Melissa Loew
@fransi1803.bsky.social
Sasha & Georges mother. 😸
Niece of Jock Garden 🤓
Cyclist, sailor, dancer.
Niece of Jock Garden 🤓
Cyclist, sailor, dancer.
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This, word for word, is directly applicable to Australia as well.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This, word for word, is directly applicable to Australia as well.
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Music read 2: something new and fun from me, on another of the great American songwriters www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
Lucinda Williams: ‘My singing is better now than it was before my stroke’
The US singer-songwriter on whether she will pull her music from Spotify, her worst first date and why ‘being unique and original doesn’t always work in the record business’
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Music read 2: something new and fun from me, on another of the great American songwriters www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
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Stephen Colbert doesn’t need CBS anyway. Wherever he ends up, people are going to watch him even harder now. All CBS did was solidify the fact that they’ll be know until the end of time as just another spineless corporation that couldn’t do the right thing.
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Stephen Colbert doesn’t need CBS anyway. Wherever he ends up, people are going to watch him even harder now. All CBS did was solidify the fact that they’ll be know until the end of time as just another spineless corporation that couldn’t do the right thing.
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This is what integrity looks like.
July 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is what integrity looks like.
July 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@marcuskelson.bsky.social Are you watching ABC and listening to the MSO piano concert #100Countdowm
June 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@marcuskelson.bsky.social Are you watching ABC and listening to the MSO piano concert #100Countdowm
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Have been sick and off the socials:news. Come back to find:
Opposing a genocide is ‘the new hate’
Opposing a genocide still losing good people jobs and work
Media describing police aiming and firing at a journalist ‘caught in the crossfire’
Beyond fucked
Opposing a genocide is ‘the new hate’
Opposing a genocide still losing good people jobs and work
Media describing police aiming and firing at a journalist ‘caught in the crossfire’
Beyond fucked
June 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Have been sick and off the socials:news. Come back to find:
Opposing a genocide is ‘the new hate’
Opposing a genocide still losing good people jobs and work
Media describing police aiming and firing at a journalist ‘caught in the crossfire’
Beyond fucked
Opposing a genocide is ‘the new hate’
Opposing a genocide still losing good people jobs and work
Media describing police aiming and firing at a journalist ‘caught in the crossfire’
Beyond fucked
I warned you that I have a problem.
Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica
#birds #hummingbirds #nature 🌿
Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica
#birds #hummingbirds #nature 🌿
May 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Really pleased to see this as a class action lawsuit
What. The. Utter. Fuck
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW police told woman to remove tampon in illegal strip-search, court hears
Police admit strip-search of Raya Meredith in July 2018 was illegal in a class action being heard in NSW supreme court on behalf of 3,000 alleged victims
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Really pleased to see this as a class action lawsuit
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So tediously predictable that Dutton falls back to the same ‘hate media’ criticisms against the Guardian and ABC he’s rolled out previously - because apparently any reporting that interrogates the bullshit he’s sprouting is ‘hate’ and not, you know - the actual role of the media
April 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
So tediously predictable that Dutton falls back to the same ‘hate media’ criticisms against the Guardian and ABC he’s rolled out previously - because apparently any reporting that interrogates the bullshit he’s sprouting is ‘hate’ and not, you know - the actual role of the media
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Also, I do not give a flying f*ck about whether leaders like each other, what they are like away from politics, whether they are cranky or likable or funny or remember your birthday.
What. Do. They. Do. With. Power.
That is what matters.
What. Do. They. Do. With. Power.
That is what matters.
April 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Also, I do not give a flying f*ck about whether leaders like each other, what they are like away from politics, whether they are cranky or likable or funny or remember your birthday.
What. Do. They. Do. With. Power.
That is what matters.
What. Do. They. Do. With. Power.
That is what matters.
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Just took delivery of a few t-shirts from canteen. May or may not fancy them up a bit for the event. If you would like to donate, you may do so here citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...
April 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Just took delivery of a few t-shirts from canteen. May or may not fancy them up a bit for the event. If you would like to donate, you may do so here citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...
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Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough
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I think @simonahac.bsky.social is absolutely right on this - some wind companies have absolutely done a bad job at sharing benefits of wind power and empowering and involving the community when designing projects
Conversely, Australia also showcases many that have done it abnormally well...
Conversely, Australia also showcases many that have done it abnormally well...
Wind farm companies have been ‘arrogant’: Holmes a Court
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court says many large-scale renewables projects had not adequately consulted local communities.
www.afr.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I think @simonahac.bsky.social is absolutely right on this - some wind companies have absolutely done a bad job at sharing benefits of wind power and empowering and involving the community when designing projects
Conversely, Australia also showcases many that have done it abnormally well...
Conversely, Australia also showcases many that have done it abnormally well...
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Between massive cuts to government services, driverless cybercabs, self driving trucks for freight, robots replacing factory workers & other manual labour and AI to replace creative, research & authored work-
Has any one person ever been so committed to putting humans out of work than Elon Musk?
Has any one person ever been so committed to putting humans out of work than Elon Musk?
March 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Between massive cuts to government services, driverless cybercabs, self driving trucks for freight, robots replacing factory workers & other manual labour and AI to replace creative, research & authored work-
Has any one person ever been so committed to putting humans out of work than Elon Musk?
Has any one person ever been so committed to putting humans out of work than Elon Musk?
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How many times does a guy have to show who he is before you begin to take him literally, as well as seriously?
Asking for the world
Asking for the world
March 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
How many times does a guy have to show who he is before you begin to take him literally, as well as seriously?
Asking for the world
Asking for the world
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Thanks to Fiona - subscriptions start from a lousy USD$1/month (***go via website, not app!***) - free piece on Marianne Faithfull from a couple of weeks ago here www.patreon.com/posts/friday...
February 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Thanks to Fiona - subscriptions start from a lousy USD$1/month (***go via website, not app!***) - free piece on Marianne Faithfull from a couple of weeks ago here www.patreon.com/posts/friday...
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If you have a fucking sniffle and you’re getting in a plane, wear a fucking mask. Some people are taking chemotherapy. Anyone who says that masks don’t work will be summarily blocked. Thank you for your consideration.
February 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If you have a fucking sniffle and you’re getting in a plane, wear a fucking mask. Some people are taking chemotherapy. Anyone who says that masks don’t work will be summarily blocked. Thank you for your consideration.
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Good morning - if you'd like to join me for parliament, the Australia Institute Live parliamentary blog soft launch is happening here - live.australiainstitute.org.au
It is still in its infancy (born today!) and I am a nervous new parent fueled by coffee and insecurity, but come join!
It is still in its infancy (born today!) and I am a nervous new parent fueled by coffee and insecurity, but come join!
Australia Institute Live – Daily updates from The Australia Institute
live.australiainstitute.org.au
February 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Good morning - if you'd like to join me for parliament, the Australia Institute Live parliamentary blog soft launch is happening here - live.australiainstitute.org.au
It is still in its infancy (born today!) and I am a nervous new parent fueled by coffee and insecurity, but come join!
It is still in its infancy (born today!) and I am a nervous new parent fueled by coffee and insecurity, but come join!
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That's a hell of a large number of voters to just give up on.
Did you see this news!?
Heather Ruddock, the wife of former attorney-general Philip Ruddock, has quit the Liberal Party.
She said an unnamed federal Coalition MP told her that tertiary-educated women were “not the demographic we’re going for”
So she's voting independent🔥
Heather Ruddock, the wife of former attorney-general Philip Ruddock, has quit the Liberal Party.
She said an unnamed federal Coalition MP told her that tertiary-educated women were “not the demographic we’re going for”
So she's voting independent🔥
Liberal stalwart’s wife defects over ‘incredible disconnect’ within party
Heather Ruddock has quit the Liberal Party and endorsed the community independent candidate taking on Liberal MP Julian Leeser in the Sydney seat of Berowra.
www.afr.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
That's a hell of a large number of voters to just give up on.
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Seven years ago I asked Bruce Springsteen what I think is the best question I've ever asked of an artist. He gave me the best answer I've ever received, too (from 31 seconds) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hXG...
Bruce Springsteen Perth media conference 22 January 2017
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Perth
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Seven years ago I asked Bruce Springsteen what I think is the best question I've ever asked of an artist. He gave me the best answer I've ever received, too (from 31 seconds) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hXG...
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Shout-out to the then-Text editor who passed on Pig City because they weren’t interested in “fanzine-level journalism”. It was so inspirational I sent them a copy of the 20th anniversary edition
January 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Shout-out to the then-Text editor who passed on Pig City because they weren’t interested in “fanzine-level journalism”. It was so inspirational I sent them a copy of the 20th anniversary edition
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Anyone who has ever freelanced for Nine mastheads needs to put their name to this, to fight for better rates and conditions that have only gone backwards for 20 years @withmeaa.bsky.social form.jotform.com/243448185467...
Freelancers - Write to Nine Management to Ensure Fair and Secure Rates!
Please click the link to complete this form.
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January 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Anyone who has ever freelanced for Nine mastheads needs to put their name to this, to fight for better rates and conditions that have only gone backwards for 20 years @withmeaa.bsky.social form.jotform.com/243448185467...
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they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh