JBFittz
@jbillz.bsky.social
Mum, Nanna worrying about the world from Naarm
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Thank me.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thank me.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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What the Majority Can't Take
On rights, democracy, and what fifty-one percent cannot vote away
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November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Well, this is total garbage!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
Who would think that at this point in Australia’s economic transition we should be spending more, not less, on research and development…
Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
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Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Well, this is total garbage!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
We need MORE R&D, not less, at this critical time... to be out front in innovation.
World leaders.
We have the smarts, the will and the energy.
WTF @albomp.bsky.social !!
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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RIP Jamal. You deserved better.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
RIP Jamal. You deserved better.
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"[The Albanese Government] are now responsible for cuts to public science that exceed the Abbott government – cuts current Labor MPs rightly slammed at the time,” Tonks said.
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 7:23 AM
"[The Albanese Government] are now responsible for cuts to public science that exceed the Abbott government – cuts current Labor MPs rightly slammed at the time,” Tonks said.
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It's America First to declare taxes on a bunch of agricultural products, diving up their prices (while denying it would do that), then removing those tariffs a few months later claiming that "we're making trade fair again" (implying you first made them unfair) & then say you're "delivering"?
guy who shot himself in the foot yesterday wants credit for not doing it two days in a row
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's America First to declare taxes on a bunch of agricultural products, diving up their prices (while denying it would do that), then removing those tariffs a few months later claiming that "we're making trade fair again" (implying you first made them unfair) & then say you're "delivering"?
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This 🧵.
"The ceasefire, which the Israeli military is cynically using to continue killing Palestinians and stealing their land, is doing nothing to protect Palestinians from the Israeli military’s ongoing creation of conditions meant to bring about death and suffering." #GazaGenocide
"The ceasefire, which the Israeli military is cynically using to continue killing Palestinians and stealing their land, is doing nothing to protect Palestinians from the Israeli military’s ongoing creation of conditions meant to bring about death and suffering." #GazaGenocide
Rain pouring on battered tents. Water rising everywhere. Mattresses, blankets, and clothes soaked through in minutes.
This is the reality for over 900,000 Palestinians who the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has displaced from their homes.
This is the reality for over 900,000 Palestinians who the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has displaced from their homes.
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This 🧵.
"The ceasefire, which the Israeli military is cynically using to continue killing Palestinians and stealing their land, is doing nothing to protect Palestinians from the Israeli military’s ongoing creation of conditions meant to bring about death and suffering." #GazaGenocide
"The ceasefire, which the Israeli military is cynically using to continue killing Palestinians and stealing their land, is doing nothing to protect Palestinians from the Israeli military’s ongoing creation of conditions meant to bring about death and suffering." #GazaGenocide
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Sarah Henderson on Sky News confirms that if elected, the Coalition plans to slug taxpayers for new coal mines
Henderson “Of course!”
Thanks Sarah, you do your thing & we’ll do ours by reminding everyone of this in marginal electorates like Tim Wilson’s at election time. #auspol
Henderson “Of course!”
Thanks Sarah, you do your thing & we’ll do ours by reminding everyone of this in marginal electorates like Tim Wilson’s at election time. #auspol
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sarah Henderson on Sky News confirms that if elected, the Coalition plans to slug taxpayers for new coal mines
Henderson “Of course!”
Thanks Sarah, you do your thing & we’ll do ours by reminding everyone of this in marginal electorates like Tim Wilson’s at election time. #auspol
Henderson “Of course!”
Thanks Sarah, you do your thing & we’ll do ours by reminding everyone of this in marginal electorates like Tim Wilson’s at election time. #auspol
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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#FCKNZS
The AUS Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, has cancelled the visa of Matthew Gruter after the South African national took part in the neo-Nazi publicity stunt NSW Police permitted outside the New South Wales state parliament last weekend.
"Sad!"
The AUS Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, has cancelled the visa of Matthew Gruter after the South African national took part in the neo-Nazi publicity stunt NSW Police permitted outside the New South Wales state parliament last weekend.
"Sad!"
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
#FCKNZS
The AUS Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, has cancelled the visa of Matthew Gruter after the South African national took part in the neo-Nazi publicity stunt NSW Police permitted outside the New South Wales state parliament last weekend.
"Sad!"
The AUS Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, has cancelled the visa of Matthew Gruter after the South African national took part in the neo-Nazi publicity stunt NSW Police permitted outside the New South Wales state parliament last weekend.
"Sad!"
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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The Herald can reveal officials in the Department of Home Affairs are preparing a brief for the Albanese government to consider the visa of neo-Nazi and senior National Socialist Network member Matthew Gruter. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Senior neo-Nazi may face deportation to South Africa after parliament rally
The Albanese government will consider the visa of Matthew Gruter, a senior member of the group that rallied outside NSW parliament. He may also face the sack.
www.smh.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The Herald can reveal officials in the Department of Home Affairs are preparing a brief for the Albanese government to consider the visa of neo-Nazi and senior National Socialist Network member Matthew Gruter. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
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No expense will be spared to launder @australianlabor.bsky.social's terrible record on climate & the fact they refuse to include a climate trigger as part of environmental law reforms. So much for transparent government, @albomp.bsky.social & @senatorwong.bsky.social!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Wong won't put price tag on COP31 as final host decision looms
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has refused to say how much it would cost Australia to hold the COP31 climate conference, as negotiations over hosting rights enter the final stages.
www.abc.net.au
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
No expense will be spared to launder @australianlabor.bsky.social's terrible record on climate & the fact they refuse to include a climate trigger as part of environmental law reforms. So much for transparent government, @albomp.bsky.social & @senatorwong.bsky.social!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Being better than toddlers isn’t good government, it’s babysitting.
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No saving the Coalition – and that should be a warning to Labor
Labor is trying to present itself as the adult in the room, by pointing to the opposition's tantrums. That’s not governing, it’s babysitting.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Being better than toddlers isn’t good government, it’s babysitting.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Javier Blas is so visibly excited about the future where we burn so much fossil fuel that we literally destroy the planet's life support systems
No one denies the possibility of continued fossil fuel: that possibility is why we're fighting, you absolute turnip
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
No one denies the possibility of continued fossil fuel: that possibility is why we're fighting, you absolute turnip
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Javier Blas is so visibly excited about the future where we burn so much fossil fuel that we literally destroy the planet's life support systems
No one denies the possibility of continued fossil fuel: that possibility is why we're fighting, you absolute turnip
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
No one denies the possibility of continued fossil fuel: that possibility is why we're fighting, you absolute turnip
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Dr Assal Rad—
“This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.
“And the media needs to call it what it is.”
“This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.
“And the media needs to call it what it is.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Dr Assal Rad—
“This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.
“And the media needs to call it what it is.”
“This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.
“And the media needs to call it what it is.”
Grifters gonna grift
This is outrageous. Trump is using the US treasury as a personal piggybank for himself and his buddies.
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Justice Department Prepares to Pay Trump Ally Michael Flynn Millions
The DOJ wants to give Michael Flynn a hefty settlement, even though he once pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Grifters gonna grift
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Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
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Scott Ludlam wrote a few things a few years back on “state capture” and it really sums up Australia’s craven giveaway of fossil fuel resources to foreign corps
Australia Institute research shows the gas industry pays ZERO royalties on more than half the gas exported from Australia.
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Scott Ludlam wrote a few things a few years back on “state capture” and it really sums up Australia’s craven giveaway of fossil fuel resources to foreign corps
My gawd the Liberals ditch Net Zero and then send dopey Dan Tehan out to explain the unexplainable. Saying “fair share” over and over is not going to cut it mate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My gawd the Liberals ditch Net Zero and then send dopey Dan Tehan out to explain the unexplainable. Saying “fair share” over and over is not going to cut it mate.