Jon

October 7th 2024
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NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights

So far today I’ve heard both Minns and Albanese blaming protesters for the violence by breaking the law.
Let’s talk about both of them breaking the law by supplying asylum to a wanted criminal and refusing to honour their commitments to the United Nations by arresting Herzog. That’s grounds for

What Happens When Midwives Lead Abortion Care: Lessons from Sweden | International Confederation of Midwives In Sweden, abortion is recognised as essential healthcare—built on decades of research and early innovation. More recently, reforms have enabled midwives to play a central role, making care safer, tim...

Sweden’s experience with midwives providing abortion care offers lessons for other countries. Swedism midwives have long led care for healthy women during pregnancy and birth, with doctors supporting when complications arise. Applying the same model to abortion care is both logical and effective.

Release the Algal Bloom Data Release the Algal Bloom Data

For the South Australians out there. This government is great at helping Santos, not so great at their core duties.
Give this one a sign.

#auspol

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Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Three key takeaways from the UN's latest review of Australia's rights record A review of Australia's human rights record by the United Nations has heard "serious concerns" about its low age of criminal responsibility and rising incarceration rates.

Yep. We'll jail a 10 year old for stealing a Freddo frog, but a politician steals $50K from the public purse? They just pay it back and Bob's your uncle.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Video shows man throwing explosive device into Perth Invasion Day crowd WA Police have released CCTV that shows a man, dressed in black and wearing a black face mask, running through the crowd after throwing an object from a shopping centre balcony.

What a mongrel. How is he not charged under terrorism laws? I guess he's the wrong colour.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The Point Live: Crunch time for hate speech laws in parliamentary brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are negotiating once again on what is left of the hate speech laws, in a parliamentary day dedicated to the passage of just two bills. All the day's events, as it happe...

The House is currently debating the gun laws, so a lot of bullshit is being spread by the Nats - @amyremeikis.bsky.social guides you past the poo balls
live.thepoint.com.au

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Are arts and non-profit institutions spending resources on grants and philanthropy any different from the unhoused person holding out a cup to passerbys?

Should that be an ok thing not only at an individual level but at an institutional level? Should this be considered a basic duty of government?

Powder-like agent stops wound from bleeding in one second : Korea.net : The official website of the Republic of Korea A research team at the country's top science and technology university has developed a powder-type hemostatic agent that stops bleeding within a second when applied to a wound.

Spray on Powder-like agent stops wound from bleeding in one second #KAIST #SouthKorea

A research team at the country's top science and technology university has developed a powder-type hemostatic agent that stops bleeding within a second when applied to a wound.

www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Sc...

Association between vaccinations and risk of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis AbstractImportance. Dementia is a highly prevalent issue in older people. Whilst the prevention of dementia is a public health priority, the role of vaccin

A real “tell your parents” paper (since everyone on Bsky is canonically 38).

Review of 21 studies of ppl over 50:

• Shingles vax associated w/47% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, 24% lower risk of any dementia

• Pneumonia vax had 36% lower risk of Alzheimer's

• Tdap had 33% lower risk of any dementia

Ah, Potato fritters. Yum.

Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

There's always more for those with more.

If the US federal government continues to borrow money at the current rate the Trump administration will add ten trillion dollars to the federal debt.

From around 36 trillion to around 46 trillion. Plausibly more.

And no improved infrastructure or outcomes for the middle class or the poor.

We're at the socialism or barbarism moment yet again and Australia's contribution is to cancel writers festivals and to prosecute whether butt dials are antisemitic

Climate-related mass-fatality events in Australia since 2000.
It's strange how these deaths weren't perceived as an horrific national tragedy. 🤔

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

Malcolm Fraser's 'Dangerous Allies' - A Retrospective Review Twelve years after its initial publication, what can ex-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's book on the Lucky Country's relationship with the United States possibly have to offer to the modern ...

Twelve years after its publication, what can ex-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's book on the Lucky Country's relationship with the United States possibly have to offer to the modern reader? That's the question I explore in this retrospective review. 👇

www.buchanan.today/post/malcolm...

Thanks for this. A good read. Fraser spent time on Twitter in his last years, I found him to be a very astute commentator and sharp as a tack. It's interesting that Fraser and Keating both became critical of our role as an international citizen through the 2010's.
We're not well served by our reps.

David Shoebridge: “When the government brings legislation into the parliament that protects only one religion, that is designed to put critics in jail, and that has not been consulted with the broader community, there is only one word to describe that, and that is divisive.” #auspol.

Coalition in conniptions trying to figure out how they can amend hate speech bill so it's ok to punch down on every minority except Jews

#auspol

‘Rich dummy’: How the AUKUS deal is set to fail Defence experts say while Australia keeps meeting downpayments on the promised Virginia-class nuclear submarines, it is getting nothing in return for a deal that shows signs of failure on several fron...

‘Rich dummy’: How the AUKUS deal is set to fail www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
“This is the insanity of it,” says Malcolm Turnbull. “If we stuck with France, we had a design that was operating, that was in the water, fully designed, operational.”

What a mess.

I'd be more likely to focus blame on Abbott. He's been in the background empowering far right representatives and was certainly instrumental in Turnbull's downfall.
But really, Morrison is the real culprit here. You just need to look where's he's 'working' now.

Women's, advocacy groups call on Apple, Google to drop X and Grok from app stores A coalition of women's groups, tech watchdogs, and progressive activists is calling on Alphabet owner Google and Apple to remove the social media site X and its related chatbot, Grok, from their app stores.

Women's, advocacy groups call on Apple, Google to drop X and Grok from app stores reut.rs/4qpqXx8

Watercolour drawing of the Royal Courts of Justice with people waiting for buses and walking by in the rain. I started this on the spot but took photos in order to carry on with it at home because of the rain. A few brown spots have developed in storage (foxing).

I mentioned earlier today that I had done a watercolour of the London Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand. This is it from 1993 (see alt text). I did several paintings wandering up and down the Strand and also in the Inns of Court.
#London #TheStrand #watercolour #ink