Dave Bath
@davebath.bsky.social
Greybeard leftie West Victorian. Biologist by training, computer nerd from punched paper tape days, until body said "nope". Soothed by Bach & hopes of seeing Cats AFLW flag. Addicted to ratsack.
If I say ethnosupremacists who support or commit genocidal actions are evil, and you feel offended, assert that I'm racist towards your ethnic group, then you've made both a confession about yourself, and a racist generalization I didn't make - claimed jeans on the rack are yours, bespoke.
The wonderful Mary Beard interviews Count Binface (who did classics) on the nature of democracy and the difference between modern "democracy", athenian democracy, the late Roman Republic, and what Binface calls the "legitimized oligarchy" of modern times. youtu.be/FfMvbdroAQM
Classic Chats: Count Binface (Bonus episode)
YouTube video by Instant Classics
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BIRD FLU: Preventing human infection: www.cdc.gov.au/diseases/bir... Signs of infected birds and reporting: www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...
I won't fill the census form until the morning after census night. Over the last year, there've been too many months in hospital, too many ambo trips to ED, to assume yet I won't spend the night covered in sticky dots.
Best hip and shoulder of the AFLW Australia v Ireland International - by Ireland's Vikki Wall - a thing of beauty www.afl.com.au/aflw/video/1...
‘Feeling every bone in her body’: Roberts rocked by brick Wall
Vikki Wall flattens Ella Roberts with a crunching bump to add another highlight to an enthralling game
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If you want to watch the AFLW Ireland v Australia, you need to create a Kayo login but don't need to hand over a credit card. 3.45 pm today. Wouldn't want to be between Kearns and the ball when she's playing for the Cats, let alone Ireland.
"Our governments start talking about values when our interests no longer converge" says Hugh White (talking with Sam Roggeveen) I'd suggest this observation should be applied to many other contexts rather than White's insight into the spinning of foreign policy.
That explains the stench from behind the closed doors of Liberal Party offices - it's fresh dead bodies to go with all the old skeletons in the closets. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
New page to subscribe to more discriminating space weather warnings/alerts (fewer "might be pissy aurora you can't see", more "decent chance of aurora, satellite glitches, or USA falsely detecting a Chinese missile on the way and pushing a big red button") www.sws.bom.gov.au/Products_and...
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In the context of the Late Bronze Age Collapse context Nolan points to (but would have been pilloried even more if including LBA polycrisis dominoes such as climate shifts, crop failures, and brittle international supply chains) a Dark Side in politicians presages a Dark Age. Is Xenia Light Side?
@davemilbo.bsky.social from @theshot.net.au interviews @davidshoebridge.bsky.social at Pine Gap, who says he gets Labor politicians quietly asking him, fearfully, "What would the US do to us if we tried to disentangle?", a tacit admission the US is the REAL threat. youtu.be/s5VZ7FXnzPw?...
"Murdoched" and Raiding Pine Gap - July 26 - Andrew Dodd, Matthew Ricketson, David Shoebridge
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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No TLDR. Deserves to be read in full. It's Green, so is about as trustworthy a voice in politics as you can get. antonygreen.com.au/2026-victori...
2026 Victorian Election Pendulum
Victoria’s state election on 28 November will see voters pass judgment on Premier Jacinta Allen’s unpopular government and 12 years of Labor rule. Most recent Victorian opinion polls re…
antonygreen.com.au
Between classics and astronomy nerds, an historically accurate Odyssey has Antinous getting his just desserts 16 April 1178 BCE, about lunchtime, during an eclipse. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey? | PNAS
Plutarch and Heraclitus believed a certain passage in the 20th book of the Odyssey (“Theoclymenus's prophecy”) to be a poetic description of a tota...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41... - looks like the coming El Niño is going to be the worst on record. As if food prices weren't bad enough with the Americans creating havoc across the globe.
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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When you can't get food into your mouth because it's too rubbery and tough to bite into, hit the food with your head at high speed so your food explodes into nibble-sized pieces. youtu.be/mN0yxiRSXGU
Orcas filmed making sunfish explode
YouTube video by New Scientist
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Won't say Nolan is a theatre immortal, but maybe he is, in part, using Homer's story from just before the Late Bronze Age Collapse like Euripides did, during the Peloponnesian War, in "Trojan Women". The wiliest, an Odysseus, but not an Agamemnon, can interpret the tea leaves of polycrises.
Even the RC for Zionism couldn't refuse evidence laid out from the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General. And that evidence, naturally, points out that Segal, Australia's Commissar for GoodThought, told, um, counterfactuals. michaelwest.com.au/un-refutes-j...
UN refutes Jillian Segal's Gaza death toll claim before Royal Commission - Michael West
A spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres has rejected Special Envoy Jillian Segal's claim of a "grossly inflated" death toll in Gaza
michaelwest.com.au
If you want to see the conservative right go bonkers about a "woke" swords and sandals epic, you do a 100% historically accurate account of the Sacred Band of Thebes (the crack unit entirely of male lovers) whopping Pete Hegseth's beloved Spartans 4-0 over about a century.
