It could be a tournament. It could be something that we have no word for.
Why omit the cooperation required for a group of people to work together, even if against another group?
Why does our culture always prioritise combative competition while ignoring our real strengths?
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I think this article outlines first steps.
It’s past time for Australia to take its place on the world stage as more than a vassal.
It’s a shame that this time has fallen to a leader utterly unable to navigate it.
#auspol
@australianlabor.bsky.social
Is there any objective way for Australia to recognise the line in the sand where it stops being in our best interests to slavishly follow American foreign policy?
Or do we just follow out of habit, or nostalgia, or cowardice...?
Rightly, Jim Chalmers floats negative gearing and CGT reform, but with what's coming it won't be enough to fix budget and housing. Good read
@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AI
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New data shows property investors buying almost twice as many homes as first-home buyers thanks to government tax breaks. Average property investor loan is ~ $100,000 larger than the average loan taken out by a first-home buyer, which guarantees investors a leg up at auctions.
I had no problem on my iPhone. When that sort of thing happens to me I try another browser and/or do a restart. That might help.
Yep. It’s insane. Pretty much what I’ve come to expect from this government. They’ve got money for business and sport but not for people and communities.
This looks racist from where I’m sitting. It’s maddening.
The South Australian labor government is being as mean spirited as usual. Ready to drop 30 million for a two day car race but unable to provide a single cent to first nations inspired infrastructure.
This is ugly.
Give this one a sign.
#auspol
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October 7th 2024
Treasure flower
NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights
So far today I’ve heard both Minns and Albanese blaming protesters for the violence by breaking the law.
Let’s talk about both of them breaking the law by supplying asylum to a wanted criminal and refusing to honour their commitments to the United Nations by arresting Herzog. That’s grounds for
Sweden’s experience with midwives providing abortion care offers lessons for other countries. Swedism midwives have long led care for healthy women during pregnancy and birth, with doctors supporting when complications arise. Applying the same model to abortion care is both logical and effective.
For the South Australians out there. This government is great at helping Santos, not so great at their core duties.
Give this one a sign.
#auspol
Hey, check out this! getup.to/4B8KYlSyCdXLHE
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Yep. We'll jail a 10 year old for stealing a Freddo frog, but a politician steals $50K from the public purse? They just pay it back and Bob's your uncle.
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What a mongrel. How is he not charged under terrorism laws? I guess he's the wrong colour.
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The House is currently debating the gun laws, so a lot of bullshit is being spread by the Nats - @amyremeikis.bsky.social guides you past the poo balls
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Are arts and non-profit institutions spending resources on grants and philanthropy any different from the unhoused person holding out a cup to passerbys?
Should that be an ok thing not only at an individual level but at an institutional level? Should this be considered a basic duty of government?
Spray on Powder-like agent stops wound from bleeding in one second #KAIST #SouthKorea
A research team at the country's top science and technology university has developed a powder-type hemostatic agent that stops bleeding within a second when applied to a wound.
www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Sc...
A real “tell your parents” paper (since everyone on Bsky is canonically 38).
Review of 21 studies of ppl over 50:
• Shingles vax associated w/47% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, 24% lower risk of any dementia
• Pneumonia vax had 36% lower risk of Alzheimer's
• Tdap had 33% lower risk of any dementia
Ah, Potato fritters. Yum.
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
There's always more for those with more.
If the US federal government continues to borrow money at the current rate the Trump administration will add ten trillion dollars to the federal debt.
From around 36 trillion to around 46 trillion. Plausibly more.
And no improved infrastructure or outcomes for the middle class or the poor.
We're at the socialism or barbarism moment yet again and Australia's contribution is to cancel writers festivals and to prosecute whether butt dials are antisemitic
Climate-related mass-fatality events in Australia since 2000.
It's strange how these deaths weren't perceived as an horrific national tragedy. 🤔
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
Twelve years after its publication, what can ex-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's book on the Lucky Country's relationship with the United States possibly have to offer to the modern reader? That's the question I explore in this retrospective review. 👇
www.buchanan.today/post/malcolm...
