David Bridie

Great work from Knitting Nannas.
The more exposure the #AtlasNetwork and its affiliates get, the better. #auspol

Listen to The mesmerizing whale song as a humpback 🐋 whale and its calf swim in the coastal waters of Tonga 🇹🇴
📹Paul Nicklen

Honiara @wantokmusik.bsky.social Na Ainamae and Totoraha project recording ancestral songs from Are’are, Sth Malaita. First few days recording artists based in Honiara town before heading to Lau and Are’are. John Houkarawa is the first artist.

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Was good to write a positive story, though there is plenty we don’t know about these guys and there are challenges ahead to make sure they remain not extinct. But here’s to positive news.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I saw a bumper sticker with this on it about 20 years ago and have thought about it when I am in/ am being traffic ever since

oh yes

Fuck the Herald Sun

What does the “international rules-based order” the Australian government is so keen on say about leaving people to drown?

“Everything could be different . . . There is no reason why we can’t produce more of the things that we need, and far fewer of the things that are destroying our world, our planet. We have the capacity to do it.” – @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

Read more: https://theaus.in/4b0CZ9K

Unusual bets on Trump’s war have rung alarm bells Highly profitable trades made ahead of the strikes by the US and Israel on Iran have put a harsh spotlight on a fast-growing threat to the financial system.

read this and weep for our species www.theage.com.au/business/mar...

"A Confluence of Uncertainty" a 50 min video/sound Installation by K. Verell & myself, deals w Antarctica icemelt climate implications amongst the utter beauty/harshness of the ice desert. Part of "Creative Antarctica" exhibition-Design Hub Gallery RMIT in Melb til May 2. Wed love you to have a look

Best looked at with the Thunderbirds theme playing in the background

Uncle Frank in the Capitol @wantokmusik.bsky.social

Regenvanu urges support after US climate rejection - ABC Pacific Vanuatu's Climate Envoy Ralph Regenvanu is urging countries to stay engaged, after the United States pushed for Vanuatu

Vanuatu’s Climate Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is urging countries (looking at you, Australia) to resist US pressure and stand with Vanuatu for climate justice. Vanuatu wants the UN to back the ICJ’s finding that countries are legally responsible for climate damage. Australia — whose side are you on?

"A Confluence of Uncertainty" a sound/vision installation by video artist K. Verell & myself, deals w Antarctica ice melt implications amongst the utter beauty/harshness of the southern ice desert. Part of "Creative Antarctica"-Design Hub Gallery RMIT in Melb til May 2
pgav.org.au/Creative-Ant...

Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there

Separated at birth

Not Drowning, Waving Malira/Tabaran tour with Sir George Telek Ben Hakalitz and Pius Wasi in May. Cairns and Brisbane later in the year. Hope to see you there

Rabaul.

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert, referencing a moment in episode 16, season 4 from The Simpsons ("Duffless"), in which Lisa Simpson sets out to prove that Bart is dumber than a hamster because he is unable to learn from operant conditioning (that touching a cupcake leads to an electric shock). The cartoon is split into 4 panels and all people featured are drawn in The Simpson's style. In panel 1, titled JUNE 2024, Peter Dutton (with smiling Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley watching on) is attracted to the sight of a model of a nuclear power plant on a bench top. The model is connected to a device which will deliver an electric current to anyone who touches it. Dutton is looking at a small sign announcing "VOTERS DO NOT WANT". Nevertheless, he is clearly drawn to it, and is saying "OOOOOH...". Panel 2. Labelled MAY 2025, Peter Dutton touches the Nuclear model, receiving an electric shock (BZZZZT!). Taylor is still smiling. Ley now looks concerned. Panel 3, labelled NOVEMBER 2025. The same scene, but now the Nuclear model has a sticky note added to it saying "SCRAP NET ZERO", and this time it's Sussan Ley (with Dan Tehan looking on) touching the model and receiving the electric shock. Panel 4, labelled FEBRUARY 2026, is the same scene yet again, except with the sticky note now removed, and the label saying "VOTERS STILL DO NOT WANT". This time it's Angus Taylor grabbing the nuclear model and receiving the shock, with a smiling Jane Hume watching on. Not pictured: Lisa Simpson watching on from the next room saying "Hamster: two, Liberal party: zero."

D'oh!
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social (with apologies to Matt Groening)

And in case you'd like to know the episode this references, it's "Duffless", Ep 16, Season 4... google "Bart gets electrocuted by muffin" for a Youtube clip of the moment. You're welcome. 🤓)

Australia Institute research shows why Australia needs more politicians: smaller electorates mean MPs who are more responsive to local communities, more accountable to grassroots campaigns, and better able to specialise in policy areas.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tF9SkF

Siouxsie and the Banshees made it to Bougainville! #shippingcontainergraffiti

YouTube video by Penney and Logan Frank Yamma - Everybody's Talking

Frank Yamma in Pitjantjatjara youtu.be/CNAZ4gsGl_g?...

‘Journey Home, David Gulpilil’ two AACTA gongs. Such a wonderful film to be involved with. Brilliant team.

Here at the Aacta’s with the wonderful crew who made ‘Journey Home David Gulpilil’- the film is up for best cinematography, sound, original music, feature documentary and best group photos. Five Stars Mr Gulpilil.

YouTube video by Dick Gaughan - Topic Craigie Hill (Remastered 2019)

Not to be obsessive but what if I just listened to Dick Gaughan’s recording of Craigie Hill over and over again forever youtu.be/b8973TCmfM8?...

YouTube video by Mediatime Network New York Doll | Full Documentary Movie

Remembering Arthur "Killer" Kane on his birthday. This very moving film about the remarkable life of the New York Dolls bassist is one of the greatest music documentaries
youtu.be/a7oHhHGzf3w

This has 'Joh for PM' written all over it minus the John Stone and Geoffrey Blainey parts but still with the flat earther tax.

Our Turning Point should sue. Much better organisation also. The addiction they research and educate about is less harmful than the rightwing Christian opiates- www.turningpoint.org.au

YouTube video by Darren Williams Best In Show - God Loves a Terrier

Catherine -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rZq3oKuI