What idiot called them publicists instead of hypewriters?
What idiot called them publicists instead of hypewriters?
Oh lordy, we really are in the easiest age of disinformation. All the biggest, most respectable studies show no association between this painkiller & autism, let alone a causal link. Women need a safe way to bring down a fever in pregnancy, which is a known danger to a fetus.
Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
That’s quite prolific
With state governments failing children and communities — the federal government can and should step in. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
You can also buy their book “Conspiracy Nation” over at Ultimo Press or where you would normally buy books. ultimopress.com.au/products/con...
The UN inquiry concluded that Israeli authorities and forces had since October 2023 committed "four of the five genocidal acts" listed in the 1948 Genocide Convention. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
From the botanic garden at the historic Whaling Station, Albany. Have some flowers #BloomScrolling #AustralianFlora #WestAustralianFlora #NativeFlowers
Mark Zuckerberg can’t hear you calling his glasses “the pedophile eyewear” but your friend with the pedophile eyewear can.
To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.
And fascists
"If the ANU is not committed to research that tells the Australian story then well may we ask, what is the point of a national university?" theconversation.com/the-anu-was-...
Oh yeah, and Happy Birthday to Papua New Guinea, on the right-hand side of an arbitrary line.
Are you excited for the third Saturday in September? Yes it's International Red Panda Day #IRPD #RedPanda redpandazine.com/2025/09/12/i...
a fence post maybe
How did the world let this guy be in charge of something like this? Or any one individual. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Great question, I'm gonna throw that one over to Alexander Downer for comment
Why is it necessary in the pantomime of political reporting to seek the input on every issue of a group with perishingly few seats and NO policies? What is the point of it?
At some point the Whitehouse is going to ban non courtesan photographers
Doron Samuell, in 2005, seems to just offer his services to the then Coalition-led Immigration dept. "The Federal Government paid $30,000 for a private report that set out to discredit studies showing asylum seekers in detention suffered psychological damage" bsky.app/profile/did:...
Hastie is a nasty piece of work itching to be more successful than Dutton in every way
Just casually trying to whip up some violence against people that don’t subscribe to Hastie‘s views. How is this any different from from what Katter did last week? Or Babet a few days ago? It is shit like this that spurs people like the Porepunka shooter and the ones up in QLD. Disgraceful
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Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
‘Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite’ - Sinclair Davidson
![In Australia we are seeing the results of running universities like businesses without adequate governance: wage theft from staff, fee theft from students, and the academic equivalent of shrinkflation. Students pay more but get less. Face-to-face teaching is reduced, final exams are replaced by group assignments, and the bulk of teaching is done by poorly paid sessional staff on short-term contracts with no security or career path. This is not business efficiency; it is exploitation dressed up as managerial necessity. Meanwhile, senior management itself lacks the kinds of incentives that would exist in genuine businesses. Many university leaders [https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/university-boss-got-a-240k-pay-rise-over-three-years- 20250902-p5mrth] are on five-year contracts with no continuing role once their term is up. In the corporate world, executives would hold stock or be awarded options, giving them a direct stake in the long-term performance of the enterprise. In universities, by contrast, vice chancellors and deputy vice chancellors often move on before the costs of their decisions materialise. They capture the prestige of announcing grand initiatives but rarely face the consequences when those initiatives fail. The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3cdplwwzze2etym25zuy6ks/bafkreifpsnslkzxaa2upznr5a623xfqwabftri7rkbhv5auervyzoxa4oq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie indicates he will quit or be dumped if the Coalition does not abandon the target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. #climate #change #federal #parliament #state #territory #government #politics
Mango lassi is the best lassi
The Gulf of Panama’s upwelling system, once clockwork, just failed for the first time in recorded history. No cooling. No nutrients. No idea why. We’re in uncharted waters now. Literally. And the maps we’ve used to predict ocean stability? Might need redrawing... #ClimateChange #TippingPoints
Probably would have noticed if 88% of the population died in a single year
There is really no point in trying to “debate” or attempt to have a discussion based on reason with people whose opinions are lies. They know that they are lying and they don’t give a shit.
The best advice to students beginning university can be summed up as: if in doubt, ask your teachers (or librarians, or student support staff, etc. as relevant) and not the plagiarism robot. The Guardian can send my fee to my PO Box.
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
It’s my experience that not working for a profit-maximising organisation means better working conditions. But it’s funny how so many Australians struggle to make this connection.
Bad op ed by former Deputy Liberal Leader Frydenberg here, barking up the wrong tree by blaming the left for a killing it appears to have had nothing to do with while claiming to be on the side of "civility".
There's a reasonably famous incident in Australia in which one of the local nazis got shot to death by another nazi while wearing a shirt that read "say no to gun control laws". Wayne "Bovver" Smith. From the August 1993 edition of Australian Press Council News. Because it's all... something.
The immaculate misconception
Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray becomes first Australian with solo exhibition at London's Tate Modern www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
It feels slow not because of facts, but because the doom-narrative drowns out reality. 📉 The truth: solar doubled from 1,000 → 2,000 TWh in just 3 yrs, wind’s surging too. Fossils took decades. The fastest energy leap in history is here—don’t let fear blind you. ⚡🌞 #EnergyTransition #BESS #EVs #LFP
A very chill Australian Boobook Owl yesterday. We didn't find the Powerful Owls we were looking for, though there were a lot of POwl pellets and scat about 50m upstream and 100m downstream of this little Boobook. #brisbane #birds #wildoz
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Elon Musk is a menace and govts need to start imposing tough consequences for his foreign interference. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I'm banging on about this because there's some needless hyperventilating going on here. Australia's Charlie Kirk (or equivalent dipshit) is who? Rita Panahi whose primary audience is old people falling asleep in their lounge chairs? We have our own problems without importing imaginary nonsense.
I’m now qualified on this tram (and many more), looking forward to running it in service tomorrow.
Banging on again about the alt-right political industrial complex failure in Australia. Proportion of people born overseas (least conservative, bt robust estimates): UK - a bit over 16% US - about 16% Australia - a bit over 30% Let the complexity of that roll around your thought orbit for a bit
I have a pet honeyeater. I’ve been feeding him
Got a bit excited when i thought I heard the Kirk shooter is a Grouper. B.A. Santamaria coming home! Sadly, no.
Zombie
Earthquake preliminary magnitude 7.5 Near east coast of Kamchatka Russia 0238 UTC Saturday September 13 2025 Hazardous tsunami waves possible for coasts within 300 km of the earthquake epicentre centre
I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.
logging on
BREAKING from us at #4Corners: Former Morrison govt Health Minister Greg Hunt working for a Brethren company which received $54 million in COVID-19 contracts from Health Department while he was Minister. Mr Hunt says decisions made by his department, not him. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
More images of the beautiful dry stone walls near Keyneton, South Australia.
The more I think about it, the more decisions like the North West Shelf indicate to me that the Feds have made a calculated - and maybe even correct? - decision that they can afford to take the piss with the goodwill the Australian electorate has for them. The task ahead is to prove them wrong.
Hi Naarm Melbourne friends, The next Glen Eira Repair Cafe is happening on Saturday 20th September. If you're in the area and handy at repair, they're looking for volunteers. Or, if you need a repair, book at the link below. #Repair #CircularEconony #WasteNot #ZeroWaste #Melbourne
A dangerous(ly adorable) predator approaches…
The obvious question is what sort of community service a neo Nazi can perform? No charity will have him, no one else should have to work with him, what useful thing can he do? The only way a neo Nazi can serve the community is by ceasing to be a neo Nazi. Or by fucking off. #AusPol
Islamophobia special envoy Aftab Malik gets emotional as he speaks about some recent Islamophobic incidents in Australia “A man told a Muslim couple that he would love to kill their 3 children” Where has media been on this? Silence. #Abc
Good that the Guardian is calling Kirk “far right” and showings its readers his views - not “common sense”, not “conservative”, but far right conspiracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I enhanced it and OH MY GOD
If you're gonna write "father of two little girls", I want you to finish that sentence. "Father of two little girls... who believed that women should submit to their husbands, that they don't need an education, that they shouldn't use birth control, that sexual assault is the fault of women... etc"
1/2 In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo. Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
Tell me that there aren't sophisticated criminal enterprises watching the current FBI incompetence shitshow, and drawing up some business plans.
When he first got sacked in scandal (in the 90s) Gordon Brown said Mandelson had asked him for 10p to call a friend but he gave him 20p to ring all of them.
Someone needs a dementia assessment.
This coupled with the surprise over street libraries, eating onions with the skin on and every other action taken by this creature, your assessment is absolutely on the money
David Pope in Canberra Times
We really are not far off hey: www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03...
Majority in Brazil’s Supreme Court votes to convict Bolsonaro for attempted coup edition.cnn.com/2025/09/11/a...
This is a rather unfortunate thing to read just before bed as I will now be beset with John Howard nightmares. At least I’m no longer consumed with my own powerlessness….
You can break yourself out of this gloom by imagining what sex with John Howard might be like.
He came into power at a time when Australia was moving in a direction to become more of what we *could* be as a nation. Howard deliberately changed that direction to make Australia become a country that only did things he wasn't scared of. He was a man scared of many, many things.
A claim about the extent of Indian migration to Australia is circulating on social media, but official data shows it to be false. www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ma...
I wrote an assignment on the crest tailed mulgara in 1995 - glad to see the species doing well. I do not think my Year Six teacher was aware of the charms or existence of the mulgara prior to that.
So a pro gun/pro sacrifice advocate being shot dead gets your attention but hundreds of school kids being shot for years doesn’t? You are an odd country America.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Life is interconnected. We need the bees, and the birds...and the bats...Deadlier than varroa, a new honey-bee parasite is spreading around the world theconversation.com/deadlier-tha...
As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today
You would think that there is only so much cochineal that could be soaked up and that the flags couldn’t get any redder
What is happening in Gaza has shaken the conscience of the world. Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. This must stop. EU aid to Gaza far outweighs that of any other partner. But of course, Europe needs to do more. Here are measures for a way forward ↓
Climate change forces BOM to overhaul El Niño and La Niña analysis www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
It also means money previously spent on treating those who spared disease can be redirected to other illnesses Public health is so important impacting both at an individual and community level
The Liberal tent
My thanks and congratulations to the Polish Operational Command and our NATO pilots for shooting down Russian drones over Poland. Actions speak louder than words.
BREAKING: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.
Quick #crochet earrings for a raffle supporting a cat sanctuary in #Yass 🧶 I offered to adopt a(nother) cat but both my partner and our two cats vetoed the proposal 🤷🏼♀️
It pays to get your facts right. theaimn.net/fake-news-pr...
China’s world-leading solar, battery and EV companies have sharply increased foreign investment plans in recent years, pledging more than $210 billion since 2022, according to new research
Awful news in Bali
If you need cheering up, this is fucking joyful.
Caladenia reptans subsp. reptans - Dwarf Pink Fairy Orchids A beautiful species endemic to the southwest of Western Australia which is quite widespread at this time last year #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
Last night the Polish airspace was violated by a huge number of Russian drones. Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down. I am in constant communication with the Secretary General of NATO and our allies.
It is just after 6:30 am in Warsaw and Poland And Europe are waking up to the news of Russian incursion into Polish airspace (those who were awake and on social media or otherwise alerted overnight) Today could be interesting and not a great time for political turmoil in France etc
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The Victorian Government today has released the draft plans for the next 25 activity centres in its upzoning program. It's great to see more homes being enabled around our world-class train and tram network!
this is not a sentence anyone should be able to write
Folks in Melbourne, you may wanna send some business to the comrades at Glou Wine Bar on Smith St Collingwood, this is superb. A masterclass in the bare minimum level of contempt those who work in real estate deserve glou.com.au
But as I refused to listen to the chorus of voices telling me not to vote for the candidate who was openly telling people that this was exactly what they were going to do, I followed by bigotry and misogyny and now I can’t afford to repair my Chevy because I lost my well paid job installing solar.
When you compare Glenferrie Rd with Camberwell Junction, Glenferrie is alive & vibrant at all hours, while the Junction is so quiet from about 8pm onwards making it a frustrating place for restaurants etc. Also the surrounding house prices go up because it becomes a place that you want to live