You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.
A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.
Let's talk about the science here.
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
Where can we buy these?
Rabbi accused of war crimes selected for Israel’s national celebration
Rabbi accused of war crimes selected for Israel’s national celebration https://aje.news/hgqc76
Pope Francis 1936-2025
One year ago.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"
You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?
No you mean the NDIS FFS
Its not a matter of 'shipping people out'.
Dubbo already has a Sturt Uni compound, with more people more demand & expanded range of courses offered.
Likewise all other services.
Nowra would be a good city to expand, beautiful location & climate, within 2 1/2h of Sydney & Wollongong & Canberra
Bring back the regional multi function polis
NO.
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
In 2004 Australia decided to let the global fossil fuel market decide our energy future. That same year China decided fossil fuels were costly and risky so went with electrification (noting Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait were threats to their National Security).
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
This is what Western Governments and Media turn a blind eye to…
Zionists settler terrorists hitting, abusing and terrifying a little Palestinian girl, as her father tries to protect her.
THEY WANT THE PALESTINIAN LAND. 💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️
"Fatemeh, if that crude American president calls again, don’t put him through. The ceasefire committee was absolutely correct—he is crazy. And he says the same insane things over and over again. Allah give me patience. I’ve never dealt with someone so boorish and stupid. Oh my, is that him AGAIN?"
bsky.app/profile/cpax...
How the Iran war exposed Australia's total betrayal through successive Magic Pudding governments' energy mistakes & their colonial classism, racism, fellating foreign interference & various tin gods, vying for USA's Deputy Sheriff badge, lies, incompetence & amnesia.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Say her name
Born with a silver spoon up his backside
I’m with Angus. Let’s go back to the 50s.
*50-70% corporate tax rates
*30% public housing construction
*Record levels of immigration
*No gummint funding of private schools
*Record levels of local manufacturing
Have never seen any articles about what charitable work Musk, Bezos, Altman or Zuckerberg do
x.com/hasantoxr/st...
Quite telling that on X right now there is a heated debate over which idiot the Iranian Navy is referring to
