Richard Chirgwin Don't give up your day job, darling.

This is a real shame, that Melissa has stepped aside 'for the Labor Party' over pro Palestine comments.

The drunk in the hotel lift just told me "woe, man, your hair is scary" which, look, I don't quite get?

I'm stingy with "benefit of the doubt" and disinclined to think well of Dreyfus, but ... do you really think what landed in the SMH represents what will really be on his agenda in Israel?

Excellent article by ⁦@iainthomson⁩ for ⁦The Register⁩ on national treasure ⁦Marc Rogers⁩’ luminous career with a commentary on why his broken neck needs a crowdsourced fundraiser in the richest country in the world to aid his recovery. theregister.com/2025/01/07/def…

Well, whaddayaknow...

I love that Zuckerberg just came out and said people abandoning his apps by the hundreds of thousands are "virtue signalers" and that they're going to start AI generating their own users. BOTS CAN'T BUY SERVICES FROM YOUR ADVERTISERS MARK.

Went with Josephine Crowley to North Sydney Oval for the Au-Eng women's ODI today. For its age and shortcomings, it's a lovely oval. And the women attract a friendly, happy fan base; with an emphatic Au win, it was a great day!

He’s turning it off. Expert advice is that it’s the only way to keep teens off social media. RIP NBN.

Good news for Blue Mountains people: we don't have to cope with the biggest, baddest funnel-web spiders! australian.museum/about/organisa…

The more Dotton imbibes American electoral calculus, the better I like it. He's training a whole team to lose.

Tasmania’s waters are being destroyed by toxic salmon farming, yet Peter Dutton wants laws to protect this destructive industry. Tasmanians are demanding action to save marine life, not sell it out to foreign-owned giants like JBS. #politas bobbrown.org.au/liberal-leader…

Jarrod Bleijie, former legal genius, now energy guru. brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queen…

Military procurement in this country stinks.

Richard Chirgwin Dr Sheep Person Podge Yep. TBF, as long as the country has a military justice system that enforces the Geneva Conventions for its military, then the ICC is deprived of jurisdiction. It is only in cases like Israel, where the jurisdiction of the ICC gets invoked

A The Guardian investigation finds over 3,000 imports into Australia were from companies blacklisted over Uyghur forced labor, the first assessment of the large and growing scale of Xinjiang-linked imports into the country. Nations that fail to act become complicit.

fuck off

Dutton has the worldview of a Queensland cop, someone once wrote. We should take that seriously via Crikey crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/pet…

Richard Chirgwin The govt wants to water down copyright to allow AI companies to use everyone's creative work for free!! independentaustralia.net/politics/polit…