Nikos
@nikosaus.bsky.social
Live with my husband, Mr Otto, & Ms Ruby on unceded land.
Academic, research solitude, memories, & supportive relationships.
Proud unionist. he/him/his 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I love & support my trans friends & community, full stop.
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Academic, research solitude, memories, & supportive relationships.
Proud unionist. he/him/his 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I love & support my trans friends & community, full stop.
🏳️⚧️❤️⭐️
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The stories in the Museum of Austerity serve as a stark reminder of the human cost of pushing through cost-cutting legislation.
The Museum of Austerity exhibition brings home the human cost of benefit cuts
www.bigissue.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The stories in the Museum of Austerity serve as a stark reminder of the human cost of pushing through cost-cutting legislation.
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“The Queensland Museum is basically running a marketing campaign for a fossil fuel company whose operations are directly responsible for wrecking the Great Barrier Reef and destroying cultural heritage in the Torres Strait” - Michael Berkman, Greens MP for Maiwar, Queensland
Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education
The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.
www.desmog.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“The Queensland Museum is basically running a marketing campaign for a fossil fuel company whose operations are directly responsible for wrecking the Great Barrier Reef and destroying cultural heritage in the Torres Strait” - Michael Berkman, Greens MP for Maiwar, Queensland
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon
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This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.
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Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
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Hello #academicsky, I'm working on a piece about how students are more comfortable refusing to participate in discussion than they used to be. I've seen a lot of complaints from professors about the so-called Gen Z stare. Do you have experience with this? Think the concern is overblown? Let me know!
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hello #academicsky, I'm working on a piece about how students are more comfortable refusing to participate in discussion than they used to be. I've seen a lot of complaints from professors about the so-called Gen Z stare. Do you have experience with this? Think the concern is overblown? Let me know!
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Researchers are reporting that some journals like several high-impact titles owned by Elsevier, Wiley and Springer—are charging authors anywhere from $2,000 to more than $10,000 in article processing charges (APCs) to make their work immediately accessible. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The NIH Policy Holding Researchers “Hostage”
An effort to make NIH-funded research immediately accessible to the public has led to disruption and financial strain for scientists already navigating a precarious funding environment. It also spotli...
www.insidehighered.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Researchers are reporting that some journals like several high-impact titles owned by Elsevier, Wiley and Springer—are charging authors anywhere from $2,000 to more than $10,000 in article processing charges (APCs) to make their work immediately accessible. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Increadingly a government of gestures. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If Labor won’t deal with the low-hanging fruit of jobs for mates, how can it be trusted against louder vested interests?
Achieving good outcomes might be the difference between being a government of gestures and one of real substance
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Increadingly a government of gestures. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Corrupt processes yield corrupt results. Inevitable.
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Corrupt processes yield corrupt results. Inevitable.
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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
Missing in Gaza: CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid | CNN
A CNN investigation into Palestinians who went missing near the Zikim crossing in Gaza this year points to aid seekers being killed and, in some cases, bulldozed into unmarked graves by Israeli forces...
edition.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Essential reading from Dave Milner, as usual. People are starting to wake up to the extent we’re all being screwed.
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Essential reading from Dave Milner, as usual. People are starting to wake up to the extent we’re all being screwed.
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Why is it that some people can have their names suppressed when they have been found guilty of a crime? Would the 'legal reason' be in support of the victim or the perpetrator?
Man from high-profile Melbourne family found guilty of raping woman while pretending to be her boyfriend
Jurors return verdicts on two rape charges in Victorian trial of man who cannot be identified for legal reasons
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Why is it that some people can have their names suppressed when they have been found guilty of a crime? Would the 'legal reason' be in support of the victim or the perpetrator?
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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The false dichotomy between university and apprenticeships
Against apprenticeships
Australian political discussion regularly returns to the idea that the solution to our education and labour-market problems lies in “more apprenticeships”.
substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The false dichotomy between university and apprenticeships
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Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
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What does this story say about how intelligent and aware the Pentagon and White House believe the American public is?
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
edition.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What does this story say about how intelligent and aware the Pentagon and White House believe the American public is?
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Newsom understands how to humiliate someone who absolutely hates being humiliated. And Dems need a whole lot more of this. Trump cannot stand when people highlight exactly who he is in a way he can’t spin or outrun. If you’re planning on running for president, this is the skill set you better master
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Newsom understands how to humiliate someone who absolutely hates being humiliated. And Dems need a whole lot more of this. Trump cannot stand when people highlight exactly who he is in a way he can’t spin or outrun. If you’re planning on running for president, this is the skill set you better master
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This will not bring back 1970s station wagons, it will encourage more bloated SUVs.
These are the most malignantly stupid and galactically unqualified people on earth.
These are the most malignantly stupid and galactically unqualified people on earth.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This will not bring back 1970s station wagons, it will encourage more bloated SUVs.
These are the most malignantly stupid and galactically unqualified people on earth.
These are the most malignantly stupid and galactically unqualified people on earth.
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Pete Hegseth suffers from the Fog of Dewar's.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Pete Hegseth suffers from the Fog of Dewar's.
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University of Auckland opens new Pacific space honouring Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
University of Auckland opens new Pacific space honouring Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
An intimate ceremony filled with singing, tears and laughter marked the opening of a new Pacific student space at the University of Auckland's general library dedicated to Fa'anānā Efeso Collins.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
University of Auckland opens new Pacific space honouring Fa’anānā Efeso Collins