This is how to speak up.

The sage is altogether an amiable plant; indeed, its Latin name, Salvia, comes from salvere, to save, or heal. #gardening

Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon — Piggies, The Beatles

With more than 1600 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the current conference in Brazil, Minister Bowen should demonstrate real commitment and leadership by banning fossil fuel lobbyists from COP31. It's time to stop the gaslighting, and kick fossil fuel interests out of climate conferences.

The cost. My @smh @theage cartoon.

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES ------------ Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Ronald W. Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Donald J. Trump:

The concept of “bird of the year”

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship. Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire ever since.

Stop calling it “white supremacy” and start referring to it as what it really is: “white inferiority complex”

Look, Mr Trump ... 👇 #USPolitics #freespeech

#BREAKING 🚨 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry The report has found Israeli authorities have "intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible" and committed the crime against humanity of extermination

Anyone surprised at the horrendous takes from centrists like Klein should read Orwell’s 1940 review of the Mein Kampf reprint - where he makes the point that the original version, printed one year before, was greeted sympathetically and cast Hitler as ‘kindly a light as possible’

Melbourne’s hospital cancelled their seminar on “children and war” because they were worried it might offend the people who support war

This season of America really sucks.

That's threats with violence in my books. Threaten people with death by lethal injection.

Might watch 4 Corners tomorrow night.

Napping with a toddler is basically having your heart refilled with rainbows but occasionally a rainbow pokes you in the eye.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... The "political environment" is that Labor has a huge House majority and broad crossbench support for strong environmental policy.

What do these people actually want done to cater to their huge lists of complaints?. Any serious solutions? Any sensible ideas?

Go harder Albo, or get out of the way www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Pissweak, Albo. Go harder!

"We’re all bloody boat people," Mr Hawke said. "That’s how we found the place." #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.

Speaking as a comfortably superannuated retiree: no, we don’t deserve special treatment. Also absurd privilege must be ended. You can’t pretend there’s a win/win solution to inequality of wealth and income. It’s substantially a zero some game for housing and super and govt needs to face this.

Louis Armstrong, Grace Kelly, and Bing Crosby photographed by Bob Willoughby on the set of "High Society", 1956.

Paul Signac, Saint Tropez #art

Remarkable how many cuts of meat sound like veteran news anchors facing multiple accusations of workplace harassment: Chuck Brisket Rib Silverside Rump Foreshank Plate Centreloin Flank Saddleback

Generative AI still not anywhere near trustworthy so why all the hype? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is how broken our lobbying laws are. Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰 It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

#southpark #timcook @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social @plexnetflix.bsky.social

The Abundance book sucks and the only thing worse is the cult it’s created around it t.co/qWiCELTXn5

Compare and contrast

I'm so so so furious at the future creativity and artistry that AI is taking away from all of us by convincing kids nothing is worth doing on their own

What an own-goal! Another sport where players let down by clueless administrators (who didn't do due diligence on halftime performers at the Grand Final!) #netball #own-goal www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Nice to see Abbott, Joyce, Canavan keeping the climate wars going in what's left of the LNP 😂 Wasting their time, and ours. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

All the usual suspects react as expected. As if all their members were conscientious at their taxpaying obligations. Hah! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

...and higher wages!

It’s the very least they can do www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Watched the entire 9 hour tribute show last week with my partner and we were a bit burned out at the end, so we saved the Ozzy and Black Sabbath sets for another day. I guess today’s that day! 😭🖤

not the usual partisan political rant, this concerns the very dodgy dealings of the recent Lib candidate for Bruce.

I'm enjoying John's unconstrained criticism on Substack far more than I used to enjoy his edited writing in the SMH. Colonial Mentality Revisited - by John McDonald #art #artcriticism www.everythingthe.com/p/colonial-m...

"The reality, of course, is that people hate AI. Telling people that your product is "AI enabled" makes them less likely to use it:" pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/a...

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

this guy is a major investor in substack and the reason I left. hideous shit

This clip goes around quite a bit, but it’s always worth noting that The Great Dictator premiered just 13 months after Germany invaded Poland. Chaplin doesn’t just use his voice for the first time, he breaks the fourth wall, too. He called on the people to stand up against fascism.

I crumble a little more inside whenever I think about how much additional energy a single google search uses now that they're all automatically turned into chatbot inquiries. Adding "-ai" at the end of your google searches disables this (for now). Or switch to another engine.