Patricia Mary

🤞 for you it passes soon.

Good news, Ian.
Very pleased for you!
Thanks for the update.

There was a time when American presidents lectured Putin and made him look small. Now, it's the other way around.

The body language alone speaks VOLUMES.

#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Morning, Ian and Kitty and Unit.
Ian, I hope you've slept well and you're feeling comfortable.

4 here
Bit of an odd word

Economists want a carbon price comeback – but does Australia have the political courage? Australia killed off its world-leading carbon price. As budget pressure mounts, economists want it back on the table.

Economists want a carbon price comeback – but does Australia have the political courage?
theconversation.com/economists-w...

"NSW Police say they were lucky the crowd was peaceful" (Guardian Aust). No. They were peaceful because this is who we are. 100,000 people trying to stop a war, not start one. Well done Sydney. #auspol #freepalestine. (Edited).

You know how AUKUS doesn’t make sense. Well it kind of does. End AUKUS.

Painful to watch, and absolutely shameful the abc has been pushing Israel's propaganda, even in the face of genocide
fucking disgusting

How in the goddamn fuck do we live in a world where nobody would need the release of the Epstein List if we just … stay with me here … believed the testimonies of the dozens of women raped and abused by the men who are on it?

#NewsCorpse
#EpsteinList

So important to have medicos you trust and can talk to. Appointment sounds really good!

Why won't anyone ask the follow up question? Trump says Epstein stole Giuffre so he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. But that wasn't until SEVEN YEARS LATER.

#auspol
So kids at age 12 are eligible to do adult time for adult crime, but are not allowed to access internet social media...
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Me thinks we are punishing children for our inadequate parenting...

"Senator WONG: As part of the global F-35 supply chain, we contribute components and parts that are non-lethal in nature. (Time expired)"

Not sure how you get to such a place in life.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ohh, @senatorwong.bsky.social. Really??? You can comfortably say this in the Senate?

I had a physical shudder response to that photo.

I love Tom Hiddleston.

A photo of Australia's taxpayer funded antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, dressed in pearls, scarf and suit sitting in a tv studio. Superimposed over her expensive jacket is the image of a starving child in Gaza taken from an Al Jezeera report on YouTube (17,000 children in Gaza severely malnourished as starvation deaths rise, 22.7.2025)

It is an obscenity that this woman sits in judgment over Australians while she defends the perpetrators of this atrocity.

Palestinians deliberately starved of food by the Israeli govt while this taxpayer funded, multi-millionaire sits in her govt office telling us what we should think about it.

I realise it's beyond the wit of routine journalism to meaningfully contextualise, but i'd have thought if you were reporting a Trump 'trade deal' it's important to mention that it's only solving a problem of his making, and is an act of unconstitutional state extortion. stop normalising this crap.

We'll never again need to speculate on what a narcissistic sociopath would do in the most far-fetched hypothetical scenarios, because all those questions have now been answered

Albanese plans to recognise Palestine but the timing is crucial The prime minister wants to recognise Palestine. The question is one of timing and how to ensure an Australian intervention has the maximum diplomatic impact.

" .. how to ensure any intervention by Australia amounts to more than a controversial, yet ultimately tokenistic, gesture."
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

The soundtrack of 1983 for me!
And now I do actually live down beside Torquay - and love it.
Razors Edge - another song I find soon sad. Davie's "please come to Byron Bay" - tears every time 😪

Looking good. Ginger?
I noticed leftover rice in the freezer this a.m. - when I
was taking out the leftover frozen spinach quiche.
Might be the rice tomorrow.

A man covered in blood, holding a blood soaked sack of floor, in front of police at the NGV

A selection of the pots and pans that have been banging through the CBD for the last few hours

Day 659. Melbourne/Naarm yet again turning up for the longest continuously running protests in the world, standing against Israel's genocide and Australian complicity

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

@albomp.bsky.social