Dr Helen MacLean

Feels like a metaphor for Elon Musk

Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...

Helen Haines' husband, Phil, speaks from hospital: says she has lost both legs "Both her heart and her mind are in good shape" thanks her staff, locals who responded, paramedics, hospital staff "Helen's road to recovery will be long & difficult, but we know she is a fighter"

While watching the #auspol MSM commentary on the horrific events surrounding @helenhainesindi.bsky.social, I’ve been impressed by the frank assessment by commentators of their own role in promoting the argy-bargy and proffering their apologies … and then I woke up 😢🙄

Alex Gibney, the director of the new “Musk” documentary, reached this conclusion about the ambitions of the world’s richest man: “There is no real purpose to it except to play the game.”

Hard agree. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s because Meta sued the author and got a gag order that prevents her from saying a single word about her own book. Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to human rights and democracies the world over, including ours. It is vitally important you know how and why.

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

They're not even trying to be slick about it anymore. Billionaires are full on flop-sweating about the ass-whipping they're about to get.

Australia's renewable energy investment is already wildly insufficient. I would bet this isn't a risk, it's something that's already happening.

"Ukrainian soldiers in combat have suddenly had their access to Starlink satellite internet terminals restricted as the Trump administration has increased pressure on Ukraine to halt long-range strikes on Russia’s oil industry immediately." Shameful behaviour. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"

We are being killed by the world's dumbest people.

Murray Watt unloads on Pauline Hanson who in her question, says she voted against deporting hate preachers because she ‘didn’t like the legislation’ “I can only assume that, that was the measures we imposed to crack down on Neo Nazis…was that the bit you didn’t like?”🔥 Yep. 🙄

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

A *few* of them have shown *some* willingness to do this lately. El-Sayed, for instance, will occasionally say "why is the media so obsessed with [silly Piker story or whatever] rather than Americans suffering under tariffs." They need to coordinate & amplify each other on that stuff.

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

"If they don't want to be called nazis they should stop doing nazi shit, and the media should ask themselves why heated language bothers them more than nazi shit."

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Former UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson on traitor Trump buying Russian oil: "The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter."

Hacking into things Campbell Newman style as a response to populism is only going to impact the most vulnerable. Straight away this migration plan will hit sectors like aged care, putting increased workload on the existing labour force. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Woke up during the night because windows rattled & bed shook. Thought it was weird & wondered if it was an earthquake, so took note of the time (2:01 am). Very excited to hear now it •was • one, with Leongatha epicentre. Hope no major damage anywhere, but glad I noticed it in inner north Melbourne

Oh my goddddd I haaaate these yank tanks!!! If you're too big for a generously-sized carpark, you're too big for the road! Tax these out of existence 😤😤😤 #YankTanks

A Northern Territory body with ZERO full-time staff is the de facto national regulator for online gambling. Last year, Australians lost $36 billion gambling. @justinedavismla.bsky.social tells @ebonybennett.bsky.social about this extraordinary situation on Follow the Money 🎧 theaus.in/4jhnKz9

Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

I don't know if anyone cares, but Victoria's proposed rules do not "force datacentres to use renewable energy", and falsely stating that they do is actively helping the data centre industry do the pretend-fainting shock performance they're doing to try and kill even the weakest of regulations

Feel very sorry for Freo & Dockers fans. So hard to lose in the last few minutes, & after their heroic captain went down. But they squandered the advantage of their dominance in the 3rd quarter by not kicking straight. Brisbane was always going to come back. It’s a cruel game sometimes #AFL #AFLGF

And the “singing budgie” is flying #Kylie #AFL #AFLGF

Padam padam ❤️❤️ #AFL #AFLGF Followed by Locomation. Legendary Kylie!!!

Farmers who intend to vote for One Nation should know that they are accepting that “climate change” is normal.By doing so they will negate any logical argument for taxpayer assistance when “normal” weather events occur. Don’t ask for help if you deny the very thing you need help to overcome!

New research shares the stories of Australians with dementia who want a choice in how they live and die.

The military is being buffeted by huge materiel losses and is actually hiding war casualties but Hegseth is obsessed with fitness and his men's penises.

Sums it all up. If it happened again, We'd feed and shelter your folks again. If it happened to us, You'd probably send ICE.

Quite the vindication

The old order is not coming back. From the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, and more just.

All the way with USA but to where? Soon to enter the 7th month of his 4 week war, Trump has made his country visibly weaker and its foreign policy, incoherent.

MPs are elected to serve Australians, not the vested interests that profit from gambling harm: gambling companies, media companies & major sporting codes. These corporations are directly responsible for this harm & this Gov is complicit in allowing it to continue. #auspol #politas

My temporary return to Australia has been more stressful than anticipated and has brought forward parts of a much older life I thought we had left behind. rick-morton.ghost.io/something-fa...

Yet again, @albomp.bsky.social's @australianlabor.bsky.social would seemingly prefer to put big business first, no matter the devastating harm it causes to Australian families and children www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08.... Again we ask, who do you serve, Albo?

More accurate headline: 'Labor prioritizes lobby groups over gambling harm.' And I wish journos would stop using "crackdown" to describe Labor's pissweak package. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.