John Brisbin

Well done to you and the other principled folk who joined in.

We are all aware of the structure of the Australian Socialist Alliance? One part focussed on politics and lots of the focus on direct action to improve conditions at local scale?

Marvellous! Fully support the view that culture comes from country. That is proper indigenous.
It also subverts the notion of a nation state...
So how does modernity fit in the picture?
My country here on the Cape is already different to yours. Do we have a scaffold for 'Australia'?

Love the sentiment, yet there's an actual challenge in the heart of your proposal. The nation state is a big "we", and it needs something substantive to define coherence. What will that be?
To be inside, "we" must define what's *outside*.
Most options are bad... Race, religion, 'values'???

Sure, all true. But isn't this a strange sort of choice of graphs? Instead of showing a long term trend, it accentuates the "startling" rise (from 0) in just one year, implicitly, as a result of antivax policy setting in.
At the least, this choice diminishes concern w other contributing factors.

But do you really think it's a different story at national level? (cough... Tassal cough...northwest shelf...cough cough)
The system is fractally consistent top to bottom, fully saturated with a singular mandate to reproduce capital in a zero-sum ecstasy of materialistic delusion.

An amazing tree and so beautiful...just a shock/disruptor to the environs here.
We really don't have a proper, grounded theory for native vs exotic, weed vs not-weed....leads to so many confusions. I'm not sure how to best navigate these questions!

They're irresistible to the native bees and poisonous. A death trap. You can have a look inside the flowers and count the bodies!
www.publications.qld.gov.au/ckan-publica...

You're probably aware that they are a real problem for Australian native bees. Here in very far north Queensland we're trying to figure out how to control and minimise these trees. Not easy... Very weedy and very popular with the community.

Wait, how do they calibrate the weights for antimatter?

Colonial practices by capitalists. WV people get a chance to feel like most of the global south, no overseas travel necessary! All hail "the Way Things Are"....

Savage. You've got more faith in professionalism than I do.
Or, let's say, nothing is going to be socially beneficial as long capital returns are the one tent pole we are all required to gather under.

Wrong conclusion.... The reason Tennessee is so saturated with queries is because people from Proper sweet tea country are mystified about where to get a decent drink...

Global economic growth mostly benefits those who are already rich (Fact 1) while hampering the capacities for development of the poorest (Fact 2) today’s richest are the main cause of most cases of ecological breakdown (Fact 3) which harms the poorest first and hardest (Fact 4).

Short, sharp reminder of the centrepoint around which most global issues are ensnared, from the excellent Degrowth Central Victoria (
degrowthcentralvictoria.substack.com/p/global-ine...)

Always with the big ideas!
Yeah sure...lovely, let's have both.
But without the new (as yet undefined) thing, there's clearly little hope for, or purpose for, the likes of Meanjin.

Well, yes but...
If the values and intellectual horsepower that supported Meanjin for all those years actually had the impact they aspired to, we wouldn't be here now, eh,?
Deeply sad to see it go but perhaps the rude truth is that we need something more fit for purpose in these times.

Yah yah...plenty of truth there but also obscures the weirdness of the larger project of the Western Mind or modernity.
The Indigenous Mind (heart) is actually a different place.
Drinking deeply of the western science process, especially as "leaders" simply means becoming less Indigenous. Cool?

Western civilisation is not worth saving Western civilisation is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now.

"This civilisation is genocidal. Ecocidal. Omnicidal. Imperialist. Racist. Dehumanising. Degrading. Dystopian. Emotionally stunted. Culturally vapid. Spiritually impoverished. Intellectually enslaved. Why would any sane person want this to continue?"
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Hmmmm I'm sympathetic on many levels, but push a bit deeper? There's no specific stopping point for the drive to "efficiency"...only a change in objectives.
Woomeras are pretty cool.
Riding a horse is cool too.
We shape and are shaped by tools. Your question, why? is a great one.

Thanks, sorry, I did not see the link.

And worse...what is the source for the "leaked prompt"? How does one access anyone else's prompts?
Wouldn't this logically be more likely a false flag outrage prompt seeded by "friendly forces"?

Her (2013 film) - Wikipedia

Spike Jonze 2013
share.google/9TOUCvHmLpZN...

Ditto this for any development frontier where the central objective is capital return, as quickly as possible.
We have recurring issues with industrial Ag developers trying to 'bring jobs to our communities' with much the same result: degraded lands, degraded communities. Capital wins.

*funders* =dunderheads

Yep, well a bailout ought to be accompanied by ostracism for the funders who blew the budget. I know that moment has passed, largely for Tas, but as a matter of policy there ought to be a way to keep all states solvent...with conditions.

Really appreciate your reminders the Fed debt is pseudo.
But why not fund the States as needed? No one needs to live with crippling debt. Surely a national bailout is not the end of the world?

Slime mold cytoplasmic streaming. Physarium Polycephalum is a multinucleate giant single cell! Super new to slime molds but I’m hooked. Fist 20 secs sped up but the rest is not, the streaming is just -super- fast. Watch for flow reversals. #sciart #microscopy

You must have a view on the criticism of this "virtuous cycle" as being far too uninterested in the Jeavons paradox (where new clean generation simply adds to growth of total energy consumption instead of displacing)...
Decarbonisation is good but far from sufficient. Need #degrowth, yes?

The shamelessness of the fishing lobby posing as the defenders of fish.
And scapegoating cormorants and seals to cover up for their over fishing.
Supported by the FAO which could maybe more usefully get back to confronting the intensive livestock industry that is choking the sea in shit.

Care maintains the world. The market made it invisible.

In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth