The Greens warned the hate laws were biased and would target the wrong people. It took less than a month for police to raid Dissent Bar and prove every concern right. Laws supposedly about antisemitism are being used against anti-fascists.

Federal police raided Dissent Bar in Canberra and stripped anti-fascist posters off the walls under Labor's brand new hate speech laws. Not a Nazi compound. A local café with political art. This is what biased laws look like in practice. 🧵

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour Pingu?"

How in one interview our Prime Minister can celebrate protecting Australian children from the interwebs, while saying other Australian children should be ultimately left stateless, because of their mothers, is just beyond me.

Conflict of interest? No! The system running as designed! Why pay for influence when you can be paid for influence?

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

Vale Jesse Jackson. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Town Hall was no isolated event. Andrew Brown describes the political and media path to Minns police unleashing violence on peace protestors #auspol Image: @Schtang X michaelwest.com.au/before-the-b...

Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill — despite profits hitting $90B — thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund. Quite a return on investment, huh?

Notwithstanding the rest of the mayhem, climate breakdown brings the real prospect of no coffee, no chocolate and no wine Just think about that for a minute www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can’t. She don’t like that kind of behaviour.

Death Sentences // Updated for Linda Davis

Can't, there's a thorn in my side

Sue them until they have to sell the mansions, then sue them until they have to melt down the silver.

Can’t, I’m hitting you with my best shot.

"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe" —Le Guin

Ugh tonsillitis. Because daily pain and exhaustion wasn’t enough. Can’t afford to see a GP until next month but weirdly/luckily I have two weeks of dog antibiotics left over. That’ll do fine.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

All three are true

IMF joins the long line of economists saying Labor’s 5% 🏠 deposit scheme is pouring fuel on the housing crisis bonfire. A 3.6% increase in price of eligible homes below the cap in the last 3 months of 2025. A disaster.

In case anyone makes you feel like you’re overreacting, I’m here to tell you that we’re underreacting. We’re severely underreacting.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

mm... nothing good comes of that. 🫤

America will defeat Trump in a million brilliant ways...

The Swiss commentator is telling viewers about Israel’s war crimes that the team’s pilot has openly supported while the Israeli bobsleigh team is racing.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

“Approving new coal expansions in the middle of the hottest summer on record is indefensible climate vandalism,” said Greens Leader Senator Larissa Waters. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3Ov6Lvz

“Men get a larger overall share of the benefits of Australia’s current tax expenditures and deductions . . . and in news that will not shock many, men receive a greater share of the benefits of our tax settings than women.” - Gemma Killen Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3ZGFCIv

Shared by a friend from attending the Folsom Quilt Show Embiggen to see the words on the stripes 🙂‍↕️😢

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Australia Institute research shows why Australia needs more politicians: smaller electorates mean MPs who are more responsive to local communities, more accountable to grassroots campaigns, and better able to specialise in policy areas. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tF9SkF

"Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry & provides free education. Australia subsidises its fossil fuel industry & charges kids a fortune to go to university" – Dr Richard Denniss

NEW: Australia's Department of Defence Cyber Warfare division has quietly signed the agency's biggest ever contract with controversial tech company Palantir. www.crikey.com.au/20...

currently working on expanding this art infographic showing 75+ years of global plastic production - Each quilt represents the amt of virgin #plastic we produced worldwide in a given year. 8 data points take up 18ft of wall—when I show it in 2027 in Tulsa it will be MUCH bigger!! #sciart 🐡🌎

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Can confirm.

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

This is amazing footage. And proves that people in Sydney have been marching for issues they care deeply about, for a VERY long time. (Although in this case without the kidney punches). Fascinating to see the city and its inhabitants through this lens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTc...

cops on unsolved true crime shows: yeah she left behind her phone, wallet and 47 diaries about her violent husband so we didn’t investigate at all cops on solved true crime shows: we brought in special investigator Autism Jim and locked him in the basement until he solved it

A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17bn every year. Aussies pay more tax on beer than the gas industry pay on gas exports. End the scam: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem_b?utm_campaign=petition&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_term=CLI_FossilFuel&utm_content=0

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

Oscar-worthy

Australians really need to stop being American.

New Winter Olympics sports idea: Luge Tower. We already have two person, but why not three, four, eleventy? Get as many on as you can and get down the course without crashing. Final score is your run time divided by the number of people on the luge.

The British Museum is one of these places to to go to see what the British stole from the rest of the world and displaying it rather shamelessly. Now they're stealing history.