Tom Conley
@tomjconley.bsky.social
Political economy, industry policy, foreign policy, globalisation, debt/housing etc, art, cartoons, fiction, succulents, Australian rules ...
Fuck the plutocratic press
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Fuck the plutocratic press
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November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just bizarre
Why are we sacking scientists who are so essential to understanding our climate crisis? To understanding the horrific algae bloom assaulting SAs beaches? The changes in our oceans? Madness. www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...
Axed Flinders Uni algal bloom expert tells true cost of crisis - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A Flinders University algal bloom expert – whose role was scrapped as part of a restructure – has shared his worrying insights into the disaster and blasted estimations the marine death toll is 87,000...
www.indailysa.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Just bizarre
Shameless self-publicity. My new book "Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And How To Make It Better" is out.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better
Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better, Immigration policy will never satisfy everyone. It’s a stubborn fact that more people will want to move to high-income countries than residen...
www.politybooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
What a weak PM
👉NEW -- Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
What a weak PM
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The British state makes itself look absurd ...
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The British state makes itself look absurd ...
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French thieves are doing well this year.
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
French thieves are doing well this year.
"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Best new songs for me i.e. not necessarily recent but new for me
The Beths TAKE
from Straight Line was a Lie 2025
music.youtube.com/watch?v=ujam...
The Beths TAKE
from Straight Line was a Lie 2025
music.youtube.com/watch?v=ujam...
Take
YouTube video by The Beths - Topic
music.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Best new songs for me i.e. not necessarily recent but new for me
The Beths TAKE
from Straight Line was a Lie 2025
music.youtube.com/watch?v=ujam...
The Beths TAKE
from Straight Line was a Lie 2025
music.youtube.com/watch?v=ujam...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Stewart sums it up.
Stewart Lee on Brexit
YouTube video by lastbroadcaster
m.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Stewart sums it up.
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My impression after two days of conferencing abroad is that the extent to which things are Really Bad in US academia and public research is not fully registering. Folks are not realizing that this admin is salting the earth and the geopolitical era of US scientific leadership might be over for good.
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My impression after two days of conferencing abroad is that the extent to which things are Really Bad in US academia and public research is not fully registering. Folks are not realizing that this admin is salting the earth and the geopolitical era of US scientific leadership might be over for good.
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'Quiet, piggy!' Today's cartoon by Marian Kamensky. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query...
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
'Quiet, piggy!' Today's cartoon by Marian Kamensky. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query...
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine
Vale
Very sad to hear Graeme Turner has died - what an enormous contribution he made to higher education
humanities.org.au/our-communit...
humanities.org.au/our-communit...
Vale Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA 1947-2025 – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Graeme Turner AO FAHA, a distiguished humanities and education scholar, passed away on 25 November 2025.
humanities.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Vale
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"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
Our ally
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Our ally
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains.
Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis, according to a new bombshell investigation from Rolling Stone!
Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains.
Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis, according to a new bombshell investigation from Rolling Stone!
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read