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a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

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Third guess was too funny for Wordle but I had to give it a go...

I was 17 when I got laid up in bed with severe glandular fever and the complete works of George Orwell was one of the only things in the house I hadn't already read cover to cover.... Not strictly too young, but I think it explains a lot

We wouldn't have to accept climate change if our governments didn't approve every megascale fossil fuel export project imaginable.

You're in power on the back of preference flows from Greens and climate independents. The Australian population want you to act, not acquiesce.

Pretty much the History of Australia since 1788 in 4 bullet points.

Small wetlands are often underestimated in terms of their role in maintaining biodiversity, water quality and ecosystem health.

These wetlands, which are defined as wetlands smaller than 8 hectares (ha), support high levels of species diversity and ecosystem productivity.

I'm tired of people saying that they don't care that a photo or video is AI because it's "still cute." No, it isn't. None of it is. It's all soulless and takes away from the beauty and rarity of things in real life. 😩

Fuck this great nation...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucCj...

Do you remember the My Lai massacre, when the whole world was revolted by the slaughter of 350-500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers ?

I just realised that for nearly two years we have seen the equivalent of a My Lai massacre every week in Gaza.

Sanction Israel now.
#Auspol

The Guardian shared a cartoon by Ben Jennings on the killing of journalists in Gaza

Traded Alaska for the Russian controlled territories in Greenland?

(Yes I know Russia doesn't control any parts of Greenland)

Nope. Asimov felt dated in the 90s. The other two were well and truly retro in the 80s...

Sci-fi is about looking forward, not wallowing in an obsolete past.

And recreational reading should never be gatekept or have mandatory texts. It's recreational FFS

Israel kills eight-month-pregnant woman in occupied West Bank raid Israeli forces open fire on a family at Nur Shams camp, killing a Palestinian woman and critically injuring her husband.

The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing an eight-month-pregnant Palestinian woman during an armed raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.

Pholitia fungus in a pine forest

Tiny orchids Acanthus

Nodding greenhood, Pterostylis nuttans

Drosera whittakeri

Another day wandering around slowly trying to get my hip to behave

Photo of a young, handsome smiling man with dark hair wearing a PRESS vest

Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo • Translated by Grok Relentless bombardment... For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City. [video of an missile exploding in the darkness]

@AnasAlSharifo A To Whom It May Concern, The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza. For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air. Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded. If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people's voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop. Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza.

A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.

He was reporting until the moment of his death.

The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:

“Silence is complicity.”

External journalists aren’t allowed into Gaza and the entire @aljazeera.com team in Gaza has been murdered by Israel with the killing of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal today

Every day they try to hide the truth of the genocide they are committing

Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

War on humanity

Connections
Puzzle #792
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Solving the purple was way easier than working out which of the other sets was meant to be blue

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Not skill, just luck

Opinion | Let’s Not Make America Gilded Again

Gift link (I figured out how to do it)

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

We still recognise the US and Russia and they are being ran as organised crime syndicates

Marles is the George Brandis of Christopher Pyne’s

So can we start taking bets on which arms supplier has guaranteed Marles his post-politics board position?

Pterostylis

Corybas

Pterostylis

Corybas

Back was sore so I went for a forest walk. Ended up hunched over crawling on the pine needles... Pterostylis and Corybas in bloom

#orchids #nativeplants #pterostylis #corybas

Never* not spelling it Woodcide from now on

*Yes I did have to delete and repost this because autocorrect replaced the C...

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Radioactive waste … Defence … six year #FOI battle. It could just as easily be an Australian story. 1/2 #auspol

We need to call for a MORATORIUM on ALL short stay accommodation.

Australia: we are in a #HousingCRISIS

Moratorium on short term stays. The problem with temporary housing for the homeless is temporary accommodation still makes them #homeless.

This is a CRISIS! #HousingNow #auspol

Only way he'll drop crime in a city is to leave it