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heradescends.bsky.social
Leni
@heradescends.bsky.social
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Recently divorced from my idealism, ex public servant facing the absurdity but still willing to serve; on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung & Bunurong Boon Wurrung country

‘The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’ Plato (allegedly)🇦🇺🇬🇷✊🏽⚖️
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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · Nov 11
Look I’m not sure if I’m ready to re-engage with the world but I’m certain that I yearn to breathe free under a blue sky… with some nice kind folk
heradescends.bsky.social
Madness
lukemcgee.bsky.social Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 8h
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
Yes, very cool, some of my relatives refuse to see any pros (debt, cost blowout etc), infrastructure needed for a growing Vic, not perfect, big stuff not easy to do always contentious, it’s like being mean spirited about PM getting married, we can be positive about human achievements big & personal
filleastuta.bsky.social Filleastuta @filleastuta.bsky.social · 13h
Went for a sticky at the new Metro rail tunnel today. This is the new State Library station. Very cool
View down an escalator into a new station with people waiting on two platforms for trains. Orange rib cage beams decorate the high vaulted roof.
November 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
Learning to enjoy an extended period of failure right now in fact
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Australian taxpayers subsidise rising specialist fees as spending on Abbott-era Medicare safety net ‘explodes’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian taxpayers subsidise rising specialist fees as spending on Abbott-era Medicare safety net ‘explodes’
Exclusive: Health department data shows spending on the 2004 extended safety net has nearly tripled, from $324.9m in 2010 to $850.4m in 2024
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
heradescends.bsky.social
I have been caught just this morning smiling goofily and lingering a touch too long over the mangoes at the supermarket
mediaactive.bsky.social MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 19h
Growing up in Brisbane, we never bought mangoes. I don’t think shops sold any. But we ate them all the time in season. From local trees. And in those days, parents popped their kids in the bath to eat their #mangoes. Juice everywhere. Sweet, tangy, stringy. The best. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Fancy a sweet, juicy mango? Here's all you need to know about them
What's the difference between a big R2E2, a delicate Honey Gold, and an iconic Kensington Pride? Find out before biting into a mango this season.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
heradescends.bsky.social
Politicians invariably let you down (we let them down too hello apathy, ignorance & purity) but we need some Oz Mamdani energy, daughter of retired migrant small business owner, my Dad still gets stopped in shopping centres by old customers, small business is the lifeblood & character of communities
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.

Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
heradescends.bsky.social
Here’s an image for our times and Sunday mornings… I’ve also managed to like enough cat and dog posts to influence my feed such that I have many delightful pet posts interspersing the doom thank you cat and dog owners you are also doing the lords work
pattonoswalt.bsky.social Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 1d
“Part. Of. A. Team.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
heradescends.bsky.social
Laws, what are they good for…
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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mleroi.bsky.social
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November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Expert commentary on the new BBC Civilisations series - together with further reading!
theconversation.com/does-bbc-civ...
Does BBC Civilisations get its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in
The new series attempts to chart the fall of four major empires but doesn’t always get it right.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
So how’s the sham peace going you cowardly world leaders, atrocities against Palestinians continue, incursions into Syria escalate, Israeli-US bombs fall in Lebanon again, more sham peace to be forced in Ukraine & fake War on Drugs in Venezuela aka Nicaraguan Iraq 2.0, no condemnation of the US yet?
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social
Just beautiful 🥰💖
Congratulations! 🥂 💖
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
Feel dirty (& naive) just reading this, so many dead, sovereignty & independence of Ukraine & Europe being sacrificed on the alter of ‘business peace’ not real peace or ethical business, rather for the greed of the most corrupt US-Russo oligarchs, imperial frenemies uniting against humans and earth
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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theklaxon.bsky.social
🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.

Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...

theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal “threatening Australia’s freedoms and democracy”, Jewish groups warn - The Klaxon
A group of Jewish organisations has labelled Envoy Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report" an attack on Australia's “democracy” and “freedoms”, and say it must be rejected.
theklaxon.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
heradescends.bsky.social
Seriously, America is a rogue country unable to save itself while its demise blazes in a corruption conflagration that is igniting fires world wide, would some sane perhaps legally qualified world leaders like to do their jobs & band together to condemn this latest lawlessness given what it signals
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was charged, tried and convicted on drug trafficking charges, and who is currently serving a 45-year sentence in a US prison. Why? Probably because he gave Trump a taste of the action.
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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euwatch.live
At least 90 dead as floods and landslides hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island
Video. At least 90 dead as floods and landslides hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island
Video. Severe floods and landslides in West Sumatra have left at least 90 people dead, displaced hundreds of families, and caused widespread damage across multiple villages.
www.euronews.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
I think I want a Brendabot for Christmas stoically voiced by Cate Blanchett for disillusioned adults ‘I know all sense of truth, reality & justice has been shattered, you feel adrift, angry at the world but its always been like this, let’s go for a walk, let’s feel some grass beneath your feet’
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
This is racist evil stuff that can’t just be ignored as crazy Trump, he helms a nuclear power ‘leading’ the world because our elected leaders are blindly allied to this rotten bullying regime, any reference to shared values with a leader who is kidnapping, killing and bribing must be challenged
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d
Trump Truth Social:

“A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation…I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries [and] end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country…”
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being "Politically Correct," and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration. The official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels. They and their children are supported through massive payments from Patriotic American Citizens who, because of their beautiful hearts, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape, or form. They put up with what has happened to our Country, but it's eating them alive to do so! A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War Il (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for "prey" as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst "Congressman/woman" in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how "badly" she is treated, wh… Donald J. Trump @reaDonald Trump ..Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many. I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden's Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization. These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won't be here for long!
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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quentindempster.bsky.social
Ed Husic MP, quoted in Niki Savva’s book, urges Albo/ALP caucus to take on harder issues: perverse gas exports; gambling addiction ads; negative gearing distortions; ALP credibility undermined by MPs owning 5-10 homes; tax breaks for new investment start-ups ✅👍 James Massola SMH/Age 👇
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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australia.theguardian.com
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast
Former 7.30 host takes Labor government to task for record on press freedom and pays tribute to Palestinian journalists. Plus: a roo in the news * Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here The former ABC broadcaster Kerry O’Brien got a standing ovation at the 70th Walkley awards on Thursday night for a rousing speech that reminded media in the ICC Sydney ballroom of the “clear and present danger for a strong, free, effective and independent media everywhere”. The winner of six Walkley awards, including the Gold, called on the industry to unite to strengthen press freedom. He began by paying tribute to Palestinian journalists who have “confronted the world with powerful evidence that has gradually taken on the look and feel of genocide in real time” and decried the “outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“I find it mind boggling . . . the fact that [Australia is] giving away these natural resources”. – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Explore how other leading thinkers are finding the courage we all need. Preorder ‘A Time for Bravery’ today: australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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johnmenadue.com
Psychologists warn that unchecked fear and paranoia can turn power dangerous. But the media avoids the central question – is Donald Trump psychologically fit to command the world’s most powerful military? #USPolitics #Trump #MediaFailure #Democracy #MentalHealth #GlobalSecurity
Trump is melting down: Is this the beginning of the end?
Mental health professionals are warning that Donald Trump’s behaviour poses serious risks to democratic governance and international security – yet the media largely looks away.
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
heradescends.bsky.social
Night gathers and my scroll begins… We’re all on bloody ‘night watch’ with this lunatic American regime whether we like it or not
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d
Still incredible how a terminally stupid person can have such an influence over the world.

Denmark now has a team monitoring Trump’s crazed pronouncements throughout the night for an early morning intelligence briefing.
Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row
US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
heradescends.bsky.social
Triggered… many of my password experiences seem to be some variation on this enraging modern reality don’t get me started on Microsoft, I’m attempting to decouple, it’s not amicable
sturdyalex.bsky.social Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d
You know when Apple needs a password for a new device you type it but it goes NOPE type it again STILL NOPE so you must change it which requires your first pet's death certificate then you try the new one and it STILL doesn't work then the OLD ONE WORKS and you smash up your house? No? Just me then.
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM