Simon Killen

Simon Killen

@killens.bsky.social

Goes out far too much, really should settle down and relax. Seriously - you have ants in your pants?

378 followers72 following2.6K posts

Simon Killen reposted

This is pretty much the entire point of undercover reporting.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Don't know, but I think a full proof way of avoiding your racist and neo nazi comments being accurately reported is not to make them in the first place.

Simon Killen reposted

Zali Steggall unloads on Pauline Hanson’s disgraceful finger-pointing and politicisation following the attack on Helen Haines. says she has a long history of spreading hate in the country “sells & pushes hate & division non stop” “Helen is the complete opposite”💯 Yup.

Simon Killen reposted

I'd filed a Hanson/ Lambie cartoon for today but it seemed a bit tin eared with what's happened in Indi so I did a new, last minute one this morning. I had a few ideas about division & dark days but thought I'd focus on something that's bringing people together instead. Here's to Helen Haines.

The Point@thepointau.bsky.social

"A tribute to Helen Haines" a cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social View the cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/new/261020-a-tribute-to-helen-haines

Simon Killen reposted

"The PM is right that we should turn the temperature down, and that starts with parliament. That means not calling for people to be stoned in the square, or making fun of a female politician's health issues." - Andrew Wilkie on the attack on Helen Haines. #auspol

Simon Killen reposted

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

Simon Killen reposted

This is the shit you love to hear just as everybody is feeling extremely anxious about the opaque ROI of AI and specifically AI capex in Meta’s case. You want a story where your CFO says “it will be really bad if you’re wrong about this”

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

On the Cheeky Pints podcast, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief AI officer Alexandr Wang revealed that Susan Li pulled Wang aside “many times” at a Hawaii offsite to warn him that if Meta’s new AI model flopped, it would be “really, really bad” financially. 😬 Read more: https://yhoo.it/4zQLL59

Simon Killen reposted

Pete Hegseth wasn't lying about us getting to see someone die on live TV.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

Simon Killen reposted

Replying to @kentparkskeet.bsky.social

Jane Caro: “Education is used by the rest of the world to at least try to break down the class system. Almost alone in the developed world, Australia is using it to build one. We are now governed, not just in our parliaments, but in business…..by people who went to the same schools.” #auspol

Simon Killen reposted

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

England just edging other countries in boneheaded racism this year.

Sathnam Sanghera@sathnam.bsky.social

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Simon Killen reposted

Ngl pasty white Western Europeans trying to connect themselves to Greeks 2,500 years ago has always beggared belief, but even by that standard this is a stretch

Jan-Werner Mueller@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social

"Rubio also hailed the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés as an heir to the Athenian concept of exploring and pursuing knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Cortes is viewed much differently in Latin America..."

Simon Killen reposted

Replying to @petabytes.bsky.social

when police promised that this time definitely this time more training will make the “force” less violent. You know like more training make police unracist.

Simon Killen reposted

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Simon Killen reposted

Replying to @jefftrnka.bsky.social

It worked for Brock - "Where is Brock Turner Now? As of 2019, Brock Turner is living a simple life. He is currently operating at Tark Inc. as an entry-level job employee. The company is a manufacturer of cooling technology for medical appliances where he accumulates $12 per hour."

Simon Killen reposted

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes

Simon Killen reposted

explain why Altman is building tech to snoop around in government medical records, Andrew. The literal excuse is for the tech to “answer questions about Australia”. When strings of text featuring the word Medicare that require verification using some other search tool have no value.

It's deeply heartening to learn there are politicians who will not be cowed. At all.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Bibi came after Mamdani today and Sen. Van Hollen clapped back-hard. Also? Every word is true.

Simon Killen reposted

I started researching a college paper knowing which side of the issue I was on. Nine hours of reading later, I wrote a very compelling argument for the opposit side because I found out I had the whole thing entirely wrong. My original stance was ignorant. If I'd had AI, I'd still be ignorant.