Brook
@wombattitude.bsky.social
PhD student and wombat appreciator
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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Self-reflection in times of tragedy, like what we have seen in Sydney overnight, is always important.
Ask yourself:
- are the voices you are listening to trying to polarize your view into hatred?
- do you really need to share disturbing footage on?
- are you making yourself the main character?
Ask yourself:
- are the voices you are listening to trying to polarize your view into hatred?
- do you really need to share disturbing footage on?
- are you making yourself the main character?
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Self-reflection in times of tragedy, like what we have seen in Sydney overnight, is always important.
Ask yourself:
- are the voices you are listening to trying to polarize your view into hatred?
- do you really need to share disturbing footage on?
- are you making yourself the main character?
Ask yourself:
- are the voices you are listening to trying to polarize your view into hatred?
- do you really need to share disturbing footage on?
- are you making yourself the main character?
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
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“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”
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People deemed to be in a relationship receive less financial support from Centrelink than singles, which domestic violence survivors say undermines safety and financial freedom www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Abuse survivors say Centrelink's 'couple rule' puts women in danger
Financial and domestic abuse survivors say the way Centrelink assesses benefit payments for people in a relationship makes it harder for women to leave dangerous relationships.
www.abc.net.au
December 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
People deemed to be in a relationship receive less financial support from Centrelink than singles, which domestic violence survivors say undermines safety and financial freedom www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News
Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...
Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...
ABC Careers - Job Details - Election Researcher
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careers.abc.net.au
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News
Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...
Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...
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It’s appalling. It’s not my workplace any more but I have many great colleagues there. They have destroyed Sociology, a foundation program for MQ. It seems that unionists & pro-Palestine activists were targeted. No other explanation makes sense.
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It’s appalling. It’s not my workplace any more but I have many great colleagues there. They have destroyed Sociology, a foundation program for MQ. It seems that unionists & pro-Palestine activists were targeted. No other explanation makes sense.
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More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2
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Shocking analysis of the gendered, racial & disability dimensions of the sackings in Arts at Macquarie University. 7 women and 2 men made redundant. 5 of the 7 women sacked are Women of Colour. 3 of the 4 people pushed onto teaching only roles are PoC. 1/2
December 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Shocking analysis of the gendered, racial & disability dimensions of the sackings in Arts at Macquarie University. 7 women and 2 men made redundant. 5 of the 7 women sacked are Women of Colour. 3 of the 4 people pushed onto teaching only roles are PoC. 1/2
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
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November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the interview. This guy is a caricature of the worst person you could imagine.
This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the interview. This guy is a caricature of the worst person you could imagine.
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Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians | Amy McQuire
The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Phoebe and Steve. Please ask around if you can, I know it’s a big ask but I’m desperate to find them a good home
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Phoebe and Steve. Please ask around if you can, I know it’s a big ask but I’m desperate to find them a good home
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If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
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Oh please can we get the person who did the redaction on the Oceangate report to do the Epstein files as well.
![Oceangate Report with an Interview of [Redacted]
Then the not redated line “Well, I am sure you are familiar with my film Titanic…”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qhf36bieyioj5hkclqiac4ta/bafkreiho5hdbboy3d7ic6cl74r3l7bc3xhw4xuyfdnmxofhpmi6pzmg7sm@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Oh please can we get the person who did the redaction on the Oceangate report to do the Epstein files as well.
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Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women
Women in prison are being used as weapons in a broader campaign of transphobia. It is grotesque political theatre.
womensagenda.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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@chucktingle.bsky.social is working on new bestseller, I see.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@chucktingle.bsky.social is working on new bestseller, I see.
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Party registration news: Victorian Socialists' attempt to change name to Socialist Party has been provisionally rejected as AEC delegate has ruled too similar to Socialist Alliance. Party will try Australian Socialist Party instead.
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
Socialist Party electoral registration update | Victorian Socialists
The June conference of the Victorian Socialists, held in Melbourne, endorsed the proposal to expand the party nation-wide. As part of that decision, the conference directed the Secretary to apply to t...
victoriansocialists.org.au
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Party registration news: Victorian Socialists' attempt to change name to Socialist Party has been provisionally rejected as AEC delegate has ruled too similar to Socialist Alliance. Party will try Australian Socialist Party instead.
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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I was gonna crack a joke but this is just such a bad plan that I can’t. Why are Australian politicians so obsessed with imprisoning children?
📢 Offenders as young as 14 face life in jail under Premier Jacinta Allan’s plan to enforce “adult time for violent crime”, including home invasions, carjackings and armed robbery.
Children to be tried as adults in youth justice overhaul
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I was gonna crack a joke but this is just such a bad plan that I can’t. Why are Australian politicians so obsessed with imprisoning children?
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I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.
www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...
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