We brake for nautilus! “We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

This is Trump's America.

Re reading Sarah Churchwell’s enlightening Behold, America and it’s struck me the last US admin so enamoured of tariffs was also rabidly corrupt. Harding’s teapot affair is depressingly familiar www.bloomsbury.com/uk/behold-am...

From Aric McBay’s “Why We Fight”. I agree with the proposition generally and it’s why personally we’re on the farm journey we are, but there’s caveats: a. Any of the planet remains habitable when global trophic collapse accelerates & b. atm collapse to super fascism looks far more inevitable.

As always, a cracker from Greg Pallast www.gregpalast.com/hormuz-blues/

Fun fact: plastic recycling basically doesn't exist. Only about 9% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, and only 1% more than once. www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1...

It’s a good when you get a crap ton done before morning cuppa. I had 3 helpers Freddie(dog/cat), Simmo(bogan cat) and Angie(daggy staggyX). Apparently it was so exhausting for her getting pats from me with one hand while I spread mulch with the other that comatose bleps were needed. #dogs #farmlife

1800 Respect is an obscene parody of a service. Read with care. Distressing. #Auspol

"The effectiveness of the group’s activities poses questions surrounding the influence of pro-Israel campaigning on governments and institutions – a point highlighted by Tame in her Crikey article" @deepcutnews.bsky.social Questions legacy media avoids. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

When AI tools do well - or badly - at a task, it’s tempting to explain it away with the benefit of hindsight. But can you anticipate how well they’ll do before you see the outcome? Have a go here – and then see how your estimates compare with 1000+ others: quiz.wholesum.tech

Palantir is arm deep in Canberra as well. For all our political class’s declarations of patriotism, they don’t actually seem to grasp the concept of a sovereign nation.

The world is waiting. 😳👇

Also fitting youtu.be/S5mEDPl9wVs?...

Feels like Mr. Irish Bastard is appropriate for the moment "I'm at the end of the world in a lonely bar Let sorrow rain Let the sun shine I'm surrounded by demons And the most of them are mine" youtu.be/CrRC8ooGZfM?...

I’m genuinely surprised the US media apparently doesn’t or pretends not to understand this is a dominance ploy. The humiliation isn’t accidental, on the contrary, it’s a standard cult mechanism. There is a particular usually male archetype that thrives on this type of sadism.

What the actual faaaaark?

Absolute must read! If the analysis is correct I think you can almost guarantee Trump ordering a tactical nuclear strike. The irony of actually deploying a real tactical ☢️ 💣 so Iran doesn’t deploy an imaginary ☢️💣 is so on Trump brand. policytensor.substack.com/p/why-the-us...

I don't understand why it requires a petition to get authorities to investigate the anti-Islamic acts of terror of a man who declared himself "far right", who threatened children, who barged into a community hall throwing punches & abuse at people But here we are. Please sign👇

It's not just that Australia is joining another American war, it's that we're defending the fucking UAE — one of the most evil countries on earth. All that carnage you've been seeing in Sudan? That was backed by the UAE. Those emaciated kids you were seeing in Yemen a few years ago? +

A very worthwhile read. I haven’t been there since the mid aughties, but I found it a difficult and confronting place. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

"We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps." Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

"Palestine is our strength." Sgt. Brian McGinnis is out of jail after he was arrested for expressing his opposition to the US war on Iran in Congress. Capitol Police officers and Senator Sheehy broke his arm as they removed and arrested him.

This is brilliant!

#Genocide and #WarCrimes by #Israel.

The Swiss snitch? Swisses be snitches? I see why your cheese has holes in it now, you got yourselves shot snitching on the wrong folks

Reports coming through that the USN has destroyed an Iranian frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka. 101 missing. Murder…plainly. The command of the US warship should hang for it. So much for moronic seppos claiming the military will refuse illegal orders 😂

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily. defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

Strange, strange weather patterns. Thursday we were standing in the bottom of our dry (last 6 mths) dam sizing it up for a liner. Woke up this summer Friday to it having massively overflowed down the flood channels we built last year. Frogs are happy. #climate #extremeweather

Holy Shit! Iran renews its bombing of an American base in the Emirates.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

A worthwhile read from TNR newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Here's me, and @boganintel.bsky.social. "Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia"

The worst people in my country are the billionaires. The worst people in your country are the billionaires. And the worst thing of all is it will be mostly the SAME billionaires.

BREAKING: Scientists have discovered the world's oldest writing in a cave in Germany. It predates all human civilisations at 38,000 years old. Excitingly, it has already been translated. It reads: Warning: Iran is just two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Someone was appreciating the first cool day in what seems like an age. Utterly comatose complete with mega blep.

#Genocide and #Ecocide by #Israel - #Lebanon

The attitudes and actions of most of the town's population is all too typical. The courage of the survivor is astounding.

Tonight’s challenge - setting up an NVIDIA graphics card on an old gaming laptop running Mint Linux. Took a bit but we got there! Runs Stray (on Steam) on medium quality graphics settings no worries. You have to turn off secure boot and use the 580 driver. #linux #mint #gaming #steam #stray

Salted tomato day! They’re really easy to make and if you vacuum seal them in jars they last at least a season. They make great pasta sauce too. Just cook them down, add some basil if u like or they’re delicious on a cracker. Recipe> #cooking #preserving #yum recipekeeperonline.com/recipe/rViGq...

🇱🇧 In the town of Tallousa, near the Israeli border, in the Marjeyoun District of Nabatieh Governorate, 62-year-old Ahmad Tarmas received a call yesterday from someone identifying as the Israeli army. He asked whether Tarmas wished to die alone, or w/ his family. He chose to face death by himself...

But, but ‘murican freedumbs!

So here’s classic outrage clickbait disinformation. It tells the story of a Lakota elder arrested by ICE on tribal land and successfully suing the US gov for $18m. Except, it’s entirely made up. None of the people exist and no such legal action ever occurred. Rage farming works on the left too!

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

Here we go again! Bushfire on the other side of the hill. Just squeaked thru the roadblock at the last. We are now fire set up and waiting. Lucky I look good in luminous orange 😂 #bushfire #victoria

The Epstein files really do validate Dave Graeber’s thesis that money has always been denominated in people. All these rich aholes with every conceivable physical luxury and all they want is the attention of the cool kid. Uuurgh elicits both revulsion and cringe..a 2for 😡