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Someone asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a moment to realize they meant "autumn", and not the collapse of civilization as we know it.

We like to pretend politics is all very complicated - while often failing to provide the context that tells the actual story www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Ya know, I reckon they could manage a little more, given what they're earning, I really do Those late November sittings will see a flurry of bills pushed thru, similar to last year, bcuz they're "running out of time" blah blah blah 👇Method in their madness I s'pose 🐝 #auspol

Marketing photo of the Great Barrier Reef in 2025, featuring a reef crest that has lost almost all of its coral.

I mean, look, if Mamdani actually had invented time travel, went back in time and invented Twitter so it existed six years before it was created, to tweet about something that happened when he was 9 yeas old, with a picture of him at age 33, well... then maybe it's something to talk about...

Even if we think we're fully across the issue, it's informative to read this. Do you share the sense that this has been going much faster than predicted? Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...

Yup. www.smh.com.au/national/a-k... #highered #auspol

Yes. All of this. open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...

Gutted that CSIRO has decided to stop publishing it's renowned kids science magazine Double Helix. doublehelixshop.csiro.au My kids got the letter the other day and just don't understand why. Right when we need to be improving science knowledge and skills, the CSIRO cuts a vital resource.

There is still no baby formula allowed into Gaza. Israel is not only bombing and shooting a starving, exhausted civilian population, it’s banned baby formula. Babies under 6 months can only have breastmilk or formula. Their mothers are starving and have no milk. Milk. Must. Enter.

This is a fight for life’: climate expert @doctorvive.bsky.social on #tippingpoints, doomerism and using wealth as a shield Interview by Jonathan Watts #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RIP Mick Ralphs. ❤️❤️❤️💔💔💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMf...

An expert advising Australia's teen social media ban tech trial has resigned. "I think there’s been some questions raised everywhere about the way that this trial was constructed and the process of it,” Qoria managing director Tim Levy told Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Thank god we don’t have Peter Dutton in charge lending his full-throated support to America’s illegal, unconstitutional act of w— Hang on, I’m just being been handed a note

Memo to #abc730: Mike Pezzullo was sacked from the APS for breaching its Code of Conduct FOURTEEN TIMES. He left in disgrace. He was officially stripped of his Order of Australia. Why is he now being given access to your prestigious platform?

Nuclear fusion is already beating nuclear fission, despite the closest plant being 93 million miles away.

The former PM turned defence lobbyist gave his completely 'unbiased' opinion to multiple news outlets. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

2023: Env Min Penny Sharpe: "The creation of the Great Koala National Park is essential to saving koalas from extinction in NSW" Ag Min Tara Moriaty: “The Great Koala National Park is a high priority & we are working hard across gov to establish this significant undertaking" 2025 NO Great Koala NP

At some point in the future a bunch of kids with a Great Dane are going to rip Albo’s mask off to find Scomo underneath.

Deja vu all over again open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

You don't understand! The ALP government has to support Israeli genocide, US war crimes, the destruction of the rule of law, and the north west gas shelf, because it only has a 51 seat lead on the Coalition. Something something Murdoch. They're really progressive, I swear.

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "

Raf Epstein rips into “friends & colleagues” in the media for not asking “whether or not what Israel is doing is illegal” in Iran & “not even asking questions about what the intelligence is” Phil Coorey “I don’t think they care” Epstein “But that’s the problem!”💥 #ABCInsiders

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

When people said that there was a gas rig right next to the 12 Apostles, I really didn't expect it to be *this* close to the 12 Apostles. What the fuck!

The Australian government is proposing new environmental laws that will do nothing to interfere with more fossil fuel projects. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

“At some point, we can expect emissions avoided by Australian green commodity exports to surpass those from remaining coal and gas exports. Australia would then reach what could be termed “net-zero export emissions”. Rubbish. Fossil fuel exports will always continue to destroy our planet.

Keating on Marles' effort at the Murdochs' "sleazy" conference: "A moment when an Australian Labor Government intellectually ceded Australia to the United States as a platform for the US and by implication, Australia, for military engagement against the Chinese state" johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Penny Wong: "It’s not too late for Iran to come to negotiating table." Rest of Australia: "It's not too late for Israel to stop bombing the crap out of anyone it doesn't like."

I like the way the Guardian felt the need to clarify "which was false" here.

So would Mr Cook and his government distort science to protect a major resource company? Absolutely and unequivocally yes.

ICYMI: "mutual" obligations are still just a series of unlawful decisions a trench coat, but the commonwealth ombudsman might be starting to unbutton it ...

Irish terrier humour.