Happy 100th birthday #DavidAttenborough Your work inspires, comforts and compels us to act in whatever way we can to preserve our glorious planet. All this and it’s G rated!

Article "Protests in the United States on Palestine & Israel, 2023–2024" in Social Movement Studies, 25(2), 234–247 (2006) vital work by Erica Chenoweth, Soha Hammam, Jeremy Pressman & Jay Ulfelder www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Does anyone know of similar empirical studies of the UK protests?

Aussies pay more tax on beer than gas giants pay on the gas they export overseas. Head to the pub this Friday May 8 (Mate Day), raise a glass for a 25% gas export tax, snap a pic, and post publicly tagging @AlboMP #TaxGasNotBeer

I don’t think a guy who wrote a character witness statement endorsing someone who was on trial for child sexual abuse gets to lecture anyone on how to protect children

"it's too expensive" is code for they don’t give a fuck, and or it won’t benefit, advance them.

Funny that. The rise in anti-semitism which is real and abhorrent might have something to do with Gaza. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

Join 🧶👵s at Australia’s Highest Court as it considers whether local #climate impacts of coal mining and the environment must be considered when assessing #fossilfuel projects. This judgement will affect us all. Wednesday 13 May, High Court of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra. #NoMoreCoal

Shared values. #auspol

Thank heavens he didn't mention the river or the sea

ABC so desperate for a headline that fuels anti welfare rhetoric that they’ve conflated “income support” with “comparatively generous private insurance policies and compensation schemes”. Since when are these part of ANY ordinary definition of income support? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

This is the report they're basing this story on can someone tell the ABC that sick leave isn't an income support payment?

2/2 Bluth calls it Israeli terrorism, but not only does he not try to prevent it in the same way that the IDF prevents Palestinian terrorism, but he is actually abetting it" Haaretz Editorial @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social @paulrgregoire.bsky.social

1/2 Major General Avi Bluth, IDF Central Command Chief, “has now revealed what everyone already knew: The Israel Defense Forces is working hand in hand with the settlers who are carrying out the daily pogroms.

Equally in Australia and the UK, Labor/Labour can be mind-blowingly timid, shit and/or immoral at doing certain things, and also be getting a raw deal from extremely biased media at the same time.

Fellow residents of so-called Australia, please stop voting for the ALP/LNP parties, both are captured by the fossil fuel & mining industry & will destroy this country & your futures for donor profit. Every. Single. Time. Think of your kids ffs #auspol

Federal politics live: Government to implement all national recommendations of antisemitism interim report. ABC News Australia. This is such a crock of shit. Royal commissions into first nations peoples deaths in custody & domestic violence went on for years. Recommendations were partially made.

TODAY @ 5:30PM #auspol #Newcastle #nsw #freepalestine #globalsumudflotilla

The gaslight on the hill.

Apart from anything else, how dumb is it in the middle of an inflation/cost of living crisis, to be boasting about a new plane gifted to you by Australia's wealthiest extremists, three days out from one of two by-elections. Hubris is always the populists biggest problem.

This is very relevant to discussions about the presumed causes for a decline in public trust in higher education seemingly taken for granted in recent reports. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Minns continues to push for a ban on Globalise the Intifada, which is a slogan that no one in the NSW Palestine solidarity movement was actually using prior to his deciding to raise it for banning Minns popularised the use of Globalise the Intifada as an expression in his state

'Independent' Royal Commission invites only the best and mosy succulent cherry-picked submissions paired with a side-serving of anti-Palestine action. #Auspol #AntiSemitism #RoyalCommission

#AcademicSky, do your thing

Nick's NACC paddywhack

If you are heckling welcome to country, I think it's good you know you not welcome not just on country, but probably anywhere because you are a whiny little bitch that can't handle being told you don't own something you can never own.

Welcome to Country booing @ Dawn Service was organised by the exact same group of people who arranged the last round. The whole crowd was not booing. If I am with a small crowd booing and I record myself it sounds like the whole crowd is booing. It's called camera perspective bias.

EU, Asian nations & UK have all started moving away from US trade including military, except Albanese who keeps trucking on, stupidly, arrogantly ignorant to considering substantial upgrades to trade & national security. Bizarre, dangerous, disconnected. LNP clearly won’t be of any help. #AusPol

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "War pigs, the Albanese way"

This is so timely. The Albanese govt has promised "reform" in the Budget. So far their big move has been to push vulnerable people off #NDIS. We might take them seriously if they fix school funding to ensure better outcomes for public schools. Rather than continue to appease vested interests.

If not me, then who? If not now, then when? Activism is the antidote for despair, for assaults on democracy,… Join a group that meets your values and goals… Be the change you want to see.

Join us on 23 April at 12:30pm (AEST) for a special TASA Thursday with renowned sociologist Raewyn Connell, discussing her new book Trans Lives. 🎟️ Free Zoom webinar – register now: tasa.org.au/content.aspx... #TASAThursdays #Sociology #GenderStudies

Tom Elliott sucking up to Pauline Hanson on 3AW. (sadness in his voice as he accepts this is who they have to get behind now that his beloved Liberals are down the shitter) 'You may not like her, but at least she has a plan'. Fuck knows what it is. I couldn't understand a word she was saying.

Passed for entirely political reasons, nothing at all to do with 'social cohesion' or 'safety'. The #Minns #NSW govt has knowingly drafted and legislated unconstitutional anti-protest laws twice in the last year. Both aimed at curbing citizens rights and their voices. #ProtectProtest #Auspol

Monday: [portrays himself as Jesus Christ]

Sunday: [verbally attacks the pope]

Quite the week for the president of the United States on Truth Social. Sunday: "Praise be to Allah!" Tuesday: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Thursday: [video of a woman being murdered]

The LNP knows no politics that does not punch down on vulnerable people. When confronted with genuine concerns about the unpalatability of their platform, they punch lower, start kicking and cultural head stomping. Compare and contrast the statements of 2 conservative leaders. #Auspol #NoToRacism

@eff.org for the win. Get off legacy outlets that don't protect privacy (where possible). Twitter is indefensibly awful. #ProtectPrivacy #RightToBeForgotten #DestroySurveillanceCapitalism

At some point we're going to have to admit that Australia's wholesale corporatisation of the tertiary education sector was a huge mistake right?!?

Zipper lane merging lessons should be mandatory for all drivers, every other year, until the age of 75 when licences shall be revoked.

this is the most foreseeable and well-known strategic problem in the course of human history, which most straight men in positions of power scrupulously work to pretend doesn’t exist because of the Implications

"Hey buddy, listen, war crimes are not on. Ok?" chaser.com.au/world/world-...

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Hadrienniels took me out

'Patrician grindset' lulz. Wait till you hear about Plebian push-through! Ping @davidrafferty.bsky.social - you might enjoy this!

Donald Trump, Ben Roberts Smith, Bruce Lehrmann. What a fucking week in news. Hear us bitchin about it all on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social at 7pm. With @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social

Sorry, what? Since when does the LotO get to do addresses on the national broadcaster? Does the Crossbench get a slot after this too?

“I have to respond to the real world as it is.” Yes, Prime Minister. Why don’t you do that.

Albanese, the peak of neoliberal centrism, dragging the ALP right-wards happily, focus group'd to hell and back. We could do so much better with actual leftist parties like the Greens, Socialists and Socialist Alliance. #auspol