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naomi gurner
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views are not my own. a mind cannot be independent of culture. technically these posts are partly your fault
I’ve spent the last couple of months working in community health and I’ve never been so angry at the government in my life
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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📢 Residents are fuming after learning more public housing has been earmarked for redevelopment, including the homes of people nearing 100 years old.
Seven new towers set for demolition are home to Melbourne’s vulnerable and elderly
www.smh.com.au
January 29, 2026 at 8:24 AM
I really enjoyed Train Dreams, a thoughtful little film like they don’t make anymore, except they do because it’s from last year. Good use of Edgerton’s craggly little face.
January 28, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Banning Microsoft Teams would make me feel patriotism
France will ban public officials from using American platforms including Google Meet, Zoom and Teams for videoconferencing, according to a spokesperson.
January 28, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words
January 23, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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when I find really nice rocks digging in the garden or walking the dog, I save them to give to my best friends because we are all of us simple creatures of the earth, otters and penguins and crows carrying a smooth shiny pebble to give to someone we love
You can take a rock home and no one can stop you. Pick up a piece of 430 million year old sandstone from the banks of the river, where it has lain since it was sand on the bed of a vanished sea, in turn eroded from long-gone mountain ranges in the centre of the continent. Perfectly legal.
January 22, 2026 at 12:25 PM
You can take a rock home and no one can stop you. Pick up a piece of 430 million year old sandstone from the banks of the river, where it has lain since it was sand on the bed of a vanished sea, in turn eroded from long-gone mountain ranges in the centre of the continent. Perfectly legal.
January 22, 2026 at 12:13 PM
That’ll be Ley done, I should expect. And the LNP continues to circle the plug hole
January 21, 2026 at 11:10 AM
The first real plants to appear on the Earth, 422 million years ago, were first discovered by humans via fossils unearthed in Yea, Victoria, in 1875. Would you like to see how we have commemorated that scientific achievement
January 21, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 2:55 AM
No one could defend this behaviour. Except the Australian media, who will do so while repeating the easily disprovable claims from Zionists that she’s antisemitic
The Advertiser has the letter Malinauskas wrote to the board of Adelaide Festival. It is very hard to see how this is not a direction to remove Abdel-Fattah, despite a line saying board decisions are independent. drive.google.com/file/d/169Pi...
Letter from the Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, Premier of South Australia - Whiting, Tracey - fB526314 (B2460669).pdf
drive.google.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 AM
On the bright side, NATO’s Article 5 - the collective defense protections that everyone worried for decades would drag Europe into a war with Russia - being invoked against the USA is at least very funny
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Having children to give meaning to your life is the coward’s way out
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Dry Cleaning have a great new album out if any of you are fans of English women relaying their idle thoughts in a monotone over post-punk guitars (you may also enjoy King Hannah, Squid, and English Teacher. It’s a surprisingly rich vein)
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
There are 15 countries in this list that have qualified for the World Cup 4 months from now (2 were already on the ban list). You want to hold a World Cup and you’re not allowing Brazilians in?
Sec. Marco Rubio freezes all visa processing indefinitely from 75 countries:
January 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generating sexualised images of women and children is ‘abhorrent’, but he has an account posting on the site. People in his replies then try to prompt Grok to make images of the PM in a bikini
Australian politicians are condemning X and Grok, so why won’t they leave the platform?
Anthony Albanese has said the AI chatbot generating sexualised images of women and children is ‘abhorrent’ but has an account posting on the site
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
well this looks about as fascist as you’d expect I suppose
January 13, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Cathy Wilcox responding to this issue in precisely the way that every single person should have
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Nobel Peace Prizes can be resold via the FIFA Ticketing Marketplace
Trump tells Hannity he will accept Machado’s Nobel Prize when she gives it to him.

So embarrassing.
January 10, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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It’s better not to travel right now if you can avoid it: heat, smoke, injured animals, emergency crews and road blocks make long distance driving difficult through Victoria atm. #VicFires
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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General reminder: do not donate *anything* until organisations directly make requests.

Dumping unasked for donations creates secondary issues for communities in crisis situations.

#VicFires
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I got rumbled taking this photo by the car’s owner, who said they didn’t put it on themselves it just appeared one day
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Man walking past my house, to his distressed child, sternly:
“Is it in your eyes? Yeah well you put too much on, mate. Wipe it out. Remember it.”
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM