Geoff Hammond
@geoffhammond.bsky.social
Retired academic (psychology/neuroscience).
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The Albanese govt's failure to overturn the Morrison government's $50,000 arts degrees can only mean one of two things:
- they're happy with LNP higher ed policy, or
- they are far more interested in just holding power than doing anything useful with it. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- they're happy with LNP higher ed policy, or
- they are far more interested in just holding power than doing anything useful with it. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
David Pocock condemns delay in establishing job ready graduates body to end $50,000 arts degrees
Senator accuses the government of not treating reform with ‘urgency it deserves’ – with no modelling done on the cost of reversing or replacing the JRG scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Albanese govt's failure to overturn the Morrison government's $50,000 arts degrees can only mean one of two things:
- they're happy with LNP higher ed policy, or
- they are far more interested in just holding power than doing anything useful with it. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- they're happy with LNP higher ed policy, or
- they are far more interested in just holding power than doing anything useful with it. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.
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Yes, your honor, we received and sold stolen goods, but if there was no market for such we wouldn't have done so. Our customers are to blame.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
"Sure, our plagiarism machine ingests enormous amounts of copyrighted material without anyone's permission, but it's the users of the machine who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 criminals, your honor." 🙄🙄
Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Yes, your honor, we received and sold stolen goods, but if there was no market for such we wouldn't have done so. Our customers are to blame.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.
A wine review. Being unfamiliar with the aroma of morning dew atop blades of grass I was left a little perplexed.
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A wine review. Being unfamiliar with the aroma of morning dew atop blades of grass I was left a little perplexed.
The uniform decline in satisfaction is quite telling.
The Starmer line on this is so funny.
The very obvious thing about the UK's *last five prime ministers* is the more the public saw of them, the more they despised them.
Young Wes might be OK wisecracking his way through 5 mins on GMB, but once the public realise he's a smug, condescending narcissist that waxy sheen will come off quick
Young Wes might be OK wisecracking his way through 5 mins on GMB, but once the public realise he's a smug, condescending narcissist that waxy sheen will come off quick
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The uniform decline in satisfaction is quite telling.
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JFC.
JUST IN: U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth announces Operation Spear to remove “narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere”
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
JFC.
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The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire
The US empire is a larger, stronger, sneakier, bitchier, less honest, more manipulative version of what the British Empire was.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-differ...
The US empire is a larger, stronger, sneakier, bitchier, less honest, more manipulative version of what the British Empire was.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-differ...
The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire
The US empire is a larger, stronger, sneakier, bitchier, less honest, more manipulative version of what the British Empire was.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-differ...
The US empire is a larger, stronger, sneakier, bitchier, less honest, more manipulative version of what the British Empire was.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-differ...
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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Happy 80th birthday to Canada's great rebel warrior. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Glastonbury 2009)
YouTube video by TheGRStars
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Happy 80th birthday to Canada's great rebel warrior. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFw7...
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Hi. Hello.
Founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social
I can confirm, that is not “science in its best form”…because that’s politics. Not science.
Founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social
I can confirm, that is not “science in its best form”…because that’s politics. Not science.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hi. Hello.
Founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social
I can confirm, that is not “science in its best form”…because that’s politics. Not science.
Founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social
I can confirm, that is not “science in its best form”…because that’s politics. Not science.
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This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
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Sat in for this interview (as a tech) and was utterly fascinated by the conversation. The fact that we so often think of democracy/not-democracy as a binary is at the core of why we rarely see authoritarianism coming.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Are we living in an age of competitive authoritarianism
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 11/11/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Sat in for this interview (as a tech) and was utterly fascinated by the conversation. The fact that we so often think of democracy/not-democracy as a binary is at the core of why we rarely see authoritarianism coming.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.
It seems to often end this way.
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It seems to often end this way.
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On BBC Radio 5 Live just now:
Labour MP: There are people who think they're cleverer than everyone else
Presenter: Who?
Labour MP: I don't know
Labour MP: There are people who think they're cleverer than everyone else
Presenter: Who?
Labour MP: I don't know
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
On BBC Radio 5 Live just now:
Labour MP: There are people who think they're cleverer than everyone else
Presenter: Who?
Labour MP: I don't know
Labour MP: There are people who think they're cleverer than everyone else
Presenter: Who?
Labour MP: I don't know
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labor strategically lurching to the right when they feel like the liberals are breathing down their neck is one thing, but doing it while the vic libs are decimated, drooling in a corner unable to tie their own shoes, just means you agree with them
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
labor strategically lurching to the right when they feel like the liberals are breathing down their neck is one thing, but doing it while the vic libs are decimated, drooling in a corner unable to tie their own shoes, just means you agree with them
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Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this.
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.
Report reveals SA youth detainees 'routinely' physically restrained
Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this.
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
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Cornelius Vanderbilt IV with his wife, Mary, and mother, Grace Graham Vanderbilt. Easter Parade in front of St. Thomas' Church in New York City on Easter Sunday 1931.
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV with his wife, Mary, and mother, Grace Graham Vanderbilt. Easter Parade in front of St. Thomas' Church in New York City on Easter Sunday 1931.
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By Alfred Eisenstaedt
Children at a Puppet Theatre. Paris, 1960s
Children at a Puppet Theatre. Paris, 1960s
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
By Alfred Eisenstaedt
Children at a Puppet Theatre. Paris, 1960s
Children at a Puppet Theatre. Paris, 1960s
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"Labor in opposition called Job Ready Graduates 'inequitable, perverse, and punitive' but in government they have been sitting on their hands for more than three years while students are being crushed under ever increasing debt"
Albanese has failed to undo Morrison's stupidity.
Priorities. #auspol
Albanese has failed to undo Morrison's stupidity.
Priorities. #auspol
As hundreds of thousands of high school seniors consider university, they are being warned that enrolling in humanities degrees will leave them with a debt close to $55,000.
'That's a house deposit': The cost dilemma facing university students
As hundreds of thousands of high school seniors consider university, they are being warned that enrolling in humanities degrees will leave them with a debt close to $55,000.
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Labor in opposition called Job Ready Graduates 'inequitable, perverse, and punitive' but in government they have been sitting on their hands for more than three years while students are being crushed under ever increasing debt"
Albanese has failed to undo Morrison's stupidity.
Priorities. #auspol
Albanese has failed to undo Morrison's stupidity.
Priorities. #auspol
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one of the reasons police and politicians love expanding the criminal law and giving police more powers and protections and increasing carceral penalties is because criminal laws are not, as a general rule, enforced against police or politicians.
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
one of the reasons police and politicians love expanding the criminal law and giving police more powers and protections and increasing carceral penalties is because criminal laws are not, as a general rule, enforced against police or politicians.