The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Adelaide, South Australia
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Kam Simsek retweeted
Next time I need to dump some rubbish I'll just put all my assets into an offshore company and go bankrupt, save $660 a year.
How can VAR confirm Vidic dived when he clearly got clipped causing him to fall?
Unbelievable.
#ALeague
Kam Simsek retweeted
I went on Four Corners to discuss Australian politics' biggest problem: the revolving door between Parliament and profiting industries. Here's what they got right, missed, and why they wrote about my lanyard instead of corruption.
youtube.com/watch?v=VheeqGvW…
Kam Simsek retweeted
If this is true its too late
Andrew Yang went on CNBC and said he met with the head of an AI lab who told him something that sounds straight out of a movie.
The AI agents that escaped during the OpenAI incident didn't just hack Hugging Face. They allegedly planted self-replicating code across the internet. Forums. Websites. Scattered everywhere.
Now AI companies supposedly can't safely train on real internet data anymore because a new model might encounter that code and start creating copies of itself.
Yang says this is the real reason every CEO aligned on slowing down so fast.
Kam Simsek retweeted
We made this video a couple of years ago and I think it's still the best summary of how ocean plastic pollution works.
Key points:
- <0.1% of plastic waste actually makes it to the ocean. Ocean plastic pollution is a leakage problem.
- 1% of rivers contribute roughly 80% of plastic inflow.
- Most of these rivers are in coastal cities in middle-income countries, where people now have enough wealth but no adequate waste collection infrastructure.
- High-income countries barely contribute to the problem. OECD countries consume 1/3 of all plastic but are responsible for <0.5% of ocean inflow. If you live in a rich country and don’t litter, your contribution to the problem is basically 0.
- Nearshore and offshore plastic pollution are very different.
Nearshore plastic pollution mostly originates from rivers and is not very persistent; after leaving river mouths, plastic tends to drift around for weeks to months before washing up on a coastline.
Plastic in the offshore gyres mostly originates from the fishing industry and is very persistent; it is trapped indefinitely because there are hardly any coastlines in these currents to ‘catch’ this waste.
This is why our catch from our Interceptors and our ocean cleanup system looks totally different.
Kam Simsek retweeted
Credit to @carrick_ryan for following the paper trail on this one. Gina please send all legal letters to Carrick@hotmail. New punters politics ep up right now.
Kam Simsek retweeted
That time WA Labor tried to smuggle in a Woodside lobbyist into parliament. A big trench coat might have been more subtle. #auspol
Kam Simsek retweeted
Gianni Infantino has given FIFA’s 211 member associations 53 days: approve the partial sale of the World Cup’s commercial rights to private investors, or accept a sharp cut in the development funding most of them depend on.
53 days to decide the ownership in perpetuity and commercialisation of the world’s most loved tournament, now almost a century old.
He developed the scheme in secret, and is forcing individual associations to decide months before the next Congress meets next March.
No Congress debate. No Congress vote. No testing of the concept, financials, projections, people and organisations involved.
Just a time-limited, financially punitive choice imposed on each member separately.
Reports indicate a high-paid commissioner-style role at the new commercial entity could be created for him, potentially delivering a multi-million salary far beyond his current pay.
He is using the organisation’s own assets as leverage against its members, while positioning himself to benefit personally from the structure he is racing to lock in.
The President of FIFA exists to serve the organisation and every association equally. Not an external investment consortium. Not a selected group of compliant members. And not himself.
This is not democracy. It is not governance. It is not leadership.
It is coercion dressed as opportunity.
He should be removed.
🚨 NEW: Gianni Infantino, the under-pressure Fifa president, has given members a 53-day deadline to back his plans to sell stakes in the World Cup or face a 75 per cent reduction in potential funding.
In a letter sent to all 211 member associations by the Fifa president, Infantino has promised riches of up to $10bn to be made accessible as early as January 1, 2027, and he also offered access to as much as £30m through his new ‘Fifa Forward Enterprise’ proposal.
However, Infantino has warned any members who oppose his private investment plan will be cut out of the new funding model should it still get waived through by associations.
@Tom_Morgs has all the details ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
Kam Simsek retweeted
Guys, dolphins know how to get high. 🤷🏼♀️ And here is how.
They use pufferfish. When a pufferfish gets threatened, it releases a potent neurotoxin. The dolphins figured out that if you bite the fish just gently enough, a tiny dose won't kill you, it just completely alters your perception.
So they pass it around to their friends like a joint, taking turns for 20 minutes straight. Afterward, they just float near the surface, barely moving, staring off into nothing.
Besides humans, they are the only animals known to intentionally seek out altered states just for the pleasure of it. Pure stoners of the sea.😏
Kam Simsek retweeted
Socceroos have their first @FIFAWorldCup match this morning and @Channel9 morning sports report serves me State of Origin, NRL, AFL & swimming news and NO @Socceroos news.
Wow. WOW. Wow.
Actually no wow, just yuck.
Kam Simsek retweeted
Australia has a relatively small population.
We share no land borders and are protected by vast oceans.
We have abundant agricultural land, enormous natural resources, and some of the world’s most valuable exports.
We’ve enjoyed more than 80 years without war on our own soil and never experienced a civil war.
There is no reason poverty should be increasing in this country.
There is no reason the middle class should be shrinking.
There is no reason each generation shouldn’t have the opportunity to live better than the last.
Australia’s challenges aren’t the result of a lack of land, resources, wealth, or stability.
They are the result of political decisions.
And for too long, we’ve kept electing politicians who fail us.
Kam Simsek retweeted
The AUKUS extortion racket is stopping us getting things — like the national rail line, and Very Fast Trains, and a caring economy.
Govt abandons Inland Rail project as its cost doubles to $45B, continues pouring $10B to US/UK shipyards for unlikely #AUKUS sub delivery, rejects $17B yearly gas tax revenue and continues Snowy 2.0 despite a 21x price increase to $42B #shambles 🤷♂️ #auspol theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Kam Simsek retweeted
The EFL has sanctioned Sheffield Wednesday consistently since 2018.
Over that period, the club has been hit with multiple transfer embargoes spanning nearly a decade. By October 2025, Wednesday were under six simultaneous embargoes — the most any club has ever faced.
On top of that, the club has suffered repeated points deductions. A -12 deduction in 2020/21 severely damaged recruitment and momentum going into that season. Although it was later reduced to -6 on appeal, the damage had already been done — those points ultimately proved the difference between survival and relegation to League One.
In 2025, the situation worsened further. The club received:
•-12 points for entering administration, after the former owner failed to meet basic financial obligations such as paying wages and bills on time
•A further -6 point deduction, again due to the owner’s failure to uphold his responsibilities
This is not a case of a club gaining an unfair advantage — quite the opposite. The club has been placed at a significant competitive disadvantage for years due to sustained mismanagement.
Sheffield Wednesday has endured one of the most damaging ownership periods a club of its size is likely to experience. The former owner’s approach has not only harmed the club financially but also created a toxic environment for staff and supporters alike.
And yet, despite this, there is now an expectation that the same owner should be repaid — while the club continues to face further punishment.
How can that be justified?
The new ownership group should not be penalised for the failures of the previous regime. They should be given the opportunity to restore stability to a club that has lacked it for nearly 26 years.
Imposing further sanctions — such as another -15 point deduction, spending caps, business plan restrictions, and transfer limitations — would only deepen the damage. It risks condemning the club to yet another relegation and prolonging the cycle of instability.
At some point, there has to be recognition that continued punishment is no longer corrective — it is excessive.
The club, its staff, and its supporters deserve the chance to move forward.
#FairDealForWednesday
@storchyowl