Dr_Aust_PhD

Trumptastic.

It was a privilege to be in the chamber earlier to witness this incredibly powerful and effective speech from Charlotte Nichols.

Hungary and Slovakia under their current govts are Russia's Trojan Horses in Europe, and should be sanctioned by, or suspended from, the EU.

Looks like that homoerotic workout with Kid Rock wasn't such a good idea after all.

Luckily I'm of an age (retirement adjacent) where I can view all this 'oh FFS this AGAIN?!' stuff with an eye-roll.

Though I can say that I can't see industrial action over a pay claim tempting me back onto any picket lines. Enough already.

Long-term memory is woke

Well. Another Reform ex-Tory outs themself as a blithering nitwit. Quel surprise.

TBF, Jenkins was a clearly (self) identifiable unhinged hard-right loon as a Tory MP. Plus ça change and all that.

As someone who freaked out about retracting my own Nature paper, I love this initiative!

Barton could not attend court, as he is currently in police custody on Merseyside where he has been charged with a serious assault, the victim of which remains in hospital. Barton has three previous assault convictions, one relating to domestic abuse.

Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe Organizers of an annual satirical award for scientific achievement are shifting for the first time from the United States to Europe due to concerns about winners and others being able to get visas.

Having the Ig Nobels leave the US for safety reasons is a pretty on point example of the situation here apnews.com/article/ig-n...

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

The War No One Wants - and the People Calling for It Farage and Badenoch are beating the drums for escalation. The public response appears to be: abso-fucking-lutely not.

The British public learned something from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Apparently some politicians didn’t.

While Farage and Badenoch push escalation with Iran, most Britons are saying something very simple:

Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Well this is utterly depressing

if only there was some sort of regulatory body, a communications department or office for instance, which was able to sanction media outlets for allowing inflammatory rhetoric to be broadcast

I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.

“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3330):

Yes, sentience that goes back c 3-4 yrs to age 15, then maybe some memory of stuff back to age 11 if their parents encouraged them to read. Scary.

Another interesting one - used to teach/explain aspects of vison w analogies to how digital photography works. Now: blank stares, Phones, innit?

'Country Joe, thou shouldst (still) be living at this hour' etc etc.

treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"

As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute

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This is an interesting read (the bit before the paywall).

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

Mmm. I used to have a cartoon picture in my Myocardial Infarct lectures of a guy displaying crushing chest pain (clutching his chest) who looked like John Major (clean shaven) or Rolf Harris (with beard added). First now long forgotten, second that AND unmentionable.

"Hah - LMAO!" - V Putin, the Kremlin, Moscow.

Expect to see this line quoted back at the USA by dictators & authocrats for the next, oh, fifty yrs or so.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

We spent approx. $9B to murder those Iranian schoolgirls so now we can declare victory.

"What can I say? We killed them for sh*ts 'n' giggles, It's the American way".

Well, yes, But satellite photography a decade out of date wouldn't say much for their targeting either.

That sounds a bit like Donald Sutherland's bizarre accent in Hugh Hudson's infamous 'Revolution' (1985) the movie that almost finished off the British film industry.