Cultural Champ
@culturalchamp.bsky.social
People, places & Pacific wonder
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Kai Lancashire, England + Vasu Nadroga, Fiji
Working on Baramadagal land
Public programs curator
> The Veiqia Project > > >
Kai Lancashire, England + Vasu Nadroga, Fiji
Working on Baramadagal land
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
“Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm & recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.”
#auspol
#auspol
Name and shame 👇
Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.
#auspol
Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.
#auspol
'Relief' as cop charged with assaulting protester named
A federal Greens candidate has declared "justice is nowhere near done" as the police officer who allegedly ...
www.9news.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm & recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.”
#auspol
#auspol
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Look, about the ghost.
We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.
(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)
So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.
That said...
Her name is Claire.
🧵
We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.
(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)
So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.
That said...
Her name is Claire.
🧵
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Look, about the ghost.
We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.
(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)
So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.
That said...
Her name is Claire.
🧵
We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.
(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)
So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.
That said...
Her name is Claire.
🧵
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Lenny always loses his train of thought when there's someone on his mind.
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lenny always loses his train of thought when there's someone on his mind.
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Sometimes it’s hard to see that you’re enough, just like you are.
Remember, just taking care of yourself & pushing through chaos is progress.
You are enough.
Take a deep breath in & slowly exhale.
Remember, just taking care of yourself & pushing through chaos is progress.
You are enough.
Take a deep breath in & slowly exhale.
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Sometimes it’s hard to see that you’re enough, just like you are.
Remember, just taking care of yourself & pushing through chaos is progress.
You are enough.
Take a deep breath in & slowly exhale.
Remember, just taking care of yourself & pushing through chaos is progress.
You are enough.
Take a deep breath in & slowly exhale.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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We are a stupid country! Led by fools with short term agendas and far too few brain cells. I could cry. ##auspol #science #innovation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at the CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
We are a stupid country! Led by fools with short term agendas and far too few brain cells. I could cry. ##auspol #science #innovation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I often complain about people not using ALT text. This is a classic example of doing it right.
I couldn’t make out what this image was, but one sentence included me in the conversation.
Thank you to everyone who helps me and other blind and low vision people every day.
I couldn’t make out what this image was, but one sentence included me in the conversation.
Thank you to everyone who helps me and other blind and low vision people every day.
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I often complain about people not using ALT text. This is a classic example of doing it right.
I couldn’t make out what this image was, but one sentence included me in the conversation.
Thank you to everyone who helps me and other blind and low vision people every day.
I couldn’t make out what this image was, but one sentence included me in the conversation.
Thank you to everyone who helps me and other blind and low vision people every day.
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Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit
Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
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South Korea vows to phase out coal, and use gas only as “emergency backup” to support an “aggressive” expansion of wind, solar and storage.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
South Korea vows to phase out coal, and use gas only as “emergency backup” to support an “aggressive” expansion of wind, solar and storage.
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My column - Japan imports stonks of our gas for powering its electricity and yet Japan has cheaper electricity than Australia, what the?? #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
Japan imports Australian gas yet has cheaper electricity than Australia?
The broken nature of Australia energy market has been highlighted by a report that Japanese households pay less for electricity than Australians do, despite Japanese electricity being reliant on Austr...
thepoint.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My column - Japan imports stonks of our gas for powering its electricity and yet Japan has cheaper electricity than Australia, what the?? #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...
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A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.
How an Air Purifier Can Make Your Art Event Safer
The Brooklyn collective A.I.R. loans out the devices under the tenet that “illness need not be the price of living in community or participating in the arts.”
hyperallergic.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.
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It also examines how police failed them again after they died by not properly investigating those failures.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Broken Trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children - podcast
In the first episode of this special Full Story investigation, Broken Trust looks at serious police failings, in the lead-up to the murders, that were overlooked by the coronial inquest and not invest...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It also examines how police failed them again after they died by not properly investigating those failures.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Broken Trust looks into serious police failings in the lead-up to the murders of Brisbane woman Hannah Clarke and her three children, Hervey Bay woman Gail Karran, and Kamilaroi and Mununjali woman Kardell Lomas.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals
Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control – even after the horrifying attack that killed her and her children
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Broken Trust looks into serious police failings in the lead-up to the murders of Brisbane woman Hannah Clarke and her three children, Hervey Bay woman Gail Karran, and Kamilaroi and Mununjali woman Kardell Lomas.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I am a superfan of the single funniest fossil fuel lobbyist group in existence: FUTURECOAL: THE ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE COAL (lol)
The lovely people at Comms Declare have put together a bingo card so you can play at home whilst watching their speech at the Press Club on Wednesday:
The lovely people at Comms Declare have put together a bingo card so you can play at home whilst watching their speech at the Press Club on Wednesday:
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I am a superfan of the single funniest fossil fuel lobbyist group in existence: FUTURECOAL: THE ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE COAL (lol)
The lovely people at Comms Declare have put together a bingo card so you can play at home whilst watching their speech at the Press Club on Wednesday:
The lovely people at Comms Declare have put together a bingo card so you can play at home whilst watching their speech at the Press Club on Wednesday:
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One of two (!) Prairie Falcons at my local patch yesterday morning… ⛅️ 🪶🌵
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
One of two (!) Prairie Falcons at my local patch yesterday morning… ⛅️ 🪶🌵
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For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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When it's only Monday and you've just beaten a multibillion dollar international behemoth in the Supreme Court ❤😭
So proud of these drivers for FOUR YEARS of perseverance. Standing strong not just for Uber drivers but for all Aotearoa workers.
The fight goes on but today we celebrate! #uber #nzpol
So proud of these drivers for FOUR YEARS of perseverance. Standing strong not just for Uber drivers but for all Aotearoa workers.
The fight goes on but today we celebrate! #uber #nzpol
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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This is the world I want to see for Australian kids, particularly indigenous kids where stats show they have a greater chance of being in prison that being in further education. That's on us, and that needs to change. Let them eat cake.
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
Fitzroy Crossing community believes Night Space has broken cycle of crime
As Kununurra battles with a surge in youth crime, residents in Fitzroy Crossing are celebrating their success in reducing rates through a community-led initiative.
www.abc.net.au
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is the world I want to see for Australian kids, particularly indigenous kids where stats show they have a greater chance of being in prison that being in further education. That's on us, and that needs to change. Let them eat cake.
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
Omg wait @clairewillett.bsky.social are all of the Pope’s jerseys relics now????
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this