you can see how these politicians who seem allergic to thinking, deliberation, and reflection want "to see AI “widely taken up across government in every department” and are considering "AI for cabinet submissions"

they’re calling it “operation epic fury” we are controlled by men whose brains stopped developing at 11 years old

Do not forget the people of Lebanon either, who have been suffering the "preemptive" bombardment of Israel for well over a year and a half and are suffering it intensified tenfold today

They shot a 14 year old child. Then blocked the ambulance reaching him. Then laughed as they watched him die. This is what the IOF does every day - murder children with impunity and laugh as they do it. tinyurl.com/3chsh2rc

Donald Trump building a huge tower on the Gold Coast? Australia is saved! Or is it?!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kash Patel did the meme.

Great cartoon

Cockatoos! I hate property developers because they will not leave the cockatoos alone. I hate them with my life. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over two decades, Labor and the Coalition have jointly built the legal architecture of a police state at the expense of democratic rights. Our new series, 'The making of Australia's police state', tracks how. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-making...

We’re one day closer to Trump leaving office (one way or another).

40 years ago 😩 The Dead Kennedys played their last concert with Jello Biafra at UC Davis' Freeborn Hall, February 21, 1986 DEAD KENNEDYS POLICE TRUCK LIVE Brixton Ace, London, England 1982 #punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory #otd

Mollycoddling of surveillance monster Palantir exposes double standards in Australia's corporate regulation #asic #auspol michaelwest.com.au/asic-palanti...

Originalism: Okay, fine, the law doesn’t allow what I want. But what if the people who wrote the law messed up, and wanted the law to allow what I want, except — oops! — they accidentally wrote it differently? That should outweigh what the law says (except when I agree with what the law says).

49 years ago today (I'm) Stranded is the debut album by Australian punk rock group The Saints released on this day in 1977 included the singles '(I'm) Stranded' and 'Erotic Neurotic'. #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #thesaints #imstranded #history #punkrockhistory #otd

“I know Andrew is a good man who’s been treated terribly, but you remember when we learned a few minutes ago that England and the United States are two different countries?” said Senior Advisor Gerald Donovan

Here's our documentary footage of what really happened at the protests against Isaac Herzog's state visit to Australia

bluesky making sure to defend the incel swine calling for women to be put into breeding gulags

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HAHAHAHAHAH www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon. The offence is the point.

Intergenerational asset transfer? Get out of the way dad! www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

"you'll be left behind" Oh no, I'm missing the slop train to garbage town?!

The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left

Local boy makes good! Nice story in The Guardian today about @ketanjoshi.co's new study on how big tech companies deceive people about the climate impacts of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Israel lobbyists AJA promoting a real estate scheme selling stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors. #ASIC is inquiring No response by AJA yet @sstephanietrann.bsky.social @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social investigate #auspol michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...

15 February 1934 | Hans Ament was born in Vienna - one of the Jewish children from the orphanage in #Izieu arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944. On 30 May 1944 he was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz where he was murdered.

Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid Use of the model through a contract with Palantir highlights growing role of AI in the Pentagon Via “Anthropic’s partnership with data company Palantir Technologies” archive.is/UDQ5L

14 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Manfred Georg Broder, was born in Leipzig. He was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in February 1944, from where on 4 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

We're not that far behind the US.

Solidarity =/= terrorism say British judges. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's fitting testimony to both Chris Minns' political acuity & the sheer bravery of NSW Police that it took six of his uniformed goons to tackle a septuagenarian opposed to the crime of genocide to the ground. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Property Bargains! Come and get it Aussies! Stolen Palestinian Land! #whatsthescam michaelwest.com.au/property-bar...

TLDR : NSW Premier Chris Minns gave NSW Police (further) authority to crack some "pro-terrorist" skulls, the NSW Supreme Court affirmed the instruction, & (trigger-happy) Police Gonna Police, in scenes repeated many times over (to cheers from the peanut gallery). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The ABC has put all episodes of “The Hollowmen” on iView! iview.abc.net.au/show/hollowmen For those who don’t know it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hol...

'Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.' www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Australia drops out of top 10 countries in @anticorruption.bsky.social Corruption Perceptions Index. More on @thepointau.bsky.social live blog: live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

“The strength of Australian democracy is built on trust in our institutions. When these organisations lose trust, they can’t function and lose relevance. Organisations like the LNP." - Rod Campbell, Research Director, The Australia Institute Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tuocwr

wow - this is an astonishing high-up view of the police tactic of "kettling": trapping protesters and then squeezing that space smaller to provoke confrontation and justify police officers violently bashing and attacking protesters

Their head of state

Not blocking a road, not marching. Just performing sunset prayers The obfuscating, gaslighting, reality-denying doublespeak from Minns & NSW Police leadership is deeply disrespectful & sickening

If you wanna know the results of Premier Chris Minns' authorising NSW Police to go hogwild on people protesting an alleged war criminal, @tomtanuki.bsky.social is essential viewing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQh4...

Thread from Andy showing videos of the off the chain police brutality from NSW Police last night.

I like youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw?...

sOcIaL coHEsiON

such a canonical post i would have sworn it was 10 years older

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

A huge loss.

Why won't Malinauskas's South Australian Labor govt release govt data & info on the impacts of SA's devastating, extended marine algal bloom❓ What did the govt investigate or decline to investigate❓ What are they hiding❓ SA voters deserve transparency & accountability

Eve of Herzog visit - media coverage of alleged war criminal's Epstein Island allegations: Murdoch: protestors are brainwashed antisemites Smh/Age: "solidarity" "love between nations" Guardian: mia Sat Paper: Angus Taylor Daily Mail: "Kitchen Horror"