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A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry

CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.

"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."

This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.

www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Margaret Atwood It was our own ignorance we had entered. I have not come out yet.

November, the month of her birthday, is Margaret Atwood Reading Month. This year I have read a little of her poetry which riffs on an early settler memoir I read a short while ago
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Mr Beige out ‘scomoing’ Scomo

Toxic Skies: The Amazon is now breathing dirtier air than the world’s biggest cities - Greenpeace International The Amazon’s skies are turning toxic. Fires lit to expand and renew cattle pastures are poisoning the air and fuelling the climate crisis. As world leaders prepare for COP30, it is time to stand with ...

A shocking new @greenpeace.org report shows that the Amazon Forest is now breathing dirtier air than the world’s biggest cities

It's a stark warning that the Amazon's crisis is not only about the loss of life that comes from deforestation.

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

ICE tries to deport Native American woman Leticia Jacobo, a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix, Arizona

ICE are just arresting anybody that doesn't look white enough

ICE tries to deport Native American woman

Leticia Jacobo, a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix, Arizona

A friendly Reminder....

THIS IS TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY YOUR FAULT ANTHONY ALBANESE
ROT IN HELL
YOU DESERVE POLITICAL OBSCURITY AND ABJECT POVERTY
#auspol

We stand with survivors everywhere. Release the files, and jail the PDFs, including the ones in the White House.

#EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #JeffreyEpstein #50501movement

The only centrism we need this #socialistsunday

Government considers dramatic intervention to save Tomago smelter The federal government is considering a power-purchase agreement with Tomago to supply electricity at a stable price, after warnings the smelter may need to close because of rising power costs.

Why do Australian taxpayers have to cover Rio Tinto's energy costs? It's the world's second largest mining company! FFS! Sick of this crap. #auspol

We presented our interview with author @genni.bsky.social. Come read what she has to say about her new stories and the series to which they belong, as well as the importance of Afrofuturist or Afro-irreal literature as a whole. blog.librarything.com/2025/11/auth...

Special Envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal has a fully staffed office in Parliament to speak truth to power.
Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, doesn't appear to have his own dedicated office with staff there.
& First People of Australia have no voice & no office.
Why?

Breaking: Mike Johnson just announced that he'll swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday at 4pm ET.

Don't we just all love the fact we have a sPeCiAL eNvOy tO cOmBaT AnTi-SeMiTiSm who has a major problem with pro-Palestinian anti-genocide activists—but shows not a care in world about Nazis & neo-Nazis.

How proud you must feel to have brought this about for Washington, @albomp.bsky.social. #auspol

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown

youtu.be/eFI6MwlLJ08

The Gens before Gen 0 “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,/þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon”,

Over the next two or three years I'm going to read some more fiction pre-Jane Austen, and I'm looking for company
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what the hell, Senate Democrats? you got played. how do you not see this?

here's today's post: "what the hell, Senate Democrats?" — you got played. how do you not see this?
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein confidante and child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp while she prepares a request that Donald Trump commute her sentence, according to whistleblower revelations. More on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

😢😭🥺 fucking hell

What a shit show

They knew and didn't care.

The NSW police needs a Nazi exorcism.

The criminal in the Oval Office pardoned all of his criminal co-conspirators who helped him try to overthrow the government. Including:

-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis

The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.

“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.”

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

“I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot.”

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social: “The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no proof they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had evidence, they’d face a court, not a drone.”

Seven strikes. Thirty-two dead. Zero indictments.

ICE is still being paid.
Congress is still being paid.

Private jets are still being bought.

The White House is still being renovated.

In the most prosperous country in the history of the world...

This.👇