The Strait of Hormuz 😂

The book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

My week-between-classes-end-and-grading-starts reading has arrived!!!

Mam we thought you were dead

Ohhhh dearrr. No, I was just playing the bubble pops on my phone.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Defence Minister Richard Marles said conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East had shown the ability of drones "to generate significant asymmetric advantage against larger, more expensive platforms".

What's that? We spent 360 billion on nukesubs that'll get blow to smithereens by cheap UUVs?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Adam Morton Chris Bowen to begin Cop31 climate summit president's role remotely Chris Bowen's role as president for negotiations at the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey later this year will kick off remotely. With the fuel crisis raging and Bowen giving daily press conferences on the government's response, the climate change and energy minister said he would not fly to Berlin next week for the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an annual meeting of representatives from about 40 countries. A spokesperson for the minister said he "considers his travel carefully" and would not fly for the meeting hosted by the German climate action ministry on Tuesday and Wednesday. "In this instance he will take advantage of the virtual attendance and continues to engage closely with all his international counterparts. Australia will also not be represented at ministerial level at the first global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels in Colombia starting next Friday.

Australia's energy minister is skipping global meetings on accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels because he has to stay in Australia to deal with the fallout from not phasing fossil fuels out fast enough.

How the Iran war exposed Australia's energy mistakes | If You're Listening YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

I am fairly certain we have never made an episode of If You’re Listening that has made more people more angry than this one youtu.be/lxwXKkHcgwM?...

Reminds me of how frustrating Triple Threat was, why would you assemble one of the greatest line-up of martial arts actors of all time and just have them shoot at each other smfh. Makes no sense.

100%, also adds a kinetic energy to the scene. It's a shame JeeJa Yanin doesn't have more credits to her name.

Word, Jackie Chan school of breaking your spine type of stunts haha

The meat market too

That one on the side of the building 🤌

Relative deprivation and a sense of injustice, can lead to many different outcomes based on those factors.

It's not a one-stop shop.

In the form of motivated reasoning or intuitive decision making, without analytical thinking.

So, there's a whole host of socio-affective, cognitive and identity based factors that interact with each other and underpin conspiratorial thinking and belief.

belonging, community and identity. Which reinforce these beliefs and is very gratifying in the age of social atomization.

There's also cognitive factors, where ppl are just looking to confirm what they already believe and reaffirm their own biases.

clear cut villains. It's hard to fight intangible and systemic issues, like AGW and the confluence of things that lead to zoonotic spillover. Much easier to blame bushfires on antifa, algal blooms on desal plants and covid on Fauci and the Chinese.

There's social factors, providing ppl a sense of

There's a number of answers to this. Inability to cope with uncertainty and lack of control. There's always an influx of conspiratorial thinking around events of great uncertainty Covid, 9/11, etc

Conspiracies force a simplistic certainty over all world events, providing accessible answers and

And now i've tried to follow someone, but instead I've invited them to my network or something.

Stupid ass site.

Mofo, who are you to tell me who's in my network.

Bro, LinkedIn is so stupid.

Me: goes to add someone I know and took part in a qualitative research project I did.

Them: members outside your network have limited visibility, you need to grow your network to add them.

20bux for a Nerds cocktail with grape vodka and nerds.

Probably should have left a tip but I did spend like 100bux on weird ass cocktails.

Chick at the Milk Bar was super nice. Asking me if I just graduated/what I studied/congratulating me/discussing why Research Methods is shit and etc.

Thank Wombats

Cheers man

Tis the plan, get maggoted till 5am.

Look like I'm about to colonize a Terra Nullius lol

That's that done, I'm officially graduated. Now, vodka milkshakes lol.

We has arrived