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Writer, journalist, former editor of The Monthly. https://nickfeik.substack.com/ Email: nickfeik at proton dot me

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*Do you think it's easy being this supine?
Up every morning just to spout shit for billionaires and creeps?
Trying to be a little bit racist but not too racist?
Pretending to help farmers but also ignoring them?*

10.03.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

RIP to the legless walking dead

10.03.2026 05:42 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another case involving a flesh-eating ulcer detected in NSW The sixth case ofΒ a flesh-eating Buruli ulcerΒ has been detected on the NSW South Coast.

Not now, flesh-eating bacterial ulcers

10.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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These clowns are about to find out that the new Iranian leader still has agency in this conflict, still controls the strait of Hormuz, and isn’t that impressed with assassination threats

09.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
09.03.2026 06:56 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

09.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 19117 πŸ” 4780 πŸ’¬ 229 πŸ“Œ 141

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

09.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 4375 πŸ” 1039 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 45
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Is this good

09.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 3
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Second new Spirit of Tasmania ferry departs Scotland for Melbourne The second of the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels begins its seven-week voyage from Scotland to Australia. It will remain in Melbourne until a berth becomes available in Hobart at the end of the cruise...

Oh hell yeah…
Wait…
β€œFollowing the ship's stopover in Fremantle, it will travel to Geelong for further gantry testing before being berthed in Melbourne until a berth becomes available in Hobart…”
So close … yet so far.

08.03.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel says commando raid deep in Lebanon failed to find remains of Ron Arad Airman shot down in 1986; Hezbollah says IDF troops tried helicopter landing in Nabi Chit, triggering clashes, airstrikes, with 41 killed; IDF: troops did not face fire; PM stresses 'personal commitme...

The IDF killed 41 people in Lebanon while trying (unsuccessfully) to recover the remains of an airman shot down 40 years ago.

08.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

How unusual

07.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant

Well well well.
Famous chef turns out to be an abusive prick.

07.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Iran promises never to surrender as war enters eighth day The US-Israeli war against Iran has entered its second week with no signs of slowing down.

"What happened overnight in Lebanon’s Nabi Chit?"
This is the craziest story - Israeli troops in Lebanon, in a firefight with Hezbollah, a cemetery, and the reported body of a missing pilot from the 1980s.
aje.news/ozn6u2?updat...

07.03.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.

06.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 381 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 πŸ‘ 17172 πŸ” 5985 πŸ’¬ 515 πŸ“Œ 492
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πŸ“£ Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.

If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:

robodebtsettlement.com.au

05.03.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
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Breaking: Antibiotic licence for salmon farming revoked over 'unacceptable risk' The use of florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry has been banned as the country's veterinary medicine regulator suspends an emergency licence for the antibiotic.

Good. No concern was given for the impact on other marine species nor for human health. #politas

04.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 1246 πŸ” 362 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 17
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β€˜We got there!’: Text messages reveal Woodside’s negotiating tactics Private text messages between Woodside officials and senior Australian decision-makers lift the lid on how the industry engages with government to get results.

Amazing piece giving insight into the relationship between major fossil fuel companies and senior government officials.

130 direct, personal, text messages in 4 months between a Woodside rep and a DCCEEW deputy secretary.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...

04.03.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Australian political parlance:
β€œWe have been very clear about…” =
We are all over the place on this issue

04.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor

Meet the new Ayatollah Khamenei,
Just like the old Ayatollah Khamenei.
Top stuff, everyone.

04.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 5

It will take years to undo this degree of corruption

03.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

03.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1441 πŸ” 510 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 15
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Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Far out.

β€œThe environment department advised the government in late 2024 that it should revoke a 2012 decision that allowed salmon farming to expand …”

03.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

Thanks, national broadcaster

03.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

What’s that saying? Never interrupt your enemy when he starts talking about the drapes again

03.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

PSA- al-Jazeera has the best and most balanced coverage by a long shot, and they livestream on YouTube

02.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 210 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

The β€œlight chuckling” to end the scene πŸ™„

02.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 293 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0
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You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

02.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 10977 πŸ” 3038 πŸ’¬ 668 πŸ“Œ 193

Say goodbye to yr mentions

02.03.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Albanese Supported An Illegal War With No Clear Objective or End. It's A Grim New Low the Albanese government didn’t even know the reason for the war, let alone whether it was unlawful – but they supported it anyway.

It’s not just an illegal war. That would be bad enough.

Today, the Albanese government clearly admitted they gave our support to a war, without even knowing why it was launched.

From us:

www.lamestream.com.au/albanese-sup...

02.03.2026 07:12 πŸ‘ 297 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 3