I cannot comprehend this media landscape in which no reporter is even personally ambitious enough to call out officials blatantly lying about something clearly recorded on video and widely available.

We made so many excuses for the media not using the word “lie.”

Turns out they just didn’t want to

There's no reporting anymore, just "narratives", and all of them deferential to power. It is entirely up to you now whether to fight the fascism that's been revealed, or cower and hide as everything worsens under the grip of insane oligarchs, pedophiles, and genocidal cretins.

One small upside to these rushed, illiberal "hate" laws that government ministers can't seem to explain:

I've never heard so much "Are people allowed to say '𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆'?" in mainstream media interviews. Galling that govt can't answer, good that even Karl Stefanovic is asking.

Nor do I have to mind my tone while my people in Lebanon are being bombed daily, and children in Palestine are being ripped to pieces every single day. I am entitled to my emotions, and to expressing them; I absolutely reject the equivalence being made between that expression and violence.

Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

the trump asprin thing is so funny to me because he basically gave himself hemophilia. like oh if you can't get it from inbreeding in the european monarchy because you are new money, storebought is also available

New Year’s Eve.

If defamation law wasn’t just the preserve of the already rich and powerful, organisations that engage in this sort of obvious, deliberate, and malicious libel should be sued into oblivion.

don’t mind me, I’ve been spending a lot of time contextualizing inconsistencies in certain demographics between that which is professed and that which is performed, and the downstream effects thereof as applied to subsequent demographics :: threatening penguin handwaves while retreating::

The US needs to be boycotted, and isolated in every way possible. It is obscene, the horrors this hideous empire gets away with, and it must be stopped.

Bluesky wasn't even included in the sites to be restricted by this ridiculous law. They're complying and taking ID purely for funsies.

It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul

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.