Indeed.

That’s perfect satire.

I despise these fucking motherfuckers. Every fibre of my being.

The West created a monster.

Israel is drowning in the blood of all the Ahmeds and Ayshas.

What is going on with her lips?

May all his years be the same.

it’s so great how where i live in tassie the tax-dodging, internationally-owned salmon companies ruin summer w diseased, dead and rotting salmon + antibiotics pumped into the water right off the beaches we love, which are calm sheltered waters with huge dead zones full of shit under the fish pens…

That's them.

New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

Well, I guess this is my first ever piece of breaking news - probably the biggest rare plant story in Australia this year. Over at @tasinquirer.bsky.social.

tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

A must-read for Australians from Melissa Lucashenko on the definition of 'social cohesion' & more. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

This is, of course, an implicit admission of liability for the climate crisis.

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

what I can not stand about these tertiary institutions attacking their own students is the complete absence of evidence that pro-Palestine students are a physical threat to anything or anyone. The “threat” is to status quo white supremacy and war machine money.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese described the Israeli occupation army as “the most degenerate army on earth,” stating that its practices have crossed all red lines and violated international law.

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260420-un-...

Probably not going to be popular, but I do wonder if the need for academic staff to separate themselves from professional and sessional staff is also part of the problem. The view that academics are superior to other workers is prevalent in universities.

Uni managers gain 'headroom' by fucking everything up. University bosses claim legitimacy from the work others do. And then they make it impossible for them to do it.

This is a superb piece on university governance by Hannah Forsyth:

open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Is there some way we could change the regime but keep the LEGO videos?

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

🔴 BREAKING: UNICEF has suspended water operations at a key filling point in Gaza City after two truck drivers contracted by the agency were killed in an Israeli strike, with two other people wounded. The site was helping supply clean water to hundreds of thousands of people.

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,"

- Prof Deb Bower

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Story by @lisacox.bsky.social

He is a disgrace

Always. ❤️

Today marks 10 years since the death of Josh Park-Fing at a Work for the Dole site in Toowoomba.

Josh died while participating in forced, unpaid labour.

A court later found that Josh's Work for the Dole site did not meet basic safety standards, yet no one was held accountable.

I really, really want to stop agreeing with the pope.

UPDATE: Debate on the Tasmanian government’s legislation to ban greyhound racing has been delayed.

While we would have loved for this bill to protect greyhounds to be passed today, this vote is important and it is down to the wire.

Tasmania, it's time to speak up: https://animalsaus.co/4d7RNWT

Oh good.

It’s a start. Break them up. Then move to tech companies. End the gilded age plutocracy.

(Unlikely, I know, but any victory makes people a bit giddy, so let us have a few minutes to savour the dream.)