"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace." PS. - Calgacus

Ghada Hatem-Gantzer built a center that centralized social, legal and medical assistance for women in one building. It was a labor of love that almost failed, but the project has become a revolutionary template in France for treating female victims of violence. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. The Trump administration is targeting states that didn’t vote for him — including my home state of Vermont. Using federal power to punish political opponents is anti-democratic and blatantly illegal.

Coming up on SBS A Slovenian model with a penchant for plagiarism and rich narcissistic old men claws her way to power in the three hour bioepic Melania. I shall be gluing my eyelids open with Tarzans Grip so I don’t miss a minute of that one

Lazy Sussan Left Spinning #auspol

It's going to be particularly difficult for the Albanese govt to adapt to the new reality of a fascist Trump regime, and adjust our foreign policy accordingly - when they are still pretending it's business as usual. #auspol

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

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I am so glad I didn't stay home! Totally worth the drive! It blew a gale which made it very difficult, but I persevered. Aurora Australis near Truro, South Australia. #aurora

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THIS IS LOOKING DIRECTLY ABOVE MY HEAD!! STRAIGHT UP!! #aurorasaurus

HOLY MOLY #aurorasaurus

The only two parties voting FOR the hate group legislation, Labor and the Liberal party, are spending the debate sledging it out over who is the bigger hypocrite and who supports the laws harder live.thepoint.com.au

"I've asked them to get their affairs in order to make sure they have their wills written... because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements, but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable..." www.npr.org/2026/01/18/n...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The fate of the Palestinian people offers a warning about the future of humanity. When I recently visited the West Bank, Palestinians kept impressing the same point on me: Israel has turned their land into a laboratory

Let’s check in on the solar cosmic ray count at Mawson station following the big CME event and everything looks norm— Oooooft. 🔭

My mum would have passed away 31 years tomorrow. She was here 35 years ago so this visit connected us

Today is the first day of the last Lunar month of the Year of the Wood Snake. It's apt to see a water dragon first thing at the Botanic Gardens

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." ~ #SunTzu

Paul Klee, Demonic Puppets, 1929

Only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness. - #CarlJung

WOW! The level of detail in this edible creation is absolutely breathtaking. Larissa May has a phenomenal talent for translating intricate embroidery textures into stunning confectionery designs that I want to devour! “Evil Eye Heart Cake” #beautifulbizarre #evileyecake #cake #art

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UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.” ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?” UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?” ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE* (H/T @Mollyploofkins)

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

"As the Albanese government continues to deliver on $9.4 billion of AUKUS commitments to the United States and United Kingdom, with more to come, analysts say the nuclear submarines it expects in return will never be delivered, as the pact will not hold." #auspol

One in 10 teens seeking mental health support from headspace cite social media ban as an issue www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/16/t...

Trump's private prison friends profiting from ICE actions.. www.visaverge.com/immigration/...

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The fact that thousands of Minnesotans continue to show up day after day and night after night to protect their communities knowing ICE agents are a hair's breadth away from murdering them is a fucking testament to their bravery, empathy, and resolve. America has not earned it, but there they are.

Goodnight all And, thank you. (It’s a kookaburra 😎)

Mmmm. Should I believe the scientist or the politician 🤔

Been working g in the garden, and a black cockatoo turned up to munch on the banksia.

Before and after: 5 years ago, Utrecht restored the Catharijnesingel. Once filled in during the 1970s to make way for traffic, the historic canal now flows again around the old city, lined with pedestrian paths, bike lanes, and a park-like landscape. 📸 @filmendefietser.bsky.social (#DCEnetwork)

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"I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week" Louise Adler ✊ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

This should be more obvious to everyone, but we cannot let the people comfortable with the mass slaughter of children further shape our culture, our democracies, our future as a species. It's the path to a depraved fascistic hellhole.

Cathy Wilcox, Louise Adler, Jane Caro and others. It’s up to intelligent compassionate women of a certain age to tell those bastards to fuck off. The only ones with the bravery to do it.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ~René Magritte Jupiter in Virgo, 1965

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

“beauty and goodness — in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object.” This is a theory of attention rooted in love, care and commitment, an ethics of attention that cannot be sold or stolen.

"Newly released cabinet papers, prepared by the federal public service and experts at the Bureau of Meteorology, were largely ignored by the Howard government...” So, when do we start talking about duty of care and criminal negligence www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...