Judith Ridge

I mean, there are all kinds of problems with the Tasmanian state government, but every day I thank god I no longer live in a state where Minns is Premier. This is also the man who wants to imprison teachers.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Chris Minns says the Newcastle Writers Festival is "crazy" to invite author Randa Abdel-Fattah. "I think they are crazy to invite that author when you think about how divisive it is."

OTOH, it's apparently perfectly sane to invite this person 'on the basis of healing wounds after the Bondi attack.'

Questions about Randa Abdel-Fattah inclusion in NSW writers festival The NSW government makes contact with the board of next month's Newcastle Writers Festival about the inclusion of Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, the ABC understands.

I swear to god, they’re not going to be happy until they’ve hounded her out of the country, or to her death.

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So now gmail is using AI to summarise emails received. I CAN READ MY OWN EMAILS FFS I hate this world can I get off please?

It's a record 48.9°C summer. The media doesn't care, and there's a few reasons why It's getting hotter, but politicians — and crucially, the press that pushed them — don't seem to care. It's all the result of the slow but steady collapse of global stability.

Wrote a piece for @crikey.com.au on how the media stopped discussing climate change

www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/02/c...

In a world of tyrants and toadies, it’s only “terrorism” if they're not white - The Shot “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” – Rage Against the Machine The state-sanctioned, IDF-trained, ICE murders on...

Here's me. "It's only terrorism if they're not white"

#auspol #Australia #Gina

Ah, Miranda Devine, Australia’s worst export since Rupert Murdoch, continuing her personal crusade to platform (alleged) paedophiles.

We’re living in a generation of rage‑media-division sells.

I can be offended by Jan 26 & still love my country.

I’m tired of Aboriginal ppl being painted as enemies of the country for exercising our right to protest.

This narrative doesn’t just divide us; it normalises hate towards us.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Seems like a good video for his trial

Australia is suffering from a femicide crisis. Media outlets carry a responsibility to centre the victims, avoid blame shifting, and report the killings of women and children with care and restraint. When they fail to do that, they stop informing the public and start compounding the harm.

Snausages

Underneath the name Charlie Hebdo is a pile of bloodied dead bodies representing US citizens killed by ICE. The pile of bodies are collected in one corner to represent the stars of the US flag and the streaks of blood caused by them being dragged across the ground form the red and white stripes. In the foreground an armed skinhead officer with an ICE vest is dragging his latest victim with multiple gunshots to join the pile. The world is watching in horror.

Wow.

The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

“The AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point. And yet here we are.” - Greg Jericho

Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp

Hard to know where to start with this racist idiotic thought bubble.

So just one point:
That Andew Bragg is often referred to in mainstream media as a 'leading Liberal moderate',
so by implication most Liberals are to his right,
demonstrates why the party is in terminal decline. #auspol

So, in Australia, they’re advertising the Melania movie on the @nicollewallace.bsky.social Deadline Whitehouse podcast @msnownews.bsky.social Hilaria. (Also, wtf am I getting ads anyway? I’m a subscriber!)

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

Australia’s best children’s picture book poll - vote now Cast your vote for the best Australian children’s picture book from 27 January to 5 February. You can vote every day

Only one title by Margaret Wild, our best picture book author bar none? Tempted to call the whole enterprise therefore illegitimate, but I voted anyway.

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THAT’S WHAT I WAS THINKING!

Jesus never told anybody to obey Caesar.

Every video I see of her, her eyes look a little deader, her expression like her soul is leaching away with every word.

AFR screenshot 3 ways to beat the new super tax With the new super tax slated to start in less than six months, we asked the experts for the strategies you can put in place now to limit potential liability.

Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations

More than a decade ago I worked social media for the NDIS. I realised Serco was going to be a service provider. I gave some feed back criticising the decision. Contract not renewed. And now here we are. Serco is now providing outsourced phone case management to the NDIS

"at the goingdown of the sun
and in the morning
i try to remember them
but their names are ordinary names
and their causes are thighbones
tugged excitedly from the soil
by frenchchildren
on picnics"

Roger McGough, "On Picnics"

(It was meant to be a salutary reminder, and yet here we are...)

So you’re too timid to even name the actual person (DONALD TRUMP) who insulted our servicemen and women? This is such an embarrassing response, weak as piss mate.

YouTube video by TheStyleCouncilVEVO The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down!

I’m just over here, praying to Saint Paul Weller of the Council of Style. No particular reason.

Governments crack and systems fall,

‘cause unity is powerful.

Lights go out

Walls come tumbling down.

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