Kat Franklin

Harmless and beneficial - unless you find them in the bottom of your gumboot - then they are just squishy and gross.

Looks like a leopard slug :-)

Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.

Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Zero overnight tonight in Yarra Valley. It's nearly November!

So there is a line some Republicans won't cross?

Not clear to me what it is.... Can't be unqualified or Nazi/Tate sympathiser as that hasn't prevented other nominations going forward.

Could it be there is a limit to the number of red flags they are willing to overlook? Surprise, surprise!

I got such a fright when I checked in earlier! But luckily there was just the smallest white bit of fluff on the other camera. Unlike now, where they are all completely in the blind spot. Stressful!

I miss Kerry O'Brien so much.
And Barrie Cassidy 😔

This was a defining moment for me. Up until that point, I had always thought that whatever policy differences I had with the LNP, politicians were people of integrity who were working for all Australians. That he was rewarded with the election win broke my heart.

I also struggled with the "no guns vs the other stuff" legacy of Howard and agree I would take no guns if I had to choose. I do wonder though, how much of that was actually him. Would a different PM (LNP or Labor) have done the same thing at the same time. We will never know, but I hope so.

Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining […]

The Jewish Council of Australia has warned the ... Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and entrenching selective approaches to racism that serve political agendas.

www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/07/jewi...

Thank you for this thread 😊

Bring me my pale horse for I am one of the goddesses of destruction.

Truly did not realise the apocalyptic power in my hands until now. #auspol 💀

Over 3,700 mutuals follow this hacked account > @and60.bsky.social

It was once the account of @strangerous.bsky.social but was hacked, taken over and renamed @and60.bsky.social

If you're following it, you're supporting a thief & a hacker

The original Stranger is now: @strangerous10.bsky.social

<quietly deletes partially written leopard eating face reply>

Please don't stop there... It was just getting good. What happens next?

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

WordPerfect was a different program (not Microsoft) and was 1 million times better. I will die on this hill.

Oh no... He just lost all of the Real Housewives' votes....nobody threatens the Cristal!!

You can’t make this stuff up. The level of incompetence coming from the Trump administration is staggering. Cruel and staggering.

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.

On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

Marbury v Madison is a seminal case from 1803 that holds that the federal courts must determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government. Hope that helps, Stephen.

A Louisiana mum has been charged with helping her child safely terminate a pregnancy. They will take that good mum & put her in jail. Trans, gay & non-binary kids are being told they won’t be allowed to exist. Qld is following. Sharpen your wits, nails & teeth. Earrings out. It’s on.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

If she can do it, we can all do it.

Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

Anybody know what the "Her Truth dot com" website on the ad is about? Who is "Her"? (I don't what to visit the site and increase their traffic.) Thanks :-)

Divide or unite?
My @smh @theage cartoon.

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The key word is "visually". It pays to look under the bonnet. Where was it made, what is it made from? Your kids might inherit the $3k table, the copy might fall apart. Problem is, we are a disposable society now & nobody wants to pay for something that lasts; style changes, toss it & get a new one.

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.

Morning.