Government to pay for showers for at-home aged care recipients The decision to scrap the plan to charge older Australians $50/hour for showers was made after months of sustained criticism, including warnings that people were forgoing other care to afford the serv...

So the government will take funds from one vulnerable cohort, those on the NDIS, to give to another vulnerable cohort, the elderly. We could tax gas exports, of course. Then there'd be money for both. #auspol

Barbie looking in the mirror

when you're publicly high-functioning despite your overwhelming mental illness so people feel comfortable demanding a large amount of emotional labor from you and then get mad when you don't deliver because all of your effort and ability is already exhausted maintaining your high-functioning persona

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

#israel, 20 Apr 2026
Israel, Russia & the US are leading the destruction of global human rights, says Amnesty International, describing the three countries’ leaders as “voracious predators” intent upon economic & political domination
#NetanyahuWarCriminal #Boycottisrael
#TrumpWarCriminal #BoycottUSA

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

Turtles buried under mud at NSW wetlands after water inflows halted Researchers in north-west NSW are wading through thick mud in an attempt to save hundreds of turtles after the NSW government decided to stop supplying water to the protected wetland.

Researchers in north-west NSW are wading through thick mud in an attempt to save hundreds of turtles after the NSW government decided to stop supplying water to the protected wetland.

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon

Well, now I get to have a ‘digital subtraction angiography’. Sounds… fun?

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

The new head of the Australian military is taking his first international trip to the US as part of the $375 billion AUKUS scam.

While there, he will be the keynote speaker at a $ 5,000-a-head corporate event run by former Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

The system is rigged.

Nothing About This Dystopia Feels Natural Nothing about this dystopia feels natural. We all sense it deep in our marrow. We all know something has gone terribly wrong.

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/04/20/n...

Pooh and Piglet sit side by side. Pooh is eating honey from a jar. First panel: Pooh says, “I love honey!” Second panel: Pooh says, “But you know what I don’t love?” Third panel: Pooh says, “Transphobia.” Fourth panel: Pooh glares balefully at the reader.

Australia's biggest AI factory planned for remote WA A huge artificial intelligence data centre capable of training models like ChatGPT is planned for WA's remote north at a cost of billons of dollars.

Fuck The Fuck off You Fucking Fuckers
#SoundsLikeShit
#WheresTheFuckingWaterComingFromEinstein
#auspol
#NotSmart
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The sudden urge to leave work, buy a longneck in a brown paper bag, and sit drinking down by the river with the regulars for the rest of the day.

Cartoon mad scientist operates a ray gun from the tray bed of a ute. Text reads: BEHOLD THE STEAL YOUR MEME-INATOR

D 😈

So the police can gather to hassle anti-genocide protesters anywhere we go, but Neo Nazis set up a *booth* outside this football game to distribute material, recruit without confrontation from the police. 🤬
#auspol

The accuracy

Golf dad just introduced a video with “oh hi Goths, gays, ghouls, and theys“ in a semi Midwestern accent and I feel like that’s how I’m going to start entering every room now

Strait of Hormuz right now

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Paul Keating does not hold back in response to Angus Taylor new immigration policy and I’m so here for it. Reminds me of better times when we had PMs with the backbone to tell it like it is. Truly statesmen like & excellent & I encourage everyone to take a moment to read it 👇🏼

"Genocide Grants." Government awards millions to F-35 suppliers - Michael West The Government has awarded about $80 million in grants to Australian companies that make parts for F-35 fighter jets used in genocide.

Genocide grants. They hid it. Government has given $78m in grants to Australian F-35 suppliers. Used in Israel slaughter in Gaza and probably now in illegal bombing of Iran
@sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol #F35
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It is the first time Israel has referred to such a 'yellow line' in Lebanon, after using a similar measure in Gaza

It is the first time Israel has referred to such a 'yellow line' in Lebanon, after using a similar measure in Gaza https://aje.news/ep3chc

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

bluesky: we are pivoting to AI

[site catches on fire]

bluesky: this was not the fault of AI

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.

Bluesky before Claude code/Bluesky after Claude code

Less than an hour into the “ceasefire” between Israel/Lebanon and Israel has already bombed Tyre and shelled Bint Jbeil.

Hezbollah made it clear this time that they would not return to the 2024 status quo, so there’s a decent chance these violations will be met with a response.