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‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Dr Alison Barnes, NTEU National President at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance

From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

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Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

Denouncing the genocide now is not redemption. At best, if it’s truly genuine, it represents something akin to postwar de-Nazification, but the deed is done—you supported a genocide, and people are right to treat you like someone who supported a genocide.

Interviewer: There are aid trucks, UN aid trucks that are unable to enter Gaza, and not allowed to distribute aid while people are starving. But [private security contractor] SRS was able to bring in Domino's Pizza to one of their sites?

Whistleblower: Correct.

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m... by @karmvirpadda.bsky.social

"What emerges is a chilling picture of how deep-seated misogyny, disguised as grievance and moral outrage, can escalate ideological violence."

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

And it is not my community but SHAME also for all the Christians who have refused to reckon with Christian Zionism, with the fact that Christian Zionists outnumber the total world Jewry, with the fact that they use Jews and very specifically Jewish zionists as a shield for some fucked up fantasy

"Self made billionaires" will have you believe that they personally made their fortune, but it takes an entire bureaucracy of police, judges, politicians, and military to steal that much money from the working class.

"[5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib] had weighed over 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) when she was born, her mother said. When she died, she weighed less than 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) ... Zainab was one of [at least] 85 children to die of malnutrition-related causes in Gaza in the past three weeks."

"Hopelessness at this time is a crime," says Badar Khan Suri. "Islam says that if something wrong is happening, stop it by your hand. Make noise, write, do something. And if you can’t do that, at least be on the right side in your heart. Say that something wrong is happening."

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋

Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

Gender!!!

"No one is illegal"
Pasteup spotted in Fort Wayne, Indiana

I’m at the ICE protest
I’m at the trans parade
I’m at the combination ICE protest and trans parade

Censuring a Senator because of this.

It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries