Stuart Page

How come you’re allowed to disrespect First Nations Australians but criticising Israel is wrong?

@AusPoll6 Think you might want to check other sources. Tweeting what you want the polls to be doesn’t make it true roymorgan.com/findings/10191…

🚨 NEW: Federal voting intention 🟥 ALP: 28% (-5) 🟧 ONP: 26% (+8.5) 🟦 L/NP: 24% (-1) 🟩 GRN: 12% (-0.5) ⬛️ OTH: 10% (-2) Two-party-preferred 🟥 ALP: 51% (-2) 🟦 L/NP: 49% (+2) ALP vs ONP 🟥 ALP: 52% 🟧 ONP: 48% Spectre Strategy | 2-8 Apr | n=1002 | +/- 4-17 Nov

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

I love this photo so much

I can see people are mad at that Drew guy, but it's important to remember that he's depending on rage from all sides of politics to sustain his growing notoriety. And I ain't tellin anyone what to do or who to engage with, but I feel it's important to say what I just said.

Get ready for the Recession Australia didn’t have to have: inflation 5%+; mortgage %+; insolvencies up; unemployment up; punitive costs of living. Petrol/diesel rationing maybe by June. Thanks a lot Trump.

@anneapplebaum @TimothyDSnyder #TrumpDisrespectsAllies

We are calling for an immediate freeze on Government contracts with Palantir in Australia. Then full transparency on what data is collected, how it is used and by whom, because their conduct is almost certainly in breach of Australia's privacy laws and core democratic value.

a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli occupation, and is applauded by the audience. Here's Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:

@PurelyFootball From the goalie too - I love the way he applauded Pirlo after the kick

Class is permanent… just ask Pirlo! 😮‍💨

'Her life was not a list of firsts–though the firsts were many & historic. It was a philosophy made flesh: that excellence is sovereignty, that storytelling heals, that culture kept alive is a people kept alive & that generosity is the most radical act a human being can perform.'

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

@VoteLewko Facts: Can’t spell my name Not head of TEN News Not involved in Salaam Foundation. On board of Salaam Institute, which scandalously invites PMs and others to speak to people. No link to Iran. Whaddya reckon. I see you style yourself as a broadcaster and a security expert 🤷‍♂️

We’ve lost a really great leader today theguardian.com/australia-news…

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

@mattjcan A study released by the Australian National University shows that Australia could produce 27 times its energy needs through renewable energy. It's time to dump fossil fuels. theconversation.com/to-really-addr…

@allTheYud Really hated it when writers invaded Ukraine, bombed Gaza and Iran, murdered tens of thousands in the name of religion, and abused young girls and enriched themselves, while impoverishing their people Bloody writers

I wonder how much of Western civilization's collapse is downstream of writers and scriptwriters deciding they were too cool and sophisticated to write about good people doing good things.

@TitusOReily Welcome back Titus!

The Monday Knee Jerk Reaction Round One titusoreily.com/afl/the-monday…

The Mid East oil crisis now makes it imperative for Australians to ramp up our transition to electricity recharged by solar/wind/battery renewables - transport, energy, manufacturing. We must liberate ourselves from corrupt, price/supply manipulating global petro cartels. 👇