The two ex-PMs who have made ill-advised comments supporting alleged war criminal BRS are the same two who gave George Pell character references:
Howard and Abbott.

The truest thing I’ve read today….🤣

Jane Flegal reposted Fred Stafford @fredstaffordcs Decarbonization was always going to require an unprecedented explosion in electricity infrastructure. I'm not thrilled that capitalists choose only data centers to invest in, but in a clean tech reindustrializing dream scenario we'd see the same supply-side problems.

Demand growth from electrification -> we pay for a cleaner, safer grid

Demand growth from data centres -> we pay for a dirtier, more harmful grid so that every single digital service and interaction becomes 5,000x worse immediately

So incredibly lazy to pretend like these two are the same

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

The first world country in the grip of a poverty crisis London. It's the epicentre of Britain but without it the UK's GDP is equivalent to the poorest state in the US. And one fifth of the total population is living in poverty.

Tonight's #abc730 featured this story on "a modern and broken kingdom where poverty is rife and rising further."

One in 5 Britons are living in #poverty.

Before feeling too smug, note that in Australia it's 1 in 7 households [1 in 6 children]. #RaiseTheRate #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

We had a PM we nicknamed Scotty from marketing because he was focused on spin and promotional opportunities than actually doing anything. Loved an announcement and photo op. Elon is the billionaire version.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't.

Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini

Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini

Normalise their idiocy, racism and dog whistles and raise their profile.

Yeah it’s frustrating. Between media bias and astroturfing ON is riding high. The Greens aren’t so unscrupulous and don’t get the media boosts. They will need to consider their tactics but a lot of it’s not their fault.

The legacy media platforming ON like a viable option didn't harm them either.

Boycott their products

"When so much of politics today is devoid of courage, compassion, and principle, Abughazaleh's campaign came to symbolize all three."

There is no “rise of One Nation” there is just a “Splintering of the Menzies Liberals”

A party that remains unlikely to win ANY seats in a 47 seat parliament is not a political force, no matter how hard billionaires & media chicken littles might be trying to convince us otherwise

Our system works

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

This is automation of disability support decisions that’s making wrong cruel stupid decisions with human involvement in the process cut out. Its a gross misuse of automation just like in #robodebt. @albomp.bsky.social why is Govt accepting such cruel inefficient govt business process advice? #auspol

Amazing, it's the only Aus animal I haven't seen in the wild. How wonderful

AUKUS: So many questions, so few answers The Australian public deserve to understand the implications of the Morrison/Albanese secretive, AUKUS agreement.

Australians deserve open scrutiny of the AUKUS agreement and its implications for sovereignty, security, jobs and nuclear waste. A new public inquiry aims to examine questions the government and parliament have avoided, Doug Cameron writes.
#auspol #AUKUS #Defence

Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.

ICYMI… theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal-funded disinformation network “Advance” is now attacking one of the nation’s best and most respected journalists, over doing his job and pointing out the bleeding obvious regarding Israel and the US.

This is where we are, Australia’s MAGA.

Millions in tax-deductible donations to IDF, illegal settlements - Michael West JNF an Australian charity with $200 million in donations is ignoring international law, siphoning money to the IDF and illegal settlements

🛑😟Jewish National Fund Australia (JNF Australia) has remitted more than $125.4m to Israel since 2009, according to financial records, while receiving $213m in tax-deductible donations since 2013. wtf?
michaelwest.com.au/millions-in-...

The escalation trap: how the Iran war could become more costly and complex Iran’s is trying to create wedges between Gulf states and the US, but Trump is very comfortable on the ‘escalatory ladder’

1/2 In the 1920s and 1930s Britain tried to control opposition to its mandated rule in the Middle East and NW India through air power. The RAF justified its role after WWI by exaggerating the effectiveness of imperial ‘aerial policing’.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

"This is Colossus: a data center that Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, xAI, is using as a training ground for Grok... if run at full strength for a year, Colossus would use as much electricity as 200,000 American homes"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

Musk’s fossil data centres are undoing Tesla’s climate benefit I know you already know the data centres built to power the generative AI software running on X are intensely harmful and wildly polluting, often in breach of rules and regulations. You may not kno…

It's a simple way of putting it, but I hope the fact that one group of data centres powering one shitty, evil chatbot for one crappy little social media site undoing most or all of Tesla's entire global climate benefits puts in perspective how WILDLY bloated genAI is as software

Rep Jason Crow (D-CO): “I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism”

Albanese’s backing of Israeli and US attacks on Iran shows that we are completely devoid of acting independently from Trump and Netanyahu.
There was a time when Labor pursued peace not war. That time is long gone.
Leadership needed not sycophantic capitulation to militarism.

Well, Israel's good at bombing schools and hospitals. They've had plenty of practice in Palestine.

Any comments @albomp.bsky.social, @senatorwong.bsky.social ?

A concerned frown, perhaps?

Nobody on earth wants to be “liberated” by the US right now, especially by this administration which will happily build resorts on the graves of the liberated and mine their bones for oil and minerals.

We leave everything worse off than we found it.

1/2

From Jerusalem Post: "world leaders appeared to remain silent, with the only exception thus far being Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. "

How stupid can he be?

The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts - Stand.earth The expansion of data centres – which is driven in large part by AI growth – is creating a shocking new demand for fossil fuels. The tech companies driving AI expansion try to downplay AI’s proven cli...

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