Peter Forward
@cardboardart.bsky.social
Historic house restorer, Dja Dja Wurrong country Aust. Artist concerned with species loss. Guerrilla gardener, brain haemorrhage survivor.
Gen Z knows bullshit when it is shoved down their throats. just about all their lives they have seen it and know it's stink when it comes. no matter how lovely the icing that newscorp puts on the shit sandwich they know it still is shit - with lovely icing.
"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." - Frank #Zappa
This has been thought up to circumvent the Australian voting system. Our system is excellent & makes others like the US look problematic. We should protect it. Intention to launder votes using plain dishonesty and trickery should be made illegal and punishable.
Cath A O 🦘🦘@cathamoc.bsky.social · 2mo agoRight-wing operatives have just registered a fake Victorian party called "Refugees Are Welcome Here." It's named to look progressive. But it's actually a vote-laundering operation designed to send more votes to One Nation – and under Victoria's Group Voting Ticket system, it's perfectly legal.
Personally, I blame tv shows like The Today Show, Sunrise and ABC's News Breakfast for dumbing down Australians over at least the last a couple of decades. All that infotainment. All that confected laughter. All that bullshit. End of rant. #auspol
For once I agree with Senator Canavan. He knows that renewable energy means cheaper electricity - so why are the Coalition doing everything they can to block them?
Never gets old and we need more people to stand up to this shit human head on. And when I say people, that also includes MSM journalists
Joan ofArc-ing@paisleynclouds.bsky.social · 2w ago
These things are on opposite sides of the planet but 100% connected. Human security demands we keep coal and gas in the ground.
Building submarines is the “pride of the nation” says Marles and SA Premier says the scale of the AUKUS investment is equal to 15 hospitals! I’ll take hospitals before submarines any day. Jobs building hospitals, homes, and dealing with global warming better than warmongering!
Always enjoy Labor Nat Conf. And this was a cracker. A few thousand people giving up a weekend to argue in public about how to make things better. Some of it I agree with. Some I don’t. But turning up beats sniping from the sidelines. Every time.
Ed Husic at Labor conference says he’s raising concerns about having our Defence in Israel despite the “genocide” in Gaza, military parts sent there, illegal settlements, Aussies fighting for Israel & being “potentially implicated in war crimes”💥 & dealing with them on “return”
Be careful who you're donating to. pca.st/episode/3908...
Who is Lily Jay? The Australian influencer accused of using AI in aid videos
A blonde woman stands among smiling children holding lollipops. A foundation banner hangs behind them. She announces that a new orphanage has opened in Africa. But evidence collected during an ABC…
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"We can be confident that the word 'genocide' will not appear in the revised platform at the ALP Conference." Albanese and Wong dismiss the #GazaGenocide as an 'empty slogan' to avoid the legal obligations that come with the genocide label. #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
Genocide, the word Albanese and Wong will never utter
By refusing to name genocide in Gaza, the Labor government avoids the legal and moral obligations that would follow – but not the shame of complicity.
pearlsandirritations.com
"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni." See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k
Its clear many on here hate Labor, but it has its pluses, here's 5. open.substack.com/pub/snarkygh...
Five Boring Acheivements Worth Your Sunday Arvo
Public health wins rarely go viral... they just quietly stop people dying
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Giant earthworms found in SA 'almost certainly' a new species
'Almost certainly new' species of giant earthworms found in SA
A South Australian ecologist has been tracking giant earthworm sightings for 30 years, despite the species not officially existing in the state.
abc.net.au
"But we shouldn't have had to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to make the government follow its own laws and listen to traditional owners."
Supreme Court battle over traditional owner consultation pauses flood works
The Victorian government and a regional water authority have admitted they did not property consult with traditional owners before approving a controversial flood plain restoration project.
abc.net.au
Up on ladder today painting, young fella sanding near me. Chat got to politics. "I hate that Jacinta Allan" Me. "Yeah? What about Albo?" Him. "Hate him too" Me. "So who you gonna vote for?" Him. "The good guys" Me. "Who's that" Him. "I think they're called Labor or sumthin."
Famous British comedian Rowan Atkinson: "I feel ashamed on behalf of the United Kingdom for allowing Israel to besiege two million people in Gaza, cutting off their electricity, water, and medicine, and then claiming to defend human rights." Well done!
youtube.com/shorts/MbmCJ... She goes BANG! Wipes the floor with Hegseth.
HEGSETH LEFT STUNNED
YouTube video by Tony Dortie
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💥 Sarah Henderson steamrolled after claiming she didn’t commit an offence by making non emergency test-calls to 000. Insists the law allows for it.🙄 Clogging up the emergency number for her own political gain. Disgraceful. Police should act. Otherwise anyone can do it.
"Every disease has its plant remedy somewhere on Earth. The next breakthrough for cancer, diabetes, or Alzheimer’s might be growing wild right now. Let’s protect nature. It’s protecting us. 💚"
"Labor’s challenge at Adelaide is not to produce more carefully worded resolutions that offend no one in government. Its challenge is to tell Australians what it stands for." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
Labor must remember what it stands for
In the first of a two-part series, John Menadue argues the upcoming ALP National Conference must do more than produce careful resolutions – it must confront Labor’s loss of values, membership and purp...
pearlsandirritations.com
New paper alert! We analyzed the carbon footprint of leather and found that cattle leather GHG emissions are *14 times greater* than non-animal alternatives. 🧵 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The Carbon Footprint of Leather: A Comprehensive Reassessment Using Global Livestock Data and Meta-Analysis
Product designers and manufacturers lack robust and regionally representative information on the greenhouse gas (GHG) or “carbon” footprints of leather textiles. This study presents a meta-analysis of...
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