Bertha Szymanski
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I agree
I’ll never understand the obsession with politicians.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I agree
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
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This looks very exciting!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This looks very exciting!
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Outstanding rebuke of PM Albanese by cartoonist David Pope. #auspol #Whitlam #Albanese #Mamdani #CostOfLivingCrisis
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Outstanding rebuke of PM Albanese by cartoonist David Pope. #auspol #Whitlam #Albanese #Mamdani #CostOfLivingCrisis
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People would go wild if MS or lupus were airborne, but Covid is airborne, and it can reactivate EBV, which is linked to both. It’s biologically plausible that we’re seeing more MS- and lupus-related illness after widespread airborne viruses. So mask up 😷
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
People would go wild if MS or lupus were airborne, but Covid is airborne, and it can reactivate EBV, which is linked to both. It’s biologically plausible that we’re seeing more MS- and lupus-related illness after widespread airborne viruses. So mask up 😷
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“What is the lawful purpose of a stinger grenade, given force should only be used by police to affect something?” he said.
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“What is the lawful purpose of a stinger grenade, given force should only be used by police to affect something?” he said.
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“What are they actually seeking to do here? Because it can’t be to just stop people protesting.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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AI BOOM SHOWING FAMILIAR BUBBLE SIGNS, BCA SAYS BCA Research says today’s AI surge is mirroring past booms that later collapsed. Their review of railways, electrification, the dot-com era, and oil cycles highlights the same patterns: tech adoption is slower than expected,
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
AI BOOM SHOWING FAMILIAR BUBBLE SIGNS, BCA SAYS BCA Research says today’s AI surge is mirroring past booms that later collapsed. Their review of railways, electrification, the dot-com era, and oil cycles highlights the same patterns: tech adoption is slower than expected,
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FACT CHECK: TRUE
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
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The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
🧵
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:
The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
🧵
The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.
That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
🧵
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Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
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Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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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 5:31 AM
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
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going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years
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This is horrific. Not in my name!
“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.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is horrific. Not in my name!
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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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. Read more: satpa.pe/isLbMem
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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. Read more: satpa.pe/isLbMem
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Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
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Women are not ruining the workplace because women are not so very different from men:
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
The Ideology versus the Science of Evolved Sex Differences - Replicability-Index
1. Introduction: Competing Stories About Gender Debates about sex differences often swing between extremes. One narrative, familiar from strands of radical feminism, portrays masculinity as dangerous—...
replicationindex.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Women are not ruining the workplace because women are not so very different from men:
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
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Every time one anti-vaxxer is quoted in the media, one million scientists and healthcare workers should also be quoted in support of vaccines.
False equivalence in the media is killing us.
False equivalence in the media is killing us.
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Every time one anti-vaxxer is quoted in the media, one million scientists and healthcare workers should also be quoted in support of vaccines.
False equivalence in the media is killing us.
False equivalence in the media is killing us.
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Society only chose option 1 because they were lied to.
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Society only chose option 1 because they were lied to.
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
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Far too many critically important projects miss out on vital funding and far too many brilliant Australian scientists scramble to survive in their careers
This👇is VITALLY important and LONG overdue
This👇is VITALLY important and LONG overdue
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Far too many critically important projects miss out on vital funding and far too many brilliant Australian scientists scramble to survive in their careers
This👇is VITALLY important and LONG overdue
This👇is VITALLY important and LONG overdue