“Suddenly”

“The far-right does not explain crises, but it racialises it.”

Tomorrow’s speech to the NPC seems to be more of an address to the nation than the Address To The Nation.

“Don’t you dare!”

Israel just attempted to assassinate a British journalist in southern Lebanon, broad daylight

Sandshoes for me

Just gotta highlight men, even when they lose. Baff won gold but you could easily miss THAT headline. Do better, ABC

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Powerful testimony

What a joyful reflection thanks Rohan. Great Top 20 - Minutes to Midnight has been on repeat in my head all this week.

Midnight Oil: when the US forces give the nod, it’s a setback for your country
Albo: such an iconic band, what an uncompromising and powerful energy. This music really makes me feel something. Where is my t-shirt
US forces: *gives nod*
Albo: this is a wonderful opportunity for our country

Brilliant thanks Andrew

So sorry for your loss 💔

Oh no! Loved this guy. RIP Rob. I’m no expert but always felt his drumming was fractionally ahead of the beat which really propelled the Oils’ music.

Prosecution or persecution? Charges dropped against Bondi 'F*** Israel tee-shirt man - Michael West Police have quietly dropped all charges against Andrew Brown, the man arrested for wearing a Fuck Israel tee-shirt. Michael West reports.

Police quietly drop all charges against Bondi F*** Israel t-shirt man, Andrew Brown after a year of legal hell

#auspol
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GM's CEO Just Admitted An Uncomfortable Truth About Plug-In Hybrids As the auto industry looks to plug-in hybrids as a solution to uneven EV adoption, General Motors CEO Mary Barra points out a user issue that must be addressed.

'"What we also know today with plug-in hybrids is that most people don't plug them in," she said. "So that's why we're trying to be very thoughtful about what we do from a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid perspective."'

H/t @ketanjoshi.co

Holding complexity amidst catastrophe I didn't want to write this. I don't want to write this. I feel like I need to write something. I am writing this. I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience. I am still writing this, ei...

I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.

We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.

Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

sponsored by Shell....

Australia’s mystifying each-way bet on social harm

Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Sheep and cattle farmer describes what gross misinformation about wind farms looks like in a small regional community – and what it costs the people who live there.

Andrew Forrest says real zero is already the 'winning business case' in three key fossil fuel guzzling industries As the federal Coalition continues its interminable internal debate over whether net zero emissions is even a thing, let alone a thing it can get behind, new reports have found that “real zero” is both technically feasible and economically preferable to its carbon-lite alternative in numerous hard-to-abate sectors.

Real zero, not net zero

My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is the platform safe for children – or an ‘X-rated p...

This story by Sarah Martin has generated huge interest today all around the world. A question it poses for Aus - why is Roblox not in the government's social media ban?

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Billie Eillish says it out loud 👏👏

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

There is truly nothing quite like carbon capture and storage (CCS) when it comes to prolonging the use of fossil fuels. For decades it has served as the high-emitting industry’s unkillable fantasy, theoretically capturing CO2 emissions and storing them underground to avoid damage to the atmosphere. There is one single tune playing on repeat throughout the entire history of every flavour of this technology: massive promise, then total failure, followed by more massive promise, on repeat. The latest update from the Global CCS Institute (GCCSi) puts that capture capacity at about 64 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MTCO2-e) in 2024, which is about 0.17% of the world’s total emissions in the same year. But CCS is valuable for the fossil fuel supply and demand it enables, not the climate damage it avoids.

HEY FRIENDS

Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece: on how Google's shallow CCS gamble marks a moment where the ancient rituals of fossil industry greenwashing are passed down to big tech and its obscene expansionist energy greed!!

A lil thread for ya

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

The Mikeno looks very close!
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Read all about it here: ⬇️

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I was amazed by how different each of the houses were.