#toxic #politas

Really? Good stuff from Burnham mostly, today: but where was the relevance to the emerging, coming threats?? Where was the addressing of climate breakdown, nature breakdown, the serious negative impacts of AI?

“nearly all empirical studies find little to no tangible impacts of sports teams and facilities on local economic activity, and the level of venue subsidies typically provided far exceeds any observed economic benefits.” #politas

Sarah Martin has been absolutely all over the grift that is One Nation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

My latest thread on one page. I believe that it is profoundly important for people to at least consider what I am saying here. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

Too many things to do, not enough time.

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This is why WOMEN WANT POCKETS!! #dangerouscoats

This is the way.

“Everywhere this runs at scale, the rules show up after the strain, the blackout warnings and the price rises, not before. We’ve got the rare luxury of seeing it coming, and we’re lining up to make the same mistake anyway. There might be time to stop this, though. Perhaps?“

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Well done @kristiejohnstonmp.bsky.social @indy4franklin.bsky.social Rosalie Woodruff Craig Garland Vica Bayley Helen Burnet Cecily Rosol Tabatha Badger And the Labor party

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

There needs to be legislative change so we find out who is being investigated over what claims - so we can scrutinise the Commission as well as the MPs.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The hardest part of accepting decline is losing the future that organised our lives." substack.com/@adrianlambe...

2026 World Cup.

Just seen a brilliant post about banning kids from social media is like keeping women locked up because there are male attackers outside and it’s 💯

And because of the dangers of being scammed, the use of phones and mobile phones should also be outlawed after 65 years of age.

You know, that craft club that your teenager was interested in? They can’t find it any more, because its publicity is all on social media.

"I believe this is a huge mistake."

Essential weekend reading — open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...

More great work from Sarah Martin on this - consistently going deeper which is why PHON is trying so hard to ban her www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“as Israel violates yet another “ceasefire”, the shredded children that have returned to your social media feeds are being shredded by Australian made explosives, and that a bunch of terrible people are getting extremely rich in the process.”

Once again with feeling, "If you think education is expensive, wait til you find out the cost of ignorance."

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“Because beneath the cynical staging is a question that ought to be more straightforward than it is: why, exactly, can’t you stand on the floor of Australia’s Parliament and call the government liars when the government has lied?” Absolutely brilliant read.

Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.

Be like Dolly.

Justice for Palestine Legal Defence.

Im glad that Neo Nazis sre starting to get the attention of polticians and the media. I fear it’s way too over due and many revelations in this article confirms it. apple.news/ASpLrM2jJTTC...

Palantir is now embedded at Coles

It goes to show how the billionaires are panicking that the serfs are gonna rise up. ✊

The word "Power" has ambiguities intrinsic to a society based on systems of violence such as we have - imperialism & capitalism. It doesn't distinguish the power to harm - bully, torture, humiliate, sexually abuse, employ, exploit, etc. - from the power to nurture - protect, educate, care for, etc.

“The ultra-wealthy are using their fortunes to protect a system that keeps making them richer.” The whole world is afflicted by these sociopaths.

This is a great reason jump out of bed with The Boss dialled up to 11.

So, so true.

On a unitary biogeochemical system called earth running off of the energy of a freakin' star, with an upstart species that is getting a hefty dose of feedback every day there's surprises yet to come - that's the only inevitability I know of.

“as The Last Good Thing on the Internet gets purchased by Google and turned into military software where it will be used to train weaponized robot dogs to rape prisoners in IDF torture camps,”

Any news orgs digging into claims in the Epstein Files that our current president allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl? Did we forget about that?

The premise of the 2004 comedy-drama Melinda and Melinda was that any given story can be told as either a tragedy or a comedy. I submit that Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World" and Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" validate that thesis.

Love ❤️ The Spine, Of The Spanish !.........👏🏻