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@lizardg.bsky.social
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From Yorta Yorta country, now on Ngunnawal country.

World News, Ukraine 🇺🇦, #auspol 🇦🇺. Mostly re-posts.
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lizardg.bsky.social
Noize MC in Sydney 🤟❤️
Photo from audience of a man on stage with guitar and electronics, in front of the words "NOIЗE MC" on the stage backdrop.
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
This, from someone who decided to spell her name with an 'SS' for totally "punk" reasons

#auspol
Headline from the Australian edition of The Guardian: Australia politics live: Ley criticises PM for 'profound failure of judgment' over wearing Joy Division T-shirt
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
This is such a cool fact about fairy wrens. Nature is incredible.

From this Guardian article on birdsong: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Female fairywrens sing to their eggs: Songbirds start to learn their parents' songs and calls while they are still in the egg. Female fairywrens will sing to their eggs to teach a specific call that the young produce once they hatch. The reason for teaching a specific call is to help protect the brood from cuckoos. As cuckoo eggs are generally incubated for a short time before they hatch, the embryo doesn't have time to learn the call. In this way, the female teaches her young a password that helps identify them in a dome-shaped nest with poor visibility.
September 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Oh, is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Headline from The Guardian Australia's live news feed: Coalition says 'Australia at odds with US' after Albanese announces plans to recognise Palestinian statehood in September
August 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Added ALT Text:
The couple adopted and raised a foster boy, Daler Bobiev. In June 2023, Naumova reported the 6-year-old child missing, stating that the boy had mental illnesses and could have simply run away from home without realizing it. Hundreds of Yekaterinburg residents searched for Daler for three days. The child's body was found on the morning of June 29 in a bag in a garage near the guardians' home. According to the investigation, Veronika Naumova, experiencing personal hostility towards her adopted son and hatred due to his nationality, tortured him and committed other violent acts using torture. The boy's death could have occurred in December 2022 - Naumova allegedly drowned him in the bathtub. Then, for another six months, the woman illegally received social benefits for the murdered adopted child.
July 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Worthy of @thelouvreof.bsky.social ?
Screenshot of a comment thread on Bluesky: Bluesky account of Tim Onion: It's giving people with mental illnesses unbelievably serious problems. Kash's story in NYT was great, but that's the tip of the iceberg. Seeing it everywhere. It's a seriously pernicious thing and I think it's retroactively explaining a lot of executive misbehavior. Response from Bluesky account called reality check: Did Al write that? Either way, impressive use of high-level vocabulary to deny the usefulness of Al! Response by Tim Onion: Serious question, which words were hard for you there? Response by reality check: Nothing hard, but "pernicious" really sounded like Al. Maybe you wrote it yourself But my first guess was you didn't.
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
...but I doubt Noem is that interested in the details (2/2)
According to the report, Fema and the Red Cross failed to adequately adapt their practices to local conditions or approach fire survivors through a culturally sensitive lens, in part because they rolled out a "one-size-fits all'" recovery package without adequately consulting local experts. Immigrant women and other limited English speakers felt particularly isolated and unsafe in emergency shelters, with some sleeping with their children in vehicles - or engaging in "survival sex" for a safer place to stay, according to the new report by Tagnawa, a Filipino feminist disaster response organization in Hawaii, shared exclusively with the Guardian
July 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
They're still backflipping!
#auspol
Screengrab of Gurdian Australia News Live headline that says: Sussan Ley backflips on 'flippant' claim she added extra 's' for numerology reasons and now says it was a 'punk' move
June 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Somehow, not satire

#auspol
Screengrab from The Guardian Australia's Politics Live Thread. Headline: Ruston asked AI why Liberals lost - and 'no clear theme' emerged. Paragraph: After the disastrous 2025 election result for the Coalition, Ruston says she asked an "off the shelf" large-language model, commonly referred to as AI, what people thought about the party and the election results, and that the result returned "no clear theme"
May 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Awww, just noticed that the Portuguese guys joined in Ukraine's qualification celebration!

#eurovision #ESC2025
May 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
Wow, did the BBC really have to rub it in as well?

#auspol
Screengrab of headline on BBC News online: "Trump has 'no idea' who Australian election loses Peter Dutton is"
May 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
ANTONY'S AT #1!

And Dickson is #2, wonder why? 🤔😂

#auspol #ausvotes #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
ANTONY is the third most trending word on BlueSky, according to @nowbreezing.ntw.app
😆

#auspol #ausvotes #binnight
May 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
If I remember correctly, this is the post you were commenting on...
Bluesky post by Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis.bsky.social): I've repeatedly stood up for trans. I don't expect any thanks. It's called solidarity. But a wee bit of advice. You don't demand solidarity. It's not how it works. It's freely given or it isn't.
April 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Is the Liberal candidate for Canberra actually two kids in a suit?

#auspol
The campaign portrait of Will Roche, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Canberra, could be a shot from school photo day The signature of Will Roche, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Canberra, is his first name written in large, unjoined print in thick texta
April 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Not even the Libs are convinced this is the end of it, LOL:
Screenshot of excerpt from The Age article, which says: Labor has more resources assigned to research Coalition candidates, the source said. "Labor's dirt unit is better than ours, they will f--- us on Friday when all the [candidate] nominations will be shut," the source said.
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Those protestors in Vermont were on to him
Vermont protestor holding a "VANCE SKIS IN JEANS" sign Another Vermont protestor holding another "VANCE SKIS IN JEANS" sign A third Vermont protestor holding a third "VANCE SKIS IN JEANS" sign
March 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Handwritten notes detailing Tesla pricing held by Donald Trump
March 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
LOL, just noticed the bio notes on the Eurovision Song Contest account. Douze points.
Screenshot of the bio on the official Eurovision bluesky account, which says: 'Eurovision' is actually the name of the pan-European telecommunications network and not the monster
March 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
A missile struck Odesa last night, in part of the city I remember from my visit in 2019. Went through my photos and found the first one, of the same sculpture you can see partially destroyed in the photo after the bombing.

Feels strange to know I once stood there, with no inkling of the coming war
February 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
lizardg.bsky.social
Turkmenistan makes it an offence to deface or disrespect any image of the dictator or his son - with absurd and diabolical repercussions for a population already living on eggshells.
eurasianet.org/turkmenistan...
Screenshot of article paragraph that says: "We are afraid to let children touch newspapers at home. If a child accidentally tears or throws away a photo of the president, it could cost us our job," the RFE/RL report quoted a Turkmen bureaucrat as saying, who naturally requested anonymity to avoid retribution.
January 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
Trump is emboldening existing oppressive dictatorships to get even worse. Countries like Kazakhstan used to at least make a pretence of democratic aspirations to maintain US relations, but even that bare minimum is no longer necessary.

eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-a...
Excerpt from linked article that says: Adil Jalilov, founder of a watchdog media project, Factcheck.kz, suggested the timing ofYensebek's detention could be connected to the return to the White House of Donald Trump. Kazakh officials may have acted out of a belief that the new Trump administration would not complain about what is widely viewed as action to suppress free speech.
January 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
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Things not looking up for Tajikistan, already one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships.
Excerpt of text from the reposted article that says: Reports that he has shot at least two individuals for displeasing him, including an uncle of his in 2008, have helped feed perceptions that he is unsuited to lead the country
January 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
Oh no, he'd never go that high! He needs to maintain his credibility!

www.theguardian.com/world/2010/d...
Excerpt from Guardian article says: Lukashenko claimed in private to have scored even higher than 86% in 2006. " [He] repeated earlier claims that in the 2006 elections he actually received 93% of the vote, but reduced the final tally to 86% to make the vote more credible to the west," another secret cable said.
January 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
lizardg.bsky.social
Incredible detail regarding Chechen air traffic control when the Azerbaijan civilian airliner was shot
Screenshot of article text saying: The controller in charge of directing the airliner was a former soccer player for Ramzan Kadyrov's favourite club raising questions about his experience.
January 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM