RossM
@rossm57.bsky.social
drifting over from that other place; concerns about failing democracies, climate change and many other issues still the same; reposts/likes are not endorsements
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"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "
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I have seen AI hallucinate papers in some queries. I would not use AI for an accurate literature search. It can point you in the right direction.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I have seen AI hallucinate papers in some queries. I would not use AI for an accurate literature search. It can point you in the right direction.
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Anthony Albanese has only himself to blame.
Instead of an anti-racism expert, he chose to appoint a pro-Israel lobbyist, masquerading as 'envoy'.
While totally ignoring that important, evidence-based work done by the independent race discrimination commissioner.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Instead of an anti-racism expert, he chose to appoint a pro-Israel lobbyist, masquerading as 'envoy'.
While totally ignoring that important, evidence-based work done by the independent race discrimination commissioner.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anthony Albanese has only himself to blame.
Instead of an anti-racism expert, he chose to appoint a pro-Israel lobbyist, masquerading as 'envoy'.
While totally ignoring that important, evidence-based work done by the independent race discrimination commissioner.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Instead of an anti-racism expert, he chose to appoint a pro-Israel lobbyist, masquerading as 'envoy'.
While totally ignoring that important, evidence-based work done by the independent race discrimination commissioner.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point:
if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it.
They are lazy or complicit. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it.
They are lazy or complicit. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
John Howard’s dog-whistle intervention in gun debate all but dashes any hope of meaningful reform
In the absence of strong, swift action from Anthony Albanese, the former PM is shifting political debate from gun control to a divisive culture war
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point:
if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it.
They are lazy or complicit. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it.
They are lazy or complicit. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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if everyone before the courts was shown the same leniency as killer cops, we could shut down all the prisons.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Former cop who tasered 95yo woman avoids jail after appeal
An appeal against the non-custodial sentence handed to a former NSW police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home has been dismissed.
www.abc.net.au
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
if everyone before the courts was shown the same leniency as killer cops, we could shut down all the prisons.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients - AUKUS is a siren call for grifters, tapping into billions of dollars flowing from the federal government to weapons manufacturers, consultants and spivs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Parliamentary Friends of Aukus group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients
Exclusive: Greens condemn sponsorship of group’s launch by Precision Public Affairs, which represents clients with lucrative contracts with the Australian government
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients - AUKUS is a siren call for grifters, tapping into billions of dollars flowing from the federal government to weapons manufacturers, consultants and spivs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Hey Frydenberg, don't let facts get in the way of your attempt to use the tragedy to get your snout back in the Parliamentary trough. #auspol
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Hey Frydenberg, don't let facts get in the way of your attempt to use the tragedy to get your snout back in the Parliamentary trough. #auspol
Typically, Minns looks for quick fixes that have political benefit; seems totally reflexive, not analytical. Presumably not going to highlight that he’s been courting the Shooters Party…
NSW Premier Chris Minns has expressed support for arming a Jewish 'security group' with ties to Israel in the wake of the Bondi massacre
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...
Chris Minns open to arming Jewish security group with links to Israel
Former member tells Deepcut that the Community Security Group is a 'recruiting ground for Israeli intelligence'
www.deepcutnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Typically, Minns looks for quick fixes that have political benefit; seems totally reflexive, not analytical. Presumably not going to highlight that he’s been courting the Shooters Party…
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My column on how much is median earnings, what puts you in the top 10% and a quick look at housing affordability
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it | Greg Jericho
Many progressives protest that they are not rich, despite being on a very good wicket. They always reel off their CV of working-class roots
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My column on how much is median earnings, what puts you in the top 10% and a quick look at housing affordability
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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A fundamental quality needed to be a politician is judgement. A fundamental role of a politician is to ‘show the way’. Taking advantage of flexible travel rules for private benefit demonstrates neither. #auspol
Anthony Albanese sidesteps calls for reform amid growing community anger over MP travel perks
The federal opposition and crossbenchers have backed a review of expenses spending rules
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A fundamental quality needed to be a politician is judgement. A fundamental role of a politician is to ‘show the way’. Taking advantage of flexible travel rules for private benefit demonstrates neither. #auspol
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Anthony Albanese 2012: "I like fighting Tories. That's what I do."
Anthony Albanese 2025: 'I like fighting reform. I am a Tory.' #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anthony Albanese 2025: 'I like fighting reform. I am a Tory.' #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anthony Albanese sidesteps calls for reform amid growing community anger over MP travel perks
The federal opposition and crossbenchers have backed a review of expenses spending rules
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Anthony Albanese 2012: "I like fighting Tories. That's what I do."
Anthony Albanese 2025: 'I like fighting reform. I am a Tory.' #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anthony Albanese 2025: 'I like fighting reform. I am a Tory.' #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Three days ago, she stood with Hegseth & Rubio, and reaffirmed our 'alliance' to a corrupt regime that:
- enables the #GazaGenocide
- locks up, tortures & deports people for being not white
- does mass murder on the high seas.
Wong is competing with Marles for 'US Sycophant Of The Year'. #auspol
- enables the #GazaGenocide
- locks up, tortures & deports people for being not white
- does mass murder on the high seas.
Wong is competing with Marles for 'US Sycophant Of The Year'. #auspol
December 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Three days ago, she stood with Hegseth & Rubio, and reaffirmed our 'alliance' to a corrupt regime that:
- enables the #GazaGenocide
- locks up, tortures & deports people for being not white
- does mass murder on the high seas.
Wong is competing with Marles for 'US Sycophant Of The Year'. #auspol
- enables the #GazaGenocide
- locks up, tortures & deports people for being not white
- does mass murder on the high seas.
Wong is competing with Marles for 'US Sycophant Of The Year'. #auspol
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What Mark said.
Foreign tourists staying out of the US is not just a sensible personal decision.
It's also an act of solidarity with the American resistance.
Foreign tourists staying out of the US is not just a sensible personal decision.
It's also an act of solidarity with the American resistance.
No foreign tourists should come to the U.S. until we defeat the fascists. Boycott the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. and the 2028 Olympics in L.A. We are politically diseased and should be quarantined.
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the US
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
What Mark said.
Foreign tourists staying out of the US is not just a sensible personal decision.
It's also an act of solidarity with the American resistance.
Foreign tourists staying out of the US is not just a sensible personal decision.
It's also an act of solidarity with the American resistance.
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The US is happy to take our $380BN for Aukus and use our military bases but our citizens are not welcome there unless their social media and online history is deemed appropriate by a murderous criminal dictator.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The US is happy to take our $380BN for Aukus and use our military bases but our citizens are not welcome there unless their social media and online history is deemed appropriate by a murderous criminal dictator.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
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Albanese govt has done nothing to fix processes and culture behind #robodebt.
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Albanese govt has done nothing to fix processes and culture behind #robodebt.
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
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@borowitzreport.bsky.social nails it!
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
@borowitzreport.bsky.social nails it!
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Prompted by coming across a clip of Boney M performing their seminal 1978 smash hit Rasputin, I’ve just worked out that we have only another 15 years to go until the distance between Rasputin’s actual death and the Boney M song = the same as the distance between the Boney M song and now. Bit scary.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Prompted by coming across a clip of Boney M performing their seminal 1978 smash hit Rasputin, I’ve just worked out that we have only another 15 years to go until the distance between Rasputin’s actual death and the Boney M song = the same as the distance between the Boney M song and now. Bit scary.
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The media is aiding neo-Nazi's and the far-right through platforming and sham "balance", says criminology expert Imogen Richards...
theklaxon.com.au/g21f
theklaxon.com.au/g21f
Euphemisms and false balance: how the media is helping to normalise far-right views - The Klaxon
Parts of the media are aiding neo-Nazis and the far-right through platforming, sensationalism, and "fake balance", says criminology expert Imogen Richards.
theklaxon.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The media is aiding neo-Nazi's and the far-right through platforming and sham "balance", says criminology expert Imogen Richards...
theklaxon.com.au/g21f
theklaxon.com.au/g21f
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Lovely people
A senior Israeli official makes the case for killing 100–150k Palestinians per day and refers to it as a “golden opportunity” on Israeli TV to a receptive crowd.
Descendants of the hoIocaust.
Descendants of the hoIocaust.
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Lovely people
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"Former Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was today nervously awaiting the start of the second Ashes Test, desperately hoping that England might somehow conjure a more humiliating loss than the one he one he suffered in Brisbane earlier this year." #auspol
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
Dutton Hoping England Surpass His Record for Worst Defeat in Brisbane This Year — The Shovel
"Both Dutton and England have a special ability to take an unassailable lead and turn it into a humiliating defeat"
theshovel.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"Former Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was today nervously awaiting the start of the second Ashes Test, desperately hoping that England might somehow conjure a more humiliating loss than the one he one he suffered in Brisbane earlier this year." #auspol
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
theshovel.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
Little Mikey is pretty much broken.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Little Mikey is pretty much broken.
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Sometimes I feel like it’s good to put numbers into terms that are easy to understand for regular people, so here is my latest piece regarding the firing of Antoinette Lattouf:
chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
How many Bluey episodes could the ABC have made with the money they wasted on the Lattouf case? – The Chaser
We ran the numbers to find out how many episodes could have been made if the broadcaster had different priorities.
chaser.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Sometimes I feel like it’s good to put numbers into terms that are easy to understand for regular people, so here is my latest piece regarding the firing of Antoinette Lattouf:
chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
chaser.com.au/entertainmen...
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What the?
No plan here #auspol
No plan here #auspol
Trump on policy proposals he's looking at to raise the birthrate: "There's a certain Australian plan that people are liking and they're talking about. You know what I mean? There's a plan where, not for children necessarily, but it's for people. Working people. And we are looking at other things."
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
What the?
No plan here #auspol
No plan here #auspol