these videos bring me so much joy. thank you 🙌🏼☺️

Important journalism from Drop Site, at a time when most US media are taking at face value the Trump regime's lies about "narco-terrorists".

Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go We don’t inflation-proof any other parts of the tax system, so why should we give special treatment to capital gains?

"reduction in the amount of the [CGT] discount – whether to 33% or 25% – is a step in the right direction. But all that does is tinker with the problem; it does not solve it.

The better option would be to abolish it entirely". #HousingCrisis #inequality #auspol
theconversation.com/tinkering-wi...

you and Ben are the best!! 🙌🏼

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Yes, I agree and completely understand. I have to dip in and out of watching/reading/hearing the news when there’s so much shit going on as it impacts my mental health. Even being in Australia we are not immune to the global implications and our Government has been weak and ineffective 😔

yes, thanks for that. I will.

thanks for sharing … it was an interesting piece and clearly relevant! 🙌🏼

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I imagine it would be … here I’d have to worry about foxes, feral cats, kites and hawks.

wishing you the best of luck pursuing your path. it’s nice to know there are people out there with strength and integrity 🙌🏼

you could use his own words against him - Trump Derangement Syndrome? not the greatest of ideas but it’s a start. Personally, I’d love never to see or hear his name again…

Happy Birthday George 🎂🏳️‍🌈

thanks for this. I can’t always find the right words 🥰

Many people really do want to help #support people they care about
but struggle
to find the right #words

Check out this lovely guide to supportive things you can say

I love it

I was about to do the same (mail my copy to my mum) but then I ran into a friend who has been grieving and I happened to have my copy with me so I gave it to her. now I have another two copies on order - one for mum and one for me!!

I need a wetland so I can worry about turbo chook babies … OMG how GORGEOUS!!! 🖤

what a fabulous shot 🙌🏼

A bunch of Queenslanders in Meeanjin of whom we can all feel mightily proud. 🙌🏻🫶🏻 #auspol #qldpol #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PalestineShallBeFree

I’m so glad to hear that she’s doing well. I hope you, Shayne, Wally and all the other Calliss Clan flocks are doing well too 🥰

I’ve just bought two more copies as I gave my first away to a friend who is grieving and I’ll be sending one of the new ones to my mum!! 🙌🏼

I love this so much.

Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers.

Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂

“From the liver to the brie,” one sign read.

“Globalise the insalata,” read another.

“Well played,” said one police officer.

Well played indeed Queenslanders.

our backyard was FULL of them today. so, so many. it was utterly beautiful 🦋

How will history regard the Albanese government? On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon

Australia has done nothing while Israel has assassinated journalists, medics, aid workers, diplomats, foreign & spiritual leaders. Through the war crimes & illegal invasions, Albanese has done nothing even to dissuade Israel – no sanctions, no support for arrest warrants.
Is there even a red line?

LI post from Sophus zu Ermgassen Just seen the news that the asset manager partner has pulled out of the Scottish public-private partnership nature restoration fund claiming insufficient returns, which follows the withdrawal of the asset manager partner from the English public-private nature fund in the last couple of years. So why does this keep happening? Why do we keep on pushing the idea that de-risked public capital will be sufficient to attract private investment into UK nature when these de-risked public-private partnership funds keep collapsing? So what we all know is that we need to spend more on nature restoration and conservation, & need stricter regs that prevent the harm to nature in the first place and a massive reduction in public investment, i.e. harmful subsidies, that destroys nature in the first place. Within that framework, there are multiple different pathways to the future where the UK has the flourishing ecosystems written into policy. Logistically, the easiest is the public money for public goods approach, which says nature is a public good & should be funded through tax and spend, the agri-environment system and other grants (albeit with much better spatial targeting than we've ever had before). This is mostly how nature is funded today. But all of the ambitions around upscaling private investment in nature envision a different vision, where investing in nature delivers sufficient returns to attract large-scale institutional investment. What I think gets missed about this pathway is, although it's seen as a private sector-led approach for achieving conservation funding goals, it's actually not. It's public sector-led, but just with a different set of public policy interventions. It requires a revolutionary set of changes in regulations and incentives driven by public policy. It also requires substantial investment in getting them all off the ground. So it actually requires a large amount of public investment. So this is where I think we k…

Good post

Pity about the time, effort, mental, policy, & bureaucratic gymnastics to avoid this simple, robust conclusion:

"the easiest is the public money for public goods approach, which says nature is a public good & should be funded through tax & spend"

#NatureMarkets #NatureFinancialisation

it’s a MASSIVE nightmare. Happened to me too. Then I found out there was a new 1800Medicare app but that had to be connected to MyGov which took what seemed like hours and I still couldn’t locate my Medicare card or vaccination history. Finally got it sorted but it’s a major inconvenience 🤬

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a rare (?) triple rainbow appears behind coastal scrub over St Vincent Gulf, South Australia. a dirt road in the foreground.

a rare (?) triple rainbow appears behind coastal scrub over St Vincent Gulf, South Australia. a dirt road separates the coastal scrub and our front gate and driveway.

neither had I … we have had some strange weather phenomena here before… for example, apparently triple rainbows are extremely rare yet I’ve captured quite a few over the 10 years I’ve lived here …