Gareth
@garetholver.bsky.social
Just your everyday AuDHD Ice Hockey loving Dad from the Grampians. Go Habs Go. Climate action now!
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Chanting “from the river to the sea” with a crowd could lead to criminal charges in Queensland, while down the road Pauline Hanson can say there are “no good Muslims” and be rewarded with headlines, airtime and rising support.
Pauline Hanson's poison is rewarded with airtime and rising support. But fearmongers must be called out | Julianne Schultz
For years the radical right has been pushing the limits of acceptable language. Now, as the One Nation leader proves, hateful, demonstrably wrong things can be said without qualification
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:24 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Chanting “from the river to the sea” with a crowd could lead to criminal charges in Queensland, while down the road Pauline Hanson can say there are “no good Muslims” and be rewarded with headlines, airtime and rising support.
Matt Canavan actually saying something I agree with about Pauline Hanson is proof of the worst person you know actually making a good point for once. Proof that even the sun shines on a dogs arse some days. #auspol
February 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Matt Canavan actually saying something I agree with about Pauline Hanson is proof of the worst person you know actually making a good point for once. Proof that even the sun shines on a dogs arse some days. #auspol
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OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
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NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
February 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
Hi to all my Canadian followers
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hi to all my Canadian followers
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We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
February 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
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So The Age has churned out "special series" on exclusive men's clubs, then private golf clubs, now restaurant tycoons. All suitably fawning over supposed powerful elites. Tell you what, why not just save time and do one called "Rich arseholes, and why we suck up to them".🙄
February 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
So The Age has churned out "special series" on exclusive men's clubs, then private golf clubs, now restaurant tycoons. All suitably fawning over supposed powerful elites. Tell you what, why not just save time and do one called "Rich arseholes, and why we suck up to them".🙄
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Cook-ed his goose.....
February 13, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Cook-ed his goose.....
The LNP, after drifting further to the right following the Morrison defeat by listening to Abbott, Credlin & the Sky ‘News’ bubble with Dutton as leader get a smashing at the ballot box & their solution is to do the same thing all over again. Bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off #auspol
February 13, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The LNP, after drifting further to the right following the Morrison defeat by listening to Abbott, Credlin & the Sky ‘News’ bubble with Dutton as leader get a smashing at the ballot box & their solution is to do the same thing all over again. Bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off #auspol
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I don’t think the Liberals will win going full MAGA-anti-immigration. Australia has compulsory voting which buttresses against extremism. However, they will and already are doing a huge amount of damage to the migrant community in the meantime, and everyone should care about that, including media.
February 13, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I don’t think the Liberals will win going full MAGA-anti-immigration. Australia has compulsory voting which buttresses against extremism. However, they will and already are doing a huge amount of damage to the migrant community in the meantime, and everyone should care about that, including media.
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Might just reshare this important story by @lisacox.bsky.social. Seems timely.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Company linked to Angus Taylor offered ‘generous’ offset calculation after illegal land clearing, FoI letters reveal
Exclusive: Experts say legislation is ‘broken’ when it’s cheaper for landholders to break the law than it is to apply for permits
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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I appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon
I appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon
Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened
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February 11, 2026 at 5:27 AM
I appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon
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“We cannot ignore what we can see with our own eyes.
This was state violence.
And the blame lies with the NSW Labor government for attempting to shut down legitimate protest, and the federal Labor government who invited the head of a state committing
genocide to our shores.”
#Auspol #Genocide
This was state violence.
And the blame lies with the NSW Labor government for attempting to shut down legitimate protest, and the federal Labor government who invited the head of a state committing
genocide to our shores.”
#Auspol #Genocide
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Excellent words, great article. Social cohesion isn’t a buzz word, it’s a political tactic.
“If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official of the state, not protection.”
#AusPol
“If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official of the state, not protection.”
#AusPol
Opinion | Social cohesion is nothing more than a scam perpetrated by the powerful — backed by police violence, writes Bernard Keane. buff.ly/uvMgD4s
Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion'
NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.
www.crikey.com.au
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Excellent words, great article. Social cohesion isn’t a buzz word, it’s a political tactic.
“If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official of the state, not protection.”
#AusPol
“If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official of the state, not protection.”
#AusPol
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Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner."
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
February 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner."
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
Siri play ‘Don’t Need Nothing But A Good Time’ please
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Siri play ‘Don’t Need Nothing But A Good Time’ please
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The NSW cops are being so overtly aggressive it would almost seem like they were under orders to make sure the protest became violent.
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
The NSW cops are being so overtly aggressive it would almost seem like they were under orders to make sure the protest became violent.
Disgusting behaviour by the NSW police. I haven’t been this ashamed to be an Australian since the No To The Voice campaign winning. Which isn’t that long ago, but still. @albomp.bsky.social is the most disappointing PM I’ve seen in my 45 years on this planet.
February 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Disgusting behaviour by the NSW police. I haven’t been this ashamed to be an Australian since the No To The Voice campaign winning. Which isn’t that long ago, but still. @albomp.bsky.social is the most disappointing PM I’ve seen in my 45 years on this planet.
This isn’t a video from the USA, it’s from here in Australia. Disgraceful and @albomp.bsky.social you and Minns need to shoulder some of the blame for this!
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 9:41 AM
This isn’t a video from the USA, it’s from here in Australia. Disgraceful and @albomp.bsky.social you and Minns need to shoulder some of the blame for this!
So, Trump isn’t watching the Kid Rock and country flogs circle jerk either then…
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
So, Trump isn’t watching the Kid Rock and country flogs circle jerk either then…
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BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in 2015, Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
February 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in 2015, Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
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"Labor still has a chance to shape the future, and history won’t look back to discuss whether or not modern Labor was “moderate” or “centrist” enough. It will judge it on whether it met the moment and the times. The verdict from those flocking to disruptors is that no, it is not."
Amy Remeikis
Amy Remeikis
February 6, 2026 at 2:10 AM
"Labor still has a chance to shape the future, and history won’t look back to discuss whether or not modern Labor was “moderate” or “centrist” enough. It will judge it on whether it met the moment and the times. The verdict from those flocking to disruptors is that no, it is not."
Amy Remeikis
Amy Remeikis
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Fuck crypto, the world’s biggest money laundering operation.
February 7, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Fuck crypto, the world’s biggest money laundering operation.
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Let's get this straight.
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
February 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Who governs Australia #Auspol?
Choices are pretty clear cut by now, its solar sovereignty and solar democracy or capitulation to fossil fascism and our traditional overlords.
Choices are pretty clear cut by now, its solar sovereignty and solar democracy or capitulation to fossil fascism and our traditional overlords.
In the email to Geoffrey Epstein the UK Labour peer Lord Mandelson suggests that in opposing Rudd governments proposed mining profits tax …. “You do not want to turn it into an issue of 'who governs Australia' … elected representatives or the mining companies".
Rudd's scrapped mining profits tax discussed by miners in Epstein emails
Newly released documents show British Labour peer Peter Mandelson kept sex trafficking paedophile Jeffrey Epstein informed about the campaign against Kevin Rudd's proposed mining tax.
www.abc.net.au
February 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Who governs Australia #Auspol?
Choices are pretty clear cut by now, its solar sovereignty and solar democracy or capitulation to fossil fascism and our traditional overlords.
Choices are pretty clear cut by now, its solar sovereignty and solar democracy or capitulation to fossil fascism and our traditional overlords.