Brad Taylor
@bradrtaylor.bsky.social
Political theorist at University of Southern Queensland. Excessive decoupler. liberal. New Zealander in Australia. PPE, public policy, social + political epistemology, tech politics and ethics, institutions.
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"onomatopoeia" is itself an onomatopoeia for the sound noise makes
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"onomatopoeia" is itself an onomatopoeia for the sound noise makes
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Our paper analysing academic staff experiences of administrative burden at Australian universities recently got accepted for publication. It should be available online soon. This is quite a chunky paper focusing on what these staff view as the key dimensions and drivers of admin burden at work.
May 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Our paper analysing academic staff experiences of administrative burden at Australian universities recently got accepted for publication. It should be available online soon. This is quite a chunky paper focusing on what these staff view as the key dimensions and drivers of admin burden at work.
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
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wtf I love negative polarization now
May 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
wtf I love negative polarization now
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Being constantly validated is bad, actually.
This is the unifying takeaway of several prominent pieces of online discourse from this weekend alone, including this one, but more generally speaks to something that’s been apparent for several years now.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
This is the unifying takeaway of several prominent pieces of online discourse from this weekend alone, including this one, but more generally speaks to something that’s been apparent for several years now.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Being constantly validated is bad, actually.
This is the unifying takeaway of several prominent pieces of online discourse from this weekend alone, including this one, but more generally speaks to something that’s been apparent for several years now.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
This is the unifying takeaway of several prominent pieces of online discourse from this weekend alone, including this one, but more generally speaks to something that’s been apparent for several years now.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Hugh Hutton on Hitler promising prosperity, but actually offering xenophobia, racism, cultism... Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, 4/24/1933.
April 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hugh Hutton on Hitler promising prosperity, but actually offering xenophobia, racism, cultism... Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, 4/24/1933.
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me on the hedonic treadmill: man it's gonna feel so good when i get off this treadmill!!!!!
April 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
me on the hedonic treadmill: man it's gonna feel so good when i get off this treadmill!!!!!
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
Very good visualisation for anyone teaching Australian Politics
This humble little triangle explains the big shift in how we vote over 50 years. My latest:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
This triangle helps explain a titanic shift in how Australia votes
This triangle is going to help us explain how Australian politics has fundamentally changed over the past five decades.
www.abc.net.au
April 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Very good visualisation for anyone teaching Australian Politics
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Just putting this here so we can use it when it happens.
March 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just putting this here so we can use it when it happens.
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A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".
Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky
Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky
a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters
ALT: a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters
media.tenor.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".
Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky
Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky
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Unconcealed authoritarianism, straight from the White House.
Anyone who demands they prove that an accused person is a terrorist must be, themselves—you guessed it!—a terrorist.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject this pigslop.
Anyone who demands they prove that an accused person is a terrorist must be, themselves—you guessed it!—a terrorist.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject this pigslop.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Unconcealed authoritarianism, straight from the White House.
Anyone who demands they prove that an accused person is a terrorist must be, themselves—you guessed it!—a terrorist.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject this pigslop.
Anyone who demands they prove that an accused person is a terrorist must be, themselves—you guessed it!—a terrorist.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject this pigslop.
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Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.
April 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.
Around here, we use more subtle and long-winded dog whistles like "Let's get Australia back on track."
April 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Around here, we use more subtle and long-winded dog whistles like "Let's get Australia back on track."
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Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump is claiming the powers of a tyrant. Not an exaggeration, not a joke. Literally what his administration has argued in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
April 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Trump is claiming the powers of a tyrant. Not an exaggeration, not a joke. Literally what his administration has argued in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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City of Moreton Bay harasses the homeless, removing tents www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Where am I going to go?’ Dismay as Queensland council begins tearing down tent encampment
Homeless residents given an hour to move belongings as City of Moreton Bay brings excavator to Eddie Hyland Park in Lawnton
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
City of Moreton Bay harasses the homeless, removing tents www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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one explanation is that chemicals in the air or water are making everyone stupider every year and we haven’t noticed because we’re all too stupid. this hypothesis would help explain why everything and everyone is really stupid now
August 30, 2023 at 9:41 PM
one explanation is that chemicals in the air or water are making everyone stupider every year and we haven’t noticed because we’re all too stupid. this hypothesis would help explain why everything and everyone is really stupid now
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man I hate it when all that is solid melts into air
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
man I hate it when all that is solid melts into air
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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This is great news for Australia
Australia is the anti-America when it comes to polarisation
If you feel this is the most 'meh' election you've witnessed, you are not alone. New research shows Australian voters are not deeply polarised or highly enthusiastic; instead, they are both uncertain ...
www.abc.net.au
April 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is great news for Australia
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Just published (open access): In our article, we explore the key institutional forces that have led to casual academic employment being regarded as legitimate and normal element of university activity in Australia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The rise of a “casualised” workforce: A conceptual account of the institutional forces legitimising contingent academic employment in Australia - Higher Education
Contingent academic employment has become a salient feature of many higher education systems over recent decades. At the same time, there remains limited understanding of how such employment has come ...
link.springer.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just published (open access): In our article, we explore the key institutional forces that have led to casual academic employment being regarded as legitimate and normal element of university activity in Australia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...