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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 7h

Is this the future you really want?

If not you must get involved and actively resist. Tell your politicians, local representatives, state/federal govts again and again.

Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 3d

Wow! Our domestic concerns, especially climate change and its devastating effects on everything from environmental loss, liveability to food supply should be a primary focus over a relationship with a corrupt foreign administration.
#auspol @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3d

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11d

The Sunday Shot starts at 9am with me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, Scott Burchill, and an interview with Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges.

SUNDAY SHOT - OCT 19 - CHRIS HEDGES, SARAH SCHWARTZ, SCOTT BURCHILL

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

www.youtube.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent interview, when he spoke about ‘the disappeared’….chills

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent interview with Chris Hedges by Dave Milner for #TheShot

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11d

I interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges for an hour about the Western media betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia, fascism and a violent empire in decline.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...

Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

www.youtube.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 15d

With an abundance of lemons from the garden atm, today’s cake is a classic Lemon Cake with lemon icing. Perfect for Spring.
#food #cake #lemons

Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 17d

‘AI, no worries it’ll be great’ & ‘Digital ID? Nothing to worry about!’
How’s that going?

So many breaches, so many compromises. We keep galloping ahead before we fully understand what it is we’re doing. It wouldn’t hurt take a step back for once.
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 18d

Hey @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social
When are you going to start charging these corporate cowboys and their ilk tax?! Every company with even a toehold in this country should be paying tax - enough is enough!

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24d

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 24d

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

- ‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

#climatechange
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · 24d

I’m over the world today - I need cat pics. Here’s my gorgeous little cat Peachy.
#cats

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 30

FFS! Come on @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social the average person in Australia is so overtaxed now from birth - death and you STILL won’t tax the fossil fuel industry! You have a duty of care & social contract to the people not the ff companies. #budget

Crikey @crikey.com.au · Sep 30

While individual taxpayers have helped keep the budget deficit down, fossil fuel companies continue to pay less and less PRRT, writes Bernard Keane.

We're paying a lot more tax. But, in the biggest rort in the budget, guess who isn't?

www.crikey.com.au

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 30

The best way to punish these guys is to stop using their products, give your business to smaller startups and independents, stop paying these guys.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 30

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 29

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 28

‘Grotesque wealth creates grotesque people.’ (Ryan McTague 2025)

Never a truer word spoken.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 27

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 27

More of this, everywhere he goes.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 26

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is not the win he thinks it is.

Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 24

Maybe it’s time for the United Nations headquarters to find a new venue, this is an embarrassing display by the host country.
#unitednations

Zeteo @zeteo.com · Sep 23

Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history.

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 23

So #SussanLey would rather we be a subservient nation to American interests that supports genocide than remain an independent free-thinking country with humanitarian values (cough, mostly)? Once again the Liberals walking the dark paths of history.
I know what side of history I’d prefer to be on.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · Sep 22

True allies share values & vision. Australia & the US no longer do. America is fractured, authoritarian, reckless abroad & complicit in genocide. Yet Canberra clings to the myth of the alliance. It’s time to face reality & chart our own path. #AusPol #US #Alliance

Our belligerent, authoritarian AUKUS partner

True allies share common visions, common objectives, common strategies, common standards of behaviour and common criteria of success.

johnmenadue.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 23

I thought I’d start the day with some beautiful bookends.

Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 23

That’s some clear and definitive messaging right there!

Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 21

Does our Australian govt have the gumption to stand up to foreign bullies? I hope so.
#auspol

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Sep 20

Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state

Donald Trump allies, including Ted Cruz, pen letter warning Anthony Albanese against ‘reckless policy’ Anthony Albanese says he will push for improved global peace and security during meetings with world leaders this week, as allies of Donald Trump warn Australia’s recognition of Palestine could spark “punitive measures” from the US. Albanese arrived in New York on Sunday morning, Australian time, ahead of the UN general assembly and his possible first meeting with the US President. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 21

Thanks Denise.

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 21

Hey @deniseshrivell.bsky.social any chance today’s show could be loaded onto the fb page so we can share it there too?

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Cait Ogdon @clobella.bsky.social · Sep 21

Excellent interview Dave with @emmashortis.bsky.social - it’s so important to hear clear intelligent discussion and interviews on this current rise of fascism.

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