Tony Cartledge
@decentral21.bsky.social
Writer interested in social equality and new forms of leadership, determined by Taoist principles. Social Idealist/Metaphysical Idealist. Decency + Consciousness are primary. Queenslander, on Taribelang Bunda, Gooreng Gooreng, Gurang, and Bailail country
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Tony Cartledge
@decentral21.bsky.social
· Feb 12
The best captain doesn't rush in front
The fiercest fighter doesn't bluster
The big winner isn't competing
The best boss takes a low footing
This is the power of noncompetition
This is the right use of ability
Tao Te Ching 68
trans. Ursula Le Guin
The fiercest fighter doesn't bluster
The big winner isn't competing
The best boss takes a low footing
This is the power of noncompetition
This is the right use of ability
Tao Te Ching 68
trans. Ursula Le Guin
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Basically, make a point of trying to help other people. It's good for you. Also, universal basic income will mean more people being free to volunteer and afford to.
A study found that volunteering slows down aging in retirees: the DNA of people who volunteered the equivalent of one to four hours a week showed distinctive biomarkers associated with decelerated epigenetic aging, with the most pronounced effects among retired people.
Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Basically, make a point of trying to help other people. It's good for you. Also, universal basic income will mean more people being free to volunteer and afford to.
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There's No Such Word As Can't: A Letter to Your Brave Inner Child. Reconnecting with your brave inner child who already knows the way forward.
Onward we press.
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Onward we press.
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There's No Such Word As Can't: A Letter to Your Brave Inner Child
Reconnecting with your brave inner child who already knows the way forward
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
There's No Such Word As Can't: A Letter to Your Brave Inner Child. Reconnecting with your brave inner child who already knows the way forward.
Onward we press.
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Onward we press.
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
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Sunday Shot is about to start. Jo and I have @roycerk2.bsky.social, who is just back from COP in Brazil, and Lorena Allam, for a look at the world news of the week. Join us!
SUNDAY SHOT - November 30
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November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sunday Shot is about to start. Jo and I have @roycerk2.bsky.social, who is just back from COP in Brazil, and Lorena Allam, for a look at the world news of the week. Join us!
More minor parties means a level field, where Independents have an equal amount of clout. After a few election cycles it might even trigger a move towards #ProportionalRepresentation Perhaps a plebiscite first before constitutional change. Or we may just get used to this natural evolution of #Auspol
I tend to agree with you, but another party might siphon off members from other parties and make the playing field even leveller.
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
More minor parties means a level field, where Independents have an equal amount of clout. After a few election cycles it might even trigger a move towards #ProportionalRepresentation Perhaps a plebiscite first before constitutional change. Or we may just get used to this natural evolution of #Auspol
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Shaun of the Dead. Garden record throwing scene. Album sticks in zombies head. I think “Maybe too much” and the 9 or 10 year old says “He’s gonna have that song stuck in his head all day”.
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Shaun of the Dead. Garden record throwing scene. Album sticks in zombies head. I think “Maybe too much” and the 9 or 10 year old says “He’s gonna have that song stuck in his head all day”.
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"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” - David Sedaris
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” - David Sedaris
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'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia.
But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better…my piece in the weekend edition of @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better…my piece in the weekend edition of @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
'The good has become the enemy of better’: why the Senate refused to accept Labor’s first EPBC draft
'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia. But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better.
thepoint.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia.
But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better…my piece in the weekend edition of @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better…my piece in the weekend edition of @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Revelatory read on music, the neural harmonics of emotion, and how love rewires the brain www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/04/g...
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Revelatory read on music, the neural harmonics of emotion, and how love rewires the brain www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/04/g...
Reposted by Tony Cartledge
Reposted by Tony Cartledge
Your Fairness Instinct is Universal. Your Cultural Toolkit Isn't.
Welcome to Question of Fairness Article 4 where we explore how cultures across the globe have honed different tools for justice - and why the 'culture wars' are designed to keep you from using them
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Welcome to Question of Fairness Article 4 where we explore how cultures across the globe have honed different tools for justice - and why the 'culture wars' are designed to keep you from using them
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Your Fairness Instinct is Universal. Your Cultural Toolkit Isn't.
Question of Fairness Article 4: Explore how cultures across the globe have honed different tools for justice - and why the 'culture wars' are designed to keep you from using them
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Your Fairness Instinct is Universal. Your Cultural Toolkit Isn't.
Welcome to Question of Fairness Article 4 where we explore how cultures across the globe have honed different tools for justice - and why the 'culture wars' are designed to keep you from using them
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Welcome to Question of Fairness Article 4 where we explore how cultures across the globe have honed different tools for justice - and why the 'culture wars' are designed to keep you from using them
open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
Marlene Engelhorn is my new hero. She is a millionaire campaigning to tax the uber-rich and conducted a citizen's assembly to give away her fortune. This is who should be running the world. Invite her here, please #Auspol
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene...
Marlene Engelhorn - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Marlene Engelhorn is my new hero. She is a millionaire campaigning to tax the uber-rich and conducted a citizen's assembly to give away her fortune. This is who should be running the world. Invite her here, please #Auspol
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene...
I don't like to mark books but I'm reading Arend Lijphart's book and there are so many gems of knowledge on each page I've stooped to writing little stars with a pencil. This book is a champion piece for consensus democracy over the majoritarian model. #Auspol
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Patterns of Democracy
In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever ...
yalebooks.yale.edu
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I don't like to mark books but I'm reading Arend Lijphart's book and there are so many gems of knowledge on each page I've stooped to writing little stars with a pencil. This book is a champion piece for consensus democracy over the majoritarian model. #Auspol
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
We have seen this a lot with the factional ructions within the Coalition but the same could be true for policy flips, like neg gearing and cap gains. Or taxing the rich and the resource robber-barons. Or a gambling ads ban. #Auspol
The Aus Institute does a good job of that already but it doesn't reach the MSM. For big political trends like that a tide has to turn and that usually involves someone breaking ranks, someone with enough profile to get on the evening news. Then others form behind them and we have a revolution.
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We have seen this a lot with the factional ructions within the Coalition but the same could be true for policy flips, like neg gearing and cap gains. Or taxing the rich and the resource robber-barons. Or a gambling ads ban. #Auspol
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Professor of Biology Denis Noble, best known for creating the first mathematical model of a beating cardiac cell, proposes a profound shift in how we understand life.
www.essentiafoundation.org/denis-noble-...
www.essentiafoundation.org/denis-noble-...
Denis Noble: "Neo-Darwinism is dead"
Professor of Biology Denis Noble, best known for creating the first mathematical model of a beating cardiac cell, proposes a profound shift in how we understand life. In this conversation with Hans Bu...
www.essentiafoundation.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Professor of Biology Denis Noble, best known for creating the first mathematical model of a beating cardiac cell, proposes a profound shift in how we understand life.
www.essentiafoundation.org/denis-noble-...
www.essentiafoundation.org/denis-noble-...
"At the last election, a staggering 60 per cent of voters refused to give their first preference to either major party. Nearly a third chose independents or minor parties. Australians are hungry for change, and the old parties are failing to deliver." #Auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Why Australia needs a political party for the under-40s
With most Australians increasingly voting outside the major parties, Ian Bowrey argues it’s time for a new political force that genuinely represents under-40s and plans for the country’s long-term fut...
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"At the last election, a staggering 60 per cent of voters refused to give their first preference to either major party. Nearly a third chose independents or minor parties. Australians are hungry for change, and the old parties are failing to deliver." #Auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Septle 1624 - 🔥 32 day streak - septle.com
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Septle - The Seven Letter Wordle
Guess the hidden word in 8 tries. New puzzles are available each day.
septle.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Septle 1624 - 🔥 32 day streak - septle.com
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On this week's #SundayShot, @roycerk2.bsky.social rolls off the plane from @cop30brazil.bsky.social to join Lorena Allam on the panel. Plus an interview with newly minted @walkleys.bsky.social-award winner Yaara Bou Melham on her powerful documentary feature KURLU COUNTRY.
Join us!
Join us!
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
On this week's #SundayShot, @roycerk2.bsky.social rolls off the plane from @cop30brazil.bsky.social to join Lorena Allam on the panel. Plus an interview with newly minted @walkleys.bsky.social-award winner Yaara Bou Melham on her powerful documentary feature KURLU COUNTRY.
Join us!
Join us!
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This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
The first time that my mind was boggled in my study of #Auspol I saw this live on the ABC. An economist of his standing whose mind was boggled was hard to ignore. And he's telling us we made stupid deals that rip off every Australian. This is why we can't have nice things.
“I find it mind boggling . . . the fact that [Australia is] giving away these natural resources”. – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Explore how other leading thinkers are finding the courage we all need. Preorder ‘A Time for Bravery’ today: australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
Explore how other leading thinkers are finding the courage we all need. Preorder ‘A Time for Bravery’ today: australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The first time that my mind was boggled in my study of #Auspol I saw this live on the ABC. An economist of his standing whose mind was boggled was hard to ignore. And he's telling us we made stupid deals that rip off every Australian. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Albert Camus on the importance of stubbornness in creative work www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/22/a...
Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work
“There is no greatness without a little stubbornness… Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.”
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November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Albert Camus on the importance of stubbornness in creative work www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/22/a...