Bella Figura
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Not very interesting but interested in everything
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7-year-old Ukrainian dancer Zlatoslava Veres has won the Open Ballroom Solo at the World Championship for under-8s in London. Her stunned pause, then explosion of pure joy, went viral and reminded millions how much strength and light Ukrainian children carry with them, even in the darkest times.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
7-year-old Ukrainian dancer Zlatoslava Veres has won the Open Ballroom Solo at the World Championship for under-8s in London. Her stunned pause, then explosion of pure joy, went viral and reminded millions how much strength and light Ukrainian children carry with them, even in the darkest times.
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Please stop and breathe for a second. Everything is overwhelming and you may think, "but how can I help?". You start with this, one link, six families & a camp. Tangible help. Whatever you do, it helps. If you can´t donate, please share, repost. Thank you
Typing with last few mins I have today with my injured hands! Every share helps
In donating a coffee, you enabled six families & a camp to book a C-section, pay for doctor’s appointments, buy fresh produce, pay rent, get tarps, & more last week. Survival.
The need is high + your impact is huge ❤️
In donating a coffee, you enabled six families & a camp to book a C-section, pay for doctor’s appointments, buy fresh produce, pay rent, get tarps, & more last week. Survival.
The need is high + your impact is huge ❤️
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Please stop and breathe for a second. Everything is overwhelming and you may think, "but how can I help?". You start with this, one link, six families & a camp. Tangible help. Whatever you do, it helps. If you can´t donate, please share, repost. Thank you
I know some folks who were at Oasis.
"NSW Health issues measles exposure warning for parts of Sydney including Oasis concert."
"A person from Queensland with measles has visited several locations across Sydney, promoting NSW Health to issue an alert."
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"A person from Queensland with measles has visited several locations across Sydney, promoting NSW Health to issue an alert."
Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I know some folks who were at Oasis.
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This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
My home area. I agree about the fear of the sound of rain - I was there in 2022.
Why they continue to vote against their own self interest, I do not know. The Nationals have never done anything for them. Even in that shameful pork barrelling period disadvantaged towns like Casino got nothing.
Why they continue to vote against their own self interest, I do not know. The Nationals have never done anything for them. Even in that shameful pork barrelling period disadvantaged towns like Casino got nothing.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
My home area. I agree about the fear of the sound of rain - I was there in 2022.
Why they continue to vote against their own self interest, I do not know. The Nationals have never done anything for them. Even in that shameful pork barrelling period disadvantaged towns like Casino got nothing.
Why they continue to vote against their own self interest, I do not know. The Nationals have never done anything for them. Even in that shameful pork barrelling period disadvantaged towns like Casino got nothing.
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the way these nazis respond to inquiries from journalists is so embarrassing lmaoooo you’re willing to stand in front of nsw parliament but draw the line at being identified by name in the herald so you start making baseless legal threats? lmao lmao lmao www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney
Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.
www.smh.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the way these nazis respond to inquiries from journalists is so embarrassing lmaoooo you’re willing to stand in front of nsw parliament but draw the line at being identified by name in the herald so you start making baseless legal threats? lmao lmao lmao www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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“Time to ask which future we’re advancing towards. And time to demand our politicians choose democracy over their donors.”
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Advance Australia Where?
How American Dark Money and Mining Billionaires are Buying the Liberals’ Climate Surrender The Liberal Party meets this week to decide whether to dump its Net Zero pledge. Drama over a decision the av...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Time to ask which future we’re advancing towards. And time to demand our politicians choose democracy over their donors.”
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So true, ignore the conservative whingers.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
So true, ignore the conservative whingers.
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Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.
Catholic Bishops Rebuke Trump’s Immigration Tactics in Rare Statement
“We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said in the statement.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.
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Yet again, I'm reminded of Terry Pratchett's Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Yet again, I'm reminded of Terry Pratchett's Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones.
Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare.
Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare.
Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones.
Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare.
Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare.
Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
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The list of lasting damage done by #JohnHoward and his turd governments is infuriatingly long. Competition for the top spots is intense, but his focus on privatising #childcare is right up there. God, he was a short-sighted bastard in every sense. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin
Even the Productivity Commission is backing away from the for-profit model. We need to ensure that our human services serve humans
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The list of lasting damage done by #JohnHoward and his turd governments is infuriatingly long. Competition for the top spots is intense, but his focus on privatising #childcare is right up there. God, he was a short-sighted bastard in every sense. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Very clever use of FOI by @cameronwilson.bsky.social means we can read a rundown of the national security’s chiefs AI prompts.
Exclusive | FOI logs reveal Australia's national security chief, Hamish Hansford, used the AI chatbot Copilot to write speeches and messages to his team. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.
How Australia's national security chief used AI to write speeches and 'personnel communications'
www.crikey.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Very clever use of FOI by @cameronwilson.bsky.social means we can read a rundown of the national security’s chiefs AI prompts.
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And for Laws’ many sins, dopey NSW Premier Minns accords him a totally unmerited State Funeral - what for services to advertising?
Suppose he’ll also lay one on for Alan Jones next…
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
Suppose he’ll also lay one on for Alan Jones next…
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
And for Laws’ many sins, dopey NSW Premier Minns accords him a totally unmerited State Funeral - what for services to advertising?
Suppose he’ll also lay one on for Alan Jones next…
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
Suppose he’ll also lay one on for Alan Jones next…
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
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Qld Senator Matt Canavan has tweeted 30+ posts attacking #ClimateAction, #renewables or #NetZero in the last 5 days. He never mentions that business & farmers support climate action. Would it be unfair to ask if he's receiving donations from the fossil fuels industry? 🤔 #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Qld Senator Matt Canavan has tweeted 30+ posts attacking #ClimateAction, #renewables or #NetZero in the last 5 days. He never mentions that business & farmers support climate action. Would it be unfair to ask if he's receiving donations from the fossil fuels industry? 🤔 #auspol
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when's this bloke going to be PM?
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
when's this bloke going to be PM?
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The con is on.
The Cook govt is so captured by fossil methane gas that it’s prepared to doctor and lie in its own reports.
It’s LYING to its *own citizens* to benefit the toxic fossil gas industry that gets its gas for free & pays little in taxes…
This is totally unacceptable.
Criminal.
The Cook govt is so captured by fossil methane gas that it’s prepared to doctor and lie in its own reports.
It’s LYING to its *own citizens* to benefit the toxic fossil gas industry that gets its gas for free & pays little in taxes…
This is totally unacceptable.
Criminal.
Last year the WA government commissioned a report on whether LNG exports to Asia were helping decarbonisation efforts — but the final report is vastly different to the draft, and analysts and activists say it has been doctored.
WA government accused of 'doctoring' secret gas report for net zero narrative
Last year the WA government commissioned a report on whether LNG exports to Asia were helping decarbonisation efforts — but the final report is vastly different to the draft, and analysts and activists say it has been doctored.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The con is on.
The Cook govt is so captured by fossil methane gas that it’s prepared to doctor and lie in its own reports.
It’s LYING to its *own citizens* to benefit the toxic fossil gas industry that gets its gas for free & pays little in taxes…
This is totally unacceptable.
Criminal.
The Cook govt is so captured by fossil methane gas that it’s prepared to doctor and lie in its own reports.
It’s LYING to its *own citizens* to benefit the toxic fossil gas industry that gets its gas for free & pays little in taxes…
This is totally unacceptable.
Criminal.
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The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
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Find out just how organised and deliberate groups are - which push climate disinformation to us through the Senate's live public hearings into climate disinformation - here right now #auspol > www.youtube.com/live/hK5-rDw...
Senate Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy | Melbourne, VIC | 30/09/2025
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Find out just how organised and deliberate groups are - which push climate disinformation to us through the Senate's live public hearings into climate disinformation - here right now #auspol > www.youtube.com/live/hK5-rDw...
Yes, this is what to focus on today as we remember Australia’s ‘Dismissal’ 50 years on.
Oh and to note that nothing in our constitution or legislative framework has been changed since to prevent a similar right wing coup d’etat, with conspiracy that included high court judges, happening again!
Oh and to note that nothing in our constitution or legislative framework has been changed since to prevent a similar right wing coup d’etat, with conspiracy that included high court judges, happening again!
A reminder - governments *can* do things.
A progressive government *should* do things.
A better country is possible.
Governments *choose* what they do (or do not do).
#ThePoint #Gough
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A progressive government *should* do things.
A better country is possible.
Governments *choose* what they do (or do not do).
#ThePoint #Gough
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yes, this is what to focus on today as we remember Australia’s ‘Dismissal’ 50 years on.
Oh and to note that nothing in our constitution or legislative framework has been changed since to prevent a similar right wing coup d’etat, with conspiracy that included high court judges, happening again!
Oh and to note that nothing in our constitution or legislative framework has been changed since to prevent a similar right wing coup d’etat, with conspiracy that included high court judges, happening again!
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A lot of people when talking about Gough's economic record seriously underplay how beyond comprehension the 1973 Oil Crisis was.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
A lot of people when talking about Gough's economic record seriously underplay how beyond comprehension the 1973 Oil Crisis was.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers
The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.
thepoint.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Albanese said The Dismissal was a "partisan political ambush" & a "calculated plot" hatched by conservative forces to remove a democratically elected government; not a constitutional crisis but an illegitimate act. But, the ABC says, it did no harm really, we've still got a democracy... 2/
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Albanese said The Dismissal was a "partisan political ambush" & a "calculated plot" hatched by conservative forces to remove a democratically elected government; not a constitutional crisis but an illegitimate act. But, the ABC says, it did no harm really, we've still got a democracy... 2/