Josh Taylor

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

Look at the Greens+Labour vote in Gorton and Denton and a Reform win should never have been in play. 1st past the post is truly mad. Be grateful for the Aus electoral system. Etc.

Not an original thought, not the main story here, but worth saying again and again.
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Same... I haven't seen Our Town but now I kinda want to.

lol every day I get some vendor-commissioned study on how we're not adopting AI quickly enough

Beloved Australian drag queen and Drag Race Down Under star, Maxi Shield, dies aged 51 Shield appeared in closing ceremony of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was a mainstay of the city’s drag scene * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One of Australia’s best-known and loved drag queens, Sydney’s Maxi Shield, has died following a diagnosis with throat cancer, prompting tributes from around the world. Kristopher Elliot, who performed drag under the name Maxi Shield, was 51. She was a mainstay of the Sydney drag scene, and brought Australian drag to the world as contestant in season one of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Continue reading...

Beloved Australian drag queen and Drag Race Down Under star, Maxi Shield, dies aged 51

Oliver said he'd post it but only aired a few hours ago so they haven't yet.

Often the case with LWT. But they're aiming at people who aren't chronically online.

I was trying to figure out why everyone was talking about Twitter again but then saw the John Oliver segment.

OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’

So they could have but did not. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

So SAD (Sky After Dark) becomes NAD (News24 After Dark)

Looks like variations of it are expired/never registered except for ABC News 24 (which is still active). search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/s...

Sky News Australia’s unlikely standoff with clothing giant Zara over ‘Lefties Losing It’ brand | Weekly Beast Australia Channel and Agenda among Sky’s other proposed trademarks as the network prepares to lose its naming rights. Plus: Aaron Patrick’s column on Sussan Ley provokes outrage

Yeah I know... Assumed might be one of these but I guess putting "Australia" in the name would also hurt their YouTube views among MAGA people www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Sky News is rebranding as... News24?? www.skynews.com.au/business/med...

X punishes outside links tho. So given our not posting on there, it suggests it's a fool's game to try to use the site to reach audiences.

Wild that Guardian is ahead of the others on X traffic despite us not having a presence on there for a year and a half

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning.

I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix.

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Meta wins patent for AI that could post for dead social media users The company says its just a concept, and doesn't plan to advance the idea.

You know I'm dead if I suddenly start posting on Facebook more than like once every two years. mashable.com/article/meta...

Yes

Australia Post doing NFTs while arguing delivering the mail is becoming too expensive.

There will have been a longer time period between Buffy ending and coming back than there was between original Star Trek and Next Generation...

Wild to see the actor who played that doctor who temporarily replaced Crusher in TNG in TOS like 20 years earlier... but now I calculate the time difference it would be like a 2000s show actor appearing in the 2020s reboot.

Binge Joshua, here's your special offer. Open now to find out.

They're trying to sneak it in now with deceptive subject lines so they still get that email click rate high.

If nothing else than to stop Binge trying to push Kayo on me, when my viewing history would suggest I absolutely have no interest in Kayo.

Role of far-right ‘manosphere’ in homophobic attacks on men to be investigated in Victoria Exclusive: Greens move to call parliamentary inquiry after series of ‘disturbing’ attacks targeting gay and bisexual men lured via dating apps

Glad to see there will be an inquiry on these attacks and the motivations off the back of my reporting in the last year. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Perth court lifts suppression order on identity of man accused of attempted Invasion Day bombing Liam Alexander Hall is the first person to have been charged with terrorism offences in Western Australia

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Victoria police may be unequally targeting people of African appearance with warrantless search powers Analysis also shows Victoria police are failing to collect data on ethnic appearance – to ensure racial profiling is not occurring – in about 20% of searches

Victoria police are failing to collect data on ethnic appearance – to ensure racial profiling is not occurring – in about 20% of warrantless searches. This is despite a 2013 commitment to monitor whether discriminatory searches were being carried out

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Daily Telegraph But right there on that stage last Friday we saw Taylor's big test. Is he all tease, and no cheese?

I tried to see if this was an actual idiom but it seems Bolt invented it.

Was just a thousand blossoms bloom valentine's day meme! Wasn't supposed to come off so critical but I feel like context has been lost over time (I often still use "I ain't spending any time on it" in convo)

Don't get me wrong I think the blossoms thing is funny but I can't not think about that part too haha.

He did, in fact, spend time on it. australianpolitics.com/2017/12/06/b...

One of my lasting memories of working in the gallery was ducking into the House of Reps in the night during speeches on the marriage equality bill and Katter said some of the most homophobic stuff I've heard there.

Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"