Necessary trouble

Why is it that Australia’s biggest cultural exports are wildly successful children’s entertainment and the most fucked up horror movies you’ve ever seen?

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not sure if the coalition party room is reading this....

Cave once, and history will make you pay twice.

This is Nicola Willis's vision of the "foundations" of Aotearoa/ New Zealand

#nzpol

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

$698 Billion. That’s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tens of Millions of People Lost Their Food Stamps—For Now Judges ordered the federal government use reserve funds to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the funding is limited and will be delayed.

Tens of millions lost their food stamps this weekend, the first time in the program's 61-year history that this has happened.

If you’re a fan of free speech…boycott Disney!

View of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The moon is 3/4 lit from the left-hand side. The surface is mottled in yellow, green, gray, and orange due to the constantly erupting volcanoes.

#PPOD: This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, which is slightly larger than Earth's moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. 🧪 🔭

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Kim Kardashian and the Apollo Moon Hoax Oh god, THIS again?!

Come for the Firefly quote, stay for the most ironic debunking of all debunkenings.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/kim-kardas...

🔭🧪

AUKUS will not make Australia safer.

It makes Australia more vulnerable and compromises our ability to make independent decisions about our own security.

#auspol

‘We must protect and we must understand’: using shipwrecks to rebuild fish populations Research by marine scientists in Thailand is revealing how shipwrecks can benefit the undersea environment

Research by marine scientists in Thailand is revealing how shipwrecks can benefit the undersea environment.

Early data may show wrecks attract fish from natural reefs & create a habitat for new ones to reproduce, including those that are endangered.

🧪🐠⚓

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bulk billing changes start tomorrow – here’s what it means for you The government is pouring billions into Medicare so you have a better chance of being bulk-billed but the decision to charge or not charge still rests completely with your doctor.

Bulk-billing changes are coming into effect tomorrow — what does it mean for you?

It's a historic $7.9 billion government investment into Medicare and designed to resuscitate bulk-billing, which has been on the decline since the pandemic.

#auspol

40,000,013 users on Bluesky 80.00003% of 50,000,000 user goal (currently estimated in ~522.3 days)

4️⃣0️⃣

Holy skynet! Who could have seen that coming? 👀

AI Shows Evidence Of Self-Preservation Behavior - CleanTechnica Like HAL in the movie 2001 - A Space Odyssey, AI today is beginning to show signs of resisting efforts to shut it down.

AI Shows Evidence Of Self-Preservation Behavior cleantechnica.com/2025/10/26/a...

Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy! Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/qdnOZFWWrfXB...

Woohoo!!! Chemistry Nobel Prize to the University of Melbourne's Richard Robson!!! Let's go #OzChem!!!

Poet William Blake and physicist Werner Heisenberg shared a fear: that science, while granting us power over the world, was cutting us off from reality itself. | https://bit.ly/3KBmcAC

Mark Vernon argues that only imagination and poetry can reconnect us with its vivid particulars.

#philsci 🧪

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, center, and musician Roger Waters, right, addressing pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside U.N. headquarters in New York City, on Friday.

The US revoked Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s (center) visa after he urged US soldiers to disobey Trump at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the UN. Petro arrived for the UN General Assembly but skipped talks to speak at the protest. He called for a global force stronger than the US military.

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial Surgical procedure to treat devastating illness slowed progress of disease by 75% in patients after three years

🧠 First treatment for Huntington’s

A UK trial of gene therapy slowed Huntington’s disease by 75% over three years, offering real hope for families facing this fatal condition.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm 🧪 #Genetics #Huntingtons

The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us) - The Shot American authoritarianism is an echo of tyrants’ past and its own unique perversion: shrouded in goldleaf, ski masks, and utter bullshit.

"The American Forever War wages on, dumber, deadlier and merchandised to a depraved degree.

American authoritarianism is both an eerie echo of tyrants past and its own unique perversion."

@davemilbo.bsky.social knocking it for a six

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Ok, FBI saying “engraved with anti-ICE messages and someone writes “Anti-ICE” on a shell in sharpie is some keystone cops business.

Seeing a waterfall form underwater.

Absolutely 💯. We are out for good! We all need to vote daily with our wallets. In all countries.

Agreed! I worship my beautiful, kind, crazy-smart, 22 yo autistic son and love the totally unique lens in which he views the world. We are totally richer for it!

Disney are clearly unable to read the room. Mass cancellations across the board, including ours, and they decide to send out forthcoming price increases.
Dumbasses🙄
#Disney

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi.

He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles