Leroy
@leroylynch.bsky.social
ALP member. Social Democrat. Posts are mainly news, plus some history and general interest.
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Federal Labor’s Cheaper Home Batteries rebate is expected to have received a whopping 175,000 applications by the end of 2025.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Federal Labor’s Cheaper Home Batteries rebate is expected to have received a whopping 175,000 applications by the end of 2025.
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"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
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(We still have a statue of Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon outside Parliament House BTW.)
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
(We still have a statue of Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon outside Parliament House BTW.)
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The only people quoted as being pissed off are Jeff Kennett and one opposition State MP. "Furore" much many "rebuff" extra "cancel."
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The only people quoted as being pissed off are Jeff Kennett and one opposition State MP. "Furore" much many "rebuff" extra "cancel."
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Queenslanders of Hinchinbrook, don't forget to vote in the by-election tomorrow, Saturday 29 November.
Everyone thinks their vote doesn't count until it does.
Good luck to all candidates. #qldpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Everyone thinks their vote doesn't count until it does.
Good luck to all candidates. #qldpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Queensland premier vying to be hometown hero in Hinchinbrook by-election
If the electorate were to vote strongly against the government, it would sting first-term leader David Crisafulli and be spun as a rejection of the LNP's agenda, writes Alex Brewster.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Queenslanders of Hinchinbrook, don't forget to vote in the by-election tomorrow, Saturday 29 November.
Everyone thinks their vote doesn't count until it does.
Good luck to all candidates. #qldpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Everyone thinks their vote doesn't count until it does.
Good luck to all candidates. #qldpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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And it’s all flowing from a tiny handful of diehard racists and nativists who have seized unprecedented power by puppeteering an almost incomprehensibly corrupt and unfit president towards a nativist agenda that would have made the KKK proud.
AND EVERY KEEPS ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
AND EVERY KEEPS ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
And it’s all flowing from a tiny handful of diehard racists and nativists who have seized unprecedented power by puppeteering an almost incomprehensibly corrupt and unfit president towards a nativist agenda that would have made the KKK proud.
AND EVERY KEEPS ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
AND EVERY KEEPS ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
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A light that shines this brightly never truly goes out. RIP Jimmy Cliff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies, aged 81
The musician was known for hits like You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A light that shines this brightly never truly goes out. RIP Jimmy Cliff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Congratulations (?) to the parlimentary inquiry into the live music industry titling their report “Am I Ever Gonna See You Live Again?” www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
Am I Ever Gonna See You Live Again?
Report
www.aph.gov.au
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Congratulations (?) to the parlimentary inquiry into the live music industry titling their report “Am I Ever Gonna See You Live Again?” www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Qld CCC refers former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson to the department of public prosecutions.
It also recommends a mechanism for election candidates to declare qualifications & employment history with sanctions if the information is false. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It also recommends a mechanism for election candidates to declare qualifications & employment history with sanctions if the information is false. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson found to have misled voters about cancer diagnosis and military history
Report by Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission says Thompson leaked confidential council documents to an unnamed ‘adviser’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Qld CCC refers former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson to the department of public prosecutions.
It also recommends a mechanism for election candidates to declare qualifications & employment history with sanctions if the information is false. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It also recommends a mechanism for election candidates to declare qualifications & employment history with sanctions if the information is false. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Ngl I always do feel a degree of jealousy reading about almost any study or experiment in the old days where the extent of the ethics review appears to have been going "yeah I'm gonna try this and see what happens lol" and a bunch of other academics say "ok lol" while you all smoke indoors..
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ngl I always do feel a degree of jealousy reading about almost any study or experiment in the old days where the extent of the ethics review appears to have been going "yeah I'm gonna try this and see what happens lol" and a bunch of other academics say "ok lol" while you all smoke indoors..
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Great interview by our beloved Travis View with Thomas Kelly, an academic who wrote an article debunking When Prophecy Fails - a classic in the field of New Religious Movements. I had heard there were problems with that book but I really did not know the half of it
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When “When Prophecy Fails” Fails (E350)
The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails describes one of the most famous case studies in social psychology. The researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter covertly joined a small, apoc
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November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Great interview by our beloved Travis View with Thomas Kelly, an academic who wrote an article debunking When Prophecy Fails - a classic in the field of New Religious Movements. I had heard there were problems with that book but I really did not know the half of it
soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...
soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...
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Barnaby Joyce believes that in the Senate, the government would “have to come to me on each piece of legislation and say ‘what are your views?‘
They're not having to do that with independents in the Senate atm and it's quite likely that a future Senate would be even easier for Labor.
#auspol
They're not having to do that with independents in the Senate atm and it's quite likely that a future Senate would be even easier for Labor.
#auspol
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Barnaby Joyce believes that in the Senate, the government would “have to come to me on each piece of legislation and say ‘what are your views?‘
They're not having to do that with independents in the Senate atm and it's quite likely that a future Senate would be even easier for Labor.
#auspol
They're not having to do that with independents in the Senate atm and it's quite likely that a future Senate would be even easier for Labor.
#auspol
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The 1948 election in South Africa could, I suppose, be said to have killed 'centrism' in that country. It wasn't a lonely grave.
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The 1948 election in South Africa could, I suppose, be said to have killed 'centrism' in that country. It wasn't a lonely grave.
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Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
We have to start thinking about what we want Britain to look like in 2034 after the far right have been in power. There will be no status quo to return to. Centrism will be stone cold dead.
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
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Among many ridiculous "policies" Hughes is touting. The total exclusion of young candidates aside how on earth is an electoral commission supposed to determine whether a candidate has worked for a minimum of 10 years? What if they have been a sporadic worker?
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Among many ridiculous "policies" Hughes is touting. The total exclusion of young candidates aside how on earth is an electoral commission supposed to determine whether a candidate has worked for a minimum of 10 years? What if they have been a sporadic worker?
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Vern Hughes is on the loose again with yet more "mainstream centrist" (actually neither) nonsense recycled from "Democracy First" which appeared as part of FUSION at the federal election. Nobody can count how many "parties" he has promoted. His latest one is called "Victorians" victorians.org.au
Victorians Party - For All of Us
We are the Victorians We are fair and tolerant people. And a very diverse bunch. Some of us are progressives and some of us are conservatives.What we ALL want in this election year is a new State Gove...
victorians.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Vern Hughes is on the loose again with yet more "mainstream centrist" (actually neither) nonsense recycled from "Democracy First" which appeared as part of FUSION at the federal election. Nobody can count how many "parties" he has promoted. His latest one is called "Victorians" victorians.org.au
The federal government's rewrite of Australia's environment laws could be the single greatest change to housing, renewables, mining and major industries in decades.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon #auspol
Waits on housing and renewables may have just gone from years to months
Major housing, renewables and mining projects often get bogged down for years by Australia's aging environment laws. Now a deal to rewrite them could change that.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The federal government's rewrite of Australia's environment laws could be the single greatest change to housing, renewables, mining and major industries in decades.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon #auspol
APRA will impose restrictions on home loans from early next year to limit the number of "high-risk" large loans being issued to customers, which could have flow-on effects in the housing market. The 20% cap is expected to bite harder for investors.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon
Home loan crackdown 'like banning eight feet tall people from restaurants'
The banking regulator will impose restrictions on home loans from early next year to limit the number of "high-risk" large loans being issued to customers, which could have flow on effects in the hous...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
APRA will impose restrictions on home loans from early next year to limit the number of "high-risk" large loans being issued to customers, which could have flow-on effects in the housing market. The 20% cap is expected to bite harder for investors.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #ausecon
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Eisenhower insisted that congressmen and journalists visit Ohrdruf concentration camp after its liberation because he knew people on the outside wouldn’t believe it without visual and social proofing.
Text-to-image gives everyone an excuse for their ignorance.
Text-to-image gives everyone an excuse for their ignorance.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Eisenhower insisted that congressmen and journalists visit Ohrdruf concentration camp after its liberation because he knew people on the outside wouldn’t believe it without visual and social proofing.
Text-to-image gives everyone an excuse for their ignorance.
Text-to-image gives everyone an excuse for their ignorance.
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I saw a thread on here a while back explaining how pre-teens have started saying “That’s AI” when they don’t believe something, and I was stunned how many replies were celebrating this. “Hell yeah, the kids are discerning,” etc.
No! No that’s not what that means.
No! No that’s not what that means.
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I saw a thread on here a while back explaining how pre-teens have started saying “That’s AI” when they don’t believe something, and I was stunned how many replies were celebrating this. “Hell yeah, the kids are discerning,” etc.
No! No that’s not what that means.
No! No that’s not what that means.
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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
Brilliant work from @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social and @manchestermill.bsky.social
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
Brilliant work from @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social and @manchestermill.bsky.social
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
Brilliant work from @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social and @manchestermill.bsky.social
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
Brilliant work from @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social and @manchestermill.bsky.social
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Central to the 2010s Legitimate Concerns discourse that paved the way for our current pre-fascist moment was the refusal to acknowledge that these "concerns" were based on demonstrable fictions, filtered through socially constructed prejudices. I.e. they were not, in fact, "legitimate".
"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Central to the 2010s Legitimate Concerns discourse that paved the way for our current pre-fascist moment was the refusal to acknowledge that these "concerns" were based on demonstrable fictions, filtered through socially constructed prejudices. I.e. they were not, in fact, "legitimate".
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The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.