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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Have just seen a recent little clip of Jane Fonda and struggling to recognise her... 👀🤯

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/statement-on-cancellation-of-chris-hedges-confirmed-appearance-at-the-national-press-club-of-australia #auspol

Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia

AFOPA is responding to the statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club on 20 October 2025.

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 8h

The house of my dreams. Roy Grounds. #mcm
https://www.jelliscraig.com.au/property-details-1-24-Hill-Street-Toorak/1809485

Sir Roy Grounds House: A modernist masterpiece

Expressions of Interest closing Tuesday 28th October at 2pm A rare and remarkable generational opportunity exists to acquire this architecturally significant…

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

How ludicrous. What cowards.

"SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news stories despite the federal government recognising its statehood at the UN last month, as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high in newsrooms across the country two years after the […]

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 22h

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Grey cat asleep on a green towel on a sunny windowsill.

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Flow - tilla. 😱

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

PM Albanese fails to acknowledge genocide https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1440/analysis/pm-albanese-fails-acknowledge-genocide #auspol

PM Albanese again fails to acknowledge genocide

Anthony Albanese’s October 7 statement is further evidence of his government’s complicity, including lies by omission, argues Alex Bainbridge.

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

A small poster in an obscure corner of a window at my local #palestinian bakery. #gaza #palestine

The Butcher if Gaza is the title, and the pic is an unsmiling Netanyahu in butcher's apron, his hands bloodied, handling a knife and bits of meat.

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

7 October 2023: shocking yes, surprising no https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/7-october-2023-shocking-yes-surprising-no #auspol

7 October 2023: shocking yes, surprising no

A new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Road to October 7 - a brief history of Palestinian Islamism, by Erik Skare, shows how the seeds of the Gaza war were sown over decades.

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Former Agriculture secretary Adam Fennessy's payout revealed ($900,000 !!) | The Canberra Times (paywalled). #auspol
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9083762/

Secretary's $900k payout revealed in Senate estimates

Department under fire for being 'cagey' about public servant's shock departure.

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@frogglin Just found your lovely postcard darls, thank you, so nice to receive something other than junk in the box. The most expensive postage I've ever seen for a postcard too, outrageous! 🙏😄

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Australians in the Gaza flotilla safely extracted from an Israeli detention centre, one of the last groups to be rescued, and now safe in Jordan. The Australian govt did nothing to help, apparently, with other govts being pivotal in the rescue. And now they must find their way home somehow. This […]

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Perfect weather for return to Wednesday landcare today. I miss my girls though.

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Kitteh quite pleased to see me after my 9 days away, and after his 2 days alone at home. Short episode of obligatory howling, but now we're into the serious cuddling stage. ❤️

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Wall to wall October 7th coverage which of course overwhelmingly favours the Zionist view. 'Commemorations' is the WOTD 😡. This is predictable but distressing, especially in light of the genocide and what we're now hearing are the *real* facts of that day 2 years ago. #gaza #palestine #auspol

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The attached article (the website is back up again and the link works now) is a detailed account of what happened on 7 October 2023. The account differs substantially from what Western media has been reporting ever since.

I don’t know what happened and it is hard to remove the automatic […]

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Highly recommend the Man Ray and Max Dupain photography thingy at Heide. We also popped up to the cottage for some nostalgia; couple of lovely Joy Hesters on show ❤️.

View of the lush green grounds at Heide, with the old cottage peeking out of the trees on the left and some crazy corrugated iron cows grazing on the lawn. Lots of fluffy clouds in a blue sky.

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Last school run done, on way to Heide before we head home. There's something ridiculous going on here in Heidelberg near the freeway, construction site the size of a planet but wtf is it???

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Another of himself's (window) shopping expeditions: Thornbury, Fitzroy, East Brunsick. At least 27 trams and 2 buses, gah! How do I let myself get sucked into these things?! Lola was a trouper, not a single whinge. Now we collect Bonnie from school, then swimming lessons. #drink #nodrink

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 3d

We're at ballet: 4 year olds. Impossibly cute. ❤️

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating segment this morning about Orcadian explorer John Rae. His story is incredible. His unpleasant truth about the Franklin expedition led to him dying in some disgrace and obscurity, his reputation only restored later when his account was validated. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ra...

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Girls very pleased to see Ro Ro. The highlight of the evening was when he blew his nose (grandpa trumpet) and they fell about laughing, predictably. We'll walk to Bonnie's school in the morning with the girls on bikes, then we have Lola to ourselves for the day. 🤎🎉

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Tram adventures this morning. East Brunswick to Hawthorn, to visit an old friend of the family. Hadn't seen her for decades, then she popped up at a funeral recently in Bowral, what a lovely surprise. Tramming to hers for lunch. 🥂🎉

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Daylight saving. Spent some time this morning talking to Bonnie about it (she's 8), and watched the cogs whirring all day. 🤣

Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Have just finished Question 7 by Richard Flanagan, who nearly suffered the same fate aged 21: a gripping closing chapter in which he describes 'dying' and miraculously coming back to life, after hours of rescue operations […]

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