Tom Doig

What is prepping – and how does it work in Australia? Prepping in Australia is distinctive: less about guns and militias; more about food, water and community. While anti-government preppers are a problem, they’re rare.

In the wake of last week's horrific shooting, @jordanmck.bsky.social and I unpack the similarities and differences between preppers, Sovereign Citizens (aka Karens), small-s survivalists (bushcraft) and Big-S Survivalists (anti-govt)...
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@jocaseau.bsky.social

What is prepping – and how does it work in Australia? Prepping in Australia is distinctive: less about guns and militias; more about food, water and community. While anti-government preppers are a problem, they’re rare.

My article in the Conversation today with @tomdoig.bsky.social on prepping culture in Australia. It’s not all guns and bunkers.

What is prepping – and how does it work in Australia? Prepping in Australia is distinctive: less about guns and militias; more about food, water and community. While anti-government preppers are a problem, they’re rare.

Excellent overview of prepping in Australia, in the context of Dezi Freeman, by @tomdoig.bsky.social & Jordan McKenzie. (Tom's writing a book on prepping.)

Here, prepping is distinctive: less about guns than food, water & community. @aunz.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/what-is-prep...

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes investigation Groups based in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims

And yet everyone is clutching pearls over a former premier being in a photo in China www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I went to the USA last year and covered the 2024 Republican National Convention for Crikey. I entered 3x photos into an Aus journalism comp, "The Kennedy People's Choice award".
Vote for 1-finger salute here: kennedys.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/r...
Deadline: midnight Thurs (AEST), 7 Aug 2025

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident.

He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

A blue one story building with a false front and white trim, housing the Train My Dog learning center

this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

1 in 12 Americans live in California.

1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.

LA is America

#LosAngelesProtests
#LosAngelesRiots
#lariots2025

How Prince Gave All the Freaks a Dance Floor “Look at these freaks”, I thought to myself. It was March 30th, 1985. I was standing a few blocks from Syracuse, New York’s Carrier Dome. My friend Ed and I had gone to pick up his girlfriend after th...

On what would have been his 67th birthday week...

May all your berets be raspberry.
May all your corvettes be red.
May all your rain be purple.

And if De-elevator tries to bring you down,
go crazy, punch a higher floor.

johnpavlovitz.com/2016/04/21/1...

The news today that EnergyAustralia had admitted that offsets are the wrong way to go is a win that has been a long time coming.

In 2023 at our first #ClimateIntegrity Summit, Allan Fels, fmr Chair of the ACCC, explained that there are gas companies that are 'net-zero' certified by Climate Active.

#nzpol new reckon: any economic proposal by the Greens is definitionally taken by the commentariat as the far left boundary of the Overton window. It follows that no Green policy suggestion is ever worth evaluating as it is automatically extreme.

(There is no Overton boundary on the right.)

That's my takeaway from this as well. Everything we now (rightfully) recognise as cringe would (by some - not you Cam) have been treated as genius/the secret sauce if the Tories had won. We need better means of measuring impact than credulously swallowing campaign PR.

bsky.app/profile/came...

New MfE report shows widespread contamination caused by intensive dairy - Greenpeace Aotearoa A new MfE report released today on the state of New Zealand’s freshwater, called Our Freshwater 2023, highlights the widespread impacts of intensive dairying on the environment and people’s health, an...

“The dairy industry, led by Fonterra, is killing once-healthy rivers and waterways, and contaminating people’s drinking water,” says Rose. “This is a profit-driven industry willing to sacrifice our life-support systems for the sake of maximising production.”

www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Angus Taylor - Wikipedia

Angus Taylor also fucked up New Zealand real bad. Back in the late 1990s, he masterminded plan plan to make a dairy company consortium/cabal, FONTERRA. Fonterra is single-handedly responsible for ruining New Zealand's once-pristine rivers' water quality ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_T...

Tomi Lahren: "Trump has managed to isolate China from the rest of the world."

BTC: "There's reporting now that Japan & South Korea are negotiating trade deals with China... the EU is eliminating Chinese EV tariffs. I'm concerned you're not familiar with which country is being isolated."

China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

I finally got around to reading AI 2027. Calling it "science fiction" seems like an insult to science fiction; perhaps "singularity erotica" is more apt? ai-2027.com

AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state

in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Coalition can’t cut 41,000 public service jobs in five years without breaking election promise, analysis shows Majority of staff who leave each year have frontline jobs, meaning the Coalition will have to replace them or break its pledge

Dutton's promised, then not promised, cut to 41,000 public service jobs a complete shambles. Analysis shows Dutton's latest version - cuts by attrition not redundancies - would mean cuts to frontline services which Dutton promised wouldn't be cut #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Oh hello, Force Majeure.

“I just figured out why @howardlutnick is indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing. He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes. It’s a bad idea to pick a Secretary of Commerce whose firm is levered long fixed income. It’s an irreconcilable conflict of interest.”

I don’t even know what to say here. We’re talking about a generational posting crashout. Lmfao NOW you’re concerned about conflicts of interest.

#tariffs #heardmarshallislands

Dutton versus Reality
#LNPNeverAgain