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peering through a crack, assistant head of shitkickery. rarely really funny. home is Australia. I like trees. electrical engineering and software stuff. car, motorbike, airplane and shopping trolley licence
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Great speech by Stella winner Michelle de Kretser discussing the censorship around Gaza. Deeply strange its contents were only reported by The Age. Neither ABC nor Guardian write ups of the event mention her powerful comments at all. stella.org.au/2025/05/mich...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

bsky.app/profile/auth... I hope she keeps this passion & runs for office. Changes things.

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

"Conservatism is not saying no to change but urging caution," writes Stan Grant. “The role of politics is not to engineer society but to reconcile it.”

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..

submitted 27 days ago • 475 comments

Song of the day: Life During War Time "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." My nomination for the soundtrack song of 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5...

submitted 28 days ago • 350 comments

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

submitted 29 days ago • 667 comments

New York Attorney General Letitia James is a total badass. 🙌💪👏👊👇

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

submitted 41 days ago • 2039 comments

🧪What did Felon 47 accomplish 100 days? Tanked the stock market. Displayed economic illiteracy. Crippled academic institutions and life saving science research. Went after the NIH, DEI, academic journals. Hired incompetent loyalists. Spread propaganda. We have a destructive fascist government.

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

submitted 42 days ago • 1628 comments

Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

submitted 45 days ago • 683 comments

Last Friday, Trump's EPA shut down a Biden-era website mapping locations of dangerous chemical plants.  The chemical industry, which gave over $1M to Trump's inauguration, heavily lobbied the Trump administration to scrap the website. See how this works?

submitted 45 days ago • 79 comments

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.  Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.  But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

submitted 45 days ago • 349 comments

In this moment when science is under attack, Australia offers a model of how we can make progress even in the face of massive opposition. theconversation.com/fossil-fuel-...

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