Nick
@knockaboutwok.bsky.social
Small house, big dogs, bigger garden, tiny livestock.
RNing 30+ years. Paeds/adults/aged care/pal care/rural/med/surg/HDU/OR/union rep/thug since '88. Humanist
Greyhounds Molly and Dipper.
Rainbow hounds Sooty, Monty and Brutus.
Subtropical Australia
RNing 30+ years. Paeds/adults/aged care/pal care/rural/med/surg/HDU/OR/union rep/thug since '88. Humanist
Greyhounds Molly and Dipper.
Rainbow hounds Sooty, Monty and Brutus.
Subtropical Australia
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's a small thing but when there's a dead rat in your shed and you can immediately find it, well..... it beats looking for days for it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It's a small thing but when there's a dead rat in your shed and you can immediately find it, well..... it beats looking for days for it.
The wall.
It does nothing.
It does nothing.
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The wall.
It does nothing.
It does nothing.
Another day, another round of saturation coverage of an opposition partys internal struggle over a policy they'll never get to implement.
At least #ABCNews is pointing out some of the holes in the policy.
Anyway, what's the government doing atm?
At least #ABCNews is pointing out some of the holes in the policy.
Anyway, what's the government doing atm?
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Another day, another round of saturation coverage of an opposition partys internal struggle over a policy they'll never get to implement.
At least #ABCNews is pointing out some of the holes in the policy.
Anyway, what's the government doing atm?
At least #ABCNews is pointing out some of the holes in the policy.
Anyway, what's the government doing atm?
I'd just like to recognise that this report didn't use "Firebrand" once.
Well done, #ABCNews, see you can do it.
Well done, #ABCNews, see you can do it.
Nampijinpa Price asks supporters for $125k in pre-Christmas fundraiser: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-12/jacinta-nampijinpa-price-family-community-nation-fundraiser/105997648
Nampijinpa Price asks supporters for $125k in pre-Christmas fundraiser
Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is asking supporters to dig deep ahead of the festive season and help bankroll a $125,000 campaign slush fund three years out from the 2028 federal election.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'd just like to recognise that this report didn't use "Firebrand" once.
Well done, #ABCNews, see you can do it.
Well done, #ABCNews, see you can do it.
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NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Police authorisation of Sydney neo-Nazi demonstration sparks calls for protest law review
A neo-Nazi protest received NSW Police authorisation to go ahead outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning.
www.sbs.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Watching financial markets right now and I'm getting flashbacks to the run up to the GFC.
Everyone knew it was coming but thought they could grab a seat before the music stopped.
"This time. This time it's *different*"
🍿
#finance
Everyone knew it was coming but thought they could grab a seat before the music stopped.
"This time. This time it's *different*"
🍿
#finance
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Watching financial markets right now and I'm getting flashbacks to the run up to the GFC.
Everyone knew it was coming but thought they could grab a seat before the music stopped.
"This time. This time it's *different*"
🍿
#finance
Everyone knew it was coming but thought they could grab a seat before the music stopped.
"This time. This time it's *different*"
🍿
#finance
All this rain here in the #subtropics and kaboom, my suburban garden #coffee trees are blooming.
Look like jasmine flowers, no real aroma and only last a couple of days.
#gardening
Look like jasmine flowers, no real aroma and only last a couple of days.
#gardening
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
All this rain here in the #subtropics and kaboom, my suburban garden #coffee trees are blooming.
Look like jasmine flowers, no real aroma and only last a couple of days.
#gardening
Look like jasmine flowers, no real aroma and only last a couple of days.
#gardening
1. Take all these reports seriously and investigate.
2. But if there's follow up news, please report the outcomes, as Dr Weatherburn suggested (back in 2009).
I'll repeat, take all these reports seriously and investigate, in case anyone missed point 1.
#WhiteVan
2. But if there's follow up news, please report the outcomes, as Dr Weatherburn suggested (back in 2009).
I'll repeat, take all these reports seriously and investigate, in case anyone missed point 1.
#WhiteVan
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I once read the book of "Successful US Foreign Interventions post WW2" .
It was a, ah... short read.
It was a, ah... short read.
These two morons have us gearing up for war in Nigeria and Venezuela after previous strikes on Yemen and Iran and intervention in Gaza, we are beginning nuclear testing for the first time in 33 years, and all this comes after threatening Greenland, Panama and Canada.
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I once read the book of "Successful US Foreign Interventions post WW2" .
It was a, ah... short read.
It was a, ah... short read.
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Last gasp funnies
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Last gasp funnies
The possibility that a German led European democratic alliance might one day fight a two front war against a fascist USA and Russia.
That'd be a quick historical turn around.
That'd be a quick historical turn around.
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The possibility that a German led European democratic alliance might one day fight a two front war against a fascist USA and Russia.
That'd be a quick historical turn around.
That'd be a quick historical turn around.
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reposted by Nick
No media about this?
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
No media about this?
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
Tickety tock.
Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Tickety tock.
Two crucial Florida coral species left ‘functionally extinct’ by ocean heatwave
Two crucial Florida coral species left ‘functionally extinct’ by ocean heatwave
Climate crisis drives near-total collapse of staghorn and elkhorn corals that formed backbone to state’s reefs
buff.ly
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Nick
You can read more about that, and other things that would make Australia more liveable, here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/five-pr...
Five priorities for the next parliament if we want a liveable Australia
Climate and nature crises won’t pause while politics plays out.
australiainstitute.org.au
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
You can read more about that, and other things that would make Australia more liveable, here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/five-pr...