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The Federal President of my union, Michael Slezak, was hauled in by his bosses and threatened with disciplinary action over an editorial he wrote defending access to companies information that would benefit all journalists and the public. This can't be allowed. In solidarity @withmeaa.bsky.social

Decisions like this make me more optimistic we are actually moving towards the future we want. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

I think the i-miev is disproportionately represented in stock photos. I'm not quite sure why. Most people would have never seen one in person and seen plenty in the news.

This seems like a win-win in every regard.

Chilean Australians in Sydney remember the great terrorist crime of September 11, 1973, when Washington helped destroy Chilean democracy, backing a bloody coup and murdering tens of thousands. They played Allende's final speech.

Was much colder than expected when I got up this morning. Most people would blame the weather but I tracked it down to a firewall rule blocking the air conditioning.

In my reading the entire article is blaming an "algorithm" which is literally an expression of the legislation. While a human would be able to fudge the numbers, the problem seems to be the legislation rather than the implementation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

I keep thinking about how OpenAI is a DoD vendor and a legit military target while we are in a war with a nation that has hackers and OpenAI has stated on the record that someone or something was aggressively hacking another US organization from their network… …and they didn’t notice for a week.

Nope, did nazi that coming. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

It appears to me that oil prices are back near their peak, but here in regional Australia the prices at the servo don't seem particularly elevated. Some of that is the excise reduction, but from my casual observations it seems like the servo price and oil price have decoupled a bit?

Only 3mm of rain but it's so good to get it.

The neighbours wood fire smoke frequently gets trapped in an inversion layer.

"Whatever the public interest in exploring the environmental and human cost of mining critical minerals it was undermined from the outset by the program’s sweeping, unsupportable allegations and its scandalous decision to deny its audience the inconvenient facts."

In a nutshell. 😊

Woke up to some whiplash this morning with these two opposing announcements within the same news live blog. #TACO

Straits ain't hormuzing, refineries ain't refining. But we have more electricity storage on the grid than ever before.

I'm not sure I understand this correctly. Iran closes strait of hormuz in response to American Israeli attacks. US demands they open it as part of negotiations. US then blocks it in response to failed negotiations. It's hard to tell who actually wants it open

We could've phased out fossil fuels the gradual, smart and painless way starting in the 1990s The fossil fuel industry decided we have to do it the painful, unfair and cruel way instead. because that gave them an extra few decades of super-profits

So is this a TACO event, or are the Iranians lying about negotiating? My gut feel is that Trump is unlikely to be telling the truth. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Yay rain!

Ukraine, which continues to be under attack from a four-year long Russian invasion, is sending resources to help defend US interests in the Middle East, after the US started a new conflict there. The US has responded by giving money to Russia.

Jeremy's reaction is a good measure of how this failure will be received among the wider public, not only as it concerns the NACC, but what it suggests about the broader ability of Australian institutions to hold anyone of significant power or influence to account for anything in future.

The challenge with end-to-end encryption is making sure the ends are where you think they are.

@bhinfosecurity.bsky.social I'll be disappointed if this doesn't hit the podcast.... 😀 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I don't see any value in politics that substitutes Islamophobia for anti-Semitism, and it should be rejected. Any politics using generalisations about a broad group of people to draw conclusions about individuals is fundamentally flawed.

Can we make a violation of the Australian values statement grounds for removing people from the Liberal party? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Is it 1981?

Looks like we get to use this for a while longer #auspol

Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.

I think this means I'm growing contraband!?

So the US is threatening to tax its citizens more on imports from some European countries unless another country agrees to give them territory? That seems like some very indirect leverage to me. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Well we are no longer a Nationals electorate. But depending on what Joyce does next we could be a PHON electorate.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Can it not be the default that I have to unsubscribe from a newsletter after every purchase?

Happy Equinox!

NT Environment Protection Authority chair Paul Vogel was involved in key decisions around the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas plant (DLNG) without disclosing his paid role with the lobbying firm representing DLNG shareholder INPEX. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09....

The promise of streaming was that the world's content would be made accessible at a good price, and more conveniently than pirate sites. But now I find I can't even access content that is culturally significant. I feel like the Information Age we were headed for is now the information dark ages.

When a child tells me "it was an accident" for the nth time, I think they are not taking steps to avoid the accident, and perhaps it's more or less deliberate. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

CISA has added CVE-2007-0671 to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog. Kind of amazing that Office 2000-2004 are still in use. I'm really curious as to where this exploitation was detected.

I'm looking at what I think is a legitimate email, quarantined as a potential Phish. They have unintentionally added some red flags. Comic sans, a QR code, a competition entry asking for details, links to third party landing page. No wonder we can't tell what is or isn't a phish.