@mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social
Sweary librarian. Allergic to wilfully stupid.
Huge loss
Can’t get to sleep, not because I’m thinking about Santa, but by thoughts that my final Monkey Cage is on in ten hours and I am troubled by putting together what led to my departure and why I felt I had to resign - deeply frustrated
Despite the title of this week’s @bigissue.com column , it is more about my love of Manchester than resigning from Monkey Cage - but here it is
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
December 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Huge loss
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Imagine your nightly news if this was happening to Christains clebrating Xmas in a Muslim country. #auspol
With Christmas approaching, celebrations in Haifa were met with chaos after Israeli police stormed the Wadi al-Nisnas neighbourhood, arresting and beating Christians in the area.
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Imagine your nightly news if this was happening to Christains clebrating Xmas in a Muslim country. #auspol
Late Xmas gifts for everyone.
Zionists are upset that cosmetics retailer Lush is donating the proceeds from their watermelon soap to help amputee children in Gaza! Zionists are protesting a company for providing support to amputee children! Shop in-store or online at www.lush.com/au/en
#IsraeliTerrorism #FreePalestine
#IsraeliTerrorism #FreePalestine
December 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Late Xmas gifts for everyone.
But a peaceful protest against genocide is deemed divisive??
A week before the Bondi shooting the Lions of Zion held a “ family friendly” party in a Melbourne park, celebrating the Mossad pager attack which killed 42 people and injured 4000.
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
But a peaceful protest against genocide is deemed divisive??
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A week before the Bondi shooting the Lions of Zion held a “ family friendly” party in a Melbourne park, celebrating the Mossad pager attack which killed 42 people and injured 4000.
December 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A week before the Bondi shooting the Lions of Zion held a “ family friendly” party in a Melbourne park, celebrating the Mossad pager attack which killed 42 people and injured 4000.
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This woman gives absolutely zero fucks.
Francesca Albanese—
"The international community is made of 193 states. This is the time to give the USA what it has been looking for—isolation."
"The international community is made of 193 states. This is the time to give the USA what it has been looking for—isolation."
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This woman gives absolutely zero fucks.
High school economics students know that this not how GDP works ffs.
That’s like saying because the tech billionaires and Wall Street Bankers made and spent a lot of money, everyone else will get big raises.
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
High school economics students know that this not how GDP works ffs.
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Al Quran: "Jesus [is] honoured, and he will be one of those nearest to Allah".
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir:
"We spit when passing a monastery or a priest. I believe this violates nothing."
Selective, sure, but Ben-Gvir and Bibi have all the power.
I mean, would Jesus do this? ⬇️
#Christmas
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir:
"We spit when passing a monastery or a priest. I believe this violates nothing."
Selective, sure, but Ben-Gvir and Bibi have all the power.
I mean, would Jesus do this? ⬇️
#Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Al Quran: "Jesus [is] honoured, and he will be one of those nearest to Allah".
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir:
"We spit when passing a monastery or a priest. I believe this violates nothing."
Selective, sure, but Ben-Gvir and Bibi have all the power.
I mean, would Jesus do this? ⬇️
#Christmas
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir:
"We spit when passing a monastery or a priest. I believe this violates nothing."
Selective, sure, but Ben-Gvir and Bibi have all the power.
I mean, would Jesus do this? ⬇️
#Christmas
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AI falsely labelled him a sex offender.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
AI falsely labelled him a sex offender.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
This is why we say don’t use AI.
It hallucinates. It gets things wrong. It destroys the environment.
Yet people are relying on it for medical advice, legal advice and more.
It’s dangerous. Stop using it.
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Point
December 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Point
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We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society
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When your child’s school is lacking essential resources or you’re stuck in a hospital waiting room, think of our ‘entitled’ pollies jetting about in taxpayer funded RAAF 737s, instead of flying commercial. #auspol
December 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
When your child’s school is lacking essential resources or you’re stuck in a hospital waiting room, think of our ‘entitled’ pollies jetting about in taxpayer funded RAAF 737s, instead of flying commercial. #auspol
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Zero point four percent of the population
0.4%
Just remember #auspol
That means 99.6% is the balance
And that's a fuck ton of votes
You're being watched @australianlabor.bsky.social
Australia is a multicultural society, and that diversity is a beautiful thing. It makes us all richer
0.4%
Just remember #auspol
That means 99.6% is the balance
And that's a fuck ton of votes
You're being watched @australianlabor.bsky.social
Australia is a multicultural society, and that diversity is a beautiful thing. It makes us all richer
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Zero point four percent of the population
0.4%
Just remember #auspol
That means 99.6% is the balance
And that's a fuck ton of votes
You're being watched @australianlabor.bsky.social
Australia is a multicultural society, and that diversity is a beautiful thing. It makes us all richer
0.4%
Just remember #auspol
That means 99.6% is the balance
And that's a fuck ton of votes
You're being watched @australianlabor.bsky.social
Australia is a multicultural society, and that diversity is a beautiful thing. It makes us all richer
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Too many men never grow up.
They are like permanent children.
They are like permanent children.
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Too many men never grow up.
They are like permanent children.
They are like permanent children.
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Not sure why news.corp are energised about a Royal Commission into antisemitism given the comfy ride the far right have been given by certain a media org would certainly get some attention…
I wonder how many of the people calling for a Royal Commission into antisemitism in Australia realise how much calling one would undermine the legitimacy of the envoy and her report?
December 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Not sure why news.corp are energised about a Royal Commission into antisemitism given the comfy ride the far right have been given by certain a media org would certainly get some attention…
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When I wrote about Gisele Pelicot, men screamed “not all men!”
They refused to face the fact that it’s a lot of men & we don’t know who the bad ones are until it’s too late
A woman in Britain was raped & drugged by husband & multiple other men for 13 years
“Not all men” isn’t good enough anymore
They refused to face the fact that it’s a lot of men & we don’t know who the bad ones are until it’s too late
A woman in Britain was raped & drugged by husband & multiple other men for 13 years
“Not all men” isn’t good enough anymore
6 British men charged with more than 60 sexual assault offences against same woman | CBC News
Six British men, including a woman's former husband, were charged with more than 60 sexual offences against her over 13 years, U.K. prosecutors said on Monday.
www.cbc.ca
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When I wrote about Gisele Pelicot, men screamed “not all men!”
They refused to face the fact that it’s a lot of men & we don’t know who the bad ones are until it’s too late
A woman in Britain was raped & drugged by husband & multiple other men for 13 years
“Not all men” isn’t good enough anymore
They refused to face the fact that it’s a lot of men & we don’t know who the bad ones are until it’s too late
A woman in Britain was raped & drugged by husband & multiple other men for 13 years
“Not all men” isn’t good enough anymore
What are the consequences for when AI gets it so wrong?
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What are the consequences for when AI gets it so wrong?
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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Maybe the law needs to treat deepfakes as sexual assault (which they are) and put anyone producing or disseminating deepfakes on trial for sexual assault. The people who enable deepfakes or defend them or produce the apps are accessories to sexual assault.
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Maybe the law needs to treat deepfakes as sexual assault (which they are) and put anyone producing or disseminating deepfakes on trial for sexual assault. The people who enable deepfakes or defend them or produce the apps are accessories to sexual assault.
The thing is very young white teen boys believe this nonsense. They believe that they are discriminated against. This then becomes the lens through which they see the world. Surely there has to be accountability for politicians who flat out lie.
White men are 30% of the population.
They are also:
- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress
Forever oppressed.
They are also:
- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress
Forever oppressed.
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The thing is very young white teen boys believe this nonsense. They believe that they are discriminated against. This then becomes the lens through which they see the world. Surely there has to be accountability for politicians who flat out lie.
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Don’t fuck with archivists. They are librarians with sociopathic tendencies.
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Don’t fuck with archivists. They are librarians with sociopathic tendencies.
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You can tell how much Australian Conservatism has embraced authoritarianism because they believe that society should comprise an out-group who are bound by the law but not protected by it and an in-group who are protected but not bound by the law
Scratch an Oz opinion writer and you’ll find a wannabe white nationalist authoritarian.
Do they think one should fight antisemitism with even more indiscriminate racism? Yes they do.
It’s obvious why none of them have a problem with Advance’s race-baiting.
Do they think one should fight antisemitism with even more indiscriminate racism? Yes they do.
It’s obvious why none of them have a problem with Advance’s race-baiting.
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
You can tell how much Australian Conservatism has embraced authoritarianism because they believe that society should comprise an out-group who are bound by the law but not protected by it and an in-group who are protected but not bound by the law
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I was soooo hoping that the person doing the redacting would be pdf illiterate enough that this would happen. Small mercies.
So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I was soooo hoping that the person doing the redacting would be pdf illiterate enough that this would happen. Small mercies.
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2014—
LNP: "People do have a right to be bigots. In a free country people do have rights to say things other people find offensive or insulting or bigoted."
2025—
LNP: Pro-Palestine anti-genocide speech is Hate Speech! We never meant things that some white people might find offensive!
#auspol
LNP: "People do have a right to be bigots. In a free country people do have rights to say things other people find offensive or insulting or bigoted."
2025—
LNP: Pro-Palestine anti-genocide speech is Hate Speech! We never meant things that some white people might find offensive!
#auspol
December 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2014—
LNP: "People do have a right to be bigots. In a free country people do have rights to say things other people find offensive or insulting or bigoted."
2025—
LNP: Pro-Palestine anti-genocide speech is Hate Speech! We never meant things that some white people might find offensive!
#auspol
LNP: "People do have a right to be bigots. In a free country people do have rights to say things other people find offensive or insulting or bigoted."
2025—
LNP: Pro-Palestine anti-genocide speech is Hate Speech! We never meant things that some white people might find offensive!
#auspol