Kat*A
@katjavelika.bsky.social
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Kat*A
@katjavelika.bsky.social
· Jun 22
As the voices calling for war, bombings,attacks, assassinations & bloodshed grow louder, we need to raise our voices & call for peace.
No-one raises their children to die in forever wars. No society should watch the endless suffering of the people of Gaza,bUkraine, Iran, Yemen & not call for peace.
No-one raises their children to die in forever wars. No society should watch the endless suffering of the people of Gaza,bUkraine, Iran, Yemen & not call for peace.
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Before One Nation have a chance to get started, it might be useful to remind people that they sought $20 million from US lobby groups like NRA in order to weaken Australia's stellar gun laws. #bondiattack #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
One Nation's James Ashby filmed seeking $20m from NRA to weaken Australia's gun laws
Al-Jazeera journalist posing as gun campaigner films senior party figures in Washington DC soliciting financial support to help One Nation seize the balance of power
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Before One Nation have a chance to get started, it might be useful to remind people that they sought $20 million from US lobby groups like NRA in order to weaken Australia's stellar gun laws. #bondiattack #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Excellent article by Annabel Crabb today - she might want to have a word to Patricia Karvelas and other ABC stablemates
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Pub test differs for Barnaby Joyce and Anika Wells
The "pub test" tends to be applied when we've run out of avenues to pursue a public figure, but are still super annoyed.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Excellent article by Annabel Crabb today - she might want to have a word to Patricia Karvelas and other ABC stablemates
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
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What's a quote or piece of wisdom that sustains you? Maybe we can make a little collection here that people can read through to find what they need.
October 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What's a quote or piece of wisdom that sustains you? Maybe we can make a little collection here that people can read through to find what they need.
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
August 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
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Twitter has become a terminal cancer for our country, a neverending crisis pouring the worst kind of bigotry imaginable into the public mind, and no one will even talk about it. Most of our elites in journalism and politics still rely on it!
August 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Twitter has become a terminal cancer for our country, a neverending crisis pouring the worst kind of bigotry imaginable into the public mind, and no one will even talk about it. Most of our elites in journalism and politics still rely on it!
Utterly heartbroken at the ineptitude of all international organisations - from the UN down - to stop the Israeli takeover of Gaza. Strength and solidarity to the people of Palestine
August 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Utterly heartbroken at the ineptitude of all international organisations - from the UN down - to stop the Israeli takeover of Gaza. Strength and solidarity to the people of Palestine
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totally fine that we are refitting our society and economy around this technology i see no problems down the line whatsoever
can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
www.theverge.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
totally fine that we are refitting our society and economy around this technology i see no problems down the line whatsoever
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AI is a wonder technology that is going to change every industry, which is why
- people have to be forced to use it
- people have to be tricked into paying for it
- people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked
- people have to be forced to use it
- people have to be tricked into paying for it
- people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked
August 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
AI is a wonder technology that is going to change every industry, which is why
- people have to be forced to use it
- people have to be tricked into paying for it
- people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked
- people have to be forced to use it
- people have to be tricked into paying for it
- people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked
@grattaninstitute.bsky.social Aruna Satanapaly is quoted in this piece, among other economists. It’s telling that budget savings are only considered for health and the care economy - why wasn’t defence spending assessed? Or AUKUS?
Will Labor's conversation about everything produce anything much?
Inside Labor, two camps have formed around the government's productivity roundtable: those who doubt Anthony Albanese has the inclination to tackle contentious new policy and those who see a genuine o...
www.abc.net.au
August 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@grattaninstitute.bsky.social Aruna Satanapaly is quoted in this piece, among other economists. It’s telling that budget savings are only considered for health and the care economy - why wasn’t defence spending assessed? Or AUKUS?
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God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
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More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said.
Over 600 malnourished children die in six months in Nigeria, says MSF
Northern Nigeria, which already is struggling with insurgency and banditry, is 'currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis.'
ebx.sh
July 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said.
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What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?
July 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?
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Worth a read.
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Worth a read.
There are no words to describe this level of evil
Starving people, slaughtered in their desperation, just utterly inhumane
Starving people, slaughtered in their desperation, just utterly inhumane
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacre
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
There are no words to describe this level of evil
Starving people, slaughtered in their desperation, just utterly inhumane
Starving people, slaughtered in their desperation, just utterly inhumane
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine owns a stem cell biobank that was once the largest of its kind in the world. But it's now racing to sell off thousands of samples before many of them are discarded. To understand why, see my latest for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
California stem cell agency shutting down unique human tissue biobank
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its partners are selling thousands of stem cell samples before many of them are discarded.
www.statnews.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine owns a stem cell biobank that was once the largest of its kind in the world. But it's now racing to sell off thousands of samples before many of them are discarded. To understand why, see my latest for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
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more than 100 dead now from the flooding in Texas. an outrageous body count given the technology and infrastructure that should've been available to mitigate this.
July 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
more than 100 dead now from the flooding in Texas. an outrageous body count given the technology and infrastructure that should've been available to mitigate this.
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In Hokkaido, Indigenous land rights have added another layer to the division of opinions in Suttsu and Kamoenai over whether to host a permanent underground repository for Japan’s nuclear waste.
Ainu land rights in crosshairs as Hokkaido communities debate nuclear waste
Some scholars and activists are raising concerns that Indigenous voices are not being heard amid the debate over whether to host nuclear waste storage facilities.
www.japantimes.co.jp
July 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In Hokkaido, Indigenous land rights have added another layer to the division of opinions in Suttsu and Kamoenai over whether to host a permanent underground repository for Japan’s nuclear waste.
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Insane that the British Foreign Secretary can meet with the former leader of Al Qaeda in Syria while, at home, on the same day, his government arrested 20 people on 'terrorism offenses' for supporting a non-violent pro-Palestine protest group.
Britain re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria, announces David Lammy
Britain re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria, announces David Lammy
Foreign secretary says it is in UK’s ‘interests to support new government’ as in first visit by British minister for 14 years
Britain is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Syria after the country’s years-long civil war, foreign minister David Lammy has announced during a visit to the capital Damascus.
“There is renewed hope for the Syrian people,” Lammy said in a statement. “It is in our interests to support the new government to deliver their commitment to build a stable, more secure and prosperous future for all Syrians.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Insane that the British Foreign Secretary can meet with the former leader of Al Qaeda in Syria while, at home, on the same day, his government arrested 20 people on 'terrorism offenses' for supporting a non-violent pro-Palestine protest group.
This brilliant description is equally applicable to the Australian PM, Anthony Albanese
"...a man who moves through politics like a Roomba moves through your living room: without a plan, capable of mapping the territory only when he bangs into things and has to reverse."
Newsletter's out.
Newsletter's out.
Why is Keir Starmer Like A Roomba, And Other Questions
This week: fine, I will think about British politics again if I must. Also: the partition of Germany that never was; and Charley goes to New Town.
jonn.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This brilliant description is equally applicable to the Australian PM, Anthony Albanese