Recent posts by Public Intellectuals on Bluesky

Too young for Instagram, not too young for an ankle monitor...

The 15-year-old can't use TikTok, but is comforted by the fact he’ll be old enough to watch a thousand ads from Sportsbet about the latest odds at Randwick. theshovel.com.au/2024/11/11/t...

Join our friends from @thejuicemedia.com TOMORROW for an evening with Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, to meet friends and allies in Australia fighting Woodside! 📅Thurs 11 Dec 6.15pm 📍Victoria Trades Hall #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... Moreton Bay City Council in court over breaching the #HumanRights of #homeless people. Complaining, “but what about enforcing our ordinances” while trashing peoples lives is disgraceful. #HousingIsAHumanRight #auspol #MoratoriumOnEvictions #HousingCrisis #qldpol

The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record. Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997? That is more than 0.5C ago.

Not that I would want to go, but there is no fricken way I would ever go now.

Labor has ignored experts on the social media ban is is now putting young Australians at risk - all for their own political interests. Same can be said for climate, gambling & other issues. They really are Lib-lite - & increasingly more Lib than lite #auspol

“Offshore gas companies pay no royalties, which means they get the product that they’re selling for free.” – Senator Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens ✍️ Add your name to the petition calling on the government to fix our gas export laws: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...

If Rahm Emanuel is in favour of it, you really know it is a bad idea

A very normal thing for any dictatorship to do. Not sure why the fuss.

He continues to brag about taking a dementia test

I'm not a Green's member, nor am I a member of One Nation. My question for The West Australian, however, is why the agreement of these (and other) parties is "an unholy alliance," when the agreement of Labor and the Libs on the other side is not called out? #auspol thewest.com.au/politics/sta...

Why are we listening & platforming so many non experts about this ban? I don't like it as I know the real reason underpinning it - & I think we have big unaddressed issues with the ENTIRE info eco-system - but if experts said it was good then I'd be for it. They don't! #auspol

The mismatch between commentary about the social media ban in MSM/ABC compared with commentary in independent media should concern every Australian. We see the same with so many issues from commentary on climate to crime to immigration - and so much more! Why? #auspol

There's a clear difference between commentary on the social media ban in MSM/ABC - and independent media publishers and commentators - as will be highlighted in TrueNorth's newsletter today #auspol

"The $360 billion cost of the AUKUS submarines... was [approved] by the government without a brief from Treasury” – Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute ✍️ Sign our petition urging a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parliamentary_inquiry_now

The good thing is now all that disinformation on social media that has rotted the brains of half the people over 60 will be gone, right?

news.corp wanting to ensure the only bullying of teenagers is done by them

A mate reminded me of a recent eg of news.corp's total commitment to the wellbeing of teenagers.... www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Tune in now to 3CR radio in Melbourne/Naarm to hear Uncle Robbie Thorpe interview Chief Na’moks and Gwii Lok’im Gibuu of the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan nations—visiting Australia for the first time to meet friends here and tell Woodside to piss off from their unceded lands

How news.corp and the govt are suggesting tonight at the dinner table will be because of the social media ban

"[State governments] are promoting the idea that burning huge quantities of plastic, clothing, and food waste is somehow the answer to the climate crisis. Yeah, right." Read the full piece: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251209-waste-incinerators-the-latest-bin-fire-in-australian-climate-policy

And they will be correct, and their righteousness will be unbearable, and we'll need to own our shit

We're losing the internet, let's hang out in the park

Morning Hop, you fluffy weirdo

Emeritus Prof Terry Carney delivers "Australian Social Services Scandals: Towards dystopia? Or equity and justice for the vulnerable?" Inaugural Carney Public Lecture at USyd on Thurs 6pm. Few tix to this free event left. I'm responding via Zoom after www.eventbrite.com.au/e/inaugural-...

Good morning from Seven Hills, NSW, Australia, where at 8.15 am on Wednesday, December 10, it is a pleasant 21°C, heading to low 30's. One more lawn to mow this morning after breakfast. Have a great day, talk later, keep smiling. 😀

Fallon needs to show us again his ape jpeg he bought

Saw an U16 on social media this morning so I smacked the phone outta his hand into the icy cold waters of Port Jackson. Just doing my part.

State funeral. My @smh cartoon.

More thoughts on Australia’s social media ban for teens since I first wrote about it a year ago: www.facebook.com/share/p/17i3...

Had my first experience getting stuck (via my backpack) in the closing doors of the Paris metro today and writhed around like a helpless fool until some Youth kindly freed me. Couldn’t look anyone in the eye for the whole trip.

I wrote about Australia’s social media ban for teens a year ago, and given the number of creepy adult men online complaining about it, I feel a) super-vindicated in my position and b) like I didn’t go far enough. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Targeted harassment” towards Inman Grant included 73,694 total mentions of her name or role on X on 23 April 2024 alone – the majority of which were negative. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sick Israeli Death Ader, Far-right Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir declared 100 Israeli doctors expressed their readiness to administer lethal injections to Palestinian prisoners if executions were carried out. The World Medical Association expressed disgust, provocation, as did human rights organizations

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, condemned on Monday “brutality of the Israeli genocide” in Gaza, saying it was carried out “with the complicity of far too many states” At the Doha Forum. Read article: 👇 www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251209-un-...

Will social media algorithms think Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson are 16+?! Based on their adolescent narcissism and infantile language skills, I'm guessing not. 😏 #auspol #SocialMediaBan

I just saw a funny clip: Jay Leno (to President Obama): What's this thing with Trump and you ... what's he got against you? Obama: This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya, constant run-ins on the soccer field. He wasn't very good. #USPolitics 😂

I saw a post on Insta, guiding me to this #HalfThePicture podcast interview with actor Peter Capaldi, on YouTube. #PeterCapaldi #DoctotWho #TheThickOfIt #Glastonbury youtu.be/JZUAGjZ5bW4?...

I saw a post on Insta, guiding me to a #HalfThePicture podcast interview with actor Peter Capaldi, on YouTube. sigh so good. #DoctorWho #PeterCapaldi #acting youtu.be/JZUAGjZ5bW4?...

After FIFA awarded Donald Trump its inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, maybe Eurovision will award Netanyahu its inaugural Eurovision Peace Prize next year. 🤔 #USPolitics #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

Socialism for red state farmers! Oh the Hypocrisy.. President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package on Monday a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war.

"Why are snakes so hard to fool?" "They have no legs to pull."

"Clearly the reason young people feel hopeless is all the Ticky-toks" - Prime Minister Albanese chaser.com.au/national/bac...

"What do you call a hippies wife?" "Mississippi."

European leaders may dump $2.34T in US debt if Trump abandons Ukraine risking a crisis worse than 2008 for America! 💥

"It's needed for getting around Parliament House." chaser.com.au/national/ani...

"Where did the rabbit go for a trim?" "The hare-dressers."

Bluesky has also asked the @australia.theguardian.com account to put in its age, and is even more restrictive. Guardian Australia can't use @bsky.app, though 3rd party posts are still going through. I won't put GdnAus's 2013 launch as birth date in case it nukes the account. Maybe I'll try 1821

"I was going to make a joke about Banks . . . but I lost interest."

"We had to act." chaser.com.au/national/pm-...

Welcome to Australia's #socialmediaban, Bluesky! @bsky.app 👀 *Bluesky is not in the social media ban, but has rolled out age verification.

Under a secretive billion dollar new deal, refugees in the Australian community are being ripped out of their homes and sent to Nauru. "It's a wild escalation... Scenes similar to ICE'", says Ogy Simic of the @ASRC1 www.instagram.com/reel/DSCEmf_...

Tribes pay tribute to Richo, a deal maker who ‘gave voice to the mob’ www.afr.com//politics/tr...

Aren’t most people at the pub half cut? So perhaps passing a test among those there is not all that great of a thing?

The man said existing Los Angeles residents would be asked to find somewhere to live in Mexico. Read more: theshovel.com.au/2025/02/07/p...

Great to see Aus media covering this important visit from chief Na'Moks to Murujuga, WA. A reminder that Na'Moks and his delegation will be in Naarm/Melbourne this week: come and meet them this Thursday 6:15pm at Trades Hall (see flyer below for details). Hope to see you there!