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Eat, read, sleep, repeat. Bots get reported and blocked, so don't bother. Antitheist. Currently reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; The Cartographer by Peter Twohig
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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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Congrats to @bsky.app and all the users and team that make it unique ! 32m users is real !

A very powerful #climate opinion piece by Tim Winton on disastrous global warming driven bleaching of Ningaloo Reef - calling out the support of @walabor.bsky.social govt. for increased greenhouse emissions from Woodside’s LNG Burrup Hub operations through 2070. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

So Dutton reckons he’ll match Labor’s spending on Medicare. So I sent him this🤣🤣🤣Ian

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

I wonder what the Murdochs will have to say now that Donald is going after the Australian legislation they had the government implement to make social media companies pay news organisations for published content... #auspol

Watch as Labor gets more scrutiny over $8.5b for health than Dutton gets over his $600b nuclear fiasco. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

The #SundayShot streaming live right now, with the always excellent Josh Bornstein as a guest, hosted by Jo Dyer and Dave Milner. (Main interview to come at end of program I think) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJcm...

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

200 million dollars of waste.

I hadn’t seen this before but I’ve always had a deep mistrust of Sales and now I feel..my radar is 99.999999999% accurate

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Recommended read: A @theguardian.com interactive mapped the record heat experienced by two-thirds of the Earth’s surface in 2024.

Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports.

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social WHAT IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE IS THIS

I am tired of this horseshit. BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

Temperature records are being broken for February for absolutely no reason whatsoever. It's a complete mystery that is baffling scientists; it seems to be something that has emerged without any cause whatsoever known to humankind www.nrk.no/nordland/fle...

These are just the statements on record. Do you trust these people, #auspol? Whose songsheet are they singing from?

Trump's KGB Codename: Krasnov

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Yes, Musk reposted a meme calling Americans who use federal programs the "Parasite Class."

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

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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

Bits of dead farmed salmon are washing up on beaches kms away from pens but.. “The EPA would not say how much antibiotic was being used by Huon, citing "commercial in confidence". Water flows. This should be transparent. How far away does the impact spread in natural ecosystems?

Google are absolute PR masters when it comes to stuff like this. Remember how there was an entire Dev Patel movie about how great Google Earth is at finding long lost relatives The BBC completely leaves out that the research institute is in a partnership w/ Google! web.archive.org/web/20250221...

The dumbest of the dumb. The stupidity of The 'Tiser is staggering.

Unidentified chunks update: “Most likely explanation” is that it was oil that had been “liberated” from dead fish, and congealed. Yum!! Thanks for giving this the environmental green light, Albo

If you're watching Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix, it's worth learning about the role of commercial media in Aus in failing to vet or investigate Gibson's story www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Dutton's vile racist lie that the Govt was bringing in Palestinians from Gaza to vote in the election is made worse by the fact Dutton served as Home Affairs Minister. He knows people must be lawful residents for 4yrs before they can even apply for citizenship! 😠 #racism #auspol #AusVotes2025

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All dystopias make themselves invisible by becoming the “new normal”: a tolerable form of pain no one ever dares describe as a “dystopia”, given they have nothing to compare it to

"High climate sensitivity implies a large contribution from amplifying feedbacks: water vapour, surface albedo (sea ice/snow) and clouds." "(...) our main concern is the danger of passing the point of no return, when the warming induces shutdown of the AMOC..."

Marles at last saying the quiet bit out loud....not sure it's too welcome though.