Ralph

Ralph

@ralphyh.bsky.social

Teacher, chef, skier, industrial abseiler, journalist, restauranteur, landscaper, concrete remedial, comm towers. Now settled on teaching the world to secondary students by using what works for them. Living in temperate, lush rainforest. Wurundjeri. 327ppm

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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...

thepoint.com.auCost-of-living pressures, declining trust driving public angerEarlier this week, researcher Alex Fein talked with Richard Denniss about why cost-of-living pressures, strained public services and declining trust are fuelling Australians’ anger.

Brilliant analysis.

the Juice Media@thejuicemedia.com

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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Hey Pauline Hanson. Is there literally ANY way mocking a woman for a serious medical issue can be “done more tastefully”? You know what would be ‘more tasteful’? If you grew up, put on your big girl pants, and STOP your divisive and offensive attacks on everyone, THAT would be ‘more tasteful’.

Absolutely! I’ve lived on a few continents. I’m always telling students this is one of the best cities in the world. Nice to have even more evidence. One big hoof in the nuts for the Herald Sun!

bradpsychology@bradpsychology.bsky.social

National Geographic names Melbourne as the best place in the entire solar system. One for the cookers to chew on. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...

Someone needs to tell the Victorian Liberals. You would have thought they’d learnt that lesson but no, the ideology is too strong in their heads. The lure of quick cash…

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It's hard to overstate how completely US international standing and trust has been destroyed by Trump's actions. Reagan's shining city upon a hill has gone dark; the beacon has been switched off. And I fear we shall not see it lit again in our life-time.

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I'd like to remind Trump administration that after Iran war started, Ukraine deployed experts and technology to the Middle East to help Gulf states defend themselves against Iranian drones and protect US bases in the region, while Russia provided targeting information to Iran.

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1/3rd of companies in Aus don’t pay tax on their profits including: Murdoch’s News Holdings $1.8B Adani $1.3B Chevron $17B Exon Mobil $23B Transurban $2B Energy Aus $7B Shell made $30B paid only $47M Glencore $25B paid $67M Google $10B paid $89M Netflix $1.4B paid $8M But it’s the immigrants!

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Zuckerberg & co should have their mega-corporations broken down. Unfortunately, the US is in the Robber Baron era again. Democracy is an impediment for the tycoons.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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As Atlas Network partner operations are trying to break Canada, so too are overlapping operations trying to break the EU. Liberal Party President and Murdoch sidekick Tony Abbott is in the think of all this transnational Right networking. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/budapests-...

lucyham29.substack.comBudapest’s think tanks: updates in the post-Orbán era.Péter Magyar’s government has tried to starve the radicalised Right think tanks that circled the Orbán space and promoted illiberalism around the West.

This is crucial. Democracy has not been this threatened since 1939.

Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

"Tell Albo to make deep fakes in political advertising illegal - before we're all drowning in bullshit".💥🎯💯👏👏👏 #auspol

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EU must ban all of Elons products. That’s a betrayal of epic proportions.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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🚨President Z is taking out “data centers” that run Putin’s bot farms just three weeks before the U.S. midterms. After the third strike on Yandex's data center, Russian bot activity dropped to zero. This is why Trump and Musk are calling for President Z’s removal. It has nothing to do with diesel.

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The Nobel peace prize was just awarded to the UN official that found Israel guilty of an ongoing genocide An extraordinary turning point & a vindication of everyone who stood against Israel's atrocities in Gaza!

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The Yandex datacenter in Vladimir received drone sanctions, and is currently being migrated to the cloud. According to the Yandex status board, all Yandex services are completely unavailable in Russia. Maybe targeting our datacenters was a bad idea. Enjoy your digital detox.📵

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“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”

Maria Drutska@mariadrutska.bsky.social

Putin has bought Trump with Russian diesel. Just before the US elections. Meanwhile, Russia keeps killing our children while they sleep at night. So Americans are now funding Russia’s war machine? I’m sorry, guys, but WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE.

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Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?

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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.

australianpharmacist.com.auFewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian PharmacistCOVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?

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HAPPENING IN AMSTERDAM: 250,000 PRO-PALESTINE protesters screaming: F*ck Israel, F*ck Netanyahu 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any worse. Labor haven’t just lost their spine, haven’t just misplaced their moral compass, they’ve succumbed to the lobbyists, the grifters and grafters.

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social

The Prime Minister thought he may as well make it official - Labor is run by and for Newscorp and the 1% - so he has appointed former Newscorp exec under hard-right Lachlan Murdoch to plum NY diplomatic job