Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 8hOK time for a new exciting thread - hunting for any coverage of the Greens in the Victorian state election that discusses them in any way positively let alone discusses their actual policies (and opposition to ALP/LNP/ON promises of locking up kids, tax cuts for property investors & data centres). 121
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 10hActually, ABC, I'd say there's one opposition now - the Greens. The rest (ALP, LNP, ON) are all varying degrees of the right - lock up kids, property investor tax cuts, data centres, cuts to public services and infrastructure. Weird you forgot to mention them? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auThree oppositions are contesting Victoria's election. The premier leads oneWith voters flocking to One Nation and Premier Ben Carroll doing all he can to distance himself from his predecessors, Victoria is gearing up for an unusual election in eight weeks' time. 032
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nice of Albo to release a campaign ad for the Greens 031
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The ABC doesn't even do basic conflict-checking of these people before peddling their propaganda 043
Reposted by Well May We SayGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"The Intergenerational Report has found its shiny new toy: AI. But what about climate change?" my column for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...thepoint.com.auThe Intergenerational Report has found its shiny new toy: AI. But what about climate change?The Seventh Intergenerational Report (IGR) released today by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers looks all the way out to 2066 and yet is mostly focused on the present and the fad-like demand of AI and data ce... 88123
Reposted by Well May We SayAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud 13775091562
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And they're not natural "public concerns about immigration". They're unjustified paranoia whipped up by the corporate class that's screwing ordinary people. 010
Reposted by Well May We SayPaul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Labor did not enlist business, which makes no bones about its continuing demand for labour. Or the union movement, now particularly organised by the very people most benefiting from migration. It did not enlist the multicultural community." Jack Waterford pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...pearlsandirritations.comOne Nation will not be defeated by tiny tweaksLabor’s new migration restrictions respond to public concerns about immigration, but tighter visa rules alone cannot resolve deeper anxieties about housing, economic security and social change. 022
Reposted by Well May We SayPenny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 21/09/2026Labor backbenchers have been out in force the past few days spruiking "increases" in Centrelink payments. To be very, very clear: this is absolute bullshit. This is an automatic CPI adjustment, not an increase. Labor is still keeping people on income support in poverty. 1113971
Reposted by Well May We SayDr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This means... we need more migrants! 2152
Reposted by Well May We SayKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026Not anywhere near as big a problem as what Amy writes about here, but "the energy transition is inevitable", "Renewables are inevitable" etc instil a sense of complacency when the amount of effort needed right now to make those things happen is immense and absolutely not being fulfilled 511224
Reposted by Well May We SayRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is what a rigged economy looks like. 20380103299
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The wealthy, Oz-reading subject of this piece complaining about stamp duty and paying tax to the government couldn't be a Brisbane banker with the same name, right? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auDownsizing from the family home may cost too much for empty nestersSome empty nesters want to move into smaller homes but say the cost of doing so keeps them in their large properties. 305
Reposted by Well May We SayYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When society knowingly puts people in a "position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death…when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life… knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain"—it's social murdersocialmurder.infoSocial Murder — the structural violence of capitalismWhy the deaths capitalism causes are not accidents but social murder — the mechanism behind the body count. 24031
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Twist: surprisingly it turned out, once again, it wasn't a "woman's rights" rally after all! Just a nazi anti-trans rally run by supporters of the patriarchy. 022
Reposted by Well May We SayAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...edition.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 441020488
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And most of the investors being robbed by trump - except for those with pension funds they can't control - probably voted for the felon 000
Reposted by Well May We SayElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026Donald Trump and every member of Congress should be working for the American people — NOT their stock portfolio. 34658226
Reposted by Well May We SayEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Fondly remembering that there's a bank skyscraper in the Chicago Loop that has a giant mural of Icarus flying too close to the sun over its entrance. What a baller move for a bank. "Put your money here, where we challenge god with our hubris." 715210
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Journos should be pushing the ALP as to what meetings they had with lobbyists for Israel before gutlessly abandoning this www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auAustralia withdrew from sanctions statement, leaving EU states disappointedEuropean diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses. 065
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026People say that Israel is an authoritarian fascist state that only pretends to be a liberal democracy, but then you confront them with a story like this and they really have to reconsider www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comNetanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensifyIsraeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists 001
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thanks Labor and LNP (and ON, which supports this) for letting these lunatics build more and more bases and military installations here in Australia: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comThe US now has access to more than half Australia’s military bases – could it drag the country unwillingly into war?Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s milita... 122
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One part in this week's ep was discussion about how the issue with "carbon credits" isn't that they're a weak way to address climate change. No - they're a very EFFECTIVE way to help companies INCREASE their carbon emissions. "Carbon credits" are a scam that actively makes climate change worse. 011
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026All the death and destruction of our invasion of Afghanistan - for nothing. The Howard government signed on without any effort to secure commitment from our "partners" they'd rebuild for the people of Afghanistan - and it was always naive to trust the US anyway. theconversation.com/9-11-anniver...theconversation.com9/11 anniversary: democracy was not doomed to fail in Afghanistan – the US did not live up to its promisesMuch went right after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. But much also went wrong. 001
Reposted by Well May We SayKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/09/2026Fun fact: did you know you can choose a chronological timeline on LinkedIn? You did not, bc companies essentially know opt-in chronological feeds are easy to implement and easy to bury. www.bbc.com/news/article... 56616
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Why TF are we letting our government tie us more to these lunatics? They're an existential threat now and yet the ALP, LNP and ON all want to send them more billions and put more of their troops here. The only sane vote at the moment is a vote for the Greens. 151
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The problem is always capitalism and sometimes, while it's as broken and dominated by greedy, unrestrained sociopathic corporations as it is at present, restricting the technologies to which it has access and can abuse is the only way of stopping more harm. 001
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Kick out every right wing and "centrist" (right wing) government and replace them with governments with zero tolerance for the lies and bullshit of the fossil fuel industry. 001
Reposted by Well May We SayLaura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it. 2092638875
Reposted by Well May We SayMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 26/07/2025Legitimate Concerns? 381308523
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ah damn, we lost this game of Daybreak. Let's reset and try again. Wait, this is the real thing, the one habitable planet we've got? Ah, shit. 033
Reposted by Well May We SayMike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Why would you conflate something that guzzles power with something that provides it? That does not sound like a legitimate worry, more like a scare tactic. 042
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes, in reverse it's potentially a way of co-opting those people to other climate fights - we just have to make sure the bigger anti-AI arguments they absorb are on their climate and environmental harm, wherever they're put. 002
Reposted by Well May We SayKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/09/2026This is an understandably popular take here but there is basically no evidence for this sort of opposition-contagion Also: why wouldn't it apply equally to the several hundred gigawatts of planned gas facilities data centre developers are choosing to build? I don't think it works like this 1219628
Reposted by Well May We SayProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:propublica.orgHow the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret 13358262798
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Episode 204 "It's all Connected!1!" (feat @nickcarrcomedy.bsky.social) now up on your favourite podcast app and at www.wellmaywesay.com/podcast/2026...wellmaywesay.comEpisode 204 "It's all Connected!11! (feat Nick Carr)" — Well May We Say00:01:36 How to be Heard if you're Not, you know, Fighting For Billionaires 00:05:53 Greens could go after the RBA - the media would love to have them on to call them "economic illiterates" etc, whil... 112
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The far right fundamentalists (all they do is campaign against women's healthcare and LGBTI people) emailing people this morning asking them to do a will with their people and give them money to keep attacking vulnerable people after you're dead. 000
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The RBA isn't concerned about the inflation from profiteering companies; it's *expressly* worried about what its members consider the REALLY BAD inflation - your wages going up. They consider unemployment going *down* the bad thing. The RBA being in charge of interest rates is an assault on workers. 113
Reposted by Well May We SayLady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Everyone thought it was a story about how he’ll champion the poor. But it’s actually a story about how he resented his childhood and strived for power/money so he’d never end up in the system again. Because he became successful, he prob believes the poor don’t try hard enough the way he did. 139132
Reposted by Well May We Sayelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I dk who still needs to hear this but Israel has had no intentions to allow a Palestinian state for decades. It never stopped building illegal settlements regardless of who was in the White House. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...newyorker.comNew Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian StateThe breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant. 027092
Reposted by Well May We SayLee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Canadian Strait of Hormuz Every ocean going ship from the great lakes must pass through the Welland Canal 2103022836
Reposted by Well May We SayRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026i now genuinely consider this movie optimistic 262062175
Reposted by Well May We SayLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 29/08/2026"This September will mark one year since the U.S. military began bombing boats and summarily executing people in the Western Hemisphere. Congress’s response has demonstrated an unfamiliarity with human rights law and how it governs military action in peacetime," writes @seharrison7.bsky.social.lawfaremedia.orgThe Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions. 6207103
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Episode 203 "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (feat @amyremeikis.bsky.social) now up on your favourite podcast service and at www.wellmaywesay.com/podcast/2026...wellmaywesay.comEpisode 203 - "A series of unfortunate events" (feat Amy Remeikis) — Well May We Say00:02:09 New Victorian premier immediately makes things worse 00:06:13 Data centres 00:09:23 Offsets 00:11:55 Vic ALP notices dental care 00:12:35 Come on Greens, what are you doing 00:18:40 Mur... 3177
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Labor could of course choose to work with the Greens and not pander to dumb malevolent shit that harms people and helps the far right, but it chooses not to. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAustralia’s refugee intake to be slashed as Labor works to reduce migration amid One Nation pressureQuota to fall by a third to Coalition-era levels in move that the Greens say makes Australia ‘meaner and weaker’ 011
Well May We Say @wellmaywesay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New episode recorded with Amy Remeikis - should be up today. 000
Reposted by Well May We SayJeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It's about this - did you know you pay to high income, wealthy older Australians, who already have most of the wealth in the country, an additional bonus subsidy in their private healthcare just for being over 65? Of course the LNP is squealing at ending the rort www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comEnding higher private health rebate for Australians 65 and over is ‘good policy change’, report co-author findsResearch finds 0.1-0.4% of the total insured population will ditch insurance, while the government will save as much as $940m 001