Friends, a new piece for Crikey - on how Google Earth being crammed with AI slop is the perfect distillation of a company obsessed with doing exactly the wrong thing as fast as possible, in every way imaginable, for as long as they can get away with it www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
Spaghetti with Chard, Chilli and Anchovies was Recipe Of The Day on Monday and I failed to let you know. What a nincompoop! I’m making up for it now, as it’s just too good to miss. www.nigella.com/recipes/spag...
Spaghetti With Chard, Chilli and Anchovies
This is the very first recipe in Cook, Eat, Repeat, and one I return to regularly. There is just something about the contrast between the semolina-sweet spaghetti, minerally chard, and the saline dept...
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Climate disaster and record fossil fuel profits because of a war? How did that happen! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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if one can believe The Australian's reporting then Alex Ryvchin is a bigger fool than I already thought he was www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Commissioner rebukes claim pro-Palestinian groups tried to 'hijack' hearing
The royal commission on antisemitism has hit back at comments from a prominent member of the Jewish community who accused pro-Palestinian groups of attempting to "hijack" the inquiry using "clickbait ...
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Hormuz is truly a Suez Crisis for the United States, only no one is ready to admit it. I would also like to see—and I am not even joking here—some kind of deep dive on how many in the Trump administration involved in, or adjacent to, decision making on Iran were/are big Hearts of Iron players.
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoEXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say reut.rs/4gc28C0
Haitians arrived in the US LEGALLY. Trump has removed their legal status and is rounding them up. Ankle monitors are the GOP’s electronic yellow star of davids that the Nazis made Jews wear.
There is no evidence in either pricing or deployment data that solar or batteries will slow anytime soon. As our Future Smart global growth model shows, the logical question is not to ask why is the transition so fast, but to ask: why on earth would it slow? bsky.app/profile/prof...
Prof Ray Wills@profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 2mo agoSolar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation in history - and it is still accelerating Batteries are faster reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-alr... @reneweconomy.com.au
"That Tony Fauci – an extraordinarily talented and dedicated scientist – could be hounded with such vindictiveness by the Trump regime is symptomatic of the ugly America the President has created." johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...
The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America
The attacks on Tony Fauci over COVID-19 advice, masks, gain-of-function research and rejected treatments are vindictive politics dressed up as accountability.
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What ceasefire? One million Gazans live in tents, more than 265 Palestinian children have been killed in the last nine months and humanitarian aid continues to be restricted. www.deepcutnews.com/p/five-point...
Five points that show the Gaza genocide hasn't stopped
It's just been recalibrated, says Médecins Sans Frontières
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I travel the quiet dirt roads with a camera on my lap. Otherwise, I'd miss shots like this. An orange chat, taken from the car, just south of Hammond. (BTW, from Bruce to Willowie - a distance of about 40 km - I saw zero other vehicles. Bliss.) #birdsseenin2026
Royal Commission into Antisemitism a “$131 Million Whinge” Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/royal-commission-into-antisemitism-a-131-million-whinge/
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Why does Australia value the same disability differently based on age? Someone with early onset dementia can receive funding for 24/7 care at home through NDIS. Older folk with dementia receive enough Support at Home funding for only 12 hours a week. The disease doesn't change. Why does the support?
“Terrorism” is applied to enemies of the US and its allies, but rarely to western-aligned state violence. That selective language obscures power, corrupts public debate and normalises genocide, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Gaza #Terrorism
Yeah if anyone knows this bloke on X. @aaronsmith333.bsky.social Could someone get to him to get more active on here. Ronnie Salt might be the go.
Jennifer Crawford@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · yesterdayMissing some people that used to be on this platform. And the dead bird site too. Only knew them through these but I feel their absence.
I love things like this sooo much 👇🏼
Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · 2d agoAnd now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
"Expect everything blamed but the war." And more specifically, everyone blamed except the Netanyahu regime and Israel's local lobby who deliberately align Judaism with genocidal Israel. And in so doing, greatly increase the risk of antisemitism and undermine 'social cohesion'. #auspol
Michael West@michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · yesterday“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.” Andrew Brown on the Royal Commission into #Antisemitism #auspol michaelwest.com.au/royal-commis...
Victoria's new premier has axed the Minister for Men & Boys, even as women continue to be killed by men on a frighteningly regular basis, and instead introduces a Minister for AI to "capitalise" on tech "opportunities." People are dead to the ALP, it's all business now baby.
