“How lucky we are to be alive right now! Yes, things are weird. But what do you expect? You are swimming in the primordial soup of machine cognition. There are bound to be growing pains and collateral damage.” Speaking as “collateral damage”, @cwarzel.bsky.social nails it. #ai

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

This is the entire point of the "it's complicated" line of hasbara/Western journalism. It is an intellectual off-ramp for further thought. And so many of us take it. It is a state-sanctioned excuse not to think at all. Because as soon as you actually do, the whole picture unravels

Proud of Sydney. Filthy weather, in a more conservative state. 90,000 for Gaza is spectacular. 🙌🙌🙌

Consciousness 3 // Sleep…….It’s taken me a while to get to sleep… The third in a seven part series of short binaural films, exploring consciousness, spatial sound knitting. For headphones. #soundart #binaural #shortfilm #consciousness

“Ms Segal is a lawyer and yet has attempted to provide a report to Australians and our Australian institutions about how we should live our lives and what we may or may not say and even, how we may say it, without a scintilla of evidence provided to back it up. We just have to take her word for it.”

Playing at Abbotsford Convent until 12 July, a little immersion into the first two states of consciousness… alongside 17 other wonderful sound artists vibrating the winter air.

Spot on from @beneltham.bsky.social in @crikey.com.au. Creative Australia's crisis management may have been substandard but the real issue was its staggering lack of judgement and courage, an unforgivable absence for which no-one has been held accountable. www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/03/c...

Add your name to the call to REJECT the North West Shelf✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...

The Murujuga rock art is one of Australia's most priceless heritage sites. And it's being slowly destroyed. If Environment Minister Murray Watt approves the 50 year extension to the North West Shelf, it will be a death sentence for Murujuga. #savemurujuga #auspol @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social

The Nationals A constellation of clowns looking for a circus Totally delusional # auspol

Disturbing. Something that’s not talked about enough re AI chatbots - they can be manipulated at source. “Instructed to accept as real.” So anyone using them for information is also being manipulated. Thats a lot of power to wield.

I went further on the global Islamophobia context in the revised version of the piece on Zionist activity by front groups in the recent Australian election. The network of networks is illustrative. It’s not just Atlas in any of this rw weirdness but a collation. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Shout out to all the background actors, worth watching one time each (it took me five watches to realise there's someone hanging) Also, still deliciously relevant. 😆 #auspol

Listening to Ted O’Brien this morning I was wondering if he’s studied John Howard’s speaking style. The vocal fry, the oddly paced pauses that serve to distract from the bullshit he’s spinning by appearing authoritative (without being). So, this tracks ⬇️ #auspol

We’ve been hearing for months and months that it’s “about to be, about to be,” but it’s been now for a while. There’s no more hospitals. No more food. No more water. No more compassion. It’s now. And we all watched it happen. #palestine #gaza

“isms” are so wildly thrown about and rarely if ever now challenged as a way to shut down and delegitimise.

Being demoted for speaking out against the mass weaponised murder of civilians is a blaring bright red fire alarm. This isn't coming around the corner: the bad times are now. This isn't petty political games - this is a murderous and sinister force exercising its power. We are in danger.

Earworm for the day.

If you want to understand why progressive people don't believe in the Labor Party anymore, here's a prime example. Julian isn't interested in justice, he's interested in being comfortable. Equating spreading race hate with opposing genocide should be unforgivable. Centrism is a brain disease.

Anyway,

The demonisation of the Greens in Australian politics is so infuriating, from the left and the right (and the mediocre Labor middle) Adam Bandt has been a very effective member and a good leader - all this chatter about “lack of policy” is I suspect from people who’ve never read Greens policies.

This description falls squarely within the legal definition of genocide as set out in the 1948 Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute of the ICC.

That explains a lot. (Not all of it, but a lot). “…figures from…..Freshwater Research…..overestimated Liberal support based in part on miscalculating the number of Labor supporters who voted No in the Indigenous Voice referendum and would defect to Dutton.” #auspol #ausvotes2025

This piece by @jiatolentino.bsky.social is heartbreaking, on so many levels. This hit a nerve: “My kids are at an age when nothing excites them like the chance to do things unassisted. They have just a few years before they learn that adulthood, these days, means ceding more and more to machines.”

They’ve agreed to annex Gaza officially and entirely, instead of simply occupying, and as such conclude their genocidal ethnic cleansing plan and this is how you report it?

I know there’s a lot that’s been disappointing about Labor in the last 3 years and we need to keep up the pressure on them but boy, it’s nice to hear PM’s emphatic acknowledgement of country, and words of compassion. So I’m finishing the whisky happily. Well won Albo #AusVotes2025 #BinNight

Guys … guys … do you realise … this will be the last time we have to hear what “Peter Dutton says”. #BinNight #ausvotes2025

Dan Tehan out here giving Marvin The Paranoid Android #BinNight

Australia. ♥️ Faith restored. #ausvotes2025 #BinNight

OMG Dickson voters thank you !!! #BinNight #ausvotes2025

I’d pay to watch Jim Chalmers dance on Peter Dutton’’s grave TBH. #ausvotes2025 #BinNight

I switch to Sky news out of morbid curiosity just as they call it for Labor. Barnaby making a weird hissing sound lol #ausvotes2025 #BinNight

“I’m spiritually a Boomer.” #BinNight #ausvotes2025

Election night in Australia alone on my hill with the fire roaring inside and the kangaroos standing guard outside and possibly not enough whisky if this goes south* 😳🙏 (* i.e. right) #ausvotes2025 #BinNight

I’m convinced James Patterson was made by the Metaverse techs and has no actual legs. #uncannyvalley #binnight #ausvotes2025

A very good listen from @outrageoptimism.bsky.social two sleeps out from the Australian election. A (finally! refreshingly!) smart and sane analysis of climate policy and geopolitics and the choice we have on 3 May. #auspol #ausvotes #election2025 …

Australia is in breach of int'l law via its prolific aid to Israel to conduct genocide in Gaza (ICJ rulings). Important story by KellieTranter @declassifiedaus.bsky.social who got the export permits info #auspol michaelwest.com.au/smorgasbord-...

LNP pushes panic button. (Not that they've tried any genuine policy). Took slightly longer than I expected for him to vomit this out. This is all Dutton has ever had to run on - and it's shines a big ugly light on Australia that he still thinks it's a vote winner, even if it is just panic. #ausvotes

Why is Dutton all about the blokes? Because everytime the Liberal party tries to soften his image, his vote goes down. The men who support him only like the hard guy costume and women don’t like pretend multifaceted guy. Dutton created his own monster and now he’s stuck

A play in two acts.

Tracking this specifically for ANY arts policy…. 🦗 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗#auspol

My favorite conservative pastime is when they accidentally describe utopia while trying to scare people about socialism

Ok Australia here we go #auspol Can we please make 2025 the year Australians use our preferential voting system the way it was designed? If you hear anyone lament that ALP/LNP are both bad choices, send them this please ❤️

Israel was always going to violate the ceasefire because it wants to annex Gaza and continue on its blood-soaked path to a 'Greater Israel'. It's obvious. It's been obvious for a long time. And anyone telling you otherwise is a liar or a moron.

Peter Dutton thinks our $5 note w'out the King of England on it, to honour 'the enduring emotional, spiritual & physical connection of First Nations peoples to Country' is 'an attack on our systems, our society & our institutions'. I think it's about time #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There’s so much anger coming out of the White House. I don’t mean righteous anger. Or any kind of useful anger-as-energy. It feels vitriolic, violent, resentful. An ascending Shepard’s Scale of bitterness. For those of us outside the country it’s draining. I can’t imagine how you feel inside it.

Stop Killing Women - a set of national rallies being held on Sat March 15 2025 around Australia. Check google or instagram > www.instagram.com/sherelemoody... for details on your nearest city or town's events, they're happening everywhere. Make your voice heard. Stop killing women. #SheMatters