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This is nothing short of incredible. Everyone was absolutely right to wonder what kind of person would want to take this job.

crossing my fingers we land the COP31 gig. truly it'd be Australia's biggest climate achievement since the carbon tax! you got this Chris!! lets gooo

The Australian govt should immediately announce $500m funding for mRNA vaccine development.

Get those scientists here.

Just an amazing opportunity handed to us by the brain worm infested loon.

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Four per cent of the Sydney population marching, on a rainy day no less, is extraordinary. Another reminder that our country’s shameless support for Israel is built on an elite consensus, not reflective of most people.

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

but if you reply to tell them that, now you're the principal too. this game's hard

sometimes there's a post that is successfully having some fun and the top reply is someone going "ah ah ah, this is bluesky. someone will be along with the school principal energy to ruin it in a sec" buddy it's you, you're the principal today

They always do this: they suppress the actual science of a phrase & spread its colloquial meaning, if that creates misunderstanding. They did it with "uncertainty," and they're doing it now with "we have avoided the worst-case scenario" & "the worst-case scenario is misleading."

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Wong is claiming Australia only sells Israel non-lethal parts of the F-35.

Non-lethal parts of the F-35....

'Gacy's right hand did all the killing - his left foot, and the other non-lethal parts of Gacy, should be exonerated.'

Argue it at the ICJ, Penny, you're digging a hole.

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It is right that images of starving children in Gaza have moved our political leaders, but it is shameful that it took this long. This appalling situation did not develop overnight and there have been many many warnings signs over the past nearly two years.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

One of the galling things about this is how Wong isn't simply trying to argue that F-35s shouldn't count as weaponry.

Her position is that to count them as weaponry is dangerously uninformed & hysterical, and that one could only frame them as weapons out of a cynical desire to hurt the ALP.

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

a tweet from me that says "israel has been working to engineer a famine in gaza, with the aim of killing its population, and every political ally of israel knows this is the case"

i posted this more than a year ago because it was obvious by then that israel was trying to starve gaza, & i knew there would come a time in the future when a bunch of people who know better would pretend to suddenly find out about it

Supplying military hardware is OK as long as it's not the piece that physically touches someone to kill them.

But if you give food or medicine to a Palestinian they might use that nutrition to join Hamas, which is tantamount to killing an Israeli citizen.

Food = weapons
Weapons = not weapons

wong: ok we ARE supplying gun parts, but only the handle and the sights! not the triggers
<it turns out we are supplying the triggers>
wong: ok the trigger isn't the lethal bit either. that'd be the bullet
<we're supplying the bullets>
wong: well yes but not the _tips_ of the bullets

screenshot of the headline from an 'off the charts' blog post from the Australia Institute titled Nearly a fifth of Australia’s emissions now come from sending fossil fuels overseas July 25, 2025 by Polly Hemming and Matt Saunders. A graph with the heading "Share of total Australia emissions from exporting coal and gas" shows how this has increased since 2010. There is accompanying text with the graph saying: "Australia’s exports of fossil fuels are not only increasing emissions across the world, they are also becoming a larger share of our domestic emissions."

The govt is under pressure to increase Australia’s climate target. Obvious way to cut emissions would be to stop digging up coal/gas for export. We don’t use it here, it adds little to the economy—but producing it is nearly 1/5 of domestic emissions #auspol
australiainstitute.org.au/post/nearly-...

If you were mildly concerned by Ken Henry’s focus on offsets in his NPC address: the full story and the grift is way worse than you might have thought. This is deep corruption:

Founder of Collective Shout (who got all the adult content banned from Steam and itch), Melinda Tankard Reist, is on the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the Australian government's social media age assurance technology trial. So is @igea.bsky.social CEO, Ron Curry. ageassurance.com.au/stakeholder-...

France to recognize Palestine as a state, says Macron, prompting criticism from Netanyahu – Middle East crisis live French president says ‘no alternative’ amid ‘urgent need to end the war in Gaza’; Israel’s prime minister claims announcement ‘rewards terror’

Australia had a chance to be a leader, had a chance to be on the right side of history.

The govt instead chose cowardice and implicit consent of genocide.

France makes us look very pathetic
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Today the International Court of Justice ruled that states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change. Australia continues to be a world leader in fossil fuel exports. Our Minister for Climate Change is busy posting weird attack ads on a random coalition backbencher. We're a serious country.

cool can't see anything going wrong with trusting an imprecise technology with one of the highest stakes decisions made for a vulnerable group

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

And this is the exact same play every time. The pro-genocidal Zionist groups attack someone for alleged anti-semitic offenses, get the press and police and governments involved, and generally there was just criticism of genocide. In genocidal Israel, they execute the innocent person first, obviously

A couple of points I should add:
-Segal has no experience or expertise in reducing hate speech
-She proposes that her judgements override laws, offices & experts that already exist (and work) to limit hate speech.
-If I was Islamophobia envoy I'd be v concerned about her family's support for Advance

Zionism is the cause of the increase in anti-semitism

Envoys in glass houses Jillian Segal’s position as antisemitism spokesperson is untenable

If Anthony Albanese was indeed genuinely seeking to restore “social cohesion” by appointing a special envoy to combat antisemitism, he couldn’t have made a poorer choice than Jillian Segal.

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mr schwimmer, your portrayal of ross as an obsessive stalker whose violations go unseen no matter how overt... it almost has a Lovecraftian quality. did you draw on this intentionally for your work, or is it more of a background influence

serve up a tainted beef welly: justice is swift and unrelenting

slit the throats of children in Afghanistan: regular holidays to Bali and an executive job