Hannah Forsyth 🍉

Australia capitalises on low fuel prices to establish stockpile in US Australia will buy fuel from the US at historic low prices to bolster its national stockpile, after criticisms that the Government only holds about 30 days' worth of fuel in domestic storage, far belo...

News report from 2020 when Angus Taylor decided to store our oz fuel reserve in the US seemed unwise at the time. Now…

www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04...

Morning people of the world unite!

I invested in 100m of dental floss which feels something like 30 year bonds rn.

Yeah. I then had a three year old who ran around the house in underwear yelling ‘no blood for oil’ through an upside down watering can. Now she’s 25 and she has a slightly wider range chants and uses a proper PA.

this made me cackle all the way through

No conscious without class conscious

International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
#auspol
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Several months after it was published, my copy of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Higher Learning edited by me and Chris Newfield just arrived. We took an anti-colonial approach and as well as USA and Europe we have Brazil, Afghanistan, India, South Africa and I wrote a chapter centred on China.

We don't tell reactionaries and billionaires to get a real job enough.

“It is what is happening in the United States, it is what is happening across Europe as we speak, with Military Keynesianism, we have weaponisation of fascism in everything except name.” – @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Howard's disturbing legacy: Fear and misdirected compassion Howard’s legacy is the constant fear of asking people to think beyond themselves to what we could be, rather than enforcing what we were.

Wrote this Friday. Beyond furious today.

Howard's disturbing legacy: Fear and misdirected compassion

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this would never happen

Why do we call it the “male gaze” and not the Manopticon?

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

This is shameful

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’, Australian aged care workers warn Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool

How could [checks notes] Robo-Care go wrong? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fueks and authoritarian desire. Cara Daggett (2018) Millennium 47: 25-44 As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider these resentments separately, this article interrogates their relationship through the concept of petro-masculinity, which appreciates the historic role of fossil fuel systems in buttressing white patriarchal rule. Petro-masculinity is helpful to understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene can augment desires for authoritarianism. The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics. Moreover, through a psycho-political reading of authoritarianism, I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble.

Just learnt a new term:
Petro-masculinity

Where burning down the planet is a strong thing

The quote here is from someone talking about tech bros trying to maximize AI agent productivity, and.

I would add that the metaphor of "whips" driving "labor" suggests power over a VERY specific sort of body that is subjugated under a VERY specific system of labor

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

It's a bit unnerving, in 2026, just how lightly you only need to scratch many conservatives to have them admit that believe white people are supreme...

I want this at all conferences. And I want the bear to be armed.

2nd story on BBC radio 4 bulletins now

Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources

As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister….
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"Write an e-mail announcing that 1/3 of the staff are to be laid off. Include two sentences about how painful it is to *me.*"