Tony Fisk

Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social

RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social

"president trump...i could use your help here" "i am sorry flávio but i am busy attacking bill maher"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance tries to say Kansas but it comes out "Sexus"

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Queensland fails to appoint Indigenous leaders to hospital boards, in violation of act

abc.net.auBrisbane hospital boards lack Indigenous voices despite legal requirementsThe Queensland government has failed to appoint Indigenous leaders to its hospital boards, despite being legally required to do so. 

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Will Donald Trump or AI blow up financial markets first?

abc.net.auANALYSIS: Will Donald Trump or AI blow up financial markets first?Technology and artificial intelligence have enthralled investors, and Australia's super funds have dived in with their ears pinned back. But now comes the reckoning.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

There’s desperation behind these Republican ads. But there’s confidence too—that scapegoating Muslims taps into biases many Americans still feel, and that it will be enough to alter some outcomes. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:

lnk.thebulwark.comGOP Closes Campaign With Unapologetic BigotryThe attacks on Abdul El-Sayed are dishonest and ugly. But will they work?

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

40% of gaming's total global CO2-e footprint comes specifically from my personal laptop as it melts when I try to play RDR2 on minimum settings

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Lula wins Brazilian election but Bolsonaro refuses to accept defeat

abc.net.auLula celebrates unlikely victory in Brazil as Bolsonaro rejects resultsTwo days before his 81st birthday, Brazil's president clinches a historic fourth term. But his opponent is refusing to accept defeat.

Melissa Sweet@melissasweetdr.bsky.social

NSW cannot legislate away the climate cost of its coal pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

pearlsandirritations.comNSW cannot legislate away the climate cost of its coalAfter a landmark High Court ruling on the Scope 3 emissions from exported coal, the Minns government plans special legislation allowing Mount Pleasant to keep producing at higher levels until 2032.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Lula pulls it off! Down with fascism!

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face "death and consolidation" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

Winston Filtered Cigarettes (1966) reddit.com/r/vintageads...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

VINCENT PRICE (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) www.tumblr.com/christopherl...

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Victorian Liberals vow to ban 'globalise the intifada' if elected in November

abc.net.auVictorian Liberals to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant if electedOpposition leader Jess Wilson says the phrase will be outlawed under incitement to violence laws if her party wins government.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

Unreasonable and unfair: damning investigation criticises Labor’s algorithm-based tool for aged care

theguardian.comUnreasonable and unfair: damning investigation criticises Labor’s algorithm-based tool for aged careReport from commonwealth ombudsman finds ‘technological black box’ ignores transparency recommendations from robodebt royal commission * Follow our Australian politics live blog for latest updates * Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast An algorithm used by the federal government to assess the level of care older Australians are entitled to is unreasonable, unfair and lacks human oversight, according to a damning investigation by the commonwealth ombudsman. The investigation also found transparency recommendations from the robodebt royal commission have been ignored. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Thank you, ladies.

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Donald Trump hits back at Barack Obama after scathing rally comments

abc.net.auDonald Trump labels Obama 'incompetent' in post rally retaliationUS President Donald Trump has retaliated after Barack Obama delivered scathing criticisms of the incumbent during Democrat rallies.

Todd Martens@toddmartens.bsky.social

Let’s geek out a little on Disneyland ride mechanics, shall we? www.latimes.com/travel/newsl...

latimes.comFirst look: Disneyland's Indiana Jones ride reopens with more capacity — and more spidersLet’s geek out on ride mechanics, shall we?

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Tao Neuendorffer@taonf.bsky.social

Cray-2 was the fastest computer ever built as of 1985, processing at 1.9 gigaflops, or 1.9 billion floating point operations per second (FLOPS) iPhone 17 processes at ~2,073 gigaflops, or 2 trillion FLOPS Cray-2 weighed >5,500 pounds, while the iPhone 17 weighs 6.24 ounces— >14,000 times lighter

bgr.comHow Does An '80s Supercomputer Compare To A Modern iPhone? - BGRCompared to the Cray-2, which was the pinnacle of supercomputing in 1985, an iPhone 17 delivers orders of magnitude more processing power.

The Associated Press@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

environmentamerica.org/center/resou...

environmentamerica.orgData centers are driving a surge in fossil fuel plantsBurning fossil fuels for electricity harms our air and water and disrupts the climate. But data centers are fueling an explosion of new natural gas plants.

HuffPost@huffpost.com

"He's not a humanitarian, he's a murderer," Rep. Ashley Hinson told ABC's "This Week" of the Russian president.

huffpost.comGOP Senate Candidate In Iowa Breaks With Witkoff On Calling Putin A 'Humanitarian'GOP Senate Candidate In Iowa Breaks With Witkoff On Calling Putin A 'Humanitarian'

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

Alex Steffen@alexsteffen.bsky.social

Jodorowsky: “I do not want that Man conquers Space In the ships of NASA... gigantic freezers vomiting imperialism... I want rockets complex and secret, Humming-bird ornithopters, Sipping the millennia-old nectar of dwarf stars." #keepspaceweird

Rachel E. Pollock@labricoleuse.bsky.social

This 19th c lady’s multitool was found in the pocket(!) of an antique (1872) garment donated to the historic clothing archive at my employer. It features a button hook for fitted gloves and a tiny corkscrew. The corkscrew is too small for wine & was probably intended to open apothecary bottles.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Starlink back to normal in Ukraine after throttling impedes military operations

abc.net.auUkraine says Starlink at normal speed after delays impede militaryUkraine says Starlink satellite is back to operating at high speeds after restrictions disrupted Ukraine's military operations and intensified tensions with the US.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

motherjones.comThe EPA is quietly killing its web archiveTens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump's climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

Rishika Pardikar@rishpardikar.bsky.social

The relevant section from the report wedocs.unep.org/rest/api/cor...

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says of Somalia that "all they have is people that shoot you all the time ... it's a shit house country"

Climate TRACE@climatetrace.org

Climate TRACE co-founder and @watttime.org Executive Director Gavin McCormick joins the the debate about the potential environmental positives and negatives of AI to explain how the technology has been used to better track emissions for our free and open data platform: www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️️ Trump vows to fix Ukraine's Starlink problems if they continue, may call Musk. "If there's a problem, I will get it straightened out," U.S. President Donald Trump said.

kyivindependent.comTrump vows to fix Ukraine's Starlink problems if they continue, may call Musk"If there's a problem, I will get it straightened out," U.S. President Donald Trump said.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social

It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

Keira Wright@bykeirawright.bsky.social

My latest TV hit discussing why it's increasingly difficult to build data centres in Australia. Spoiler - the answer is, folks don't like it when they're built on their doorstep

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Suburbs across Victoria are facing changes to their facade as election battle lines are drawn

abc.net.auThe high-rise housing battleground that has wide political consequences Leafy streets filled with homes are a common visage in the outer suburbs of Melbourne but newly implemented planning regulations may change all that.

Mighty Apollo@mightyapollo.bsky.social

Remarkable to me that he could boost his popularity 20 points if he just leaned into the whole couch f***er thing. “Ok folks, I’m off to IKEA, and you know what that means!”

Reuters Pictures@pictures.reuters.com

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

Australia offers astronaut, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, for space mission to International Space Station

theguardian.comAustralia offers astronaut, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, for space mission to International Space StationAustralian of the Year would become the first astronaut in space to qualify under the Australian flag if she embarks on the 2028 mission The federal government has sent an offer to the European Space Agency (ESA) to send the Australian of the Year, astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, to the International Space Station. The mission, slated for 2028, will mark the first time a qualified astronaut has flown to space under the Australian flag. Continue reading...

Vince D. Monroy@vincedmonroy.bsky.social

Trump to Kaitlan Collins: “You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a dummy. You’re a low-IQ person, you’re a dummy, and you work for CNN.”

Royce Kurmelovs@roycerk2.bsky.social

'In a statement, Chevron said satellite monitoring came with "a wide range of uncertainty".'

abc.net.auUN sends warning as satellite detects greenhouse gas plumes over Gorgon plantSatellite monitoring has detected huge plumes of methane above one of Australia's largest gas complexes, triggering a UN alert and inquiries by state authorities.