WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN oh wait..what’s that? I’m hearing ‘Every woman and girl’?

One of the most beautiful aspects of coming home to Melbourne has been the heartening rise of disability visibility Everywhere there are All sorts of people living their daily lives, Independently or with their carers I think that speaks well of us as a society This NDIS gutting doesn't

The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · yesterday

The Human Rights Commission has joined the disability community in calling for a halt to the NDIS legislation, which is likely to pass with Coalition support next week. Julie Hare reports. trib.al/jXyv16X

Straight men will never anticipate the mundane depravity of the female gaze, and that’s their tragedy.

As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it.

Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 2d ago

Luckily, this year we will give half a billion dollars to a company that has booked $10b in profit. I can't think of anything else that we could have done with that money.

I’m so exhausted by living in Bad Faith World, you know? Just. Everything feels like it’s being done in bad faith, with a sneer and a smirk, from shrinkflation to housing. And the most exhausting part is other people expecting me to be acting in bad faith, because we’re all so beaten down.

Wow, Relatable Queen Flannery, I should get around to reading her.

"Hugh Marks has made a decision to fundamentally alter the way ABC TV has made Indigenous programs...immediately after a high profile right-wing campaign against the last show that the Indigenous department ever produced." @scottmitchell.bsky.social #auspol www.lamestream.com.au/hugh-marks-a...

Hugh Marks axes ABC’s 40-year-old Indigenous TV Department

The ABC has scrapped a key Indigenous leadership role, and cancelled an Indigenous-led TV series that it previously promoted as a flagship program.

lamestream.com.au

Watching the ALP work with the LNP and One Nation to vote that my daughter with Down Syndrome does not need funding to assist with living skills because they don't think they improve her health, wellbeing or safety

(Explaining to my fellow Millennials) So he’s like…our Sith Lord to Alan Kohler’s Hot Freakonomics Jedi Son.

CsandDs@csandds.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fantastic opportunity for all children of Sky presenters to get a job on merit

Can't remember your name.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.

Lol ‘Tasmanian’ TV advert mispronouncing Launceston - you just undid all the money you spent on that.

Vintage Australian Trash Mags in the Antique shop, btw:

The Simpsons foresaw everything

LMAOOOOO

May this vaccination program be highly successful, and thank you to everyone working hard and on the front lines to protect these much-loved birds. Federal and Victorian governments have serious questions to answer regarding the timing of this and other responses. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Unprecedented penguin vaccine program begins, but is it too late?

Wildlife officers aim to save a famous penguin colony from bird flu, but the spread of the virus has dealt their plans a significant blow.

abc.net.au

Maybe the government will take the arts seriously if we build a betting apparatus underneath it. Odds for next year’s theatre season are currently at $1.15 for a musical based on a 90s movie, but commissioning an original work by a young local debut playwright is currently a long shot at $68.00

Briony Kidd@brionykidd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Does anyone know *why* the Tasmanian Government seems determined to destroy one of our most successful industries? I've got many thoughts about this situation.... but it's the big question I keep coming back to: why? What do they gain from it? www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani... #politas #auspol

Must be something wrong with the security cameras in Devonport Woolworths because I saw myself from above AND behind, and thought, “Who’s bouncy-hot ass is that?”

Boring Dystopia-core in the Kmart:

I invite anyone who write articles like these to come to Australia and enjoy our summertime. Fire season or cyclone season, we’ll even let you choose!

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

The abrupt falling sensation you sometimes experience just as you’re going to sleep, known as a hypnogogic jerk, is a common phenomenon that has a perfectly natural explanation, and is caused by ghosts trying to drag you to hell.

AHAHAHAHA

Mood

Meanwhile, in Devonport: Definitely not pre-approved.

My whiskey, her wine. Soft seating lolol

This family died of poverty, not fire. The article doesn’t address why a couple and their teenage kid were renting an unsafe granny flat, but we know. We urgently need high quality public homes so that people can afford to live, not more “alternative housing” as this article describes it.

💜 phonakins 🍉🌲@phonakins.com · 7d ago

Given Granny flats basically don't need specific council approval anymore in many areas, this is what simple builds with no red tape can lead Fire and Rescue New South Wales (FRNSW) has revealed the Wiley Park granny flat only had one entry/exit and the windows had bars on them.

Coat friends went to the opening of the new bar.

There’s only one time it REALLY matters if you put your knickers on inside out, and that’s when the knickers are period knickers. So anyway, my day is ruined.

There’s a vocabulary reserved for the poor: “blowouts,” “handouts,” “unsustainable.” There’s no equivalent vocabulary for the $16.3bn a year flowing to mining and gas companies — even as it grows faster than NDIS spending. blakandblack.com/2026/08/15/t...

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 6d ago

Might post some good environment news every so often to showcase that it's not over yet and there are good things happening, we just have to fight for it First: beavers are basically magical creatures that help with drought and flooding, and we're reintroducing them more and more