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The Prince and the Dismissal Anthony Albanese recently told us with bated breath from Balmoral Castle that Charles is someone who is very interested in Australia”. “Interested “would be an understatement.

"Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy."
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If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

AI-tainted Deloitte report was worse than previously thought Non-existent laws and a misnamed judge were among concerns raised with Deloitte about its artificial intelligence-tarnished report.

#BREAKING 🚨 FOI documents show AI-tainted Deloitte report was 'much worse' than previously thought (by YOU?) or disclosed.

It appears DEWR Secretary Natalie James may have misled the Senate in relation to the conduct of her previous employer.

✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social

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G&M: "David MacNaughton was the Canadian ambassador to the United States from 2016 to 2019."

For op-eds like this, *always* google the writer.

It's also noteworthy that he was a strategy consultant & chairman of StrategyCorp, a public affairs consulting firm. Dude knows the value of an op-ed.

The duopoly just joined forces in the Senate to vote down an #AUKUS inquiry. Never mind the political, technical & management risks associated with the program, or the $365B price tag - the two major parties are happy sleepwalking with your national security and money. #auspol

Tell 3-4 of your close offline friends, all of whom are presumably working age adults, some of whom may have families on top of jobs, that you want to get together on the weekend for 6-8 uninterrupted hours. Now tell them you want to do that every weekend for an indeterminate amount of time

simply allow the troops to eat littoral combat ships and f-35s

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline.

First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.

it has been a good long minute since I read America Magazine but JD Vance getting schooled in a Jesuit publication is the absolute sweetest plum

www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...

Lost the ability to breathe for a second

bluesky mods retire bitch

Babylon 5 loves to engage with the spiritual and communal sides of religion, and include Earth faiths where its peers often stick to alien stuff, which elevates the sense of divine retribution when the wicked get their ass beat (spoilers for s3e20) youtu.be/NkwF5BBL26I

He is proposing five municipal grocery stores

A t-shirt reading "DICK CHENEY DIED ON THE DAY THAT ZOHRAN MAMDANI WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025"

Hastie, Joyce ignite late-term abortion fight over paid leave for stillbirth law Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament, raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers w...

21 years ago we had stillborn twins. It still hurts. I cannot express in words the loathing I feel about these men. To suggest people would cash in on such excruciating loss says everything you need to know about these “moral conservatives.” Arseholes. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Cancelled, tone deaf and just why make that now?!

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Haaretz article about the above rebranding exercise

Along with tweaking the algo, buying tiktok, paying influencers $7k to post "Israel rules! I love their hummus, they don't even kill kids", they're trying to rebrand the livestreamed Gaza Genocide as the "War of Redemption". Good luck with that, dickheads.

The delightful thing about social media is that BOTH the gun nerds AND the TTRPG nerds are in the comments.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

A "serious power" is not an acceptable euphemism for breaching the right to due process.

The list of groups opposing this move is growing, with NATSILS, the Australian Council of Social Services and Economic Justice Australia speaking out today.

Thank you @joshbutler.bsky.social for reporting.

CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.

www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

Australia’s teacher shortages are some of the shortest (longest?) in the world! | First Dog on the Moon Imagine having the responsibility to mould the tiny minds of the next generation and you have to buy your own clag

Pay public school teachers 20% more than private average and watch the shift. Maintain that gap and it changes the nation. Kids futures or Future subs? You choose #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Origins of White Power Music: The Co-Opting of Punk and Oi! By a Parasitical Social Movement This paper challenges the common portrayal of White Power music as evolving from, or being an element of, Oi! punk. The paper traces the histories of White Power music and Oi!, and analyses a sampl...

Looks interesting ...

'The Origins of White Power Music: The Co-Opting of Punk and Oi! By a Parasitical Social Movement', James Windle & Clara Schenk, Deviant Behavior [LOL], Vol.46, No.10:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

...laadies!

Excellent from Royce

*as we photograph an abandoned motel*
Me: what are those kids shouting at us
Bethany: "6-7"
Me: maybe they want me to take this photo using the Pentax 6x7
Bethany: they're really yelling over there
Me: did you hear me