Iran has no nuclear weapons. Iran has never had any nuclear weapons. The Iranian leadership issued a fatwa thirty years ago which forbade the use of nuclear weapons as un-Islamic. Despite this, these non-existent Iranian nukes are constantly cited as justification for American attacks. Meanwhile…

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h ago

The Trump administration is drafting a new nukes strategy which emphasises the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict with China or Russia.

with a full grown leviathan this is impossible

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

Seattle universal school lunches (which the centrists/liberals harshly opposed) will cost $2m per year. AIPAC's money alone could have fed every child in a large city for 30 years.

Unfathomable

…so now they will “accidentally” lose footage. Or the cameras will “malfunction”. So long as the cameras remain under the control of the cops, they contribute nothing to police accountability. They're just another way to surveil the public.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 14h ago

NSW Police make use of body-worn cameras mandatory following Four Corners investigation

Feels suboptimal to be using the same word to describe the targeted murder of unarmed citizens / endeavours to stop the targeted murder of unarmed citizens - entering contronym territory

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterday

Arson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

After the 2024 storms caused week-long blackouts across Northern Tasmania, the obvious response would have been to invest heavily into renovating and storm-proofing the local power grid. Instead, we got government ads about how preparing for blackouts is an important personal responsibility.

Mike Caulfield@mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 18h ago

I think one of the sad things about the current data center story cycle is the electric companies have effectively used "data center demand" to obscure that our main grid/supply/safety problems come from them letting the grid decay over the last two decades in unconscionable ways.

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Did someone finally top Apple’s U2 on everyone’s iTunes?

BMW Is Playing a Spider-Man Ad on Its Dashboard Displays, and People Are Pissed

The automaker is framing it as an 'exclusive' animation tied to a broader brand partnership with the new Spider-Man movie.

gizmodo.com

Property damage and graffiti, directed at a corporation that manufactures lethal weaponry, no humans harmed or endangered. “Terror”.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterday

Arson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

60% of the price of my beer is government excise in Australia, the country with the most expensive beer in the world. Thanks to Paul Keating and his love of Thatcher & Reagan's economics. What a prick. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

The problem of Australia's 'beer tax' is well known. Is it time to end it?

The cost of alcohol is grinding Australia's old pub culture and live music venues into dust. Should we keep forging ahead with six-monthly increases in the beer excise?

abc.net.au

We are truly living in the idiot age

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

A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics.

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterday

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

You don't have to select One Nation if you want to vote for a racist party in Australia. There are multiple options to choose from.

Kon Karapanagiotidis@kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · yesterday

This is so deeply disturbing to read, If it eventuates it would in essence be One Nation now running immigration policy for the Albanese Government and them abandoning migrants and refugees in a desperate attempt to win votes. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

#OtD 4 Aug 2016 Dwayne Stafford attacked an accused white supremacist church-mass murderer at the Charleston County jail, telling an NBC reporter, “I beat Dylann Roof’s ass.” After the attack, donors helped raise money to pay his bail and get out

Dr. Salaman Khan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University’s Irvine Medical Center, takes his oath to do no harm very seriously.

Musk proving that his ability to turn his own company's stock downward while he speaks during an earnings call is durable beyond Tesla

The next one is likely to be equally malevolent, but regrettably less stupid. Trump is a symptom, the USA is the disease. The empire is bipartisan.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · yesterday

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · yesterday

eBay And Former Execs Agree To Pay $56 Million For Trying To ‘Crush’ A Journalist For much of Techdirt's nearly three decades in existence we've covered attacks on the media by... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/04/ebay-and-former-execs-agree-to-pay-56-million-for-trying-to-crush-a-journalist/

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

The head of Norway's oil fund is going to flip out when someone tells him what fossil fuels do 🧐🧐🧐🧐