Reposted by Doctor NursePatrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23hIf nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind. 19522161
Reposted by Doctor NurseJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Australian government's defence of the social media ban in the high court revealed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAustralian government concedes no scientific consensus on social media harms for teenagers – but ‘credible risks’ justify banCommonwealth tells high court its proposed laws to let users opt out of algorithms would ultimately have the same effect as the ban 22112
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 18/09/2026I don't know what Warfie Time is, but I know it's real. #AFLSwansFreo #AFLFinals 121
Reposted by Doctor NurseWIRED @wired.com · 16/09/2026Europeans waking up to discover that the FBI has apparently relaxed its hiring standards on bestialitystatic.klipy.com맑눈광 BlinkALT: 맑눈광 Blink 28502105
Reposted by Doctor NurseAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724113382
Reposted by Doctor NurseNicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Apparently white supremacists are good for democracy according to the shitful Sunday Age 178126
Reposted by Doctor NurseJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wild pivot from Jane Hume on News Breakfast to go from selling the policy of putting people in jail for a year for burning the flag to saying legislation regulating opt in or opt out of algorithms may impinge freedom of speech 1417855
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 06/09/2026static.klipy.comMitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies SketchALT: Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch 020
Reposted by Doctor NurseAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-... 1082086936
Reposted by Doctor NurseHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“Kamala Harris will get the US into World War III, and our sons and daughters will end up fighting a war in a country you’ve never heard of.” - Donald Trump 👇 1351444555
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 01/09/2026But who is going to torch all our third umpire reviews now? 100
Reposted by Doctor NurseNick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.com‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliamentExclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources 9256167
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 29/08/2026Just ridiculous. That said, there isn't a Demons fan alive who isn't completely stoked to have finished seventh in this home and away season. 100
Reposted by Doctor NurseGarry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚 107143315746
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 25/08/2026Yeah I haven't yet thought very hard about that. Would be very keen to hear any thoughts you might have. We didn't ask any heavily theoretical questions but there's data to be mined here! 121
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 25/08/2026Yep! Even I was a bit shocked about that one. No doubt some scientists have done converted up inconvenient evidence, including in some very well-documented cases, but the idea that scientists do it often is pretty far fetched. 140
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 25/08/2026A very, very small minority is making a lot of noise, but they've been tragically bad at influencing people. More info here - cpas.anu.edu.au/australian-b...cpas.anu.edu.auThe Australian Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Science Survey 2026This report was designed, analysed and written by Dr Matthew S. Nurse and Associate Professor Will J. Grant, and funded by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at ... 131
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 25/08/2026I've seen these kinds of posts too Ian. Turns out 80% of Australians believe that we all have a responsibility to protect our nation from pests and disease, even when doing so is inconventient, in a report I published just last week. 2255
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 18/08/2026So the Dandy Warhols have also been drafted to play for the Tasmanian Devils next year? 010
Reposted by Doctor NurseAntifaMan @bill-has-chickens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I wonder if Karoline Leavitt is leaving fuckface because he left her to die on AF1. 0125
Reposted by Doctor NursePossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026People on this very site were telling me just last week that I'm mad, as the Federal government's datacenter policy was pro-gas. Having a reality based community is more important than your partisan based identity folks. That way is Maga. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auCommonwealth says it will block gas-fired data centresThe NT government has rejected a federal plan to mandate the use of renewables for new large-scale data centres, but the Commonwealth says it will block proposals that rely on gas. 53911
Reposted by Doctor Nursemat marques, ph.d. @mdmarques.com · 05/08/2026some quotes from @snurb.info and me in this solid article as to why we're once again talking about 15-minute cities as a #conspiracytheory 044
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 04/08/2026She has no programmatic specificity.abc.net.au'Zip': Hanson has no answers for challenges facing Australia, says RuddFormer prime minister Kevin Rudd says One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has no real answers for the issues facing Australians but he does believe AUKUS submarines are a good thing for the nation. 061
Reposted by Doctor NurseCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface 11188452998
Reposted by Doctor NurseJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/07/2026Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11 311301152
Reposted by Doctor NurseNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I have criticized the left for diversity statements and pronouns. But I have also criticized President Trump for killing civilians, raping women, and running a massive crypto scam. It's what makes me a neutral, balanced columnist. 18734114
Reposted by Doctor NurseBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Hello, I am a TV weatherman in Punxsutawney, PA, and every morning at exactly 6 am my alarm clock blares out “I’ve Got You Babe.” And now the rest of the world is stuck in this endless loop as well. 261259192
Reposted by Doctor Nursefesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me. 2792966
Reposted by Doctor NurseCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out. 114137722879
Reposted by Doctor NurseGingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 317255046965
Reposted by Doctor NurseThe Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Analysts still project the final score will be Iran 2, America nil. Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/07/14/t... 411032
Reposted by Doctor NurseBelinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Malcolm Turnbull on News Corp (at the launch event for Andrew Dodd & Matthew Ricketson’s Getting Murdoched): www.theage.com.au/business/com... 1188
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 14/07/2026I just asked Google Gemini something incredibly mundane and it referenced farking Grokipedia. Now I have to bleach my mind. 130
Reposted by Doctor NurseElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr 1115181929
Reposted by Doctor NursePhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Football unites the world. 25806225
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com · 07/07/2026They're going to invade another third-world country now, aren't they. 181