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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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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.

Unaccountably forgotten something important that happened in Australian higher educ and research 2013-23? Chances are Campus Morning Mail can jog your memory, The CMM archive is live for another year @ shorturl.at/btr5k

ABC discovers that Queensland spans ~23 degrees of latitude.

Safe bet the optimistically titled Productivity Commission ignore the enormous tax concessions we give to big dumb utes…hope they prove me wrong but history suggests the PC has a keen eye for support for climate action & turns a blind eye to all things fossil fuel polluting…hope they prove me wrong

Every budget the treasury increase its estimates for fuel tax credits. Apparently that is not a blowout even though it’s now over $10bn.

When writing about pop cultural artefacts it's vitally important to not get the how it relates to anything else.

Don't forget about this one

Breaking: SA man dies two weeks after becoming unresponsive during arrest: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-13/man-dies-after-attempted-arrest-royston-park/105361774

You just know we’ll be screwed. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Shrill, bitter and increasingly twisted. Her legacy defined by her own vindictive quest. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Keating always delivers the clearest message “”AUKUS will be shown for what it always has been: a deal hurriedly scribbled on the back of an envelope by Morrison, along with the vacuous British blowhard Boris Johnson & the confused President Joe Biden," Keating said” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

🚨 The Trump regime just arrested a sitting U.S. Senator at a DHS presser—then lied about it. Tanks in D.C., Newsom fights back, Trump's latest trade surrenders, and more. Full breakdown on the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT!

Construction on the newest Australian submarine began the year this was released. Formal processes around new replacement subs have been going since 2007, with real billions already spent for zero current prospect of getting an actual submarine. And it's "vital." Well done all.

Many seemingly personal conversations can be publicly viewed on a “discover” tab in Meta AI, a chatbot platform that doubles as a social feed, including some conversations containing sensitive information tied to user names and profile photos.

“That star means everything to me. My entire self-worth is wrapped up in getting external validation from people I pretend to despise but am actually desperate to impress" Full details: theshovel.com.au/2025/06/13/trump-deploys-150000-troops-to-protect-hollywood-star/

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

“fewer than 4,000 people – have more than 80% of their retirement savings in non-residential retail property, such as farms” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Marines Raise American Flag Outside Cell Phone Store After Defeating Skateboarding Teenagers theonion.com/marines...

ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary

The NSW property developer who bankrolled Moira Deeming’s defamation case against John Pesutto offered the former Liberal leader a $1 million lifeline on the condition he did not attempt to win back the party leadership within the next three years. These VIC Liberals are just corrupt. #auspol

According to Linda, there is nothing more important than Linda’s feelings. Sadly, saying this will hurt Linda’s feelings, so I’m not sure how to feel about it myself.

Pokies boss Neumann under investigation for alleged corruption overseas: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/boss-of-australian-pokies-giant-under-corruption-investigation/105410078

I'm going to have to roll up a Reddit scraper, aren't I?