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Sontology
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Eat, read, sleep, repeat.
Bots and trolls get reported and blocked, so don't bother.
On Whadjuk Noongar land.
Currently reading: The Cartographer by Peter Twohig; Prophet Song by Paul Lynch;
Still haunted by the end of The Mirror and the Light.
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Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie says she's "worried about Barnaby Joyce's legacy".
But I think Bridget should be more worried about her own...
#AusPol
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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snarkranger.bsky.social
the fact that the news media isn't blasting across every front page of the country how completely unhinged the president is on a 24/7/365 basis, tells me that the news media is completely complicit in Trump's regime.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
Trump goes the full Hitler, clearly figures he has his Reichstag moment with the National Guard shooting
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“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...
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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guslabor.bsky.social
Sussssan and Liberals refused to engage in negotiations and have input into the legislation - they abandoned the businesses and people for a cheap stunt
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social
Go easy on the cow puncher, Tony. Barnacle's frontal lobes have deserted him. #auspol
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
Australian scientists have improved our lives & increased national productivity.

So why is the CSIRO being forced to shed staff again?

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social argues that cutting research jobs undermines the government's productivity drive. #auspol @ebonybennett.bsky.social

🎧 theaus.in/3XWDfAg
Photo of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in parliament NEW EPISODE | What have the scientists ever done for us? Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social’s panel from the Revenue Summit with @maiyazize.bsky.social and @purplepingers.bsky.social

thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...
How bad policy created a housing crisis
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Add this to the CSIRO cuts and uni cuts generally and the picture is unmistakable
drshanerrr.bsky.social Dr Shane Huntington OAM @drshanerrr.bsky.social · 1d
The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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kbincanb.bsky.social
#ABC730

Speers:
'Thanks for joining me'

Murray Watt (translation):
'Did you seriously think I was going to just sit here & cop it sweet while you demonstrated how little you know about 'negotiating' while attempting to put words in my mouth David'
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November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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petedavo.bsky.social
au.news.yahoo.com/mass-of-bubb...
Mass of bubbles near underwater volcano sparks 'urgent' warning to Australia
The Australian-led team have mapped the likely outcome over the next 75 years. Find out more.
au.news.yahoo.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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joshtaylor.bsky.social
lol X is a hellhole but sometime still amusing
A tweet from Senator Andrew Bragg asking "Why is YouTube being banned? Is this still Australia? #redtape" It has a community note stating: He voted for the bill that made it possible
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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chibole.bsky.social
Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
sontology.bsky.social
The US government obviously don't want people seeing what's in their national parks. Hmmm.
dfeldman.org Sphexish Quine @dfeldman.org · 2d
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)

And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.

This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
In a statement on Tuesday, the Interior Department, which manages federal land, said that, as of Jan. 1, it would more than triple the price of an annual park pass for nonresidents, from $80 to $250. Foreign tourists without an annual pass will also be charged $100 on top of the standard entrance fee to visit each of the 11 most popular national parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain and the Grand Canyon.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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walthawtin.bsky.social
Some perspective, folks.

Albanese is disappointing. Morrison was an incompetent, stupid clown.
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
What tf are Labor doing
jeremypoxon.bsky.social Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4d
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime

@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today

Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
"Labor’s plan to cancel the welfare benefits of people accused of serious violence or sexual offences has come under fire by more than 100 academic and legal experts. “This represents a dangerous departure from fundamental legal principles that underpin Australia’s social security and criminal justice systems,” the 116 signatories wrote in the letter to be tabled by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe in parliament on Monday. The so-called Schedule 5 amendment was quietly tacked onto an unrelated bill previously introduced by Social Services Tanya Plibersek in late October with no announcement or prior notice by the government."
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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shartymcscrote.bsky.social
WE HAVE REACHED THE POLITICAL NADIR IN AUSTRALIA
Anthony Albanese, your mother would be ashamed of you today.
#NeverThoughtThey'dStoopSoLow
#auspol
#ShameLaborShame
#YouWantMeToVoteGreen

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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 6:05 AM
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markogge.bsky.social
Did you know, the QLD Government says coal seam gas fields on agricultural land in QLD can cause groundwater levels to drop by up to 500m?

What an awful industry.

www.ogia.water.qld.gov.au/groundwater-...
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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cvanrood.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Our gas, our prices’: Ed Husic breaks ranks with Labor to demand an end to ‘profiteering’ by exporters
Labor MP backs independent’s call for cheaper energy on the east coast by forcing producers to sell cheaper fuel for Australian use
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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ausrob.bsky.social
"Worst bushfire risk in years" is running alongside "ALP wants to water down environment protection laws" without a hint of irony. #auspol
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.

Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.

Or both.
Hurricane Erin from space La wildfires Flooding in Spain Flooding in Calgary
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions. n.pr/44w8Kox
Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt?
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM