Australia-Japan Ink Deal for Mogami-class Frigates Canberra and Tokyo continue to build closer links with each other, with a shared understanding of the strategic environment, and a high degree of trust

Australia-Japan Ink Deal for Mogami-class Frigates thediplomat.com/2026/04/aust...

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Talking head talking nonsense about the purported restructuring of the British Army in Northern Africa in 1941 after BATTLEAXE which never happened.

JFC.

I think I’m having an episode.

Who is this, and why are they spouting this nonsense?

There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.

Stock's assertion here that nobody supporting trans people ever believed what they said, and were just doing it to climb the corporate ladder, is a remarkable admission that people like this don't believe in the possibility of unselfish ideals.

Feminism for them really is "What can I get?"

All things in moderation, including moderation

How’s moderate* Tim Wilson going? Has he done any moderating lately?

It is kind of interesting how Britain pioneered a bunch of things in parliamentary democracy and a bunch of things in railways and then just kind of gave up

A resident of a maximum security prison chosen at random would be on average more trustworthy with top secret material than a member of the House of Lords chosen at random

There was a tipping point somewhere in the 2000s when there started to be people with a monograph and decent articles who couldn’t get a permanent job. That didn’t happen much before then.

I just tried to quantify it based on recent experiences and conversations with colleagues. In the nineties there would typically be a group of people you met whilst interviewing for permanent jobs and after each round you’d know one good competitor was gone. In the end perhaps half got jobs…

RIP Desmond Morris, a gifted science communicator whose book The Naked Ape (1967) broke daring new ground in creating elaborate evo-psych justifications for an earlobe fetish

"The last thing you want to do is get swallowed up by a chaotic attractor that's too huge in phase space"

I grew up listening to and air guitaring along to Prince.

But this remains, maybe, my favourite Prince thing, ever.

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I usually use this site to share gloomy things, so as a circuit breaker— I have figured out why the doors and windows of this house I pass regularly are painted pink. Just had to wait for the right season to see it!

Honestly unsure if this is intended to be satire.

A recommended read by Hiranya Peiris:

"[we] had a quality problem long before LLMs...publish or perish, citation metrics as proxy for impact, volume as proxy for productivity... have been producing incremental, poorly checked, & sometimes wrong papers for decades"🧪🔭⚛️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The neighbourhoods where ADHD rates are skyrocketing ADHD diagnoses in adults have exploded across Australia since 2017. For the first time, we have the data that shows where it is — and isn't — happening.

This is very bad statistical analysis. Environment is a key determinant of health. There is no reason to expect that ADHD should be evenly distributed across every geographic area in the nation. Health conditions simply do not strike with such scrupulous fairness
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Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza During talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Pakistan, the topic of Ukraine unexpectedly came up. While discussing U.S. guarantees in the event that Iran halts uranium enrichment and abandons the development of nuclear weapons, the Iranian side asked how the United States is fulfilling the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which it pledged to respect and protect Ukraine’s sovereignty. The U.S. delegation left the question unanswered. 10:10 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 321.4K Views

This mic drop happened in the Iran negotiations.

friend asked me for advice on returning to university and aiming for an academic career. it’s so hard to realistically portray for someone how unrealistic that is in 2026 without sounding incredibly bitter and pessimistic. but honestly who would advise someone that this a good career path?

The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

Headline: Love her or hate her, Melbourne needs outspoken icons like Bec Judd Photo of a blonde woman in a blue dress and hat.

Someone whose self-regard requires a special correspondent.
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A global commons no longer: Sea control reimagined In recent years the way in which states perceive the value of the seas has changed. The processes of legal and extra-legal territorialization have meant that the seas are now viewed as having value...

My latest article is out. It argues that sea control has been reimagined in recent years, driven by a dramatic change in the value that states place upon the seas. This in turn is impacting navies across the globe.
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Wow, sandwiches AND slides!

This, very much, but I also can't wait for the QAnon-flavored messianic bullshit they spin about him.

What stage of late stage capitalism is this

This one’s for the Australian and especially the Victorians. This wasn’t my experience at all; I thought people were pretty good and very willing to deny themselves to help others, even if it they got frazzled after a long time. But Adelaide had it easy. What’s your take?

We didn't love it but we mostly all did it, masks, curfews, isolation, testing, the lot. Sometimes it could be a bit selective, people had to interpret rules sometimes where they didn't make sense. Fine when I do it, understandable when you do it, outrageous when that person over there does it

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