Sue Young
@suetas.bsky.social
Editor, publisher, dachshund fan, hoping to make my bit of the earth in southern lutruwita Tasmania a bit better.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Capitalism is the thief that never gets caught
Aral Sea, 1989-2014
Aral Sea, 1989-2014
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Capitalism is the thief that never gets caught
Aral Sea, 1989-2014
Aral Sea, 1989-2014
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Political capital being pissed away
“The environment minister, Murray Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition that would require concessions, including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“The environment minister, Murray Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition that would require concessions, including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Coalition and Labor negotiate nature laws as Greens warn compromise would show it was ‘written for big business’
Murray Watt says other parties must decide ‘whether they want to see us do a deal with the other side of politics’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Political capital being pissed away
“The environment minister, Murray Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition that would require concessions, including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“The environment minister, Murray Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition that would require concessions, including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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So much mediocrity.
In Hobart, one of the proposals for Macquarie Point was a science precinct, in an Antarctic gateway city which has more scientists per capita than anywhere else. But what Utopian idea floated to the top m: an afl stadium, a place to watch rather than lead😬😵💫😩
In Hobart, one of the proposals for Macquarie Point was a science precinct, in an Antarctic gateway city which has more scientists per capita than anywhere else. But what Utopian idea floated to the top m: an afl stadium, a place to watch rather than lead😬😵💫😩
Who would think that at this point in Australia’s economic transition we should be spending more, not less, on research and development…
Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
So much mediocrity.
In Hobart, one of the proposals for Macquarie Point was a science precinct, in an Antarctic gateway city which has more scientists per capita than anywhere else. But what Utopian idea floated to the top m: an afl stadium, a place to watch rather than lead😬😵💫😩
In Hobart, one of the proposals for Macquarie Point was a science precinct, in an Antarctic gateway city which has more scientists per capita than anywhere else. But what Utopian idea floated to the top m: an afl stadium, a place to watch rather than lead😬😵💫😩
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Salmon from TAS is in the “say no” category here goodfish.org.au/sustainable-...
Search GoodFish - Australia's Sustainable Seafood Guide
Buying seafood? Search the GoodFish Sustainable Seafood Guide now. GoodFish is Australia's first online consumer directory for sustainable seafood.
goodfish.org.au
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Salmon from TAS is in the “say no” category here goodfish.org.au/sustainable-...
It's astonishing – even for Tasmania, home of the Spirit of Tasmania saga – that the use of Florfenicol was approved without anyone thinking of the consequences for the rock lobster season. Great news for the lobsters, at least.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Salmon antibiotic leads to partial rock lobster fishery closure
The Tasmanian government closed two zones within the state's rock lobster fishery just hours after the commercial season opened. The closure is in response to concerns about an antibiotic being used b...
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It's astonishing – even for Tasmania, home of the Spirit of Tasmania saga – that the use of Florfenicol was approved without anyone thinking of the consequences for the rock lobster season. Great news for the lobsters, at least.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
First peony for the season in my garden. Coral Charm.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
First peony for the season in my garden. Coral Charm.
Pissed-off academics do great snark. 'The pervert billionaire sector'! More power to your keyboard, Dr Ingrid M.
ai in education causes huge increases in workload for no increase in pay. It dramatically lowers our productivity for our employers and gives it to the pervert billionaire sector. Time for being an academic instead goes to ai guidelines, ai interviews, ai detection and referral, ai this, ai that.
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Pissed-off academics do great snark. 'The pervert billionaire sector'! More power to your keyboard, Dr Ingrid M.
This is great. I just donated to Wikimedia again yesterday.
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is great. I just donated to Wikimedia again yesterday.
The only 'dirt' they've found on a politician is that he calls an older relative 'Auntie'? Celebrate!
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The only 'dirt' they've found on a politician is that he calls an older relative 'Auntie'? Celebrate!
This made me go and check out the US Department of Labor's socials for the first time (I mean, why would you, normally?) and omg. Australia does not have 'shared values' with this lot!
Let me get this straight….
If we want to eat or have healthcare, we have to work more.
We have to “be productive”.
Yet according to this image only white men are welcome in the American labor force.
Do the rest of us starve? Or are these men feeding us?
If we want to eat or have healthcare, we have to work more.
We have to “be productive”.
Yet according to this image only white men are welcome in the American labor force.
Do the rest of us starve? Or are these men feeding us?
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This made me go and check out the US Department of Labor's socials for the first time (I mean, why would you, normally?) and omg. Australia does not have 'shared values' with this lot!
Yeet it into the sun, along with all the other privatised wealth-transfer grifts, and hand its work back to the state where it belongs.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Yeet it into the sun, along with all the other privatised wealth-transfer grifts, and hand its work back to the state where it belongs.
Let's imagine China has just blown up its tenth foreign boat in the South China Sea and is now sending an aircraft carrier. Cool & normal, Australia?
October 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Let's imagine China has just blown up its tenth foreign boat in the South China Sea and is now sending an aircraft carrier. Cool & normal, Australia?
I wonder what happens now in those writing classes where kids use to learn about intro, middle, end, the rule of three, contrasting for effect – all total ChatGPT giveaways, apparently. Soon even correct spelling will be seen as a dead giveaway.
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I wonder what happens now in those writing classes where kids use to learn about intro, middle, end, the rule of three, contrasting for effect – all total ChatGPT giveaways, apparently. Soon even correct spelling will be seen as a dead giveaway.
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Pause a while, and read...
Kenneth C. Steven
Kenneth C. Steven
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pause a while, and read...
Kenneth C. Steven
Kenneth C. Steven
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Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful.
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful.
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
I am laid low atm with the most flamboyantly sneezy, stuffy, achy and coughy of colds. But I have two warm sausage dogs and Susie Dent's delightful Guilty by Definition for company. Things could be worse!
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I am laid low atm with the most flamboyantly sneezy, stuffy, achy and coughy of colds. But I have two warm sausage dogs and Susie Dent's delightful Guilty by Definition for company. Things could be worse!
I get it. I've got stuff wrong in a shed reno I'm doing. A power point 8 cm too far over; cupboard's not going to fit where I'd planned for it; turns out the wall's crooked. You might expect more from a $ multi-million project run by the government though?
The ABC understands that a recent safety assessment found the berth would need two additional bollards for the ship to berth there at a cost of $2 million.
Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds
The ABC understands that a recent safety assessment found the berth would need two additional bollards for the ship to berth there at a cost of $2 million.
www.abc.net.au
October 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I get it. I've got stuff wrong in a shed reno I'm doing. A power point 8 cm too far over; cupboard's not going to fit where I'd planned for it; turns out the wall's crooked. You might expect more from a $ multi-million project run by the government though?
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Over 60 cyclists pass on this side of the street in under 30 seconds. And their flow only stops because the traffic light turned red.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Over 60 cyclists pass on this side of the street in under 30 seconds. And their flow only stops because the traffic light turned red.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
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Trees! Everyone loves trees... but they love their property values even more! Booooo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nobody hates trees more than coastally adjacent narcissists. Here’s how we should deal with them | First Dog on the Moon
A deterrent is one thing but I want revenge!
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Trees! Everyone loves trees... but they love their property values even more! Booooo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework
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Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained several errors, after admitting it used generative artificial intelligence to help produce it.
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) confirmed Deloitte would repay the final instalment under its contract, which will be made public after the transaction is finalised. It comes as one Labor senator accused the consultancy firm of having a “human intelligence problem”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
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Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")
October 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")
This has been a shameful policy right from the start, and it seems we'll pay pretty much anything not to have to think about it.
$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food.
Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This has been a shameful policy right from the start, and it seems we'll pay pretty much anything not to have to think about it.
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3