Brian K Lynch
@bebop49.bsky.social
Grouchy ex-Applied Linguist who would still like to help change the world (yeah, he's a commie anarchist hippie)...
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If Australia’s offshore processing regime is as uncontroversial as the government insists, why is nobody allowed to see it, to interrogate it? Why should we not know the translation of the interview held by the government?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new
From Scott Morrison’s ‘on-water matters’ to the Albanese government’s MOU with Nauru, successive governments’ attitude to legitimate scrutiny has been one of hostility
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If Australia’s offshore processing regime is as uncontroversial as the government insists, why is nobody allowed to see it, to interrogate it? Why should we not know the translation of the interview held by the government?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Continued trauma! Shocking decision.
Afghanistan women’s refugee players refused visas for first tournament in UAE #Guardian #Afghanistan
Afghanistan women’s refugee players refused visas for first tournament in UAE
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Players went to airports but told not to travel
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Many said to have felt retraumatised by experience
The United Arab Emirates rejected visa applications for members of the Afghanistan women’s refugee squad who were due to travel there for the team’s first matches. Players went to airports, but were told not to board flights and many are said to have felt retraumatised by the experience.
Afghanistan had been due to play in the UAE against Chad and Libya in the Fifa Unites: Women’s Series, with games running from Thursday to Wednesday. The 23 players selected via talent identification camps for the team, Afghan Women United, were due to fly to Dubai on 11 October for a training camp. Continue reading...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Continued trauma! Shocking decision.
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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Wow! @madelinemiller.bsky.social has 2 books in Australia’s #top100books of the 21st century - as voted by #ABCRadioNational listeners. And we’re only up to number 45. The count will continue tomorrow.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Wow! @madelinemiller.bsky.social has 2 books in Australia’s #top100books of the 21st century - as voted by #ABCRadioNational listeners. And we’re only up to number 45. The count will continue tomorrow.
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No kings Americans!!!
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
No kings Americans!!!
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest
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Thank you Australia ‼️‼️🫶
October 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thank you Australia ‼️‼️🫶
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Bessent isn't doing the administrations any favors with his messaging. He reportedly said the new $20b was at least partially private funds. Maybe all? How does that work? Are taxpayers taking risks here?
No clue! I've asked a bunch, and gotten nothing. Don't think others know either.
No clue! I've asked a bunch, and gotten nothing. Don't think others know either.
Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"
October 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Bessent isn't doing the administrations any favors with his messaging. He reportedly said the new $20b was at least partially private funds. Maybe all? How does that work? Are taxpayers taking risks here?
No clue! I've asked a bunch, and gotten nothing. Don't think others know either.
No clue! I've asked a bunch, and gotten nothing. Don't think others know either.
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Multicultural communities back Treaty for Victoria
With the legislation for Australia’s first Treaty debated this week in the Vict Parliament, we call on all politicians to support this historic step towards justice & Self-Determination for First Peoples.
asrc.org.au/2025/10/13/m...
With the legislation for Australia’s first Treaty debated this week in the Vict Parliament, we call on all politicians to support this historic step towards justice & Self-Determination for First Peoples.
asrc.org.au/2025/10/13/m...
Media release: Multicultural communities back Treaty for Victoria
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), along with over 45 other multicultural organisations including Democracy in Colour, IndianCare, Centre for Multicultural Youth, Settlement Council of Australi...
asrc.org.au
October 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Multicultural communities back Treaty for Victoria
With the legislation for Australia’s first Treaty debated this week in the Vict Parliament, we call on all politicians to support this historic step towards justice & Self-Determination for First Peoples.
asrc.org.au/2025/10/13/m...
With the legislation for Australia’s first Treaty debated this week in the Vict Parliament, we call on all politicians to support this historic step towards justice & Self-Determination for First Peoples.
asrc.org.au/2025/10/13/m...
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A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/EeDwtaaJSN1YfL
Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!
Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy
getup.to
October 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/EeDwtaaJSN1YfL
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Jane Goodall
3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025
Rest in Nature
Some of the fantastic photos I’ve seen posted of her in the past few hours, put together in a small slideshow…
#EastCoastKin
3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025
Rest in Nature
Some of the fantastic photos I’ve seen posted of her in the past few hours, put together in a small slideshow…
#EastCoastKin
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Jane Goodall
3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025
Rest in Nature
Some of the fantastic photos I’ve seen posted of her in the past few hours, put together in a small slideshow…
#EastCoastKin
3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025
Rest in Nature
Some of the fantastic photos I’ve seen posted of her in the past few hours, put together in a small slideshow…
#EastCoastKin
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“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
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My calls and emails to family in Afghanistan go unanswered. The Taliban’s internet shutdown has left us all helpless
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My calls and emails to family in Afghanistan go unanswered. The Taliban’s internet shutdown has left us all helpless | Shadi Khan Saif
From the safety of Australia, I watch in despair as my loved ones in Kabul navigate this digital darkness – a calculated effort to silence dissent
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My calls and emails to family in Afghanistan go unanswered. The Taliban’s internet shutdown has left us all helpless
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The staggering cost of cruelty.
''At the current rate, MTC’s contract on Nauru is worth $157m a year... If the contract does not increase further in cost before its expiry, Aust taxpayers will have paid $430,512 a day to process asylum seekers offshore''.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
''At the current rate, MTC’s contract on Nauru is worth $157m a year... If the contract does not increase further in cost before its expiry, Aust taxpayers will have paid $430,512 a day to process asylum seekers offshore''.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract
Exclusive: A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The staggering cost of cruelty.
''At the current rate, MTC’s contract on Nauru is worth $157m a year... If the contract does not increase further in cost before its expiry, Aust taxpayers will have paid $430,512 a day to process asylum seekers offshore''.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
''At the current rate, MTC’s contract on Nauru is worth $157m a year... If the contract does not increase further in cost before its expiry, Aust taxpayers will have paid $430,512 a day to process asylum seekers offshore''.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Donald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fact-check: Donald Trump’s false and misleading claims during his UN address
The US president made at least five spurious claims ranging from climate change and immigration to ending wars
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Donald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Hi @moudhy.bsky.social I have a mystery object that nobody knows about. Seems to be very old. Maybe Assyrian? Can you help identify it? The statuette is about a hand high
July 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hi @moudhy.bsky.social I have a mystery object that nobody knows about. Seems to be very old. Maybe Assyrian? Can you help identify it? The statuette is about a hand high
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How Liberty died. youtube.com/watch?v=7neO... Thanks to @adamhillscomedy.bsky.social
Last Leg American Pie Parody
YouTube video by Samuel-Wan Kenobi
youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
How Liberty died. youtube.com/watch?v=7neO... Thanks to @adamhillscomedy.bsky.social
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Today 2,000 pages of 9,000 conversations and recommendations will be delivered to the Victorian Parliament.
Exposing the harm and injustice but also paving the way for Treaty.
I walk in solidarity & call for voice, treaty and truth. And will continue to turn up.
Exposing the harm and injustice but also paving the way for Treaty.
I walk in solidarity & call for voice, treaty and truth. And will continue to turn up.
June 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today 2,000 pages of 9,000 conversations and recommendations will be delivered to the Victorian Parliament.
Exposing the harm and injustice but also paving the way for Treaty.
I walk in solidarity & call for voice, treaty and truth. And will continue to turn up.
Exposing the harm and injustice but also paving the way for Treaty.
I walk in solidarity & call for voice, treaty and truth. And will continue to turn up.
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Great to join day 22 of the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s Walk for Truth.
A powerful way to walk alongside First Peoples and celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people 🖤💛❤️
yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/walk-for-tru...
A powerful way to walk alongside First Peoples and celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people 🖤💛❤️
yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/walk-for-tru...
June 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Great to join day 22 of the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s Walk for Truth.
A powerful way to walk alongside First Peoples and celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people 🖤💛❤️
yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/walk-for-tru...
A powerful way to walk alongside First Peoples and celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people 🖤💛❤️
yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/walk-for-tru...
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Urgent action is needed, we must evacuate all people left in offshore detention to Australia.
‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea
Samad Abdul is among the last of more than 2,000 people who passed through the illegal system. Prevented from leaving PNG, he says his life is wasting away
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Urgent action is needed, we must evacuate all people left in offshore detention to Australia.
‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Fuck you Amazon. It’s MELBOURNE YOU DRONGOS!
June 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Fuck you Amazon. It’s MELBOURNE YOU DRONGOS!