Paul Maynard

BREAKING: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called opposition candidate Péter Magyar to congratulate him on winning the election. Big win for Hungary, Europe, and the free world Everything Trump touches dies.

The new acronym describing Trump's failure as a president : "TOFU" (Trump Only Fucks Up). Please don't share. He might get upset... 😏

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor blamed Labor for fuel standards that forced an oil refinery to export petrol, but those rules were initiated by the coalition. aap.com.au/factcheck/tayl…

Two recent studies have re-examined the risk of birds entering in collision with rotor blades of wind turbines. The research found that there was not a single collision. "The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife." euronews.com/2026/04/11/two…

Compass: S40 Surviving Gaza, Seeking Truth #Palestine iview.abc.net.au/show/compass/s…

Massive money laundering #USA #DHS Lieu Shows $6.2 Billion Wire to Cayman Islands #Miller Can't Explain WHO ... youtu.be/typSYC02Gv4?si… via @YouTube

Australia should be building our own #drones to automate surveillance of our coasts. #auspol youtu.be/X76v_JkrQTw?si…

The QLD LNP govt latest brain fart via Crisa-the-fooli is as likely as a fairy emerging from the bottom of your garden to grant you your three wishes. Think about it. The QLD LNP aren’t doing so well in the polls. A number of factors have pushed their poor polling -jobs for mates, cutting affordable housing & healthcare funding, exorbitant spending & general ineptitude, etc, etc. The LNP are also concerned about a resurgence of One Nation in QLD. With scary 1998 memories of similar One Nation percentages that netted them 11 seats in the QLD parliament - largely at the expense of the Libs & the Nationals, which delivered a minority Labor govt & ousted the sitting LNP govt - the LNP had to come up with a distraction that the numpties could get on board with in a fuel “crisis” The QLD LNP have become the hero & saviour in their own propaganda. In an oil crisis they are running the narrative that “drilling the Taroom trough oil field is their “generational opportunity” 🙄 One would think that if drilling the Taroom Trough is a generational opportunity -previous generations would’ve capitalised greatly on this “opportunity” The first point to consider against this ridiculous notion is the huge water resource risk it imposes. It would likely impact the agricultural sector through contamination of water supplies - particularly regarding the use of water from the Great Artesian Basin. Point 2. The project requires unconventional methods to extract the oil from shale deposits -fracking. Fracking uses a significant amount of water. See point 1 with regard to concerns of water contamination. Point 3. Hydraulic fracturing - fracking - “is the process of injecting water, sand &/or chemicals into a well to break up underground bedrock to free up oil & gas reserves”. Fracking in the Taroom Trough raises significant concerns regarding the impact on regional geology “primarily through the alteration of rock structures & compromise of major water aquifers”. Extraction activities would also threaten to impact 100s of water bores relied upon by agriculture. Point 4. Timescale. It would likely take a decade b4 the Taroom Trough could produce oil at a commercial scale. That’s provided everything went to plan & the fracking didn’t glut agricultural water & contaminate the water - & Crisafooli wasn’t grandstanding in an attempt to deflect & wedge the federal Labor government to “fast track approvals for oil projects” - when the QLD govt haven’t even applied to the federal government to “fast track” oil projects yet. Point 5. High costs of “exploration”. Costs WILL be high due to the “technical complexity of deep, unconventional tight-rock formations”. Individual wells are an estimated cost of $15 to $20 million. Each. With no guarantee of success. The development involves THOUSANDS of wells. It’s not called “high-risk” for nothing …but I guess if Crisafooli is not paying for it personally then it’s all good. Costs of infrastructure to support this so-called new oil industry in QLD are also prohibitive -as they don’t yet exist on the larger scale needed. Point 6. Coal-seam gas extraction is already damaging the Great Artesian Basin. Approximately 650 water bores relied upon by farmers are already impacted. I would imagine that Crisafooli’s grand oil plan will further impact the Great Artesian basin and agricultural production. Point 7. The QLD LNP, as usual, are prioritising fossil fuels over renewable energy production. They have already proven their allegiance to mining interests by accepting donations from the mining industry before the last state election -notably from one donor of many, Gina Rinehart. The QLD LNP have cancelled renewable projects across the state - at the same time approving ageing coal-fired power plants to run well past their use-by dates - which continues to cost taxpayers in maintenance, subsidies and repairs from breakdowns. Point 8. The climate destruction manifesto of the LNP speaks for itself.

BREAKING 🚨 Scientists have recently sent shockwaves through the semiconductor industry, uncovering the breakthrough that will help future computers shatter all existing speed limits ⚡️ After more than a century of controversy, the mystery of how electrons tunnel through energy barriers inside CPUs and GPUs of Intel, Nvidia or AMD has finally been unraveled, paving the way for the super-powerful chips of the future. To grasp why this discovery is so monumental, we first have to appreciate just how weird the quantum world really is. In classical physics, if you throw a ball at a wall, it bounces back every single time. But in the quantum realm, if you throw an electron at an energy barrier, there is a tiny, ghostly chance it will simply appear on the other side as if the wall never existed. This phenomenon, known as quantum tunneling, has long been the ghost in the machine. It is a process we knew was happening, yet one we could never quite see inside of. For decades, we were forced to treat this tunneling like a magic trick where the electron disappears at point A and reappears at point B. However, by experimenting with noble gases like Krypton and Xenon, scientists have now pulled back the curtain on what happens during that transition. It turns out that while the electron is inside the barrier, it is not just flying straight through in a vacuum. It is actually performing a complex dance, interacting intensely with the forces of the atom it is trying to leave behind. This inner journey takes place in a very specific sweet spot known as the nonadiabatic tunneling regime. Instead of a static wall, the electron faces a dynamic, shifting environment. This sets the stage for a breakthrough concept called under-the-barrier recollisions. Imagine an electron attempting to escape an atom while being violently pushed and pulled by an intense laser field. Instead of making a clean break, the electron can actually bounce back toward its parent atom while it is still technically hidden within the energy barrier. This interaction was previously ignored in simpler models, but it is the secret key to understanding how these particles ultimately behave. While a collision usually suggests a loss of momentum, the physics here works in reverse. Paradoxically, by recolliding while still tunneling, the electron can actually steal a massive amount of energy from the surrounding laser field. The research shows that this specific quantum path is roughly ten thousand times more likely to occur at high intensities than traditional models ever predicted. Furthermore, these electrons can reach energy levels up to four times higher than expected. This hidden energy boost allows the electron to burst out of the barrier with incredible speed, finally explaining why certain electronic signals, known as Freeman resonances, are much stronger than our previous models could account for. To make sense of this subatomic chaos, the researchers developed what they call a Four-Step Model. This acts like a high-precision GPS for particles, mapping out the initial escape, the hidden journey through the barrier, the energy gain from the recollision, and the final flight into the open. This model allows scientists to simulate electron movements with a level of detail that was previously considered a mathematical black box, giving us a clear roadmap for a territory we once thought was unchartable. The results are most striking at high intensities. When the laser field reaches a specific threshold, around 50 terawatts per square centimeter, a fascinating vanishing act occurs. The traditional, slower electron signals completely disappear, leaving behind only the high-speed signals enabled by this new quantum dance. Remarkably, these high-speed signals exhibit a highly stable, flat response, meaning they remain consistent even as the power levels fluctuate. This tipping point proves that at the extreme performance levels required for future computing, these under-the-barrier dynamics become the dominant force. These insights arrive just in time to solve the biggest bottleneck in modern hardware, opening the door to control electronics on the scale of attoseconds, or billionths of a billionth of a second. As we try to make CPUs and GPUs smaller, the energy barriers inside them are becoming incredibly thin, so thin that electrons start tunneling through them whether we want them to or not. In today’s chips, this causes leakage, which leads to wasted battery life and massive overheating. By finally understanding these dynamics, engineers can stop fighting this leakage and start turning it into a deliberate, high-speed feature. Ultimately, by mastering the way electrons navigate these barriers, we are moving toward a new era of quantum-aware chip design. Instead of just trying to block electrons, future processors could be designed to harness these tunneling energy boosts to move data faster than ever before. This paves the way for super-chips that are not only thousands of times faster but also significantly more energy-efficient, effectively rewriting the rules of how we build the brains of our computers.

Whenever the Liberals attack @AlboMP for the shortage of fuel, remember this: when Labor lost in 2013 we had 7 refineries. Over the life of the Liberal government (2013 to 2022) 5 were closed, leaving just 2. Breathtaking hypocrisy by @AngusTaylorMP and the Coalition.

And Gina Rinehart — who built her fortune on foreign workers, importing over 1,700 migrants to build her $9.5 billion Roy Hill iron ore project — now funds One Nation and publicly complains that immigration is causing the housing crisis. The same immigration she has personally and profitably relied upon for decades. The hypocrisy is not incidental. It is the point. Use immigration to build your wealth. Fund the politicians who blame immigration for everyone else’s problems.

Palms are hitting faces across Australia tonight as news spreads of Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki putting Peter Dutton on the board of the state-owned Queensland Investment Corporation. It manages $135 billion worth of assets & is crucial to the state's wellbeing. #qldpol

They’re blatant about it now. Shameless. Vicious. Criminal.

When Elon Musk announced Giga Berlin, legacy media ran endless hit pieces to convince half of Germany the factory would drain the region dry....just like they always do It became one of the biggest propaganda campaigns against a factory that was actually meant to bring some of the greatest progress the EU has ever seen They completely ignored Elon's bigger plan: bringing the unmatched sustainability, thousands of local jobs, and pushing the EU’s progress forward Now, Tesla Giga Berlin Sets a New Standard for Sustainable Manufacturing the world had ever seen For over a year straight - ZERO process wastewater discharged into public sewers. Not a reduction. Complete elimination Tesla achieved this by building a massive, 100% closed-loop recycling system where every drop of industrial water is captured, treated, and reused on-site Tesla water consumption stayed under 500,000 cubic meters annually - so far below their allocated limits that they returned 377,000 cubic meters of unused water rights back to the local Brandenburg government As of today, Tesla's wastewater facility is recognized as one of the largest and most efficient industrial wastewater treatment plants in Germany, second only to a nuclear power plant Tesla did not just meet the environmental standard They set a new one and then gave the leftover quota back to the community Sustainability has always been Tesla’s mission

Los tatuajes tienen un efecto en el sistema inmune que la medicina lleva décadas sospechando. Ahora tienen las pruebas. Un nuevo estudio publicado en PNAS por investigadores de la Universidad de la Suiza Italiana acaba de demostrar que ninguna de esas tres suposiciones es completamente cierta. La tinta no se queda quieta. Entre el 60% y el 90% del pigmento abandona la dermis y migra hacia los ganglios linfáticos, el hígado, el bazo y los pulmones. No en cantidades trazas — en concentraciones medibles, acumulables y permanentes. El cuerpo no tiene mecanismo para eliminarlo. Una vez adentro, se queda. Lo que ocurre después es lo que los investigadores describen como una respuesta inmune que no se apaga. Los macrófagos — células cuyo trabajo es detectar y neutralizar amenazas — reconocen la tinta como cuerpo extraño y la atacan. Pero no pueden digerirla. Mueren intentándolo. Los macrófagos que los reemplazan heredan la tinta de los muertos y repiten el ciclo. Esa cadena de ataques fallidos genera inflamación crónica sostenida en los ganglios — sin síntomas visibles, pero con efectos medibles en el funcionamiento del sistema inmune. No todos los pigmentos son iguales. Los análisis de toxicidad celular encontraron que la tinta negra y la roja inducen mayor muerte de macrófagos que otros colores — mayor carga inflamatoria, mayor acumulación en órganos. El negro por sus nanopartículas de carbono. El rojo por sus compuestos de mercurio y cadmio en formulaciones tradicionales. El hallazgo que más debate generó entre los propios investigadores: la evidencia creciente de que esta inflamación crónica podría estar interfiriendo con la respuesta inmune a vacunas en personas con alta cobertura de tinta. La investigación no es definitiva en ese punto — pero el mecanismo propuesto es sólido y los datos preliminares son suficientes para que el equipo lo señale como prioridad de investigación. La medicina lleva décadas sin incluir los tatuajes en la conversación de salud sistémica. Este estudio argumenta que ya no puede ignorarlos.

This video of Israel soldiers casually throwing what appears to be a Palestinian youth off from the roof of a building has shocked the world. Look how comfortable they walk away after throwing the youth to his death. As if they have done it 100s of times before.

F…ing idiots. #antiVaxxers

Neuralink enables those who have lost the ability to speak to speak again

Labor passed multi-employer bargaining laws so working Australians can push for fairer pay, better hours, and have a real voice at work. The billionaires behind Chemist Warehouse have fought this every step of the way - just like the Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation who voted against our workplace laws from the start. A big congratulations to the @SDAunion for fighting hard to make this happen.