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Amateur sewist. Learning consultant. Politics, climate, social justice.
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The #waragainstwomen bares its teeth.

"Australia does have a mechanism in place, the Safeguard, and it could be great with a small but necessary tweak that rapidly phases down offset use." - Dr Shanta Barley at the Australia Institute's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2025

There’s something happening in this country.

I can only operate on the assumption that this could happen 500 times a day and journalists would still describe it as a 'controversial hand gesture' Media: you are actively and unforgivably helping murderous racists and violent bigots when you do this. Stop, we are begging you

Cracker of an advert!

"She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie Ketamine" 🎵🎵

When abortion is banned women die.

"Messages about the harms of fossil fuels to human health and the natural environment can increase support for renewable energy" osf.io/preprints/ps...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Excellent article from Bernie Sanders. “Trumpism… will only be defeated by millions of Americans, in every state in this country, coming together in a strong, grassroots movement which says no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy…”👇

Rinehart company found to be greenwashing... michaelwest.com.au/gina-rinehar...

Time for Australia to show some courage and say “we do not accept this from our allies” Over 880 signatures already. 23 days to go. #auspol www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Dark Pence is back.

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

That’s how you write a headline, people.

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

Denmark MP Rasmus Jarlov: "[US] has taken no casualties in Ukraine ... paid 4% of US defence budget for one year and that was too much for them ... they will surrender to Russia. We can not trust such spineless people ... If Russia invaded Poland tomorrow, they would make excuses and do nothing."

Our AUKUS partner praising the regime that murdered 27 Australians on flight MH17.

Wilcox

Well what do you know, turns out there is a corruption issue in the Robodebt referrals worth investigating. NACC independent reviewer says all six people referred should be investigated for possible corrupt conduct. The NACC gets to do the investigation, of course. www.nacc.gov.au/news-and-med...

"I can’t support Lachlan if he doesn’t change his stance on climate change,” Prue wrote. “He has now appointed the ghastly Tony Abbott to the Fox board, which I’m sure you know.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

“The ABC busted: our most trusted and public broadcaster drops the YouGov bombshell, except they hide the real bomb in the national closet where they hope it won’t be found. Either that or they are too bloody stupid to smell the rat!” https://theaimn.net/yougov-no-im-just-kidding/

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Imagine any human-created content having this disclaimer. "Please note that when creating this website, we didn't check whether anything was true or a lie. Things you read here may be completely false, so we suggest you perform your own checks to be sure"

This is literally an attempt to incite hatred by the Telegraph. Everyone involved in this including editors and management should be ashamed of themselves. And fired. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

"The climate crisis is not an economic crisis….it is not a technological crisis. It is a crisis of integrity." "As a nation we decide that short-term profit for a few corporate players is more important than life itself. "Or we decide that it is not, & act accordingly." @pollyjhemming.bsky.social

BBC tested a bunch of chatbots used as news source: - 51% have issues with answers - 19% fabricate fake statistics / info - 13% fabricate fake quotes or alter them This is exactly what you expect from a random word blender being used as a source of information. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

The chair of the ABC has today in court implied that supporting Israel is neutral and natural and journalism but having sympathy for Palestine makes you an activist that needs to be fired - maybe even catch Covid to save face. That's where we're at.

My Year of the Snake cucumber salad went well

All of the so-called "patriots" who are cheering the felon's dismantling of DEI is indicative as to why it was needed in the first place. That's right. There are people among us who never wanted women, the disabled, or people of color to have equal opportunities. True story☕️

#Trump

True.

Nikki Savva knows how politicians think, especially the Liberal party versions. She absolutely destroys #temuTrump Peter Dutton here and rightfully takes aim at our local media for the lack of scrutiny on the bloke. Fantastic column.

A Gazan man has revealed plans to take over southern California, expel its residents and turn it into the ‘Riviera of North America’. “Los Angeles is a soulless, vacuous hell hole. It’s just a big pile of rubble and collagen right now" Read the full story --> tinyurl.com/42ejs5cd

Utterly depraved.

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Warning. My @smh @theage cartoon.

If a Jewish journo received threats & abuse like this, there'd be condemnation of "extremists" from police & our leaders. Interesting how the media never talks about Jewish extremists. Racism, genocide, hatred, & extremism are abhorrent regardless of who the perpetrators & victims are. #Lattouf

If only Anthony Albanese had integrity and a spine. He has neither. #auspol #FreePalestine