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VacuousNess
@vacuousness.bsky.social
Escapee from the now 🏴‍☠️🦅

Free Speech is never 'free'. It aways comes with responsibility and consequences.

#Auspol Addict.
Pinned
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again

Charles de Gaulle was right about the USA. 80yrs late but Australia needs to do the same

Australia MUST dump #Aukus and NOW buy combination of Swedish and those French subs, whilst establishing and building capacity to build subs etc in Australia

#auspol
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown how you deal with bullies.

Australia now urgently needs leaders who can plan for a world in which America is not an ally but a threat.

And the first step is ditching AUKUS.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/03/z...
Our politicians are deer in the headlights of history. But Zelenskyy showed how to lead
Zelenskyy has ensured world leaders have nowhere to hide from Trump's threat to Western countries. Australia's leaders can't respond.
www.crikey.com.au
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The Beagles
Ruin a band by changing one letter.
Australian Drawl
January 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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If there really was an "open borders experiment", then by definition there was not any "illegal immigration" mate
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”

Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." - @darakerr.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

“Dr Reid said the facts remained that the world was getting warmer, & our most severe rainfall events were becoming worse.
Conrad Wasko said communities were already bearing the brunt of this.
"To be honest, it sits quite heavily with me because people are impacted,"
As the world warms, extreme rain events are coming hard and fast
When it comes to extreme rainfall, it is hard for climate scientists to say what's natural and what's caused by climate change, but they do know the most extreme events are dropping more rain, more of...
www.abc.net.au
January 16, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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January 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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The American military/intelligence use Pine Gap for spying on everyone, which probably includes us and why there are parts of Pine Gap that Australia's personnel are barred from.
January 12, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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Solidarity, Cathy. Fascists with a victim complex are unpleasant to begin with, but when given impunity by our leaders (and newspapers editors), they're unbearable. Take solace that they're coming for you because you're excellent at speaking truth.
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Just saw this. What utter bullshit. The Israel lobby are devoted to destroying the livelihoods of anyone who does not share their love of genocide.

The SMH is a rag.

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Wilcox cartoon was divisive – and we apologise for the hurt it has caused
Although there is no place in this country for hate speech, there must be room for people to express their views on politics and world events.
www.smh.com.au
January 11, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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UN says 3.5 million Afghan children are malnourished, at least 1.7 million at risk of death. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
The ABC was allowed in to Afghanistan. This is what we saw
Four years after the Taliban's return to power, security is no longer the defining issue in Afghanistan. Instead, one of the world's worst humanitarian crises is exacerbated by a series of overlapping...
www.abc.net.au
January 11, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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6 years ago today Scott Morrison tried to show that he was in charge of the bushfires.
January 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Advance, One Nation, the LNP, Newscorp, Nine and Seven media. All dependent on money and kowtowing to threats from well known sources who have lied to the world since the creation of Israel in 1948.
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.
January 11, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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What on Earth is there even left to talk about ? It's a CSAM site.
January 11, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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The fabulous @instanterudite.bsky.social on RN Breakfast this morning. On Adelaide Writers Week. Good to hear.
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Remember all that ‘debate’ we had in Australia about section 18C. About cartoons and offensive speech and such. Anyone here old enough to remember that and who was involved in it
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Palantir should be declared a risk to National Security in Australia. Its potential for foreign interference is terrifying.

Any idiot can see how dangerous it is.

The #USA is no friend to Australia, nor Australia.

Time to rethink where we shop.
Never Coles
Coles has just hired US defence contractor Palantir - the company that was cofounded by JD Vance’s friend Peter Thiel.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
January 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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"We need a society that once more values its dreamers and visionaries, those who uncomfortably go against the grain of what and who we are, exploring our nightmares so we might better know ourselves and create new dreams that reveal other ways of being."

#AusPol
"Not so much underfunded and undervalued as unsupported and despised, our future artists are the key to building the social fibre that will sustain a healthy, resilient and successful Australia."
‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised
We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
#auspol
@JoshFrydenberg was also the treasurer at time of Banking Royal Commission. An absolute farce because he and Morrison’s LNP govt nobbled the terms of reference and duration

Fines to banks were pathetic. Prosecutions? Jail time?

What a phuking insult to every person and business the broke
Just your daily reminder that @JoshFrydenberg was the treasurer (and scomo’s bff) who left Australia with a trillion dollars of debt and nothing to show for it.
January 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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“Newly released cabinet papers, prepared by the federal public service and experts at the Bureau of Meteorology, were largely ignored by the Howard government.”

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Confidential advice undercooked climate change to Howard government
Cabinet briefings in 2005 warned of climate change, but did not anticipate the scale and severity of the impacts now playing out.
www.smh.com.au
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
#auspol Australia
🇦🇺, 🇬🇧 , 🇳🇿, 🇨🇦 etc need to do the same
Indonesia has become the first country to block Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, due to the risk of pornographic content. The communications & digital minister views “non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights” and summoned X officials to discuss it
Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content
Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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I’m sure it’s obvious to most-
January 11, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.
January 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM