So, the Albanese Govt's Education Minister wants to do something about bullying. Perhaps he could start by ending the legalised bullying of LGBTQ+ students by religious schools. You know, like they promised in 2022, before walking away from it, and from vulnerable kids. #auspol

8. Bezos' ex-wife, McKenzie Scott, has donated more than 4x as much as Bezos since their divorce.

1. In 2022, Jeff Bezos promised to give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime. It is not going well. Since making the pledge, his net worth has almost doubled to $240 billion. Meanwhile, he has given less than $5 billion to charity.

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Stephen King novels aren’t “horror”, they are the opposite - soothing tales of fears come to life that are defeated by courage, love, and endurance.

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023. www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

The number of times I’ve told my parents about one of my kids’ diagnoses, to have them say But isn’t that everybody?

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior. To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also. Sick.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

The lights on the hill. My @smh @theage cartoon.

*glares at everything* Stop that.

I got an 💡

Australians launch moral bankruptcy proceedings against Linda Reynolds

I’ve watched George spank JD on repeat so many times I think it’s a new kink.

Exclusive | "All football (soccer) playing members have played alongside the CEO of Responsible Wagering Australia since [July 2023] on Wednesday mornings," club CEO Andy Turnbull tells Crikey.

“War-torn” Chicago has officially won the #1 big city in the US in the @cntraveler.bsky.social’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards for the 9th year in a row. “a world-class destination known for its impressive architecture, first-rate museums, brilliant chefs, and massive brewing scene.” #NoKings

Australia has an opportunity to reconsider its involvement in AUKUS. "It’s the biggest transfer of Australian sovereign wealth in our history, and it's had no democratic accountability whatsoever." - International & Security Affairs Director Dr Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

The warzone hellscape that is Portland! The horror these people live under. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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New book drop 📚 Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds Our visual feature created with authors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social‬ and Ling Li details life inside huge scam factories using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds. 👉 scam-factories-life-inside....

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He's on break.

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

I’m old enough to remember when virtue signalling was called setting an example.

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?" New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

Jfc this is dystopian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

On This Day in History: October 11, 1987 Two hundred thousand marched in Washington for lesbian and gay civil rights. The AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed on the National Mall for the first time, and the day helped seed National Coming Out Day.

Americans complaining about Qatar building a base on American soil have got to be tone deaf. Do they really think that the citizens of all the countries where there are American bases wanted them in their country? I doubt it. I don’t want American bases in Australia.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record. Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

I don’t agree with every point made here, but the main thesis — what we do with billionaires’ money is secondary to the fact that a free society simply cannot allow them to have it — accounts for most of my politics these days.

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate. The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sure it’s no big deal

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

I don't think there's any better example of leopards eating faces than the Lebanese immigrant who opened a Trump-themed burger restaurant and then got arrested by ICE.

Saw this and thought of @quiltlovinlisa.bsky.social. 😂

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

I think a Victorian orphan would survive drinking a McDonalds Sprite, but I think the sentence "in the future, Donald Trump opens a Qatari military base in Idaho" would have roughly a 38% mortality rate in the year 2002

DC was a relatively calm and peaceful city before Trump's inauguration. You know who and what has made life miserable here? Trump and DOGE. We now have the highest unemployment rate in the entire country at 7% (as of today) and the number of homes up for sale has increased 64% since last June.

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

To the NACC: can you tell us why there haven't been any public hearings into the Robodebt matter? .... .... .... NACC says: No comment.

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…