Stuart Palmer

The fact that the ABC is only now threatening legal action over Hanson’s use of Bluey for offensive cartoons post Helen Haines illustrates the problem. Our #auspol media have given a toxic One nation party a soft run with free publicity for years.

📢 One Nation's use of Bluey was "shocking and disrespectful to the children of Australia", the ABC's managing director has said.

Sounds like they should only be available by prescription. Would end worries about perverts using them. Not great for Meta’s profits so you won’t see that being suggested.

The ABC is still at it - again, Meta and its intentional design choices are not mentioned a single time in this article. It's extremely bad and harmful journalistic malpractice that very very directly helps two groups: abusers and tech companies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Wait until I tell you about the stadium.

The Spidewinder Sleeps Tonite.

One of the most important public health officials in the world with some insane racism.

A raisin derrière.

Fabulous new post at @therealrw.bsky.social this week by @duncanmcdonnell.com - about the unravelling of university ties in recent times. Too relatable. #AcademicSky #HigherEd researchwhisperer.org/2026/10/27/u...

Don't know the names on this one. But when I (thankfully infrequently) see Australia mentioned, it reminds me to have a look at new entries from here in the database. There's one new name that made me think, "of course".

"But Mark Scott is an administrator, so it's appropriate for him to be VC" - ok: make him Chief of Army then. I'm sure he'll do a great job. Oh what's that? You can't just plunk a civilian with no military training at the head of an ADF branch? That's something you have to earn?

Neither of the people in this photograph are qualified for an academic job (see also "Professor" Bill Shorten). I like Ardern a lot, and creating a role using her experience for mentoring is great, but hospitals don't say "we've hired Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman to do heart surgeries this month."

Federation University to cut 87% of arts subjects - effective now - after springing this on staff in a snap meeting at 10 minutes' notice yesterday. NTEU is lodging a formal dispute. Read more: nteu.info/artscutsfeduni #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Questions from Sen Shoebridge in #Estimates last night revealed that CASA has been caught napping on Nauru Airlines. Haven't been doing their due diligence on major staffing changes, on safety or the high incidence of flight turnbacks, or on its troubled finances. CASA needs to lift its game fast.

Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

“Large AI firms are shopping around the world trying to sell their snake oil and the price is copyright reform. International creative businesses are looking at Australia and cannot believe the government has been duped.” The Albanese govt isn’t just risking Australian IP. It is exposing the world.

I got the email in this story too... so ChatGPT is telling them to email me also (which explains the growing frequency of such emails). One of the Insta subreddits put my email up as a contact for these sorts of stories, which is where I assumed it was coming from.

No lies detected.

Big tech is destroying democracy and political cowards are letting it happen ($) www.canberratimes.com.au/story/937954...

Gina's lawyers say helicopter noise ‘no greater than boiling kettle. My God. The absolute entitlement. If you've ever been near a helicopter taking off, you'd realise what complete and utter bollocks this is! www.afr.com/property/com...

*cries in Australian interest rate hikes caused by a foreign war started as a result of a US election*

Why are the flying foxes starving again?

HALP.

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

Wait until I tell you about literally all other forms of out-of-home care that have been privatised as well.

The problem with superluminal travel is that the aliens might not be hot.

You've seen AI-dad Now introducing AI-mum bsky.app/profile/davi...

Career Experts Advise Job Applicants To Send Interviewer Follow-Up Blackmail https://theonion.com/career-experts-advise-job-applicants-to-send-interviewer-follow-up-blackmail/

Just like every form of cheating.

AI-Generated Work Is Breaking the Links Between Degrees and Real Skills, #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79974

Every AI grifter needs to be put in a secure lab facility and studied to make sure future generations don’t end up like them.

I feel like the type of personality that trusts predictions markets as 'real info' and the type that trusts chatbot output are.....the same person Someone shallow and interested in the aesthetic of empiricism and grammar, not in the sweaty hard work of trying to be as right as possible about things

You can't stuff the shit back in the donkey, and the faster you all realise it, the better our collective response can be.

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

Imagine staging a PR shoot to advertise the failure of your government.

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

This performative charity PR exercise for a commercial company is really offensive. On seeing Marles all I can think of is the hundreds of millions he’s handed to the US that could helped Australians in need

Also try telling someone in the last few hundred years that "the Russians are running out of infantrymen."

#mediawatch skewering Newscorp’s Graham Lloyd’s tired old climate denial beat ups is like shooting fish in a barrel - too easy for Lynton Bessar. Absolutely hilarious though. The Australian’s ‘expert’ is an after dinner speaker specializing in mind tricks. Couldn’t make it up.

Lula defeats Musk, Zuckerberg and Bolsanaro!

the Internet rn

Cliff Richard is talking of releasing a reggae Christmas song. There’s genuine possibility the universe itself will cringe so hard that the expansion of the Big Bang is reversed and everything will return to a single point.

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is