Little Sebastian Joyce is a master of the stock market. At a mere 1 year old in 2018 he brought shares in Electro Optic Systems ahead of a share price spike. But no coincidence his dad Barnaby, was chair of parliament’s standing committee on industry, innovation, science and resources. 👀🤔 #auspol

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Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A man delivers bags of fresh mozzarella to a café. The fat white cheeses float in their water like strange fish.

Love. This. Right. Here. ❤️✨

When I see The Liberal Party election slogan Back on Track, I can’t help think of the trolley problem, and you know which track Dutton is going to send that trolley careering down

But addressing climate change is too expensive, allegedly...

Just started listening to this fabulous thing by Edward Carey on the Libby app. It’s brilliant.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

I really don't think this news has made sufficient shock waves. Dr Katherine Calvin, NASA Chief Scientist Trump-Musk just fired, is the highest ranking American on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. She is co-chair of Working Group 3 on mitigation. This is a climate attack.

Barbarity. With their Murdoch media partners they created fear, then found a “solution” to that fear in children. I blame the imbeciles who fell for their transparent lies, the racists, the bullies who voted for this scum. Barbarity. #AusPol

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Road tripping across south west QLD & into NSW. Struck by the high numbers of cane toads, Indian mynas, prickly pears & lantana. Have we just given up on efforts to fight invasive species?

This is the real problem, now isn’t it?… #energysky

This must stop

Living luxuriously

Leaf cutter bees making themselves at home here at my place. 🥰 Happy days!

Always remember that when you hear mining-friendly journalists (and talking heads) talk up the size of the mining industry, they're just talking about profits, and they sure as hell will never argue they should be taxed fairly.

Sh*tstirrer of the year! So many good nuisances to the powerful who deserve recognition. See link to nominate below.

By tackling wealth inequality, housing affordability, healthcare access, and more, Australia can move toward a more compassionate political system that helps all citizens, using its monetary sovereignty to fund the public good. theaimn.com/top-10-socia...

Wow.

3 more studies find that #agrivoltaics, or #solar farms on agricultural land, actually improved #biodiversity retains soil moisture and improved yields Unlike the total destruction espoused by the likes of the LNP, and Barnaby Joyce. #auspol pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/11/25/n...

Go you for pushing on regardless with truth-telling in Qld, Josh Creamer. Legend…👏👏👏 ‘I saw the minister at the Women’s Legal Service breakfast yesterday, and she ran away from me. So you know, if they want to have a discussion, that’s up to them,” he said. “She saw me and went the other way.”

We’re really outdoing ourselves in the race to the bottom, aren’t we?

Thoughts? #Auspol

Enforce Norway level taxes, and eliminate loopholes to make sure every cent is paid If they don't like it, they can go & get their resources elsewhere.. What's that? There isn't anywhere else with the minerals, labour & infrastructure? Then pay up, or get out, and leave all your assets here

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you paid any tax in 2022-23, you paid more than all of these multinational gas corporations did on $36 BILLION income, exporting Australian gas from QLD. Really makes you think. #auspol

A child at 10: · Loses 4 baby teeth a year · Knows the complete date · Can name the months of the yr in order ·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences ·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction ·Has some skills in multiplying & division, And, in Aust, can go to prison #RaiseTheAge

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Just to be clear, you don’t want a pygmy possum?

Kennedy: Make iron lungs great again

In effect what this means is the 2024 Presidential election was the first in which a majority of people never read a newspaper. The Australian election next year will be much the same. So not sure why the ALP would give a damn about trying to appease news.corp, and Nine papers.

Let’s close up the Govt Departments; empty out Parliament House; cancel the tender rorted contracts; & just put a couple of AIs in charge. Voters have a phone app to let Grandmaster AI know what our priorities are. I’d honestly have more trust in such a system than I do in the one we have now. 😔

Plastics. My nemesis.

Nighttime. Beautiful also.

america is about to conduct a radical experiment in totally replacing competence and expertise with the glib, hand-waving certainties of the ‘my ignorance is as good as yer book lernin’ brigade i suspect it’s going to be a salutary lesson for the ages it’s never been smart to glorify stupidity

Give this excellent thing a listen. But be warned, you may be sucked into the into the Mewing / Chad / tongue posture rabbit hole. 😳 Thanks PJ & @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Weirdly compelling, vaguely unsettling, and utterly fascinating as usual. #mewing #jawmaxxing #searchengine

🥳 🎺 Post-worthy Wordle result today. 🎺 🥳 Wordle 1,252 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I just experienced a most alarming beetroot related bowel cancer scare. 🛑 🛑 🛑 🛑 🛑

#IslaBell 💔

How is it possible I have lived l these years without hearing about our excellent public library digital eLibrary service? I’ve just discovered “Libby” and life may never be the same.

Can’t recall who recommended “Bruny” by Heather Rose, but I’m loving it!

AJones. About freaking time.

“In deciding not to probe robo debt, Australia's anti-corruption body seemingly failed its first big test. But the #NACC has been given a second chance to reconsider an investigation into the scheme & 6 people referred to the body by a royal commission.”#auspol podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer. Morning.