Jack Hayes

yes! the battle music certainly raises the stakes

pleasantly surprised that writing along to the soundtracks of city-building computer games like Age of Empires and Sierra's Pharaoh - games I played non-stop as a kid - unlocks some instinctual hyper-productivity that adulthood had buried

feels like there is some point of connection when, out fear for my ever-diminishing attention span, I turn to google for help on blocking vertical videos on apps - and all solutions are behind paywalled content

Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election Social media has increasingly become crucial for political actors, especially during election campaigns. However, these platforms are not without risks, as they can expose politicians to various fo...

It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election.

It's also Open Access!

#AusPol

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The President's son then speaks on Fox! Power! Legitimacy! Why pretend like the right and left are on an equal playing field here?

And again, "[a]lready, both the far right and the far left are fuelling the flames." Fox News hosts "guest after guest blaming the left", and MSNBC (apparently the bastion of the far left?) hosts "at least one commentator."

Why are these presented like the same thing? In proportion and misinfo?

In the endless bothsiderisms of political violence, you're sanitising the fact that perpetrators of this violence are mostly ideologically aligned with one of these sides

The article digs in even further in it's summary of Jan 6. The "hard right" and "hard left" (lol) of the States disagree as to Trump's role of inciting violence in the capital, but then the rioters are discussed like some third party, as if they are not made up of that same "hard right."

It's on the reader to decide whether "both" sides are culpable in fomenting violence, as if one set of remarks isn't /literally/ demonstrating that. It would be good if the ABC was a little clearer on that.

...significant difference in the tone and delivery of the illustrative quotes. Two college girls quipping to camera versus two intense threats of violence ("...for the liberals, it's war motherf*ckers") are presented with no further analysis.

Trump analysis aside - which in is broadly fine - I find the "dangerous threats and ghoulish celebrations" subheading disingenous and misleading. The reactions to Kirk's death are not split down the binary of promised retribution versus celebratory, but there is also a...

A bitter blame game is pushing the US towards the precipice In a country with more guns than people, an increasingly violent and threatening public discourse is creating serious dangers.

Just because the Trump administration frames this violence in an existential ideological divide (e.g. "real" Americans versus the radical left) it doesn't mean that news sources (particularly outside of the States!) should engage in the same rhetoric.
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The Liberals used to be the party for women – then John Howard came along The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the party’s “women problem” began.

theconversation.com/the-liberals...

Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani for not showing ‘gratitude’ to the US ‘I don’t know the guy but my sense is that he has had a very good life in this country,’ said Vance on Zohran Mamdani

probably says something about Vance that public service is not, in his opinion, an expression of gratitude

why the bending over backwards to sift through the detritus in search of "goodwill", but pro-Palestinian marches are anti-semetic unless proven otherwise?

if Trump can reframe an illegal invasion into a 50/50 scrap then every country with a significant security alliance with the states should be having a very close re-read of their agreement obligations. Is it in Pillar I or II? asking for a friend

Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women, including Virginia Giuffre, from Mar-a-Lago The US president has given some of his most expansive public comments yet about his falling out with the convicted sex offender.

Not sure "the international paedophile ring encroached on the thing I had going on at Mar-a-Lago" is quite the argument he thinks it is...

Thank you for parsing this. It remains frustrating that people are still so enamoured with the idea of a one and done injectable prevention dose, rather than the more realistic behavioural and social changes needed to eradicate a disease.

when the ALP inevitably fold I have been wondering about ways to hold them to account. No revisionist history at the next by-election

"We can't say we didn't know", @civilianprotection.bsky.social PhD Scholar from our Department of International Relations, writes for @aunz.theconversation.com

"Tasmanian devil of romantic catastrophes" fkn lol

you’re very welcome. Can’t wait for the doozies to come in the next eps #ghostalingus

Having torn my way through the series, I’m really enjoying these reviews, both for the self-congratulatory “I noticed that too” and for the stuff I missed

I'm crashing out over the choice of language around campus safety - clearly insinuating Palestinian solidarity camps are inherently antisemitic without outright saying so. "Antisemitism...has become ingrained and normalised witin academia and the cultural space." Just an enormous claim to throw out

A screenshot of the ASECA report, reading, quote, "Importantly, universities must embrace cultural change to end their tolerance for antisemitic conduct. All members of the university community – including staff, students and visitors – who promote antisemitic rhetoric or harassment of Jewish students or academics must be held accountable."

What tolerance? Genuine question - what university in this country is protecting staff who "promote antisemitic rhetoric or harassment of Jewish students"?

A text screenshot from the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, reading, quote, "Antisemitism is evident within schools and universities and has become ingrained and normalised within academia and the cultural space. We need to resolve this urgently. We are on a dangerous trajectory where young people raised on a diet of disinformation and misinformation about Jews today risk becoming fully-fledged antisemites tomorrow." End quote.

In academia, we're expected to critically engage with available research, or to conduct our own, in order to substantiate an argument.

This is a deeply serious accusation that is not at all self-evident, and I would expect the ASECA to be held to similar standards.

Are these events (the panels) happening in Canberra or Melbourne?

God this is such an American response. “But WE’LL put the right people in the swamp detention centre.”

speak on it!!!