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BREAKING: Anthropic hacks and steals Georgia voter data using Claude

I know fact checking Matt Canavan and Angus Taylor on coal is a mugs game, but I couldn't let this one go. Stopping coal mines in NSW helped South Korea phase out coal. Stopping coal mines in Australia WORKS!! thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Isabella Weber is THE economist to be listening to right now “Fascism is rising from frustration, born out of a crisis of livelihoods,” says Weber. “So, we need to reclaim these essentials now.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

100% agree with this: @timhollo.bsky.social “The hard truth is that life will be harder and the easy (for a given group of mostly white mostly men, to be clear) post-WWII world isn't coming back. A harder truth is waiting for us in the climate reality.” in-between-days.ghost.io/telling-the-...

Maybe the RBA and the government should be focusing on the ‘company profit-price spiral’ 🤷

“Look at the real person behind those decisions.”🔥 NDIS participant Eric speaks with passion, tired of endless reviews for a permanent disability, a system under the axe targeting his vital support network, says he just wants to ‘work and contribute.’ Watch & share. TY Eric.

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Dreadful decision

Looks like Australia does have a vehicle manufacturing industry #EV

Today is #ShowYourStripes day! The warming stripes, created by @edhawkins.org, show how the place where you live has changed over time. Find yours at showyourstripes.info. Download them, share them, and use them to start a conversation today!

Prominent economist Saul Eslake demolishes LNP’s ‘aspiration’ myth saying their 1999 CGT discount failed to build a nation of entrepreneurs & shareholders, in fact, those rates only fell since 1999, while “disproportionately favouring richer & older Australians”💥 #auspol

The right-wing arsonists claim that violence is spiralling because of migrants. That is a lie.

Rescuing American leadership as technology replaces that which is uniquely human & authentic.

Looks like high CO2 is making plants obese.

Quite extraordinary changes in 1 week!

They could keep prices the same and make them 25% smaller. #shrinkflation

“Suddenly”

“The far-right does not explain crises, but it racialises it.”

“Don’t you dare!”

Just gotta highlight men, even when they lose. Baff won gold but you could easily miss THAT headline. Do better, ABC

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Powerful testimony

What a joyful reflection thanks Rohan. Great Top 20 - Minutes to Midnight has been on repeat in my head all this week.

Midnight Oil: when the US forces give the nod, it’s a setback for your country Albo: such an iconic band, what an uncompromising and powerful energy. This music really makes me feel something. Where is my t-shirt US forces: *gives nod* Albo: this is a wonderful opportunity for our country

Brilliant thanks Andrew

Oh no! Loved this guy. RIP Rob. I’m no expert but always felt his drumming was fractionally ahead of the beat which really propelled the Oils’ music.

Police quietly drop all charges against Bondi F*** Israel t-shirt man, Andrew Brown after a year of legal hell #auspol michaelwest.com.au/charges-drop...

'"What we also know today with plug-in hybrids is that most people don't plug them in," she said. "So that's why we're trying to be very thoughtful about what we do from a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid perspective."' H/t @ketanjoshi.co

I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did. We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.

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Australia’s mystifying each-way bet on social harm

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Sheep and cattle farmer describes what gross misinformation about wind farms looks like in a small regional community – and what it costs the people who live there.

Real zero, not net zero

This story by Sarah Martin has generated huge interest today all around the world. A question it poses for Aus - why is Roblox not in the government's social media ban? www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Billie Eillish says it out loud 👏👏

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

HEY FRIENDS Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece: on how Google's shallow CCS gamble marks a moment where the ancient rituals of fossil industry greenwashing are passed down to big tech and its obscene expansionist energy greed!! A lil thread for ya www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

The Mikeno looks very close! flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

Read all about it here: ⬇️ michaelwest.com.au/brawl-over-s...

Incredible turnout! The brown snake subdued by one wrapped in red, green, white and black.

March for Palestine rally over Brisbane's Victoria Bridge is absolutely huge. Thank you to all Australians in Brisbane & around the country marching today against Israel’s genocide. Anyone not standing with Palestine at this point in time is clearly on the fringe. #FreePalestine

NEW from me: Clean energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. Power sector CO2 fell 3% as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Roaa Amin Mashi arrived dead at Nasser Medical Complex after succumbing to severe malnutrition.

Great work in rejecting the propaganda restrictions. The State of Israel’s actions disgust me.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

“Bravery is contagious “