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Loved Penny Wong's response to a David Speers' formulation: "No. You use your words, I'll use mine."

No apologies

Mark Hammil is organising a Twitter strike for August 1.

Still astounded by folks who see what’s happening to Twitter through the prism of how it affects them, not the prism of how it will affect the US presidential election, climate policy, health policy, social decency. It’s like Facebook and Trump, Johnson, Morrison never happened.

If you spot a scientist, science communicator, or the like in the wild, or if you invite them to the site, please ping @danirabaiotti.bsky.social You can't post to the feed without being added to our list! It isn't about gatekeeping, it's about avoiding misinformation & keeping the feed consistent!

In the last few weeks, the people have forsaken Science, and we are now #4 on the discover page. Would really appreciate likes ❤️ on the feed below - which is a different thing to adding ➕ them. This keeps us visible, and the science feed works best when we have a stream of new contributors.

Remember when Turnbull was afraid of Dutton so he made a special princedom called Duttonland and made Dutton Prince of Home Affairs, as weak kings have so often done before? And now the exiled Turnbull complains about the corrupt power he helped create, without a word of apology to us. #auspol

Currently the US government pays $35.00 every three months to the victims of these nuclear tests. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/13/marshall-islands-pacific-us-nuclear-bomb-test-payment

Who amongst us can apportion blame in this case? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-21/creme-egg-theft-sentenced-to-18-months-jail/102631090

This is what the push to force you back into the office is really about. Not your well being, not efficiency, it’s about property investment. # auspol Has Costello exposed our future fund? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/commercial-property-work-from-home/102611124

my favorite toy can be app controlled over the internet. I really want to reverse engineer the protocol so I can have a stream widget that allows viewers to control it using bits.

‘ Amarok elevates nswpol focus on those #DV offenders who display dangerousness & violence similar to organised crime figures & fixation similar to terrorists. 🤯 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/police-have-arrested-almost-600-following-a-major-domestic-violence-operation-in-nsw/ocwgj4mlv

This week’s AlienSideBoob from @birmo.bsky.social is titled “I remember the gatekeepers” and it’s free to read. https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/i-remember-the-gatekeepers It contains words like “sticky” and “dipshits”.

Today is Gough Whitlams birthday 🎂 106 if still with us A hero of mine. Smashed 23 years of lnp rule. Embarked on huge re-ordering of Australia *Equality and Anti discrimination *Equal pay for women in Awards *Initial Aboriginal land rights *no fault divorce *universal Medicare *Fee free Unis *more

It's July, time for one of the beloved rituals of science twitter: BearCam 🧪🐻 https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls

Today is Gough Whitlam’s birthday. Today ALP politicians will claim love for Whitlam and dedication to his legacy. Today ALP politicians will maintain their support for AUKUS and tax cuts for the rich. #auspol

This is all play acting. Crown knowingly offered a money laundering service to organised crime. They’re getting away with it. The fine is loose change. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/crown-resorts-450-million-fine-money-laundering/102588950

Vote Yes

Did you know that Clive Palmer is suing Australia for $40 BILLION? You and me, the taxpayers, will be paying that if he wins. To put that in context, Medicare costs us $39.5 billion a year.

How the Coalition collaborated with ‘friendly media’ to silence robodebt victims

A lot of work went into this report. Please read and share: In a new joint investigation with Mediazona and statistician Dmitry Kobak, Meduza uses previously unstudied inheritance records to estimate the number of all Russian soldiers killed so far in Ukraine: roughly 47,000 men.

"Surely few documents in our history are so broadly damning of the mechanics, culture, competence and conscience of a government, demonstrated through a vast accumulation of specific failures."

I am very new and am still figuring out how feeds work but I love making and photographing squirrels!!!

But anyways if anyone BIPOC want to be in a space that has people that look like them represented and not be exhausted by how this space is white, join https://wibblur.social/ :3 All r welcome , just know tho BIPOC **will** be listened to here.

You meet a lot of weird people working in a tattoo shop. https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2023/07/03/the-deep-word/

“‘A massacre is taking place now in Jenin camp,’ Salim Awad, a 34-year-old restaurant worker, said in a phone interview Monday from a house where 19 Jenin residents were taking refuge. ‘The children are crying and screaming, terrified of what is happening.’”

Australia deliberately creates unemployment, then craps on the unemployed. It’s a cruel barbarity that continues under allegedly “left” ALP governments. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/the-rba-wants-more-unemployment-lets-applaud-it/102506500

Seems like this week is the week for implosions

Always a good time to talk about the GOAT, Robert Smalls. Guy was born into slavery in SC, escaped & freed himself & his family by STEALING A CONFEDERATE SHIP, became a successful businessman, was elected to Congress, and bought the plantation he escaped from. And a bunch more that wouldn't fit here

I once spent an evening debating law student Josh Hawley. I was giving a talk on the history of affirmative action; he was leading 3 other Fed. Soc. guys to interrupt me. The "manhood" vibe was nowhere to be seen. It was all awkward little boy. Finally succeeded in making him sit down & shut up.

NEW: We dug into thousands of internal documents showing how a small group of conservative doctors promoted far right views rejected by the medical establishment to shape policies on abortion and trans rights https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/15/abortion-transgender-christian-doctors/

Every adult in attendance at this event should have gotten together and kicked the shit out of these people. This is going to keep happening until they get pushback in the only language they understand https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/431500/Girl-9-accused-of-being-trans-at-Kelowna-track-meet

Software systems are often billed as a means of making choices more rational, fair, and effective. In the case of the poverty relief program, however, the Human Rights Watch investigation found the algorithm relies on stereotypes and faulty assumptions about poverty.

A new study finds that using art to convey environmental data eased political perceptions about climate change.