NSW police has a list of further Herzog protesters it's hunting down to arrest over a rally that saw law enforcement brutalise demonstrators en masse, and this is likely all about undermining the police watchdog inquiry
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www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
Finally going to see One Battle After Another today: wheeeee!
Forced social cohesion certainly sounds kinda like fascism / totalitarianism/ authoritarianism but I’m sure it’s all fine … 🤣
It’s nearly a year since my Night Shift colleagues and I submitted a paper to a journal (April 2025), then revised along the lines suggested and re-submitted (in Oct), then today received an acceptance (with a few more revisions optional)… academic publishing sometimes moves slowly hey… #AcademicSky
I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was.
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
Ugh. This is climate change:
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Graffiti, Firenze #vivagaza
My current office, in one of the spaces for visiting fellows at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
So terrifying that this not made up.
The cafe/bar of my one of my favourite public libraries in the world, the Biblioteca Delle Oblate in Firenze.
Not sure that argument is going to deter Netanyahu much.
Waiting for the storm, Firenze (on a day of a national general strike).
Not only dreaming spires, but tagging ‘SPIRE’ #oxford
Library life:
I love me a nice library
In Oxford, far right nationalists on one side of the road, and anti-racism protesters on the other…Cops in the middle of the road.
"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."
BREAKING Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026 Venice Biennale By Hannah Story
Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.
All too recognisable.
SMH article on the decline of Australian universities
2nd half of article on the decline of Australian universities
Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol
"In an announcement (...) San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith said that it would no longer carry books by J.K. Rowling because of her ongoing support of anti-trans policies. Accompanying the post was a list of fantasy books that 'might fit the Harry Potter brief for you and yours.'"
I feel your pain! Hang in there 💪🏼
Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Read this. #freepalestine #ceasefire #sanctionsnow
I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to
No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.
New ink
🚨 Important database of cases where lawyers were found to have used AI-hallucinated materials. Covers multiple jurisdictions, mostly anglophone systems.🚨
I'm going to try to write a thread to entice people to read this piece I published last night.
A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about.
You should be. 🧵