@easilypleased.bsky.social
Dance, cooking, friends, a better future world: these are a few of my favourite things. Living in Canberra, Australia, which is mostly good.
#Tango enthusiast - music & dance.
#ContemporaryDance enthusiast
I have too many BBQs apparently.
#Tango enthusiast - music & dance.
#ContemporaryDance enthusiast
I have too many BBQs apparently.
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This was so much fun to do – to be honest, I think Herring Jnr should do more of the interviewing work
RHLSTP Book Club with my son's favourite comedian (I love him too) Olaf Falafel shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... talking about A Poo On A Pogo Stick!
The joke book is bang on. Buy it here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-po...
The joke book is bang on. Buy it here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-po...
RHLSTP Book Club 152 - Olaf Falafel | RHLSTP with Richard Herring
A Poo On A Pogo Stick
shows.acast.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This was so much fun to do – to be honest, I think Herring Jnr should do more of the interviewing work
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No-one was MAKING staff go to this session. If anyone felt unsafe hearing about children’s health during war, they could have just …. chosen not to attend.
It was obviously cancelled to ensure NO-ONE would talk about it.
It was obviously cancelled to ensure NO-ONE would talk about it.
Again and again: free speech silenced at the behest of an organised pro-Israel lobby group by weak-kneed management.
If people don’t stand up to this pressure there won’t be a single institution left in which anyone can talk about the genocide in Gaza.
If people don’t stand up to this pressure there won’t be a single institution left in which anyone can talk about the genocide in Gaza.
Complaint letter emerges after Melbourne hospital’s decision to cancel ‘children and war’ panel angers staff
Exclusive: Letter to CEO argued event would pose a risk of ‘moral injury, vicarious trauma and harmful workplace behaviours’ to staff and patients
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
No-one was MAKING staff go to this session. If anyone felt unsafe hearing about children’s health during war, they could have just …. chosen not to attend.
It was obviously cancelled to ensure NO-ONE would talk about it.
It was obviously cancelled to ensure NO-ONE would talk about it.
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If Israeli foreign influence operations masquerading around as community groups in Australia don't like one of the world's leading children's hospitals discussing the death of children in war, then perhaps Israel should stop killing so many of them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Hospital's children in war event cancelled amid safety fears
Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital says a symposium on the effect of war on children has been cancelled due to safety fears, but some doctors say pressure from a group opposing antisemitism is to b...
www.abc.net.au
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If Israeli foreign influence operations masquerading around as community groups in Australia don't like one of the world's leading children's hospitals discussing the death of children in war, then perhaps Israel should stop killing so many of them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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You all laughed when I said authoritarian regimes would restrict / ban oral contraceptives as a response to the global fertility crash.
Was thinking China, but the US now has a similar regime.
Was thinking China, but the US now has a similar regime.
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
You all laughed when I said authoritarian regimes would restrict / ban oral contraceptives as a response to the global fertility crash.
Was thinking China, but the US now has a similar regime.
Was thinking China, but the US now has a similar regime.
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A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
September 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
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Fuck me rigid. I’m 80, 21 years service as a Magistrate, 43 as a teacher, passed the driving test 61 years ago and no points on licence, zero criminal record. It seems now that I’m a terrorist for supporting Palestine and making my opinion known. This is England. Mother of Free Speech.
July 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Fuck me rigid. I’m 80, 21 years service as a Magistrate, 43 as a teacher, passed the driving test 61 years ago and no points on licence, zero criminal record. It seems now that I’m a terrorist for supporting Palestine and making my opinion known. This is England. Mother of Free Speech.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
“Conspiratorialists have the right feeling, but the wrong facts.
…you should be furious about the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have "absolute immunity" [not] imaginary "cultural Marxists" at universities”
Cory Doctorow, Project 2025.
pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/w...
…you should be furious about the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have "absolute immunity" [not] imaginary "cultural Marxists" at universities”
Cory Doctorow, Project 2025.
pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/w...
Pluralistic: MAGA crackup (18 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
July 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Conspiratorialists have the right feeling, but the wrong facts.
…you should be furious about the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have "absolute immunity" [not] imaginary "cultural Marxists" at universities”
Cory Doctorow, Project 2025.
pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/w...
…you should be furious about the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have "absolute immunity" [not] imaginary "cultural Marxists" at universities”
Cory Doctorow, Project 2025.
pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/w...
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Piss off Zionist lobby. Australia has a Human Rights Commission, adequate law to deal with racial violence. We don't need you to control our opinions, universities, cultural bodies, media, schools. We are a secular multicultural democracy.
Read this
It has all the information required to combat the “report” by Segal and demand her sacking
(RW attempt to fool us
Zionist aim for total control of us)
It has all the information required to combat the “report” by Segal and demand her sacking
(RW attempt to fool us
Zionist aim for total control of us)
How a right-wing lobby group’s 15-point plan became government policy on antisemitism.
READ: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
READ: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
July 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Piss off Zionist lobby. Australia has a Human Rights Commission, adequate law to deal with racial violence. We don't need you to control our opinions, universities, cultural bodies, media, schools. We are a secular multicultural democracy.
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1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
July 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
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Apparently we had to have a referendum for ‘The Voice’, where Indigenous Australian’s endured months of racist shit, but zionists just get appointed a voice, and we have to endure threats to cut government funding to Uni’s and the ABC 🤷♂️
#auspol
#auspol
July 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Apparently we had to have a referendum for ‘The Voice’, where Indigenous Australian’s endured months of racist shit, but zionists just get appointed a voice, and we have to endure threats to cut government funding to Uni’s and the ABC 🤷♂️
#auspol
#auspol
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NEWSFLASH - "FUEL and power subsidies, poor planning and political inaction have slowed Australia’s drive to cut its greenhouse emissions, a government advisory panel has warned."
Oops, sorry, that was 29 years ago today.
Oops, sorry, that was 29 years ago today.
July 8, 1996 – National Greenhouse Advisory Panel tells the truth…
allouryesterdays.info/2025/07/07/j...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/07/07/j...
July 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NEWSFLASH - "FUEL and power subsidies, poor planning and political inaction have slowed Australia’s drive to cut its greenhouse emissions, a government advisory panel has warned."
Oops, sorry, that was 29 years ago today.
Oops, sorry, that was 29 years ago today.
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Exclusive: The chief executive of the NDIA directed her most senior executives to revoke the access of a disabled participant after their advocacy work was slammed as a “rorting” risk on conservative talkback radio. | Rick Morton http://satpa.pe/3iRadVp
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme
Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.
satpa.pe
July 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Exclusive: The chief executive of the NDIA directed her most senior executives to revoke the access of a disabled participant after their advocacy work was slammed as a “rorting” risk on conservative talkback radio. | Rick Morton http://satpa.pe/3iRadVp
‘So the real question is not, “Who decides what’s true?”
The real question is: do we still have the ability to decide anything together at all?" ’
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/m...
The real question is: do we still have the ability to decide anything together at all?" ’
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/m...
Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown 'Radically Understates' the Scale of the Threat
Entire communities are now becoming locked into dangerous belief systems that are almost impossible to challenge, argues Eliot Higgins
bylinetimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
‘So the real question is not, “Who decides what’s true?”
The real question is: do we still have the ability to decide anything together at all?" ’
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/m...
The real question is: do we still have the ability to decide anything together at all?" ’
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/m...
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As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’
Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.
Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.
June 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’
Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.
Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.
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The ABC spent millions defending this Lattouf case. The Creative Australia chair resigned. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had its worst financial result in a long time. The SLV and SLQ are still dealing with the fallout from their cowardice.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The ABC spent millions defending this Lattouf case. The Creative Australia chair resigned. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had its worst financial result in a long time. The SLV and SLQ are still dealing with the fallout from their cowardice.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
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I hope the Lattouf decision gives other board members decision makers around the country serious pause in the future.
Political opinions are still legal in this country. Facts and criticism about horrific human rights violations should be supported, not punished.
Political opinions are still legal in this country. Facts and criticism about horrific human rights violations should be supported, not punished.
June 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I hope the Lattouf decision gives other board members decision makers around the country serious pause in the future.
Political opinions are still legal in this country. Facts and criticism about horrific human rights violations should be supported, not punished.
Political opinions are still legal in this country. Facts and criticism about horrific human rights violations should be supported, not punished.
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It really is difficult these days to figure out who Trump is at war with today 🤷🏻♂️
June 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It really is difficult these days to figure out who Trump is at war with today 🤷🏻♂️
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One of his best.
June 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
One of his best.
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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
June 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
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I feel frightened - & grateful to be in this corner of the world
Relieved we don’t have a Dutton Govt - frustrated & bewildered at Labor
Thinking about Germany 1930s - how & why that all happened is sadly clearer
Why doesn’t anyone stop them? Never forget the enablers #auspol
Relieved we don’t have a Dutton Govt - frustrated & bewildered at Labor
Thinking about Germany 1930s - how & why that all happened is sadly clearer
Why doesn’t anyone stop them? Never forget the enablers #auspol
June 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I feel frightened - & grateful to be in this corner of the world
Relieved we don’t have a Dutton Govt - frustrated & bewildered at Labor
Thinking about Germany 1930s - how & why that all happened is sadly clearer
Why doesn’t anyone stop them? Never forget the enablers #auspol
Relieved we don’t have a Dutton Govt - frustrated & bewildered at Labor
Thinking about Germany 1930s - how & why that all happened is sadly clearer
Why doesn’t anyone stop them? Never forget the enablers #auspol
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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
June 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
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Another story in the Guardian that should have been in an American paper ….
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Another story in the Guardian that should have been in an American paper ….
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...