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Polling related content from The Nightly re leaked Liberal review. Detail remains elusive as to what Freshwater did that had something to do with the Voice referendum and how that caused them to overestimate support.
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Am getting *very* worried that the govt will do the smallest fricken thing on capital gains tax and negative gearing.
Probably will end up changing the policy so little that it will have next to bugger all impact.
Sigh. If you want to change the country, CHANGE. THE. F*CKING. COUNTRY.
#YouGov ALP 29 L-NP 22 ON 24 Grn 13 IND 6 other 6
2PP 53-47 to ALP
ALP 56-44 vs ON (my estimate 53.8)
Albanese net -14
Taylor net -5
The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.
#ResolvePM ALP 32 L-NP 23 ON 23 Grn 11 IND 6 other 5
No 2PP provided. My estimate 53.8 to ALP (+2.6)
Poll uses data with Taylor as hypothetical leader prior to spill outcome.
#Morgan pre leadership challenge ALP 30.5 L-NP 20 ON 25 Green 13 Ind/others 11.5
2PP ALP vs L-NP (respondent prefs) 58.5-41.5 (+5)
2PP (last election prefs) 55-45 (+2)
This looks like respondent prefs being volatile as is often the case.
www.roymorgan.com/findings/101...
#Redbridge/Accent ALP 34 L-NP 19 ON 26 Grn 11 Ind/other 10
Conventional 2PP 56-44 to ALP vs L-NP
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Essay: On the rise of One Nation and the Coalition crisis
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Einstein & Oppenheimer had socialist leanings ➡️ general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot be trusted
#Morgan ALP 30.5 L/NP 22.5 ON 22.5 Grn 13 Ind/other 11.5
2PP respondent prefs 56.5 to ALP (+3)
last election 54.5 (+1.5)
my est 54.1 (+1.1)
Jan 19-25
www.roymorgan.com/findings/fed...
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
*the heat death of the universe, we are all cosmic space monsters floating in the void before the death and rebirth of all things*
"FINISH THE BOOK, MOTHERFUCKER!"
GRRM: Make me
Median voter trusting Rs on trade and foreign policy at this point is just a reminder that most people are not following politics at all and it's a bit of an issue for democracy.
The #NobelPeacePrize medal. It measures 6.6 cm in diameter, weighs 196 grams and is struck in gold. On its face, a portrait of Alfred Nobel and on its reverse, three naked men holding around each other’s shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design unchanged for 120 years. Did you know that some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after the award was given? A well‑known case is Dmitry Muratov’s medal, which was auctioned for over USD 100 million to support refugees from the war in Ukraine. And the medal displayed at the Nobel Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to Christian Lous Lange, Norway’s first Peace Prize laureate. But one truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.” A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.
The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?” The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”
Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.
Few words.
My @smh @theage cartoon
When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.
Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.
It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.
Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
TODAY on @theflytrapmedia.com, and unpaywalled for all, I'm talking about algospeak, cuteification, and the implications of softening language about hard things.
i'll always say its worth it to study military related things but to be honest the problem we're facing now has little to do with knowledge and isn't going to be addressed by ingesting more knowledge
I'm writing a book on this stuff but it's amazing the degree to which these tech bros are pushing network states into the public consciousness.
Gaza, Greenland, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela. Seems like all Trump foreign policy comes with a side of Network State.
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"
Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"
Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."
Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Ofcom Online Nation Report 2025 Published 10 December 2025
If you’re still on X because you think it’s “where the conversation is”, it isn’t.
Ofcom’s Online Nation Report 2025 shows X is no longer a mainstream platform in the UK. Fewer people use it, engagement is tiny, and harm is concentrated.
🔗 tinyurl.com/OfcomON
🧵Here's what the data says ...
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X By Reuters January 2, 20267:40 PM GMT+1Updated 1 hour ago Illustration shows xAI and Grok logos xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Jan 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab filled with images that users said had been altered when they uploaded photos and prompted the bot to alter them. "There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok said in a post on X. "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely." "As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them — CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material. Grok gave no further details. When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies". In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, Grok said most cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
