Lily O’Malley
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Lily O’Malley
@redcatlily.bsky.social
Late diagnosed neurodivergent, anti colonialist
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Australia’s university vice-chancellors are among the highest-paid in the world. But do their generous salaries translate into good student outcomes? 🤔

The data shows, nope.
January 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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"His talk of re-taking the Panama Canal & annexing Greenland is both cringeworthy & entirely serious."

"Alongside far-right members of his inner circle like ‘‘Nazi-style’’ saluter Elon Musk, Trump is building a version of violent imperial power that extends beyond Earth."

@emmashortis.bsky.social
"In 2018, one of the leaders of Trump’s MAGA movement, Steve Bannon, said: “The real opposition is the media. The way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

"Trump is once again flooding the zone. But this time, there’s more purpose. More discipline."

@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
Think the past will protect Australia from Trump’s future? Think again
One of the very few things about our relationship with the US that actually makes us safer is collapsing in real time. We need answers, and quickly.
www.smh.com.au
January 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Trump supporters are already spinning excuses for why he can’t lower egg prices. Their mental gymnastics to defend his broken promises are wild. It’ll be fascinating—and tragic—to see how far they’ll go, even justifying starving to death for him. Cult loyalty knows no bounds.
Eggs may be expensive forever
It's not just bird flu that's causing egg prices to soar. Here's why they've gotten so expensive — and are likely to stay sky-high.
www.businessinsider.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The loyalty some officers show to Trump after he pardoned Jan 6 rioters is baffling. Do they forget the officers who were beaten and crushed that day? He calls the attackers ‘heroes,’ yet you idolize him. How much disregard will it take for you to see his true colors?
January 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A letter, written in earnest, by young Andy.
January 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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If you see someone sleeping in their car, no you didn’t. People just trying to find a safe place for the night aren’t your problem. What kind of person reports that? Mind your business and let folks rest. The world’s hard enough without you making it harder.
January 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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"I remember back then [in the early 2000s] in China, when I was little, when I first started learning English, we practiced writing by pretending that there is a pen pal from the United States or the UK, and we write them in English. That feels very much like what is going on on Red Note right now."
January 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The floods in Lismore made insurance more expensive, and so will the LA fires.

Insurance companies believe in the cost of climate change, and they're adding it to all of our premiums.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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i am watching clips from the hegseth hearings and it is a goddamn insult
to this country that this chucklefuck was even nominated
January 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize
Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize
www.irishtimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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"It doesn't matter whether people believe in #climate change or not.

What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.

That's just the way it works."

- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
January 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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"To be a disabled oracle is someone who tells their truths in a hostile ableist world that does not believe you. The pandemic reveals an attitude that disabled, sick, poor and immunocompromised people are disposable."
Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone’
The activist, who received a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, reflects on a moment that changed her life – and why she finds hope in sci-fi
buff.ly
January 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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There's been some worry about the Aussie dollar falling, but don't panic just yet.

As Chief Economist Greg Jericho explains on the latest Dollars & Sense, it's a lot to do with Trump's tariffs, and is NOT a reason to delay a rate cut.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social
@adamchalksitup.bsky.social #auspol
January 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Twiggy Forrest has called out "net" zero as a "con to maintain fossil fuels" & plans to decarbonise Fortescue.

So, what is "real" zero?

Richard Denniss told ABC Radio Illawarra "real" zero is simple: less bad things & more of the good things.

#auspol #climate @richarddenniss.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Tiktok poured tons of time money and energy into trying to appease lawmakers, but still is facing a ban because of the company’s ties to China.

not sure how elected officials didn’t see this coming… Chinese Tiktok clones are now at the top of the app stores, with none of that work or history
January 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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here is the substack version for those intereste
christinapagel.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
January 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Follow the Money . . .
January 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Monday, January 20 · 7 - 8:30pm GMT

I am supporting @emergentdivergence.com 's webinar which will explore the historical basis of autism as a disorder and how we can use the insights of the neurodiversity movement to move beyond this.
Join us!
Book tickets:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-autism-...
January 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM