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While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Well worth a read . Clive Lewis on the collapse of Politics itself: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm at an SUFS rally and seeing a similar governance/base problem in relation to science policy. 80% of what they're doing here is "I Fucking Love Science" and appeals for progressive charities. You say, ok, I'm a scientist, how are you fighting to get my funding and jobs back? They don't answer.

As a middle power, Australia should be careful what it wishes for when it comes to an illegal war with Iran | Andrew Wilkie I resigned from the intelligence services over the fraudulent case for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And I see some alarming parallels with this case

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“It is what is happening in the United States, it is what is happening across Europe as we speak, with Military Keynesianism, we have weaponisation of fascism in everything except name.” – @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

Read more: https://theaus.in/46GyCPS

The American society has the opportunity to prove it’s better than Russians we all know it won’t take it

I know that one

"Gender non-conforming children continue to get the strong impression… that they’d be better off being something other than what they are.”

Like: yes! True. It's impressed upon them over & over again they should better conform to their gender assigned at birth. With social consequences!

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terrible terrible news about Kyle and Jackie O I am devastated just devastated

Albanese offers Sandilands support, “Sorry to hear that Jackie O is being difficult”

Following backlash, Albanese claims he meant that Jackie O had a ‘difficult life’ having worked with Kyle
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Marathon, Reprise I’d been feeling all kinds of uneasy ahead of the currently-ongoing Stress Test for Marathon (2026), in that I had such a potently bad experience last couple...

I wrote about Marathon (2026) again, trying to figure out why it pushed me to tears.

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“Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness.”

im watching the 2011 film of tinker tailor soldier spy and so far its such a bloody awful adaptation im choosing to treat it as "loosely based on" or else i'll go insane

Luv 2 listen to overseas emergency podcasts about Operation Epic Fury and hear them comment on how Albanese is the only world leader to come out in support of Trump's dangerous inanity #AussiePride

"Mission accomplished": Trump gets Epstein list off front page

weird how whenever the US is like these people need us to bring democracy the democracy is always dead children

It really does just feel like really bad writing in a longrunning fantasy series, where the things that we had established were different about Britain in this setting are now just an inconvenience for the writers so: hey! Guess those differences don’t exist anymore.

Dear person who just hollered hello at me from a car on Walnut Street in Philadelphia, thank you! I was feeling a little disconnected today, and you made my day.

Grace Tame is the natural party of government.

Grace Tame is the opposition party

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult” in a News Corp word game. Donald Trump was merely “president”.

Throughout history women who fight to better society get punished and labelled problems

Men who are convicted criminals and whose policies kill are more likely to get a pat on the back

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

Supporting removing Prince Andrew from the line of succession is good but what would be better is removing Australia from an inherited dynasty of wealth and privilege that protected him and his class for far too long

A Royal Reckoning YouTube video by Jonathan Pie

A Royal Reckoning.
JonathanPie.com

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rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

anyway if you are a fellow crazyperson who chunks up your life into passion project portions too, just try and find something during the process that you can take with you that enriches you regardless of how the thing turns out. It’s a lottery ticket every time, so make sure you’re getting SOMETHING

Reminder: May 2021. Then Liberal Govt MP Tim Wilson joined a run in support of Indigenous Australians, leading the pack ... for the first 100m as it left Parliament House. Then, when the tv cameras stopped filming, he turned and went back to his office. 🙄 #auspol
Photo credit: Alex Ellinghausen.