Ie move all this amazing potential out of the right wing billionaire/capitalist sphere of influence so it could become a community that is not based around algorithms designed for outrage & to keep us scrolling (to sell advertising) 
2/3 #auspol

..but a publicly-owned social media designed for community, friendship, mutual care, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas and fun. Now that would be something worth voting for. 3/3 #auspol

Just thinking if Albo really wanted to do something about social media harms, maybe invest govt money in tech and hosting of a publicly-owned social media system ... 1/3
#auspol

an amazing love story, right to the end -

Jane Caro@janecaro.bsky.social · last yr.

This is wonderful. I cried. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Can the media please focus on why Australia approves fossil fuel extraction projects to give it away to foreign companies for free so they can add CO2 to the atmosphere to cause weather disasters that kill & displace Australians…? Seems like an important topic #auspol

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · last yr.

Australia Institute research has found that 73% of gas exported from WA attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free. Over the last four years, $111 billion worth of WA LNP was exported australiainstitute.org.au/post/zero-ro...

This government approving the further destruction of Murujuga will devastate rock art over 50000 years old and add momentum to climate collapse for every future generation. They’re pulling off the most epoch spanning crime in human history. So congrats I guess.

Send a sign: post & tag @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social w/ #notinourname, #letgazalive or #endthegenocide. If you’re Jewish, take a selfie w/ a sign saying JEWS SAY STOP STARVING GAZA or JEWS SAY END THE GENOCIDE. If you’re not Jewish, take one w LET GAZA LIVE. Thxyou ❤️ @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social

Note to Gina Rinehart. Stand for office in a free and fair election. See how you get on. Otherwise, STFU.

Exactly!!

"'Coral reefs are known as the rainforests of the sea because of their high concentration of biodiversity that supports about a third of all marine species and a billion people." -- heartbreaking. Thank you @lisacox.bsky.social for this sad & informative piece #ClimateActionNow #CarefulWhoYouVoteFor

Lisa Cox@lisacox.bsky.social · 2y ago

‘As if a silent snowfall has descended’: more than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by historic bleaching event

I do feel inordinately happy when I get Square Words in 5 --

Had this little poem, called 'The Pine Forest' in the latest issue of The Marrow. Lots of international goodies in this relatively new journal, all available to read here -- www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-three-... ..and some backstory to this poem at - bethspen.substack.com/p/pine-needl...

utter vandalism. Follow @datarescueproject.org for updates

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

My son is looking forward to voting in his first election. If you know of any 18yos that aren’t registered yet, they have a week to do so. #Auspol.

I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?

The Government is rushing changes through Parliament set to weaken environmental protection laws and benefit destructive industries. Today, 50 environment organisations have joined an open letter demanding that these changes are rejected. Published in The Aus, Cbr Times, Fin Review, SMH & the Age.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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media.tenor.com

“Essential reading.” - Bugs B. “Utter garbage.” - Daffy D.

This was a lovely surprise at my local library. (Great company to be in!) It's World Poetry Day/Month - so check out your library and borrow some #poetry books so they know to keep stocking them, and maybe they'll do displays like this more often.

Maturing is realizing that you did hold the flashlight right. your dad was just mad he couldn't do whatever it was he was working on.

ABC's 7.30 in Nov asserted falsely that poverty in Australia was worsening under the Albanese Govt. The segment failed to disclose that the appalling research findings it presented were collected several years before #Labor took office. #auspol independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately

A recent interview on ABC was the subject of a formal complaint. The official response from the national broadcaster is even more problematic.

independentaustralia.net

Did you hear about the Greens new arts policy? We will: - Pilot a living wage for 10,000 artists - Put an artist in residence in every public school and library - $2bn investment in the arts over a decade - $300 million capital fund to expand and renew arts infrastructure

I remember Albo saying that our relationship with China has “changed”, & that’s why we need AUKUS. I would argue our relationship with the US has also changed which is why we should dump AUKUS. TBH, in 40 years time, surviving climate is going to the main issue. What do you think?

Back on Sub-stack after a break - with 2 poems, one from Best of Australian Poems, and the other from 100 Poets (Flying Islands) - 'The trees shimmy / with an invisible clutch of life... a white-trousered parrot inspects / a drunken coven of witches hats' ...& a bit of this and that.

Calibrating renewal in tears, gardens, reflection: who can measure such joy & sorrows? 💙these shapes 🙏🏽 www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-three-...

According to a now-outdated report from UNICEF, more than 14,500 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct 7th 2023, including 700+ infants. 25,000 children injured or maimed. 17,000 children have become orphaned or separated from their parents. Over a million children have been displaced.

I do love these guys.

Imagine if the Whitlam govt had caved to criticism about Blue Poles in 1973. We need Arts ministers and Arts Boards to lead, not bow down to the loudest voices in the media and those who don't care about art but just want to score political points. www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/17/k...

Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry

If conservative media is going to dictate cultural policy, Australian culture will face a reckoning.

crikey.com.au

Reality is a little bizarre for all of us these days: