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Tom Quinn

@tomquinn.bsky.social
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Number cruncher. Story teller. Coalition builder. Vision setter. Working to build a better future and drive emissions down as fast as possible. #atypoineverypost #climate #energy #economy #IntRel Posting from Dja Dja Wurrung Country

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are no US forces in Iraq for the first time in two decades I need people to remember this when some folks say deploying troops to Iran or Yemen will be a six month op.
reuters.com
US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran
The departure is celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies ​who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 22h
"More than 60 Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank have been wiped off the map since October 2023 and 18 others have been partly displaced, according to the Israeli rights group B’Tselem." Wiped off the map. Live streamed pogroms. Yet still, Albo does nothing.
theguardian.com
Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family
Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happ first day of 'Sprummer' for those in south east. www.abc.net.au/radionationa...
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To everyone minimizing and even endorsing the violation of the laws of war because it's not a "major" violation, because it's not as bad as the other side, because no one respects the laws of war anymore, because it's useful propaganda: You're missing the whole point of the laws of war.
worldpoliticsreview.com
The Laws of War Matter—Now More Than Ever
It still makes sense to talk about the laws of war, even as armed actors, including Israel and Hamas, seem only too willing to ignore them.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That the Biden administration spent the next 18 months publicly denying this obvious truth, to the degree of blatantly lying about the conclusions of their own internal reports (even after such reports were leaked) is heinous. It is abominable. It is criminal.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whats not normal is a state actor, ostensibly our close democratic ally, acquiring total control over the needy population, then denying them access to aid, and then not receiving any meaningful pushback on that. We've bombed people for less.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The dense urban area was systematically demolished, the roads deliberately destroyed, the water infrastructure deliberately destroyed, and Healthcare centers destroyed. Governance structures necessary to coordinate basic services deliberately targeted. NGO workers murdered en masse.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something that gets easily forgotten is that providing humanitarian assistance to 2 million people in a dense urban area with good paved roads and decent water infrastructure, close to several modern container ports is actually quite easy. The problem wasn't logistics or funding. It was politics.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"ABC's 7.30 aired 24 interviews with Israelis, almost all of them broadly supportive of Netanyahu. In other words, not only were Israeli perspectives aired six times as often as Russians - they were overwhelmingly pro-government. In contrast, Russian perspectives were overwhelmingly anti-government"
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A very interesting piece ...
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.
 
The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/
 
95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055  - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.
 
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.
 
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
 
UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With the context that the entirety of Gaza north of Israel's "Netzarim Corridor," a completely forcibly depopulated and demolished swathe of central Gaza, had been ordered evacuated like a week after 10/7 and cut off from aid entering Gaza via Egypt or the Kerem Shalom crossing basically since day 1
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her. And rape can effectively be a punishment for the crime of being female. ... Compare this to how the university punishes protesters."
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The vans were used for its ASRC catering social enterprises all over Victoria and Melbourne’s south east, providings employment opportunities to people seeking asylum and refuge. dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2026-09...
dandenong.starcommunity.com.au
ASRC’s stolen vans worth over $100,000
Refugee charity, ASRC is pleading for the return of two stolen vans worth more than $100,000 combined. The Melbourne-based, independently funded Asylum Seeker Resource Centre says the food catering social enterprise vans play a vital role. Its chief executive, Kon Karapanagiotidis alleges thieves spent two nights casing the charity site before smashing in at around [...]
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Since 2022, Israel has done all of these in the WB •Killed over 1,300 Palestinians. •Killed 9 American citizens. • Detained over 30,000 Palestinians in military prisons • Displaced over 45,000 Palestinians • Established over 260 illegal settlements and settler outposts on stolen Palestinian land.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Smotrich's plan is to push the entire West Bank population to the yellow areas, and annex the remaining 82%.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[The Future Fund] bought another 8,000 shares in the Israeli company Elbit Systems, with the value of its holdings in the defence technology and electronics company jumping by another 128 per cent (from $8.6m to $19.7m). Two years ago, the Future Fund only held $1.3m worth of Elbit Systems shares.
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Iraq is set to celebrate "National Sovereignty Day" tomorrow and Thursday to commemorate the "full withdrawal" of foreign military forces from the country. This celebration comes as Iraq still has no control of its destiny, lands, airspace, natural resources, and oil revenues.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Why, after 20 years of war and all the lives bound up in it, have we written so little into the imaginative record? Where are the novels?"
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesterday's pogrom in Jaloud proves that, even in the rare case that the IDF is sent to protect Palestinians from settler violence in the West Bank , it is unwilling/unable to do so. As @nirhasson.bsky.social says, it is time for international peace keepers. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-bl...
timesofisrael.com
PM blames ‘small number’ of West Bank rioters as mass settler attack draws wide condemnation
Some right-wing politicians echo Netanyahu's rare rebuke of settler violence, after over 100 extremists attack Jalud; top settlement leader calls for police crackdown on attacks
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Multiply this by thousands
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“These cases are always treated in isolation by the media, a shocking incident, like a murder, borne of specific motivations. But they’re not like murders at all and they shouldn’t be seen as individual crimes — they’re symptomatic of a sickness in society that afflicts all countries everywhere.”
chadbourn.substack.com
The Man Problem
The Cornell Rape Case is a feature not a bug
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Australia’s most powerful battery storage system officially completed #energysky -- via Energy Storage News:
energy-storage.news
Australia’s most powerful battery storage system officially completed
Akaysha Energy has reached final commercial operations at its Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s me talking about my heart attack www.nine.com.au/lifestyle/he...
nine.com.au
‘I would’ve died’: A Google search told Fiona she wasn’t having a heart attack - adding one word changed everything
Fiona Katauskas’ heart attack was nothing like the dramatic heart-clutching moments you see in the movies, so when she felt breathless, dizzy and sweaty while exercising at home on a Sunday morning la...
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Al Mawasi before Joe Biden decided to be Israel's Santa Claus (image, Feb 2023) vs after (image, Dec 2024). Most of these tents are refugees from Israel's May '24 Rafah offensive-Biden's "Red Line" which, if crossed, he would totally Do Something (he didn't do anything, Rafah was depopulated)
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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inflation is being driven by war, greedy corporations and climate change. But somehow it's regular people that need to pay through job losses, mortgage and rental stress. What looks sensible to the RBA is hubris on a society level www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Live: RBA hikes rates, pointing to Middle East war and AI boom
The RBA delivers its fourth rate hike for 2026, bringing interest rates to the highest level since November 2011. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live ...
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Three times over the past two days I've spoken with clean tech companies who unprompted shared how difficult it is to raise any money in Australia right now. Capital markets are directing everything to AI and datacentres, meaning clean industrial projects we need are struggling to get to FID.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How's that social licence for AI going hey www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The RBA board said it voted unanimously for a hike in response to higher prices from the AI investment boom and amid fears that firms would begin passing on rising costs to consumers. Bullock singled out the US war on Iran, saying it could disrupt oil supply longer than expected.
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Anika Patel @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org · 29/09/2026
NEW - Almost 75% of the 15th five year plans China published since March mentioned energy or decarbonisation Our team went through 70+ plans to see how climate policy featured This new @carbonbrief.org tracker lists all of the ones that mention climate or energy in one place
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David Milliken @davidmilliken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Britain sold £4.25 billion of 10-year government bonds this morning at an average yield of 5.383% – the highest borrowing cost for newly issued 10-year debt since 1999. Yields were higher in the secondary market in 2007, but no 10-year bonds were actually issued then so the cost wasn't locked in.
Table of results from the UK Debt Management Office's 29/09/2026 auction of £4.25 billion of the 4.875% 2036 gilt
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ed Miliband confirms UK is considering defying Israeli order to close East Jerusalem consulate - www.middleeasteye.net/news/ed-milib…
middleeasteye.net
Ed Miliband confirms UK is considering defying Israeli order to close East Jerusalem consulate
The foreign secretary says the UK is ‘looking at all our options’ and discussing the matter with other countries
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Palestinians face delayed medical care and long journeys as Israel tightens movement restrictions across the West Bank.
aljazeera.com
Israel's West Bank road closures turn routine journeys into long ordeals
Palestinians face delayed medical care and long journeys as Israel tightens movement restrictions across the West Bank.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sensitive data on all FBI employees included in hack www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
nytimes.com
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
Turns out it was just a bunch of British men from London who did not have any explosives and were probably trying to steal fuel. Ah well, nevertheless. bsky.app/profile/avde...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A reminder that this year the unemployment rate has gone up 0.56%pts - roughly an extra 87,000 unemployed. So in 15 min when the RBA raises rates again just remember 35-44yos on Jobseeker are almost 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare: www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Chart showing deaths per 100,000 by age
22-34yo: 17.1 no welfare; 137.0 on Jobseeker
35-44yo: 30 no welfare; 288.1 on Jobseeker
45-55yo: 83.4 no welfare; 427.0 on Jobseeker
55-64yo: 201.6 no welfare; 615.6 on Jobseeker
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids have been stolen — abducted, forcibly transferred, or deported against their will — since the war began. The Ukrainian govt has verified identities of 20,651 children..taken by Russia but estimates the true number is much higher” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Fate of stolen Ukrainian kids revealed on chilling Russian website
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids are believed to have been taken by Russia. We joined a rescue mission to bring four home.
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Peter Hannam @peterhannam1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(New from me) A ‘breakthrough’ online tool allows everyone to explore the pit-to-peril climate impacts of approving a new coal mine or other fossil fuel project: reneweconomy.com.au/australian-r...
reneweconomy.com.au
Australian researchers launch "breakthrough" online tool to track climate damage of new fossil fuel projects
Fossil-fuel proponents have used a 'drop in the ocean' argument over their impact on the climate - a new tool developed by Australian researchers will now hold them to account.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
christ, they're such ugly souls
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@washingtonpost reported earlier that hospitals insurance costs next year are projected to spike by the most in 2 decades, partly "due to medical providers’ increased use of artificial intelligence to find more claims they can bill for" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Aashis Joshi @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An entire hillside collapses into the Kali Gandaki river in Nepal's Mustang district after four days of heavy rainfall. Nepal's hills and river valleys where people have lived for millennia are becoming dangerous places in the age of climate breakdown.
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