Janet Cumming
@polyquats.bsky.social
Retired environmental health scientist, quilter, carer. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦Trans women are women.
On Taribelang Country Bundaberg Qld
On Taribelang Country Bundaberg Qld
Someone must have opened the dome. It is finally raining in Bundaberg. Like proper raining. Not little pissy bits while the radar shows all the action is 20 km away at Moore Park Beach
December 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Someone must have opened the dome. It is finally raining in Bundaberg. Like proper raining. Not little pissy bits while the radar shows all the action is 20 km away at Moore Park Beach
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“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”
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exceptional analysis of why jillian segals report about antisemitism is a bunch of unscientific racist nonsense academicsforpalestinewa.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
The Science of Silence: The Special Envoy’s Report Weaponises Data
Gwenaël Velge
academicsforpalestinewa.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
exceptional analysis of why jillian segals report about antisemitism is a bunch of unscientific racist nonsense academicsforpalestinewa.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
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From where I sit, one of the largest contributors to the dumbing down of society is the paywalling of cutting edge and recent research and knowledge. It reminds me of the priests and elites being the only ones who could read the bible in latin to the masses.
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
From where I sit, one of the largest contributors to the dumbing down of society is the paywalling of cutting edge and recent research and knowledge. It reminds me of the priests and elites being the only ones who could read the bible in latin to the masses.
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Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Mel Robbins is welcome to leave her morality at the door during the holidays in the name of keeping an uneasy family peace, and if you choose to do the same, that’s your prerogative....
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/actually-m...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/actually-m...
Actually, Mel Robbins, Life is Too Short To Coddle Racists.
Best-selling author and self-help guru Mel Robbins recently posted a New York Times Op-Ed called Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family leading into the Thanksgiving weekend.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Mel Robbins is welcome to leave her morality at the door during the holidays in the name of keeping an uneasy family peace, and if you choose to do the same, that’s your prerogative....
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/actually-m...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/actually-m...
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Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
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Was asked why I don’t like generative AI visuals and text:
They're redundant, were before they were made.
What they generate isn't new and it isn't art.
It's imitation of the work of people who possess skill.
1/4
They're redundant, were before they were made.
What they generate isn't new and it isn't art.
It's imitation of the work of people who possess skill.
1/4
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Was asked why I don’t like generative AI visuals and text:
They're redundant, were before they were made.
What they generate isn't new and it isn't art.
It's imitation of the work of people who possess skill.
1/4
They're redundant, were before they were made.
What they generate isn't new and it isn't art.
It's imitation of the work of people who possess skill.
1/4
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If anyone said “white supremecy and Nazism has to end” few if anyone would think “they want to exterminate all the white people.”
But the second anyone says “Zionism” or “Jewish Supremacy” all of a sudden the Jewish supremecists and Zionists pretend that “they want to exterminate all the Jews.”
But the second anyone says “Zionism” or “Jewish Supremacy” all of a sudden the Jewish supremecists and Zionists pretend that “they want to exterminate all the Jews.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If anyone said “white supremecy and Nazism has to end” few if anyone would think “they want to exterminate all the white people.”
But the second anyone says “Zionism” or “Jewish Supremacy” all of a sudden the Jewish supremecists and Zionists pretend that “they want to exterminate all the Jews.”
But the second anyone says “Zionism” or “Jewish Supremacy” all of a sudden the Jewish supremecists and Zionists pretend that “they want to exterminate all the Jews.”
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Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine.
2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague.
3. Russia pays everyone for everything.
4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
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I can't believe how they promised the dying Peta Murphy MP to do something about #gambling, yet have done nothing.
So disappointing, so badly needed.
One has to ask, "WHY"?
#auspol
So disappointing, so badly needed.
One has to ask, "WHY"?
#auspol
I hope Albanese’s stubbornness costs him dearly
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Gambling ad ban would pass parliament with conscience vote, Labor MP says
Macarthur MP Mike Freelander believes the multi-partisan support for restricting gambling advertising means the reforms will "get there" eventually.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The rent-seeking classes.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The rent-seeking classes.
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if there’s one lesson for progressives from the MAGA decade, it’s that they shouldn’t be tricked into being the defenders of institutions by virtue of polarisation.
Public trust is not earned by telling people they should trust things, it’s by making something or someone worth trusting
Public trust is not earned by telling people they should trust things, it’s by making something or someone worth trusting
“What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe the Epstein file release will hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.“
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
if there’s one lesson for progressives from the MAGA decade, it’s that they shouldn’t be tricked into being the defenders of institutions by virtue of polarisation.
Public trust is not earned by telling people they should trust things, it’s by making something or someone worth trusting
Public trust is not earned by telling people they should trust things, it’s by making something or someone worth trusting
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Megillat Alice
I met Alice through #Disbility twitter when it was completely new to me but our communities were still together there.
Alice had zero ego. She is friendly, compassionate, a force of nature.
We had fun convos, hard convos. She was really good at giving advice, listening.
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I met Alice through #Disbility twitter when it was completely new to me but our communities were still together there.
Alice had zero ego. She is friendly, compassionate, a force of nature.
We had fun convos, hard convos. She was really good at giving advice, listening.
cont
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Megillat Alice
I met Alice through #Disbility twitter when it was completely new to me but our communities were still together there.
Alice had zero ego. She is friendly, compassionate, a force of nature.
We had fun convos, hard convos. She was really good at giving advice, listening.
cont
I met Alice through #Disbility twitter when it was completely new to me but our communities were still together there.
Alice had zero ego. She is friendly, compassionate, a force of nature.
We had fun convos, hard convos. She was really good at giving advice, listening.
cont
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Once refused a haircut and called ‘contagious’, she’s beating the stigma of vitiligo through powerlifting - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/women/daphne-loo-vitiligo-powerlifting-confidence-5437871
Once refused a haircut and called ‘contagious’, she’s beating the stigma of vitiligo through powerlifting
After white patches appeared on her skin in her mid-20s, Daphne Loo faced stares, whispers and discrimination. Then she discovered powerlifting – a sport that not only made her stronger but also helped her embrace being different and find confidence in herself.
cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Once refused a haircut and called ‘contagious’, she’s beating the stigma of vitiligo through powerlifting - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/women/daphne-loo-vitiligo-powerlifting-confidence-5437871
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Dear world: you can scream otherwise untill you're blue in the face, but humanity's problem is not antisemitism, humanity's problem is Zionism
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dear world: you can scream otherwise untill you're blue in the face, but humanity's problem is not antisemitism, humanity's problem is Zionism
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Given the NSW police found no evidence of Iranian involvement in the arson attacks, I strongly suspect ASIO is now a Mossad asset.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Given the NSW police found no evidence of Iranian involvement in the arson attacks, I strongly suspect ASIO is now a Mossad asset.
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The ongoing genocide is conclusive evidence that the “cursed promise” was not a page that turned, but a continuous project of destruction and erasure. It is time for justice to erase this promise from humanity’s memory. #auspol #Palestine
108 years since the Balfour Declaration – a promise written in ink, fulfilled in blood
On 2 November 1917, Britain wrote with the ink of politics what it had no right to write with the ink of history.
johnmenadue.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The ongoing genocide is conclusive evidence that the “cursed promise” was not a page that turned, but a continuous project of destruction and erasure. It is time for justice to erase this promise from humanity’s memory. #auspol #Palestine
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You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.