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Marcus Mantscheff

@mmantscheffau.bsky.social
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Local & Remote Area firey, father/ grandpa, omnivorous reader, latent gardener. Not good with short-cuts or sugar-coating. Living on Whiyabul land at Nimbin, NSW.

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And Albanese's censorship, free speech ban & embrace of everything ultra right rolls on.
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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“… despite Albanese’s blandishments on the environment, will his promise of renewables to power data centres prove any more a durable guard rail than the protection he offered artists? If you think those promises won’t be broken also, ask Toto not to wag his tail and see what happens.” Flanagan on 🔥
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why does her husband look like somebody on a "Reasons For Vaginal Dryness" poster? .
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I absolutely refuse to get caught up in hype about a “hack” of a public service that simultaneously tries to block public access to data and also doesn’t know how to set permissions in their own data management www.croakey.org/on-secrets-s...
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On secrets, Services Australia and a call for more transparent public governance
Introduction by Charles Maskell-Knight: One of the problems in delivering government entitlement programs fairly and legally is ensuring that the
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🍉paraver🟩🟡🟥 @paraver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Lá, como cá.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Israel lobby has dropped its vexatious lawsuit against @marykostakidis.bsky.social whose bravery and integrity is a light for us all Andrew Brown #auspol michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostaki...
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Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby, and courage won - Michael West
The Zionist Federation of Australia expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence Mary Kostakidis. She stood her ground
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 08/09/2026
Keegan Tatum: Why do people keep voting for conservative governments when metrics all over the world show that quality of life is better under progressive governments? Answer: stupidity."
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mainewomenforward.bsky.social @mainewomenforward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This cartoon was created by Pulitzer Prize winning artist Adam Zyglis for The Buffalo News in November, 2024. It hits even harder now.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Booker-prize winning author Richard Flanagan hit the nail on the head during his powerful speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. If you agree, sign our petition urging governments and institutions to reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 04/09/2026
This is gross, violating, and terrifying. Meta AI gives open access for anybody to profile, stalk, and track the children of its users. This post-privacy age would have been Epstein's wet dream. How did we let it get this far?
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Absolute perfection from @cathywilcox.bsky.social #Auspol
Baffled at how a racist grifter who's been flogging her schtick for 3o years with minimal success has suddenly Shot to prominence?
I present: A PLEASE EXPLAINER
THE STRATEGIST
THE MODEL
THE BILLION/TRILLIONAIRE
Fake news
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HATE SPEECH -
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THE VESTED INVESTOR
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THE PRODUCT
Wathy
journalist no good
Muslims trans insurgency climate hoax
THE INDONESIAN BOT FARM
Pumping out Al content and disinformation to boost Hanson and atfack ner political enemies kand Vietnamese and ludian
THE AVERAGE PUNTER
She seems authentic
Wilcox
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dr Stefanie Hammond - Rural Generalist (FACRRM) based in southwest Victoria - talks about the impact of the NDIS cuts on patients she’s now seeing in her clinic
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Lwaxana’s Earring @sacredrixx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is a good doodad though.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Captured through the refined visual lens of photographer Dirk Ercken, this pristine study of a karesansui (dry landscape garden) isolates the essential elements of Japanese Zen spatial design into a fluid, abstract composition.
Sweeping ridges of fine, pale gravel are combed into gentle, sinuous samon (sand ripples), mimicking the rhythmic movement of water around three dark, smoothly weathered river stones. The low-angled side lighting grazes the raised contours of the raked furrows, casting soft, elongated shadows that accentuate the tactile grain of the granules against the dense, matte surfaces of the embedded stones. By paring away extraneous greenery and external architecture, Ercken’s macro-perspective focuses entirely on the quiet dialogue between solid mass and dynamic negative space (yohaku).

Rooted in the Zen Buddhist monastic traditions that flourished during the Muromachi period (1336–1573), karesansui gardens utilize stone and gravel to construct expansive visual cosmoses within compact quarters. In this visual theology, the raked sand represents the vastness of the ocean, rivers, or the primordial void, while the unmoving stones evoke eternal mountain peaks, sacred islands, or the grounded mind amidst the shifting currents of life. The daily ritual of combing these linear grooves with a wooden rake is far more than routine maintenance; it is an act of moving meditation, requiring steady physical focus and breath control to execute uninterrupted, flowing curves that mirror the gardener’s internal state of harmony.

The compositional arrangement of the three stones exemplifies the fundamental spatial principle of ma—the sacred, meaningful intervals between forms that allow each object to exist in balanced tension. Positioned in an asymmetrical, gentle diagonal across the frame, the stones act as visual anchors within the undulating tide of sand, inviting the eye to follow the rhythmic crests before settling into quiet reflection.
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Pat Hudson Cartoons @hudsoncartoons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Standing by #auspol #climatecrisis
Editorial cartoon. FM Wong and PM Albanese making simultaneous announcements, Wong - “We are standing by to provide any assistance to this climate disaster”, Albanese - “We are standing by unprepared to do anything to mitigate these climate disasters”
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🖕💯👊 Netanyahu appeared shaken as most UN delegates walked out of the General Assembly hall, while he was booed. #cdnpoli
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We are loooooong way from Whitlam, and Hawke/Keating
Chart showing unemployment benefits relative to the poverty line

IN 1996 they were around 25% below poverty, in 2007 they were 42% below, and that's where they are now
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If this is true, it’s a game changer. (And for once commonsense prevailed.)
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Canada 🇨🇦 shows Trump 🖕🥾🇺🇸 to the kerb. Well done 👏👏👏👏
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/08/2026
PM Carney: “.. progress has not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians. As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa”
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Creepy. Monique Ryan says it’s quite striking that the Brethren females are “dressed in an identical fashion” “In Kooyong all of the girls wore black tennis skirts & black leggings” & read from a script saying “Make Australia Happy Again”💥 Very weird, MAGA inspired Brethrens.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
With all absolute heartfelt empathy to Zomi’s family and friends. My response to the finding? 😂🤢😂🤢🤬😂🤢🤬😂🤢🤬 The IOF is ☠️
Israel's military clears soldiers of criminal wrongdoing in Gaza strike that killed Zomi Frankcom
By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran
Unrest, Conflict and War
Posted 57m ago, updated 13m ago
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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Minds incubated inside settler-colonial systems have cultivated blindspots.“.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Watching the ALP work with the LNP and One Nation to vote that my daughter with Down Syndrome does not need funding to assist with living skills because they don't think they improve her health, wellbeing or safety
Screen shot of the senate voting to gut the NDIS
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Pat Hudson Cartoons @hudsoncartoons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Algorithm #auspol #agedcare
Editorial cartoon. In a bed getting care is a flailing submarine called aukus while in a chair, an elderly person is on hold on the phone waiting for care so long they are covered in cobwebs.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A heated debate over the Epstein files is making waves online 🔥
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Khaki wedge The party of Hawke’s South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone has welded weapons grade uranium reactors into the navy and made Australia custodian of their spent fuel forever, with no disposal site and no plan. We are not just buying the target. We are buying the dump.” #auspol
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Robodebt on Steroids. Palantir infiltrates NDIS Claudia Weisenberger reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/robodebt-on-ster…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Warren @real2roosters.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social off the top rope
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Canada’s wildfire season is taking a heavy toll on First Nations grist.org/global-indig...
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Canada’s wildfire season is taking a heavy toll on First Nations
Thousands have been displaced as Indigenous leaders raise concerns about firefighting resources, emergency aid, and evacuation decisions.
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Segal State, Part 2: the mask, the children, the money and the answer. Part 1 traced how PM Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate, while the Coalition demanded more. michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
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The Segal State, Part 2: the mask, the children, the money and the answer - Michael West
Anthony Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There were institutions in Germany that could have stopped Hitler—the police, the military, the industrialists, the Reichstag, the courts—but they didn’t Now you know how it happened, unreeling in real time
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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There’s a circle of hell that is walking a yappy, whinging toy-poodle, while carrying a double serving of her bagged, warm shit in your hand… only for her to take a third dump atop Clifford’s morning leftovers.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fiona's last delightful cartoon for guardo as a regular freelancer. Obviously I can't comment on this situation but I will say it is an unfortunate decision which I strongly disagree with. I love Fiona and if you run a media something you should hire her.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10/08/2026
A decade after the UN demanded protection for medical care in war, attacks on hospitals, ambulances, patients and health workers continue. Australia must help turn humanitarian principles into consequences, Tom Roth writes. #Gaza #HumanitarianAid #IHL
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Medical care is being made a target of war
A decade after the UN demanded protection for medical care in war, attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients and humanitarian aid continue with devastating impunity.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You’ve got three weeks left to welcome the new “theocratic libertarian” US Ambassador to Australia by watching this warning on SBS, Aussies. I haven’t watched it since it was new, and it’s more important than ever. #Auspol www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
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Watch God & Country
Watch God & Country for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!
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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Our future isn’t decided by one big decision, but millions of small ones. And the longer we wait, the harder it becomes for communities, for governments and, yes, for firefighters too. Because the climate crisis isn’t coming." "It’s calling 999." mastox.eu/@ZackPolansk...
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Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski@mastox.eu)
RT: @implausibleblog Firefighter James Rodgers speaking alongside Zack Polanski, on the need to address climate change "When people talk about climate change, they often talk about the year 2050. I’m...
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Meanwhile in the USA...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 04/08/2026
A video circulating on social media shows a Russian drone hunting an unarmed civilian trading at a local market in Kherson's Central district around 6:45 a.m. Video: National Police / Telegram.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Russia formally recognized Ukraine's 1991 borders in multiple treaties and agreements. That should be the only border that matters in Berlin, Paris, London, Brussels, and Washington, unless Kyiv says otherwise. 25/28
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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thinking about the people in Spokane. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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'When the sun rises, we are going to be in shock': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
Walls of flames destroyed dozens of homes and other structures in the Indian Trail Neighborhood and other areas in Spokane on Saturday evening amid one of the worst natural disasters in the city's his...
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
REVEALED AT COMMISSION:  The federal govt has increased funding so that Segal’s IHRA training pilot programs can be rolled out at 200 schools across the country. Includes both public and private schools. After this, they hope it goes across the board.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The UK gov is almost able to make protest untenable now. You can only protest if you are invisible. UK has made political prisoners of Grannies and church folk holding signs. The UK’s slide to illiberalism is better dressed than the US version, but it’s the same trajectory.
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