Sonans
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🌻🌈 Nurse (past:emergency, present:pacu, future:pain) send me your facts, all the facts and maybe some fun. Lives on Larrakia land, Australia. She/her/me
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A callout for Australian Jews: add your name by Friday 9am!
We are taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement next week to send a loud message that Herzog is not welcome here – this is your opportunity to add your name at the link below.
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/02/peti...
We are taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement next week to send a loud message that Herzog is not welcome here – this is your opportunity to add your name at the link below.
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/02/peti...
February 5, 2026 at 12:52 AM
A callout for Australian Jews: add your name by Friday 9am!
We are taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement next week to send a loud message that Herzog is not welcome here – this is your opportunity to add your name at the link below.
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/02/peti...
We are taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement next week to send a loud message that Herzog is not welcome here – this is your opportunity to add your name at the link below.
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/02/peti...
Useful if it changes the requirement to have lived in the state/territory for a certain period. Esp NT when people often leave or return to be with family #voluntaryassisteddying
The NT looks set to introduce voluntary assisted dying mid-year, while other states are reviewing – and may change – current laws. Here’s what you need to know.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/volunta...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/volunta...
February 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Useful if it changes the requirement to have lived in the state/territory for a certain period. Esp NT when people often leave or return to be with family #voluntaryassisteddying
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Here's a guide to some of the best independent media. knittingnannas.org/2026/02/04/i...
Australian Independent Media Guide
Influential mass media corporations that dominated prior to the internet are losing their audience. Australians are looking for new places to get their news.
knittingnannas.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Here's a guide to some of the best independent media. knittingnannas.org/2026/02/04/i...
Truth teller. Also fyi don’t listen to Hundred Year Hunger if you are feeling teary because it will break you #resist
I’ve written an editorial for @consequence.bsky.social revealing the inspiration behind my song ‘City of Heroes’ and reflecting on the role that music can play in the struggle against oppression
consequence.net/2026/02/bill...
consequence.net/2026/02/bill...
The Lesson of Niemöller, Rewritten on the Streets of Minneapolis (Guest Editorial)
In a new guest editorial, Billy Bragg reflects on the rise of modern-day resistance and how protest songs can turn bystanders into resistance.
consequence.net
February 3, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Truth teller. Also fyi don’t listen to Hundred Year Hunger if you are feeling teary because it will break you #resist
Lip Service issue 4 is coming soon! This issue of our quarterly zine will focus on SEX AND DISABILITY. Members of the Cliterati will receive a free digital download, so sign up now to be sure you get yours www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/member
Become A Member | Join the Movement — Support and Engage — Vagina Museum
A special community of eager beavers. Join the Cliterati and support our exhibitions and outreach programs today.
www.vaginamuseum.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Kenya protestors getting full respect #protest
#Kenya: Last summer, dozens of protesters were killed after demonstrating against the Finance Bill. Many protestors were young people angry about futures that feel increasingly out of reach. Samuel Kimeu writes on why the government must urgently listen ⬇️
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Kenya protestors getting full respect #protest
Finally found my perfect workout, with piano soundtrack and one (1) childs pose. Bonus hand stretch and ankle twirl ftw 🤣
#vintage #workout
youtu.be/mnntQu4ueuM?...
#vintage #workout
youtu.be/mnntQu4ueuM?...
1958: Ready for a 1950s Style Workout? | Keep Fit With Eileen Fowler | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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February 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Finally found my perfect workout, with piano soundtrack and one (1) childs pose. Bonus hand stretch and ankle twirl ftw 🤣
#vintage #workout
youtu.be/mnntQu4ueuM?...
#vintage #workout
youtu.be/mnntQu4ueuM?...
Not to cause a rush on the morning appointments, but this is fascinating #nursing
Patients with advanced lung cancer who received immunochemotherapy before 3 p.m. had a more delayed disease progression than patients receiving treatment later in the day, according to a trial reported in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/3ZLsTEp #medsky 🧪
February 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Not to cause a rush on the morning appointments, but this is fascinating #nursing
“As with the rest of my work, it relies on repetition as a way to preserve memory ... I dreamt of preserving the souls of the missing in their covered graves, so that their memory would not disappear into thin air.”
#genocide
#genocide
“At one point, I discovered that there is pleasure in looking at objects that are gaudy and tasteless. Bad taste can coexist with good taste; people try to separate them, but they are inevitably intertwined. Kitsch is a part of my work.” –Beatriz González
Beatriz González, Colombian Painter of Collective Memory, Dies at 93
While often associated with Pop Art, her practice was rooted in the specificities of local visual culture, depicting political events, violence, and loss.
hyperallergic.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:50 PM
“As with the rest of my work, it relies on repetition as a way to preserve memory ... I dreamt of preserving the souls of the missing in their covered graves, so that their memory would not disappear into thin air.”
#genocide
#genocide
Needing this sorta bigger-picture thinking right now
This is an up-close photo of Saturn's rings, but it also shows so much more. Those two little dots are actually the Earth and Moon as seen from over 1.4 billion kilometers away by the Cassini spacecraft. Everything you know and love is on that dot.
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
February 1, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Needing this sorta bigger-picture thinking right now
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Is it time for a royal commission into white nationalism and anti-Aboriginal racism now? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
First Nations people say 'silence' on alleged Perth bomb attack weighs heavily
Underwhelming public responses in the wake of the alleged attack on an Invasion Day rally in Perth leave First Nations people across Australia feeling their "pain matters less".
www.abc.net.au
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Is it time for a royal commission into white nationalism and anti-Aboriginal racism now? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Whooot!!! Yeah #auspol
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Whooot!!! Yeah #auspol
If the ethics don’t move ya, maybe the money will?
“Guardian Australia revealed last year that MTC was being paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru, after a quiet expansion of its Australian government contract”
“Guardian Australia revealed last year that MTC was being paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru, after a quiet expansion of its Australian government contract”
Company handling Australia’s immigration detention playing key role in Trump’s ICE migrant crackdown
Company handling Australia’s immigration detention playing key role in Trump’s ICE migrant crackdown
Albanese government awarded contracts to MTC despite allegations of ‘gross negligence’ in the US involvement with ICE
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The Australian government’s main immigration detention contractor is playing a key role in Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown and has attracted a string of complaints over its treatment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees.
In recent years, the Albanese government has awarded lucrative immigration detention contracts to the local subsidiary of Management and Training Corporation, a major US private prison company, to operate offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Australia’s onshore detention network. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
If the ethics don’t move ya, maybe the money will?
“Guardian Australia revealed last year that MTC was being paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru, after a quiet expansion of its Australian government contract”
“Guardian Australia revealed last year that MTC was being paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru, after a quiet expansion of its Australian government contract”
'No One Should Call This Place Home' | Always Was Tonight
YouTube video by ABC Indigenous
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January 29, 2026 at 9:20 AM
It's 2026, so it's fitting that it's up to a satirical website to post something like this instead of the mainstream press (note: I did see the piece in Crikey too)
www.betootaadvocate.com/report-feels...
www.betootaadvocate.com/report-feels...
Report: Feels Like We Should Be Making A Bigger Deal About Someone Throwing A Homemade Explosive Device Full Of Ball Bearings At Aboriginal People On January 26th
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT
As the nation greets 2026 head on, many have confirmed they are still trying to wrap their heads around the media landscape for this year.
This comes after a couple ...
www.betootaadvocate.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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This is also true in Australia, there may be a small window to slow it down #auspol
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 28, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is also true in Australia, there may be a small window to slow it down #auspol
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Today our friend and former colleague #AndreiAliaksandrau spends another birthday behind bars in #Belarus.
Watch as Margaret Atwood, Nadya from Pussy Riot, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Trevor Phillips come together to recite his poem.
The authorities must #FreeAndrei ⬇️
youtu.be/PtYfwV-sTNA?...
Watch as Margaret Atwood, Nadya from Pussy Riot, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Trevor Phillips come together to recite his poem.
The authorities must #FreeAndrei ⬇️
youtu.be/PtYfwV-sTNA?...
Margaret Atwood and other writers, artists and journalists recite a poem for Andrei Aliaksandrau
YouTube video by Index on Censorship
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January 27, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Today our friend and former colleague #AndreiAliaksandrau spends another birthday behind bars in #Belarus.
Watch as Margaret Atwood, Nadya from Pussy Riot, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Trevor Phillips come together to recite his poem.
The authorities must #FreeAndrei ⬇️
youtu.be/PtYfwV-sTNA?...
Watch as Margaret Atwood, Nadya from Pussy Riot, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Trevor Phillips come together to recite his poem.
The authorities must #FreeAndrei ⬇️
youtu.be/PtYfwV-sTNA?...
An intriguing long read. I hope Muzahir comes to Australia
“When someone reads about me, then maybe a lot of Red Bulls will stand up and speak,” Muzahir says with his usual shy smile. “When a lot of Red Bulls speak in this world, it will help to make things better.””
“When someone reads about me, then maybe a lot of Red Bulls will stand up and speak,” Muzahir says with his usual shy smile. “When a lot of Red Bulls speak in this world, it will help to make things better.””
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
An intriguing long read. I hope Muzahir comes to Australia
“When someone reads about me, then maybe a lot of Red Bulls will stand up and speak,” Muzahir says with his usual shy smile. “When a lot of Red Bulls speak in this world, it will help to make things better.””
“When someone reads about me, then maybe a lot of Red Bulls will stand up and speak,” Muzahir says with his usual shy smile. “When a lot of Red Bulls speak in this world, it will help to make things better.””
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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
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
Factchecked true and fucked. So many things to do today and now i gotta send emails and check in with my awesome local rep #auspol
Kids are famously very convinced by compulsory acts of patriotism
January 26, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Factchecked true and fucked. So many things to do today and now i gotta send emails and check in with my awesome local rep #auspol
Ffs people, even the salem witch trial guy was pro-vax back in the 1700’s!!! #measles #auspol #nursingau
“UK has lost its measles elimination status, the WHO has announced.
The move was based on the spread of cases in 2024 when there were 3,600 suspected cases.
Elimination status means there is no sustained transmission so this decision was largely expected, given the scale of the outbreaks in 2024.”
The move was based on the spread of cases in 2024 when there were 3,600 suspected cases.
Elimination status means there is no sustained transmission so this decision was largely expected, given the scale of the outbreaks in 2024.”
UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Ffs people, even the salem witch trial guy was pro-vax back in the 1700’s!!! #measles #auspol #nursingau
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Military ‘security operation’ in West Papua doubles as free torture & rape program.
Alleged rape of Papuan woman by Indonesian military personnel in Beoga, Puncak Regency -
On 13 January 2026, Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) allegedly raped a Papuan woman in the Beoga District, Puncak, Central Papua.
humanrightsmonitor.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Military ‘security operation’ in West Papua doubles as free torture & rape program.
“Nod of respect” to all
We are 28 million, we are one.
We gather under cloudless skies or scattered rain,
our cities shining beside rivers and oceans,
our towns stretching from sunrise to far horizon.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/26/w...
We gather under cloudless skies or scattered rain,
our cities shining beside rivers and oceans,
our towns stretching from sunrise to far horizon.
blakandblack.com/2026/01/26/w...
We Are 28 Million, We Are One
We are 28 million, we are one. We gather under cloudless skies or scattered rain, our cities shining beside rivers and oceans, our towns stretching from sunrise to far horizon. We have travelled here ...
blakandblack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“Nod of respect” to all