Somewhat Michael
@urbanescrumping.bsky.social
Transport nerd, data geek, philosophy, puns, cats and cycling. Carlton FC and cricket tragic, full-time science admirer. Podcatcher tuned to 'The Bugle' 🏏🎺, ‘Very Bad Wizards’ and ‘Weirdhouse Cinema’, with a side order of food history podcasts.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
*cracks knuckles*
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
*cracks knuckles*
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?
now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
It's true. I was *sure* everyone would realise when we introduced the platypus, but no. We're just that convincing.
August 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It's true. I was *sure* everyone would realise when we introduced the platypus, but no. We're just that convincing.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Time for some good news! The human world can work together to solve environmental challenges, just like the Montreal Protocol & elimination of CFCs started in the 1980s. By 2035, the ozone “hole” may be completely closed all year long! This Government thanks you all!
news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...
news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...
Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.
news.mit.edu
August 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Time for some good news! The human world can work together to solve environmental challenges, just like the Montreal Protocol & elimination of CFCs started in the 1980s. By 2035, the ozone “hole” may be completely closed all year long! This Government thanks you all!
news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...
news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
The deeply shitty people running the country now are nothing new; there have always been deeply shitty people like them in America. Although in the past the media, academia, and even Congress were slower to surrender to them.
Yes, indeed. And it's 2025 and Mississippi still leads the way on the desire to turn back the clock.
🧾 When Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a "Highly Integrated Cast" (1970) | Open Culture share.google/9r2y85vIjiSZ...
🧾 When Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a "Highly Integrated Cast" (1970) | Open Culture share.google/9r2y85vIjiSZ...
July 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The deeply shitty people running the country now are nothing new; there have always been deeply shitty people like them in America. Although in the past the media, academia, and even Congress were slower to surrender to them.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Jillian Segal and hubby John Roth fund the far-right "Advance" group, who opposed the Aboriginal voice on grounds it’s divisive to treat one group differently.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Funding threats for unis, school curriculum changes in bid to change ‘dangerous trajectory’
Australia has faced rising antisemitism since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the resulting conflict in the region. Not everyone is happy with the plan released to combat it.
www.smh.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Jillian Segal and hubby John Roth fund the far-right "Advance" group, who opposed the Aboriginal voice on grounds it’s divisive to treat one group differently.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
This could actually be the Express lolz
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This could actually be the Express lolz
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Inequality has meant Australia collects less GST.
There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more.
✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance
✅Tax the gas industry properly
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more.
✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance
✅Tax the gas industry properly
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
July 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Inequality has meant Australia collects less GST.
There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more.
✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance
✅Tax the gas industry properly
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more.
✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance
✅Tax the gas industry properly
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Australia collects more revenue from HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
It’s time to increase the PRRT so that gas companies pay their fair share. Sign and share > theaus.in/increasePRRT
It’s time to increase the PRRT so that gas companies pay their fair share. Sign and share > theaus.in/increasePRRT
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Australia collects more revenue from HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
It’s time to increase the PRRT so that gas companies pay their fair share. Sign and share > theaus.in/increasePRRT
It’s time to increase the PRRT so that gas companies pay their fair share. Sign and share > theaus.in/increasePRRT
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
What links tax cheats, climate denial and political strongmen? In this interview, Cambridge’s Dr Jonathan Goodman talks about why evolution gave humans a talent for hiding selfishness – and how we can fight back.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Evolution made us cheats – now free-riders run the world
If we accept that we all have this ancient flaw, we can change our societies for the better
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
What links tax cheats, climate denial and political strongmen? In this interview, Cambridge’s Dr Jonathan Goodman talks about why evolution gave humans a talent for hiding selfishness – and how we can fight back.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
youtu.be
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
Reposted by Somewhat Michael
