Remember, Ley & news.corp et al aren't talking to you, or even about you. They're screaming at each other & mistaking the echo as a response. Most Australians want to honour the victims, have stronger gun laws and to get on with their holidays in peace free of unhinged ranting (relatives excepted).

It is impossible for a mortar shell to deviate 4km from its line of fire. Science simply doesn’t allow it. I was with Australian troops doing a live fire exercise in Northam WA firing mortars into Australian army range. None went outside the test range. Again IDF IOF are telling lies.

Some has been worse than others, but the essential through-line among all of them is just shrugging off the fact that THERE IS NOTHING TO INDICATE PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS LED TO THE ATTACKS as if that question is so tiny and irrelevant it can be fully ignored archive.ph/7t5VL

Every single political journalist in Australia right now is saying siome variation of this: "While there's nothing to indicate the pro-Palestine protests led to the Bondi attacks, Albanese is still facing the toughets test of his prime-ministership and has been held responsible for the deaths"

Exactly so Jane. Josh Frydenbergs comments were especially galling to me

If all these streamers are so tech skilled, they should weight streams of songs the algo suggested differently than the ones I actually picked. Like, no YOU listened to that song a ton this year Mr computer

Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career

Disappointing to see an explainer about Jillian Segal that makes no mention of the fact “her husband” is one of the biggest funders of far-right group Advance. Or that she has never explained it Or that she has not once denounced Advance. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pro tip - Dont bury this in the sixteenth paragraph.

This country is not those two. They were radicalised extremists. That’s the point. Extremism is by its nature rare. It does not grow from a failure of moral consensus. It seeks to shock the consensus that exists. Those suggesting otherwise for their own advantage betray the memory of this tragedy.

The bodies were barely cold before opportunists racialised the attack by blaming the Palestinian solidarity marches while demanding withdrawal of recognition of Palestine. No commentaries seem to have noticed that the killers' Islamic State ideology mocks HAMAS and rejects Palestinian nationalism

He has said he has always been uncomfortable with multiculturalism, and had called for Asian migration to stop. He disagrees with people who say racism is a problem in Australia because that hasn’t been his experience. Why would anyone listen to him about social cohesion?!

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

Francesca Albanese explains the crime of genocide to Tucker Carlson by pointing not only to the German genocide of Jews, Romani, Sinti 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. but the genocides committed in eg Namibia, Armenia, Rwanda, Bosnia as well as Canada, Australia and the USA. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/

Gen AI chatbots return the wrong answer on average 60 PERCENT OF THE TIME, per new study by Colombia Journalism Review Imagine if you did your job badly 60 percent of the time. Would you receive trillions in investments? Or would you be fired and labelled unusable? www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Extremely enlightening what they found with the premium vs free. The cynical attitude laid bare: Premium just needs to ACT better and smarter, it doesn't actually have to BE smarter.

Rebrand AI as a premium luxury service only and get the wealthy talking to those robots that make you end yourself

Accurate.

Fox News displaying a poll with the first age bracket for women and men being 15-44. Once again, 15 year olds are children. They are kids. They are not adults, they can’t consent to sex, and pedophilia must not be normalized.

Save the CSIRO Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro

I've put on some weight recently, and last night I dreamt I patted my tummy and joked about my food baby, and everyone started screaming "life begins at digestion" and wouldn't let me poop

#FCKNZS Tired: Complaining about NSW Police facilitating a Nazi rally. Wired: Helping @whiterosesociety.bsky.social out by sharing any verifiable information about the Nazi meatheads. thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/do-you-know-...

Dick Cheney claims to be pro-life, but

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

my family: (staging an intervention) you have got to stop eating so much hummus me: (crunching down on a false tooth to release garlic hummus into my mouth) you have no idea what you're up against

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

When you lose your job for calling out a racist’s racism, that’s called Klancel culture.

Fallon being the last man standing is such an indictment of Fallon

Any response other than an immediate "fuck you, make me" is an indication your institution is already ok with fascism, and is now just haggling over the price.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

XKCD did a banger on vaccines: m.xkcd.com/2425/

My sympathies are with Erika Kirk. No one deserves to lose a family member. But someone needs to tell her that “furthering Charlie’s message” means, by his logic, shutting up…because to him, a 36-year-old woman without a man is useless. That’s not my message. That was his.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

My parents used to yell at me when I’d take showers during thunderstorms because of the laws against public nudity.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.

If you're buying guns "for self-defence" and you own more guns than you can keep on your person at the same time, you're technically just spending extra money to arm future home invaders.

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

the ‘c’ in indictment should be arrested for loitering

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

referring to my diagnoses like crimes to my doctors to keep things interesting, like "I've been accused of having," and adding "allegedly" to whatever they say

In case, like me, you have absolutely no idea who fiction writer for the SMH Matthew Knott is ... here's Matty getting hauled over the coals by Francesca Albanese, for talking shit at the #NPC back in November 2023. [Many thanks to @strangerous.bsky.social for the clip. 🥂]

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Summer of Night/Dan Simmons I was 9. Loved horror ever since but this was probably not an appropriate read...