Kate Littlejohn

I had that feeling at 7am this morning after getting a solid 3hrs of sleep and am very impressed you went for a walk about it instead of diving into the chocolate bc I reallllllly want the chocolate

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

This is so true. I wish I had more self control in the middle of the night haha. I've tended to be leaning more into the hobby side of the platform which is definitely better for me that the political side!

Yeah I was definitely disappointed with the way it happened and miss JLP, but I think they picked a good alternative if it was something that had to happen.

There are some really clever new players this year and the few returning players add an interesting dynamic for sure

That's a very smart move!!

Are you watching? I am actually finding David really good as host now that his first night nerves seem to have settled, especially in the challenges. I hope people give him a shot, the game is pretty fun so far this year I think.

I'm not I am loving it! But I deleted Bluesky from my phone and only go on here on my computer to try to put some limits on me - I was finding myself waking up at the time the US news cycle starts and spending half the night doomscrolling politics which was not good.

Map with many points of Americans trying to locate Iran on a world map. 23% successful only.

The ocean. Some of the points are in the ocean.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

It might just be me but I would wait until the aggressor has made the legal and ethical case for their actions before giving it my nation's full support.

Assuming it hasn't already happened, the "how will this affect Aussie housing prices" article is currently being written and will be published within the next 72 hours

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

tech stuff that is very bad that isn't generative AI

- Betting markets
- Camera glasses (Meta)
- Fascist doorbell cameras
- Driverless cars clogging up cities
- EVs are still getting bigger -> makes them deadlier, more polluting (through more power consumption)
- Streaming death spiral

This is really true - and as a 40yr old that is studying, I value this aspect. But 19 year old me needed a very different thing than 40yr old me. I worry that homogenizing the experience and marketing is creating a system that eventually serves no one.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The uni experience now and the one I had (I started undergrad in 2002) is so completely different it should be called a different thing.

It is quite something to talk of social cohesion on one hand, the need to turn down the temperature, and then on the other endorse the needless bloodshed and aggression of war. Australians have been told not to "import foreign conflicts" while our government does just that.

States are weird: they’re things we imagine into being. The State is the single thing that dominates modern human life on Earth, and the most powerful individual who leads the most physically powerful one doesn’t really understand what it is, beyond a means of violence. That’s fascinating to me.

I totally agree. I worked heaps all throughout my undergrad while living on campus away from home. Somewhat affordable campus accommodation made a huge difference, as did the cultural norm that you 'go' to university in a very physical sense, which it seems has shifted drastically in the past decade

I guess this is relevant again.

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult” in a News Corp word game. Donald Trump was merely “president”.

Throughout history women who fight to better society get punished and labelled problems

Men who are convicted criminals and whose policies kill are more likely to get a pat on the back

How many men has the PM called 'difficult'?

Everything changes and yet nothing changes.

Rising far-right populism? Festering discontent? Time to give the people what they want: austerity.

When I heard this, I drafted a skeet about it, then thought "naaah, there's no way his speechwriters would allow him to contradict himself within one sentence." But they really and truly did.

Damn this seems exactly correct.

Pauline Hanson’s no ‘good’ Muslims comment shows how normalised Islamophobia has become in Australia Recent events show troubling signs that Islamophobia has become normalised, tolerated in ways other forms of racism are not.

“The health of Australia’s multicultural democracy should be measured not by how it protects the majority, but by how consistently it protects all its minorities.”

theconversation.com/pauline-hans...

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.

www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...