How many unprecedented weather events and 'natural' disasters do we have to endure before people realise that the cost of electricity is the least of our problems?

"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind." - Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025 #auspol

Sick bastards.

Along Lebanon's border, Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire in the country's war with Hezbollah last year.

🎥: On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social, about feminism, anti-fascism, the manosphere, Labour and Zohran Mamdani: www.prospectmagazine...

Really? Someone needs to tell her.

He is very busy.

@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social I call this "positive vandalism". It should be rewarded. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

So heartily sick of the torrent of news from the US and Europe. V. much like to see more from Indonesia, Vietnam,Malaysia,Japan,Philippines, Thailand etc.etc. The ASEAN nations (and the Pacific too). This is where our future lies. We are so uniformed when it comes to our closest neighbours.

everyone struggles.. has "stuff" going on that we know nothing about.. we are not "owed" an explanation the world 🌎 we live in subjects most of us to never ending stressors.. poverty unaddressed trauma Ill health relationships we must try to "cause no (more) harm" to each other 🙏

Monitor the monitors. I like it 😊

Good advice Ian😷

And again: michaelwest.com.au/secret-antis...

Shameful. 12 First Nations people have died in NSW custody this year - the highest annual total ever. These are not just ‘profoundly distressing’ statistics. This devastating loss of life continues Australia’s history of colonial violence through the ‘justice’ system.

Causing TRAUMA is the point. "Any disturbing experience that results in significant fear, helplessness, dissociation, confusion, or other disruptive feelings intense enough to have a long-lasting negative effect on a person's attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of functioning" A.P.A.

New Australia Institute research reveals that QLD has missed out on almost $400 million after Adani sold discounted coal to Indian companies. ‘It’s time Australian governments started charging for Australian resources and stopped giving them away for free.’ @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

Truly insane to put basic public health policy in the hands of local councillors. Abdication of responsibility by the State Parliament. (Qld has about 75 LGAs and a whole lot of them have only a few thousand even a few hundred people living there.)

GAY NAZI TECH BILLIONAIRE PT IS INSANE GAY NAZI TECH BILLIONAIRES OWN TRUMP AND THE PRESIDENCY STOP GENOCIDE STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS CC TRANSHUMANISM ELON GTFOH!!!

Most of Queensland's population has access to fluoridated drinking water; at least 70%. However, most of Qld's 77 councils do not add it. 5 councils don't need to fluoridate as it is already present in the water supply. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The former president urges companies and universities to resist Trump administration pressure.

Freed Palestinian detainee Tareq Barghouti, from Ramallah, reunites with his family after being released as part of the exchange deal. He has spent 22 years in Israeli prisons.

Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."

‘Uneasy alliance’: why Brisbane’s Olympics has a former LNP premier and Greens radical fighting on the same side

There you go. 🤷‍♀️

Sanction Israel

The founder of an American megachurch who advised President Trump in his first term has admitted to sexually assaulting a young girl in the 1980s

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pinned the government shutdown on the GOP and said Democrats are willing to negotiate on the issue, but “need credible partners on the other side.” https://to.pbs.org/4nZt215

Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club: “The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.” #npc

So this was yesterday. It seems to be happening again today. It think just now it was even louder. Another grand final?? It's so loud the local dogs are barking. 😄😆

This guy is getting Trumpier and Trumpier. If an expert or simple facts in your face say one thing, he will say the opposite. It going to take a lot of undoing. 🤯

Vegans take note.

Trump and regional leaders have unveiled a 21-point plan outlining Gaza’s future after the fighting. “A rare moment where they have revealed some details,” Dasha Burns says on #playbookpod, something she argues has been “lacking” so far. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. It’s proof that you still have power | Robert Reich

Video shows Israeli forces dropping evacuation leaflets over Gaza City, ordering the forced evacuation of Palestinians in the al-Sabra and Rimal neighbourhoods to the south of Gaza.

'Dear God Pat, listen to yourself.' 'Where is our humanity?' @matthew-wright.bsky.social takes issue with caller Pat's comments about migrants.

Florida federal judge tosses Trump’s $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times

Israeli forces kill at least 15 people outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, four more killed near al-Ahli Hospital.

Note how Trump deflected the question from Journalist John Lyons about his dodgy billions into an argument about media and relations with Australia. The actual question has been lost for now. We need to wait for the 4 Corners episode. Yet another example of his ability to change the subject.

Many news outlets still shy away from calling Trump an authoritarian — but scholars warn that failing to name it can help normalize it and speed democratic backsliding. buff.ly/i94mMGx

"The State of Israel has committed genocide." Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide.

A hockey ball ripped open my face and knocked out several teeth. I’ve also had shingles. Shingles was worse.

The former chief of the Israeli military said more than 1 in 10 Palestinians in the enclave have been killed or injured since the war began nearly two years ago.

You really are doing your best to normalise the odious Kirk. So once again: bsky.app/profile/adam... Is this the man you want sainted? How about a differential analysis of his views against those of historical fascists. Will you do that for your readers?

What an absolute grub Spencer Cox the Governor of Utah is. Ian

Nigel Farage has spent the summer stoking fears around migrants and women’s safety. But the statistics Farage and other Reform UK politicians have been parroting don’t stand up to scrutiny goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...

Charlie Kirk fans threaten HBCUs because they want to lash out at Charlie’s enemies, and theirs, and they’re conceding that means black people. Not ONLY, but definitely.

No one is safe from gun violence in America. We do not have to keep living like this. Instead of inciting more violence, our political leaders should use this moment to unite us around common sense gun reforms that a majority of Americans support.