Photo featuring a spiral of green fern leaves floating on dark water

Liz McGowan, Fern Ammonite,1992, land art, Hebden Bridge, UK #womensart

Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail after being charged with five counts of war crime murder Former SAS soldier to be released from Silverwater prison ahead of possible trial on charges relating to alleged killing of civilians in Afghanistan

more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

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Single frame. Man standing in front of woman in wheelchair says: “Instead of complaining about the expensive nuclear subs we may never see, or our increasing expenditure on war machinery, maybe think about how properly funding YOUR NEEDS makes us LESS SAFE as a country…”

Priorities.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Job Interview with a Cat    Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you?  The warmth, perhaps? The security?  Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless?  Feel free to expand if you wish.    I see you have had experience of similar positions.  Can you talk about a time when you got somebody’s tongue?  Or were set amongst the pigeons?  Tell me about a time you’ve had to deal with a difficult situation – for instance, have you ever found yourself in a bag? If so, how were you let out of it?     How would you feel if you had to walk on hot bricks?   What about a tin roof of similar temperature?   With reference to any of your past lives,   has curiosity ever killed you?    Finally, where do you see yourself in five years’ time?  In the same position? Or higher up to catch the sunlight?  What’s that? You would like to be where I am now?  Oh, it appears you already are.  Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Job Interview with a Cat’.

Chart showing gas exports and PRRT: 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn PRRT $1.4bn

Just in case you're wondering why the gas industry hates the idea of a 25% gas export tax and wants to keep the PRRT

A black and white cat lying on a dark couch. One white leg and white whiskers are mostly what is visible.

Glow in the dark void

Photo featuring a white woman's bare shoulder with a large tattoo of a blue rose on a green stem with leaves, the blossom is depicted as if cross stitch

Turkish born tattoo artist Eva Karabudak (aka Eva Krbdk), creates cross-stitch designs that mimic the embroidery technique on skin #WomensArt #Saturday

Any politician declaring that they don't give a shit about climate, emissions or fossil phase-out anymore is declaring that they don't care about fossil fuels killing their constituents and should be treated as such.

same for companies

Pretty depressing you're framing this through the lens of investors rather than, you know, people who want to inhabit a liveable planet

Keir Starmer also tells Britons 'it won't be easy' • 3 hrs ago— 7.04PM "The months ahead will not be easy: Albanese

It’ll be hard because neither of you have the stones to stand up to the pedo-in-chief

Right, I'll manage my expectations. At least there's all that back catalogue to be soothed by.

And Reality must have passed me by. So I guess that's something to look forward to. I'd probably swap 'Sometimes ..' with Apocalypse

I concur with this opinion. It kinda makes me sad.

Last night, the ISS captured a stunning aurora between Antarctica and Australia. Check out the incredible timelapse created by our astronaut photographer!

the good folks at @drwaus.bsky.social have launched an AI harms register! they're collecting stories from people in Australia who have experienced AI-related harms to track the way AI is causing harm, and to pressure the govt to act. submit here: digitalrightswatch.org.au/ai-harms-reg...

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.

‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique In an essay for Crikey, the former Australian of the Year says the PM is a ‘turncoat’ who is ‘capitulating to foreign powers’ amid the US-Israel war on Iran

Regular reminder that Grace Tame is a legend
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It will be historically significant that the Albanese government decided to spend its enormous political capital not on addressing systemic inequality but on mindless fealty to the demands of the United States and Israel. That is how it'll be remembered.

Morrissey’s Fridge by @brianbilston.bsky.social
(illustrated by me)

However I'm slightly inspired by the youth of today, cruising past on their e- scooters, having a serious discussion on the ethics around apologies

Feeling particularly disillusioned with govt of all shapes and sizes today. What a fucking shit show

Bright green aurora borealis forms a large sweeping ribbon or arc across a dark night sky over a boreal forest in Fairbanks, Alaska. The lower edge of the aurora shows a faint pink fringe. Snow-covered black spruce trees fill the foreground, their branches heavily laden with snow. The aurora dominates the upper two-thirds of the frame, with the ribbon curving from left to right across the sky.

The green is atomic oxygen fluorescing at altitudes of roughly 95–200km. The pink appears when the aurora descends below about 95km, exciting molecular nitrogen, a mix of red and blue emission that together read as pink.

#aurora #alaska #auroraborealis

I'm so sorry for you and your family's loss xxo

Words of concern are not enough. Where is the concrete action? Where is the coordinated response to white supremacist extremism?

We’ve seen neo-Nazis attack Camp Sovereignty, white supremacist terrorism unleashed against Aboriginal people on Invasion Day in Boorloo, and now our Muslim brothers and sisters being targeted during Ramadan.

The Albanese Government must treat this as the national security threat it is.

It is absolutely shocking that years after threats against First Peoples and Muslim communities were first reported, no one has been held accountable.

How many warnings does this country need?

White supremacy is not fringe. It is organised, persistent and escalating.

Grown up

Once Upon A Time On A Lane A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to post it again, in slightly spruced up form, for...

Today is the last day to read this piece for free.

It might work quite well as an intro to my writing for people who only know it via Bluesky.

P.S. It's much better if you read it all the way to the end.

I mean, I would say that, but I promise: it really does.

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