Axel Bruns
Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
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- Wait, Tim Wilson might not have won his seat after all ? Awwwww. 🤣🤣🥺 www.abc.net.au/news/...
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- Nice to see numerology finally work out for Susssan Ley. Hope someone is putting out a lettuce to see whether she can last longer than a Truss in the job.
- Reposted by Axel BrunsHere's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right. The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social www.rtbf.be/article/comm...
- Reposted by Axel BrunsIn a display that his been described as ‘totally on brand for the Liberal Party’, a bunch of men have trashed the place, done a runner and then left a woman to clean up the mess.
- You guys, I’ve worked out how this season of Trumplandia is going to end: On its maiden flight from Qatar to the imperial summer residence at MAGA-Lago, Air Force Don mysteriously disappears from the radar screens, due to an air traffic control outage … www.abc.net.au/news/...
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- Just quietly: the new Pope could excommunicate the US Vice President. ✝️❌
- Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶
- Reposted by Axel Bruns"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."
- Reposted by Axel Bruns#ICYMI: Records show that the 25-year-old DOGE engineer owned as much as $715K in stock in companies — including Tesla, Apple, Alphabet and Alibaba — on the CFPB’s “Prohibited Holdings” list for staffers to prevent conflicts of interest.
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsEven Putin would be embarrassed by this.
- Reposted by Axel BrunsThis is why we should never let up on pushing the ALP. UK labour is an absolute warning for how bad a notionally “progressive” party can be when it is captured by centrist (conservative) voices.
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsEvery book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
- Reposted by Axel BrunsOur little Soviet friend is likely down already. 🧪🔭 'While Kosmos 482 falls through fire to the cool greens and blues of Earthside, there are sixteen siblings cooking in the carbon dioxide oven of Venus’ surface, forgotten and forlorn'.
- Today we may see the atmospheric re-entry of a historic spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus and got stuck in Earth orbit, 53 years ago. Predicted re-entry time 10 May 2025, 6:35 UTC ± 3.7 hr (via @marcolangbroek.bsky.social) 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
- So I take it Venera has returned to Earth now ? Any indications yet where ? ☄️☂️
- Reposted by Axel BrunsDonnie No Deals is at it again
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- Just imagine what this country could become without that millstone around its neck. 🚀
- In 1955 the Labor party split when a breakaway RW Catholic faction became the DLP. In 2025, I predict that Senator Price and her backers [incl. Gina Rinehart] will split the Liberal Party. And the Liberals may also be in the political wilderness for 23 years. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
- Or possibly just: “Feeling unwell since Truss meeting.”
- "Liz Truss ? I prefer lettuce."
- 🇮🇹 New weekend, new #Brainticket: in this episode I explore a selection of new #Prog releases from Italy, featuring old and new bands like Divæ Project, Limite Acque Sicure, La Batteria, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Cherry Five, and Le Orme. 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/LexaSnurb/br...
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- Seriously, though – Price has had one significant win so far, and she and her Sky News clacqueurs may not have the political nous to understand that the strategies of division and destruction that win you a referendum are going to blow up in your face in a compulsory preferential electoral system.
- OMG – absolute dream team. If you’re Anthony Albanese, that is.
- "The ABC understands speculation of a joint ticket between Senator Price and leadership contender Angus Taylor is premature, and that there is no deal." All the best people.
- Well that'll help massively with making the Liberals more electable. 😬 www.abc.net.au/news/...
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsAnd thanks to @jtfell.com for this excellent analysis on where the Coalition vote fell and some of the factors driving it. Would be great to see this kind of data-led insight feature more prominently in future election night coverage. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
- Slightly excited about this one if I’m honest. The Veneras were such classic Soviet engineering. Space travel as envisaged by industrial plumbers. theconversation.com/...
- The word "left[-]wing" is doing a lot of unexpected work in this headline. Doesn't appear even once in the article text, though. 🧐 Perhaps some Guardian subbie got a bit overexcited after the weekend's events. 🍻 www.theguardian.com/...
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsWow crazy you guys must be giving her a big raise, right?
- The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post. This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
- My fellow Australians, here’s your next Opposition Leader, no doubt willing though far from ready to serve. 🤡🍿 www.abc.net.au/news/...
- Or an LNP voter, in fact...
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- DO IT DO IT DO IT… (They say the Coalition needs to attract more women – looks like they have a choice between attracting Gina’s money or attracting people’s votes. Which one will they choose ? 🤷) www.theguardian.com/...
- Ouch. 🫠 www.theguardian.com/...
- My GODS these people are hard of hearing. 🧏 www.abc.net.au/news/...
- Had not seen that image, and now can’t unseen it. 🥔👱♂️ Authorised by what I think reads as Hothousemag Pty Ltd (zoom in to the very bottom) ? Who are they ? Do I want to know ? #ausvotes theconversation.com/...
- Reposted by Axel Bruns#AusVotes25 @chaser.com.au Peter Dutton to spend more time with his family trusts chaser.com.au/national/pet...
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- You know if Freedom Boy manages to scrape in against Zoe Daniel in Goldstein, there’s still a chance we could find ourselves with <deep breath> Opposition Leader Tim Wilson. #ausvotes 🤡🎪🍿 www.abc.net.au/news/...
- Reposted by Axel BrunsReminder that Littleproud remains.
- Bloody hell live.australiainstitute.org.au
- How badly did the Coalition do in SA last night ? Well, they’re probably losing a Senate seat to a 21-year-old Labor candidate who was thought to be in an unwinnable position. #ausvotes www.abc.net.au/news/...
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsThink about the electoral reality of some big issues. Aggressive action on climate change is a median voter position. Adding dental to Medicare, even if it means the PHI market massively changes is a median voter position. Strong environmental protection is a median voter position.
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsHardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.
- The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...
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- Reposted by Axel Bruns“A longitudinal study published by Oxford University has found people who vape, even without a history of smoking, are 2.29 times as likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).” Vaping needs strong regulation like that for tobacco. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsTimes have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old bribe-taking factory. So when Donald Trump promised to demand payments from foreign governments via his worthless meme coin, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsLaura: “The Coalition resorted to anti-immigration sentiment, attempted to fuel irritation with welcomes to country…spoke about a woke school curriculum & raged about hate media. It prosecuted all these points with.. support of News Corp's newspapers &..Sky News. newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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- The kind of deputy leader whose career was so undistinguished that the only fact Wikipedia has to offer on her is that one time she seemed to be a bit drunk in Senate Estimates.
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsI've just found a clip of a wild bald eagle being weighed and can't stop laughing XD
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- Reposted by Axel BrunsThree years I ago I thought a Labor majority meant serious progressive reform. This morning I think a Labor majority means another three years of minimalist government. Sure hope I’m wrong.
