@jomacd.bsky.social
Retired psychologist. Quite neurodivergent. Mum of 3 neurowild tall people, cats, dog.
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At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
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We have enough money to feed, house and provide education & healthcare to all.
We don’t do it because the 1% oppose it.
The billionaire class benefits from keeping the rest of us in poverty.
They hoard the wealth and blame immigrants & marginalized people for economic hardship.
Tax the rich.
We don’t do it because the 1% oppose it.
The billionaire class benefits from keeping the rest of us in poverty.
They hoard the wealth and blame immigrants & marginalized people for economic hardship.
Tax the rich.
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
We have enough money to feed, house and provide education & healthcare to all.
We don’t do it because the 1% oppose it.
The billionaire class benefits from keeping the rest of us in poverty.
They hoard the wealth and blame immigrants & marginalized people for economic hardship.
Tax the rich.
We don’t do it because the 1% oppose it.
The billionaire class benefits from keeping the rest of us in poverty.
They hoard the wealth and blame immigrants & marginalized people for economic hardship.
Tax the rich.
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Did you know that disabled people are far more likely to experience domestic abuse or be trapped in violent relationships?
There’s an imbalance of power when you’re depending on others for activities of daily living.
Disability also keeps you below the poverty line.
There’s an imbalance of power when you’re depending on others for activities of daily living.
Disability also keeps you below the poverty line.
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Did you know that disabled people are far more likely to experience domestic abuse or be trapped in violent relationships?
There’s an imbalance of power when you’re depending on others for activities of daily living.
Disability also keeps you below the poverty line.
There’s an imbalance of power when you’re depending on others for activities of daily living.
Disability also keeps you below the poverty line.
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I hate everything.
Trump has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as national holidays for visitors to get free admission to national parks and replaced them with his own birthday.
Trump admin removes MLK Day, Juneteenth from National Parks fee-free days
In place of these days, the Trump administration has opted to celebrate more former presidents' birthdays and Trump's birthday.
www.newsweek.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I hate everything.
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Gaza home to most ‘child amputees in modern history’: UNRWA chief
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says nearly 42,000 people in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and nearly one-quarter of those are children.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says nearly 42,000 people in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and nearly one-quarter of those are children.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Gaza home to most child amputees in ‘modern history’, UN says
Helicopter gunship and artillery fire hit major cities in north and south Gaza as Israeli truce violations continue.
www.aljazeera.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Gaza home to most ‘child amputees in modern history’: UNRWA chief
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says nearly 42,000 people in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and nearly one-quarter of those are children.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says nearly 42,000 people in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and nearly one-quarter of those are children.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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As a soundtrack to a stand-up tour rather than a full album, Grace Petrie's latest highlights her cheeky sarcasm, but she also can't help but add some sincere, witty frustration to the mix.
Extremely 2025.
#NowPlaying
gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/track/i-have...
Extremely 2025.
#NowPlaying
gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/track/i-have...
I Have Never Liked Everyone Else Less, by Grace Petrie
from the album This Is No Time To Panic!
gracepetrie.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
As a soundtrack to a stand-up tour rather than a full album, Grace Petrie's latest highlights her cheeky sarcasm, but she also can't help but add some sincere, witty frustration to the mix.
Extremely 2025.
#NowPlaying
gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/track/i-have...
Extremely 2025.
#NowPlaying
gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/track/i-have...
Night before last I dreamt I was fighting off a dismembered zombie leopard that I suspected was venomous (judging by the way a bite on my shoulder was reacting). Last night I was preparing to try to tag terrifying animatronic dolphins. Why is the unnatural animal world coming for me??
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Night before last I dreamt I was fighting off a dismembered zombie leopard that I suspected was venomous (judging by the way a bite on my shoulder was reacting). Last night I was preparing to try to tag terrifying animatronic dolphins. Why is the unnatural animal world coming for me??
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
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This article is a must read!🚨
Interesting take on the President’s apparent symptoms from medical professional. ⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
🚨 BREAKING: Did a Medical Pro Crack the Health Crisis Secret/Alzheimer’s Code?
A Deep Dive into the One Story MAGA Cannot Escape
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This article is a must read!🚨
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Sweet fuck the damage this SCOTUS has done.
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sweet fuck the damage this SCOTUS has done.
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I am so done with this manchild whose every passing whim requires rewriting the fabric of the world itself.
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I am so done with this manchild whose every passing whim requires rewriting the fabric of the world itself.
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The rare presidential administration whose character, efficacy and dignity would automatically increase if everyone in it was replaced with a ten year old.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The rare presidential administration whose character, efficacy and dignity would automatically increase if everyone in it was replaced with a ten year old.
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When asked why she didn’t share her Spotify Wrapped, Ley explained, “All my top artists were the standard unproblematic ones that everyone loves, like Michael Jackson, Kanye, and Rolf Harris.”
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/06/s...
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/06/s...
Sussan Ley Still Trying To Find Bands With Nazi Associations in Albo’s Spotify Wrapped — The Shovel
Desperate for one last political gotcha before the year ends, Sussan Ley has been locked in her office since the release of Spotify Wrapped, frantically searching for a way to link one of Albo’s top a...
theshovel.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
When asked why she didn’t share her Spotify Wrapped, Ley explained, “All my top artists were the standard unproblematic ones that everyone loves, like Michael Jackson, Kanye, and Rolf Harris.”
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/06/s...
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/06/s...
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"Oligarchal wealth is not created, it is extracted from the rest of us. Extracted from our wages, our time, our collective resources. Extracted from our happiness, our hairlines, stresses and spines."
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Oligarchal wealth is not created, it is extracted from the rest of us. Extracted from our wages, our time, our collective resources. Extracted from our happiness, our hairlines, stresses and spines."
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“Anti-trans activist and Binary Australia spokesperson Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 in fines and issue a public apology after she was found to have vilified two trans women earlier this year.”
Look, it’s possible to hold transphobes accountable for abusing trans people.
Look, it’s possible to hold transphobes accountable for abusing trans people.
Anti-Trans Activist Kirralie Smith Ordered To Pay Almost $100k & Issue Public Apology Following Vilification Ruling - Star Observer
Anti-trans activist Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 and issue a public apology after vilifying two trans women.
www.starobserver.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
“Anti-trans activist and Binary Australia spokesperson Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 in fines and issue a public apology after she was found to have vilified two trans women earlier this year.”
Look, it’s possible to hold transphobes accountable for abusing trans people.
Look, it’s possible to hold transphobes accountable for abusing trans people.
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A premiere animation on Hermannsburg Ladies Choir, beside Vincent Namatjira's major new portrait, Royal Albert, that depicts his great-grandfather as King of Country, at the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial.
Potters have reproduced Albert Namatjira's belongings in clay, including his letters.
Potters have reproduced Albert Namatjira's belongings in clay, including his letters.
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A premiere animation on Hermannsburg Ladies Choir, beside Vincent Namatjira's major new portrait, Royal Albert, that depicts his great-grandfather as King of Country, at the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial.
Potters have reproduced Albert Namatjira's belongings in clay, including his letters.
Potters have reproduced Albert Namatjira's belongings in clay, including his letters.
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I interviewed curator Tony Albert and artists Warraba Weatherall, Thea Anamara Perkins and Dylan Mooney about the 5th Indigenous Art Triennial opening at the National Gallery of Australia tomorrow. I walked through the exhibition, which speaks of renewal and hope:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Hope, heart and home leads at the National Indigenous Art Triennial: ‘We are going through a stage of enlightenment’
Curated by Tony Albert, After the Rain at the National Gallery of Australia explores cultural and familial legacies two years on from the referendum
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I interviewed curator Tony Albert and artists Warraba Weatherall, Thea Anamara Perkins and Dylan Mooney about the 5th Indigenous Art Triennial opening at the National Gallery of Australia tomorrow. I walked through the exhibition, which speaks of renewal and hope:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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A preview here of the Namatjira room at the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial opening at the National Gallery of Australia.
A collaboration including 57 artists from Namatjira's family and community, it features a beautiful glasshouse reproduction of Namatjira's house, which still stands today.
A collaboration including 57 artists from Namatjira's family and community, it features a beautiful glasshouse reproduction of Namatjira's house, which still stands today.
December 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A preview here of the Namatjira room at the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial opening at the National Gallery of Australia.
A collaboration including 57 artists from Namatjira's family and community, it features a beautiful glasshouse reproduction of Namatjira's house, which still stands today.
A collaboration including 57 artists from Namatjira's family and community, it features a beautiful glasshouse reproduction of Namatjira's house, which still stands today.
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If recent years have proven anything it's that we can have a functioning democratic society or billionaires, but not both.
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If recent years have proven anything it's that we can have a functioning democratic society or billionaires, but not both.
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“In the Tony Starkest of contrasts, in the decade since 2015, the world’s ‘elite,’ the top 1%, have increased their hordes of hoarded wealth by US$33.9 trillion… Oxfam paints it in more coherent terms: enough money to ‘end global poverty 22 times over.’”
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“In the Tony Starkest of contrasts, in the decade since 2015, the world’s ‘elite,’ the top 1%, have increased their hordes of hoarded wealth by US$33.9 trillion… Oxfam paints it in more coherent terms: enough money to ‘end global poverty 22 times over.’”
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Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...