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Steve Green
@frowsty.bsky.social
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I live in Queensland, Australia. I'm a retired rural photo-journalist (once a maestro of miscellaneous observation). Trying hard to keep an outrageous sense of humour and absurd appreciation of the ridiculous in an uncertain age.
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 5h
"... At press time, the listless National Guard members had reportedly decided to just start issuing parking tickets as they searched in vain for the rivers of blood they believed would be flooding the streets of Chicago." 😂🤣 GREAT SATIRE!? 😄 😆
Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored
CHICAGO—Unsure where to find the lawlessness and chaos they were told was overtaking the city, National Guard troops deployed to Chicago by President Donald Trump have begun aimlessly going door to do...
theonion.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 5h
Anticipate an imperfect tomorrow - don't be left out... 😊
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Olivia @olivia79g.bsky.social · Jul 16
Every day won’t be perfect. But every day is a chance—to try again, to show up, to heal, to grow. Keep going. Even slow progress is progress.
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 5h
I do wonder if any of this sort of weaponry will reach the war it's needed in. 🤔
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 3d
"...My attachment to the idea of the transatlantic West, and to an image of America as a bastion of freedom, democracy, and security, has been deep and lifelong. But that was the world of yesterday." - Joschka Fischer (Germany’s foreign minister and vice chancellor 1998 - 2005) 😒
The World of Yesterday
Joschka Fischer laments the sudden disappearance of the transatlantic world and what it represented.
www.project-syndicate.org
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 3d
"Among the most significant findings were records detailing the illegal abductions of Ukrainian children from occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts."
Ukraine hacks Crimea proxy head, uncovers child abduction files, intelligence source says
The breach allegedly exposed official correspondence of the head of Russian occupation authorities in Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, as well as internal documents and communications between occupation minis...
kyivindependent.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 3d
"By week's end, the best peace deal ever - or at least in 3,000 years - looked both pretty shabby, and unlikely to ever see the light of day in its current form. ... a week in which the underlying perception that just as Vladamir Putin played Donald Trump for a sucker, Netanyahu had done the same."
Trump says his Gaza peace deal is 'an amazing thing'. More and more nations disagree
On Wednesday, Donald Trump proclaimed his Middle East peace deal an "amazing thing". By week's end, things were not as straightforward as they seemed.
www.abc.net.au
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 4d
Western Australian Police Minister, Reece Whitby says, “For someone who is a professed sovereign citizen, whose beliefs are that they do not have to abide by the laws, how on earth can the people of WA entrust those people with the responsibilities of being a lawful gun owner?"
‘A risk we cannot take’: Police seize 135 guns amid sovereign citizen raids
More than 100 firearms are seized in a WA Police operation targeting 'sovereign citizens' in the wake of the fatal shooting of two Victorian officers.
www.abc.net.au
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 4d
"Waves of quadcopters crashed out of the sky in Indiana earlier this week during a military demonstration. Their sudden, synchronized collapse wasn’t the result of missiles or shrapnel. It came from an invisible beam of energy." - 8th August 2025
US Military Just Tested a Microwave Weapon That Instantly Zapped an Entire Swarm of Drones Out of the Sky
The U.S. military tests a powerful new defense against drone swarms.
www.zmescience.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 9d
😂🤣🤣😂 Ya gotta love it ...
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Christopher Downes @cdownes.bsky.social · 13d
Monday's cartoon for The Mercury Newspaper: Balmorally compromised
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 9d
You just gotta love this! ... 😂😂🤣
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 9d
Nothing exposes the nastiness and ignorance of a racist as powerfully as fact 👇👍👏
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 9d
Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment found no community will be immune from "cascading, compounding and concurrent" climate risks.
By 2050, more than 1.5m people will be at risk of more heatwave-related deaths, poor water quality and bushfires - and a A$611bn drop in real estate.
Rising seas will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050, landmark climate report warns
Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment predicts more frequent and severe climate hazards.
www.bbc.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 10d
“...In its simplest form, foreign policy is based on three pillars: values, interests, and power. ... Our toolkit is mainly about values and interests. Power ... is a luxury of bigger players. ... Smart diplomacy is what gives a smaller player at least relative influence. ..." - Alexander Stubb
Statement by President of the Republic of Finland, Alexander Stubb, at the General Debate of the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on 24 September 2025 - Presidentti
Check against delivery Madam President, Mr Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, In its simplest form, foreign policy is based on three pillars: values, interests, and power. I come f...
www.presidentti.fi
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 10d
"After her experience at the front, she struggles to believe in a quick peace. 'Of course, I want it to stop, but it won’t be a happy moment. Too many have died for it to feel like a celebration,' Tsimerman says."
We asked 5 young Ukrainians why they chose to go to war against Russia
As Russia’s full-scale war enters its fourth year, a generation raised under air-raid sirens is now old enough to fight. Despite not yet being subject to conscription, these young Ukrainians are volun...
kyivindependent.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 10d
“In every generation, Russian leaders have tried to compensate for inferiority with deception, subversion, and brute violence. Lies are not an accident of the system; they are its foundation. ... Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful. ..."
Opinion: Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness
The Russian colossus on clay feet should be seen for what it was, and is.
www.kyivpost.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 10d
"There’s no good explanation - other than the Obama obsession that Trump and other MAGA acolytes seem to have - that would explain why Trump felt the need to riff about that in front of a room full of the country’s highest ranking military leaders." ☹️🤔
“Bop, Bop, Bop”: Trump Admits Obama Was Better at Walking Down Stairs
Why did Trump feel this was necessary commentary in a speech to military leaders?
newrepublic.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 10d
"America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways, because they don't wear uniforms," Trump said. 😮
'Invasion from within': Trump says US cities should be used as military training grounds
Trump said that under his administration, the US military was now "reawakening the warrior spirit".
www.sbs.com.au
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 15d
"... there are currently three major spheres of power in the world: the global West, the global East, and the global South ... The West should engage in a whole new form of dialogue and cooperation with the Global South."
Honorary Doctor, President Alexander Stubb: We are living through a bigger systemic change in world politics
We are today living through our generation's 1918, 1945 or 1989 moments, when there is a bigger systemic change in international relations and world politics. It will take about five to ten years for ...
www.uwasa.fi
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 16d
"...individuals who consumed beer were 1.35 times more attractive to mosquitoes than those who abstained. Other habits linked to higher mosquito attraction included not wearing sunscreen, showering less frequently, and sharing a bed the night before." 😯😃
Beer Drinkers May Be A Mosquito Magnet, Study Finds - Strange Days
A new study from Dutch researchers has found that people who drink beer are significantly more likely to be a mosquito magnet.
www.strangedaysnews.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 16d
This really is great news.
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Andrea M. Ketchum @envirolib.bsky.social · 16d
Amazing, fabulous medical breakthrough!! Kudos to the #UK #medical_research teams who crossed the finish line! #HuntingtonsDisease vanquished!
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 16d
Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial | Huntington's disease | The Guardian share.google/BS3GwG7z0dX0.... America may be led by Cookers, meanwhile the rest of the world gets on with doing what must be done #News #Health #MedicalScience #Respect
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d
New in PN: The Trump Murder Policy

"Trump has claimed Venezuelan boats are being attacked because they’re smuggling drugs, but his evidence doesn’t amount to much more than 'trust me, bro.'"
The Trump Murder Policy
Let's call his strikes on Venezuelan boats for what they are.
www.publicnotice.co
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 16d
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 16d
So it was a "usual day at the office" then? 😒
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 16d
(1/3) Yesterday, we heard a speech from the President of the United States that did not reflect the values of our country or of the United Nations. Instead of calling for peace, dignity, and cooperation, Pres. Trump delivered a speech laced with fear, division, and misinformation.
Opinion | What Trump's U.N. address revealed about the dire state of American democracy
The president's address to the United Nations put the dire state of our democracy in a terrible new light.
www.msnbc.com
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 19d
"Almost all current US economic news is negative, despite Trump having sacked senior statistician Erika McEntarfer ... This has now cast doubt on all US economic data ..." It may have reduced marginal investment in the economy, kept interest charges higher, and will make most Americans a bit poorer.
Global economic times are tough — especially for the corrupt and inept
The latest data shows the U.S. economy is continuing to slide alarmingly.
independentaustralia.net
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 19d
"Finland has taken a step that Estonia would do well to watch closely. Its newly adopted drone strategy for 2026–2030 sets an ambitious goal: to become the best place in the world for drone development and business within five years."
Australia needs to also take note... 🤨
Veiko Randlaine: Estonia needs its own drone strategy
Estonia's drone industry requires strong R&D and a clear, modern legal framework. Right now, fragmented regulations and excessive bureaucracy are holding back progress, writes Veiko Randlaine.
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Steve Green @frowsty.bsky.social · 20d
"...all it cost Britain and King Charles, who wore the fraught expression of someone being cajoled into a hostage video, was a bit of dignity." "... the sad truth is that there’s not a government in Europe that wouldn’t follow the British example, given the chance. www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
The Brief – Europe's new monarch | Euractiv
Entertaining as the Windsor spectacle might have been to those still bitter over Brexit, the sad truth is that there's not a government in Europe that wouldn't follow the British example
www.euractiv.com