10 wickets in a test, 7 in an innings, and no chance of man of the match. Wow. #Ashes

News about the state of the world in general has become unbearable. Living in the West feels like being a passenger in a car with no headlights or brakes, speeding down the wrong side of the motorway at night, and the 6-year old driver is in the middle of an intense psychotic breakdown.

Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out. The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.

Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.

Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is 'crying out' - AP News apnews.com/article/pope...

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

TIRED: Getting Chotinered WIRED: Getting Oated

The Israeli army killed Gaza civilians in a free-for-all, say ... ... Israeli soldiers who served there.

Post something random for the collective amusement

Anyone who buys a Tesla car is helping to fund far-right political groups around the world. ⚠️ Don't buy Tesla cars. ⚠️ Don't buy Tesla home batteries. ⚠️ Don't use StarLink phones or internet. Encourage your government not to use these products. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #auspol

"Don't Be a Sucker" by the US War Department (1947) The film follows a young American, drawn in by a speaker promising an end to jobs for minorities and removing foreigners. He encounters a Hungarian professor who explains this is how Nazis grab power for themselves. archive.org/details/Dont...

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Pay public school teachers 20% more than private average and watch the shift. Maintain that gap and it changes the nation. Kids futures or Future subs? You choose #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fascism is a cult. Cults always end the same way.

She points out a company tax cut might increase GDP but NOT gross national income. WHy? Because the biggest beneficiaries are foreign owned companies who take the money from tax cut and leave Australia actually poorer

How about fishers can only trade in their used nets, ropes and fishing lines. They may take more care.

Furnace

It's 35C just now Northern Beaches of NSW, Australia. Fires, severe winds in the State. Temp. records broken since recordings began. Who needs Halloween when the spectre of #climatechaos is already upon us? And the hell of more awaits us and future generations? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m sure there’s some sort of symbolic meaning here, but I just can’t work it out… 🤔

Ai Weiwei's essay on Germany is absolutely brutal hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

Looks like Cement Australia is the only protected species in this case. What say you @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social? Should Cement Aust still get the $52.9 million grant when it has already proven to be irresponsible & a threat to the environment, biodiversity & destroy globally significant geo deposits?

Don't be a schmuck and fall for unpasteurized milk BS. youtu.be/piB_DdO2D6I?...

Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing. Read the full release below:

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

White farmers need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Good read. politicalnerdery.substack.com/p/who-went-n...

Cathy Wilcox

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

The way this made me laugh! 🤣

Big congrats to Santos Ltd!! 10 years. $46.7 billion in sales. ZERO TAX New ATO data out today. @markogge.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au data.gov.au/data/dataset...

Higher overall taxes in red states like Texas avoiding wealth income tax! And "Liberal policies keep blue-state residents living longer" "Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates" Crimes per 1M trips * NYC: 1.3 * Dallas: 38.0 "Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

This is what hate and division create. Total chaos. All from one man who like all Authoritarians, blame the other side for their actions. Beware Australia, we have like minded people in this country who would run us into the ground for their own personal gains. #auspol

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

What really annoys me about these Right Wing Nut jobs is that they, like Trump, hide behind a false allegiance to the flag pretending to be patriotic to the few. I used to fly the Oz flag proudly, but not any more, why? Because I do not want people thinking I am one of these. #auspol

#JohnFugelsang “Separation of Church and Hate”

We live in a system… Making the planet hotter than it’s been in 125,000 years. Making CO2 levels higher than they’ve been in about 12 MILLION years. Distracting us with so much inanity & ignorance most people have no idea this means we’re on track to lose absolutely everything.

what a big, manly conservative should REALLY be afraid of

jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts

So frustrating hearing & seeing fruit & seed bearing hedges being cut ahead of winter. We have lost 50% of our hedgerows since the 1950’s, no wonder we are in a “”#BiodiversityEmergency in the UK.

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

Spotted stapled to a telephone pole in Cumberland, BC. #MAHA

Beating up a vulnerable person is ultimate “beta male“ behaviour. Nothing says “I’m afraid and have poor coping skills” louder. What a loser.

If you are still in denial, wake up. It’s truly deteriorated to this level

(art by @guido-kuehn.bsky.social) —————— You can't practice free speech when your mouth's full. #Kimmel

This story is from today, but the crash actually happened on September 7 in Germany. Don't buy a Tesla.