Vive la France! 🇫🇷

#France
#Sanctions - a Janus word just FYI, or 'contranym', as is 'cleave'.

Yeah, they're good. And Mrs Mac's sausage rolls are also very good

What a jerk(off)

Paella with chorizo and seafood mix

Tonight's dinner is looking good 👍

I bloody hope so because we can't to let it continue to damage society the way it has done. #AusPol

‘Social cohesion’ defence collapses in NSW court, exposing QLD speech laws A sharp appellate ruling has struck down NSW’s ‘social cohesion’ protest laws as unconstitutional, placing Queensland’s speech crackdown and looming federal legislation squarely in the legal.....

Not enough posted about this yet! #auspol #righttoprotest
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Congestion 👃

Image shows an area of rural Queensland that is covered by gas fracking wells.

Senator for Queensland Susan McDonald complaining about renewables taking over farmland ignores what fracking for gas is doing in her own state. #AusPol #SenateHearing

Senator Susan McDonald has no relationship with reality and is just a fossil fuel shrill. #AusPol #SenateHearing

Don't Subpoena Our Support: Keep Counselling Confidential We believe all survivors of sexual assault should be able to safely access counselling without fear of their offender ever eavesdropping in on the conversation. Yet our legal system currently undermin...

This is important - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...

New detection tech could make AUKUS submarines obsolete Chinese researchers have developed a new gravity-based detector that could be used to find submarines and render the proposed AUKUS submarine redundant.

"One hates to think of $368 billion (and counting) wasted on a project that, by the time it is delivered, technology will have made redundant."

And that's even if we get those mythical subs. #DitchAUKUS #auspol
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I care even less

Don't Subpoena Our Support: Keep Counselling Confidential We believe all survivors of sexual assault should be able to safely access counselling without fear of their offender ever eavesdropping in on the conversation. Yet our legal system currently undermin...

Keep the pressure up. Victim-Survivors of sexual assault & abuse should have safe access to counselling & support, without it being exposed to the abusers that caused the harm in the first place. #auspol #politas

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...

Come for the article (excellent), stay for the glossary (brilliant)
#AusPol

Not content with committing war crimes in Gaza, Netanyahu and the IDF are now committing war crimes in Lebanon. #Zionism #WarCrimes #Genocide

I thought hell would freeze over before I agreed with the pope. But in a world riven by cruelty, that day has finally come | Rebecca Shaw It’s a relief to see the pontiff decrying brutality, because it seems most current world leaders lack the necessary spine

Ok that’s better, anyway i had a little rant www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/2 Palantir is also getting its tentacles around Australian government contracts, in the defence dept and elsewhere.

As well as enabling Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza, the company is closely aligned with ICE surveillance activities against Americans. #auspol

So, he rants and you rave. Sounds like a perfect match.

My 6½ yo Samsung has just had it's battery replaced and is still going strong. The idea that you should replace your phone every few years is capitalism gone mad. I'm hoping this one last long enough that the AI fad is over.

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

Rose Jackson & Penny Sharpe should be sacked.

Water birds abandon chicks, freshwater turtles dying, an incomprehensible disaster is unfolding in four protected wetlands because one land owner complained, Water NSW then cut the flow to zero in breach of env laws

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mehdi Hasan reads the riot act to smug IDF spokesman 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💙💙💙👇🏼

NSW electric buses, trains and light rail services to run entirely on renewable energy from 2027 in $1.9bn deal Exclusive: Minns government announces contract with Snowy Energy to power public transport in seven-year contract

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Yes, I gather Bluesky is under an ongoing denial of service attack.
I wonder which of Trump, Putin or Netanyahu is behind it.

Now everyone knows the 7 Democrats that need to be primaried. #USPol

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

Albo @albomp.bsky.social
So you have to go to ASEAN countries to virtually BEG to ensure Australia's fuel security. Yes. They are our friends NOT USA esp Mein Trumpf USA. He is the PROBLEM.

@senatorwong.bsky.social So Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel nuke subs NOW and NOW

This Is Exactly What We Warned You About BYV: A false claim. An authorised flyer. No legal consequence. Welcome to Australian democracy outside South Australia.

Two by-elections. Two false attacks on independent candidates. One playbook.

Both claims are false. Both are entirely legal - everywhere except South Australia.

New Tuesday piece at #BeforeYouVote. 👇

Your Vote. Your Future.
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

#auspol

She Outworks Everyone and She’ll Never Ask for a Raise. What a Billboard at Bristol Airport Tells Us About AI, Gender, and the Urgent Need for Regulation

She Outworks Everyone & She’ll Never Ask for a Raise.

Ethical AI amplifies human capability. It does not monetise human inequality.

I've written about what this means for business, regulation & ethical AI adoption. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

Only if the windows open or there is a balcony.