Sista Cate Ruth ♿
@sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social
Founder of the Divine Order of the Perpetually Disappointed.
Woke lefty. Retired ☣scientist. Cat enthusiast. Strawberry fields forever.
🚫MAGA 🚫ACR 🚫NeoNs 🚫DMs without invite please.
Not always serious.
https://www.youtube.com/@SistaRuth
Woke lefty. Retired ☣scientist. Cat enthusiast. Strawberry fields forever.
🚫MAGA 🚫ACR 🚫NeoNs 🚫DMs without invite please.
Not always serious.
https://www.youtube.com/@SistaRuth
Let me kick off the Christmas playlist with Carol of the Bells.
youtu.be/k-W2Bkz_Rno
youtu.be/k-W2Bkz_Rno
Carol of the Bells | The Tabernacle Choir #christmas
YouTube video by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Let me kick off the Christmas playlist with Carol of the Bells.
youtu.be/k-W2Bkz_Rno
youtu.be/k-W2Bkz_Rno
Pinch and a punch for the first of the month.
White rabbits.
Hit for no reason. It's a new season.
White rabbits.
Welcome to summer, my fellow southern hemispherers.
Oh, and it's legal to play Christmas music from today. 👍
White rabbits.
Hit for no reason. It's a new season.
White rabbits.
Welcome to summer, my fellow southern hemispherers.
Oh, and it's legal to play Christmas music from today. 👍
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Pinch and a punch for the first of the month.
White rabbits.
Hit for no reason. It's a new season.
White rabbits.
Welcome to summer, my fellow southern hemispherers.
Oh, and it's legal to play Christmas music from today. 👍
White rabbits.
Hit for no reason. It's a new season.
White rabbits.
Welcome to summer, my fellow southern hemispherers.
Oh, and it's legal to play Christmas music from today. 👍
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#auspol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
"...It’s time that our corporate regulators stopped pretending the invisible hand of the ‘free market’ isn’t trying to pick our pockets and started doing a better job of protecting us from corporate greed..."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
"...It’s time that our corporate regulators stopped pretending the invisible hand of the ‘free market’ isn’t trying to pick our pockets and started doing a better job of protecting us from corporate greed..."
Cutting red tape shows that when we ‘trust the market’ taxpayers usually end up footing the bill
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#auspol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
"...It’s time that our corporate regulators stopped pretending the invisible hand of the ‘free market’ isn’t trying to pick our pockets and started doing a better job of protecting us from corporate greed..."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
"...It’s time that our corporate regulators stopped pretending the invisible hand of the ‘free market’ isn’t trying to pick our pockets and started doing a better job of protecting us from corporate greed..."
@bsky.app
Team, I have huge problems posting to this site lately. It literally takes 5mins to upload a photo or link most days and sometimes it just times out and won't load at all. I'm finding it really frustrating. Any trouble-shooting ideas?
PS I have superfast internet.
Team, I have huge problems posting to this site lately. It literally takes 5mins to upload a photo or link most days and sometimes it just times out and won't load at all. I'm finding it really frustrating. Any trouble-shooting ideas?
PS I have superfast internet.
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@bsky.app
Team, I have huge problems posting to this site lately. It literally takes 5mins to upload a photo or link most days and sometimes it just times out and won't load at all. I'm finding it really frustrating. Any trouble-shooting ideas?
PS I have superfast internet.
Team, I have huge problems posting to this site lately. It literally takes 5mins to upload a photo or link most days and sometimes it just times out and won't load at all. I'm finding it really frustrating. Any trouble-shooting ideas?
PS I have superfast internet.
The accused DC shooter worked on CIA operations in Afghanistan.
Why doesn't that sentence give anyone pause?
The CIA hired Afghanis for operations on foreign soil.
Then the guy gets asylum in the US & allegedly shoots national guards?
You just KNOW there's more to this story.
Why doesn't that sentence give anyone pause?
The CIA hired Afghanis for operations on foreign soil.
Then the guy gets asylum in the US & allegedly shoots national guards?
You just KNOW there's more to this story.
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The accused DC shooter worked on CIA operations in Afghanistan.
Why doesn't that sentence give anyone pause?
The CIA hired Afghanis for operations on foreign soil.
Then the guy gets asylum in the US & allegedly shoots national guards?
You just KNOW there's more to this story.
Why doesn't that sentence give anyone pause?
The CIA hired Afghanis for operations on foreign soil.
Then the guy gets asylum in the US & allegedly shoots national guards?
You just KNOW there's more to this story.
If only those tougher character laws for immigration could be applied retrospectively to this buffoon, he'd be on a plane to east Africa in a jiff.
How has there not been a parliamentary enquiry into Babet? #AusPol
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If only those tougher character laws for immigration could be applied retrospectively to this buffoon, he'd be on a plane to east Africa in a jiff.
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Instead of acting on climate, our governments criminalise #ClimateAction. Forcing us to go to greater lengths. Respect @knitnannassyd.bsky.social!
Stop all new #fossilfuels.
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
Stop all new #fossilfuels.
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
5 Nannas aboard a tinnie first to break through the police line at Newcastle Harbour. Ship about to enter the harbour turns back …. we turned the ship around! #RisingTide #ClimateAction
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Instead of acting on climate, our governments criminalise #ClimateAction. Forcing us to go to greater lengths. Respect @knitnannassyd.bsky.social!
Stop all new #fossilfuels.
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
Stop all new #fossilfuels.
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
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November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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#Labor / #LNP want #AUKUS @ $400 Billion
They DON’T care about you or
#ClimateEmergency
#Gaza
#Corruption
#Transparency
#Refugees
#HousingCrisis
#DomesticViolence
Think we could fix Australia with $400 Billion?
Then REPOST.
Compel them.
#Australia #Auspol #Melbourne #Sydney #Brisbane #nuclear
They DON’T care about you or
#ClimateEmergency
#Gaza
#Corruption
#Transparency
#Refugees
#HousingCrisis
#DomesticViolence
Think we could fix Australia with $400 Billion?
Then REPOST.
Compel them.
#Australia #Auspol #Melbourne #Sydney #Brisbane #nuclear
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#Labor / #LNP want #AUKUS @ $400 Billion
They DON’T care about you or
#ClimateEmergency
#Gaza
#Corruption
#Transparency
#Refugees
#HousingCrisis
#DomesticViolence
Think we could fix Australia with $400 Billion?
Then REPOST.
Compel them.
#Australia #Auspol #Melbourne #Sydney #Brisbane #nuclear
They DON’T care about you or
#ClimateEmergency
#Gaza
#Corruption
#Transparency
#Refugees
#HousingCrisis
#DomesticViolence
Think we could fix Australia with $400 Billion?
Then REPOST.
Compel them.
#Australia #Auspol #Melbourne #Sydney #Brisbane #nuclear
I was having a dream about a good ol' boy with a southern drawl, grey whiskers and a second amendment. He was mighty angry, hollerin' and hootin' and he was set on doing bad things.
My dreamscape is a scary place at times.
My dreamscape is a scary place at times.
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I was having a dream about a good ol' boy with a southern drawl, grey whiskers and a second amendment. He was mighty angry, hollerin' and hootin' and he was set on doing bad things.
My dreamscape is a scary place at times.
My dreamscape is a scary place at times.
How can Trump do that? Venezuelan air space isn't his to declare closed. He's just arbitrarily making up rules for other countries now? Does he think he's the emperor of the world now, or something?
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Trump declares Venezuela airspace 'closed in its entirety' as tensions surge
Venezuela's government condemned Trump's comments, describing them as a "colonialist threat" against the country's sovereignty.
www.sbs.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
How can Trump do that? Venezuelan air space isn't his to declare closed. He's just arbitrarily making up rules for other countries now? Does he think he's the emperor of the world now, or something?
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
My middle-aged children fighting over who had more ice cream. 🙄 Gotta love the autism spectrum.
Sometimes, it's like permanently having pre-teens in the house.
Sometimes, it's like permanently having pre-teens in the house.
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
My middle-aged children fighting over who had more ice cream. 🙄 Gotta love the autism spectrum.
Sometimes, it's like permanently having pre-teens in the house.
Sometimes, it's like permanently having pre-teens in the house.
The QLD LNP government bails out a coal mine to save 500 jobs (never mind the environment) but thinks nothing of slashing 14000 public sector jobs.
< heavy sigh >
< heavy sigh >
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The QLD LNP government bails out a coal mine to save 500 jobs (never mind the environment) but thinks nothing of slashing 14000 public sector jobs.
< heavy sigh >
< heavy sigh >
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This spook scandal cries out for investigation. ANAO, IGIS & PJCIS should all be on the case, but there should be public scrutiny, not the usual behind closed doors cover-up. High time too for senior bureaucrats publicly disclosed their interests. #auspol
Spy agency awards $200m in deals to firms run by workers and spouses
The news follows revelations that the Australian Signals Directorate head was investigated over contracts given to a company where her husband worked.
www.afr.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... I'd have charged the scum with both assualt and hate speech. Pauline Hanson's stunt likely inspired this. Watch attacks on Muslims, Palestinians and non white migrants increase now #Auspol #News #Australia
Palestinian Australian assaulted and abused on Sydney train ‘shocked’ police charged assailant with assault but not hate speech
Exclusive: Assault on Shamikh Badra captured on video and incident labelled ‘unacceptable’ by attorney general, but sole charge highlights issues with hate speech laws
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... I'd have charged the scum with both assualt and hate speech. Pauline Hanson's stunt likely inspired this. Watch attacks on Muslims, Palestinians and non white migrants increase now #Auspol #News #Australia
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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
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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.
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Most Moral army the #IDF commit #warcrimes again. Very similar to the other moral army the Nazi SS brigades in their disregard for life. #auspol @albomp.bsky.social probably silent again as usual #genocide. no wonder Palestinians hate Israel
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Most Moral army the #IDF commit #warcrimes again. Very similar to the other moral army the Nazi SS brigades in their disregard for life. #auspol @albomp.bsky.social probably silent again as usual #genocide. no wonder Palestinians hate Israel
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Aussies 🚨🚨🚨
Joanna Howe and all the predictable suspects are gathering soon in Brisbane for Life Summit 2025. You can see from this image from last year that they want abortion to be *unthinkable.*
This is not about limits. It’s about abolition.
Women are dying in America for that.
#auspol
Joanna Howe and all the predictable suspects are gathering soon in Brisbane for Life Summit 2025. You can see from this image from last year that they want abortion to be *unthinkable.*
This is not about limits. It’s about abolition.
Women are dying in America for that.
#auspol
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Aussies 🚨🚨🚨
Joanna Howe and all the predictable suspects are gathering soon in Brisbane for Life Summit 2025. You can see from this image from last year that they want abortion to be *unthinkable.*
This is not about limits. It’s about abolition.
Women are dying in America for that.
#auspol
Joanna Howe and all the predictable suspects are gathering soon in Brisbane for Life Summit 2025. You can see from this image from last year that they want abortion to be *unthinkable.*
This is not about limits. It’s about abolition.
Women are dying in America for that.
#auspol
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Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Shame Labor shame: New powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction pass the senate
Welfare recipients have a right to be treated equally under the law, and should not be subject to punishment before having access to legal advice for any reason, ever.
apcentre.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
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Australia’s letting entire Torres Strait communities drown in slow motion, then acting shocked when people say their homes are becoming unliveable. The government calls it 'adapting'. Everyone else calls it what it is: climate abandonment.
#auspol #ClimateCrisis #EndCapitalism
#auspol #ClimateCrisis #EndCapitalism
Torres Strait Islanders are facing an existential crisis as climate change threatens their island communities
For generations, Indigenous Australians have thrived in the Torres Strait, but some low-lying islands could become uninhabitable within decades if climate change is not curbed.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Australia’s letting entire Torres Strait communities drown in slow motion, then acting shocked when people say their homes are becoming unliveable. The government calls it 'adapting'. Everyone else calls it what it is: climate abandonment.
#auspol #ClimateCrisis #EndCapitalism
#auspol #ClimateCrisis #EndCapitalism
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Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists & priced out of specialist care. A shared federal–state hospital system is the missing reform.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
Why Medicare needs joint federal–state hospitals
Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists and priced out of specialist care. A shared federal–state hospital system is the missi...
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists & priced out of specialist care. A shared federal–state hospital system is the missing reform.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
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Trying teenagers as adults won’t fix youth crime https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/jail-is-no-solution-to-a-complex-problem #auspol
Trying teenagers as adults won’t fix youth crime
Victoria’s proposal to send 14–17 year olds into adult courts ignores international law, expert evidence and decades of failed policy. Rehabilitation, not punishment, is what reduces future harm.
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Trying teenagers as adults won’t fix youth crime https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/jail-is-no-solution-to-a-complex-problem #auspol