My therapist really loves bureaucratic overreach, she's even trying to regulate my nervous system

Taking a deep breath of Dharug Country air and on the exhale I can say: from the river to the sea

Hey mates, it's RADIOTHON, 4ZZZ's big annual subscriber drive. Subscribing between 7th-16th August gets you in the running to win a bunch of prizes (list here: 4zzz.org.au/radiothon), but even more importantly, you get the warm inner glow of supporting local, fiercely independent, community media 🥰

The scouring of Barrambin. Trees were torn down as work on an Olympic stadium got underway. Save Victoria Park claimed to have witnessed distressing scenes of possums & birds scattering from the trees as they came down, they also suggested no wildlife spotters were there during this process. #qldpol

"Imagine AI was suddenly banned"

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

We cannot trust a single thing they say about cost, timeliness, access, legacy, env protections, respect for Aboriginal people and culture, public consultation, privacy. They say what needs to be said to get the next fence built, the next hole dug, & the next dollar extracted #NOlympicsBNE

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Crisafulli government has removed Indigenous people from Barrambin, locked out the public & sent in the machinery. As if the "public consultation" period wasn't enough of a farce, all that "green space" Premier David Crisafulli promised is scheduled to begin in 2042. #qldpol

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David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Crisafulli government has removed Indigenous people from Barrambin, locked out the public & sent in the machinery. As if the "public consultation" period wasn't enough of a farce, all that "green space" Premier David Crisafulli promised is scheduled to begin in 2042. #qldpol

As we tonight watch David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie pompously parade around the screen, in Brisbane between 1 July 2025 & 30 June 2026, there were 984 families, including 1,539 children, identified by name as homeless. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

More than 1,500 Brisbane children listed as experiencing homelessness

In the last financial year, 984 families, including 1,539 children, were identified as experiencing homelessness in data collated by Brisbane Zero.

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Maddening! They closed the whole park a month ago without even having a plan. Now they pretend propose a forest and restored waterways (pre-olympics masterplan) with a stadium in the middle. Inevitably when they run out of money, they can cancel the forest and waterways... No stadium! #NOlympics

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · 2w ago

A new Games stadium was never part of the original plan but it looks like Australians are about to get hit with more funding requests from David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie. They won't detail the total cost of their Colosseum but the $7.1b budget isn't going to cover it. #qldpol

it's amazing to hear your boss of 7 years acknowledge that staff are chronically overworked and just shrug helplessly about it.

Amazing work on radio reversal educating us on why the Olympics are not a win for the hosting city. I recommend the whole #NOlympics committee meetings series with more to come Me think it is likely to be even worse for Brisbane because LNP is in power for most of the crucial decision making years

Nat Osborne she/her@drnatosborne.bsky.social · 4w ago

Booooooooooo!!! Anyway: here's Anna and I talking about narrative capture and NOlympics pca.st/episode/4702... #NOlympicsBNE

my god when it comes to Olympics research, people really do just say shit

Booooooooooo!!! Anyway: here's Anna and I talking about narrative capture and NOlympics pca.st/episode/4702... #NOlympicsBNE

Episode 34 NOlympics Committee 2032 #3 Fighting Fascism & Olympics Fatalism LIVE from Barrambin

Welcome to the third meeting of the 2032 NOlympics Committee! In this episode, join Anna & Nat on an excursion to Ibis Island where they give a talk on fascism & olympics fatalism, and how we…

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ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Brisbane City Council has installed a countdown clock to mark the milestone, while an iconic Kangaroo mascot has returned in Moreton Bay.

I am absolutely BEGGING all of you: please, please, PLEASE stop sharing lies and disinformation from these slop-accounts This is NOT TRUE. Australia's government is actually laying the groundwork for even worse fossil fueled data centres.

How odd: the federal opposition, QLD gov't, the data centre lobby and a random corporate lobbyist all saying data centres shouldn't be subject to climate regulations, all within days. Must just be a coincidence :)

More @radioreversal.bsky.social eps to come on the NOlympics movement here in Magan-djin/brisbane - this Thurs we'll be playing a live discussion Anna & I recorded with the Ibisa Collective, surrounded by fences at Barrambin, on the Olympics as 'narrative capture'. For now, you can catch up here:

Episode 29 Introducing the NOlympics 2032 Committee

In this episode, Nat & Anna discuss the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, and why being a host city is, overwhelmingly, a bad thing for the city and a worse thing for a city's poorer and more marginalised

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Told my GP I thought I was doing pretty well, she informed me that I "looked like I was having a hard time". Like, yes, but also that might just be what I look like

On that note - Magan-djin (brisbane) folks, Paperbark Zine Fair is on Saturday 25th July, 12pm-5pm, Jagera Hall 💌❤️‍🔥

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

Approach zine making the same way that you made blog posts 10 years ago. Do you have an opinion that maybe 8 friends and like 3 strangers might be interested in? An answer to a question that's infrequently asked? A rant you could turn into a tight 5? that's zine material right there, buds

I go to two different gyms and there is no way the kg at one gym are the same as the kg at the other

I am.chuffed to have been highly commended for the 2026 Patricia Grimshaw Prize, awarded to the best article in @ahsjournal.bsky.social from 2024-5. You can read the offending piece open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

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imagine bragging about your state's capacity to incarcerate children

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · last mo.

"A new rhyme to fix crime." Queensland Premier David Crisafulli & Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber insist the state has enough capacity to incarcerate more children if they breach bail. Criminologists warn the youth detention system leads to greater problems. #qldpol

What happens when the Qld mine is no longer viable & the company goes into receivership? The Palaszczuk govt implemented the financial provisioning scheme in 2019 to address some of that. Miners have been lobbying the Crisafulli govt to repeal it. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fears Queenslanders could be forced to pay for mine cleanup as LNP reviews environmental ‘red tape’

Mining minister Dale Last says the state has an ‘enormous opportunity’ to become a global leader in critical minerals

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Absolutely astonishing revelations at ICAC about the University of Wollongong, where the Chancellor has now resigned and the former interim vice-chancellor John Dewar has admitted working to help his consultancy Korda Mentha get extra work while in the job www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

University's chancellor quits as ICAC inquiry continues

The University of Wollongong chancellor, Michael Still, has resigned as the state's corruption watchdog continues to investigate allegations of improper governance, recruitment decisions and consultan...

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"Cross-cultural encounters can remind us that a life of endless drudgery, precarity, hyper-competitive individualism and spiritual impoverishment under capitalism is not the only option on the table"

Jonathan Sriranganathan@js.jonathansri.com.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

There's much more to cultural pluralism than the stuff that's packaged up for consumption at multicultural festivals

you know, CAPTCHA, I actually don't think the activity coming from my computer is all that unusual

Sarah speaks powerfully to my experience, as well. The lateral violence, the silencing, the weaponising of trauma to defend the indefensible and divert the conversation from what Israel is doing to what we’re allowed to say about it… The Royal Commission will fail if it refuses to confront this

As an Australian Jew who publicly supports Palestinian freedom, I’m targeted by my own community – and neo-Nazis | Sarah Schwartz

Jews should be able to criticise the actions of Israel without risking exclusion from communal life

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“Over the past two years I have spoken to countless Jewish people who feel unable to express their political convictions without risking public exposure, family rupture or exclusion from communal life.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As an Australian Jew who publicly supports Palestinian freedom, I’m targeted by my own community – and neo-Nazis | Sarah Schwartz

Jews should be able to criticise the actions of Israel without risking exclusion from communal life

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'Church property records obtained by Guardian Australia show the Christian Brothers has spent the past decade transferring vast wealth – including holdings of land, school buildings and multimillion-dollar homes > www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Like being ‘stabbed in the back’: abuse survivors left without trials after Christian Brothers’ unprecedented legal tactic

Order wants to set up its own scheme outside of court to pay survivors, who have been told they will not get what they are owed in full

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every so often I think of the person who told me I shouldn't talk about my dyscalculia because it reinforced gendered stereotypes about maths proficiency