Reposted by Lou PollardThe Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 6hRural high schools in Hiroshima Prefecture are recruiting students from outside the prefecture to help combat shrinking enrollment numbers, and teenagers are packing up and heading to the remote schools to learn.ebx.shHiroshima’s rural high schools attract students from across JapanHiroshima’s experiment is part of a broader national trend that sees small, rural high schools recruiting students from outside their prefectures. 0112
Reposted by Lou PollardGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 8h“There is the uncomfortable reality that neither has any experience running data centres or a background in technology.” Don’t you just love capitalism. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auData centre operator Firmus about to float as its owner tries to shed jailbird imageHe went to prison for insider trading but Oliver Curtis is about to be the source of one of Australia's largest share market floats. 2823181
Reposted by Lou PollardDani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 6hwww.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comIncinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian booksA Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks 084
Reposted by Lou PollardMichael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “commission heard heart-rending testimony from people already grappling w damage & loss…climate crisis, grandparents in anguish about lives awaiting children they love, scientists patiently outlining devastating evidence about the mine’s climate change impacts…”theguardian.comThe green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina WoodsThere is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair? 12011
Reposted by Lou PollardRick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 15hI loathe AI and will personally never use it, in my work or otherwise. Even if it wasn't hideous in almost every way, why would I cede ground to something with precisely zero creative spirit? rick-morton.ghost.io/the-boast-in...rick-morton.ghost.ioThe Boast in the MachineWhile browsing the Australian Government's contract notices portal AusTender a few days ago – regular readers of this august publication will know that this is one of my principal meditative outlets –... 1128282
Reposted by Lou PollardThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/10/2026There’s a war on Iran choking global oil supplies, an artificial intelligence boom & a US president torpedoing the global trading system. But inflation simply MUST be normal, according to the RBA. 🎧 theaus.in/4hWT057 @grogsgamut.bsky.social @skyelark.bsky.social #auspol 1012354
Reposted by Lou PollardLilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congratulations, News Corp, on celebrating 11 years of not paying a single cent in tax. But per new ATO data released today, the Murdoch company isn’t even the worst offender. A slew of corporate entities made a motza off Australia and paid zilch in tax. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...crikey.com.auNews Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in AustraliaNews Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger. 512461
Reposted by Lou PollardAmante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@albomp.bsky.social THIS is what millions of us here in Australia want too 46323
Reposted by Lou PollardOrangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Conservationists said losing forest in the national park would be devastating for its large orangutan population and long-running research program. fires are shrinking the forest available for orangutans to escape. news.mongabay.com/2026/09/as-f...news.mongabay.comAs fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to fleeJAKARTA — As fires continue to engulf large swaths of forest in Indonesian Borneo, orangutans have increasingly fewer places to flee, with fires either surrounding them or eliminating the forest on wh... 13115
Reposted by Lou PollardDavid Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Please add your name to the open letter for national data centre laws that deliver genuine climate protections. #AIDataCenter #auspol #climatecrisis www.climatecouncil.org.au/actions/comm...climatecouncil.org.auAdd your name: Data centres must be powered by new renewable energy - Climate CouncilHow data centres are powered will shape our energy system, and our climate, for decades to come. 0136
Reposted by Lou PollardThe Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 30/09/2026A hospital in Japan has carried out the world's first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells after the ground-breaking therapy was approved this year, one of the surgeons said.ebx.shJapanese hospital performs world-first surgery using heart muscle stem cellsSheets of muscle cells derived from regenerative products known as iPS cells were transplanted into the heart of a patient in her 50s. 02012
Reposted by Lou PollardAndy Wilson @andywislon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Worth looking up Cleary's post on Crossland - so classy - that's been another theme of the weekend actually, the dignity in defeat of Penrith and Wigan. Champion clubs - hope they meet again at some point soon! www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...theguardian.comNewcastle find themselves the NRL’s fairytale team after scarcely believable return to glory | Nick TedeschiThe Knights’ incredible preliminary final win over the Penrith Panthers showcased how coach Justin Holbrook has turned the club around 031
Reposted by Lou PollardJimusic @jimusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Stevie Wonder released his eighteenth studio album, “Songs in the Key of Life” on this day in 1976. It is widely considered his magnum opus, blending pop, soul, R&B, jazz, funk and gospel. Thoughts? Favourite tracks? #StevieWonder 2311310
Reposted by Lou PollardThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate? 451283365
Reposted by Lou PollardSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What Sally said. The bad blood and dodgy financial management in One Nation is bad enough. But insulting each other the American spelling "asshole" is just unAustralian. #auspol 0237
Reposted by Lou PollardKon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO 9143135
Reposted by Lou PollardPissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Indeed. Just sayin🤔... 062
Reposted by Lou PollardKon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB 19155134
Reposted by Lou PollardDavid Jones @antsyturbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Stories like this have been written about ON members/staff for years, and yet supposedly the ppl of Qld rate her as the person they would like to see as PM. (If you believe the latest poll news) 033
Reposted by Lou Pollard🇦🇺 WyndhamVic @wyndhamvic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Can't wait for this decade anniversary of Shitmo's stupidity to come around. We should all send him a card with pictures of our EVs or just a picture of Australia's most affordable car, the new BYD Atto 1 Essential EV at $19,990 drive away.thedriven.ioRuin your weekend? How Scott Morrison's silly EV scare campaign backfired on AustraliaAustralia could have had three times as many EVs on the road, powered by renewables. Instead, we are pumping dirty fuel into our tanks because of a ridiculous scare campaign. 2104
Reposted by Lou PollardKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :) 816756
Reposted by Lou Pollard@GalaxyFarrahWay @galaxyfarrahway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Stéphane Natanson 1897 by Felix Edouard Vallotton 051
Reposted by Lou PollardMichael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"One Nation's policy is asking us to doubt the vast volume of evidence that has been collected globally and the conclusions of thousands of climate science experts ... on the basis of a single temperature record." www.tempestsandterawatts.com/p/i-read-one...tempestsandterawatts.comI read One Nation’s brain-rot climate policy, so you don’t have toI set out to uncover what One Nation has planned for Australian climate policy. What I found was far more disturbing. 0119
Reposted by Lou Pollardpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The models for ‘American Gothic’ pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942. 914297660
Reposted by Lou PollardSimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026St Mary, Whitby, North Yorkshire. The setting is memorable, high on a bluff looking out over the sea, above the pretty town shoehorned in on both sides of the estuary of the River Esk. The building huddles the cliff top, as if hunkered down against the gales, as wide as it is long. 1436
Reposted by Lou Pollardwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart 204583779
Reposted by Lou Pollardpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Crocodile Bar Top," a lifelike functional wood sculpture carved by woodworker Scott Dow from Corry, Pennsylvania. 401509218
Reposted by Lou Pollard🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Love it 561834300
Reposted by Lou PollardAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 59893644001
Lou Pollard @loupollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why is Jane Hume? Why is Angus Taylor? Stating the bleedin obvious is not policy. Clueless LNP think that because sycophant churnalists are reporting their brain farts, that Aussies will automatically vote for ‘em. Climate change & regulating AI is apparently not a job for elected officials #auspol 060
Reposted by Lou PollardArtemus Knab 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @artemusknab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Need I say more... 141
Reposted by Lou PollardAntfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bloody Greg Sheridan on #insiders 🙄 Surely this guy should be banned from public commentary outside of Murdoch’s sheltered workshops after this 👇🏼 86015
Reposted by Lou PollardAntfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026By declaring Barnaby Joyce as ‘magnificent’ for dominating media cycles like Trump, Sheridan inadvertently lays bare the vacuousness of his and #auspol commentary and coverage generally. No pushback whatsoever on #insiders What a shit show. Horse race crap. 3183
Reposted by Lou PollardRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system. 547156776035
Lou Pollard @loupollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can’t think why Poorlean doesn’t want the ABC at her pressers #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.au'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processesFormer One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors. 142
Reposted by Lou PollardWendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There's a really good doc about her here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Four - Pauline Boty: I Am the SixtiesDocumentary about 60s pop artist Pauline Boty, tracking her contribution to British art. 021
Reposted by Lou Pollardwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Pauline Boty (1938-1966), co-founder of the British Pop art movement #womensart 9705113
Reposted by Lou PollardSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday. 14290592840
Reposted by Lou PollardPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Friends of Nyadol Nyuon have started a solidarity statement as the online abuse and targeting continue. If you'd like to sign, the link is below. #NyadolNyuon #WeStandWithNyadol tally.so/r/68qGpNtally.soSign the Statement of Solidarity with Nyadol NyuonMade with Tally, the simplest way to create forms. 02513
Reposted by Lou PollardDetached Principle @Detached-principle.bsky.social @detached-principle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our lady of Appalacha 1152
Reposted by Lou PollardKent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026abc.net.auOriginal Wallace & Gromit puppets auctioned to raise funds for 'emerging filmmakers'The original Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Feathers McGraw puppets have been auctioned to help fund "opportunities for emerging filmmakers". 418530
Reposted by Lou PollardJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Greenhouse from recycled church stained glass windows, also known as "Sacré Blur" was made by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie from salvaged 18th and 19th century ecclesiastical stained glass. London 1274952873