Tom Murphy

Former @dragonfly_int @UniMelb @KingsCollegeLon @Latrobe. Views my own.

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

A very cool animation of atmospheric CO₂ for the year 2021:
* Fossil fuels, orange
* Burning biomass, red
* Land ecosystems, green
* Ocean, blue

For a well-mixed GHG, it takes some time for CO₂ to distribute globally from the sources in the North!

https://t.co/xTPHDNMSyw

[Neil Thomas 牛犇 @neilthomas123]

Who runs 🇨🇳?

Not just Xi Jinping!

The 🇺🇸 CIA used to store profiles of 🇨🇳 leaders & their networks on index cards that filled a room the size of a football pitch

Now this info is at your fingertips, thanks to Decoding Chinese Politics by @AsiaPolicy

This is how it works ⬇️🧵

[Steven @Steven_Armour]

“oh you mean the 👁👄👁 not the 🫳🏼🏳️‍🌈”

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

a reminder that soaps have such an important role in creating empathy and changing society values.

Fantastic that they have done this.

[Anand Menon @anandMenon1]

I’ve been watching a 15 minute row between the Italian guy at the next table and the French waitress about whether he ordered ‘hot milk’ or ‘oat milk’. And the fact is, they both say the two identically.

[Tom Murphy @tklmau]

This *has* to be parody?! Does he really think we’ve forgotten Morrison government?!

[Peter Dutton @Hon_PeterDutton]

You deserve a far better government.

With the Coalition, you will get a better government by far.

[Tom Murphy @tklmau]

👇

[Philip Priestley 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @PublicPriestley]

I'm not a monarchist, but I think the real opportunity offered to the monarchy has been wasted. I couldn't help but think that every robed and medalled aristocrat looked more and more disconnected from the reality of life in Britain. 1/7

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

The police have arrested what appear to be peaceful republican protesters in Trafalgar Square. It’s in everybody’s interests, especially the Met’s, that they explain exactly why as soon as possible. No matter what you think about monarchy, this is a deeply disturbing moment.

[Shelly M @ShellyAsquith]

Outrageous scenes of cops arresting anti-monarchy protestors and stealing their placards

So we are not allowed to show public opposition to a bloke being crowned head of state for having been born into unimaginable wealth while ppl line up at food banks and schools fall apart

[Benny James @Beno_ldn]

Just a quick reminder King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £350 million a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22 billion that’s never taxed. But he still can’t pay for his own coronation.

£250 million of our money will be spent on the coronation for a man who was best friends with Jimmy Saville

What about all the homeless on the streets? What about more food banks for family’s that can’t afford to eat right now?

Abolish the Monarchy we don’t have no need for them scumbags.

Not my king 🖕

[Tom Murphy @tklmau]

“People are increasingly being left behind by this prime minister, a man who seems far more interested in the approval of Piers Morgan… than the feelings of trans people, poor people, young people and those who drink the craft beer with his face on it.” https://t.co/OHLUKmeLF2

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Q: How do you trick the population into believing that asylum seekers are becoming a bigger and bigger issue?

A: Stop processing asylum applications.

Cynical? That's exactly what the Tories did.

The % of asylum applications completed within 6 months fell from 80%+ to ~10%.

[Marcus Wong @aussiewongm]

Making a $8000 loss after living in an apartment for five years isn't *that* bad - given the alternative would've been paying about $150k in rent over the same time just to have a roof over your head. 🤔 https://t.co/77B62s0Phh

[Eden Gillespie @edengillespie]

“They’re not compulsory. If you don’t want to go, don’t go… But equality is not negotiable in this state.”

[Josh Butler @JoshButler]

at this point I could read anything about English nobility like "the Archdingleberry of Fumblewimble VII" and just think "yep that sounds about right"

[Tom Murphy @tklmau]

What was that about impartiality? #BBCBias

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Another exc from us tonight - Leaked emails from inside the BBC reveal extent of pressure journalists came under from No10, inc asking BBC to avoid using ‘lockdown’ at start of pandemic and to go harder on Labour criticism

By ⁦@rowenamason⁩ and me https://t.co/emO6hssffm

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

If you want to know how conspiracy theories get mainstreamed, the @Netflix MH370 doc is the textbook. It spends an entire episode exploring one lady's bonkers theory that America shot the plane down and then worked with Britain, Australia, and China to cover it up.

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

This is some next level shit 🤯

A team of researchers from Japan claim to have recreated images shown to subjects using MRI scans and Stable Diffusion (an AI imaging model).

AI can now literally see what's going inside our minds.