Brad Taylor

"onomatopoeia" is itself an onomatopoeia for the sound noise makes

Our paper analysing academic staff experiences of administrative burden at Australian universities recently got accepted for publication. It should be available online soon. This is quite a chunky paper focusing on what these staff view as the key dimensions and drivers of admin burden at work.

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

wtf I love negative polarization now

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Is there some context I'm missing, or is the joke literally just black person in jail?

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Being constantly validated is bad, actually.

This is the unifying takeaway of several prominent pieces of online discourse from this weekend alone, including this one, but more generally speaks to something that’s been apparent for several years now.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Hugh Hutton on Hitler promising prosperity, but actually offering xenophobia, racism, cultism... Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, 4/24/1933.

me on the hedonic treadmill: man it's gonna feel so good when i get off this treadmill!!!!!

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Very good visualisation for anyone teaching Australian Politics

Actually, it seems in this case it's not DEI at all. bsky.app/profile/derv...

I bet data analytics is there because they included "bias" in a search

a picture of a man whispering into George W. Bush's ear. Bush looks surprised. "Sir, a second signal chat has just been leaked."

Just putting this here so we can use it when it happens.

a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters ALT: a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".

Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky

Unconcealed authoritarianism, straight from the White House.

Anyone who demands they prove that an accused person is a terrorist must be, themselves—you guessed it!—a terrorist.

Conservative and Liberal Americans reject this pigslop.

Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.

Around here, we use more subtle and long-winded dog whistles like "Let's get Australia back on track."

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.

Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump is claiming the powers of a tyrant. Not an exaggeration, not a joke. Literally what his administration has argued in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

‘Where am I going to go?’ Dismay as Queensland council begins tearing down tent encampment Homeless residents given an hour to move belongings as City of Moreton Bay brings excavator to Eddie Hyland Park in Lawnton

City of Moreton Bay harasses the homeless, removing tents www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

one explanation is that chemicals in the air or water are making everyone stupider every year and we haven’t noticed because we’re all too stupid. this hypothesis would help explain why everything and everyone is really stupid now

Facing with sober senses your real conditions of life, and your relations with your kind, fucking sucks.

man I hate it when all that is solid melts into air

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Australia is the anti-America when it comes to polarisation If you feel this is the most 'meh' election you've witnessed, you are not alone. New research shows Australian voters are not deeply polarised or highly enthusiastic; instead, they are both uncertain ...

This is great news for Australia

The rise of a “casualised” workforce: A conceptual account of the institutional forces legitimising contingent academic employment in Australia - Higher Education Contingent academic employment has become a salient feature of many higher education systems over recent decades. At the same time, there remains limited understanding of how such employment has come ...

Just published (open access): In our article, we explore the key institutional forces that have led to casual academic employment being regarded as legitimate and normal element of university activity in Australia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925