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Small furry creature, lives in the garden. Always curious. she/her Naarm, Wurundjeri land #AutisticElder #sociologist Mostly at🐘 The map is not the territory. Where we look from & our #ToolsToThinkWith determine what we see. We can choose kindness 💜
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In Taiwan mask wearing has been identified as a major factor in slowing the current Covid wave. Masking on public transport has made a huge difference. It's Winter & NB 1.8.1 (Nimbus) is in NZ. Respirators protect people & this simple action protects us all. 😷 www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6131022

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

There are few places more breathtaking than Ningaloo. But the major parties keep approving projects that are killing it. We have the technology to transition. What we lack is leaders with the courage to act. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We learnt a lot about Scott Morrison after he was dismissed by Australian voters in May 2022. We continue to learn more, none of it good. And now, the worst insult to all Australians, Morrison is a King’s Birthday recipient of a Companion of the Order of Australia. Thread .. 🧵 #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

"Australia needs to rethink its relationship with the US. We've done quite well maintaining a wary, non-trusting trade relationship with China. We now need a wary, non-trusting security alliance with the US, if that's even possible." @alankohler.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Albanese’s authority is huge, which is all the more reason there needs to be robust policy discussion in caucus, says @chriswallace.bsky.social. Ed Husic can show how it’s done, acting “like a sourdough culture for healthy debate”. #SundayShot #auspol

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It’s incredible but not surprising how much western media is blacking out one of the most recognizable and important activists in the world in Greta Thunberg going to Gaza on a single unarmed boat with food for starving children. It should be an hourly story with huge ratings and clicks.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

If one is censured by a nation's Parliament for behaviour officially found to be "corrosive of trust in government", and is referred to an anti-corruption commission for misleading its Cabinet about the "crude and cruel" Robodebt scheme, how is one then eligible for said country's highest honour?

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

9am Sunday join @instanterudite.bsky.social Jo Dyer, @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social, @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social & me for a hot espresso instead of an insipid latte you know where… See you there! #SundayShot #auspol

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

There’s a simple reform the federal government could introduce to bring house prices down. Directing APRA to force banks to limit loans given to investors would make it easier for people to buy a house they actually want to live in. @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

"The America we thought we knew is not coming back...the second Trump administration is an entirely different beast." "This idea that we can just wait him out, relying on old assumptions about the political cycle is something we have to be really careful with." @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

And Palantir in Australia? #auspol

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

submitted 7 days ago • 909 comments

If Albanese wants to be the Labor government you have when you’re not having Labor, he’d better expect a fair bit of buyer’s remorse, starting with Labor’s true believers. #auspol #Woodside

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

THREAD: 1. The legal profession’s rehabilitation of the reputation of former High Court Justice, Dyson Heydon continues. At a conference of the Samuel Griffiths Society in August, Mr Heydon is on the speakers’ list, along with former Commonwealth Attorney-General, Christian Porter. #Auspol #Law

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Useful new research showing that autistic people do indeed struggle with temperature changes and sudden loud noises. Very relevant to buildings, workplaces, and home design for autistic people.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

There's so much lazy reporting around this! The plan is to increase tax rate from 15% to 30% ONLY ON THE AMOUNT OVER $3MILLION in an account. So much reporting implies that the entire balance will be taxed at the higher rate. Who needs more than $3m in super anyway? It's a tax haven for the rich

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

New aged care act is delayed (again) from 1 July to 1 November, years after royal commission recommended and watered down from its original oversight of providers. Delay means more changes are possible, but also the work hadn't been done. Own goal. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

This is something A.I. shares with crypto. They are both parasitic technologies. Crypto can’t exist without the U.S. Dollar and A.I. can’t exist without access to a robust ecosystem of ever expanding human knowledge. Excellent analysis by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

'Moral injury can lead to serious distress, depression and suicidality. Nations such as Germany and South Africa, too, have been reconciling to profound moral injury.' It is time to take our indifference to the Gaza horror seriously - by Julie Macken #auspol #Gaza johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Six months of natural disasters in 2025 have cost the economy $2.2bn, largely in slower retail and household spending, according to new federal Treasury analysis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Dear Famous People that are trying to avoid C19 by wiping down shopping carts. Please note that wearing a well fitted respirator is the most useful non-pharma thing you can do to avoid infection, and it’s great role modelling.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

when i publish my list of followers

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

The way Laura Tingle dispenses with the Coalition in her final politics column is spectacular. And perfectly apt.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Please watch this and share. And, question your local MP how anyone could approve a project that puts ancient First Nations peoples' culture at risk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3AP... Save Murujuga. Say NO to the North West Shelf Gas project.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Thanks @latingle.bsky.social For your great contribution to local politics over the many years. Now, I look forward to your reporting on global politics and keeping us well informed on world events, in the touch you have, making it easily understandable 😉 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

25 years from handwritten notes to books let my world building, intrigue & mystery plots mature via a major in archaeology. It let my quirky characters become their authentic selves via my life as a nonbinary, aro-ace, autistic, ADHD person. I regret nothing 😁 🌈📚🪐📚💙 elisecarlson.com/ruarnon-tril...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The Albanese Govt’s approval of Woodside’s gas expansion until 2070 is a betrayal of Australians who voted for real climate action. It locks in an emissions bomb and puts fossil fuel profits ahead of our net-zero future. #ClimateAction #StopWoodside #AusPol

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

#LauraTingle is taking none of our shit. What a star she is. We are so lucky to have her. Her parting words are, as ever, direct & pertinent. Australian politicians - & media - please take note. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This week’s column : my last on Australian politics www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

Authors, are your books on Itch.io? And are they Queer SFF? Or do they have neurodiverse, disabled or BIPOC MC's? Or nonbinary, asexual or aromantic MC's? I'd like to make some Bsky Author Lists of all the above! (And yes, feel free to drop book links & blurbs while we're at it 😉).

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

THIS!!!!!

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Dear ⁦‪@Mark_Butler_MP‬⁩ You say you got yr cvd booster, it puts you in a good position over winter & other Australians should make sure they do the same You’re lucky you can medically tolerate mRNA, I can’t Pls get Novavax so we can have same protection as you www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

38 Healthscope owned hospitals should be acquired and nationalised by the Commonwealth, in the wake of its collapse. Would be a smart move by @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Good that the ABC is investigating toxic ocean conditions resulting from global heating. But ridiculous that elsewhere they publish news about the potential government approval of massive carbon-producing gas fields, AS IF THEY ARE SEPARATE ISSUES. 🙄😬 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Laura Tingle: "But it has taken a particular sort of self-induced idiocy in the past week to really start to make people see the Coalition for the fractured beast it is." #auspol Your analysis on domestic politics will be missed, Laura. All the best! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Over the now 7+ years I’ve been working in this area, this is the most promising development (in an Australian context) I’ve seen. So much admiration for the cult survivors who instigated it and I know the inquiry will receive many submissions. womensagenda.com.au/latest/coerc...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Funny how so many of the right wingers complaining about cost of living & ‘doing it tough’ over the last 3 years now all of a sudden have $3million+ in Super that they need to protect.

submitted 25 days ago • 24 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Also time for the head of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, to talk about his role working for Wollemi capital, who are major carbon offsets investors...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

In regular elementary school classrooms, children learn about consent. They learn that you can say no to protect yourself. Whereas autistic children in an ABA-specific special education classroom are taught that if they say no, they’re going to get punished. thinkingautismguide.com/2025/04/the-...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

People continue to act like disabled & covid caution folks want to return to lockdowns. We don’t. We want clean air in public spaces. Paid time off. Better access to testing. Free respirators and mandatory masking in healthcare. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

This was great. What a smart, incisive & articulate young woman. Recommend. #HannahFerguson #AusPol #hope www.youtube.com/live/dBVn84E...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment