Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Yelling at Clouds

@commonmanmartin.bsky.social

670 followers 650 following 730 posts

Grandfather, dad, husband. Humanist, (but I struggle). Facts over beliefs. Love science, art, kindness, family, woke people. Born 314.8 On Boonwurrung land: I wish it was by invitation

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Yelling at Clouds @commonmanmartin.bsky.social · May 30

What if Darwinian evolution had built a human species in which the pig-ignorant actually realised they were indeed that and would all STFU in response.
That might allow their brains to actually consider, rationalise and learn.
What might we be as a species then!

2 1 7

Yelling at Clouds @commonmanmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Well done you!

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t mind pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...

1 1 56

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 6d

checking in periodically…

2 1 8

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · 6d

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests.

But sure — protest doesn’t work.
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

screenshot of ABC article. text captured says Timor-Leste scraps lifetime pensions after student-led protests
Topic:Activism and Lobbying

Fri 26 Sep
Friday 26 September
Police officers in the street usher crowds.
Police appeal to students to clear the road to await the result of the parliamentary vote. (AFP: Valentino Dariell de Sousa)

In short
Protests broke out last week in Timor-Leste, with thousands of demonstrators demanding parliament cancel a $4.2 million plan to purchase SUVs for lawmakers and lifetime pension for MPs and public officials.

Sixty-two members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped the pensions for MPs, former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers.

6 55 140

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 6d

110 930 4.2K

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

*•.¸.𝐻𝑒𝓂𝓅 𝐸𝒹𝒾𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒾🐨𝓃.¸.•* @hempedification.bsky.social · 6d

Victoria | Future of Orbost & District (FoOD) project, with Food & Fibre Gippsland, hosted inaugural roundtable to explore potential of industrial #hemp in the region, an exciting prospect which could position Gippsland to capitalise on national & global growth. snowyrivermail.com.au/13546/gippsl...

Gippsland explores industrial hemp - Snowy River Mail

The Future of Orbost and District (FoOD) project, in partnership with Food and Fibre Gippsland, recently hosted an inaugural Gippsland roundtable to explore the potential of an industrial hemp industr...

snowyrivermail.com.au

4 4

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 7d

Please meet my resident Tasmanian Pademelon on the Little Farm.
They are part of the Macropod family so related to Kangaroo & Wallabies.
Any name suggestions for them?
#Tasmania #FarmLife #LittleFarm

8 9 57

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

AngoraFish @angorafish.bsky.social · 7d

#cartelparties

theconversation.com/why-the-rise...

Why the rise of ‘cartel parties’ in Australia threatens our democracy

When politicians act like managers rather than representatives, accountability, transparency and scrutiny suffer.

theconversation.com

1 1

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 7d

Owned by billionaire
Jeff Yass

It wasn't enough for them

The 1% wants to control your vote now, too

10 49 48

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

abdohassan.bsky.social @abdohassan.bsky.social · 7d

Israel soldiers inscribe “humanitarian aid” on bombs they were dropping on our families in Gaza.Recently posted on Instagram by an Israeli soldier - a shell inscribed with the words "Humanitarian Aid ✡️"

Caption says: "Aid is on the way. Bon appétit😉"

1 8 10

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

170 3.1K 9.5K

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 10d

Half of humanity is frightened of violence.

The other half is frightened of ideas.

5 24

Yelling at Clouds @commonmanmartin.bsky.social · 7d

Labor factions, LNP assassinations, who the fuck are they all in their bizarre hubris?
IMHO we peasants vote on belief in a party
The whole party
OK the local candidate must be good enough too
But then,why not just vote indi when the candidate is a good person like
@debleonard4monash.bsky.social

AngoraFish @angorafish.bsky.social · 8d

No, there isn't, even Husic, who is able to be slightly more pro-Palestine right now because he got done over by the factions that he had previously been a beneficiary of. He'll be back towing the party line the minute he gets back into a ministry, if that ever happens.

1 1 1

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

AngoraFish @angorafish.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed. Remember when Ged Kearney was going to be an advocate for change from the inside? So many great disappointments.

1 2 5

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 8d

The sad thing is that all the new Labor MPs delivered such idealistic maiden speeches - WHERE ARE THEY NOW PALESTINE NEEDS THEM ??????.

Totally cowed by Albo, which proves they're just careerists.

Despicable.

1 1 4

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 7d

sick fuchs edition.cnn.com/2025/02/09/p...

Trump describes Gaza as a ‘big real estate site’ as he doubles down on plans to redevelop the enclave | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his plans for the US to redevelop Gaza, saying that he viewed the war-torn enclave as a “big real estate site.”

edition.cnn.com

3 7

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 10d

Just sayin

Chart comparing the number of camera, the number of giant squid footages and the number of bigfoot footages.

Number of giant squids rises as the number of camera increase, but not the number of bigfoot.

11 79 380

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 9d

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

10 170 380

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 9d

We *can* work to improve things. Rather than individual consumption choices we need to organise, punish governments who won’t take action and elect one who will.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 9d

caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?

1 2

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 9d

¡Las ranas unidas jamás serán vencidas!

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 9d

Now with #AltText

1 8 14

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

I have developed a theory that having too much money is functionally a form of solidarity confinement and that’s why these dudes all go completely bonkers.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8d

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Done
theguardian.com
呃
Jump to
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

2 4 20

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

270 3.3K 7.7K

Reposted by Yelling at Clouds

Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 8d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate," scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.”