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John Lyons is so good on his analysis of this last day.... Outstanding understanding of these people, society, geography and power structures.
The rest fade away as repeaters of press releases. I am sure they are extremely envious of his intelligence and skill.
#AusPol #ABKNews24

John Lyons on ABC News.

"Anthony Albanese's statement could have been written by the United States and Israel. It is straight out of their playbook"

Clear, insightful analysis by ABC News' @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social. #Israel #USA #Iran #auspol

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Exactly with you.
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What part of what I said suggested that one terror is more or less wrong than the other?

It was a warning to people. I hate all three sides in this war. I don’t want more innocent people to die whichever flag they live under.

”Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health (very high confidence).”

”There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).”

The truth is rarely spoken these days in centrist politics.

Indeed. If only Albanese were able to look at who he is aligning himself with and recognise... it's not a good thing.

Here’s a link to the @thomasmayo.bsky.social piece, and a cartoon I drew at the time of the attack but which I didn’t end up filing.

Yes. The Anti-conviction politician.

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

'More than 100 children' dead in US and Israel strike on Iranian school, Iran says Vision has emerged of crowds of people searching through the rubble of a girls' elementary school in the city of Minab in southern Iran. Iranian authorities say a US and Israeli air strike killed more...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... Are Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese comfortable backing this action as well? #auspol

also bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Important piece by Thomas Mayo (if you can get past the paywall). I feel culpable in this myself. This begs the question of the Royal Commission being called into one kind of racism alone, while we blithely walk by another so common as to be almost banal. themonthly-admin/march-2026/n...

Has she looked at our own record on Indigenous deaths in custody?

#TransRighrsAreHumanRights

‘Two women killed every week in Australia, & hundreds more assaulted, often behind closed doors, often without the attention or urgency that accompanies other forms of crime’

But no task force for that!
…’no permanent, centralised unit standing ready to respond.’

#FemicideIsAHateCrimeToo
#Auspol

In Australia, they tell us it's because we buy lattes. Apparently, if we stopped buying coffee out, we'd be fine.

(Who can afford to buy coffee out?)

Israel and the USA are the terrorists. #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Yes. We can look at how well the war in Afghanistan worked out to be for women, children, Hazara, and people who worked for the West.

People will die. For what?

In 2026, a woman having an opinion is still decribed as 'difficult'. A woman having a child out of wedlock is also still decribed as 'difficult'. The label says more about the labeller and society than any woman in question.

My son is like this as well. He's 17. His studies at school are all units like: legal studies, global studies, modern history, philosophy... and he's like: nope.

Maybe I need to stop being quite as forthright in my assessment of how limited our chances of survival past the next 30 years are.

Several US bases in Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain are under attack by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. (Fars)

US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN; TEHRAN FIRES BACK, EXPLOSIONS ACROSS REGION Explosions heard in Tehran, elsewhere, as Israel and US launches attacks; Iran retaliates, blasts across region.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Trying to work out how this 'ends well'...

Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia - The Shot As the shattering of the comfortable illusion of Western democracy enters its Epstein-drenched speedrunning phase, a number of disturbing developments...

Here's me, and @boganintel.bsky.social. "Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia"

How in the gronkbusting fuck do we live in a world where calling a woman “difficult” is a slur and calling a woman “easy” is a slur but neither word is ever used as a slur against a man?

#NewsCorpse
#DifficultWomen
#StatusBRO

Putting that together was less fun than calling various Prime Ministers dickheads. We are being overwhelmed with authoritarian creep, by authoritarian creeps, and I felt it valuable to have it all linked in a single place. The patterns are more important than isolated incidents.

Hope they have a room for you soon and wishing you all the best with the surgery!