Robyn Edmanson

Please join us at the rally to save the #StateLibraryofVictoria from mismanagement & insane staff cuts. Library steps, Saturday 13 December at 12.30. Every citizen of this city owns this place & now we have to defend it. I'm sorry we're all so busy & distracted by bad things: but this we can do.

History, memory, and pain: Fifty years after the Indonesian invasion of East Timor On 7 December 2025, fifty years since Indonesian troops invaded East Timor, survivors and their descendants continue to live with the legacy of occupation, violence and loss – and to insist that remem...

"The story of Timor-Leste is also a warning. In an era of geopolitical competition, small nations remain vulnerable. The lessons of 1975 – intervention, complicity, and silence – are as relevant today as they were then."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Dr Assal Rad—

“This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.

“And the media needs to call it what it is.”

AUKUS will not make Australia safer.

It makes Australia more vulnerable and compromises our ability to make independent decisions about our own security.

#auspol

I don’t think people realise how bad it’s getting.

Rick Morton, scoop machine.

Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics.

Watch what happens to dating around 2007...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reached an out-of-court settlement in Feb 2022 with Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of sexual assault when she was a minor.

Multiple outlets inc Guardian, BBC reported the figure was believed to be £12 million.
Yet ABC repeatedly states he denies the allegations?!

Given idiot boy is back on the "cognitive test" bandwagon, I'm bringing Sarah Cooper back out from the vault.

The wonderful Francesca Albanese on #LNL today

Well, now we might find out what schemozzle shenanigans are going on with the artist formerly known as the Bureau of Meteorology.

Hadn't got around to it, but tonight this made me delete the Spotify app immediately:

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

“A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes from a library’s children & young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday… “I don’t regret standing up for the First Amendment in any way”

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Collection of Virginia Woolf's lost stories published nearly 80 years after her death

A lovely tribute to Virginia Woolf with the discovery and publication of three early short stories youtu.be/baW3meZQzCw

A culture of leniency. Exposing wrongdoing or protecting wrongdoers? - Michael West Corporate regulator ASIC lets crooked bankers walk free, and the notional anti-corruption commission ignores Robodebt.

"Professor of Public Policy and Law at Griffith University, A J Brown, made the uncontested point that if the general public thinks there is a problem with corruption there is a problem with corruption"

michaelwest.com.au/asic-nacc-ex...

Greta Thunberg will be in history books. never stop Greta. you are a beacon of hope. More guts than every leader in this world.

Mirrors its readership

The generals weren’t the only ones who gave Kegsbreath a bad review.

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Breaking: Trump Used AI to Scan U.S. Generals’ Faces for Loyalty — and to Root Out Whistleblowers On the Jewish Day of Atonement, America Must Reckon With a President Who Never Repents

Already in use in China? "I’m hearing the Trump team used AI & facial-recognition during those briefings to monitor the generals’ reactions in real time. Every eyebrow raise, every flicker of doubt, every moment of discomfort was scanned and analyzed?" levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

The shutdown is to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants" There needs to be pushback on all theirs lies, call it out and keep calling it out
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The blink and head down as Hegseth realises there won't even be a smattering of applause. Just the smack of silence, delivered by the largest collection of the most disciplined, educated, trained professionals he'll ever see. Who all know he's a moron.

#protectTheFirstAmendment

My mind went to other types of aggressive contact but this’ll do nicely

"Librarians are reporting this overall atmosphere of confusion and lack of trust they're experiencing from their patrons," Macrina told 404. "They're seeing patrons having seemingly diminished critical thinking and curiosity. They're definitely running into some of these psychosis and other mental health issues, and certainly seeing the people who are more widely adopting it also being those who have less digital literacy about it and a general sort of loss of retention."

Librarians are on the front lines of dealing with the harm these systems are inflicting. www.404media.co/librarians-a...