Phil Scott
@scottpt.bsky.social
Retired chalkie, Grandpa, politically progressive. Rides motorbikes, flies planes and plays in a pipe band.
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The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
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This is exactly why, by the end of the 1980s, a Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, could stand up at the UN General Assembly and say climate action was essential.
Because it was already clear, scientific, material reality.
Then the lying really started.
Because it was already clear, scientific, material reality.
Then the lying really started.
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
August 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This is exactly why, by the end of the 1980s, a Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, could stand up at the UN General Assembly and say climate action was essential.
Because it was already clear, scientific, material reality.
Then the lying really started.
Because it was already clear, scientific, material reality.
Then the lying really started.
“You are not losing your mind: the actual mad men are those in power.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones
Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“You are not losing your mind: the actual mad men are those in power.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oh lordy, Jacinta Price. What a fiasco. Just a melange of slogans. Literally saying Aboriginal people should be heard after helping to defeat The Voice.
May 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Oh lordy, Jacinta Price. What a fiasco. Just a melange of slogans. Literally saying Aboriginal people should be heard after helping to defeat The Voice.
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Dutton's policy is to give people who can already afford to enter the housing market a tax payer subsidy for five years on the repayments they can already afford to make. It does not increase supply, help lower income people get a deposit, or enter the market. It's a tax break for the wealthy.
In all the talk about Dutton bringing his son on the campaign trail to try and prove he 'gets' the housing market issues, one thing is missing – his housing policy only benefits people like his son who is already wealthy enough to get into it live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/04/aust...
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Dutton's policy is to give people who can already afford to enter the housing market a tax payer subsidy for five years on the repayments they can already afford to make. It does not increase supply, help lower income people get a deposit, or enter the market. It's a tax break for the wealthy.
Definitely worth reading.
This is an absolutely spot on analysis of Putin by @radiofreetom.bsky.social .
His background in Soviet studies serves him, and us, so well here
His background in Soviet studies serves him, and us, so well here
Literally begging people to read @radiofreetom.bsky.social I. @theatlantic.com today (I’ve gifted the link to you) because facts matter, history matters, expertise - expertise like his - MATTERS, IT COUNTS, IT IS CRUCIAL, OH MY GOD: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
February 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Definitely worth reading.
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“Shawn, who is Jewish, said—that Israel is “doing evil that is just as great as what the Nazis did.”
“And anybody who doesn’t recognize that it’s evil, I can’t, probably, communicate with that person. That might be temporary insanity.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
“And anybody who doesn’t recognize that it’s evil, I can’t, probably, communicate with that person. That might be temporary insanity.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
‘Princess Bride’ Actor Wallace Shawn Compares Israeli Treatment of Gaza to Nazi Germany
“Some of them might in 10 years wake up and say, ‘Why did I justify that?’”
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“Shawn, who is Jewish, said—that Israel is “doing evil that is just as great as what the Nazis did.”
“And anybody who doesn’t recognize that it’s evil, I can’t, probably, communicate with that person. That might be temporary insanity.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
“And anybody who doesn’t recognize that it’s evil, I can’t, probably, communicate with that person. That might be temporary insanity.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.
January 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.
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The Coalition is playing voters for mugs once again with its nuclear costings
By Laura Tingle
Nuclear reactors by 2036?
Sure. And I’ll have a flying car, a pet robot, and Australia will win Eurovision.
Love a good fantasy tale .. 🙄
#auspol
By Laura Tingle
Nuclear reactors by 2036?
Sure. And I’ll have a flying car, a pet robot, and Australia will win Eurovision.
Love a good fantasy tale .. 🙄
#auspol
There's something spookily familiar about how Dutton handled his nuclear plan
The opposition finally unveiled its much-promised nuclear energy costings yesterday. It will be hoping Labor continues to prove it is not very good at politics.
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2024 at 9:52 PM
The Coalition is playing voters for mugs once again with its nuclear costings
By Laura Tingle
Nuclear reactors by 2036?
Sure. And I’ll have a flying car, a pet robot, and Australia will win Eurovision.
Love a good fantasy tale .. 🙄
#auspol
By Laura Tingle
Nuclear reactors by 2036?
Sure. And I’ll have a flying car, a pet robot, and Australia will win Eurovision.
Love a good fantasy tale .. 🙄
#auspol
This is a very good list of progressive Aussie folks to follow on here.
want to quickly follow a bunch of aussies who have moved from X/twitter recently?
go.bsky.app/F46ebLH
go.bsky.app/F46ebLH
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
This is a very good list of progressive Aussie folks to follow on here.