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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 1d

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What bubble? By this measure, the AI boom still isn’t at dotcom bust levels | Fortune

Another key difference between now and the earlier boom-bust era is that the Federal Reserve is lowering rates instead of raising them.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 1d

I said “yet” 🤷‍♀️

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 2d

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Screenshot of the book Mean Streak by Rick Morton. The text reads:

for the past decade and half, when conclusive certificates were
discontinued, is counterproductive to the Parliament’s intent.
‘When it comes to deliberative material, FoI does not ensure
transparency (because advice is not being written) and it
undermines integrity (because advice is not being written).’
So officials don’t put things in writing because they might get
released under Freedom of Information laws, therefore the FoI
laws aren’t working?
Grow up.
De Brouwer is not alone in his views. Former secretaries have
been doing the rounds making exactly these kinds of noises, as if
the outcome of poor professional behaviour is the result of some
law and not … poor professional behaviour.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 2d

Omg it’s the bird vote again. 😳

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 3d

It's time to vote for Australia's best bird! Vote 1 Powerful Owl!
[ @australia.theguardian.com seems to have chosen a particularly unflattering POwl picture, so here's a better one]

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I mean maybe. And I wish doom too. But it isn’t yet as big as the dot com bubble by a long way. And tbf that bubble did in fact reflect a material change, if overblown and not quite what was anticipated.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 3d

It was hell, reveals former egg.

Cockerel talks into an interviewer's microphone.

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 3d

The campaigning organisation that represents disabled people within Labour had to cancel plans to attend this week’s conference in Liverpool after the party asked it to pay thousands of pounds in fees.
#Labour #LabConf25
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-l...

Disability Labour priced out of conference after cash-strapped party withdraws financial support

The campaigning organisation that represents disabled people within Labour had to cancel plans to attend this week’s conference in Liverpool after the party asked it to pay thousands of pounds in f…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 4d

Union for life. So honoured.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 6d

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Building universities that will protect democracy

The far-right is on the rise everywhere. In the face of this it is important that universities are well equipped to defend democracy.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 7d

Oof

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 7d

Can we all just now admit that over 20 years on from the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden definitively won the the ‘war on terror’. The US is now demonstrably weaker, more divided, animated by more strident extremism, and governed by their own version of the Taliban.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

“The oath says enemies foreign and domestic… well, we also have domestic.”

Trump tells the generals he plans to use the military against Americans

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 9d

#PhD research callout!

I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.

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Ethics approval: H16788

Please share!

Seeking: NSW History Teachers. Have you taught History 7-10 in NSW? Are you interested in taking part in an online interview for a PhD study at WSU about the representation of women in the NSW history syllabuses? Please enter your details into the form below for further details. https://forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Contacts: Kate Littlejohn, Kay Carroll

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11d

This helped me improve my understanding both of rail ballast and how oral poetry traditions convey information

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 12d

Now this is Content

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 11d

Just to clarify:
Respect the dead or you’ll be fired(charlie kirk)
But don’t respect the dead or you’ll be fired (george floyd)

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

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Gail P Lynch - Whippet Good @gailplynch.bsky.social · 11d

A lot of Hmmmmmmm!ing happening whenever your work appears. 🙌

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Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social · 11d

Much attention has been on ANU but the governance crisis is broad and deep across the sector. Close scrutiny needs to be applied *everywhere*. This is shameful from UTS management.

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 12d

University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet

The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12d

Just posted this up at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social and you can read and respond here. It's an excerpt from "What Have The Police Been Doing?" published in San Francisco, in 1866, and it's a Twain piece I've wanted to share in this forum for years. It felt like the right moment.

Sam’s Shorts - Mark Twain House

marktwainhouse.org

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 17d

Watching the Appleton Ladies Potato Race and 💯 appreciate the way the subtitles specify the bird call [currawong song] not just [birdsong]. 👩‍🍳😘

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Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 17d

PS I think our takes on the meaning of the abundance agenda are somewhat similar
jacobin.com/2025/07/klei...

The “Magabundance” Agenda Is Creating Strange Bedfellows

Supply-side progressivism is forging unexpected alliances between populist Democrats, business-friendly centrists, and MAGA Republicans around militarized growth. The result is a post-neoliberal polit...

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 17d

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 17d

I get that. Fabulous article, with political implications that were beyond my historical gaze. So illuminating. Hope to connect one day with thoughts…I’m such a fan 😊

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 17d

Actually I think those words and implications for HE reflect something real and structural changing in the economy and labour market open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Scrambling for Capital between the couch cushions

Thinking through what the emerging phase of global capitalism maybe means. Speculating that the last commodity frontier might be hunting for the scraps of globalisation. Also Australian Magpies, obv.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 18d

Shauna Bostock on Aboriginal truth telling at the Blackheath History Forum.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 19d

Most read in Labour History
'“Selling Their Jobs?” Thatcherism, Voluntary Redundancy and Worker Resocialisation' by
Greig Taylor & Matthew McDonald
Read it online: bit.ly/LH-Thatcherism
@drdrehistorian.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

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