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Taking a moment to get my head around the concept of “boastful, even by LinkedIn standards”

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

My latest in @crikey.com.au. I trawl through Tim Wilson MP’s LinkedIn profile, which is hilariously boastful, even by LinkedIn standards. While in the #auspol wilderness, he started a PhD at RMIT Blockchain Hub—which employs several former IPA researchers… www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/16/t...

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

It drives me a bit nuts that the left is just as bad for spouting misinformation and disinformation as the right. Just because "the good guys" are being economical with the actualite (at best) doesn't make it ok. This is a good delve into Curtis's latest nonsense.

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

Speaking of generous souls, covid lockdown in Tasmania started a couple of months after we moved into our current space and things were going quite well but then obviously it dropped off a cliff. Our cat got run over just after it started so it was a fairly grim period.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

the Star Tribune's writeup of the Boelter charges is a lot more provocative than the charging document itself

submitted 18 hours ago • 84 comments

Fantastic tip from the AFR, I was thinking about what to do with half a mill of spare cash just the other day

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

🚨 ASIC is investigasting the ASX, saying it will look into "governance, capability and risk management frameworks and practices across the group" 🚨 asic.gov.au/about-asic/n...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Ori Goldberg: "There is no doubt that Netanyahu planned the strike on Iran for years, waiting for just the right time." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

The same people claiming the destruction buildings at the Esfahan UCF are a major blow to Iran's nuclear program were very recently warning that Iran may have a covert conversion facility. I wish we held diplomatic solutions to the same low standards we use for military strikes.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

Melbourne writer Alistair Kitchen was detained for 12 hours at Los Angeles International Airport, had his phone seized and was "interrogated" about his views on the conflict in the Middle East.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 2 days ago • 220 comments

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 1 day ago • 272 comments

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today. #wipolitics

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

Albo is in Seattle at the moment, he just gave a speech to a business innovation summit praising Amazon for setting up $20b in new data centres in Australia. I’m just posting this without comment, I have no snark left to give

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Fragments and stars.🐚✨️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Get off Xitter. (I did on Election Day, after 15 years and sizable audience. Have never looked back.)

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

If you're up early, I'll be talking about politics and this weeks events with the fine people at #SundayShot and @mariecolemanao.bsky.social in about 30 minutes. Trouble starts at 9am AEST. Link below for live show.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

So important. This is America. Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The definition is hard to pin down but before the George Floyd protests brought 15-20m people into the streets over the summer of 2020, the largest “single-day protest” in American history was generally agreed to be the Women’s March on Jan 21, 2017. Between 3.2-5.2m. Today seems bigger than that.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Posted up at a local bar for a sammy and a beer while I file my story about today's protests. but here's a story y'all might appreciate. While I was there I saw and older gentleman with this sign.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

You have to respect the sheer economics professor of this

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"What Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not happening because of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. They aren’t even the main culprits. Blaming them and only them is self-righteousness and hypocrisy." - Gideon Levy #StopIsrael johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A piece on working on a project for the Yoorrook Justice Commission in its final months.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

Excellent article by Rock Morton in the Saturday Paper this morning, on consultants Nous. These guys are so endemic in university managements I ended up writing a whole paper about them. They're basically vampires www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Can’t help noticing they’re playing an AFL game in Tasmania with no roof on the stadium

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” clock back to zero www.hcamag.com/au/specialis...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

This is a wellbeing room in my university.

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

Members of the crossbench have written to Deputy PM and Defence Minister Richard Marles, calling for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into Aukus. In April, polling by @australiainstitute.org.au found 56% of Australians support such a move.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 4 days ago • 842 comments