Given that the Coalition is going to go all out on linking rising power prices to Net Zero and parts of our media are going to help foster this belief, this is an important, clarifying read.

Australia's head of national security (?!) is using Copilot to write his speeches for him, an FOI in Australia following up my one in the UK has revealed. God help us www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/12/a...

Professor Axel Bruns presented at the recent AoIR conference a large-scale project involving many of our DMRC researchers: "Researching Cross-Platform Campaigning in the 2025 Australian Federal Election". Here are the slides:

Just arrived late to social media comments saying that Mamdani is “the Pedro Pascal of politics” and I couldn’t agree more 😆

As usual, @privateeyenews.bsky.social says it all

😲 Ooooh, the full programme for the @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School 2026 is out now, and it's full of sciencey goodness. If you were still on the fence about signing up, you have until 19 Dec. to do so. ⌛ The Summer School dates are 2-6 Feb. 2026. #dmrcss26 research.qut.edu.au/...

An AoIR conference presentation from Laura Vodden, Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, and Tariq Choucair. www.slideshare.net/s... This study discusses the potential role of LLMs in frame analysis. Framing is the selective presentation of information and can provide insight on the motivations of creators

Never thought I’d say this, but we may be a little _too_ close to the front for Cowboy Junkies at the Fortitude ?

As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News. I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…

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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.

🚨 Our new report, Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified, is out now. 🚨 The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.

We've just updated this piece on what academic research says about the BBC's role in the UK So many datapoints relevant to this week's discussions. Perhaps of interest @benansell.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social @michaelsavage.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und...

Either you're against fascism, or you're foolish enough to believe it won't come for you.

All these deaths of truly terrible people recently provide an excellent opportunity for journalists to learn and internalise the difference between a eulogy and an obituary. ⚰️ Sadly, though, they also show that many journalists are notoriously resistant to learning. 🙅

This, but with an Amiga 1000 form factor (including the keyboard garage and dog paw print on the inside of the top cover), plus a preloaded version of Geoff Crammond’s Formula One Grand Prix, and I would be severely tempted. 😍

Tim Davie leaves the BBC with his mission almost accomplished. That mission, of course, was to destroy the BBC.

Nawww.

Im seeing a lot of arguments like this from colleagues in PoliSci My view from working on autocracy is that Dems were winning on the biggest fight- making autocratization unpopular and now they're giving that up. Those are the costs

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

@actualnames.bsky.social General Ambrose Burnside and his sideburns.

What do young Australians think about the 'Social Media Ban'? Join young people and researchers online to find out what the upcoming changes mean for 12-15 year olds from around Australia. 🗓 Mon, 1 Dec 2025 ⏰ 9:00am Perth ⏰ 11:00am Bris ⏰ 12:00pm Syd/Melb 👉 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar-am...

Another AoIR presentation from last month in Brazil! Dr Sebastian Svegaard presented "Mapping Fandom Ruptures: A Case Study of Taylor Swift Fandom Practices on Reddit". Sebastian co-authored this work w/ Sam Vilkins, Axel Bruns, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh and Kate FitzGerald

It’s not just me, is it ? For some reason Google has changed the colour of unclicked links on its search results pages to a lighter, horrible-looking almost baby blue colour recently, right ? Frankly this annoys me more than the intrusive AI Overviews.

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won? People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump. It’s always pure projection.

Amazing that the list of dodgy things about Home Affairs' offshore detention contracts is so extensive that this quite long article couldn't even fit in that time we paid $432 million in taxpayer money to a company registered to a shack on Kangaroo Island www.theage.com.au/national/pou...

Ein komplexes Datum, der 9. November: Erinnern, Scham und Hoffnung mischen sich aus deutscher Perspektive: 1918 - Waffenstillstand / armistice 1938 - Pogrom 1989 - Mauerfall / fall of the wall The 9th of November is a complex mix of remembrance, shame, and hope from a German perspective.

There were ample laws to prevent this or shut it down. The NSW Police just didn’t want to.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

NSW police have gone to great lengths to stop any and every pro-Palestine anti-genocide protest. They didn't even oppose the neo-Nazi rally that was held on the steps of NSW state parliament on Saturday. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Police also authorised a June protest outside NSW parliament by a group called "White Australia", who led Saturday's event.

Oh gods, I see Lolley is persisting with his horrible “Sergeant Major in the Boer War”-style pencil moustache for yet another A-League season… #SYDvMAC

Every so often I think about how this sign was out front of houses all over my town a year ago.

OK, that seals it – he’s got my vote.

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Ah yes, our weirdo tree is putting its flowers in all the wrong places again.

CNN: The guy worth half a trillion dollars has just been awarded a trillion-dollar bonus NYT: The president took a break from building a giant golden White House ballroom to eliminate SNAP benefits CBS: It remains baffling that so many voters are willing to consider socialism

The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

🗳️ OK, I’m not … always … a fan of Annabel Crabb’s work, but this is a useful primer on why Australia’s electoral system is the way it is. 🌭 (Of course we could just pretend to be a grown-up country and move to proportional representation, but that’s another matter…)

You have got to be f🤬ing kidding me. #H96SVD

FFS, we should be leading 5:1 by now, not 2:1. #H96SVD

Wooooow, Kolja. 🤩 #H96SVD

OK then, here we go. #H96SVD

OK, I don’t know why both Hannover 96 teams have to play at exactly the same time within a couple of kilometres of each other, but here we are. Let’s get those six points. #H96SVD #H96HSV 🖤🤍💚

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

I'm going to use this as the jonbar point in my upcoming alternate-history novel.