Climate disaster and record fossil fuel profits because of a war? How did that happen! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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It's difficult for words to convey just how disappointing this NSW Govt decision really is. Apparently, some kinds of hate deserve criminal punishment, while others don't. And the main difference seems to be whether faith groups are doing the hating. #nswpol #auslaw www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
NSW government rejects own inquiry’s hate speech findings after months of delay
The Minns government will ignore the key recommendation of its own inquiry into hate speech laws.
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Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.
I just want to look at this all day. Alt text missing: a hallway at dusk, big windows cast their shadows over paintings of birds, biggest one of a Dodo. A girl holds a small painting from which the birds on it escaped, flying off to the end of the hallway.
ivyteas@ivyteas.bsky.social · 5mo agorequiem for vanished birdsong
Imagine paying BMW money to get treated like you're watching YouTube without logging in first.
852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterdayThis sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.
thinking about buying a new notebook. does anyone know which notebook will fix whatever is wrong with me this time
Property damage and graffiti, directed at a corporation that manufactures lethal weaponry, no humans harmed or endangered. “Terror”.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayArson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’
One aged care won't take mum because she's can no longer walk/stand and needs two people for hoisting and cares. Which is basically disability discrimination. But since it's aged care 🤷
We have zero confidence that DEWR can safely or lawfully administer the TCF – it's not possible. Yet again DEWR acting in bad faith with no regard for the human cost of compulsory activities, and they aren't offering any meaningful compensation to people who had their payment cancelled unlawfully.
Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 16h ago#BREAKING 🚨 The new DEWR Secretary announced they'll seek to resume suspending or cancelling welfare payments on October 26 in respect of: • Refusal or failure to accept an offer of suitable work • Failure to 'reconnect' with a provider within 4 weeks www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...
‘Three sources familiar with the government's thinking told the ABC the minister had been preparing a package of measures to achieve a quick and drastic cut to net migration.’
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayTony Burke delays National Press Club speech expected to reveal migration cuts
‘Also expected was a restriction on the rights of humanitarian visa applicants to work while their claims were assessed, and to appeal rejections of their claims. A similar proposal has been floated by the Coalition and One Nation…’
Kon Karapanagiotidis@kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is so deeply disturbing to read, If it eventuates it would in essence be One Nation now running immigration policy for the Albanese Government and them abandoning migrants and refugees in a desperate attempt to win votes. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Statement from DEWR Secretary on resuming paused components of the Targeted Compliance Framework for jobseekers and compensation payments: www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...
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"In 2019, researchers estimated Australia had over 20,000 volunteer wildlife carers, each of whom spend an average of $5,300 of their own money on food and equipment annually (about $100 million in total). On average, each volunteer put in 32 hours a week."
Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d agoThis article is excellent. It speaks volumes about how governments take so many in the environmental and conservation sectors and communities for granted theconversation.com/australia-ha.... As H5N1 begins to spread and devastate Australian wildlife the dire consequences of this are evident.
Community organisations are already doing everything they can to support people seeking asylum experiencing or facing homelessness. This #HomelessnessWeek it's time for the federal and state governments to act. www.refugeecouncil.org.au/homelessness...
Homelessness Week 2026: A crisis we can fix
The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is marking Homelessness Week by calling for a safe place to call home to become a reality for everyone in Australia,
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Public urged to avoid hospital unless ‘life might be in danger’ after record day for Sydney emergency departments
Public urged to avoid hospital unless ‘life might be in danger’ after record day for Sydney emergency departments
Winter flu season is putting pressure on the health system, with medical staff bracing for the ‘worst three weeks of the year’ Sick patients in New South Wales have been told to avoid the emergency room unless their life is at risk after a record day for winter presentations put the hospital system under strain. The New South Wales health minister, Ryan Park, said just under 10,000 people presented to emergency departments in Sydney on Monday, the “biggest ever recorded winter day in history”. It was around 1,000 more people than the average. Continue reading...
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For a local comparison, Australia's corporate tax rates: 1987: 49% 1990: 39% 2025: 30% That's a whole lot of corporate income that is going to corporations and not to citizens. Source: statbase.org/data/aus-cor...
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Why don't people understand that my very reasonable request is that they are quiet always??
The political right in Australia used the same talking points after the Black Summer Bushfires, with two additions: the fires were the work of arsonists and/or the Greens for curbing forestry activities, and "Australia is a land of extremes, it has always burned. What of it?"
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d agoThis (from the @wsj.com Editorial Board) distills every denialist trope there is: It implies climate change isn’t exacerbating extreme weather. It calls solutions “costly … nostrums.” It fosters doomerism. And it suggests we can just adapt to or “manage” climate impacts. How is this journalism?
A ceremonial dog dance welcomed Bluey onto country.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoIn pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone'
WWII shells surface in wildfire-ravaged French village Around 400 shells and pieces of ammunition have been recovered in the area where over 180 homes were ravaged by flames u.afp.com/SHUK
Huge property for sale in Tasmania in core swift parrot breeding habitat if there’s any philanthropists out there seeking to protect some birds and bush! Lake Leake is an important site for parrots but the broader landscape is being savagely logged www.realestate.com.au/property-lif...
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Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
It is entirely fitting that Victoria’s new Minister for AI is also the Minister for Racing
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
