all the photos in that article were incredible and not in a good way. I swear I laughed for DAYS back when it came out

sure it's silly but why is everyone assuming this person is a US liberal

I love how genuinely baffled he seems with the replies

"guys I'm just asking if you'd feed your creative work into the world-destroying soul-sucking slop machine. good grief"

oh. my. god.

(even if you'd somehow never heard of one, you can just ... look it up? it would take a few SECONDS)

yep! that's what the recent protests have been about. so much utter fuckery, I swear

great that you're on the mend!
yeah, lots of stuff happening. the state that I live in has just banned the phrase "from the river to the sea" 🙄

horribly real

💀💀💀

they need to rebrand that show from "drama" to "100% documentary"

my first thought was exactly "does this twat actually know any scientists?!"

I love how they can't even write their own statements

(not to mention we have a doctor who's apparently feeding the slop machine with patient data)

yeah it's confusing. but I agree, any number is too many!

hope you feel better soon 💜

no-one would ever say this about any other religion. ffs Stefanovich

(I *have* just woken up, so...)

it's higher than that, isn't it? I can't work out the figures in the screenshot vs the listed figures. looks like they've combined both columns, but the Canadian figures don't add up... am I missing something?

yeah this, exactly. jfc.

Shiro says we should put 2026 in the bin and just start over

how did he even type "conservatives have STARTED lying" without immediately bursting into flames

yep - always happy to see her there.

it's weirdly exhausting

idk if this is in the same ballpark, but I felt there was a narrator, of sorts? and it often feels like I'm partly participating, partly watching, my own life?

(I think the common element is the sense of performance)

never underestimate the capacity for craven cowardice at the top levels, where "consultants" rule.
I've never really had to worry about what I could and couldn't say, in a teaching context, but I'm definitely concerned now.

The antisemitism envov, Jillian Segal, devised the report card system as part of a wide-ranging plan handed down to the federal government last July to combat antisemitism, which also proposed withholding government funding from universities that "facilitate, enable or fail to act against antisemitism" Segal in November appointed the constitutional lawver Greg Craven, who is a former vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and regular columnist with The Australian. to lead the report card initiative. In the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack. the federal government fast- tracked its response to her plan, with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, telling ABC radio late last vear that his government was "working with the envoy" to produce the report card on universities.

Exclusive: Leaked documents show how universities will be assessed under new svstem, which was fast-tracked after Bondi terror attack Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Caitlin Cassidy Thu 5 Feb 2026 01.00 AEDT Q Share Universities will be graded on how wel they "deal with" protests, encampments and the display of flags as part of a controversial antisemitism report card system adopted by the Albanese government after the Bondi terror attack according to documents seen by Guardian Australia.

this is really, really bad on multiple levels. a LOT of censorship coming up.

the potential for govt to withhold funding is extra fucked, too.

I didn't get it until I read the comments on the original post! had NO IDEA what I was looking at 😭

I know...

optical illusions make me feel so dumb 😭

me, staring: what are these weird pink blob things?

I'm guessing you're a fellow ex-Gaiman fan?

exactly same

and it's objectively harder to get, and keep, students' attention now, compared to a decade ago.

I can't even cope with seeing the photos of him. so tiny and defenceless.

I will follow suit, when I've recovered from my shock