A really good global summary from the BBC. No matter where you are, you have a say in this when you vote and hold them accountable 🗳️🇦🇺🌏 youtu.be/DnJsk8moq9o?...

How much of the world is on fire right now? | BBC News

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Friendly reminder: Don’t label despicable people with medical or physical conditions they don’t have Having a physical difference (like cleft scars) is not a character flaw. Neither is ‘bed wetting’ nor ‘mouth-breathing’ Talk about how they are despicable, don’t use some feature others can’t help

I cannot facepalm hard enough. This ‘new tariff’ is ridiculous on so many levels: Richard Marles says new US tariff on Australia 'makes no sense' www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Richard Marles says new US tariff on Australia 'makes no sense'

Australia's trade minister has also demanded the removal of the "unjustified" tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

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Gold Lamé Caligula Strikes Again.

The Executive Branch of Bed Bath & Beyond.

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Been hearing a lot about a speech Trump gave today Sorry I was too busy eating prunes Same effect but I like prunes 👋☕️🇦🇺

Values have to change. Incentives need to shift. Fossil fuels, which were for long so beneficial to humanity, have to be recognised as poisons. And petroleum companies must pay for backtracking on their promises, writes Jonathan Watts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

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Belgium’s overwhelming defeat makes it hard for Trump to lie the match was rigged. A lesson for us midterm voters.

In the latest episode of What's the Point?, Dr Richard Denniss cuts through the noise surrounding negative gearing, capital gains tax and the ongoing media hysteria around Australia’s housing market. 🎧 Listen now: https://theaus.in/3SLMm7W

Way to go Belgium! 🇦🇺❤️🇧🇪⚽️

I’m proud of myself getting through some difficult things this year. I’m doing really well I did my Australian tax return last night at 12:58am on 1 July. That was not difficult at all Thanks ATO! Next year I hope it is a bit more difficult because I’ll be back at work 👋☕️🇦🇺

Currently happening in an Australian cafe… Double shot of Espresso and a Vegemite and Cheese scroll 👋☕️🇦🇺

Woot! SBSK on YouTube interviewed someone I haven’t spoken to in a while, but have a lot in common with… Christian has a similar condition to me, a very rare Bilateral Tessier Facial Cleft, although his is more complex than mine… Well done Christian, Lacey and Chandler: youtu.be/FMtevy8uck0?...

An Autistic Teen Born Without Eyes

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NEW VIDEO: Regional news bulletins in northern NSW have been cut and on-air redundancies have hit Channel 7, in the latest round of job cuts to impact Australian media WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1V...

More job cuts hit Australian media with news bulletins scrapped

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What’s with all the Seppo Journos writing off us Australians for the FIFA World Game against the US? I’ll be watching at 4am on Saturday… 👋⚽️🇦🇺 You know we thrive on being the underdog, yeah?

Oh My God. Australia scored first! ❤️🇦🇺⚽️ #FIFAWorldCup

Feeling very thankful for the roof over my head and no need to go out in the wind and rain today Also thankful for good friends that respect my need to not get blown over in public and have coffee earlier in the week Coffee and study today 👋☕️🇦🇺

Beyond The Boundary: Mirai Kuriyama in Rain

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Just saw this on YouTube: Guard The Leaf, who did a Canadian response to this very Australian essay If you’re in the US, please read This is how I feel as an Australian towards the current US too. Though I wasn’t as enamoured as IFLA, I totally get the sentiment: substack.com/@ifloz/note/...

Dear USA: When You Were Awesome

A letter to America from the boy in western Sydney who was once your biggest fan

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Today’s coffee with a people watching view in Lambton NSW. Double espresso. No sugar or milk was thought of during this delicious well made Australian coffee 👋☕️🇦🇺

How wonderful and deeply thoughtful was the opening of Eurovision 2026 Semi-Final 1? 🥰🥹 I’ll be up at 5am for Semi-Final 2 to see our Delta give her best 🇪🇺👋🇦🇺

Today, May the Fourth, Star Wars Day, is my birthday… and my friends took me out for a coffee so early this morning that I actually got a Vegemite and cheese pastry! Day made 🇦🇺 How freaking awesome is all that! 👋☕️

Major happies here… My Helen has a motor. As amazing as The Fellow is, it’s a matter of Stoic justice that I don’t make him give up his life to push Helen and me up hills I never thought I would buy a junk car, but I have bought a good wheelchair power assist Go Helen Wheels! 👋☕️🇦🇺

a person in a wheelchair with a rocket attached to the back wheel

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ICE has detained the only Texas licenced court interpreter for Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi languages despite all her correct paperwork. Doug Sharpe below states it plainly, but there are other reliable sources as well This is so ridiculous it hurts me as a Linguist: youtube.com/shorts/esPMp...

Texas's Only Court Interpreter Detained By ICE #fact

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Too much admin and adulting done before 10am… So this is what you get from me right now… It’s AI, I can’t draw, but the double espresso and little cake were delicious 👋☕️🇦🇺

On a train station concourse with Helen Wheels and this very cool little kid launches into this incredible spinning rave dance right in front of me He was burning off energy before what I assumed was a long train trip But he was a great dancer and I was glad I wasn’t on the train with him!

a close up of a person doing a handstand in a bathroom .

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Feeling a bit happy emotional… Paid off the wheelchair in full yesterday (Helen Wheels) and she’s been keeping me wound free for over two months now Yesterday was also coincidently my late mother’s birthday, she didn’t care for herself or me so it’s good to remember 14 Apr in a better care way 🧑‍🦽‍➡️🎉

Watching the Artemis ll splash down from Sydney, Saturday morning 🧑‍🚀👋🇦🇺

If I get a Segway scooter for under my manual wheelchair how many laws will I be breaking where you live? 🧑‍🦽‍➡️🇦🇺😎

After he goes, people aren’t going to take drugs anymore. They will visit his library to trip balls.

John Lyon’s (on the ABC) analysis of the Orange Turd’s address is like a palate cleanser. He’s pretty much calling out all the lies & BS. Thank you John!!! #AusPol

Shhh… Orange fart man is spluttering on camera.