Nada Vlatko
@nadavlatko.bsky.social
Born on Korcula, a little island in the Adriatic. Now settled gratefully and respectfully on Cameraygal land on the world's biggest island, Australia.
Aust Museum is my go-to for spider info. In Sydney's Chatswood we do this often. The most exciting was when a redback bit me: not as bad as it sounds. Funnel webs are different. The latest excitement is red-bellied black snakes. Kinda weird so close to our CBD.
australian.museum/learn/animal...
australian.museum/learn/animal...
Sydney Funnel-web Spider, Atrax robustus
Probably the most notorious of all spiders, Sydney Funnel-webs have a fearsome reputation. Most of this is deserved, but some is exaggerated.
australian.museum
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Aust Museum is my go-to for spider info. In Sydney's Chatswood we do this often. The most exciting was when a redback bit me: not as bad as it sounds. Funnel webs are different. The latest excitement is red-bellied black snakes. Kinda weird so close to our CBD.
australian.museum/learn/animal...
australian.museum/learn/animal...
Look at me, look at me...
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Look at me, look at me...
Another pathetic stunt from Hanson but on the upside it's nice not being able to see that cranky, sourpuss face.
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Another pathetic stunt from Hanson but on the upside it's nice not being able to see that cranky, sourpuss face.
ASIC = watch-puppy. Nice.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ASIC = watch-puppy. Nice.
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Who should compensate investors for shonky investments? Government is floating using your superannuation after soaking good advisers.
Better idea: use the $2 billion in fines and fees watchpuppy ASIC collects.
Mine for MWM
michaelwest.com.au/financial-co...
Better idea: use the $2 billion in fines and fees watchpuppy ASIC collects.
Mine for MWM
michaelwest.com.au/financial-co...
Financial complaints. Mulino’s compo ploy to tap the goodies, even super, to cover the baddies - Michael West
There is a storm brewing to blow up the Federal Government’s Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. Will they hit super, financial advisers?
michaelwest.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Who should compensate investors for shonky investments? Government is floating using your superannuation after soaking good advisers.
Better idea: use the $2 billion in fines and fees watchpuppy ASIC collects.
Mine for MWM
michaelwest.com.au/financial-co...
Better idea: use the $2 billion in fines and fees watchpuppy ASIC collects.
Mine for MWM
michaelwest.com.au/financial-co...
Perhaps you are wrong, Nick. No doubt Linda Reynolds spoke out against and took action to stop the Morrison government's very illegal and very cruel Robodebt.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Perhaps you are wrong, Nick. No doubt Linda Reynolds spoke out against and took action to stop the Morrison government's very illegal and very cruel Robodebt.
Surely that would depend on potential sponsors
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Surely that would depend on potential sponsors
Of course.
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Of course.
Heartbreaking but to be expected. War and trauma damage people, especially children. As a child during WWII my now 93 year old mum endured bombing, occupation and starvation. The trauma has remained all her life. Nations that enable Israel's genocide are culpable in the crimes and the trauma.
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Heartbreaking but to be expected. War and trauma damage people, especially children. As a child during WWII my now 93 year old mum endured bombing, occupation and starvation. The trauma has remained all her life. Nations that enable Israel's genocide are culpable in the crimes and the trauma.
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries - including Australia.
Highly recommended interview #LateNightLive #ABC
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Highly recommended interview #LateNightLive #ABC
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries - ABC listen
'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, ...
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries - including Australia.
Highly recommended interview #LateNightLive #ABC
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Highly recommended interview #LateNightLive #ABC
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Can he believe this?
"We have done everything we can to prevent this war before this war, even to our detriment, and we have done everything we can during this war to make sure that we are allowing civilians to get out of harm's way."
- IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
"We have done everything we can to prevent this war before this war, even to our detriment, and we have done everything we can during this war to make sure that we are allowing civilians to get out of harm's way."
- IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The ABC entered Gaza for the first time since the ceasefire. This is what we saw
For the first time since the ceasefire started, the ABC has gained access to an area in northern Gaza under Israeli military control. This is what we could see from behind the Yellow Line.
www.abc.net.au
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Can he believe this?
"We have done everything we can to prevent this war before this war, even to our detriment, and we have done everything we can during this war to make sure that we are allowing civilians to get out of harm's way."
- IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
"We have done everything we can to prevent this war before this war, even to our detriment, and we have done everything we can during this war to make sure that we are allowing civilians to get out of harm's way."
- IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy. On the other hand it should make it easier to create private militias....
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy. On the other hand it should make it easier to create private militias....
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy?
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy?
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy?
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy?
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy?
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Surely this is a threat to what's left of US democracy?
I was the last employee of the NSW BLF. The union's deregistratiaon 50 years was a tragedy - for members and for our community.
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I was the last employee of the NSW BLF. The union's deregistratiaon 50 years was a tragedy - for members and for our community.
Sadly, many of the NSW BLF's green ban lessons about heritage, environment and human rights have been forgotten. The mighty $ and short term personal interest reign supreme. How else to explain refusal to take decisive action on the climate crisis?
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Sadly, many of the NSW BLF's green ban lessons about heritage, environment and human rights have been forgotten. The mighty $ and short term personal interest reign supreme. How else to explain refusal to take decisive action on the climate crisis?
That may be true but Hawke did not support the NSW Builders' Labourers' Federation who imposed Australia's and the world's first green bans. Instead he supported the corrupt Norm Gallagher, BLF National Sec, later gaoled for taking bribes. On green bans Hawke was on the wrong side of history.
October 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
That may be true but Hawke did not support the NSW Builders' Labourers' Federation who imposed Australia's and the world's first green bans. Instead he supported the corrupt Norm Gallagher, BLF National Sec, later gaoled for taking bribes. On green bans Hawke was on the wrong side of history.
While they are at it it would be good dismantle the assumption that people at the bottom will do the wrong thing.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
While they are at it it would be good dismantle the assumption that people at the bottom will do the wrong thing.
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Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
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Dr. Tania Hassan on Gaza:
The endless flow of wounded children, lack of medical supplies, the feeling of helplessness as bombs fell nearby.
"I held a child with no pulse, only to realize we had no equipment to revive him. This is not war; it's a massacre of innocents."
The endless flow of wounded children, lack of medical supplies, the feeling of helplessness as bombs fell nearby.
"I held a child with no pulse, only to realize we had no equipment to revive him. This is not war; it's a massacre of innocents."
October 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Dr. Tania Hassan on Gaza:
The endless flow of wounded children, lack of medical supplies, the feeling of helplessness as bombs fell nearby.
"I held a child with no pulse, only to realize we had no equipment to revive him. This is not war; it's a massacre of innocents."
The endless flow of wounded children, lack of medical supplies, the feeling of helplessness as bombs fell nearby.
"I held a child with no pulse, only to realize we had no equipment to revive him. This is not war; it's a massacre of innocents."
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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com
"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com
"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
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I'm totally distraught. The injustice. No, Palestinians can't have any weapons, but Israel can have all the weapons, continue to steal from the west Bank, kill, plunder with impunity, threaten & still have control in Gaza. Their inhumanity to medics & journos is beyond outrageous. I just can't...
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm totally distraught. The injustice. No, Palestinians can't have any weapons, but Israel can have all the weapons, continue to steal from the west Bank, kill, plunder with impunity, threaten & still have control in Gaza. Their inhumanity to medics & journos is beyond outrageous. I just can't...
George Orwell could have written their script.
October 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
George Orwell could have written their script.
"Thank you so much but I hope you understand this is a movement. This is an achievement of a whole society. I am just one person. I certainly do not deserve this."
In the unlikely event The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Trump, can anyone this would be his first response?
In the unlikely event The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Trump, can anyone this would be his first response?
October 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"Thank you so much but I hope you understand this is a movement. This is an achievement of a whole society. I am just one person. I certainly do not deserve this."
In the unlikely event The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Trump, can anyone this would be his first response?
In the unlikely event The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Trump, can anyone this would be his first response?