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@idmonfish

Political Philosopher and Ethicist at the University of Adelaide. Also a father. A Kiwi. A Game designer. A Roleplayer. A small business runner. Basically - I contain multitudes...

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Your manager - "Wait - you still sleep? How gauche!"

02.03.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014

An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014

Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.

It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.

06.02.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 462 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 31

The trick is that a lot of anatomy textbooks draw on the work done by the Nazis in WW2 - so probably entirely fine by this lots values...

07.02.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You really feel like you are hitting your KPIs as a philosopher when the library cancels your talk tomorrow on the grounds of public safety...

Cause their aircon is broken and its forecast to be 40+

29.01.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait for the Sky News Expose about how this was all caused be those dastardly change the date people being divisive...

28.01.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Abstract accepted for IAB2026 - who else is going to be there?

12.11.2025 05:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The fundamental issue is that its not really a Labour government - its a Labour government that has been eaten out from the inside first by Blairism and now by Starmer's mob - really it wants to be the Tories but have people like them.

29.07.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So its a good sign that my employer is offering free sessions on managing your career through change and uncertainty right?

08.07.2025 11:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You misspelled "sad" - that is what it should say not "funny"

26.06.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally we can emotionally understand what it was like to live in an absolutist monarchy, where everyone had to constantly obsess over the emotional state of fundamentally flawed, narcissistic individuals, because they decided the fate of the world.

26.06.2025 07:26 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Truly the most gutless group of politicians to ever run Australia. Not a spine among them. Not a word of dissent or debate in literally years.
Now they're silent Trump cheerleaders and genocide supporters...

23.06.2025 05:07 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I reckon we could pitch it to the techbros - First we train various AIs on the work of various philosophers - then we televise their debates - with paid voting for who wins.

18.06.2025 06:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aye its basically a fact

17.06.2025 01:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A single observation that explains both our vulnerability to generative AI and the general phenomenon of billionaires.

16.06.2025 00:20 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

#auspol #MiddleEast #warmongering #politicalpropaganda

16.06.2025 00:19 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now now, we wouldn't want to do anything radical that might show we have a spine, not when we can allow one of our largest export centres and a core driver of economic prosperity to wither through neglect and jingoistic policies to show we are on the side of the "little guy"...

12.06.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FFS - how not to read the room Democrats!

12.06.2025 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They already have Sky after Dark why would they want anything else?

11.06.2025 07:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anywhere that elects Trump once let alone twice has already failed...

11.06.2025 02:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ditto - Twitter became first increasingly useless and then just negative in its value to me. So I dropped using it. Mostly just used Discord with friends, then enough of my facebook friends posted things about moving to BlueSky that I figured I would try it.

10.06.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also with both King and Gandhi - the "peaceful" protest was aimed at eliciting a violent response from the authorities which could be converted into further negative coverage and public support.

10.06.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I blame Miranda Fricker for this terrible epistemic injustice that she has failed to spot and rectify.

04.06.2025 08:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure but at which point are you launching your bitcoin?

04.06.2025 08:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Merchants of death In extending the life of Australia’s North West Shelf gas project till 2070, the federal and WA Governments have knowingly signed the death warrants of four million human beings.

Merchants of death https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06/merchants-of-death #Auspol

04.06.2025 06:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One way your government could do that is not to overrule significant environmental concerns for the interests of big polluting businesses. An ambulance at the bottom of a cliff is much worse than a decent fence at the top preventing accidents in the first place.

23.05.2025 12:45 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A little to the left.

21.05.2025 07:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You joke but in my undergraduate "two revolutions" sociology class the prof did think it was worth devoting an hour to the breasts of the French revolution - with many many slides of "art" - and an overall argument that they shifted from pert independent to matronly and supportive...

18.05.2025 08:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sociologically I suspect there is something about consequentialism that attracts people who are weirdly optimistic both about our own cleverness, ability to predict outcomes and the future and that technologies will definitely be used for good and not ill.

16.05.2025 07:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The effective hijacking of effective altruism by longtermism + techbro funding is deeply sad. But also unsurprising - go back 20 years and it was the same general circles that were writing in glowing and drooling terms about our glorious post-human future to come if only we regulated less...

16.05.2025 07:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide - The Shot The hairs Albanese is splitting are on the heads of murdered Palestinians.Β Australia is contributing to Israel's genocide of Palestine.

Here's me. 'The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide'

This article also features not one, but two excellent new cartoons from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

15.05.2025 08:38 πŸ‘ 698 πŸ” 346 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 47