A few months ago my son’s band were offere good money to cover a song for a milk ad. From memory their biggest single payday. Recently however the agency changed the brief & they were asked to cover a different song for an ad for Australia day instead. They turned it down. #integrity

He is the 17th person to die in ICE custody this year and the 55th person to die in immigration custody since Trump got back into the White House. We will include Carbonell-Betancourt in our next weekly update of our database. May he and all who have died rest in peace.

Is private health insurance a rort surely not? $6.9B subsidies, $1.7B in combined profits Medibank, BUPA, NIB but underpay hospitals by over $1B #auspol Claudia Weisenberger analysis michaelwest.com.au/private-heal...

RFK Jr. presided over firing thousands of HHS employees. Now, HHS is hiring 12,000 new people. He claims that the fired employees “failed” at their jobs and didn’t work on chronic disease. He is a liar. If I’d been fired by those DOGE punks and slandered by RFK Jr… I can’t even express it.

the thing about bluesky is that it sucks but a social media site that doesn't work is still better than twitter

I sold a photo

this eucalyptus, which is probably over 500 years old is in a part of the forest which is planned to be logged and if they cut this tree down they will use it for woodchips

So why doesn't the same logic apply to weed? Why do I have to jump through a perpetual series of expensive hoops to obtain one of the cheapest and safest medications in existence for my diagnosed ADHD. @albomp.bsky.social, you don't treat any of us like adults. #BanGamblingAds, you crooked twat.

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

The details in here are horrifying but needed to be made public. Please take care while reading.

90 minutes until they're back, if you want to watch #ArtemisII 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhD...

Hopefully, they get some fuck off danger money at this point

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

#Auspol @albomp.bsky.social Maybe, just maybe this should be raised at your RC.

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Always enjoy centrists believing despite it all we can’t do anything to hurt our alliance with the USA, as if it is actually in our interests to be a US marine and sub base, as if that is a cheap form of our defence, as if that makes us safer. It stopped being 1942 a long time ago.

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the new 1936 Summer Olympics.

Did I tell you I put a new photo up on my redbubble store? #tawnyfrogmouths #naturephotography #gifts #souvenirs #fashion #australiannature #australianwildlife #wildlifephotography #prints #birdphotography #artprints #photoart www.redbubble.com/people/jdrph...

One for the #climate #data nerds (or anyone else who might want to admire the graph and freak out). That includes you, @ketanjoshi.co

The 60s called. They want their zeitgeist back

Glad to see this statement about the awful new death penalty bill passed in Israel. Made worse by the ongoing killing of palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli settlers with no legal consequences.

@scidocmartin.bsky.social interested in the study about panic buying, although not overly convinced it’s logical response. Logically, panic buying can create shortages when calmness can ensure adequate supply. of course if others start panic buying then joining in is probably a logical response.

NEW @ms.now: There’s a lot of context to the new IOC policy banning trans women from the Olympics that's not being reported. 👀 The researcher who came up w/ the genetic test that will be required for female athletes opposes this use of it — partly bc it produced false positives at the 1996 Games.👇

This is why you always follow the money...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

@scidocmartin.bsky.social That was fab, a bit annoyed at how many little digs the breakfasters had a left handers tho. Nothing in it, I know, but we put up with that our whole lives

@scidocmartin from my experience, this is 100% spot on. But daniel might be trying to get us to cancel our subscription

@scidocmartin.bsky.social Left handed people have a competitive advantage physically, because things come at you from different angles

@scidocmartin.bsky.social hate the term dextrous,or dexterity. it's so dextro-normative. So excited for you to talk about left handedness. Had a friend ask mein the last 20 years, if they should physically discourage their son from being Left handed. I didn't explode

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I saw an echnida last week near the Nobbies, Phillip island #Australianwildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #PhillipIsland

I put one of my new tawny frogmouth photos on my redbubble store. www.redbubble.com/people/jdrph... #naturephotography #gifts #souvenirs #fashion #australiannature #australianwildlife #wildlifephotography #prints #birdphotography #artprints #photoart

Game of hope. My @smh @theage cartoon.

25/2/26: UNSW AI Institute chief scientist Toby Walsh has used a National Press Club address to warn Australia about AI's "supercharged" harms. He argued the federal government was failing to adequately regulate AI www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

There is no better time than NOW to go electric.

Tonight’s sunset at the Island

Today on #IWD I’m thinking of how a woman is murdered every 5 days by male violence. Of First Nations women being imprisoned at 25 times the rate. Of women seeking asylum in Australia being forced in poverty & homelessness.

this is extremely dangerous.

ICE bad and also, around half of people killed by police have a disability. Their final moments are usually spent in frantic terror trying to "comply" with commands before cops shoot. Not opening a door or answering a question fast enough in this country can be a death sentence.

At a time when misinformation, deep-fakes and artificially-generated content designed to look like real news is flooding Facebook and Instagram, their parent company Meta continues to block original, trusted Canadian journalism.

Rethink your use of rat poisons. This is what is happening ... birdlife.org.au/news/toxic-r...

New research by The Australia Institute reveals rural and regional electorates, particularly those currently held by the National Party, would be the largest beneficiaries of proposed reforms to the Low-Income Tax Offset (LITO). Read more: https://theaus.in/4tVD6vM

I missed the bluesky vs X discourse but as always you can start everyone one of these debates with a simple question!!!!! - Does social media website come packaged with a software system designed to freely generate child abuse materials on request 🔳 Yes 🔳 No

Since we connected our battery, a fortnight ago we’ve bought ~80c worth of power. That’s just a constant trickle to control the current I assume. Now to get rid of gas completely

Our local Tawny frogmouths had chick in Feb, which I’ve never seen before.

Brilliant insight into Kristi Noem and white supremacy from Native American scholar Nick Estes

It just occurred to me that Adobe is like microsoft in so many ways, except their software works

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why is it, that almost invariably, anyone who calls themselves a free thinker is basically just an idiot who can't cope with ideas that differ from their own?