Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2024Just a formless mass of translucent jelly on climate, until the opposition says / does something silly, and then they solidify into focusing solely and entirely on not being whatever that is. It activates the fandom and it makes critique of their actual performance shift from 0.5% to 0.0001% 3307
Reposted by GeeBeeWAChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/06/2024Gritty has issued the formal proclamation: It’s LGBTQ Pride Month. Here’s to finding yourself, your community, and all of the love and support you need to enjoy and express both — and to be able to do so safely and free from government and other interference. 181607362
Reposted by GeeBeeWAFiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 29/05/2024This is fucking terrifying and it's not even Summer. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...theguardian.comDelhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national recordAuthorities warn of water shortages with temperatures 9C higher than expected and 1.9C above previous countrywide highpoint 1125
Reposted by GeeBeeWAThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/05/2024Tragic mistake. My @smh cartoon. 01912
GeeBeeWA @geebeewa.bsky.social · 10/05/2024I am so sick of the endlessly repetitive bad news. Let’s stop calling it domestic or family violence and call it what it is, Cowardly Abuse. And let’s call the men who abuse women what they are - Bloody Cowards! 010
Reposted by GeeBeeWARobyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 05/05/2024Yippee! Great news! Dr Monique Ryan was the main driver of this. HECS indexation to be overhauled in budget with $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out'abc.net.auHECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out'Millions of Australians with student loans will have hundreds of dollars wiped from their HECS debts as the federal government rolls out its plans for cost-of-living relief in the upcoming budget. 072
Reposted by GeeBeeWABelinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 04/05/2024Imagine paying $257 to see a US man fired by Fox News and a billionaire who is literally suing Australia for $300 billion talk about how the “elite” are supposedly suppressing you 0194
Reposted by GeeBeeWAcoupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 03/05/2024#UKpol #Toryliar 021
Reposted by GeeBeeWADuchessFrida aka Deb @duchessfrida.bsky.social · 29/04/2024Rosie Batty on trolls, accidental advocacy & treating domestic violence for what it is: terrorism In her new memoir ‘Hope’, she reflects on her ‘absolute despair’ at our failure to protect women & children from gendered violence. #DV #auspol theconversation.com/stop-talking...theconversation.com‘Stop talking and start doing.’ Rosie Batty on trolls, accidental advocacy and treating domestic violence for what it is: terrorismIn her new memoir Hope, Rosie Batty reflects on her ‘absolute despair’ at our failure to protect women and children from gendered violence – and the personal toll of becoming an unlikely campaigner. 061
Reposted by GeeBeeWAcoupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 03/05/2024“We should live in a country where all men are on notice that because they’re the gender which kills, rapes, bashes and abuses women and only very rarely it’s the reverse, a credible complaint from a woman means the MAN will be removed from his home, workplace… rather than the woman…” #AusPol #DV 051
Reposted by GeeBeeWAThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/04/2024Something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that eclipses are only possible on earth because of the insanely unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us. 3557993
Reposted by GeeBeeWAThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 06/03/2024Welcome to Australia. My @smh cartoon. 24213
Reposted by GeeBeeWAnora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 05/02/2024i called my mom to tell her about the ai voice spoofing scam and she already knew about it! apparently AARP magazine has been writing up all the scams for old people so they don't get caught in them. shout out to AARP magazine 321810323
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 06/02/2024Instead of being proud of producing Nemesis our ABC should be ashamed for not reporting any of the corruption and bastardy that was so blatant for so long, until it was too late to be useful. #auspol 42911
Reposted by GeeBeeWAScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/02/2024When did working oneself to the bone, sacrificing mental and physical health, become a badge of honor? When did rest and enjoying what we collectively create become something to be guilty of? This is not sustainable. Adopting Universal Basic Income can restore balance in our toil-centric society. 46515
GeeBeeWA @geebeewa.bsky.social · 06/02/2024#WQers I’m not usually up at this hour - might have to make it a habit. Best ever results after muddling along Wordle 963 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Quordle 5 3 4 6 in 3m12s Daily Sequence Q 744 2️⃣5️⃣ 6️⃣7️⃣ 🥂 390
Reposted by GeeBeeWAEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/01/2024A front page story of the first person with congenital deafness, an 11-year old boy, to have gene therapy with successful restoration of hearing, replacing a loss-of-function mutated otoferlin gene nytimes.com/2024/01/23/h... 512250
Reposted by GeeBeeWAScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 24/01/2024Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Austin where 135 people got $1,000/mo for a year. 9% of people reported working less and 7% reported working more. Of those who worked less, half upskilled for better future jobs, and half chose unpaid care work. 26735
Reposted by GeeBeeWAWolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · 24/01/2024And link to geoscience with all the info earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga2024...earthquakes.ga.gov.auEarthquakes@GAGeoscience Australia monitors, analyses and reports on significant earthquakes to alert the Australian Government, State and Territory Governments and the public about earthquakes in Australia and ove... 011
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/01/2024....asked, hello, everybody: why the everloving fuck is a major independent energy body producing a "GAS STATEMENT OF OPPORTUNITIES" for building new fossil fuel infrastructure? Doesn't that seem criminally bonkers right now? 061
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/01/2024A neat demonstration of the nasty and corrosive both-sidesing of these issues in Aus by media: misinformation in a bunch of scare quotes and caveats ('he labelled'), except it's literally illustrated with a fake image generated by DAll-E or whatever, and it isn't labelled as such by the journalist. 02410
Reposted by GeeBeeWASTEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 18/01/2024How come we don't have these for magpies? 111
Reposted by GeeBeeWARobyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 19/01/2024Interesting read. Also, not just Teslas, another wonky headline for the day. The reasons given why EVs are crashed more by the drivers make sense. Will be a temporary situation, I suggest. Adjustment takes time. Teslas crash more than gas-powered cars. Here’s whyedition.cnn.comTeslas crash more than gas-powered cars. Here’s why | CNN BusinessHertz recently announced it was selling 20,000 electric cars out of its fleet, and replacing them with gasoline vehicles. One reason the company gave was that drivers kept crashing the cars. 021
Reposted by GeeBeeWAcoupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 18/01/2024#QldHealth #CovidAgedCareQld 021
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/01/2024It was solidly established there was no evidence that was ever said, right? 031
Reposted by GeeBeeWAVicci Ho @vicciho.com · 16/01/2024On the eve of Sundance I find myself asking -- whatever happened to the Dakota Johnson lesbian film AM I OK? that somehow disappeared since its Sundance debut in 2022? 021
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/01/2024Man, all the people who yelled at me when I said it'd be used for exactly this 😑😑😑 0599
GeeBeeWA @geebeewa.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Wordle 942 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 4 5 7 8 Daily Sequence Quordle 723 6️⃣7️⃣ 9️⃣🔟 squareword.org 716: 9 guesses 🟨🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥 #squareword716 010
Reposted by GeeBeeWADr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 15/01/2024the pressure is working. There are way more Palestinian perspectives in this article than usually “reported” by Guardian Australia. We have to keep giving them copy that can not be Ignored. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...theguardian.comAlbanese says Australia will not participate in ICJ case against Israel and instead focus on ‘poli...Prime minister suggests court cases won’t bring peace between Israel and Palestine, as Penny Wong sets off for a trip to the Middle East 0106
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/01/2024I find it so extremely disorienting and just indescribably sad that there are a LARGE number of people I know from all walks of my personal and professional life, whose position has been to loudly or quietly side with the people dropping the bombs - killing children who played no part in this war. 1257
Reposted by GeeBeeWAKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/01/2024It doesn't happen a lot, but sometimes Fucking Around curves such that it comes into immediate, direct contact with Finding Out www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01... 2131
Reposted by GeeBeeWAThe Mórrígan @themorriganhatesai.bsky.social · 15/01/2024www.wired.com/story/the-te...wired.comThe 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid KillAll pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences. 172
Reposted by GeeBeeWAIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15/01/2024These are all great suggestions. I also show this photo of NFL owner Jerry Jones to discuss how the pro-segregationists of the 50s-60s still wield power today. Since there's a lot of Cowboys fans around here, this example is pretty engaging. 1229
Reposted by GeeBeeWARobyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 13/01/2024I'm furious. 1974 it finally closed. The year I arrived here. This is in my lifetime. 🤬 In Australia's Magdalene laundries 'fallen women' worked in harsh conditions for no payabc.net.auWhy sex workers and unmarried women worked for no pay at these commercial laundriesIn the 19th century, Australia was home to Magdalene "retreats", Catholic-run institutions to reform wayward women. For some, the path to penitence was a brutal one. 42712
Reposted by GeeBeeWARobyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 13/01/2024💓💓❤️💓💓💘💓💓 New Zealand Aotearoa Jacinda Ardern marries Clarke Gayford after five-year engagementtheguardian.comJacinda Ardern marries Clarke Gayford after five-year engagementNew Zealand’s former first couple had originally planned to marry in 2022 but postponed the wedding due to Covid restrictions 3213
Reposted by GeeBeeWARobyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 12/01/2024I accept you probably have to be around my age to find this funny. 🤣🤣 371
Reposted by GeeBeeWAevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/01/2024I just saw that a friend of mine is in the ICU with Covid right now. This is the first time that someone I know has been this sick since vaccines became widely available. It is time to be very careful. 1293
Reposted by GeeBeeWAGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Great news to start this year! 517215
Reposted by GeeBeeWAGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Popular culture is quite different than MAGA culture, and there are few overlaps. What happens when MAGA finds a cultural hero they can cling to? Some fairly strange behavior, actually. Team Big Picture investigates one instance and extrapolates from it in today’s piece.thinkbigpicture.substack.comMy MAGA Congresswoman Is Obsessed with Novak Djokovic—And Now It Makes SenseTennis star Novak Djokovic has a passionate right-wing fanbase that is essentially Trump's MAGA movement...except for tennis. 88616
Reposted by GeeBeeWAMaz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Blaming what’s going on with 737 MAX on DEI - especially by mega-rich capitalists - is hilarious. It’s simpler than that. A once-great engineering organisation started prioritising short-term profits over engineering excellence. Hiring a few qualified women and POC ain’t it. 4284
Reposted by GeeBeeWAPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/01/2024A Florida school district reportedly pulled multiple dictionaries and reference books off its library shelves for including descriptions of “sexual conduct"huffpost.comFlorida School District Pulls Dictionaries, Encyclopedias From Library Over 'Sexual' ContentThe Escambia County School District is being sued for taking 1,600 titles out of its collection, out of fear that the books violate Florida law. 45447164
Reposted by GeeBeeWAPatrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 10/01/2024My wife sent me this visual illustration of the wealth inequality crippling our nation. See how long you can scroll for. Bet you can't finish: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...mkorostoff.github.ioWealth, shown to scaleWealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way. 294
Reposted by GeeBeeWAPatrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 10/01/2024It never ceases to amaze how the GOP taught poor rural people empathy for those with multiple yachts, but hate for those with multiple jobs. 2284