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I’m Steve Colbran, Kiwi/Aussie, living in beautiful Coogee, Sydney retired chem academic, wannabe artist | keen art & science & politics | like adventure | hate rising greed & neglect of our planet

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What’s the story behind Clive Palmer’s new party name? | Fiona Katauskas It’s not exactly music to our ears

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

20.02.2025 23:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Appearing today in The Week:

20.02.2025 20:13 👍 25438 🔁 4395 💬 163 📌 106
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Without friends

20.02.2025 11:41 👍 22816 🔁 4717 💬 317 📌 139
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New amendments. Cartoon #67: Thursday 20 February, 2025

From @meganjherbert.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/meganjhe...

20.02.2025 12:18 👍 320 🔁 104 💬 8 📌 6
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Three Chinese warships sailing east of Sydney being monitored, ADF says The Australian Defence Force is monitoring three Chinese navy ships which are understood to be sailing east of Sydney.

In 2055 we’ll have eight #AUKUS nuclear subs able to travel 3,800 NM to the South China Sea to take on the Chinese Navy. Meanwhile, today, the Chinese Navy is sailing just 150 nautical miles off the coast of Sydney. $368B well spent? #TooLate #auspol

20.02.2025 07:36 👍 104 🔁 31 💬 14 📌 2

So if Russia invaded America, we should just surrender?

20.02.2025 04:39 👍 1343 🔁 211 💬 311 📌 47
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Distracted.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

19.02.2025 22:05 👍 504 🔁 160 💬 19 📌 10

And well supported regardless!! There in lies the danger

17.02.2025 00:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can Donald Trump really take ownership of Gaza? BBC Verify examines international law to understand if the US has the authority to "take over" the Gaza Strip.

Gaza, Totally gets it wrong: Trump doesn’t give a rats arse about international law and relations… he’ll do whatever as long he and fiends* make a buck… it’s all transactional to him
bbc.com/news/videos/...
*deliberate

17.02.2025 00:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I reckon Rex is on to something…
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16.02.2025 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What’s happening in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary!

Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice.

Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️

15.02.2025 00:29 👍 4404 🔁 848 💬 98 📌 91

paywall

15.02.2025 02:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An Ultrahigh Neutrino Detection Makes Waves A new underwater neutrino experiment—for now, only partially installed—has detected what appears to be the highest-energy cosmic neutrino observed to date.

The big physics news of the day, in case you missed it. ⚛️ 🧪

physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

12.02.2025 21:51 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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If you thought Elon Musk was bad, look at his dreadful mini-mes and shudder for America | Emma Brockes They are young and seizing the reins of government on their master’s behalf with an imperial swagger. It will end in many tears, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Puerile & unhelpful… says much about journalism but also about the readership
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Most read Guardian article this am: If you thought Elon Musk was bad, look at his dreadful mini-mes and shudder for America | Emma Brockes

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

12.02.2025 22:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The unraveling of science funding under Trump continues… dire consequences for academic research in the USA
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12.02.2025 07:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yep, next red-white-and-blue-land

11.02.2025 21:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks incredibly like the emperor and his sycophant general in black…. I’m waiting with bated breath for the scene where the general rises in the air gasping as the angry emperor magically tightens his invisible garotte

11.02.2025 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

Destroying the National Science Foundation, the crown jewel of scientific research in the US, will not make us great. This administration is working to undermine our nation in everything that it does. Tell Congress to act to save our nation. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.science.org/content/arti...

11.02.2025 12:24 👍 128 🔁 48 💬 5 📌 3
Canada Just Opened a Backdoor for China—Unleashes New Oil Trade Route to Bypass the U.S.
Canada Just Opened a Backdoor for China—Unleashes New Oil Trade Route to Bypass the U.S. YouTube video by Tech Revolution

Oopsie!

Canada has decided to tell 47 to bugger off in the best way possible.

They have basically turned down the crude oil pipes into the US and have made an agreement with China for China to buy their crude.

The US can no longer extort Canada for cheaper prices.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_t...

10.02.2025 16:18 👍 45 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 7
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...

3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary

www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

10.02.2025 15:22 👍 1498 🔁 545 💬 33 📌 43
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Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified? An accident left Noland Arbaugh paralysed, but Musk’s Neuralink brain implant allows him to control computers with his thoughts. Is it a life-changing innovation that could help millions – or the star...

This is pretty infuriating. Just about everything Musk says here is nonsensical fantasy or garbage, but it's just laid out as if these are the insights of a genius. And this just keeps happening again and again and again.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

10.02.2025 21:13 👍 136 🔁 27 💬 11 📌 7
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Richard Marles is very happy to get a pat on the head for giving away your money. 🤦‍♂️ #AUKUS #auspol

08.02.2025 02:19 👍 215 🔁 70 💬 38 📌 15

Cold fusion…. the quest continues driven by top scientists at leading institutions; there’s something— Fleishmann & Pons may yet be vindicated
(… and the young doubting Thomas, if you back read these letters to the Guardian, seems a tad ignorant, in need of further education)
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08.02.2025 01:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wordle 1,330 2/6*

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Amazing (#400 since counting reset), or perhaps not, good start and I am skiing in Japan
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08.02.2025 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Warning.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

06.02.2025 20:36 👍 892 🔁 356 💬 39 📌 19

No surprises! She’s a feisty Democrat, not a stooge. Trump and the US federal electoral commission (fec)…. the bully will get probably get his way, eventually, but he’ll have to do it hard and legal… good on you Ellen 👏👏👏

ps. luv “purporting”

07.02.2025 05:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Gaza #Trump

06.02.2025 21:42 👍 37 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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AI restrictions within NSW’s legal system take effect from Monday With artificial intelligence set to be restricted in New South Wales' legal system from Monday, the state's Chief Justice has flagged his concerns over the technology.

Lawyers behaving like… lawyers — badly, trying to protect their patch, stopping AI so they can continue to charge exorbitant fees

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

04.02.2025 05:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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STFU Christopher; stick to what you know about… there’d be wonderful silence
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04.02.2025 03:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘No idea what he’s talking about’: Dutton’s nuclear plan could raise – not cut – electricity bills, experts warn Opposition leader claims a 44% cost reduction compared with Labor’s plan would be passed on to Australian household bills, but not everyone agrees

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

who knew...

03.02.2025 21:01 👍 55 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1