Ngunnawal and Dharawal county. Once was scientist. Once was public servant. Retired. Woke, with dogs. No fleas.
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I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Disgusting Israeli dream with its equally disgusting WH backers And son in law Kushner
I’m hooked on Mindhunter on Netflix at the moment. Utterly compelling psychological drama as FBI agents interview imprisoned serial killers to better understand their minds and motivations. The seventies cars and decor, and reminders of ubiquitous smoking, are a bonus. Not for the squeamish.
I’ll be enjoying my day in a puffer jacket and a beanie. Apparent temperature is now below zero. 😎
First world problem. Best shout at some clouds.
Despite the inherent bias in the Census question [on religion], Australians marking ‘No religion’ next year will likely overtake Christians as a share of the population for the first time. The Census results will still not come close to telling the “real story of Austra ...
Mammon rules OK.
The Labor Govt delayed approving one of 🇦🇺's biggest fossil fuel projects until after the election & is now hiding the National Climate Risk Assessment. Australians deserve honesty. Selling out the people & places we love to vested interests must stop. www.afr.com/policy/energ...
Owned by a little old lady to get her groceries once a week?
Linda Karen Reynolds. You can’t make this stuff up.
"Plaintiffs have provided extensive evidence supporting their claims of significant ongoing and likely future environmental harms from the project," the judge wrote.” abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blo...
GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.
A tale of two vibes.
Gorgeous morning for a dog walk. #Canberra
“This year has already seen examples of AI systems willing to deceive, cheat and steal to achieve their goals. For example, to avoid being replaced, one AI model tried to blackmail an engineer about an affair it learned about in an email.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/t...
It's amazing how so many thousands and thousands of Palestinians "are Hamas" according to Israel - young children, teenagers, doctors, journalists, pet donkeys, all Hamas - and yet Israel can't seem to extinguish the omniscient Hamas It's almost as if what Israel claims isn't actually true
Is it really Masterchef, or is it cooking competition where the judges (not John Christophe) are clothes horses for their clothing and eyewear (Andy) sponsors?
Thou shalt not cry about being mocked when you are literally the person in charge of ICE kidnapping people off the street.
Agreed. In Australia democracy is better served. An independent statutory authority sets boundaries and oversees elections. Add compulsory preferential voting and the contrast with the US (especially with the Trump agenda) is poignant.
No @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social @jasonclaremp.bsky.social This is not a Hollywood Biblical Epic of famine & hungry people of Judea 500BC. This is 2025 the People of Gaza. How do you guys sleep at night?
Interesting analysis @marcuskelson.bsky.social “Trump is far more representative of America’s past and present than detractors would concede. The fanaticism, nativism, white male supremacy, Christian nationalism and conspiratorialism which he taps into have been through-lines of the American story
#DogsOfBlueSky Ruby is in the mood for mud.
I'll fire just as many of you losers as it takes to improve the employment numbers, goddammit! And I don't want to hear any griping about morale either.
Stormy at the beach today.
Sarah Champion’s letter calling on the PM to recognise a Palestinian state has now been signed by 254 MPs
Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
School of Music cuts are pointless, destructive and against the ANU's own recommendations region.com.au/school-of-mu...
And it would seem - not reaching the bar of even basic professionalism ...
WTF: Texas Gov. Abbott talking about football right now during a presser about the flash floods…saying that only losers ask questions like who’s to blame.
We’re approaching the show trial stage of authoritarian takeover
“Going to university in 2026 is a risk no-one should take. Universities’ cruel managers whose sole interest is the bottom line has resulted in entire disciplines being cut, staff numbers slashed and there is an even greater than usual reliance on casual staff. www.theage.com.au/national/don...
Even achieving net zero by 2050 means that we still have another 25 years of increasing net emissions, global warming will likely exceed 2°C, house insurance will be so last century, large areas of the world will become uninhabitable and an increasing social divide will lead to civil unrest.
Congressman Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District has deleted this tweet.
Insurance can’t make a nation safe from climate change We can no more rely on insurers to protect us from floods than we can expect supermarkets to protect us from famines Insurance is a one year contract. Once damage becomes likely you just cant buy it www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Praying in the House, while preparing to vote away benefits for seniors, children, and the sick. Hypocrisy at its finest.
In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan. And here we are. heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
Exactly.
I’ve come across interesting,this is an email I sent to Dan Andrews regarding the appalling treatment I received from the ambo on the night of my heart attack. Christ I’m lucky to be alive. Ian
Hegseth, this morning to the free press: “Don’t ask questions. Don’t report the facts. Don’t seek the truth. Don’t hold people in power to account. Instead, your job is to put out the propaganda we give you. Your job is to simply say “America is great.” Utterly un-American.👇
Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."
Chilli in Canbrrr this morning.
Ever see him in Lair of White Worm? 1988 Ken Russell horror/comedy cult film; also has Peter Capaldi Catherine Oxenberg.
Hello Sydney friends! This afternoon, I'll be speaking on a panel at the Rose Scott Women Writers Festival about Big Tech, AI and copyright. Love to see you there: www.thewomensclub.com.au/rswwf-home/r...
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
So Morrison is paraphrasing the tenets of Ingsoc in support of Trump bombing a sovereign state. Who’d have thunk?
Bald face lies from #MurdochGutterMedia the company the alleged "journalist" Steve Zemek keeps
Yes rainforest and beaches and an hour to Central. That said, it’s certainly not tropical overnight in winter with heating needed, but it can be tshirt weather before lunchtime.
What a difference a few hours drive makes. Glorious here, having coffee in the sun before the beach dog walk. Back to Cbrrrrr tomorrow.
Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
In contrast, we sat on Bald Hill at Stanwell Tops these last two days and spotted whales while drinking our coffee. Dogs loved our place in Helensburgh. Back to Canberra Monday.
Same. Different. Stanwell Park.
“Investigations are under way following a report by a leading conservation group that farmers have illegally cleared thousands of hectares of native bushland across Australia in a few years.” #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
Escaping the Canberra chill with the dogs. Locals are wearing shorts.
Hypocritical war criminal #Israel has destroyed nearly all hospitals in #Gaza but whines about its Soroka hospital receiving incidental damage due to its locating official military facilities nearby. aje.io/ac1txh?updat... #ICJ4Israel #StopIsrael #IsraelFascism
Gorgeous afternoon looking for travelling whales. Didn’t see any. Stanwell Tops and Stannie beach.
A city of 10 million- more than the entire population of Israel
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Angela Merkel deliberates with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit on June 9, 2018, in Charlevoix, Canada.
“Trump made a similar false claim about Trudeau in May, incorrectly saying of Russia’s removal from the Group of 8: “I thought it was a very bad decision. It was headed by Trudeau, by the way, and Obama. They were the ones that really fought hard to get Russia out.” www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/p...
being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.
#NoKings New York
OK, I guess it is news that Turnbull is [again] criticizing #AUKUS. But bigger news is the Albanese govt's continued failure to review the stupid, dangerous 'deal' they inherited from #ScottyFromMarketing. The US review is the opportunity for us to #DitchAUKUS. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Toldya.
Spent a wonderful five weeks in blue states this time last year. Not rushing back until the racist felon has been banished.
Didn’t stop the dogs frolicking by the lake at 8’am, but sensibly, they and the cat, have now sought refuge by the fire.
“Only voters in Sweden have stronger anti-Trump views than Australians, who believe the president is unable to understand complex problems, not qualified to hold his job, and is unlikely to deal with major issues such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.” True dat. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
ABC insists on calling on Joe Hockey for his 'expertise' on #AUKUS. They identify him as former ambassador to the US. But fail to note that he is a current lobbyist for weapons companies in the US and Australia. aka conflict of interest. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Pentagon launches review into AUKUS deal to ensure it meets Trump's 'America First' agenda www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Today at Fort Bragg, Trump crossed a new and dangerous line. He got troops behind him at this speech to boo the media and his political enemies including Gov Newsom and Joe Biden. This is the most unacceptable and egregious politicization of our troops we’ve ever seen.
I really dislike this smug, disingenuous, baseless type of critique of Greta Thunberg. For all the millions of narcissists, egotists, charismatic villains and disrupters, she’s a bleeding heart with the courage to take action beyond words. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
"if #Robodebt can be rewarded, then nothing is off limits. If we don’t speak up, we are agreeing — in silence — to live in a nation where cruelty is policy and honour means survival at the top." 💥🎯 #ScottyFromRobodebt #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Whatever respect I had for her as evaporated. Looking for a cushy job in the state political arena. Not brave enough to stand as an independent and backflipped massively on the stadium. Pathetic. #auspol #politas
Have been sick and off the socials:news. Come back to find: Opposing a genocide is ‘the new hate’ Opposing a genocide still losing good people jobs and work Media describing police aiming and firing at a journalist ‘caught in the crossfire’ Beyond fucked
Thoughts and prayers to America's Gestapo, cowering in fear in the face of such violent [checks notes] . . . ur, dancing in the streets.
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.
Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.
Former United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber condemned the Israeli assault on the Madleen, stating: “The Israeli regime has just attacked & commandeered the humanitarian ship Madleen, in blatant violation of international law.”
The situation in Los Angeles is about to plunge us into a national emergency, except the people that normally solve national emergencies are the ones creating it.
Because the victims of the unlawful Robodebt haven’t quite suffered enough? What a fricken insult to us all
“… those impulses all tilt toward the same place—toward making our society a less egalitarian, more unequal, meaner, crueler, and much more savage place.” newrepublic.com/article/1962...
Talking to a pharmacist, the second shingles shot is a shocker for many recipients. Couldn’t move my arm for four days. Better that than shingles.
Just got hooked on Black Doves on Netflix, tantalising spy drama, London. Easy binge.
