Watching disgraced former public servant Mike Pezzullo on Sky News saying we need to stick with America because "it's the only America we've got"

“In Australia we don’t tax [the gas] industry. It’s foreign owned, and other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia’s fossil fuel exports.

“And we’re the ones going ‘Gee, the air conditioning is a bit expensive’”.

✍ Support a 25% gas tax: https://theaus.in/4ty8hNq

EU ‘right to repair’ laws may save millions of phones from landfill Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that.

EU ‘right to repair’ law

The EU will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.

The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.

www.euronews.com/2023/06/22/n...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.

But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.

Keep funding science!

The gas ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do - Michael West The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from exporters.

So cowed by the foreign gas lobby .. the failure of successive govts is so epic that the Japanese tax *our* Australian gas more than we tax the foreign multinationals which export the stuff
#auspol #TAI @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

Susan McDonald telling Ken Henry that the gas industry has enabled parents "to send their kids to boarding school"

The Senator for the Gas Industry really has worked hard today

live.thepoint.com.au

New Australia Institute research shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing Australian gas than the Australian Government!

"They're taxing our gas. There's no reason we can't."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

If you don't laugh... 😂

Bit of a British TV reference that's probably lost on Bluesky 'Murica but here you go anyway 😉 😂

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

A bit of sparkle to start the week off with. Taken this morning in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

Why Do Australians Pay for the NBN After Funding It? By Denis Hay   Description Why do Australians pay for the NBN if it was publicly funded? Discover where your money goes and why the internet still costs so much. Introduction: The Question Millions Ar...

“Australians funded the NBN with over $50 billion in public money, yet most households still pay between $80 and $100 a month for internet access.

For many, this raises a simple but powerful question: Why are we paying for something we already paid for?”

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Three quarters underside view of the USS Voyager in a ubiquitous promotional still from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. According to Scenic Artist Doug Drexler (who was contractually only allowed to work on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE at the time), the producers of VOYAGER made a number of last minute design changes to the ship, including requesting that the warp nacelles be capable of pivoting up and down. This modification was added to the newly completed 5-foot miniature at the eleventh hour: "Tony Meininger's crew did a spectacular job under enormous time constraints. The variable pitch wing of the Voyager was a decision made by the producers, after the ship was mostly finished, and required a massive retrofit of the brand new model. Naturally, there was no additional time given to Tony to get it done."

USS Voyager, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

A crime family controls the USA. You are better than that.

What a good dog.

This image is a political illustration from the German newspaper Die Zeit depicting a confrontation between a Pope and a US President.

The artwork is titled "Pope Leo XIV" and portrays a tension-filled scene between the two figures.

Yep English language gets me every time :)

A prehistoric bird that frequents our backyard multiple times a day. It gets pretty territorial and keeps the minors away.

Standing cat with arched back facing right created with vertical strips of wood with peeling paint, all against a light blue background

'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt

POV: you’re a junior reporter covering a marijuana raid and the wind changes 😭🫠 don’t remember how my story finished, but I remember being so hungry all day. Throwback to maybe 2012/13 in Coffs Harbour! 😂🤣😅

#throwback #reels #explore

My painting SMALL SAILBOAT

Donald Trump standing at a podium NEW EPISODE | US allies reassess as Trump undermines global security Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

With Trump spewing threats at friends & foes, the US government has gone off the rails.

@emmashortis.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss the Trump administration's violence & why it’s time for the Australian government to reassess its relationship with the US.

🎧 theaus.in/4tINHJB

Derry Girls creator returns with the genre-melding How to Get to Heaven from Belfast How to Get to Heaven from Belfast – Lisa McGee’s second Netflix series after her breakout hit Derry Girls – brings the uncanny darkness of Twin Peaks to a chaotic comedy.

Keva York reviews the new Netflix series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee - an Irish blend of Twin Peaks' uncanny darkness and Angela Lansbury's old fashion sleuthing. satpa.pe/PIAL2fW

When tRump exits stage left Pete Hegsdeath is ready to roll.

I love my push bike.

#QP Mountain Landscape
#aiart #Midjourneyv8.1