When someone says they’re “not political”…

The corruption going on in plain sight is nothing short of astounding. This looks like a pay off for not using all the power of the US presidency to not destroy a business.

▫️ I've obtained exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the United Nations security room ▫️

I’m not NDIS but can assure you the whole Disability sector needs a shake up. The NDIS has created a nightmare + costs have increased exponentially since its inception. Companies don’t want to take non NDIS clients because….not enough profit so you go without support. This includes cost of aids etc.

I do hope that the middle class employment & enrichment program known as the NDIS is somehow also able to support & house people with disabilities. Jeez this shit makes me cross. #4corners

I’m so distressed by what #4Corners is showing us tonight. What a waste of so much. 😥

I agree it's brilliant. It just shows what can be achieved if people are given a chance.

This is brilliant. Philanthropists really helping people end their homelessness.

I know so many women of all ages who need iron transfusions and some who can’t get them because they cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars; such long waitlists; no Medicare rebates. This is a medical scandal. The misdiagnosis story is shocking. www.smh.com.au/national/gas...

I've had enough. In this thread, I will tell you, definitively, whether Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. This way, you will be more informed when shopping for your wardrobe . 🧵

There isn't a single song by Tom Lehrer that isn't still as biting and funny today as when he wrote it. Most people are setting on "Werner von Braun" as a memorial, but perhaps "National Brotherhood Week" is also weirdly relevant as well Vale, sir www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAS...

"at risk of"? we're well past that stage :(

Trump announces ‘Gulag First’ response to homelessness in the US.

In 1938, Hitler launched “Work-Shy Reich” a program to remove the homeless, beggars & mentally ill from the streets & forcibly institutionalize them. Today, Donald Trump launched “ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS”—which is the same thing. 🚨 www.mind-war.com/p/taking-akt...

New executive order by Trump that redefines #homelessness as a mental illness and requiring authorities to round everyone up for *treatment* and to keep other citizens safe. I always suspected the pathologising of people in poverty would end up here.

-1 in Canberra already! 🥶🥶🥶

Censuring a Senator because of this.

Mass starvation expert Alex de Waal warns the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the “most intense, most severe,” and “minutely engineered” act of deliberate starvation since World War II. #GazaHolocaust #GazaGenocide

Watching Prof Henry Brodaty talking about dementia on @NPC right now. It is 💯 true that after a diagnosis both the patient & carers are dropped like hot potatoes with no plan no support & no medicine that actually works. Happy that there is break through for people in the very early stages.

Same issues here in Canada and same myopic vision for the past 30 years. Allowing housing to be an investment tool was a monumental mistake that currently disproportionately affects the marginalised and is now affecting younger generations. We’ve stolen enough from future generations. Time to pay!!!

Have you ever wondered why charities grow bigger every year? At the very same time that State housing departments get smaller? And do you wonder why those without housing are now ‘charitable cases’ to be managed instead of citizens to be housed? I do

Homes need to stop being an investment/wealth growing opportunity for a few. #TaxReform

Well said. You cannot see this and not be reminded of the lost opportunity of the voice and the despicable campaign to prevent it being realised.

No amount of funding church & community organisations to feed, shelter, shower or ‘case manage’ people in poverty will end #homelessness. The only thing that does and ever has is housing. Permanent housing. Every state in Australia must reinvest in public #housing. This is a disgrace.

Thank you, Aunty Vi, for having the grace and magnanimity to welcome our elected representatives to Ngunnawal country.

I love starting the week with the kindness of strangers

Those who live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory.

Every morning I look to The Guardian for news about our world. A bit of thoughtful reporting on a world being slowly strangled by disinformation, conspiracy theories and hyperbole. So what the actual fuck is this doing on its front page? I need The Guardian to, at the very least, not be facebook.

Bare fordi man ikke tror på noget overnaturligt…Gud, Allah eller det store spagetti-monster, hvorfor kan man så ikke blive anerkendt som trosssamfund, når man tror på humanisme og demokrati og foretager vielser og komfirmationer og begravelser? www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Hey fellow Iceland volcano watchers, it’s gone off again. Fortunately well north of Grindavik and east of the blue lagoon. About 40 minutes ago.

Apparently, it’s impossible to arrest and imprison so many rich and important men for these types of crimes and so imprisoning the only woman involved was seen as a priority.

Taxi anyone?

A reminder that we're still currently in NAIDOC Week celebrating and respecting the world's oldest living culture. So many good things to cheer on. www.naidoc.org.au/news/2025-na...

I suspect 1925-2025 was a blip in history. A brief moment of attempted meritocracy during which rich idiots weren’t routinely appointed to government leadership and diplomatic roles. History will note that things have now returned to normal. As you were.

Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician’s words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones | The Guardian

Free bombs on Iran, free air transport to foreign prisons. But a basic childhood vaccination, taken for granted in most countries, $1400. The US is not a civil society. It’s a shit hole.

I take a harsher view. If large corporations want to donate to charity they can do it out of their already vast profits. I’d rather give a few dollars to a homeless person or donate directly to a charity I know.

1/4 A thread about supporting businesses to support charities. Anyone else noticed the growing number of shops who are asking customers to contribute to their own corporate giving? Usually to charities unnamed and unexplained.

While the rest of the world has panels of experts basing policy decisions on science & evidence, the US now has policy decisions made by blokes who’s only experience was they spent years drinking in a bar & telling strangers about the dangers of fluoride, welfare spending & trade deficits.

What a cretin. Being in a privileged/powerful position and gunning for people experiencing a tough situation.

Yep, their entire fucking job is to fix shit and make society better for everyone, and here they are yet again punching down at those least able to defend themselves. (And as a famous comedian once said, 'If you want me to stop calling you a cunt, then stop acting like one' 😂)

Housing, poverty, if these issues impacted MPs they'd fix them. If male MPs were impacted by violence against women that too would be addressed with real solutions. Truth is many MPs (& their masters) benefit from the housing crisis & poverty. Male MPs must benefit from keeping women threatened.

Rich white man living in mansion thinking up ways to demonise and punish homeless, poor people, instead of using his power and authority to empower, house and transform society. This approach to governance is a clear admission that he has no idea, no humanity and no class at all.

Punishing poor people for the govt policy failures. 🙄

Just imagine the possibilities if members of parliament put as much energy into fixing the public and affordable housing crisis as they do into thinking up ways to stop poor people getting a glimpse of the ocean.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

So many scammers. I've had the displeasure of coming across more than I can count. Even here on Bluesky, I get DM's from scammers. 😠

I agree with this. Trust has been eroded across society in a number of ways - by society, business and government

Am I alone in thinking the level of scams and attempted scamming is destroying us? Quite apart from any financial toll is the toll on trust. If we can no longer trust anyone else, we no longer have a functioning society. Humans need trust. Governments really should be treating this as an emergency.