Exciting news - from mid June, I'll be serving as Co-Editor in Chief for the Australian Journal of Human Rights!
Very excited to take on this new role in such a supportive and brilliant team of colleagues.
@austhumanrights.bsky.social
Oh this is good to know. Was wondering if PAM was hacked again
Having a 2FA problem with Kid’s school parent portal - code not coming through. Also I have a permission slip to sign I can’t access
Fully within her right to step out and wait for the cops because it was unsafe situation. But the refuge staff “disappearing” with the key to access the room? Unforgivable
Labor to tighten child NDIS eligibility to curb spending as Queensland MP warns change is ‘failing kids’
Quince is an old world fruit, inedible raw. But when baked or stewed they become tart, sweet and caramelised
JFC, just get rid of demanding low paid people keep expense receipts and just INCREASE THE THRESHOLD before you pay any tax you overcomplicated MUPPETS www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Quinces
Baking quinces. They’re starting to get syrupy - putting them back in the oven til they caramelise
Hello world, I'm moving down to Melbourne in a couple of weeks right around the time I lodge my thesis for examination. If you're an Australian-based academic looking for an RA with expertise in AI, literary/critical theory and digital media, please get in touch!
Photo, Karakoram Highway from China to Pakistan.
With the US now sinking container ships, will China be trucking in containers over this -- Karakoram Highway from China to Pakistan:
The plan: deal with admin stuff, purchase cat food, pre-make some ultra easy dinner for Kid, get into bed with my laptop and do the reading for week 8 of Human Rights and the Law for Human Services
I am having a not-feeling-very-well day. Not down, just exhausted and I think I have a little chest infection brewing
It’s particularly harmful because it diminishes the role of men who are decent, ethical, intelligent and nurturing. Shitheels don’t think twice about promoting their role in the lives of vulnerable young people tho
I played double bass in high school. My parents hated it so much
No no no. We're not fucking doing this.
I haven't endured 20 years of "overprotective single dad simulators", from the Last of Us to Yakuza 6 and everything in-between that suggest parenthood is the only thing that matters, only to suddenly be gaslit into them never existing. I won't have it.
Eg. Organisations like Scouts, junior SES or alternatively family
It sucks for young people tool: as an only child in a sole parent home my Kid really wants *a village* - and while we have people who we consider extended family, we notice men are stand off-ish in being inter-gen friends unless there is a set role, often mediated by a working with children check
I'm convinced they are going to implement a means test for the NDIS and they will try to get an LLM to run it. It's going to be an inequitable shitshow and reduce none of the costs.
‘The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.’ 😂
theonion.info
In unrelated news, After America has gone to reprint! You can order it here 😊
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in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer
A scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had simmered for years with such resentment and jealousy over a colleague that he poisoned the man’s water with chloroform, a common and toxic chemical that's accessible in the lab where both men worked, local authorities said.
“This collection of embroidered leaves is a celebration of what can be done when we are gentle and careful.”
what I can not stand about these tertiary institutions attacking their own students is the complete absence of evidence that pro-Palestine students are a physical threat to anything or anyone. The “threat” is to status quo white supremacy and war machine money.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
This reads so Onion-esquely wrong that it sounds almost funny...and don't give me some "oral history" nonsense...this is part of normalizing total surveillance & possibly using every bit of real conversation as AI "training data"!
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.
But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.
Keep funding science!
NEW: Clive Palmer's United Australia Party won't face any penalties for a data breach that exposed every document and email it held because of the Privacy Act's exemption for political parties... despite it not being registered as a political party at the time.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Koala on a dirt track in a forest in front of a ute’s bull bar
Anyway here’s a consolation photo of the koala considering launching a duel with ute’s bull bar
Kid just forwarded me photos of his uncle - an esteemed zoologist - being chased by a koala and I am sent.
Not posting photos, because he’s on Bluesky and more than a couple of his colleagues are here as well