Brook
@wombattitude.bsky.social
PhD student and wombat appreciator
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the interview. This guy is a caricature of the worst person you could imagine.
This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the interview. This guy is a caricature of the worst person you could imagine.
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Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians | Amy McQuire
The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Police who joke with perpetrators of violence to women are no better than those perpetrators.
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Those police that ignore the bruises and trauma evident in body language and physical evidence should never be allowed to work as police.
Dangerously incompetent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Phoebe and Steve. Please ask around if you can, I know it’s a big ask but I’m desperate to find them a good home
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Phoebe and Steve. Please ask around if you can, I know it’s a big ask but I’m desperate to find them a good home
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If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If anyone knows anyone in NSW, ACT or VIC who wants two cats please let me know, I need to rehome my mothers cats, can bring them to you
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
Any questions please ask, it would help a lot to have this one thing sorted 🙏
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Oh please can we get the person who did the redaction on the Oceangate report to do the Epstein files as well.
![Oceangate Report with an Interview of [Redacted]
Then the not redated line “Well, I am sure you are familiar with my film Titanic…”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qhf36bieyioj5hkclqiac4ta/bafkreiho5hdbboy3d7ic6cl74r3l7bc3xhw4xuyfdnmxofhpmi6pzmg7sm@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Oh please can we get the person who did the redaction on the Oceangate report to do the Epstein files as well.
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Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women
Women in prison are being used as weapons in a broader campaign of transphobia. It is grotesque political theatre.
womensagenda.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Stop using women in prison as weapons in your war on trans women womensagenda.com.au/latest/stop-...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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@chucktingle.bsky.social is working on new bestseller, I see.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@chucktingle.bsky.social is working on new bestseller, I see.
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Party registration news: Victorian Socialists' attempt to change name to Socialist Party has been provisionally rejected as AEC delegate has ruled too similar to Socialist Alliance. Party will try Australian Socialist Party instead.
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
Socialist Party electoral registration update | Victorian Socialists
The June conference of the Victorian Socialists, held in Melbourne, endorsed the proposal to expand the party nation-wide. As part of that decision, the conference directed the Secretary to apply to t...
victoriansocialists.org.au
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Party registration news: Victorian Socialists' attempt to change name to Socialist Party has been provisionally rejected as AEC delegate has ruled too similar to Socialist Alliance. Party will try Australian Socialist Party instead.
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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I was gonna crack a joke but this is just such a bad plan that I can’t. Why are Australian politicians so obsessed with imprisoning children?
📢 Offenders as young as 14 face life in jail under Premier Jacinta Allan’s plan to enforce “adult time for violent crime”, including home invasions, carjackings and armed robbery.
Children to be tried as adults in youth justice overhaul
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I was gonna crack a joke but this is just such a bad plan that I can’t. Why are Australian politicians so obsessed with imprisoning children?
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I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.
www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...
www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...
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Australia’s current child support debt is the highest it has been in a decade. As of December 2024, $1.9 billion was owed, with 153,694 non-payers. While interest on unpaid amounts is payable to the government, it’s not passed on to the parents who are owed
It is a criminal offence not to file tax returns on time, but the penalty is paltry. Meanwhile, thousands of Australian fathers are able to avoid child support payments by not filing returns, working cash in hand, hiding money in trusts or moving overseas. satpa.pe/qGOX9ZU
One simple way to lift children out of poverty
More than 40 per cent of children in single-parent households live in poverty in Australia. Enforcing child support payments would go a long way towards fixing the problem.
satpa.pe
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Australia’s current child support debt is the highest it has been in a decade. As of December 2024, $1.9 billion was owed, with 153,694 non-payers. While interest on unpaid amounts is payable to the government, it’s not passed on to the parents who are owed
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Even when they are stealing property, they still can't make a profit and need govt handouts
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Even when they are stealing property, they still can't make a profit and need govt handouts
Years of terrible service & my info on the dark web wasn’t enough to defeat my laziness & make me change providers but sending this when I’ve spent all day marking just might
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Years of terrible service & my info on the dark web wasn’t enough to defeat my laziness & make me change providers but sending this when I’ve spent all day marking just might
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There is really a serious problem within AI criticism around domains and content types. Eg - this viral LinkedIn post correctly reacting with outrage to fabricated references in a university course that uses a slop image created from a massive database of stolen artworks and photographs
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There is really a serious problem within AI criticism around domains and content types. Eg - this viral LinkedIn post correctly reacting with outrage to fabricated references in a university course that uses a slop image created from a massive database of stolen artworks and photographs
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Generative AI being 'wrong' in the information it produces, and being unethical in how it steals human labor are both overlapping issues and it's important to show a bit of damn solidarity even if you're not a scientist, or information worker, or a writer, or an artist, or a photographer
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Generative AI being 'wrong' in the information it produces, and being unethical in how it steals human labor are both overlapping issues and it's important to show a bit of damn solidarity even if you're not a scientist, or information worker, or a writer, or an artist, or a photographer
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Coercive control laws exist across Australia. So shouldn’t someone whose business model relies on teaching men how to exert coercive control over women be shut down?
An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens
Neo-Nazis are targeting the rich and the young to fill their ranks – and coffers. And one of Andrew Tate’s right-hand men is helping them draw boys in.
www.theage.com.au
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Coercive control laws exist across Australia. So shouldn’t someone whose business model relies on teaching men how to exert coercive control over women be shut down?
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Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
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I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit
Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?
timinclimate.medium.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
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As Samuel Johnson - perhaps the most accomplished wordsmith ever - said, "When a man is tired of #wombats, he is tired of life".
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
As Samuel Johnson - perhaps the most accomplished wordsmith ever - said, "When a man is tired of #wombats, he is tired of life".
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz