So thrilled by this!

Paula Wasiak@paulawasiak.bsky.social · 23h ago

🎉 First wild-hatched bush stone-curlew chicks on Milawul, Phillip Island in 50 years 🎉

The message is clear: "We at National took three years to shear a sheep, starting from the arse, but only got halfway and now we would like your permission to shear the front please. Furthermore, we pledge to only need another term to finish the job, so please don't vote for us in three years."

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine@dimsie.bsky.social · 3w ago

What actually IS the job National is supposed to be doing? Are we shearing the sheep or are we growing the sheep's wool to shear it later? Did National do the daggy bits or did Labour? Which party is the rousie? Did anyone drench the sheep? I AM DEEPLY CONFUSED BY THIS MESSAGING #nzpol

There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years

ICE is terrorizing our city and our communities. They’ve just shot someone with a five-year-old in the car. There is no justification for this or their presence in New York. ICE out of NYC. #abolishice. Image via @gothamist.com

Shocked this country famous for lynchings, strangling Black men on the street, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders & arming genocides everywhere is doing a public execution by gunfire. This is NOT the American way.

"What Australia would rather not talk about" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260910-what-australia-would-rather-not-talk-about

Fair warning. On Insiders Sunday Morning, David Spears will have Angus Taylor on to rehash an Aussie favourite, wog bashing. Started by NSW in 1815 & accelerated in 1831 by UKs Emigration Commission to relieve overpopulation & social unrest at 'home' while supplying free labour to the colonies... 2/

Six years ago I put cardboard and mulch on the lawn and transformed it into a native garden

Love this!

Seth Rosenthal@sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

several times a day I descend a staircase that’s sized and spaced perfectly for me to perform the In The Air Tonight drum fill with my feet. and I think that’s nice. it’s the little things people!!!

I grieved for the Internet, I grieved for Social Media, now I grieve for universities, and their communities. This is all part of a mass-dismantling of social connection (and university leaders have been blithe to their part). What does that leave? We all become selfish? Not why I work at a uni…

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'In some respects, what we are seeing resembles a form of collective grief. Not only grief for colleagues who have left, but grief for ways of working, professional identities and communities that once gave meaning to academic life. This creates an important challenge for university leaders.'

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

PHON and racists take note.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.

Terrifying!

Scroll@scroll.in · 2mo ago

Ibrahim Sheikh, 61, asserted that he was Indian, but the men who came to his home said they had information that he was Bangladeshi. scroll.in/article/1095... “They did not show us any written document or police complaint against him and took him away” Rokibuz Zaman reports

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

Media Diversified@writersofcolour.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more?

My first go at making Ambade or Indian hog plum curry. I salted the peeled plums and left them for half an hour. Heated up oil and added mustard seeds and curry leaves. Added the ambade and water and simmered it for 10 minutes. Adding a masala paste of coconut, green chilli and turmeric.

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

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 · 3mo ago

Arson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’

Surprise, surprise. "There is no indication at all that those people currently planning for the future role of Northern Australia in future wars...have given any consideration to the views of the resident Indigenous communities whose country they are dealing with."

Maranoa Girl@maranoagirl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Henry Reynolds: Australia champions Indigenous rights internationally, yet the militarisation of northern Australia raises urgent questions about consultation, consent and the use of Indigenous lands for defence purposes. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...

"...the current political climate and rhetoric about immigration from the far right has a part to play in the increase in racism experienced by NHS staff. "

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'A survey of 381 members of the Society of Radiographers revealed a “noticeable” rise in instances of overt racism experienced and witnessed by radiographers across the health service over the past 18 months.' This has been actively enabled by politicians and media. That's a choice being made.

It literally takes a village to be a person. No one is self-made.

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Hmmm just like all kinds of care work huh? "Australia is wealthy and has a huge variety of species. Almost half the economy has a moderate to very high reliance on nature. But spending on conservation is very low."

Bin Chicken@binchicken9000.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"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."

"South Africa knows, all too well, how oppression weaponises education, because apartheid used schooling to control Black possibility..." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters the person saying it. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

We must name racism when it happens | E-Tangata

"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters him." — M...

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"Chinese people may have supplied labour, they were denied citizenship...voting rights, pensions, and welfare benefits. This is the New Zealand “democracy” that Winston Peters is reviving. The kind of democracy which is racist and limited to the “right” people"

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

From MZ and @asians4tino.bsky.social "To me, this issue is less about foreign diplomacy, offending China, or jeopardising trade relations. I’m more concerned about the further escalation of racial abuse against migrants of colour in Aotearoa."

Where can I get one?

Colin McGowan@csmcgowan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The middle-aged lady next door, who maintains a pretty impressive garden of shrubs and flowers, is wearing a Plantifa shirt. I was not previously familiar with her game.

Truth.

Emma Balkind@emmabalkind.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'while we sell ourselves in fractions. they don't want us all at once, but hour by hour, piece by piece.' Karen Brodine bsky.app/profile/tath...

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

Reading, expanding our thinking, our hearts and our worlds.

Want a peek at the third edition? I've contributed two chapters. www.ruthdesouza.com/2026/07/22/t...