And the fossil fuel lobby

Yes this is a truly nasty networked movement of big money and big #business. #auspol

“So much of what our society actually needs-better health care and education, clean air and clean water, a faster transition away from fossil fuels-can be assisted and advanced with,…significantly smaller AI models and a diversity of other approaches.” Karen Hao, Empire of AI. 👍 #AI #Society 🧪 2/2

Good morning.

Wind-ruffled Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker #birds

Whose crime at sea? open.substack.com/pub/codepink...

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

a source of hate and division - why is SMH so craven to buckle to the Zionist lobby here?

divisive media eg SMH

It’s been nearly a year since Israel's abduction and detention of Dr. Abu Safiya, with no charge. And is not an exception, it is the norm of the genocidal occupation's terror. Israel has abducted more than 360 health workers from Gaza since October 2023. #FreePalestine #Genocide #Gaza

In the 1930s, this quantum mechanical pioneer faced obstacles that still confront women in physics today. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/who-was...

@theguardian.com, Can we stop calling them "Settlements". It makes them sound like benign explorers. They are invaders... we should be using military words like "Forward Operating Bases".

if AFP is honest, doing its job, why didn't it act on increasing guns, fact well known?

“I think, unequivocally, the greatest defence this country has had against a mass casualty terrorism attack has been our firearms laws,” says former AFP counterterrorism officer Carrick Ryan. satpa.pe/xDwwrQv

Monsters They’re occupying the West Bank as we talk

John Menadue: The year in prospect with the US and climate change “Our dangerous ally is proving even more unreliable and dangerous. Jeffrey Sachs has recently pointed out that US 2025 National Security Strategy “is a doctrine of power over law, coercion over consent, and dominance over diplomacy.”

#auspol #Australia #albo

one pig smells another, good illustration of recruitment policy

Partisan Zionist...

If Donald Trump is OK with Pam Bondi making him look *this* guilty, the Epstein Files must have lots of outrageously damning evidence about him.

Always a goody - showing the space-take and sealed surfaces. Urban living needs more imaginative use of space. Starting to de-pave to reduce heat island effect, and promote 🌳🌳 canopy cover.

no evidence, merely playing to genocidal state of Israel.

This man’s ego is a Black Hole. It has to absorb every particle surrounding it. His narcissism is insatiable. Every attempt to satisfy it only fuels his overwhelming need for yet more flattery. Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel sempre foi um apartheid. Agora, só entrou na fase sem vergonha. O problema é que quando você gosta de passar vergonha, ninguém mais gosta de você...

Scientific expertise..

New research shows how some animals in the wild manage to sleep in risky environments. From thousands of 4-second “microsleeps” to half-brain naps midair, scientists can now reveal some unusual animal sleep habits. Learn more: bit.ly/4qnGCMZ

israel uses rape as state terror

neither have laws been effective so far on genocidal Zionism

“The Free Palestine protests have been a vital site amidst a deteriorating political climate where solidarity and compassion are forged.” Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak on the role of the solidarity movement in the fight against antisemitism.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... Israel's murders slipping down the page of Guardian Australia...out of sight, out of mind.

Good morning from Tassie. Beautiful today. Hope you all have a super Saturday 😊🌞☕☕☕

Cartoonist: Bill Bramhall

Cartoonist: Rick McKee

Don’t do AVs, think of the poor parking spaces.

In our continuing series on places in labour history, @keithbeard.bsky.social revisits the contested site of the Peterloo Massacre. sslh.org.uk/2025/12/20/m...

How true!

Now I can post this one. The evidence/not evidence.

Albanese government knew of guns, failed to act. ASIO shadowing free Palestine protesters who want genocidal Israel stopped.

support gun control, review ASIO's priorities...

ASIO and gun knowledge by Albanese government, too little too late.

24hour challenge; How to do our #publicsydneypuzzle in 1000 perplexing pieces; 1 Like any puzzle start with edge 2 Assemble waterfronts (water itself is easy) -from Woolloomooloo to Balmain 3 Find the big public elements like Central Railway, Darling Harbour & Hyde Park …1/

Fine essay. Meek at the top of his form... relevant to understanding global capital, fuels, local communities, and radicalising to the right.

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#Newscorpse and the Zionists are blaming the PM for #Bondishooting. A Prime Minister IS partly to blame for it. But it's this one 👇👇👇

But nazis demonstrating in front of State parliament are okay! Very quiet about these fascists!

Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄

Black Is The New Transparent

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...