🇱🇧 PM Nawaf Salam condemned the killing of journalist Amal Khalil, calling the incident a blatant war crime,” says Lebanon will pursue legal accountability.
“Targeting of journalists in the south while they perform their duties can no longer as isolated incidents it has become a proven pattern"
I am no longer under embargo. #AnimalFarm consequence.net/2026/04/anim...
Saw all these guys in Hackney Wick last night.
Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme
Tucker Carlson had a Palestinian Christian activist living in the West Bank on his latest show to talk about the situation there for half an hour. This is not to “hand it to him”, you don’t need to “hand it to” anyone in media, independent or otherwise. But why is this being left to him
Ethnic cleansing used to be Israel's surreptitious policy. Today, it is Israel's in-our-face pride and joy. Time to ban Israel from every international organisation, like we banned Apartheid South Africa. Enough is enough! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.
Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.
The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.
Hell yeah I’m proud of it, you should see how much food this thing can fit in it. Does a great job of digesting, too!
This is Evelyn Araluen (UQP’s most successful recent author) not fucking around,
Via Lamestream:
Hi everyone -
Do you have to use your car because there is no public transport in your area? Do you have to do mutual obligations right now? Would you feel comfortable chatting for a story? Please message me here or email: cait.kelly@theguardian.com
Ecologists say thousands of hours of audio recordings have detected night parrot calls in south-west Queensland.
University of Queensland directs UQP to cancel & pulp an Aboriginal writer's environmental-focused book for children. Jazz Money has done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve to be treated this way. Her book is important for young readers. Shameful
Cait Kelly post: "Hi everyone - Do you have to use your car because there is no public transport in your area? Do you have to do mutual obligations right now? Would you feel comfortable chatting for a story? Please message me here or email: cait.kelly@theguardian.com"
If you're being forced to burn through fuel to meet mutual obligations, the guardian would like to chat 👇
Taking from disabled people to give to people in aged care is a cynical political exercise from Labor.
Pitting people who genuinely need care against each other while leaving $17 billion in the pockets of gas corporations they’re too cowardly to tax is shameful.
we all know I have no life, so:
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...
April 21 is World Curlew Day.
This photo is from a few years ago when I found a small group of overwintering Far Eastern Curlews at Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula.
Three types of ‘true’ curlews can be seen in Australia: the Little Curlew, Whimbrel and Far Eastern Curlew.
Gorgeous birds!
'The Mount Macedon snow gum populations represent the highest altitude stands within the shire & are documented to be among the largest occurring outside eastern Victoria & the Alpine regions'.
Parks VIC destroyed a section of this forest last week.
midlandexpress.com.au/latest-news/...
AYCC are the real bloody deal. I just donated, please consider donating too if you can. There aren't a huge number of REAL ONES out there sticking solidly to the task of climate action and fossil phaseout but these amazing ppl are staying strong
Help them!!
emergencyappeal2026.raiselysite.com
too many people simply do not understand there is a couple of decades worth of military recruits who joined to kill muslims. Not everyone joined to kill muslims after 2001, but a fucking shit ton of people did. And they were not silent about it - they got the fucken crusader-aligned tattoos FFS.
Everybody loses! It’s really bad
Even if you can’t immediately place the name Barbara Triggs, if you grew up in Australian and are in any way inclined to spending time outdoors and appreciating wildlife you’ve almost certainly comes across a copy of “Scats, Tracks, and Other Traces” - it’s arguably THE Australian field guide.
If you watch anything today, make it be this clip of @bencollins.bsky.social talking about what real strength is:
(Also a few years ago I did get to take a bunch of kids around a park at night looking for sugar gliders along with their teacher and it was so good 🥰)
Thanks Liz. I’m sorry you felt that pressure! Heteronormative patriarchal society sucks!!
It sucks for everyone!
Seriously as a cis-gendered heterosexual man who loves kids because I’m a normal human, one of the first things I learned as an adult was to not look too closely at kids, not pay attention to kids, not talk to kids I don’t know, not pause to watch a few minutes of kids sports etc. And it sucks!
“Any man who gushes over cute kids should be regarded as a predator. Also you never see men gush over cute kids. Not gonna think about this any further.”
We’re pissed off AND we’ll do anything to avoid working on our next book
