Dr Blair Williams
@blairwilliams26.bsky.social
Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈 Canberra
I had a chat with ABC News yesterday about the Victorian One Nation leader’s endorsement of the utterly stupid conspiracy theory surrounding the ‘15-minute city’ concept. (Perhaps they _want_ people to waste an hour on their daily commute ? More time for toxic talk radio ?)
'Noose is tightening': One Nation's new Victorian leader promoted conspiracy
The new state One Nation leader warned of a debunked "globalist" plot to control Australians.
abc.net.au
How much of a snow flake do you need to be to scared of a word like gender? LNP seem to have the same brain worms infecting Trump www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Mentions of ‘gender’ scrubbed from Queensland Office for Women website amid alleged effort to ‘dewokify’
Comparisons of live and archived pages show more than 20 mentions have been removed, including in reference to the gender pay gap
theguardian.com
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As One Nation starts announcing candidates, here's a bingo card over the possibilities
If you turn up to a press conference from which your media colleagues have been banned for doing journalism you're not a scab but you're certainly scab-adjacent.
Fifteen? FIFTEEN?!
Kevin Bonham@kevinbonham.bsky.social · 3d ago#Morgan ALP 27.5 L-NP 23.5 ON 24 Grn 15 (!?) Ind/other 10 2PP respondent prefs 52 (-2) to ALP vs L-NP last election 52.5 (=) my conversion 52.4 (-.1) ALP 54 vs ON respondent prefs (+0.5) my conversion 53.2 (+.8) www.roymorgan.com/findings/102...
Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom condemns Hanson's vow to ban ABC and Guardian from attending her press conferences during the Victoria election campaign. "No political party should have the right to pick and choose the news outlets who ask them questions," Peter Greste said
One Nation names eight Victorian election candidates as Hanson bars ABC and Guardian from press conferences
Former Liberal, ‘anti-woke’ film animator and councillor who says he used to work on Daniel Andrews’ security team among lineup for November’s state poll
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Comparing Rubber Soul on vinyl and its remastered counterpart on Spotify with @alexburchmore.bsky.social in our 1960s house 😎
Thinest skinned pollie in Australia.
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 3d agoPauline Hanson flees her own custom-curated presser. With ABC & Guardian banned, & far-right criminal Avi Yemini running interference, still can’t handle questions, even from Sky “Shouldn't all media have access...?"💥 Not even sidekick Avi could save her from total humiliation.
So you have a right wing movement in the UK that, like in the US & partially funded by US groups, is going after bodily autonomy rights full force - against trans, non-binary & Intersex folk, the entire LGBTQ spectrum, women, the neurodivergent, disabled, those w/ mental illnesses, immigrants, etc.
Oh ffs, there are brain scans that show the difference in ADHD brains. All of this backlash has been since there was better diagnosis of women and girls post the Berkeley University Longitudinal Study into ADHD in girls
The situation in many devloped countries now is the product of a coalition on one side that is determined to put the state in chains so that it can never, ever act again, and a coalition on the other that would really rather like the state to act to make life easier bc we all now know it can.
In developed countries with hyper-individualist cultures, a small group of people who never really thought about the world in a structured way were freaked out to learn they weren't the Main Character and that the state could act in ways that might compel them to act in turn.
For a generation, everyone lived with the fairy tale that the state was powerless. Suddenly, that was shown to be a lie. It acted, which means it can act again. But it does not. Many people have become disillusioned bc they know better is possible. The cookers, meanwhile, went the other way.
My own theory: everyone watched governments move quickly to take care of people (social security increases, job guarantee, eviction moratoriums) after years of being told it was impossible. After, it was all immediately yanked away. Worse, politicians have gone back to pretending it's not possible
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
I wrote a whole book about this! And it wasn’t hard to find people to include; it was hard to narrow the list down from *OVER A HUNDRED* early gamedevs
.chantal//RYAN@thoughtrise.bsky.social · last wk.many of the early and most successful game designers and developers were women most people don't remember their names today, or recall that video game history started before the Boys Toys era funny that many of the games I grew up loving most were designed by women and I never knew til years later
eSafety Commission takes Telegram to Federal Court over terror-related content
Online watchdog takes Telegram to court over terrorism videos
The eSafety Commission will allege Telegram neglected its legal obligations when it allowed videos, including of the Christchurch mosque massacre, to remain on the platform.
abc.net.au
I only say this to push back on the very successful government propaganda that was designed to prioritize capitalism over human health, because there was literally no scientific basis for deciding to stop protecting ourselves from Covid. It has never been consequence free to get it.
The whole JSP system needs to be scrapped and the original Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) reinstated. The JSP system was started by Howard and was basically 'jobs for the boys'.
"At this crucial time every scientist needs to examine their conscience, take on board the reality that there will be no research grants on a dead planet – and act accordingly." SGR Patron Bill McGuire on why climate scientists need to speak out 👇🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire
theguardian.com
futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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What the fuck is this, ABC on YouTube? As an Indigenous person who is proud that Victoria has a Treaty, signed by the Labor government, no, it's absolutely not a good time for Labor to lose the Victorian election. They and the Greens support Treaty, the Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation don't.
Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...
There's an organic exceptionalism at work: I'm a good consumer because I eat only organic eggs / pasture-fed meat etc. In many cases these have a higher, sometimes MUCH higher, environmental impact. The worst of all farm products are organic beef and lamb. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb
Analysis: You may be amazed by that answer, but the area of land used for grazing is vast compared with the meat and milk produced
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Go vegan 💁♀️💁♀️💁♀️💁♀️💁♀️💁♀️
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Buckle up for vetting fails and general 🍿 - Hanson says One Nation to announce about 75 Vic candidates Friday or next week. www.news24.com.au/politics/aus...
One Nation reveals candidate surge ahead of Victorian election
Pauline Hanson has revealed One Nation has identified candidates for up to 76 Victorian seats ahead of the state election after receiving thousands of expressions of interest.
news24.com.au