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Bad things happen when good men stay silent
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I choose KazGPT every time and you should too
Years & years of research & kind, medical expert help and evidence-based checking has gone into the foundation & updating of my books while techbros just let Chat GPT extrude crap. They don't care about newborn babies, or mums or any of us. So dangerous. So dispiriting. Anyway, latest editions:
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Years & years of research & kind, medical expert help and evidence-based checking has gone into the foundation & updating of my books while techbros just let Chat GPT extrude crap. They don't care about newborn babies, or mums or any of us. So dangerous. So dispiriting. Anyway, latest editions:
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Australia’s world-first teen social media ban begins.
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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David Pope in Canberra Times
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Even more US military assets coming to Australia. More US bases. More US weapons. Celebrating a dominant foreign government sending its military into our harbours and cities and taking multiple footholds here … it’s cringeworthy, tragic and wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Annabel Crabb makes a very fair point about gender stereotypes and double standards for politicians.

But like the rest of mainstream media, she ignores the far bigger 'pub test': that the man who was once Deputy PM is on track to lead Australia's nazi-adjacent political party. #auspol
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Australia beat England in the first Test in two days, but took four days to beat them in the second Test. At this rate, Australia will soon be needing all five days to beat England.
Matthew Hamilton, Kew
The Age letters
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Winner.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Yule-ify a film title

The Bourne Nativity
Nightmare on Elf Street
Das Santa Boot
Frosty/Nixon
Pulpit Fiction
Buy Hard
Hoho Rabbit
Reindeer Hunter
Life of Mince Pie
He’s Just Not That Into Yule
Silent Night of the Living Dead
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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last bus
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There is good in our world! 😁
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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They'll have to find a new winner of the most mass murdered children award
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The weather's taken a turn for the better, and we've got a lot to celebrate from 2025! So join us for a BBQ this Wednesday afternoon - good cheer, good company, and a chance to reflect on all the amazing climate activism you made happen this year! RSVP at lighterfootprints.org/event/2025-e...
December 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Vote @communityindeps.bsky.social
Start having those kitchen table conversations with family and friends.
Why? Because we deserve better than the lib/lab duopoly.
#auspol
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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The intricate, star-shaped ceiling of the Chapter House at York Minster.
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Nearly 80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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While approving 27 new fossil fuel projects.
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Following Eurovision’s decision to let Israel compete in 2026, Spain’s RTVE aired a powerful segment: a split-screen showing Israel’s 2025 performance beside the reality of its ongoing genocide in Gaza — bombed homes, starved children, and mass killings.
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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David Pope in Canberra Times
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM