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Professional engineer. Recovering academic. Working with data to improve work safety in Victoria. Opinions my own. https://stuartpalmer2.github.io/spalm/index.html
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Sounds stupid, but we are recharging the blinds.

Trimming the Rosemary hedge, and it smells like we are roasting lamb.

Accidental Partridge.

Hey Pen, who started the exchange again?

Rodong Sinmun stuff from WaPo

Plans for an elaborate military parade to celebrate Donald Trump’s 79th birthday had to be abandoned after thousands of troops were mysteriously exempt from service for bone spurs at the last minute.

Does the question even need to be asked? Of course there is “a better, cheaper defence strategy” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Washington Pravda

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

‘…Vice Chancellors’ millions aren’t the only millions that should be ringing alarm bells. There are also the millions that their institutions have failed to pay their staff to (among other things) teach their students.’ www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

“The deputy PM lacks the fundamentals for his ministerial portfolio. Dangerous ignorance after a full term of ministerial responsibility. This is no ordinary time for Australia to be dependent on impaired leadership” Marles needs to be more than the Pentagon’s concierge. #auspol #AUKUS

When nobody shows up to your birthday party

mood

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

LAPD Starts YouTube Channel for Rubber Bullet Trickshots

The UniSuper ads are embarrassingly cringeworthy. Down there with the worst of an almost universally bad category.

I think that BWS stands for buy wine singly.

Universities are in trouble. But is Nous Group the answer? The business model of the consultant is sharp and sophisticated. They bought the sector 'benchmarking' data and use it to sell services. Griffith Uni even hired 4 exec staff from them. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

If this kind of corruption were occurring in any other sector, senior leaders would be held accountable. Why are higher education senior leaders and officials getting away with poor behaviour? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Sea creatures sighted in the sea. Hold the front page!

ABC News Breakfast hosts this morning are parroting News Corp's non-story about the PM - "Albanese yet to secure critical meeting". A manufactured narrative which just goes to show how deeply News Corp’s anti-Labor framing infects our public broadcaster. #auspol www.news.com.au/national/pol...

Everyone who said the Nazi comparisons were hysterical, do you have enough Nazi-ing yet or do you need a full on holocaust to get underway before we can say “this is that bad”?

Former Labor senator Nova Peris OAM has been visiting Israel across the last week including meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The grifter has been outspoken in her support of Israel, including calling for increased solidarity from Aboriginal people. #auspol #genocide #Gaza

Elementary Guide to Bluetooth Troubleshooting.

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...

BYD pivoting to selling even bigger fossil-fuelled wanktanks in Australia I mean it's nice their CEO isn't throwing Nazi salutes but they have the worst human rights abuses in their supply chain of the lot. www.drive.com.au/news/byd-sha...

FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

Surely there is literally no moment from proceedings left for the ABC to poast? LIVE# BREAKING#

If you talk to the CEO any different to how you talk to the office cleaner you are a self interested corporate husk.

“Anyone who wants to defund, denigrate or destabilize science can say, ‘You’ve been lying to us.’ Now we’re at a point where journals, scientists, universities have given ammunition to an administration that has lots of other motives.” Our Ivan Oransky in @wsj.com.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Algorithm Figures You’ll Enjoy This Beheading hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...

Best 20 Mobile Games To Play While Driving hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Morrison’s Companion of the Order for Gaslighting Australia https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrisons-companion-of-the-order-for-gaslighting-australia,19829?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #Auspol

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

The Australian honours system has about the same relevance, merit, and reputational weight as a Sofronoff report. That is to say, none. #auspol

Absolute AI desperation.

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

The Dogs #Israel #USPolitics #auspol #Iran

AUKUS in doubt (12/6). At last, some good news from the USA. Ross Hudson, Mount Martha @theage letters

They are managing to both sides cops roughing up a United States Senator for California. This is "beat one, educate a million stuff." Who is gonna protest if Senator Padilla (a week after the leader of the biggest union in CA got days in custody) gets this treatment.