I honestly give little regard to what the Business Council thinks and says, they've regularly shown they don't act in the best interests of broader society theconversation.com/rapid-climat...
autodidact, rider of bikes, evader of bicycle shaped objects, seller of ideas, older than I look, younger than I sound, born at 319ppm gadigal country
1,617 followers 3,093 following 401 posts
view profile on Bluesky
I honestly give little regard to what the Business Council thinks and says, they've regularly shown they don't act in the best interests of broader society theconversation.com/rapid-climat...
Friends, the Hobart Bookshop has a new stack of signed copies of IMMORTAL GESTURES. This is my new philosophy book about the body, history, and we carry culture in our hands. If you’re not in Hobart, you can grab one online here: www.hobartbookshop.com.au/product/1207...
What?
The monsoon will never end in Sydney. Soon we will only ever remember rain.
AU. *On Saturday the 13th September 2025 at 12PM* in Belmore Park next to Central Station, Sydney, First Nations people are marching against the rising tide of racism, fascism &white supremacy, the recent neo-Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty, escalating, anti-immigration rhetoric & violence.
I understand the race won't do anything about IPT participation unless the UCI takes action first, and the UCI won't take any action unless the IOC has taken action. But the race really needed to get IPT out so the rest of the teams could race. As it stands everyone should pack up now and go home.
Hypothetically speaking: if cycling and sports are truly separated and IPT has nothing to do with Israel, it should be perfectly possible for IPT riders to express their grief about Gaza publicly without repercussions. Race interruptions might stop. But they won’t, because Adams will punish them.
Can't remember who complained that my cartoon back in February was antisemitic.
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2023/09/13/a...
Masybe if Isreal didn't have a seemingly endless supply of bombs, drones and planes they'd be forced to just stop bombing everyone that thinks they shouldn't keep committing genocide. Have other countries considered this?
No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure
The article presents this cabal of the wealthy as a good thing. Errm, no. We need less concentration (and glorification) of wealth, and more equality and a cost of living no worse than other countries, including housing. www.smh.com.au/technology/a...
There should be consequences for the kind of prosecution mischief that leads to *all* of the charges for Hannah Thomas being dropped. Everyone could see what was going on. Some prosecutor for the NSW Police needs to be reminded they've got obligations to the Courts.
I don't think it's news that John Howard is a massive arsehole. He always was. And now we live with the Australia that arsehole helped shape (and Labor is too weak and scared to do anything about)
I refuse to repost ANY Fox News clips/images. Why give them free advertising? Let the rusted-on lunatics watch it; let the rest of us ignore them. They're influential BECAUSE we notice them and amplify their voice.
Tesla acting like laws don't apply to it. They need to cop a massive fine, not a slap on the wrist. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
I keep getting surprise John Howard's voice whenever I scroll down and i don't ever need or want that.
He's toast now. One of those fuckers helping him out is gonna be like, "Hmm a million bucks is a lot o' money."
”Greater equality will reduce unhealthy and excess consumption, and will increase the solidarity and cohesion that are needed to make societies more adaptable in the face of climate and other emergencies.” #Sufficiency www.nature.com/articles/d41...
David Pope in Canberra Times
After a week of protests against the participation of the #IsraelPremierTech team in the Vuelta a España, today's stage finish was suspended amid massive demonstrations ✊🇵🇸. The demand to #UCI to ban Israeli teams from all competitions for whitewashing genocide is growing. #BDS #LaVuelta25
He was fangin' it.
What will happen if we let inequality continue to increase. youtube.com/watch?v=QUQs...
1. It doesn't ensure anyone gets work. Otherwise those people would be in work. Churning out 20 job applications is a tick-the-box exercise. 2. You want to ensure they get work? But the government doesn't want them to get work. It sets a target unemployment rate @ 4%. Any lower, inflation rises.
Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
It’s good news that Robodebt victims will be getting more compensation. But let's be clear: Labor is still administering a welfare compliance regime that is legally dubious, pursues dodgy debts, and punches down on poor people. Today's announcement doesn't change that.
Thanks for all the well wishes and wishers after I announced my stopping my pre dawn/dawn cycling and pics. Requests for unpublished pics from my archive made me happy. This is dawn at Berrys Bay lookout to Sydney City September 2024.
Taxpayers don't "pay" for anything Only under nonsensical neoliberal economic ideas does tax do anything other than just remove currency from the economy Who it is or is not removed from has a difference but the important thing is that tax is not used for funding #macroeconomics #auspol
Worth noting today that none of these people have suffered any kind of inconvenience let alone punishment for their role in the fatal #RoboDebt scheme… #NACC #Auspol
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
😂
I was not aware this was ever in doubt. But in case you didn't know putting this shit in your body is a bad idea ... "Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age" www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Sounds like you need a grinder and an espresso machine for your birthday.
“LLMs fabricate, or “hallucinate”, prolifically—but we have little ability to explain why they do so, let alone how they settle upon the specific falsehoods they generate. Eliminating these behaviours may be outright impossible.” The future of the bullshit machines. #AI
Travelling in New England area & had haircut in Tenterfield today. Annoyed to find yet another regional town with a dire rental shortage because greedy landlords (who receive negative gearing tax concessions) have converted rental properties to AirBnB. This rort stinks @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
The “blame migrants” narrative is a convenient smoke screen. It’s far easier to point fingers at desperate people crossing borders than to scrutinize the structural forces that actually drive inequality: deregulated capitalism, wealth hoarding, and billionaire-backed political agendas.
Hard to argue with Ross Gittins. If Albanese plans to just sit on his huge majority without doing anything useful to address climate change, generational inequity, housing, tax rorts and plenty else, he should quit and bequeath the job to someone with the bottle. www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Separation of church and state? What a quaint notion!
Mary Doyle is the best of the ALP and I’m super proud of her. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
just ten years between these photos.... remember to follow your dreams, kids
I've seen ABC refer to the Nazi rallies as "anti mass immigration rallies" over and over, exactly what Nazis want labelled as, legitimising them. In contrast, not once have I heard the Palestine rallies called anti-genocide or anti-colonial. I wonder what that's about 🙄
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
Julian Leeser and co should apologise to Australians for tarring them with accusations that turn out to be unfounded, that were always unfounded. Rather than blaming the Albanese govt, what has the Netanyahu govt done to exacerbate antisemitism? #insiders
David Rowe clean up.. AFR
The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...
Haha. So Traveldream was just the ticket clipper of some other travel company. Late stage capitalism at its finest.
News Corp's Courier Mail linked a teen girl's suicide bullying on social media as part of its campaign for the <16 ban. But the child's parents said she wasn't bullied on social media. Which News would have known if they contacted them before publishing.
I’m not sure what comes before “speaking out against Nazis” in the job description of an antisemitism envoy, but apparently there are quite a few things…
wrote this in 2017. Turns out australia got nazis ketanj0.medium.com/do-you-want-...
Sore point. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Well that's one rider UAE definitely won't let in the break tonight. Adiós Ayuso.
Looks like all the journos had filed their pieces from yesterday's rally and couldn't possibly find time to report on the NSN attacking Camp Sovereignty
It's not a 'clash' if it's neo-Nazis storming a group of people - it is an attack. Also, it's always ok to punch a Nazi. Hope that helps.
Splashing red paint on a building gets a breathless, urgent PM press conference, an aNtiSeMiTiSm eNvOy, saturation reporting and new "hate" laws. Racists violently attacking a group of First Nations gets you 🙉🙈🙊. Right, @albomp.bsky.social? #auspol #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand
A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...
“anti-immigration protestors have clashed with pro-Palestinian supporters, police were forced to use pepper spray…” the ABC bothsides nazism and pretends police have no choice but to use chemical weapons “…despite the clashes only 3 people were arrested” lmao cops don’t criminalise their mates.
Your periodic reminder that these blokes knew how to deal with Nazis.
The RWFWs who marched today get their arses handed to them at every election. They are insignificant. We need to make sure they remain so.
I see old mate Kos is pontificating about the concerns of people attending and supporting thinly disguised White Australia protests. IDGAF. Legitimate Concerns discourse normalises and elevates racism.
And Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Vuelta a España 2025 #LaVuelta25 stage 6 review: There was a rider called Jay Vine Who put together a ride so fine He has a moustache And a lot of panache And the guts to say “this stage is mine”.
So now we have to spend a fortune moving the UN head office? Apparently it can’t be on US territory any more, because the teenagers Americans elected can’t comprehend the responsibility.
Bam, and this
‘I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life.’
how does this bloke just keep getting better?
Deepcut were kind enough to have me back: www.deepcutnews.com/p/asios-sens...
Round and round. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Crap!! My evil Ayatollah butt is in trouble!! We got a dying empire dropping missiles from the sky and a genocidal colony 'mowing the lawn' and slaughtering civilians in every neighbouring country. The only smart play is to whip up Antisemitism with vandalism in Bondi Beach
Have a go at Bob Katter. This irrational violent idiot just physically threatened a journalist for daring to point out his hypocrisy on immigrants coming to Australia. This buffoon gets way too much respect. #auspol
This piece below is a more polite version of my latest, but along the same lines. We have entered circling the drain territory www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Don’t fall for: If you tax billionaires more they’ll leave. #Auspol #TaxReform Why? 1. Not So Easy to Move Wealth isn’t just a suitcase of cash. Much of it is tied up in domestic assets: property, companies, natural resources, or infrastructure.
Usman Khawaja said in Parliament today that the Government has been “100% too slow” in banning gambling ads. Australia Institute polling shows three in four Australians (76%) support a total ban on gambling ads! @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol
anyway, we're all workers here friendos, none of us own the means of production. We need to start acting like it.
The Australian government should wipe all social security debt IMO but too many Australians would have a whinge because they’re petty police types and constantly think people with low incomes are trying to rip them off so never happen.
Well whaddaya know!
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
Always punching down. Losers.
Working on my Australian video game Defamation Battle! It's multi-level, multiplayer and has in-app purchases. You have to retrieve your hat from the lion's den, leap over lying cows, and can restock your power level by drinking from a prosthetic leg
Equating productivity with ‘tax reform’ is a scam.
The people being invited to the Albanese government's 'summits' and 'round tables' is informative at least as to where their interests lie. It seems pretty clear it's mostly with capital.
If Labor and LNP politicians were really serious about affordable housing—they're not, because they LOVE their taxpayer-funded property portfolios—they'd take a sledgehammer to capital gains tax concessions and negative gearing. Too socialist, @albomp.bsky.social? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
I've said it before and I will say it again. The same people that want you to work until you're 75 won't hire you after 50.
OMG YES.
7 News showed EPL results, and a motoGP crash in the sports section Australian Women’s World Cup Rugby team didn’t even rate a mention 🙄 #Wallaroos www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
youtu.be/DWSceMtAjPw?...
This train is amazing! I'd not heard of it until now.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud says he loves the 1950’s, wants to be a Jetson when he grows up and have a nuclear powered toaster to deal with his food insecurity. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
The Productivity Commission talks a big about living standards… talk is all it has, tbh
"Without either a Productivity Commission or its neoliberal agenda, the Nordic countries have managed to drive much stronger productivity growth than Australia. Those countries have also delivered stronger wage growth and better quality of life, and managed to tax their fossil fuel industries"
Make use of this site while you can, Australian users. The timer is ticking for us
A question nobody asked. You're not too old spud, you were too unpopular and bad at the job.
Love a good obituary.
Look we gave AI a bit of a crack but really it’s time to go back to Geocities.
“Ms Ley told the crowd that she thought often about Mr Dutton as she walked the corridors of Parliament House in Canberra. "What would Peter say? What we would he do? What examples can I draw from from his leadership of our team?" she said.” ABC News These words will age well. #AusPol
This continues to be depressingly relevant.