I have surprised myself by how excited I still am for a new Olivia Rodrigo album

Today is Education Support Personnel Day. Timing couldn't be better for highlighting that AEU leadership just sold ES staff out with a deal that increases the gap between ES and teachers. Frankly, the deal sells everyone short and there has been fuck all transparency with members about the process.

lol fuck my union

Rate rises are simply class warfare. They cause untold misery in the name of protecting "the economy" (read: the interests of rich people and capital).

When Michele Bullock says “we are all feeling poorer", what she is really saying is "you" because she earns $2m a year and will experience zero material impacts from the war or the rate rises www.realestate.com.au/news/rba-gov...

The top 1% will be popping the champagne at the extra money they’ve just been handed by the Reserve Bank and a Labor Government sitting on its hands.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. Ordinary people from around the world, including 14 brave Australians, who have seen Israel’s ongoing genocide and atrocities, are on a peaceful, lawful mission to deliver desperately needed aid to Palestinians.

“a straight-up attack on unarmed civilian boats in international waters”. Pretty sure I understood that the huge build up of naval assets in the region were specifically to help ensure 'freedom of navigation' - guess as with so many laws and norms regarding Gaza, this too is optional.

"This was followed by jamming communication channels, which meant putting the fleet at risk in open sea. Jamming included VHF maritime emergency SOS communication, VHF channels for flotilla coordination, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Iridium bands." Cool.

In a way, the most accurate way to conceptualize the business model of an AI company is it's a machine that turns Saudi oil money into datacenter waste heat.

As a result of this faux outrage from LNP & One Nation, RSL Australia is now reviewing its Welcome to Country protocols. Scrapping it would be a disappointing outcome. Silencing First Nations people to appease white supremacists won’t make them go away, it will embolden them.

"The most immediate action any government can take in starting a fossil fuel transition is to stop approving new coal and gas projects. It sounds so jarringly obvious when you say it out loud, because it is." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Fri 10 Apr A majority @albomp.bsky.social govt w 94 seats & a population that overwhelmingly wants stronger climate action But instead we get illegal wars that kill, maim, destroy, & poison the earth, waters & climate & still MOAR approvals of new/extensions of Coal+Gas projects #EndFossilFuels

Another former Labor MP goes on to have a career in professional corruption. But every week I still hear some version of "Labor are secretly progressive but are are just too scared" They have been telling us who they are for decades. They are shills for big business.

Taking from disabled people to give to people in aged care is a cynical political exercise from Labor. Pitting people who genuinely need care against each other while leaving $17 billion in the pockets of gas corporations they’re too cowardly to tax is shameful.

Just an uninformed hunch, but I reckon you could divert quite a few people from the NDIS by raising the rate of welfare to something and adequately resourcing public healthcare and education. Never seems to come up. Seems our only option is to throw people with disabilities to the wolves.

"Is the economy next?" is such a stupid way to talk about this. Is "the economy" in the room with us right now? Is it angry? Does it demand a blood sacrifice? To talk about the economy as if it is a thing outside of people and cafes is baby-brained stuff.

I want to bring the media coverage of the Parliamentary Inquiry into taxing gas to the "wHy ArN't tHe gReeNs dOing bEttEr1? conversation. It's being chaired by the Greens, and they have been active on this campaign for years. Literally no story mentions Hodgins-May, every one mentions Pocock

IMO the two biggest dangers of AI are that it affirms everything you think and that it destroys your critical thinking. And each reinforces the other. The more you lean on it for your thinking, the more it reinforces it. And the more it reinforces it, the more you rely on it. Very bad.

The second rate dipshits that run absolutely everything in this country love nothing more than privatising everything. If it involves cozying up to the gambling industry and petrostates, even better www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...

From Gaza to Iran, commercial AI systems are being woven into the kill chain. Big Tech can’t hide behind ‘neutral tech’ branding when their models and cloud services help power modern warfare. They must face real rules and accountability.

The ALP are climate deniers, pass it on

50% of Australians have 5% of the wealth. The richest 10% have 58%. That's 13 million people sharing 5% of everything this country owns. Life is getting much, much harder for most and tinkering around the edges isn't gonna do much to change that.

Maybe it's bad for me to still be mad at Albanese & Wong for gaslighting us about Australia's support for Israel. But Israel expanding the frontiers of their violence is the entirely predictable outcome of facing no consequences for a genocide in Gaza. The ALP should be remembered for this failure

I hope the person responsible for making the Cambridge Aspire Ereader is having a truly terrible day today and every day

This oil industry shill is doing something I never imagined possible: making Chris Bowen look clever and sympathetic.

Weird that the ABC has made this a story about preselection processes as if this isn't exactly who One Nation are. They are the antisemitic, racist and homophobic party of domestic abusers. It's just that some candidates are honest about it. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

Honestly, I am actually surprised they went for the stupidest possible option here. Apparently my expectations for this government are still too high

As Aus starts to realise how serious this crisis could get, the mainstream climate movement's been caught flat footed again. This is a rare opportunity where the costs & fragility of the fossil fuel economy are on full display. And the best we seem to be able to do is call for a tax on gas exports

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

This is the most disgraceful thing Albanese has said as prime minister imo. He went to maybe the most famously Lebanese suburb in Australia, to pose with people like props while their homeland is being invaded — then turns around and defames them. Shame on him.

Starting to wonder if basing our entire economy on a finite resource that causes geopolitical instability and is subject to massive price fluctuations was actually a bad idea

Seems silly to keep making art in 2026, but here we are. savoyager.xyz/new-single-n...

Better things are possible, actually

Everything is going great

"They're being so vague and the language could be describing either option."

Because I have music to promote I've started blogging again. Instagram is the absolute pits and it's not even an effective way to promote stuff savoyager.xyz/welcome-to-m...

After the Harbour Bridge march showed Labor they might've misread the public mood on Palastine. Luke Hilakari was sent to speak at the march in Melbourne. Some people heckled him the entire time, and while some people were confused, I present this as evidence that they were very right to do it

I wrote about Bondi for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Focussing on this from a pure security perspective, it’s wild that an IS-linked attack was just carried out in Australia and we’re barely talking about it - the focus is on protestors and universities. www.afr.com/policy/forei...

“This is a dark moment for all of us. We must not make it worse by choosing to live with the genocidal lies & the oppression of hyperwealthy ghouls. We must choose truth, protect our peace, rights & seek justice for all humans everywhere. The children are our responsibility. All of them.” #Auspol

I feel like I am losing my mind. The walls of repression and authoritarianism are closing in and it's all being pushed by the petty losers in the Labor Party. So I once again must ask, what is the point of them?

Cool www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Probably just a coincidence that the list of Australia's new fossil fuel projects will come out on the Friday before Xmas. #takingoutthetrash #Auspol #climate #transparency

From the article: "KKR has faced widespread criticism for its reported connections to Israeli tech and data firms, weapons manufacturers and defence contractors" So that's who Australia is giving taxpayer money to, while simultaneously ordering funding cuts to Australian hospitals.

Labor giving a $45m loan to KKR is just something else.

It's cool how businesses can just do whatever they want with our biometric data. Going great. Let's give these tech companies more power. ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...