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Science librarian, coaching tragic, recovering poet, avid mover, trying to sing and strum at the same time. Do not place in direct sunlight. Sneering in the streets, data extraction in the (spread)sheets. he/him Deutsch als Fremdsprache/S. Aust via the UK
The news today is filled with allegations about Alan Jones, with media types praising the SMH for blowing the doors off it. This, to me is another example of just how fucking vapid the Australian Press is. Chris Masters, one of our very finest, wrote a whole damned book about Jones /
Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d agoNotetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary
Dating is bullshit And here's what I'd do if I decided to be a Matchmaker And you'll see why my ideas are relatively unworkable. First, the big problem with adult dating past 25-30, which is what I'd want to do, is 'Where do I meet people' lament, coupled with often deep anxieties even if not
in context of last repost it's always interesting to the various factors that led you, someone whose family included several generations of butchers, who grew up in a very typical working class, masculinist culture, ended up occupying some extremely divergent positions such as vegetarianism/veganism
this video is long as shit so i recommend putting it on while you work on other things, and i'm only about an hour in, but i'm enjoying it a lot. "meat diet masculinism" is something i've been wishing someone would write about for a while, and this is great youtu.be/K35FtbuyTh4
Why Don't Fascists Eat Vegetables?
YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks
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I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵
The conflation of platforms by YouTube is really fucking annoying when it comes to managing playlists. I am on a video platform, why the fuck do I want my music playlists coming up at the top of the options, why don't you allow me to enter the first few letters of the playlist I am looking for?
the day after the #Socceroos were knocked out of the World Cup, FA's executive director said they were working on yet another strategy for Australian football to identify its "DNA". so I rage-wrote this about why the problem isn't strategy, it's the broken system. www.espn.com.au/soccer/story...
Football in Australia doesn't need another strategy, it needs a sledgehammer
As the reality of the Socceroos' exit from the World Cup sets in, Samantha Lewis takes a look at what course of action football needs to take in Australia.
espn.com.au
It’s just as well that for such a high-stakes match FIFA has selected a referee from the greatest league in the world
As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵
If the federal government actually wanted to help kids from low-SES backgrounds go to uni, they'd expand access to Youth Allowance to kids over 15 in low-income families and significantly increase the rate so kids didn't have to work to pay rent or support their family while they study.
What to know about the government's proposed university reforms
The government will spend an extra $3.6 billion over a decade on new university places, but some are warning the money could be wasted.
abc.net.au
Thread. I'm listening with horror to this BBC interview, which is ostensibly about climate change. Liam Young is an Australian architect who saw Blade Runner and decided "that's the vision of the future we need." Wait, what?🧵
BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Liam Young
Artist, filmmaker and speculative architect Liam Young reveals his cultural influences.
bbc.co.uk
This is actively good and cool and should be the cause for celebration. It’s not normal for auctions to predominate as a mode of sales outside really niche sectors www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Major capital cities record worst housing auction clearance rates in years
Sydney and Melbourne record their weakest auction results in years, with fewer than half of all homes going under the hammer finding a buyer.
abc.net.au
The thing about the Gallery covering Hanson is that they are all seemingly unable to process her doing the same thing for thirty years. Despite most of the Gallery having been in the same jobs for also thirty years. They cannot be surprised, there is no excuse for this
One Nation want to replace actual, existing, vibrant cultures, the ones you and I spend our time reproducing, in actual, existing groups of people in civil society, with Facebook uncle sentiment and paid-for slop. Those are the stakes.
Worth reading through this imo as it underlines the complexity of communicating ideas and also the way of enacting political solutions to ecological limits/boundaries
Jonathan Koomey@jgkoomey.bsky.social · 2mo agoI really liked Jeff's thread, but as one of the early originators of the carbon footprint concept, I want to address this misconception because I've heard it often.
Tomorrow on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to Kels of the @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social about the Prairieland case. 4.30pm, Thurs, JUN 18 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈 slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=54379
Yeah Nah Pasaran #290 w Kels on Prairieland ICE & DFW Support Committee : June 18, 2026
Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities — not under President Trump. Today’s verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Tr…
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2/2 I feel like I am going insane (I am sure I am not the only one) - do some people just never consider structural/material interests as reasons for behavior?
It's baffling that organizations do staff surveys showing disalignment between Executive and other staff, where leaders at team or one level above are given favourable ratings and then staff 'ask why is this so?', or 'when is this going to change?' 1/2
4:30pm on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social! @slackbastard.bsky.social & me are doing our annual Radiothon show to raise money to keep radical radio alive - and this year we have solid plan: get cancelled and get paid. 855AM / 3CR.org.au / Donate at: givenow.com.au/cr/yeahnahpa...
Cancel Culture Cancelled
ALT: Cancel Culture Cancelled
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A big part of the AI / data centre industry's strategy is to present itself as a done deal: their line is this technology can't be stopped and we can only get on board or get left behind. But people have more power than that and we can learn from the past commonslibrary.org/how-to-un-do...
How to Un-do a ‘Done Deal’ with Strategy and Soul
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
commonslibrary.org
What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]
Geocities 'encouraged us to see ourselves not as passive consumers or content generators, but as workers actively building a shared environment. As platforms evolved — and we were reconfigured into users — our labour became invisible.'
We were all workers on GeoCities - Overland literary journal
GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such.
overland.org.au
'Photos matched to real estate listings show Sewell has been recording the videos in a multi-million-dollar property he is living in, in the Melbourne suburb of Hurstbridge.' Every nazi needs a nazi sugar-daddy eh. 🙄 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell broadcasting hate on Instagram from Victorian acreage
ABC NEWS Verify can reveal that Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been uploading antisemitic and homophobic diatribes to Instagram from a property on the outskirts of Melbourne.
abc.net.au
Never change, Australian Financial Review
Pat McCaffrie@patmccaffrie.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe AFR is taking "saying the quiet part out loud" to new heights...
