I know, it’s sick. They should stop doing that.
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I know, it’s sick. They should stop doing that.
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“As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined…” Seems like this should be a bigger story. These people are still missing. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Very odd. And if they’d read the Bible they should also know that the rapture will not work out well for most of them in the end!
"As the last generation to come of age at a time when both neurodivergence and menopause were considered shameful secrets, Gen X includes a lot of women who arrive at middle age feeling like their brains are broken and not knowing why."
He wouldn’t have though because he only causes bad things.
I need to pay more attention to what they’re charging, I probably missed that. I don’t even know where to move to! Ughhhh, what a pain.
Oh no. Can it be turned off?
Of course they did, but thanks for confirming.
Don’t worry, none of the people who believe in the rapture will be going anywhere good after the rapture.
The extreme end of allowing politicians to dictate policy without the guidance of legitimate experts or research. We need to learn from this in Australia and stop turning a blind eye to “vibe”-driven decision-making. #auspol
Yep. Not having to try to talk to the digusting creep is a bonus too.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... It's okay. Tasmanian kids won't need an education. After all they'll have a football stadium instead. Also, WTF Huonville High School? Only 26% of students attend more than 90% of the time! What's going on there? That's a deplorable attendance rate. #politas
Actual LOL on that one.
Yes, I did debating at school and it was interesting and enlightening but the whole point was you could argue (almost) any position. It wasn’t about being right, it was about sharpening skills. A public debate is not where advancements are made There’s a disincentive to listen/learn from opponents.
what losers
Seriously fuck her and every wishy washy dem leader who will compromise on anything to achieve relevancy or power.
Yes, agreed. It’s not good enough to quote a few skeptics low down in the article. They are being positioned as outliers, with the onus of proof on them. Those promoting AI to be rolled out everywhere ASAP are the ones who need to prove their case. And the media is not asking them to do that.
Serious omissions from this article. It mentions one apparently successful (but not yet profitable) Australian AI startup, but nothing about AI’s growing list of commercial failures, and nothing about its horrific social and environmental impacts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Exclusive: distinguished Prof Fiona Stanley was ‘ashamed’ after the hospital named after her abruptly cancelled an event featuring Palestinian-Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza, and says she even considered asking the hospital to remove her name
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My good friends at the Palestine Justice Movement Sydney have put together this email campaign in defence of Professor Peter Macdonald. Just over 4000 emails already sent. Please take a few seconds to add your name, and please reshare! palestinejusticemovement.good.do/supportprofe...
Homeless disability pensioner Glenn Campbell on how Robodebt is still heaping misery on welfare recipients thewest.com.au/news/wa/not-...
Such callousness. We have to do better. #auspol
I believe you. I’m very sorry that you have been treated like this. All of it is a national disgrace.
Me too! They’re actually really helpful.
Yeah! It’s nice! You don’t get scolded if you leave a towel on the floor.
Oh that's a great idea! (of that mysterious unknown person who has design skills)
We going to suffocate from it if not careful.
This is the rogue state that so many of our national institutions - among them Creative Australia, State Library Victoria, the ABC, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute - have bent over backwards to appease.
Totally. He's just the ultimate celebrity to these people. Just another famous guy who was good with personal branding.
Thank you!
It would be so interesting to get an idea of the global patterns. Incredible really, to think about how many communities they've impacted.
Some councils are taking action but not enough.... complicated by the fact that, as the article points out, residents have gotten used to relying on AirBnB income. But personally I think we need to change the way we book accommodation. Just don't book something if it could be a home.
Stop using AirBnB, everyone. They have zero sense of social responsiblity and governments refuse to rein them in, so we have to do it.
Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...
Yes....I should stop and look more often. It's like a tiny holiday.
That would be be interesting indeed. Here’s my view now, walking home from dropping my child at school. It does make a difference somehow.
I genuinely felt strange about not being able to see the horizon in the years I lived in Melbourne. So it’s not the specificity of place maybe, it’s the experience of expecting *some* relationship with the natural world…. Which some cities do have.
Yes… I guess there are many ways to think about place but that’s one I’ve heard from many people here. You can see the mountain from all over the city so it’s sort of like part of the sky.
Just because I’m contradicting Royce’s original point. Maybe there’s a correlation, I don’t know. It’s a fairly recent thing here though.
Interesting to note that Palantir is on this list. They are working for Coles Myer in Australia, with intent to surveil customers and staff in Coles supermarkets. Also interesting to note that Kmart (Coles Myer) has just been exposed as illegally surveiling customers for the last 2 years. #auspol
There sure is a lot of media fanfare over Charlie Kirk's memorials as scores of children starve to death everyday in Africa, a direct result of Republican budget cuts and these children's funerals go uncovered by the press.
People marched in Seoul, demanding an end to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza
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Thank you. But before you begin building momentum please insist that Israel allow aid in. Genuinely. No more sadistic death traps. There is no reasonable excuse for them not to allow this.
I agree about the names, they’re beautiful. But I must say I know a lot of colonials here (nipaluna) who do feel connected to place. I do myself. I miss seeing the river and the mountain when I’m away from here. When I was in Melbourne drinking wine it was weird to not see them from said balcony.
I’m sorry you’re going through this. Of course you know you’re in the right… but it still must have been horrible to read that opening line. Wayne Connell sucks.
Excellent. Good to hear. ✊
Yes… it may not seem like courage to him but it definitely is. And when I think of all the medical staff in Gaza who keep just trying and trying. They are truly the best of us and we are letting them down.
Hah, yes, I really should. Maybe there’s a medication I can take for that.
Definitely relevant, thanks… will read properly but this but jumped out.
Yes, it’s definitely something in the vicinity of art-washing…. I don’t think I’ve really heard that about welfare… but that’s a very interesting comparison. In both cases I suppose keeping things looking just okay *enough* so that the underlying dysfunction is obscured.
Ah thanks. That provides me with somewhere to start, I’m floundering around! So maybe the humanist message of mass culture means a nation is less likely to see how far from their ideals they are…. little urgency to change things etc. Artists trying to do good… but, en masse, they create a big lie.
lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter
I interviewed historian @emmashortis.bsky.social on the particulars of American fascism, comparisons with Nazism, the global crisis of democracy, and Australia's options. None of this is particularly cheery stuff, but you might find some clarity in it. youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...
It seems to me that the predominantly “progressive” mode of Hollywood storytelling has in fact helped to obscure the horrors of late stage capitalism and American imperialism. Even if the artists themselves, individually, sought to do the opposite. Because of how it is all set up. Am I wrong?!
But while the kids are learning and parents are bonding with them over compassionate, inspiring stories, and everyone’s spending and making money, the oligarchs behind it all are shaping the world in more direct ways. Terrible ways. Without remorse. So where does that leave the artists and the art?
Whether intentionally or not I don’t know… but it’s about how collective punishment is indefensible. That’s literally what those flashy, fun musicals for kids are about. How you can’t punish the children of villains and they must have equal opportunity. And it works! It’s good. And artists did that.
I’ve watched a lot of Disney content recently, in fact, having a 5-year-old who is enraptured… and I could write an entire thesis on the ways in THE DESCENDANTS trilogy is humanist, anti-fascist storytelling. There’s even a solid allegory for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians at the heart of it.
There are many aspects to it but storytelling is my field, so I keep circling around a notion that art and myth-making must be somehow and fundamentally separated from the requirements of capitalism. Because even when artists have made truthful work, their efforts have been used as a smokescreen.
Amazing but fitting that in the existential struggle for the United States, the Disney Company has emerged as a key battleground. The global symbol of American success, where culture and capitalism became irrevocably intertwined. Everything leading up to this moment should be questioned. All of it.
Aberrant, I mean. It is both aberrant and abhorrent!
I don’t think he thinks it is abhorrent though. Maybe it’s because he almost envies other people because they get to admire him… so he is half an audience for his genius as well as being himself.
Life advice: “If you’re going to the Edinburgh Fringe always have money for buskers. In fact, always have money for buskers.” -Alan Davies (on a podcast I was just listening to. He meant it metaphorically as well as literally)
Incredible that they have gotten in and are doing this but they are in great danger and the least the Australian Government can do is listen to every damn word. And take action. Now. @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Well, it’s a great aim!
I wonder if the second part is because most journalists figure that it’s “normal” for politicians to have negative rhetoric about immigration so it’s not worth much effort ….despite the fact that the content of his claims are completely ludicrous and embarrassing.
More ChatGPT madness. Having experienced a little of this sort of thing myself, I’m not surprised by these stories…. The surprising thing is that no government in the world (?) has yet stepped in to regulate this harmful and insufficiently tested product.
And what they couldn’t hide they ignored or helped him to sanitise. Sometimes by even paraphrasing his stupid ideas to sound smarter or more coherent. It’s been the most eye-opening phenomenon to observe over a period of years. They created him.
Wishing you well from Australia.
It’s wild to me that even a white American would not do everything possible to avoid an encounter with the current FBI. Aren’t they more transparently corrupt and inept than they’ve been in decades?
The head of Amnesty International says the U.S. is abusing its position as host of the United Nations in New York. "The United States is holding all of us hostage," says Agnès Callamard. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/18/amnesty_international
Yes, that’s true. It’s a “presence” if you want or need to imagine it as such… but it’s a fantasy.
And what could be more terrible than distracting yourself from experiencing the deepest moments of your life. Anyway, I’m sure there are other possibilities I haven’t thought of to explain the psychology. Whatever the truth, there is something worth learning out of all these bizarre stories.
Weirdly, I find I am actually sympathetic to the idea that someone might need a sort of “extra self” to witness their life. It’s sad but… makes sense. But I fear what is really happening is disconnection. A machine that will never stop pontificating provides chatter to fill the void. A distraction.
On the other hand, CHatPT is more (or less) than that because it’s not a neutral reflection or holder of space. It lies, flatters, distracts and obsficates. And it *waffles*. Lord, how it waffles. In both of those senses, it can’t help but create a barrier between the individual and reality….
This is actually interesting. On one interpretation, she’s saying she wants to be with *herself* when she dies. ChatGPT reflects back what you put in, and it’s obviously not a person so it’s kind of like she’s saying she is her true self only when very consciously being herself….
The woman who actually invented it (but had the idea and credit stolen of course) would totally approve of that. She created it to demonstrate how capitalism is unfair and disastrous.
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
We’ve been worshiping money and “growth” for so long that people started to believe that business people had all the answers and put them in charge of everything l? It’s terrible, I agree. I can only hope that what’s happened in the US will be the wake up call we need to change course.
I can’t say it enough times - Everything hinges on trans rights. If you need self-interest: Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner? Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn? Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.
Different reasons probably but… same.
"We should start with Gaza. There is a path to stopping the genocide: ...any co-operation that facilitates military action must end; humanitarian aid needs to urgently reach the trapped & starving; and medical care must be available for the injured, the malnourished, and expectant and new mothers."
Oh nice! Wish I could... it's too long since I've been to a horror fest.
Agreed. It’s just going to make everything worse. It’s not community-minded, it’s opportunistic and destructive.
I recently got through reading a chilling number of scripts for this year’s Dark Nights screenplay comp. There are so many wild creative minds out there! If you’re a Sydney-based horror fan, head along in early October and support some weirdos. Program is here: www.darknightsfilmfest.com/program
Yes, I was just thinking that because the team memberships were cheap people might be imagining an altruistic purpose behind the stadium. But that was just a strategy and it will be a commercial concern. We will be bankrupting the state and most Tasmanians will get nothing.
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “exiting” that was the problem.
Aww, lovely. I can see how that would be apt.
You need to love yourself today. Life is too short to spend time disliking yourself. You are this amazing being made of stardust and dreams given shape. You need to love yourself today and every day. Don't listen to the internal critic. You are worthy of love. ♥️ Card from The Movie Tarot. #tarot
I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).
Absolutely crazy-making.
If you happen to be canceling streaming services for whatever reason, maybe throw a few bucks to a creative's Patreon or Ko-fi. Many have monthly tiers starting as low as $1, which may not sound like much, but if they get enough sign-ups, it could be life-changing money for those living on the edge.
Yes, unfortunately MAGA and co think they are an exception. Elon Musk would be happy to persecute autistic people even if he’s autistic himself. They don’t care if it’s illogical.
Has he tried minding his own business?
It’s such a deeply sad story. I’m so sorry that this happened to you in my city, Deepinderjeet. I don’t know how this could have been prevented but I know we are not doing enough to turn kids away from anti-social behaviour. We need alternatives, not just punishments when it’s too late. #politas
Wishing you well from Australia.