Campbell J. Brice ✝️ 🌻 • 🍐 🇺🇦
@incessantbarking.bsky.social
Retired child.
We've a new premier. Shuffling deck chairs or wrongfooting the Opposition, I wonder. Guess we'll find out in a few months!
Ben Carroll to become next premier of Victoria after Jacinta Allan resigns
Premier stepped down from top job before expected spill, saying her deputy has her ‘unqualified support’
theguardian.com
1/ On the multi-ethnic/multiculturalism/monoculturalism debate: No, Australia is not a ‘multi-ethnic monoculture’, and few Australians would like it if it were. Culture is closely linked to ethnicity, so a mutli-ethnic society is almost by definition also multicultural.
An equally inspiring and horrifying look at the Ukrainian resistance in Russian occupied territory.
The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.
theatlantic.com
Once again have to report the very small income I get to Centrelink. Once again the online system reporting cannot handle that I don’t have regular hours and pay. Once again it results in an error and suspended payment.
The marimba has long been my favourite instrument, and this is pure magic. Hard to overstate how impressive it is that a show piece for piano here sounds like it was written for this instrument.
La Campanella - Solo marimba version!
YouTube video by Anders Elten
youtube.com
How will the planned @NDIS cuts really affect disabled people? Less inclusion and participation of disabled folk in community life and the workforce—which is the point of the NDIS. Watch to hear this testimony of what it will look like on the ground.
Advocate, Author and Actress Hannah Diviney Calls for Labor's NDIS Bill to be Withdrawn
YouTube video by Jordon Steele-John
youtu.be
Does Jesus even want followers?! This coming Sunday, 9:30 am at Inner West Church, 12 Brighton Street, Flemington, I’m preaching on Jesus at his most demanding, at his most unrealistic: (🎨 Kyra_Starr from Pixabay.)
Good look at the current political moment. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on The Diary of a CEO.
Pulitzer Prize Historian: You Won't Notice Until It’s Too Late - Anne Applebaum
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
youtube.com
“Outrageous”🔥 Jordon Steele-John has ripped into legislation for massive cuts to the NDIS & called on Senators to vote for his amendment to give the Disability community time to simply review changes impacting their lives. Penny Allman-Payne also not holding back.💥 #auspol
It’s 12 May, #MEcfs Awareness Day today. Probably appropriate that I didn’t get out today as I’d hoped. So here’s me on the couch.
Oof! Farrer With 47.9% counted— 2PP ONE 59% / IND 41% 1st preferences One Nation 42.0% Independent 25.8% Liberals 11.6% Nationals 9.6% All others 11.0% Informal 6.2%
Farrer By-election 2026
Overview of the Farrer electorate in the Farrer by-election 2026
abc.net.au
Good to see this coverage of developments in the slow-moving world of ME/CFS.
Extreme fatigue illness linked with changes to immune cells: study
Ella Engel saw many specialists before she was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Her blood may help researchers understand the condition.
abc.net.au
Adventures in terrible UX. The Adelaide Metro app password field has a character limit. The password field on its website portal doesn’t.
1/ A reflection on some social dynamics evident in autocoup happening in the US atm: It’s hard to get past the viciousness and apparent hypocrisy of Trump Administration’s actions and rhetoric, and those of its supporters.
Lord, have mercy. (Cartoon by CWhisenhunt.)
Encouraging scenes from Minneapolis and other US cities. If the next election is free and fair, it’s not going to go well for Trump and his sycophants.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7mo agoin case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
Who’d have thought that the new leader of the free world would come from a middle power? If the liberal, democratic middle-powers stick together, we can hold together an international order of ‘values-based realism’ that works more honestly than one the US is no longer willing to lead.
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
The other Five Eyes nations ought to suspend all cooperation with the US until it demonstrates it's committed to global peace and security. Australia cannot be a party to the harassment of Europe. While this is going on, the US should have no access to Pine Gap.
On the ground in Minneapolis under assualt by Trump's goons.
What Trump and ICE Are Doing in Minneapolis Is Obvious. They Don’t Seem to Grasp What’s Happening Instead.
ICE declared war on Minneapolis. The city had its own ideas.
slate.com
The juxtaposition last week of an ICE agent murdering a US citizen with Trump’s kidnapping of the Venezuelan president brought to mind the phrase ‘imperial boomerang’.
Nationwide anti-ICE protests call for accountability after Renee Good's death
People in cities across the country demonstrated against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics and the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
npr.org
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
The US is now responsible for the governance of Venezuela. Toppling the regime of a smaller country is always the easy part. The hard part is what comes after. Neo-cons always expect a pro-US nirvana. It rarely works out. But I suppose the oil companies can seize some assets.
Well, that's most definitely the end of the norms-based international order.
Dear Audible, Previews after I’ve finished a book are fine. Previewing Harry Potter after every book I finish is not. Which part of my listening history suggests that’s what I really want to read next?
Clip - Tessa Munt MP opens the #MECFS debate, noting ~400,000 have ME in the UK, & the total could be much higher including people with with long COVID. She highlights decades of substandard, sometimes harmful care, pitiful funding, and the outdated view of ME as psychiatric.
