Belinda Barnet

To all the beautiful teens who are looking for a place to set up camp: if lemon8 meets the criteria for a social media app it’ll just get locked down too.

Don’t build your house on sand. Pick a messaging app

Here’s the latest summer release of designer jean shorts brought to by fashion icon The House Of Unit😳😂😂🤣🤣🤣Ian

No it’s not caught. It’s just for social media

Messaging apps are not included

All those 1st amendment patriots, free speech absolutists etc over there….

Why are you not up in arms about trump’s hint here that he intends to break (or otherwise circumvent) the 22nd amendment?

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I’m so embarrassed that Pauline Hanson is a Senator in this country. Her stunt was designed to stoke anger and division but actually I’m just embarrassed that she sits there at all

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened!

Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along

www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

Robert F Kennedy Jr instructed CDC to change stance on vaccines and autism US health secretary said he told agency to update website to claim the fact vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence based

“Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, said in an interview with the New York Times that he personally instructed the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The CDC just published really alarming *misinformation* on its official website.

This kind of behaviour just fuels vaccine hesitancy over here too

Generally speaking they are not—hence trying to inject a local flavour

They’ve been going after the ABC for years. I guess this post was giving a local angle to the BBC troubles and *also* going after the ABC, so double happiness

Iconic Melbourne sight: A phalanx of hot air balloons passing so close to your house at 7am that you can hear the flame and see the excited faces of people in the basket

(Do they ever crash into stuff?)

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Highway robbery. As if a cent of that goes to the actual academics doing the work

That punishes the academics though. Only publishing in open access journals might help a bit, but the ranking system is stacked towards companies like Elsevier. It just seems…impossible?

I keep trying to think of ways we could break the system, but they've got us running around like trained rats pressing the buttons that keep the whole system going. Perhaps we could avoid citing the most egregious journals except where absolutely unavoidable.

Absolutely broken! Researchers who leave academia can lose access to their own research. Not to mention the research that others do.

It’s a deeply ingrained system, and it is tied in to international research ranking systems. It’s been going on for years and is profoundly wrong

In 2011 a brilliant young programmer called Aaron Swartz had hell rained upon him by the US government when he tried to crack this system open. We remember. I remember.

Research should not be hidden behind for-profit paywalls. Universities should not have to pay $30 million for work we’ve done for free.

Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.

The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.

“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It blows my mind that the Liberal party looked at all the seats they lost to teals last election almost entirely on the issue of climate change, and thought “we need more of that”.

I’m a bit worried that if the Liberal party destroys its own relevance like this it’ll create a power vacuum for something else, something worse.

They’ve just given Labor a huge gift. The majority of Australians want action on climate change (around 70% depending on the poll). This surely makes it hard to even compete with them?

How ‘the dismissal’ still haunts Australian politics 50 years on

Gough Whitlam’s removal as prime minister by the governor-general in 1975 — and the Queen rumoured role in the crisis — still rankles republicans decades later

'The world is watching': Denmark follows Australia's youth social media ban As the deadline looms for tech platforms to comply with Australia's youth social media ban, Denmark has announced a similar policy.

Good on them.

“We are finally drawing a line in the sand," minister for digital affairs Caroline Stage said.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

oh my god they actually did it lmao

We’ve got a new rule in our house that if you just sat Methods and survived you get the burger of your choice right now

But we definitely need to talk about Roblox.