We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

I can't emphasise enough how important the submission by my brother @timhollo.bsky.social to the ill-conceived Royal Commission on Antisemitism is. The lateral antisemitism from fellow Jews is something Tim & I have dealt with for a long time, even before either of us used the term "anti-Zionist".

"Use your passkey to login faster" except it's not at all faster, Windows takes a ridiculous amount of time to do whatever it's doing before the site logs me in.

The technology is just a combination of two things: mass digital surveillance and data theft, and credulous venture capitalists willing to fund the cannibalisation of every other human endeavour to make wish-granting computers happen.

It's really hilarious that Trump is the single biggest driver of the EV revolution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia has done nothing while Israel has assassinated journalists, medics, aid workers, diplomats, foreign & spiritual leaders. Through the war crimes & illegal invasions, Albanese has done nothing even to dissuade Israel – no sanctions, no support for arrest warrants. Is there even a red line?

Instead of working to stop a genocide perpetrated by Israel, the whole world is ramping up its efforts to silence dissent & criticism of those committing the genocide. Antisemitism used to mean a hatred of Jews, discrimination against Jews—today it's anything Jewish & non-Jewish Zionists don't like.

Americans' perceptions of "the economy" -- which let's face it, in this country has just become a proxy term for "how things are going in general" -- are shaped by their social milieu & their social milieu is increasingly the internet, which is an unending torrent of anxious, negative slop.

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Here's me. "What the fuck was that?!"

I think the most fascinating geopolitical shift that we're basically witnessing in real time now is that the way information - both factual and fabricated - is disseminated across borders means there actually are no superpowers, because so much of what made nations powerful was narrative control.

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

"Australia has a political class that is terrified of offending Washington, petrified of criticising Israel, and structurally incapable of acting as though this country has sovereign interests of its own."

I have yet to see a piece in a prominent MAGA outlet that seeks to understand what motivated No Kings protesters. It’s all just “they were paid” or “they have TDS.” Meanwhile, the Tea Party inspired an avalanche of think pieces and books from centrists and leftists trying to figure it out.

I’m beginning to realize Israel is the best armed terrorist group in the Middle East.

The machine may be more eloquent, it may generate far more dazzling images than we could ever draw, but it will never experience human truths. And so in art, literature and all other creative processes it is a cuckoo, pushing out the human to consume resources and generate hoarded wealth

I love that the term "slop" is now mainstream.

From the river to the beach, Australia won't have free speech www.deepcutnews.com/p/a-list-of-...

Trump fired everyone who wasn't stupid and replaced them all with stupid people.

Keir Starmer also. Neoliberal peas in a pod.

all the horrors aside it's extremely fucking funny that the US thought it was taking a W by forcing the one scenario which every country had been trying to avoid bc it's the one thing preventing global economic collapse. and now they're all like "wait what the fuck what's happening to the economy"

I feel like WW3 could start tomorrow and my feed would still be full of people endlessly reposting "Don't get distracted about the Epstein files" memes

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes. How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims? The ALP in your head is long dead.

No wonder the ALP refuses to rule it out

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Growing up in social housing with a hard working single mother and traditional Labor values, I always dreamed of one day supporting a pedophile in his war on the school children of the middle east

In summary: AI rots critical thinking, hallucinates, is shaped by the hyper-wealthy pedos that own it, its data centres guzzle water we can't spare, it will help lay off millions, we can't trust photos anymore & it keeps recommending nuclear war. But yeah, nice memes, dipshits!!

Unpopular opinion: smash burgers are overrated

"Worst Prime Minister in Australian history. (Used) astute political artistry to dress up policies as favouring 'battlers', but in reality, (made) life easier for the wealthy by imposing on the broad mass of (us) the rotten fruits of a malignant ideology." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Also for @JulianHillMP. Try to fucking-well pay attention, Julian. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy

I hate bluesky because people don't just agree with me! I get no engagement even though I follow 40 whole people, and block everyone who interacts with me! That's it, I'm going back to the Nazi headquarters WHERE I'M APPRECIATED 😠

albo the climate criminal approves another planet killing fossil fuel project, while scientists warn we are nearing the point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer. #Auspol #ClimateChange We need Change, before it’s too late.

You know what AI discourse has really taught me? A shocking number of highly paid people in the executive world are useless parasites who could, in fact, be replaced by a magic bullshit engine.

Chapter 44 territory Are any sitting members - federal, state, territory dual citizens of Israel. Is anyone under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power?

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

I can’t express how outrageous this whole thing is, but I’ve given it a go! #auspol For shame @albomp.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

Australians and New Zealanders fought and died together, and both nations commemorate this every year on ANZAC day. Will the Albo government condemn this desecration? Seems like a great thing to ask the genocidal Israeli President about when he's here. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

At an industry event last night one (old media) journalist said “we may need institutions like the BBC because internet searches don’t return separate news stories now, but an AI summary that is usually wrong.” Watching an industry shrug and surrender to a competitor that DOES NOT WORK.

In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Have you ever used Jack, Jack Hacks, or Jack Cocreates? Have you used Sven 3.5? Have you tried Phil Codex Andromeda? If you haven't tried Gary Gleans you have no idea what's coming. You have to see Carl Constructs. If you're still on 3.0 without the Collab Pack you need to update your priors

We will never survive if we keep electing these people who listen only to strategists and ignore the realities of the world happening around them. This woman is like some consultant fed “only the economy” into an AI and the computer shit out a robot politician.