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At least 62 people killed and 52 wounded in attack on a community in northeastern Nigeria apnews.com/article/nige...

9 Films that 'made' me...? Could also include: Fried Green Tomatoes, Naked (1993), To Kill a Mockingbird, Breakfast at Tiffany's (but horrid yellow face), Casablanca, Ladyhawke, The Breakfast Club, Strange Days...

In Melbourne last night

I have my 1 year chip.

I just watched the David Pocock address at the NPC. How much better Australia would be with more people like him in parliament. Empathy, intelligence, honesty, commitment, transparency, integrity. The polar opposite of my local member - Barnaby fucking Joyce. Sigh! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsd5...

Kindness! Is it overrated? Is it politically correct or dangerous? We may never know. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Independent MP Allegra Spender has introduced a private member’s bill to amend the Sex Discrimination and Fair Work acts. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/7Vf9DPli

Was so ready for the Season 6 finale of Slow Horses. And it was pretty... brilliant.

The "Kudelka Climate Cartoon Award announces 2026 longlist" thepoint.com.au/new/261009-k...

I cannot commend this enough. Brava Cathy Wilcox. 👏👏👏👏👏 Stop the genocide. Hold all of those responsible to account. Helping Israel In Any Way Is Complicity In Genocide. #auspol BDS Israel.

This seems worse than usual. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The truth is that the present-day Labor Party is no friend of the environment; the best it can claim is that it is a little bit less of an enemy to the environment than the Coalition or One Nation.” trib.al/cS9CYUn

If believing a mother working two jobs should be able to put food on the table is radical, call me radical.

"A tribute to Helen Haines" a cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social View the cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/new/261020-a-tribute-to-helen-haines

"I'd be tempted to run over Yassmin Abdel-Magied." – Prue MacSween, 2017 "Helen Haines ... has been deliberately targeted and run down by some bastard. So sad." – Prue MacSween, 2026 You could say: It's right there in black & white. #auspol #media #racism #VAW #HelenHaines

We need police to turn their own temperature down?

Someone wrote: if you reduce this to just being political... mine is more like: if you reduce this to *just* being mental health... (we have seen that so many times). Lone wolf actors, people enraged or radicalised, do not come out of a vacuum. And yes, mental health makes people more vulnerable.

I am terrified by what yesterday's extraordinary and unacceptable attack on Helen Haines will be used to justify. Helen Haines was and is one of the most extraordinary Australians. This attack is beyond the pale - and must be responded to - but Australia's political leadership only knows one thing.

Mental illness, extremism or terrorism? Amid the disgusting politicisation of the attack on Helen Haines, Aleta Moriarty checks the science and her personal experience of political hate #auspol michaelwest.com.au/helen-haines...

The critical defining feature of violence in Australian society is that it is, almost entirely, male. Pointing fingers in every direction (media, social media, gaming, gambling, porn, politics, whatever) will achieve nothing if it isn't also accepted that the problem is fundamentally a male one.

*weeping We dont know why BNugent did it. We know exactly why the men at the keyboard did what they did. They did it because nobody has ever told them not to. Or because the people who should have told them were busy yet again ignoring it or allowing it” johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...

Zali Steggall unloads on Pauline Hanson’s disgraceful finger-pointing and politicisation following the attack on Helen Haines. says she has a long history of spreading hate in the country “sells & pushes hate & division non stop” “Helen is the complete opposite”💯 Yup.

Australian media is breaking my brain today. It's too dumb, bloodthirsty & irresponsible. And did I mention dumb? The Australian, and the hack bootlicking influencers on here, trying to imply Haines, who is pro-Pal, was attacked because people don't like genocide. Truly pathetic.

France! They've had enough and so have I - what are we going to do about it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Liberal Leader Angus Taylor says he's "deeply saddened" by the attack on Indi MP Helen Haines. Just 6 days ago, in the HoR QT, Liberal MP Angie Bell called for the PM and Small Bus. Min. Anne Aly to be "stoned in the square". A vile dangerous remark. His Party is part of the problem. 😠 #auspol

What has happened to Helen Haines today is awful. She’s a personal hero and champion of her electorate. Simply one of the kindest and smartest MPs. No one doing their job engaging with their constituents in public should have to face violence.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... Then they say 'turn down the heat' of political debate... after ratcheting it up with their Envoy of Hate. Helen Haines has repeatedly called for sanctions against Israel.

Please please please be OK @helenhainesindi.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

I pretty well inhaled The Diplomat (latest season). Nothing lives up to Season 1 - which blended the action and diplomatic really well. This latest season was very 'talk-heavy' - like it wanted to be The West Wing. But I loved the Trowbridge Pagliacci episode. Fabulous.

“It’s a bully-boy tactic!” That’s corruption-busting barrister Geoffrey Watson SC’s description of @albomp.bsky.social’s new secrecy tactic of taking #FOI winners to court, and exposing those winners to hundreds of thousands in legal costs. #DontWinAnFOI #auspol

If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...

What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They lost, have appealed, and want me to pay their legal costs. It’s the second time in three months, except for the new appeal they’ve also added a ‘shake-down’ to the repertoire. @albomp.bsky.social clearly hates #transparency, especially #FOI wins. #auspol

ICYMI: We analysed 42 interviews by ABC's 7.30 and found that guests from countries allied with Australia received different treatment than guests who weren't. Plus, deference was reserved for officials from Ukraine & Israel - even if their answers contradicted evidence.

Albanese brain: She's making us look bad. Can we get an unflattering camera angle shot? No! Not of me!

What does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars.

"I want more life, f****r"

Time to take it up to the greedy parasites; aka our supermarket duopoly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On Wednesdays we wear black

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

How I arrived on Bluesky... PS. I was totally going for an angry Buttercup... this is way more accurate...

There are so many climate policy conversations in so many places around the world on "pragmatism", "realism", "compromise" etc How many of them include this end of the equation?

Don’t listen to religious extremist and warmonger Hegseth and his sycophantic mate Marles who claims “shared values” with this obnoxious and dangerous fool. Military experts, politicians, diplomats peace activists, unions, faith groups all oppose the madness that is AUKUS.

A news item we'll never see: Defence is reviewing its $370b commitment for US nuclear submarines it may never receive because 'changes to #AUKUS had excessively increased costs and the administrative burden'. "National security starts with securing people's health and care", said the PM. #auspol

Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.

Star Trek - Strange New Worlds is so full of whimsy... but it's joyful. So.

The public housing answer Australia already knows Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-public-housing-answer-australia-already-knows/

The reason that all this happened is because too many Americans thinks it’s cool and funny to be ignorant assholes. It’s not funny.

Ahem…