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something going well, tx whoever in Albanese government

Kerry O’Brien:What’s left of the democracy we thought we had? In the eyes of many Australians, government is a hollowed-out husk of what it once was, with limited will and capacity to plan for, let alone exercise, a measure of sovereign control over technology.. www.themonthly.com.au/october-2026...

I'm headed up to the tundra next week to observe the annual polar bear migration along the Hudson Bay in Canada and do science communication and educational outreach on the effects of our rapidly warming Arctic. Follow along with our trip at @polarbearsinternational.org:

The Special Envoy for Raising the Temperature. #auspol

Join the Greens petition to get Palantir out of our banking, governments, supermarkets, hospitals and other contracts: greens.org.au/campaigns/ca...

will we see Jupiter Mars converging with the naked eye?

wonderful Nature! wonderful our similarities on REM sleep, at least..why is it always a surprise, I think we're only just learning...

time for Albanese to retire to the central coast?

CSIRO scientists warn Australia is ‘wandering towards dystopia’ pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

Annie Mackenzie Golding was an Australian teacher, suffragist and feminist activist. She and her sisters Kate and Belle were key members of the NSW suffragette movement. She was b. #OTD 27 October 1855. @wmau.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_M...

"A deep dive into what I found out - and what remains secret - after my 13 freedom of information applications relating to the AUKUS pact over the past five years" writes Daniel Hurst, freelance journalist. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/8vawUhiC

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... IDF's kill lists, collateral damage NZA, a piece from October 2024. What's changed? Let's hope the elections change things!

📢 So-called terramation will become legal in NSW, with several MPs revealing they want their own bodies turned into soil after they die.

trying to upload Varoukis piece about Lula's Pix...

www.news247.gr/gnomes/o-tax... translate on opening...Lula's Pix, an option for Australia?

certainly stoking climate change

given experience in UK, Australian government's wilful negligence..- great analysis in London Review of Books.

and better from our menfolk!

and enables Chevron (methane emissions) and Woodside

is Labor listening?

Wasn’t government approval for child-roasting 🇺🇸petro-monster Chevron conditional on ‘sequestering‘ forever a wee percentage of heat accelerating CO2/CH4 gases through fictitious CCS tech? Didn’t taxpayers tip in cash to build it despite Chevron’s priveliged immunity from 🇦🇺tax & environmental law?🔥🤑💀

This is good news for the Amazon and the planet.

Doug Cameron:”In my view it is now clear that AUKUS is about militarising Australia in interests of the US, ensuring the grifters in defence and the arms industry are well fed. It is an act of self-harm and madness on the part of the Australian government.” pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

On 21 October the government approved gas production at the Jackdaw field. As health professionals, we regard this as a matter of patient safety. Jackdaw is a health decision, not only an energy decision. Our position statement 🧵

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

considering Palantir - article in last month's LRB and here in Futurism, why is Australian government contracting with Palantir? what alternatives are considered?

Glasshouse Rock in the distance on a warming day. The clouds on the horizon will burn off ahead of possible storms tonight. The south coast of New South Wales keeps you on your toes.

sounds like AUKUS, tilting at windmills by weapons manufacturers and political war mongers

Five cormorants on a rock — Lord Howe Island.

amongst my top American novels

puzzling post... doubtful that there is "Christian-Shariah law" jurisprudence. Be more helpful to be specific/give source for Shariah law, also a difference between knowledge of and adopting practice!

I'm not saying a Christian *can't* be loyal to the USA—but until they swear an oath to our US Constitution & accept separation of religion & state—I can only conclude they support Christian Shariah Law. Christian isn't a race so it isn't racist to say we don't want Christian Shariah Law here in USA.

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

Calls for change at massive rally in Tel Aviv ahead of Israel election

This is a great episode from @janfran.bsky.social , pulling apart the PM’s “turning the temperature down” bullshit while we are gaslit about who is actually turning the temperature up. Including himself, grinning in selfies with the world’s inflamer-in-chief.

Another somewhat elusive bird: the Masked Lapwings here don’t much like being approached..

How archaeologists are uncovering the ancient secrets of WA's Juukan Gorge www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Parties won't change, they have to satisfy the very corporations funding them who are hollowing out this trust. I hope we start listening to the Pococks and Steggals and Wilkies. And we honor Helen Haines by electing more Independents to restore trust in #Auspol thepoint.com.au/new/261021-c...

Look at the size of this enormous march today in Brazil for Lula! Brazil’s election on Sunday is central to the major battles of our time: stopping the far-right, defending social progress and fighting climate change. The world needs Lula!✊🌹

Michael Keating (no relation to Paul Keating) explains how Australia could dramatically reduce its 4% budget structural deficit by introducing carbon tax, wealth tax & death tax. Highly recommended pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

“Much of the fish caught in Senegal’s waters is used by one of 6 operating fishmeal plants on the coast. These produce fishmeal used as feed for chickens, pigs, and especially farm-raised seafood. But as so much fish is turned into fishmeal, the shift is undermining local fishing and food security”

Anatomy of the nervous system in the Cretaceous seabird Pujatopouli: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷Irazoqui et al.)

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Informed rebuttal to Murdoch/The Australian misinformation about BOM and denigration of public institution (the playbook Abbott & co.).

hope NSW Premier reads this, maybe help him reconsider coal mine approvals...- perhaps a practical version of Labor "kindness" values.