Overlizard
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Power corrupts. I rarely indicate sarcasm - you do the work. I block accounts that disable replies and/or quotes. Living on the unceded dja dja wurrung country of the djaara people.
The far right operates in exactly the same way all over the world. Regional governments led by VOX (the Trump-aligned party in Spain) have also dismissed many forest firefighters.
papaesoco.bsky.social@papaesoco.bsky.social · yesterdayWildfires Are Sweeping North America. Trump Fired the People Who Fight Them. truthout.org/articles/wil...
I don’t subscribe but this is straight facts Remember they are testing this on us up here in the NT (&QLD) before it all rolls out down south #auspol
The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 14h ago“I have watched the CLP inflict decades worth of damage without accountability, re-writing the playbook for punitive, extractive governments Australia-wide in the process,” writes NT independent Justine Davis. trib.al/Ejf43P3
Nothing to Hide? Everything to Lose. Palantir and Cellebrite being gifted access to public and private data by Labor @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/robodebt-enc...
Robodebt encore? Palantir lurks as MPs shirk vote, NDIS Bill passes - Michael West
Politicians went AWOL from Parliament by the dozen on the NDIS vote amid denials about automation and Palantir's role. Is this Robobdebt II?
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Think I better go buy me a flag...
David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · 18h agoThe criminalisation of burning the Australian flag is back on the NewsCorp front pages with a Coalition pledge. George Christensen had a go in 2016 with a private member's bill. Phillip Thompson in 2025 & 2026. John Howard actually opposed criminalising it. #auspol www.theage.com.au/national/pm-...
If approved, a Sydney facility will pump millions of litres of treated wastewater, equivalent to 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools, into Parramatta River per day to service a growing population.
Proposal to pump 70m litres of treated wastewater into Parramatta River
If approved, a Sydney facility will pump millions of litres of treated wastewater, equivalent to 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools, into Parramatta River per day to service a growing population.
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Scientists tagged thousands of bogong moths using paper and eyelash glue in an attempt to track their flight path. Now they cannot find a single one.
Scientists optimistic despite losing 14,000 tagged bogong moths
Scientists tagged thousands of bogong moths using paper and eyelash glue in an attempt to track their flight path. Now they cannot find a single one.
abc.net.au
Coles cuts ties with controversial CIA-linked data giant Palantir www.smh.com.au/technology/c...
Coles cuts ties with controversial CIA-linked data giant Palantir
The 2024 deal handed the Peter Thiel-founded company 10 billion rows of data covering every store, shift and one of Australia’s largest workforces.
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For those still confused about whether we should call what’s happening in the U.S. ‘fascism’: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
I’m 54 and I have no memory of Republicans caring about their fellow human beings
Sue Carr@scarr54.bsky.social · yesterdayHe never wants disabled in his rooms or in front of a camera. He especially hates disabled veterans b/c he doesn’t want to see that. He thinks disabled, sick & diseased people shouldn’t be allowed in public. He’s fired the disabled veterans working for the govt b/c they shouldn’t be seen at all.
This will come as no surprise to anyone following along here, but it’s a good (free) read. “We have arrived in a new age of disorder. We must prepare ourselves, beginning with being honest about the seriousness of the moment we’re in.” It seems like the NYT has finally got it.
Opinion | A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.
We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.
nytimes.com
Once again, louder for the people in the back… “Following orders is not a legal defense.” It didn’t work at Nuremberg for the Nazis, it didn’t work after My Lai, and it isn’t going to work for the “drug boat” bombings nor the terrorizing kidnappings by ICE. www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...
How a Nazi trial ended the just-following-orders defense for US troops
After Nuremberg, U.S. military policy stated troops have a duty to disobey orders “a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know to be illegal."
militarytimes.com
Oh my god, someone took the fully mapped brain off a fruit fly that was released by Google and loaded it into a Minecraft simulation.
Capping off an historic summer, August 2026 also becomes the hottest August on record in London. An average temperature of 21.6C at LHR which is +3C above 1991-2020 climo. It is the 5th consecutive month to break a monthly record like this, we've never seen anything close to this.
"In a statement issued on Tuesday... Kordofan Human Rights Observatory says cholera has spread to the areas of Um Jak, Hameer, Um Raqil, & Shaq El Kidad in El Idai locality. It records at least 10 deaths & 40 infections over Sunday & Monday." www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/... #Sudan #SudanNews
10 dead as WHO flags Sudan’s West Kordofan ‘latest cholera outbreak hotspot’ - Dabanga Radio TV Online
At least 10 people have died and more than 40 have been infected with cholera...
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Based on location done by UAE-backed RSF: '...trucks were hit outside Dilling on 30 August while carrying WFP assistance to Kadugli.... “More than 50 tonnes of food were destroyed... enough to provide life-saving assistance to 5800 people for a month,” www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/... #Sudan
Air strike destroys WFP food aid trucks in Sudan’s Kordofan - Dabanga Radio TV Online
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned an aerial attack on two trucks carrying...
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"On September 2, #Israeli settlers & soldiers stormed the homes of Palestinian shepherds in al-Mughayyir & attempted to steal their sheep. When villagers protested, Israeli soldiers shot & killed.. 19-year-old Omar al-Naasan & 16-year-old Khalil Shehadeh." truthout.org/articles/isr... #Israel #News
Israeli Settlers Have Imposed a Curfew and Blocked the Entrance to This West Bank Village
The village of al-Mughayyir is on the front line of encroachments by the Israeli army and armed settlers.
truthout.org
when the product quality is so bad it causatively contributes to harm, injury, and death, GenAi producers *might* ultimately be ordered to repay some of the costs they shifted onto grieving families and the public after lengthy, traumatising, expensive litigation. futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
futurism.com
Australia cannot deny its share of the climate catastrophe pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...
Australia cannot deny its share of the climate catastrophe
Bob Brown says Australia cannot keep expanding fossil fuel production while denying its share of responsibility for the mounting human toll of climate change.
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#FreePalestine Get the fkers to the Hague
The Hind Rajab Foundation@hindrajabfoundation.be · 5d agoRubin photographed himself standing on the rubble of Palestine Square and inside the destroyed a mosque in Gaza City, openly associating himself with the destruction in Gaza. HRF calls on Greek authorities to investigate, question, and take all necessary measures to prevent him from leaving Greece.
@australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social Get off your arse and Sanction Israel expel diplomats Freeze trade And clean out your Zionist lobbyists THE WORLD HAS HAD A GUTFULL OF SPINELESS WESTERN LEADERS THAT DO NOTHING AT THEIR NEXT ELECTIONS THEY WILL PAY DEARLY FOR SIDING WITH ISRAEL
Raimo Kangasniemi@rk70534.bsky.social · 5d ago"Ramy Abdu, chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, identified Abdullah Ahmed Hamouda, 13, as one of the three children killed in the Al-Katiba attack. Abdu said Israeli warplanes killed Abdullah and wounded dozens of civilians."
Is this an Israel we can still trade with? Former UK diplomat Sir Jeremy Greenstock just said what Britain’s establishment won’t: Israel’s actions in Palestine violate international law. They’re unacceptable to most of the British public. And they’ve gone far beyond anything many of us expected —
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On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another.
Is Australia banning import of foods from the US? If it were any other nation we would. The collapse of US government, society and the economy shows the US is no longer a viable, reliable or trustworthy state. Why have biosecurity otherwise? (Also: screwworms!)
🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀@onefussyone.bsky.social · 3d agoThe simple act of eating in the U.S. has never been so dangerous and complicated as it is now. Every damned day brings a new threat. FFS, you'd think we were living in a third world country. www.newsweek.com/berry-recall...
It's very telling that they just do this shit without giving anybody time to back things up or archive them.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d agoBET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
Putin is now getting in the face of Denmark. Imagine that. What a surprise. He works two ends from the middle. Donald was doing that at the beginning of his term, with Netanyahu and Putin. Putin isn't just helping himself, he is either baiting Trump, or helping him. We shall see what developers.
AI billionaire-funded Super PACs will spend millions in the home stretch of the midterms to crush the anti-data center revolt in battleground states. And that's just a drop in the bucket compared to how much these oligarchs would rake in from the AI takeover.
