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#OTD in 1942, El Alamein area. Apparently, some Scotsmen on a Bren gun carrier. #WW2 #HISTORY

Really looking forward to the launch tomorrow night of “The Culture Wars” by @timdunlop.bsky.social, moderated by @paulbarclay.bsky.social @readingsbooks.bsky.social here in Melbourne. It’s a terrific read about a complex and crucial aspect of Australian political #history. #auspol

27 October 939 King Æthelstan died. He was the son of Edward the Elder and King of the English from 927 to 939. Historians view him as the first King of England and one of the greatest Anglo-Saxon kings. He never married, had no children and was succeeded by Edmund. #History #HistoryMatters

That's right, Prime Minister Sanchez. Tell that orange dipshit bully to go fuck himself. Spain doesn't negotiate with terrorists.

"A deep dive into what I found out - and what remains secret - after my 13 freedom of information applications relating to the AUKUS pact over the past five years" writes Daniel Hurst, freelance journalist. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/8vawUhiC

🚨🚨🚨 Russia's Black Sea Fleet repair trap is becoming increasingly clear. 🗣️🇺🇦 On October 26, Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said Russia can no longer safely use its repair facilities in Crimea.

Speech by #KennyO'Brien at Byron Festival is an absolute cracker. Read it below. MP's will deny it but #democracy in Australia is in serious decline and not just in #Parliament. It is hugely aided by mainstream & social media irresponsibility.

"The report found Israeli authorities and forces had continued to 'commit genocidal acts' even after the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, 'with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people'." No surprise that this got hardly any mainstream coverage. #GazaGenocide www.nine.com.au/world-news/m...

"Hopes that the NACC might be resucitated by a change of leadership have been dashed", writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #NACC michaelwest.com.au/nacc-declare...

Hey Axios, the “model” didn’t do this, the person who told it do this, did this. We are facing a massive propaganda campaign to get us to believe that there is no one to blame when AI tools are used to commit crimes. That’s simply untrue and irresponsible “reporting”. People do this deliberately.

Can we stop with the model did this or that? They did the same thing with the Medicare one. Let's be extremely clear, people did this, not models. They are not sentient. A person somewhere gave these agents a task, and they set out to complete it. The people are responsible.

"Anthropic model accessed voter information" Yes the info is publicly available (for a fee) but "the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic." www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

The Moorish style William Rae Wilson Mausoleum in the Necropolis in Glasgow. Born on Paisley in 1772, Wilson spent the latter half of his life travelling and became a well-known travel writer of the late Georgian era. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgownecropolis #cemetery

Keep foreign money out of UK politics. 80 per cent of donations to Reform UK in the past 12 months have come from donors or companies based overseas. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

LAST CALL: Book your tickets & beat tomorrow's deadline for an exciting conference at Royal Museums Greenwich. Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places & Practices, 1500-Present, takes place on 11-12 November. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat... @uophistory.bsky.social #maritime #history

We keep telling the government - we don't want automated robo-debt, or data centres everywhere, or aged-care assessment by algorithm, or non-professional NDIS decisions. Employ real people. Pay real wages. Fix hospitals & schools. Tax the squillionaires & giant companies. Can't be any clearer.

Today It's Bibi's Turn.......

Segal’s role ( which she is getting paid an obscene amount of money for) should include a trip to Gaza to experience the horror of genocide we are exposed to every day streamed into our homes & then report back to ‘her’ Jewish community

#OnThisDay: Alfred the Great died on 27 October 899. Pictured is the stunning Alfred Jewel, which you may recognise from our avatar. It has been dated to the late 9th century, in the reign of Alfred the Great, and is inscribed "AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN", meaning "Alfred ordered me made".

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Under the guise of self-regulation, Anthropic recently proposed a safety bill to lawmakers that would allow government intervention only once a new AI model has caused more than 50 deaths or one billion dollars’ worth of damage. https://michaelwest.com.au/anthropic-ai-hug-it-or-mug-it/

Barnaby Joyce is on ABC TV saying that the children’s cartoon character Bluey depicted in the One Nation political cartoons being run over by a car is an overreaction. ABC boss said earlier they are considering suing One Nation. Robert Irwin has also said he wants to sue. Sue them!

I just cannot find the words to describe how distressing & disturbing this is. How is this the behaviour of a party that wants to govern us? Equally disturbing is anyone buying them. #auspol

#wip I've finished off one of the Bavarian Miniatures samples off, this one is #28mm #French Guard Zouave from the Franco Prussian War. Really happy with this one, will be varnished when I've done the unit to equalise the shiny bits #wargames #wargaming #history #hobby

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

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There comes a time in every reactionary politician's life when he must steel himself, insert a nasogastric tube for unclear reasons, put on his bravest grimace, and give the weirdest thumbs-up anyone has ever seen.

My latest for National Geographic looks at the 131 new Hittite cuneiform tablets unearthed at Šamuḫa (c. 1400 BCE) & what they tell us about everything from augury to an epidemic that killed Hittite children. Thx to @digkabri.bsky.social, Theo van den Hout, @knpazuzu.bsky.social & ISAC for aid. 🪏

I don't think I ever watched an episode of Star Trek (science fiction isn't my thing), but I thought casting a Russian while the Cold War was still raging, to make the point that humans would get along better in the future, was a lovely touch.

Well deserved.

A week from tomorrow is the beginning of the END of the Orange Atrocity! 🍊 💩 #voteVoteVOTE

Added some cloaks from Weave of War to my Norman slingers for pillage. I’ve been playing around with these and am really enjoying using them, I’ve given them a bit of a trim and roughen up.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

"Attitudes excusing violence against women are a stronger predictor of violent extremism than race, religion or political leanings. When women stop running for public office, our democracy is at risk." @mon4kooyong.bsky.social #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...