Jim Chalmers saying he'd prefer to deal with the #lnp than the greens confirms your choices Australia. You can have far right or standard right wing government. Unless you vote out the duopoly next time... Your current choices are terrible. We have to change it #auspol
honestly this shit is going to be so wild. one of these days were gonna spot free oxygen on an earthlike.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...
Original text of the poem “First They Came” by Pastor Martin Niemöller First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SOCIALISTS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT- BECAUSE I WAS NOT A SOCIALIST. THEN THEY CAME FOR THE TRADE UNIONISTS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT- BECAUSE I WAS NOT A TRADE UNIONIST. THEN THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT- BECAUSE I WAS NOT A JEW. THEN THEY CAME FOR ME- AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK FOR ME. MARTIN NIEMOLLER (1892-1984), LUTHERAN MINISTER AND EARLY NAZI SUPPORTER WHO WAS LATER IMPRISONED FOR OPPOSING HITLER’S REGIME
worth noting, that one of the first groups the nazis attacked (along with disabled people & trans folx) was communists.
also worth noting is that famous “first they came” poem starts with a line about communists. this line is typically censored in the United States.
But why’s she dressed like Wario??
Oh yeah? You think capitalism is bad? Here are some inventions you can thank capitalism for:
[Tech that was developed through publicly funded research and then packaged as a Product by people who didn't invent it, and gets worse each year to increase profit]
Oooof
This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
@n1k1nk.bsky.social, relevant to your interests!
Advisory voice for First Nations Australians to the Australian parliament - have to have a thorough consultation process, and have to ask the voters.
Voice for the Zionist lobby to bully institutions across Australia..
Don't consult broadly, don't consult voters - just do it
(angry emoji face)
Profiteering off genocide with massive real estate development – here’s your periodic reminder that Tony Blair is a fucking monster. www.middleeasteye.net/news/tony-bl...
If ABC management wants to demonstrate that it has learned from the #AntoinetteLattouf case, here's an idea:
Commission #4Corners to do an in-depth investigation into how the Israel lobby has built up such massive influence over Australian institutions.
Including, or course, the ABC. #auspol
Hmm, it’s almost like this government is completely untrustworthy or something.
Please can everybody spit on Marles when he shows his warmongering face in public?
Remember when people called abolishing ICE “radical” and now look at what’s happened. Being radical is the only way to fight fascism. Laying down is not an option.
Excellent article by Rock Morton in the Saturday Paper this morning, on consultants Nous. These guys are so endemic in university managements I ended up writing a whole paper about them. They're basically vampires www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
This sure as hell isn’t just USyd!
Oooooooffff
Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What are these 'shared values' with our 'friends' Israel and the US? Is it white supremacy? Genocide? Corruption? Systematically murdering brown people? Or is it the 'democracy' thing, that we have two useless political options, both of which want to make things worse? Explain it to me like I'm 6.
Have been sick and off the socials:news. Come back to find:
Opposing a genocide is ‘the new hate’
Opposing a genocide still losing good people jobs and work
Media describing police aiming and firing at a journalist ‘caught in the crossfire’
Beyond fucked
Quick guide to Australian media:
Seven: Frothingly right-wing free-to-air network and newspaper concern.
Nine: Frothingly centre-right commercial TV network and newspaper concern.
Ten: Frothingly centrist commercial network and CBS affiliate.
Absolute thuggery on the streets
The Channel 9 header said she was "caught in crossfire". Piss weak.
I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA HAVE AGAIN AND AGAIN TOLD YOU WHAT SCARES THEM AND IT IS NOT ONE BIG PROTEST, IT IS MANY SMALLER ONES
This is utterly outrageous – politicians getting awards for doing their jobs is ridiculous enough, but THIS BOZO?!
Unimelb is the first Australian university to expel its students for protesting against war crimes. What an honour!
The PM's claim is based "on the difference between selling weapons and selling weapons components. This is like claiming IKEA doesn’t sell furniture, only furniture components. The hairs he is splitting are on the heads of murdered Palestinians" @davemilbo.bsky.social
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Reporting for duty 🫡 🫡 🫡
Julian Hill MP equating Adam Bandt with Peter Dutton
If you want to understand why progressive people don't believe in the Labor Party anymore, here's a prime example.
Julian isn't interested in justice, he's interested in being comfortable.
Equating spreading race hate with opposing genocide should be unforgivable.
Centrism is a brain disease.