 1991 royal commission.

HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

I wrote about December Sixth, and it's impact on a generation of women and feminists, here: heatheryoungleslie.ca/2017/12/06/d... #NationalDayOfRemembanceAndActionOnViolenceAgainstWomen🇨🇦 #DecSix1989🇨🇦 Nous nous souvenons We remember

So thrilled to be a part of the important volume. The “critical” in “critical infrastructure” describes an analytical disposition but I think it also gestures at the sense of something crucial that shapes so much of what is possible in the digital worlds we inhabit.

Further to my last post about the unaccountable accountants that are asset stripping our cultural infrastructure - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...

Everything #GideonHaigh says. The unrepentant carelessness and spiritual emptiness of the library’s decision makers (and the government that put them there) is jawdropping: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role. Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...

The declaration of central Melbourne as a "designated area" for 6 months is a disturbing overreach. This declaration gives police extraordinary powers to stop and search people without a warrant, or even reasonable grounds - and over an unprecedented area and timeframe 🧵(1/3)