Ian Bates
@mudda2012.bsky.social
non-duality, the ocean, books, dogs, climate change literate, living in the bush, wilderness, Socceroos fan.
Heroes: Walt Whitman, Doris Lessing, Tim Winton, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, MLK, Nelson Mandela, Michelle Obama, James Baldwin, Harvey Milk.
Heroes: Walt Whitman, Doris Lessing, Tim Winton, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, MLK, Nelson Mandela, Michelle Obama, James Baldwin, Harvey Milk.
29 Nov 2025, 4:08PM AEDT
The most sweltering November night for Queensland ever.
2 Dec 2025 (today): Canberra plummets to -0.3°C, its first sub-zero summer temperature on record
Anthony Sharwood Weatherzone
What's the record for most broken records in a month?
The most sweltering November night for Queensland ever.
2 Dec 2025 (today): Canberra plummets to -0.3°C, its first sub-zero summer temperature on record
Anthony Sharwood Weatherzone
What's the record for most broken records in a month?
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
29 Nov 2025, 4:08PM AEDT
The most sweltering November night for Queensland ever.
2 Dec 2025 (today): Canberra plummets to -0.3°C, its first sub-zero summer temperature on record
Anthony Sharwood Weatherzone
What's the record for most broken records in a month?
The most sweltering November night for Queensland ever.
2 Dec 2025 (today): Canberra plummets to -0.3°C, its first sub-zero summer temperature on record
Anthony Sharwood Weatherzone
What's the record for most broken records in a month?
Keep hearing references to Ozymandias and Trump's East Wing demolition vanity project:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
October 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Keep hearing references to Ozymandias and Trump's East Wing demolition vanity project:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
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This fucking violence brought to you by the racist GOP and its voters is meant to accomplish only one thing: to beget more violence. Our local and state leaders need to do more to protect us from these fascists. Regardless of consequences. We need to have a nationwide general strike.
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This fucking violence brought to you by the racist GOP and its voters is meant to accomplish only one thing: to beget more violence. Our local and state leaders need to do more to protect us from these fascists. Regardless of consequences. We need to have a nationwide general strike.
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They’ve agreed to annex Gaza officially and entirely, instead of simply occupying, and as such conclude their genocidal ethnic cleansing plan and this is how you report it?
BREAKING: Israeli ministers agree on plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there for an unspecified amount of time, two officials say.
Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says
An Israeli official says Cabinet ministers have approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip.
bit.ly
May 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
They’ve agreed to annex Gaza officially and entirely, instead of simply occupying, and as such conclude their genocidal ethnic cleansing plan and this is how you report it?
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Don’t forget Brazil doing it first back in 2022. We had neonazi as president and now he is facing Supreme Court for attempting against democracy. We have been giving example but as usual latin countries are ignored.
Bolsonaro was very close friends with Trump and neonazi German party.
Bolsonaro was very close friends with Trump and neonazi German party.
May 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Don’t forget Brazil doing it first back in 2022. We had neonazi as president and now he is facing Supreme Court for attempting against democracy. We have been giving example but as usual latin countries are ignored.
Bolsonaro was very close friends with Trump and neonazi German party.
Bolsonaro was very close friends with Trump and neonazi German party.
The third executive order Donald Trump signed on Monday seeks to require all professional truck drivers to be proficient in English. The more surprising thing is that Trump hasn't signed an Executive Order requiring the "English" language to be renamed "American".
April 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The third executive order Donald Trump signed on Monday seeks to require all professional truck drivers to be proficient in English. The more surprising thing is that Trump hasn't signed an Executive Order requiring the "English" language to be renamed "American".
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Goodness. What a question! The OL was never going to be a viable alternate PM. #Auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
johnmenadue.com/the-track-re...
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www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Peter Dutton ranked as worst health minister in 35 years in poll of doctors
Australian Doctor magazine says 1,100 readers took part in survey and quoted one GP as saying Dutton ‘will be remembered as the dullest, least innovative and most gullible’
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Goodness. What a question! The OL was never going to be a viable alternate PM. #Auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
johnmenadue.com/the-track-re...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
johnmenadue.com/the-track-re...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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men will literally impose tariffs on islands entirely inhabited by penguins instead of going to therapy
April 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
men will literally impose tariffs on islands entirely inhabited by penguins instead of going to therapy
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Israel is a terrorist state.
Netanyahu is a war criminal.
The IDF are cowardly mass murderers.
The Australian ALP Government must condemn Israel, dismiss the ambassador and sanction and boycott Israel. We must cancel all military contracts.
#auspol #Gaza #Genocide @albomp.bsky.social
Netanyahu is a war criminal.
The IDF are cowardly mass murderers.
The Australian ALP Government must condemn Israel, dismiss the ambassador and sanction and boycott Israel. We must cancel all military contracts.
#auspol #Gaza #Genocide @albomp.bsky.social
Deliberately targeting an ambulance is a war crime - there is no room for debate here - Free Palestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Israel is a terrorist state.
Netanyahu is a war criminal.
The IDF are cowardly mass murderers.
The Australian ALP Government must condemn Israel, dismiss the ambassador and sanction and boycott Israel. We must cancel all military contracts.
#auspol #Gaza #Genocide @albomp.bsky.social
Netanyahu is a war criminal.
The IDF are cowardly mass murderers.
The Australian ALP Government must condemn Israel, dismiss the ambassador and sanction and boycott Israel. We must cancel all military contracts.
#auspol #Gaza #Genocide @albomp.bsky.social
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WATCH: “This is a tragedy for the free world. But first and foremost a tragedy for the United States.”
This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG9Lj0F...
This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG9Lj0F...
March 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
WATCH: “This is a tragedy for the free world. But first and foremost a tragedy for the United States.”
This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG9Lj0F...
This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG9Lj0F...
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No one. NO ONE thinks Australia will ever get any subs.
The ALP just agreed to it to prevent being wedged, which was bad policy and bad politics.
Because this would have been the easiest policy to slap the Libs with.
But… sigh.
Dump policies are dumb politics
The ALP just agreed to it to prevent being wedged, which was bad policy and bad politics.
Because this would have been the easiest policy to slap the Libs with.
But… sigh.
Dump policies are dumb politics
And there it is. Always remember the US don’t have to give us anything for our $368bn. NOTHING.
The dumbest procurement deal ever agreed to in Australian political history
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
The dumbest procurement deal ever agreed to in Australian political history
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Trump pick for Pentagon says selling submarines to Australia would be ‘crazy’ if Taiwan tensions flare
Nominee for undersecretary for defense policy says Aukus deal to deliver Virginia class submarines could leave US sailors ‘vulnerable’
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
No one. NO ONE thinks Australia will ever get any subs.
The ALP just agreed to it to prevent being wedged, which was bad policy and bad politics.
Because this would have been the easiest policy to slap the Libs with.
But… sigh.
Dump policies are dumb politics
The ALP just agreed to it to prevent being wedged, which was bad policy and bad politics.
Because this would have been the easiest policy to slap the Libs with.
But… sigh.
Dump policies are dumb politics
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Elon Dutton says Coalition will pay to match Labor’s $8.5bn Medicare boost by cutting thousands of public service jobs
February 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Elon Dutton says Coalition will pay to match Labor’s $8.5bn Medicare boost by cutting thousands of public service jobs
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Dutton today on Jews in Australia: "I’ve never seen an element of society ostracised in such a way"
Yeah, that's why they have a much lower life expectancy, earn 25% less than everyone else, and are 17 times more likely to be incarcerated...
Oh wait, no that's another group.. can't think who.
Yeah, that's why they have a much lower life expectancy, earn 25% less than everyone else, and are 17 times more likely to be incarcerated...
Oh wait, no that's another group.. can't think who.
January 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Dutton today on Jews in Australia: "I’ve never seen an element of society ostracised in such a way"
Yeah, that's why they have a much lower life expectancy, earn 25% less than everyone else, and are 17 times more likely to be incarcerated...
Oh wait, no that's another group.. can't think who.
Yeah, that's why they have a much lower life expectancy, earn 25% less than everyone else, and are 17 times more likely to be incarcerated...
Oh wait, no that's another group.. can't think who.
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We used to all hold our breath hoping a shooter wasn’t a Muslim or a trans person.
Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!
Do you see how far they have moved the window?
Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!
Do you see how far they have moved the window?
January 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We used to all hold our breath hoping a shooter wasn’t a Muslim or a trans person.
Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!
Do you see how far they have moved the window?
Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!
Do you see how far they have moved the window?
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For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
January 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.
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Once you master the elbow bump, building an entire nuclear industry from scratch is a piece of piss.
#auspol
#auspolmemes
#ausvotes2025
#auspol
#auspolmemes
#ausvotes2025
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Once you master the elbow bump, building an entire nuclear industry from scratch is a piece of piss.
#auspol
#auspolmemes
#ausvotes2025
#auspol
#auspolmemes
#ausvotes2025
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"The US has the highest poverty rate among the world’s 26 most developed countries according to the OECD. The UN children’s agency, Unicef, ranks the US second in relative child poverty among the world’s richest nations, behind Mexico." - the Guardian, 18/01/25
January 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"The US has the highest poverty rate among the world’s 26 most developed countries according to the OECD. The UN children’s agency, Unicef, ranks the US second in relative child poverty among the world’s richest nations, behind Mexico." - the Guardian, 18/01/25