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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d really like someone to ask Leeser to walk us through the thought process here Step 1: Less qualified teachers Step 2: ???? Step 3: Unruly children executed?
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: Evidence-based discussion of sex has been removed from the federal consent education framework in favour of a more politically palatable approach, Kristine Ziwica reports. trib.al/vpEiZnp
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Exclusive: Government removed ‘sex’ from sex education
After almost two years of delays, the government’s respectful relationships and consent framework secretly removed a recommendation for an explicit approach to sex education.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 01/09/2026
W/r/t finding the greys in the Christmas Carol story. He’s refined, he’s sublime, he makes you feel fine. He’s very much maligned and misunderstood
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m crying. I asked him to send me a screenshot so I could use it in class and it literally says “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”
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Cocaine is one of the most widely abused illicit substances in the world, with an estimated 41 million adults reporting lifetime use in the United States alone (Gangu et al., 2022).
It has well-documented cardiovascular effects, including hypertension, tachycardia,
and vasoconstriction,
and these
have long been associated with acute ischemic events affecting the heart and brain. A less recognized capability is the drug's capacity to precipitate ischemia of the spinal cord, a resulting complication that is both debilitating and repeatedly underdiagnosed. Cocaine-induced acute spinal cord ischemia (ASCI) can result in immediate and permanent paralysis, complete loss of sensation below the level of injury, and autonomic dysfunction affecting bladder and bowel function. This kind of injury is devastating enough to leave patients dependent on lifelong rehabilitative care.


Cocaine is a bad, bad drug that a lot of people use. In the United States about 41 million adults have used cocaine at once. Cocaine is bad for your heart.
Can cause big problems. It can make your heart beat fast and your blood pressure go up. This can cause problems with your heart and brain.. Cocaine can also cause problems with your spinal cord. This can lead to bad injuries that can leave you paralyzed. You might not be able to feel anything below the injury. You might have problems with your bladder and bowel. This kind of injury is very serious. Can require a lot of care for the rest of your life.
A lot of doctors and people do not know about …
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
*Throws phone across the room* www.euronews.com/health/2026/...
euronews.com
Controversy in Spain over a menopause guide based on studies on men
The agency will review the report after criticism from several women researchers, who argue that some advice on nutrients like iron or vitamin C relies only on studies on men.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The way every article trying to sell us on the benefits of AI ends with something like this… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
A screenshot of the linked article with highlighted text that says “Further along, Fletch could also have a role as a classroom assistant, helping identify students not paying attention, she said.”
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ll say one thing for chatbots. Every time I read one of these things I feel much better about my own very imperfect parenting.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Terry O'Gorman, vice-president of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties: “We're not saying that any police officers who are convicted of a domestic violence offence should be dismissed, but they should be subject to discipline," Ok well I AM saying that www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Three Queensland police officers convicted of DV offences escape discipline
The Queensland Police Service cannot discipline an officer convicted of a crime if no conviction is recorded due to its interpretation of a recent court decision.
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 17/08/2026
This very fine numbat was posted last night but I think we all should take another look at it.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Absolutely heartbreaking. Early reports are that are he was hit by a non-race vehicle driving the wrong way on what was supposed to be a closed road. This kind of shit just keeps happening and it is just so senseless. www.bbc.com/sport/cyclin...
bbc.com
Finlay Tarling: British cyclist dies in accident at Volta a Portugal
British cyclist Finlay Tarling dies at the age of 19 in a serious accident during the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m glad that there’s been more coverage of this, but I must also point out that we - the actual Lebanese - have been saying that Israel’s goal is to make south Lebanon unliveable for nearly 2 years. I said this myself multiple times. We are simply not believed *because* we are Lebanese.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 16/07/2026
In this world there are some things that are just meant to increase human happiness. A baby’s smile. A puppy playing. Showering after a day’s hard work. The thought of hundreds of thousands of England fans chanting ‘it’s coming home’ before yet again, it failing to come home.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
TdF Bingo win and we’re not even at the first rest day!
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It’s not the result I was hoping for but impossible not to be happy for Mads
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have frequently said that on average the AFR's coverage of electoral themes is worse even than the Herald-Sun but not even I expected it to invent by-elections that never occurred. #springst
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."
theguardian.com
Canadian police warn of possible copycat attacks after deadly shootout in Montreal
Assailant behind shooting that left three people dead wrote ‘incel’-like manifesto that was posted by a far-right outlet
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
HK Either has police snakes, or snake prison.
Hong Kong Police Snake Drop Off
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/05/2026
I've been meaning to make the cocaine/AI hands-gripping meme for a while.
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 06/04/2026
As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though
recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced
"findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.
Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions.
The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is hilarious because it implies that her husband DID call her while she was in space on the ISS to ask her help in looking for something. 💀🌌
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL
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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 28/03/2026
So many people recognise – correctly – that corporate landlords will often do nothing more than the minimum they are legally obliged to do, and that can suck. But what they miss is that individual personal investor landlords *don't even do that*.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This might be peak guardian
Screenshot of an article in the guardian. The headline reads “In defence of dropping dead: the burden of extended care for aged parents is a heavy new phenomenon”
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received.
In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed.
Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago.
“I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.”
But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint.
It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A couple of years ago the uni had us do an AI in education type training that was just the presenter talking about how she used AI to automate her linkedin posts. She then told us all we should use AI because smart people will make AI smarter & less biased and also solve climate change.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A large gold-plated horse?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2026
To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says.

In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong.

The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Oh fuck that EF rider. That’s terrifying.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
You’re going to want to sit down for this one, because it’ll come as a big shock, but: they mean “drive out the people who live in southern Lebanon, demolish the existing towns and cities then replace them with a million crank psycho settlers”.
The Jerusalem Post • @Jerusalem_Post
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Opinion: After decades of temporary buffer zones, Israel may need a civilian presence in southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah's return.
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’m just so tired.
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 15/03/2026
Why of COURSE there’s a clone of Minesweeper into a Straits of Hormuz version.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny
The parents in the study were interested in the toy's potential to teach language and communication skills.

However, their children frequently struggled to converse with it. Gabbo didn't hear their interruptions, talked over them, could not differentiate between child and adult voices and responded awkwardly to declarations of affection.

When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."
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Crystal Jane @crystaljane.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that. Why do pollsters keep doing this???
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That gender survey is BS.
Gen Z men where???
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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
First teaching day of the new semester tomorrow and I have no contract (as is traditional) and no access to my uni email, staff account or wifi (less tradtional). This is going to be so much fun.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Please please please get on this
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Suey @sueysueysuey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In NSW low income households can apply to trade in their old top loader for an energy efficient front loader in a government scheme www.service.nsw.gov.au/referral/app...
service.nsw.gov.au
Apply for the washing machine exchange program
Eligible low-income households can apply to upgrade their inefficient top-loading washing machine to a water and energy efficient front-loading model.
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CathyArmus @cathyarmus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Gift - vale Jon Kudelka www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22574/...
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Jon Kudelka (1972-2026)
The last picture Jon Kudelka drew for The Saturday Paper was of a man sitting on the edge of a small cliff. Possibly it was the edge of a hole. The man was Jon, waiting for an idea. He was as scruffy ...
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Screenshot from The Games about the length of the 100m track, with John Clarke asking the construction engineer: it's *about* a hundred metres long?

(it turns out to be 94m)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/02/2026
you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it
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Christopher Downes @cdownes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Jon Kudelka helped me get my first cartooning job at The Mercury. He also showed me how to be quick-witted and fearless. I was in a constant state of joke-envy over his cartoons. I'm gonna miss that feeling, but more than that, I'm gonna miss my friend.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In the worst news, the great, the amazing, the wonderful @kudelka.bsky.social has died. A great friend, and an amazing man. This is shattering.
Margaret Kudelka is with Jon Kudelka and 
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We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends. He was 53. 
Jon was deeply loved and admired by many, including fellow Tasmanians, the legions of fans of his inimitable art, countless newspaper readers over 30 years, and even by the politicians he relentlessly skewered in his award-winning cartoons (many of whom have his work on their walls). He loved his family, friends, making art in many forms, and firmly calling out political and anti-science bullshit with his typically dry wit and compassion. 
Jon was diagnosed with glioblastoma in early 2024 and faced treatment for two years with positivity and hope, supported by his wife, Maggie, teenage children Kay and Oskar, sister Liesl, and his many friends.
Jon believed in showing up fully for life and embracing humour even in the hardest of times. In the past two years, he was heard many times to say, ironically, “good times”. 
Jon’s presence remains in the love he gave and the lives he touched. He will always be with us.
Funeral details to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations in Jon’s memory to The Bob Brown Foundation, Canteen Australia or The Menzies Institute for Medical Research.
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honeybakedsam.bsky.social @honeybakedsam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Times article has an incredible illustration
Diagram of a skier jumping with the extra crotch material highlighted, and then a diagram below showing that an extra 2cm in suit circumference can help the skier get an extra car length on their jump
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kate @katertot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
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