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@andymatthews.bsky.social @alasdairtb.bsky.social just put ep479 on in the car with my 10yo. I knew it was a risk but you make poo and fart jokes and he loves those so a risk worth taking. Of course, this was the ep where you described Al as the c-bombs’ c-bomb in the 1st minute 😂

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If only someone had seen this coming…

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Telling that the AFR has a ‘wealth’ reporter

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing. Not a cent. Zip. Nada. Big fat zero. There's about 19 million people with super and this effects about 65 thousand people with balances of more than $3 mill (and even then it wouldn't require you to do anything unless you have an SMSF.)

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

@julieayre.bsky.social @brookenickel.bsky.social thought you might be interested in this

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

‘Such ingratitude’: Trump and Musk alliance devolves into bitter feud

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

💯 this. They don’t have to agree on everything but the greens could be a very powerful partner on many policies for ALP

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Am I not understanding something or would screening itself be a potential explanation for the increase in cancer incidence in young people? Screening is meant to detect cancers after all so more opportunistic screening could mean more cancers. @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social ?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries. For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse. New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

Cycling in Oxford: A Tale of Four Schools. 58% of the children at Cherwell secondary school in North Oxford cycle to school; it may have the highest cycling rate of any UK school. In contrast, just 10% of children at Cheney secondary school cycle to school. THREAD 1/N

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Congestion charges introduced in 2003 FYI

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is true. And even if you think this ISN’T the particular problem your city has, it’s always a safe bet that adding more car lanes still won’t solve whatever you think your problem is.

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Some important work here - lots of excitement about AI tutors but just how useful are they in practice? We need more evaluations like this theconversation.com/researchers-...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

More than being able to afford it, they don’t need or deserve all the money they have

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

BlueSky friends: I'm looking to do a deep dive on the concept of quality of life, and I'm canvassing for recommendations for seminal books and papers on the topic. I'm specifically looking for readings from #bioethics, #philosophyofscience, #philosophyofmedicine, and #medicalsociology 🙏

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

1 year in prison for stealing $23 worth of goods. Seems fair 🙃

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 51 comments

I keep seeing complaints that LLMs get facts wrong as though this is revelatory and damming - “it never says ‘I don’t know’” and “I asked it a purposefully silly question and it gave me a silly answer - how dumb of it!” are 2 recent examples. A short 🧵 on why this is a major misconception of LLMs.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Loneliness is becoming more common, especially amongst young people. Professor Melody Ding shares her research on loneliness and social isolation, and what systemic changes we can make to improve social connectedness. Hear her conversation on The Solutionists podcast: go.sydney.edu.au/gPPwhN

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, 1/10 success rate is generous for some grant schemes

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Safer cars for the people driving them. Deadlier for everyone else

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We all knew they would get back together but I’m surprised they couldn’t even last the week

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A decision on the whether to extend Woodside's North West Shelf gas export project by another 50 years is impending. Environment Minister Murray Watt has promised to make his call by May 31. Extending this massively polluting project would be a disaster on 5 fronts:

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting. What would keep people here? More hate?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments