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Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell review – brilliantly, terrifyingly plausible In this wild little miracle of a book, an Australian government office is tasked with cataloguing the casualties of the Anthropocene Superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) are nature’s archivists. From chirrups to chainsaws, they gather the sounds of the forest and preserve them in living playback. We mistake it for avian showmanship but it is also testimony: their songs record the damage we do, the creatures we erase. Lyrebirds hold us to account. Johanna Bell’s debut, Department of the Vanishing, is a lyrebird of a book. It sounds like plenty of other things: you can hear snatches of Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers; Australian eco-novelists like James Bradley, Charlotte McConaghy and Jennifer Mills; and the poetry of John Kinsella and Judith Wright. But Bell is no imitator, she’s making her own noise. She opens with a magnificent chorus: a double-page spread of transliterated birdsong. It reads like a manifesto – a statement of what’s at stake. Continue reading...

Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell review – brilliantly, terrifyingly plausible

Possum o’clock.

Both of my local Buff-banded Rails love having a bath.
I knew that ugly fruit bowl could be put to better use!
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #waterbirds #WildOz

‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food

Puffins 😔 How very sad.
We really have made a mess of things ...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Programs: Spin Cycle – 5 March 2026, Spin Cycle — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio An episode of Spin Cycle on 5 March 2026

@3rrrfm.bsky.social #SpinCycle 05Mar Superb! @jessielilley.bsky.social @theshufflediary.bsky.social & @rachelwithers.bsky.social discuss reporting of #IranWar. Stellar interview with journalist @charlottegrieve.bsky.social on her investigation into Dr Munjed Al Muderis. share.google/uv8M6zZkYFPm...

To bee In praise of the world’s all-important pollinators, which face the perils of a changing climate, agricultural water hoarding and a deadly mite called “destructor”

I’ve immersed myself often in the natural outdoors, but have perhaps been too intent on seeing it as a series of vistas and captivating vignettes, and not as a complex mesh of interrelated systems and beings. mnth.ly/4RKA5TA

We saw beautiful Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos fly overhead while we were camping, they have a distinctive bouncy flight as if they're held up by string #birds #art #drawing #cockatoo #australia

A US nuclear submarine just sank an Iranian frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka, leaving the survivors to drown. I asked Wong if any of the 50 or more Australians stationed on US nuclear submarines in the Pacific were on this submarine.

The Government refused to answer.

political.speech 1h BREAKING: President of Brazil, Lula da Silva: "My message to the United States, Israel, and Iran is simple: the world is tired of your conflicts. Diplomacy is not a sign of weakness; it is the highest expression of human intelligence. Those who die are not the ones signing the attack orders in Washington or Tel Aviv; those who die are the innocents. Brazil demands an immediate ceasefire and the opening of a negotiation table that is not tainted by arms trade interests." ••• O 8.4K Q 212 G936 147

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Penny Allman-Payne has called out foreign minister Penny Wong for refusing to answer on the legality of the war in Iran and questions why the government can’t be against Iran’s hateful regime, while “at the same time” be against US & Israel’s illegal war. 💥 #auspol

It’s deeply disappointing how cowardly the government are. Carney realised you can never appease a bully, you can only stand up them. And you can be professional in doing that. It baffles me why Albanese has been such a windsock to Trump’s bluster. The strategy is very unclear.
#auspol

#ClimateReality #Australia #auspol

Malingering, deeply institutionalised career party apparatchiks with limited life experience, wedded to obsolete ideologies, occupy many of the seats in our federal parliament.
They do not represent us
They do not mirror us
They do not serve us
…the people of the nation
Ditch the duopoly
#auspol

The USA/Israel will fail in Iran. Just as they failed in Iraq. Afghanistan.... Vietnam.... Failure is the plan. Once you see the model, you can dismantle it.... USA/Israel Will Fail In Iran. And that is the plan.

The USA/Israel will fail in Iran. Just as they failed in Iraq. Afghanistan.... Vietnam.... This is all explained in the Epstein files.
Failure is the plan.
Humanity must learn the model -- to reclaim the tools of civilization.
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Labor had the nerve to table their Closing the Gap report in Parliament yesterday with the PM grinning in a glossy brochure, like a photo op could hide the fact that they are utterly failing First Nations people.

Australia’s principle national security organisation is meant to be neutral, not take sides. The bias is so open.

The Iranian regime is vile and the attack on them by Israel and the US is a war crime. Much needed clarity on these two realities by Geoffrey Robertson. Solidarity with the Iranian and Lebanese people and condemnation of this latest US Israeli war of aggression is what the world must focus on.

Liberal senator breaks with party to urge ‘mercy for the children’ of IS-linked Australian women in Syria Backbencher Andrew McLachlan describes the 23 children as ‘innocents’ victimised by their parents’ ‘tragic attraction to a horrible ideology’

It's a strange world indeed when a member of One Nation-lite (ie the LNP) calls for mercy for kids and it's the ALP that practices cruelty. I agree with Senator McLachlan in this matter. The kids had no voice, no vote, no choice. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Deadly steps Sixty years ago, the US dropped more than two million tonnes of ordnance on Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, much of which remains unexploded to this day, a terrible legacy endangering lives and requiring expert disposal in remote villages

There are still about 300 casualties a year in Laos from unexploded munitions, 40 per cent of them children. But it is less common than it used to be, thanks partly to clearing, and partly to education. mnth.ly/uFUvhEM

Rest assured that shortly after Diamond's departure, Gimbir did not miss the opportunity to conduct his routine morning nestbox inspection, on the hunt for a handout. LOL. #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons

Polo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada dropped home for a visit just to say, "𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳, 𝘫𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯é𝘦, 𝘫'𝘦𝘴𝘱è𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪, 𝘣𝘰𝘯 ... 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘻 𝘣𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘥é ... 𝘢𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭'𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 !" #PeregrineFalcons

“Iran’s parents buried 165 children killed in the Israeli-American attack on a girls school — I don’t know what part of “liberation” this fits into.” - Sarah Wilkinson

“Children do not start wars, and they cannot end them, but they always pay the highest price."

— Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director

#NOwar #Peace

What you need to know about Iran today, with Laura Tingle The ABC's global affairs editor, Laura Tingle, is in Dubai and will bring daily updates from the Middle East war.

ABC global affairs editor #LauraTingle, is in Dubai, stranded like about 115,000 other Australians by the shutdown of airspace across the Middle East.

Here, are her daily updates to help you quickly understand what's going on. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Pretty much all honey has the power to kill bacteria. It's about osmotic pressure on bacterial walls. Some honey has additional natural oils and enzymes from the flowers that are also helpful.

Wow. Perfect description by Oliver Kornetzke.

#WalkForPeace

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