We asked one of the most eminent human rights lawyers in the world, Geoffrey Robertson KC, to write about the sentencing of the "Elbit Four" as terrorists and the dangerous precedents being set by the Starmer government. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

“As long as there is football, there is some hope that somehow, someday, ordinary life might be possible again.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social on the World Cup and the perseverance of football culture in Palestine www.equator.org/articles/wor...

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

"Australia’s climate policy has long been characterised by elaborate frameworks – offset schemes, emissions intensity baselines, safeguard mechanisms – that are genuinely difficult for the public to evaluate, and that fossil fuel companies [...] have proven adept at shaping to their advantage."

On ANZAC Day, we remember those who've served and given their lives in wars and peacekeeping operations. We also remember the journalists and war correspondents that risked (and continue to risk) their lives to report on these events. (Image: AWM)

Absolutely unconscionable www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

“The simple reading is that the authors have shown that kids who get referred to a psychiatrist go to more psychiatric appointments than kids who are not referred.”

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Really interesting study that found AI use is concentrated in opinion articles (rather than straight news) at top newspapers arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18774

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Did somebody say trip-hop?

A lot of people clap and cheer at Arkell v Pressdram style legal letters. But the most deadly legal letters are calm and polite, and this one is lethal.

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

I could not be more stoked to announce CONTINUE, a defiant, new games magazine that aims to celebrate and interrogate the culture, creativity and community of videogames. The Kickstarter is now live below. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

So stoked for @frogsandstars.bsky.social who just won the Long Covid Awareness media award at the Emerge Australia Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She has been doing such incredible, sustained reporting on Long Covid, and this is well-deserved recogntion. emerge.org.au/the-emerge-a...

Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps: 1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups. So even small supply changes = big price effects

Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history. THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Happy Women in science day. On this day I am thinking of all my women science mentors and Rita Levi-Montalcini who did experiments in her bedroom in defiance of Mussolini’s ban on Jews in academic and professional careers while WWII raged around her.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I hate that podcasts are video now. They should be for funny and interesting little freaks who don’t have to be hot and dressed well

Good investigative work from ABC journos, but a gutless 'both-sides' headline and lead para. The preliminary evidence from these three incidents seems clear: police acted with excessive and brutal force. And on the face of it, created a serious threat to public safety. #nswpol

Hi friends! I’m starting a newsletter to share updates on my writing. I’ll send out occasional emails with some of my recent articles and updates on the book I’m working on which is about climate change, religion and something called rapture anxiety. You can sign up here lyndal-rowlands.beehiiv.com

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms. It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent. Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees. Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?

The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising. It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

Vale Jon Kudelka; not many better at summing up the issues of the day with great brevity and wit, but also with such vivid, arresting images. A true master of his art.

VERY good article. #Epstein I have a question for the men who had no questions about Epstein By Julia Baird Is the problem that the abuse of women just doesn't … matter much? Or that it doesn't seem that abnormal?

Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn - Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think these mugshots really vibrantly depict what @adamserwer.bsky.social wrote here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww

“Some forms of speech generate days of outrage, wall-to-wall commentary and urgent demands for action. When Aboriginal peoples are targeted with an explosive device in a public square, the response barely registers. Lives are not valued on the same scale.”

Aboriginal people across the continent have been shouting out the hypocrisy of the media and govt for not talking about the explosive device thrown into a group of Invasion Day protesters in Boorloo/Perth. 1st I heard about it was from Tarneen Onus Browne. Politicians still haven’t brought it up.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Cannot reccomend this strongly enough. For me personally so many elements of fascism whenever it emerges in the world seem to have a seed in the fossil fuel economy, the outrageous lies of climate denial. Fighting against fossil fuels = fighting against the tools of fascism.

For the nurses. Thank you to the sleepless guardians who keep watch on my son in the night. These past few months living with my son’s cancer have had a profound impact on me. Now, whether at the hospital or at home, at night, I think of them.

As tomorrow beckons in all its heat, anger and frustration. Remember we are charge of the course we chart. We know where we’re going, because we know where we’ve been. This from the Yoorrook Justice Commission. 🖤💛❤️

After the Bondi terror attack, people keep calling me a hero. There are so many people I could not help | Jessica Rozen

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)