"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

RT @JasonClareMP: Today is the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. There is no place for racism, hate or Islamophobia in Australia.…

Happy Australia Day. Respect to my forebears, and to the Traditional Custodians of the land, past and present, in New South Wales and the South Island of New Zealand, including my Ngāi Tahu whakapapa. From the Second Fleet Neptune (1790) and Third Fleet Britannia (1791), to early NSW↔NZ trade and settlement — including intermarriage with Ngāi Tahu when New Zealand was still administered from New South Wales, prior to the Treaty of Waitangi (1840). The family line includes convicts and soldiers of the New South Wales Corps (later the 102nd Regiment), whalers, traders, moonshiners, land grants and purchases, Native Land Court battles, coups and insurrections — and the brutal frontier realities of early colonial life, including the Hawkesbury–Nepean Wars (1795–1816), where First Nations peoples fiercely resisted dispossession and defended their land. On the New Zealand side, frontier lives intersected early: Richard Driver, Otago Harbour’s first pilot and a stranded whaler, married Motoitoi, daughter of Kāi Tahu chief Kahuti, and later piloted my Highland family line into Otago — alongside the wider Sydney Green/Bates story. Worlds meeting at the edge of the known world. These were hard and often brutal times. As golden pioneers, they showed real fortitude on real frontiers — and, despite everything, welcomed new settlers from all corners of the world and many faiths, seeking a new life. 235 years on, the family loop carries on — back and forth across the Tasman, generation after generation. Happy Australia Day.

Government set to ban podcast equipment

Over 60 ban on Social Media in Australia. youtu.be/qrPM1WSGpIw?si=ggBZ…

𝗽𝘀𝘀𝘀𝘁... 𝗵𝗶 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁! 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜-𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘄!

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy. A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away. We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological. So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our solar system to be discovered passing through our neighborhood. ☄ Track its current and future position using our "Eyes on the Solar System" interactive. Here it is passing near Mars in October: go.nasa.gov/4goaV2t

Grandma may have been a spy in her youth. Perfect! 😂

Still think about this amazing video from the dotcom era

BREAKING: Zoomers cannot adjust their Nvidea graphics cards settings on their gaming PCs anymore because they aren't 18 thanks to the Online Safety Act.

Australia is quietly abandoning one of its most sacred inheritances: the right to speak freely. In its place, we are building a society where public discourse is policed, dissent is tracked, and criticism is treated as a threat. spectator.com.au/2025/07/fre…

This is Robert Maddox, his hobby is installing jet engines on anything that can move

Lions rescue an eagle from a black mamba snake

Charlie Chaplin felt so strongly about fighting fascism against Germany in 1940 that he broke his silence for the first time ever to deliver this monologue

These kids went head-to-head in a dance battle and it was amazing 🔥👏

In this talk, I use game theory to examine how the US-Iran conflict might play out: youtu.be/N4cs-8mrP_s?si=Td7J…

We spent the last two weeks sounding the alarm on purchases of defense stocks by politicians on armed services committees. The US just carried out strikes on Iran. Regardless of opinions on the attack, I think most would agree that Congress should not be trading defense stocks.

Starlink destroying the Ozone layer. youtu.be/7lhNS_kFCSg?si=-Whl…

The surreal sound of rock music from an actual rock