Simon Spencer

Moved to BlueSky. Still @nomisruption . Come and find me. If you want help migrating go to: sky-follower-bridge.dev

@HonTonyAbbott Here’s a suggestion go over there yourself and go help out. You remain a brown stain on our nation.

Australia is the only country that's stood by America's side in every major conflict since the Great War. Korea, Vietnam, both Gulf wars, Afghanistan, the fight against Islamic State. And now, as America and Israel strike to destroy Iran's nuclear ambitions, Australia is doing nothing. We weren't asked. We weren't consulted. We weren't even advised. Albanese eventually conceded that Australia supports preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. But he won't lift a finger to bring it about. Everything is about political management, nothing is about national security. Read my latest at The Tony Abbott Newsletter: tonyabbott.au/p/albanese-wea…

Add Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

A Royal Reckoning.

@elonmusk If the United States was serious about reform & strengthening their democracy they could introduce compulsory voting, an electoral commission modelled on the @AusElectoralCom & reform funding & donations to reduce grift and graft.

For those fools/liars who say it is racist to require ID to vote (it obviously is not), why do majority Black countries require ID to vote?

It’s the only peace that will hold

@WallStreetMav If you hear trashing then perhaps that’s the wake up call you have needed to hear. The United States let themselves down, let the world down. The first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem

We’re barely 1 day in to the Olympics & at least 3 U.S. athletes have spent their time in front of a microphone trashing our country. If they don’t support our country, we shouldn’t be supporting them. They should renounce their citizenship and move out.

Another warning that AUKUS is an undeliverable, dumb, dangerous money pit. Caucus needs to grow a backbone and confront Marles and the US sycophants. Sacrificing our sovereignty, reducing govt services for AUKUS madness is militarism gone mad. Public inquiry now!

@Scobleizer Sounds awfully lot like a choir of models exploring problems, detecting discord and creating harmonies. A concept we explored together a while back if I recall. :-)

A decentralized AI computer is an exponential learning machine. Each node can discover a way to improve itself. Test its theories. And report its results with each other. The whole network will improve together. Exponentially quickly. If you are going to compete with it you have only days to convince same number to load it, even if your system learns faster at first it will never catch up. @openclaw is all that. The most disruptive computing system I have ever seen turned on. @karpathy was right to hype it up.

@RuckusTom @_MAGA_NEWS_ Your russian friends said the same about Ukraine. You might want to check back with your masters and see how it’s going for them.

@_MAGA_NEWS_ Funny. The US would crunch Canada in an afternoon. The guys doing the crunching would have dinner afterwards, drink a couple of beers and go to bed.

🚨 JUST IN: In a stunning escalation, Canadian PM Mark Carney bluntly warned the Trump administration on the Alberta separation movement, “We expect the U.S. administration to respect Canadian sovereignty at all times. I’ve been crystal clear with President Trump on this.”

@DavidShoebridge A new economic and military aliance with Canada + Japan + Singapore + NZ and the UK.

Should Australia rethink its alliance with the United States? Spoiler alert - yes! sbs.com.au/news/podcast-e…

BREAKING: Both the White House & RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad. It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

@CANZUK Add Singapore and Japan

Can you name four other countries who are more suitable for introducing free movement of citizens, free trade and foreign policy cooperation? It's time for Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK to build a brighter future together. The time for CANZUK has arrived. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧

@TheMaineWonk Failed state

There were signs ICE was going to go down this road.

@WarintheFuture @WarintheFuture why do you think China hasn’t taken a once in a generation opportunity to politely ask Russia for a timetable to hand back the territories it seized from China? Russia could hardly say no?

“The divide between Zhang and Xi no longer centered on debate or planning and instead shifted to execution and direct noncompliance. This problem was clearly visible across the PLA, and it posed a serious threat to Xi’s authority.” Excellent analysis of the fall of Zhang from @KTristanTang jamestown.org/zhang-youxias-…

Yesterday as I was walking through Minneapolis with a friend I saw this Lexus parked terribly and commented to him: “get a load of this asshole’s terrible parking.” By complete serendipity, as if the universe itself was saying "be kinder with your spoken thoughts," right at that moment I heard a voice say “hey that’s my car, ICE grabbed me, I’m so sorry!” come from the passenger of a Jeep slowly passing by; the Jeep driver said she was the sister of the Lexus’ owner and that the two of them had just come back from picking her up from Federal detention. I went to go talk to the Lexus’ driver, but first I read the note on the windshield: “THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN BY ICE. Please don’t hit or tow.” Neighbors put that there, and put a tarp over the window that ICE broke open so snow wouldn’t get in. The Lexus driver, a short, brown haired white woman told me she lived in the area and was driving through looking for parking, when armed ICE agents speedily blocked off the street in front of her, and swarmed the white pickup truck in front of her grabbing its driver. She said people came from throughout the neighborhood with whistles to record them grabbing that driver, and as she was trying to leave, ICE agents swarmed her vehicle as well and proceeded to open her window and door and remove her from her car, slamming her facedown in the street. She said a Federal agent entered her vehicle and parked it like this, before taking her away. I don’t know the story of the pickup driver. I'll be honest, I didn't really believe what I was hearing at first until she showed me the video that a neighbor filmed, confirming the whole story. I asked her to airdrop it to me so I could make this post. This woman was just driving and minding her business one moment, and the next she was snatched, she told me that they said she was "obstructing an investigation." After 24 hours in Federal custody, they released her with only the white shirt she was wearing when I met her, into the -8F cold where her sister was waiting, and they didn't give her back her car keys. She came to make sure her vehicle was still there. There's a lot of people on this platform making all sorts of excuses for the Federal government's despicable behavior in Minneapolis, but what it comes down to is this: they are out of control. They are Out. Of. Control. This woman's story that I saw firsthand is emblematic of the institutional rot at the core of DHS, CBP, and ICE. The agents involved in both shootings this month were 8- and 10-year veterans, not untrained amateurs. There have been three homicides in Minneapolis thus far in 2026- 66% of them have been US citizens murdered by the Federal government. My city is being subjected to a full-fledged occupation by lawless, unprofessional, un-American thugs. They have gone far beyond their stated mission of removing violent criminals and illegal aliens. They have all of us looking at every SUV, every vehicle with out-of-state plates, every vehicle with more than 2 men in it with caution, scrutiny, and concern. Many of my friends have bought guns or have gone to get their conceal carry permits, to stay safe from their own government because it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six. Minneapolis will survive this and will come out stronger for it, because we learned in 2020 that there's no one coming to save us, it's up to us to show up for our friends and neighbors. But people need to know that if the Federal government are doing this to us: You're not safe. You're next.

Saw Nuremberg yesterday. Harrowing but well executed & a very not subtle sober reminder that evil is around us every day & choices have consequences. No ICE agent or Trump enabler will avoid justice forever.

@SenatorWong @AlboMP these are not shared values and we must stand apart and show our own character as a nation by rejecting them.