@shirvill.bsky.social
How is this different from saying 'We want poor people to get less healthcare'?
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
How is this different from saying 'We want poor people to get less healthcare'?
Me at the end of the day
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Me at the end of the day
Astonishing statement from Victorian Attorney-General to @thesaturdaypaper.com.au – Essentially, 'We know it's bad for kids, bad for society, and breaks our own rules; we're going to do it anyway.'
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Astonishing statement from Victorian Attorney-General to @thesaturdaypaper.com.au – Essentially, 'We know it's bad for kids, bad for society, and breaks our own rules; we're going to do it anyway.'
“The way people consume information has changed enormously in the last 10 years but the way politicians and MPs communicate with their constituents hasn’t as much.”
Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
Glasgow South MP Gordon McKee leading trend as politicians find traditional ways to reach voters no longer work
A perennial head-scratcher for progressives is how to craft a simple, compelling message on the economy. One Labour MP found the answer in a few packets of M&S biscuits.
Gordon McKee, who represents Glasgow South, has racked up more than 3.3m views on X with an 101-second video in which he demonstrates the UK’s debt to GDP ratio using stacks of custard creams and chocolate bourbons. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“The way people consume information has changed enormously in the last 10 years but the way politicians and MPs communicate with their constituents hasn’t as much.”
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
[Not just Matt, but the whole CR team give me hope for the future of humanity]
[Not just Matt, but the whole CR team give me hope for the future of humanity]
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
[Not just Matt, but the whole CR team give me hope for the future of humanity]
[Not just Matt, but the whole CR team give me hope for the future of humanity]
Science needs art and art needs science. ❤️
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Science needs art and art needs science. ❤️
Reposted
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Happy birthday, Prof. Blackburn! Thanks for being part of a project that changed my career: tv.apple.com/au/movie/imm...
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Happy birthday, Prof. Blackburn! Thanks for being part of a project that changed my career: tv.apple.com/au/movie/imm...
If you don't want a party that only includes 'White people who like Hitler', your party should not include *any* people who like Hitler. Liking Hitler is not compatible with working alongside people who don't like Hitler.
Same is not true of being a socialist, libertarian, Christian, Muslim, etc.
Same is not true of being a socialist, libertarian, Christian, Muslim, etc.
“You can’t have a political party that hates everyone except white people who like Hitler..."
“I don’t think we’re at that point,” she added, but “there is a battle.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
“I don’t think we’re at that point,” she added, but “there is a battle.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If you don't want a party that only includes 'White people who like Hitler', your party should not include *any* people who like Hitler. Liking Hitler is not compatible with working alongside people who don't like Hitler.
Same is not true of being a socialist, libertarian, Christian, Muslim, etc.
Same is not true of being a socialist, libertarian, Christian, Muslim, etc.
"Public Interest Research Group's job isn't to come down on one side or the other*, but researchers** make a pretty clear case for why #AI toys*** aren't a good idea."
* Maybe come down on the side of the public
** Your own researchers
*** Now do the Torment Nexus
www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...
* Maybe come down on the side of the public
** Your own researchers
*** Now do the Torment Nexus
www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...
AI-enabled toys teach kids about matches, knives, kink
: Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster
www.theregister.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"Public Interest Research Group's job isn't to come down on one side or the other*, but researchers** make a pretty clear case for why #AI toys*** aren't a good idea."
* Maybe come down on the side of the public
** Your own researchers
*** Now do the Torment Nexus
www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...
* Maybe come down on the side of the public
** Your own researchers
*** Now do the Torment Nexus
www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...
"Coming to Darebin and becoming a Falc allows players to grow and develop not only as players, but as people."
❤🤍💙
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
❤🤍💙
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Darebin Falcons face financial pressure to stay in VFLW competition
Darebin nurtured AFLW stars Daisy Pearce and Darcy Vescio, but financial constraints could force the independent club out of the VFLW.
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"Coming to Darebin and becoming a Falc allows players to grow and develop not only as players, but as people."
❤🤍💙
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
❤🤍💙
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
James Watson dead; eugenics bullshit pseudoscience still very much alive.
"Affluent White men are really annoyed about steps towards giving other groups a fair go. Really bloody annoyed."
Must read from @lucyham.bsky.social @theshot.net.au on the dark money-funded white nationalist global network and its Australian advocates. #auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Must read from @lucyham.bsky.social @theshot.net.au on the dark money-funded white nationalist global network and its Australian advocates. #auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Eugenics is back on the menu, boys - The Shot
The new name for the ideology, human biodiversity (HBD), is handy: it’s not just race science that this marketing of biological determinism promotes. It allows for the idea that class, like Murray arg...
theshot.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
James Watson dead; eugenics bullshit pseudoscience still very much alive.
Allowing scrutiny of hush-money payments to porn stars would [checks notes from DOJ] "chill the President's vigorous discharge".
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Allowing scrutiny of hush-money payments to porn stars would [checks notes from DOJ] "chill the President's vigorous discharge".
James Watson, noted racist and co-discoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notes on the structure of DNA, has died at 97. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, dead at 97
James Watson, the controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA ushered in the age of genetics, has died.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
James Watson, noted racist and co-discoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notes on the structure of DNA, has died at 97. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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“When cabinet decided to spend $360 billion on some nuclear submarines that people didn’t know we needed, cabinet decided to do it without a brief from Treasury, and the then-Labor Opposition agreed within 24 hours”
“We can never allow ourselves to believe that change is not possible.” #auspol
“We can never allow ourselves to believe that change is not possible.” #auspol
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, yet our tax system is delivering underfunded services and growing inequality.
Making giant gas companies and millionaires pay their fair share would be a step towards a better Australia.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Making giant gas companies and millionaires pay their fair share would be a step towards a better Australia.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“When cabinet decided to spend $360 billion on some nuclear submarines that people didn’t know we needed, cabinet decided to do it without a brief from Treasury, and the then-Labor Opposition agreed within 24 hours”
“We can never allow ourselves to believe that change is not possible.” #auspol
“We can never allow ourselves to believe that change is not possible.” #auspol
"This was very appropriate for the time of Jesus and, in fact, could have been the gold that was originally there"
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"This was very appropriate for the time of Jesus and, in fact, could have been the gold that was originally there"
"The ability of humans to think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice is well known."
Bwahahahaha... 😬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bwahahahaha... 😬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"The ability of humans to think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice is well known."
Bwahahahaha... 😬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bwahahahaha... 😬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The treaty "enshrines a democratically elected body for First Peoples... The First Peoples' Assembly ... has no veto power over the Vic. govt... This is a permanent representative body chosen by Aboriginal voters for themselves to tell us what is important to them."
The treaty "enshrines a democratically elected body for First Peoples... The First Peoples' Assembly ... has no veto power over the Vic. govt... This is a permanent representative body chosen by Aboriginal voters for themselves to tell us what is important to them."
Australian-first treaty legislation passes in Victorian parliament
Historic legislation has passed that will see the creation of an Indigenous council that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The treaty "enshrines a democratically elected body for First Peoples... The First Peoples' Assembly ... has no veto power over the Vic. govt... This is a permanent representative body chosen by Aboriginal voters for themselves to tell us what is important to them."
The treaty "enshrines a democratically elected body for First Peoples... The First Peoples' Assembly ... has no veto power over the Vic. govt... This is a permanent representative body chosen by Aboriginal voters for themselves to tell us what is important to them."
Stage 2 renovations may get out of hand.
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Stage 2 renovations may get out of hand.
In hindsight, mistakes were made.
Ford to recall over 1.4 million US vehicles over rearview camera issue reut.rs/4om3gF7
Ford to recall over 1.4 million US vehicles over rearview camera issue
Ford is recalling 1,448,655 vehicles in the U.S. due to a rearview camera issue that could potentially result in a distorted, intermittent, or blank image when the vehicle is in reverse, the U.S. auto regulator said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In hindsight, mistakes were made.
Doorbells that don't ring because an internet service is down was silly enough, but beds you can't lie on? What next?
Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
www.dexerto.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Doorbells that don't ring because an internet service is down was silly enough, but beds you can't lie on? What next?
“Nigh on impossible” to define group coercive control in a way “that would not target religion and other groups”.
If your group/church/club practices overlap with a carefully considered definition of coercive control, it's not the definition that needs to change.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If your group/church/club practices overlap with a carefully considered definition of coercive control, it's not the definition that needs to change.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian Christian Lobby says any new laws protecting people from cults could be ‘very dangerous’
Lobby groups tell Victorian inquiry legitimate churches could be caught up in any proposed crackdown on coercive practices
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“Nigh on impossible” to define group coercive control in a way “that would not target religion and other groups”.
If your group/church/club practices overlap with a carefully considered definition of coercive control, it's not the definition that needs to change.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If your group/church/club practices overlap with a carefully considered definition of coercive control, it's not the definition that needs to change.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hundreds of anti-science bills have hit statehouses, targeting key public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety, fluoride.
bit.ly/4qkw167
bit.ly/4qkw167
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hundreds of anti-science bills have hit statehouses, targeting key public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety, fluoride.
bit.ly/4qkw167
bit.ly/4qkw167
Why build a ballroom if you don't have any balls?
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Why build a ballroom if you don't have any balls?