Leroy
@leroylynch.bsky.social
ALP member. Social Democrat. Posts are mainly news, plus some history and general interest.
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
www.infinitescroll.us
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...
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Jacinta Price does a TACO. She also deleted her FB encouraging ppl to attend. This came after Ley’s decision to get her team in one room this Wednesday.
I suppose Price hadn’t the spine to face colleagues on the matter. Either way, her fringe dweller supporters won’t be happy.
I suppose Price hadn’t the spine to face colleagues on the matter. Either way, her fringe dweller supporters won’t be happy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Jacinta Price does a TACO. She also deleted her FB encouraging ppl to attend. This came after Ley’s decision to get her team in one room this Wednesday.
I suppose Price hadn’t the spine to face colleagues on the matter. Either way, her fringe dweller supporters won’t be happy.
I suppose Price hadn’t the spine to face colleagues on the matter. Either way, her fringe dweller supporters won’t be happy.
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Nazis reckon NSW is best chance to run successful electoral campaign for Senate.
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Nazis who rallied at parliament want to enter politics. They think NSW is their best shot
Neo-Nazis are on a recruitment drive in a bid to register as a mainstream political party, and they believe a NSW upper house position could be their best bet.
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Nazis reckon NSW is best chance to run successful electoral campaign for Senate.
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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New IMF paper shows that during the 2022 supply-driven inflation surge, inflation-targeting central banks did not deliver better outcomes than non-targeting peers, even though they tightened more aggressively. www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
Navigating the 2022 Inflation Surge
This paper examines the effectiveness of inflation targeting (IT) frameworks during the global inflation surge of 2022, a shock primarily driven by large adverse supply side disruptions following the ...
www.imf.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
New IMF paper shows that during the 2022 supply-driven inflation surge, inflation-targeting central banks did not deliver better outcomes than non-targeting peers, even though they tightened more aggressively. www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
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Millennials even less likely to have voted for the Coalition (21%) than Zoomers (27%) at the last #ausvotes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #auspol
New figures show Coalition's 'existential' millennial problem getting worse
As Liberals prepare to fly to Canberra to hash out their net zero stance, results from the Australian Election Study suggest those under 45 have continued to drift away from the Coalition.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Millennials even less likely to have voted for the Coalition (21%) than Zoomers (27%) at the last #ausvotes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #auspol
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I hate that they use the word "fecklessness". Doesn't give me confidence that these are the grown-ups. But again, whatever. It's not about my feelings, open mind, blah blah.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I hate that they use the word "fecklessness". Doesn't give me confidence that these are the grown-ups. But again, whatever. It's not about my feelings, open mind, blah blah.
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Well okay then. I was wondering if/when any of this would actually start happening. At least somebody is putting their money and effort where their mouth is. And we'll see what happens! I keep an open mind.
Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Well okay then. I was wondering if/when any of this would actually start happening. At least somebody is putting their money and effort where their mouth is. And we'll see what happens! I keep an open mind.
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
@michaelsavage
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
@michaelsavage
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
@michaelsavage
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
@michaelsavage
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
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As it's that particular anniversary just reposting a link to my article re pre-Dismissal polling and other pseph themes kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2021/12/psep...
Psephology And The Palace Letters
Tasmanian and Australian psephology, opinion poll analysis, election analysis and political commentary by Dr Kevin Bonham.
kevinbonham.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
As it's that particular anniversary just reposting a link to my article re pre-Dismissal polling and other pseph themes kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2021/12/psep...
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#ResolvePM NSW (state) ALP 37 L-NP 28 Grn 10 IND 15* other 11
* generic IND option, inflated cf what would happen at election
My 2PP estimate 58.5 to ALP (-0.5)
#nswpol
* generic IND option, inflated cf what would happen at election
My 2PP estimate 58.5 to ALP (-0.5)
#nswpol
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#ResolvePM NSW (state) ALP 37 L-NP 28 Grn 10 IND 15* other 11
* generic IND option, inflated cf what would happen at election
My 2PP estimate 58.5 to ALP (-0.5)
#nswpol
* generic IND option, inflated cf what would happen at election
My 2PP estimate 58.5 to ALP (-0.5)
#nswpol
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Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
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Hunting for bias will ultimately be hunting the snark. We are all biased in some way or another. The news team need to insist on detail and rigour, not matching one empty but biased commentator with another equally empty and biased commentator from the other side.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Hunting for bias will ultimately be hunting the snark. We are all biased in some way or another. The news team need to insist on detail and rigour, not matching one empty but biased commentator with another equally empty and biased commentator from the other side.
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Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
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What has saved Australia from this so far, is that its remained a thing of the Right, no strong foothold in the Left/Centre (Greens had a small Terf group, but they are being kicked out), and it didn't take off in any non hard right newspaper (although The Age had a close shave with a former ed).
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What has saved Australia from this so far, is that its remained a thing of the Right, no strong foothold in the Left/Centre (Greens had a small Terf group, but they are being kicked out), and it didn't take off in any non hard right newspaper (although The Age had a close shave with a former ed).
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These people were largely unaware of trans people's existence before the moral panic.
They have been radicalised, like all people get radicalised, by playing to their legitimate fears.
Women fear violent men, so they pretend trans women are violent men. Easy win, then they ramp it up from there.
They have been radicalised, like all people get radicalised, by playing to their legitimate fears.
Women fear violent men, so they pretend trans women are violent men. Easy win, then they ramp it up from there.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
These people were largely unaware of trans people's existence before the moral panic.
They have been radicalised, like all people get radicalised, by playing to their legitimate fears.
Women fear violent men, so they pretend trans women are violent men. Easy win, then they ramp it up from there.
They have been radicalised, like all people get radicalised, by playing to their legitimate fears.
Women fear violent men, so they pretend trans women are violent men. Easy win, then they ramp it up from there.
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It's understandable that we lean on these ideas. It's much more comforting to think that someone has always been transphobic and is just now showing their true self, or that someone is in it for the grift and doesn't really believe it. It's much harder to acknowledge radicalisation is happening.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
It's understandable that we lean on these ideas. It's much more comforting to think that someone has always been transphobic and is just now showing their true self, or that someone is in it for the grift and doesn't really believe it. It's much harder to acknowledge radicalisation is happening.
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There's also a tendency to suggest it's all a grift. Now there definitely are people who have spotted a money-making opportunity here and seized it, but for most of them, including the high-profile ones who are able to attract funding or even make it their jobs, it's still a moral crusade above all.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
There's also a tendency to suggest it's all a grift. Now there definitely are people who have spotted a money-making opportunity here and seized it, but for most of them, including the high-profile ones who are able to attract funding or even make it their jobs, it's still a moral crusade above all.
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I knew Susan Dalgety. I knew Lucy Hunter. I even kinda knew JK Rowling in an online pals sort of way. They were not the people they are today. They and many others have been radicalised by a moral panic which is seeded by small half-truths and then fuels itself into an inferno of fear and anger.
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I knew Susan Dalgety. I knew Lucy Hunter. I even kinda knew JK Rowling in an online pals sort of way. They were not the people they are today. They and many others have been radicalised by a moral panic which is seeded by small half-truths and then fuels itself into an inferno of fear and anger.
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
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I was at a talk with David McWilliams today who made the interesting point that Ireland is getting better (although still not good enough) at resisting "the bullying of the English language", the tendency to think something in the UK or USA is more relevant to them than Asia or Europe
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I was at a talk with David McWilliams today who made the interesting point that Ireland is getting better (although still not good enough) at resisting "the bullying of the English language", the tendency to think something in the UK or USA is more relevant to them than Asia or Europe
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(I'm not doing a bit: I think that is genuinely what most people actually do want, it IMO obviously has some very real 'rebels are a useful safeguard' risks, but visibly it is what people expect their parties to deliver as well.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
(I'm not doing a bit: I think that is genuinely what most people actually do want, it IMO obviously has some very real 'rebels are a useful safeguard' risks, but visibly it is what people expect their parties to deliver as well.)
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Everyone secretly yearns for Australia-style party discipline.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Everyone secretly yearns for Australia-style party discipline.
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You'd think after 250 years of being a country, Yanks would know that their parliamentary chambers don't have a party whip system
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
You'd think after 250 years of being a country, Yanks would know that their parliamentary chambers don't have a party whip system