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Chords for this demo. Vibing to Always by grentperez. The progression is super satisfying to loop. Get your fingers ready. Source:
https://chordyes.com/chord/grentperez-always
#guitarstand #guitartuner #australian #malevocalist #soul #pop #singersongwriter
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Chords for this demo. Vibing to Always by grentperez. The progression is super satisfying to loop. Get your fingers ready. Source:
https://chordyes.com/chord/grentperez-always
#guitarstand #guitartuner #australian #malevocalist #soul #pop #singersongwriter
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Chords for this demo. Vibing to Always by grentperez. The progression is super satisfying to loop. Get your fingers ready. Source:
https://chordyes.com/chord/grentperez-always
#guitarstand #guitartuner #australian #malevocalist #soul #pop #singersongwriter
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Chords for this demo. Vibing to Always by grentperez. The progression is super satisfying to loop. Get your fingers ready. Source:
https://chordyes.com/chord/grentperez-always
#guitarstand #guitartuner #australian #malevocalist #soul #pop #singersongwriter
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Chords for this demo. Vibing to Always by grentperez. The progression is super satisfying to loop. Get your fingers ready. Source:
https://chordyes.com/chord/grentperez-always
#guitarstand #guitartuner #australian #malevocalist #soul #pop #singersongwriter
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After a 2 year legal battle to punish a prominent #Australian #journalist for her public #criticism of #IsraelsGenocide in #Gaza, the #ZionistFederationOfAustralia withdrew its case on Thursday.
“This is a win for every Australian who values our democratic right to freedom of political expression,” #Kostakidis said.
She said: “The purpose of #journalism is to get to the truth – fearlessly – and to hold power to account. This is a win for press freedom, which has prevailed.” #auspol #Gaza
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After a 2 year legal battle to punish a prominent #Australian #journalist for her public #criticism of #IsraelsGenocide in #Gaza, the #ZionistFederationOfAustralia withdrew its case on Thursday.
“This is a win for every Australian who values our democratic right to freedom of political expression,” #Kostakidis said.
She said: “The purpose of #journalism is to get to the truth – fearlessly – and to hold power to account. This is a win for press freedom, which has prevailed.” #auspol #Gaza
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The #Australian government has kept secret the Office of National Intelligence climate risks report for three years.
Select senators, who had signed an NDA and seen it, said it's "Frankly terrifying" -
Criss Canning (b.1947)
Criss Canning (b.1947) is well known for her still life paintings of flowers and interior scenes. via felliamelasgallery #PalianSHOW -
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Look, I’m an avid reader of #AmyRemeikis columns and I share most of her political views. Her reporting, opinion pieces and books are packed full of facts and level-headed analysis. But in this article, I have to strongly disagree with her (in part). Her view that #Australian #Sovereignty is imperiled by the #AUKUS Agreement(s) — towit: Tiers One and Two — is quite factually over the top (and I’m refraining from using the term hysterical out of respect). History simply does not bear her opinion out. Not in the case of the #UK since 1962. Not #Japan since the 50s. And not #NATO countries since the start of the Cold War. Nor anywhere else where the #US has shared its military technology in exchange for long term basing facilities (of whatever form and size). The #Philippines even kicked them out, though they’ve let the US back in since (I guess they saw the light and #China helped them with that).
As for suggesting that the #RAN might be unable to control #Australian owned #Virigina boats due to, I presume, the fake-news that some ‘US cut-off switch’ exists, is absolute bullocks. Virginia boats have dual US-UK nationality (in terms of its engineering and component parts), if there was such a switch we would know about it from the UK. To boot, the personal relationship which forged and currently maintain #UKUSA are too strategically important to all participants for any such ‘switch’, though cooling-off periods and niggly spats have occurred since 1942 - all resolved with the strength of many high-level relationships and 5-Eyes strategic imperatives.
Resources:
https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
https://www.twz.com/latest
John Fahey’s The Factory,Allen&Unwin 2023
Anthony R. Wells’s Between Five Eyes, Big Sky Publishing, 2021No, #Marles didn’t say as much (see article). The MInister is reveling in playing the press — and the Australian public — because he *knows* and we don’t. That’s his job in this #secrecy obsessed #Labor govt. Make what you will of his words, just don’t extrapolate by pretending you know what he means by them.
Enjoy Amy’s column here:
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/09/09/sovereignty-albanese-govt -
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Look, I’m an avid reader of #AmyRemeikis columns and I share most of her political views. Her reporting, opinion pieces and books are packed full of facts and level-headed analysis. But in this article, I have to strongly disagree with her (in part). Her view that #Australian #Sovereignty is imperiled by the #AUKUS Agreement(s) — towit: Tiers One and Two — is quite factually over the top (and I’m refraining from using the term hysterical out of respect). History simply does not bear her opinion out. Not in the case of the #UK since 1962. Not #Japan since the 50s. And not #NATO countries since the start of the Cold War. Nor anywhere else where the #US has shared its military technology in exchange for long term basing facilities (of whatever form and size). The #Philippines even kicked them out, though they’ve let the US back in since (I guess they saw the light and #China helped them with that).
As for suggesting that the #RAN might be unable to control #Australian owned #Virigina boats due to, I presume, the fake-news that some ‘US cut-off switch’ exists, is absolute bullocks. Virginia boats have dual US-UK nationality (in terms of its engineering and component parts), if there was such a switch we would know about it from the UK. To boot, the personal relationship which forged and currently maintain #UKUSA are too strategically important to all participants for any such ‘switch’, though cooling-off periods and niggly spats have occurred since 1942 - all resolved with the strength of many high-level relationships and 5-Eyes strategic imperatives.
Resources:
https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
https://www.twz.com/latest
John Fahey’s The Factory,Allen&Unwin 2023
Anthony R. Wells’s Between Five Eyes, Big Sky Publishing, 2021No, #Marles didn’t say as much (see article). The MInister is reveling in playing the press — and the Australian public — because he *knows* and we don’t. That’s his job in this #secrecy obsessed #Labor govt. Make what you will of his words, just don’t extrapolate by pretending you know what he means by them.
Enjoy Amy’s column here:
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/09/09/sovereignty-albanese-govt -
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Look, I’m an avid reader of #AmyRemeikis columns and I share most of her political views. Her reporting, opinion pieces and books are packed full of facts and level-headed analysis. But in this article, I have to strongly disagree with her (in part). Her view that #Australian #Sovereignty is imperiled by the #AUKUS Agreement(s) — towit: Tiers One and Two — is quite factually over the top (and I’m refraining from using the term hysterical out of respect). History simply does not bear her opinion out. Not in the case of the #UK since 1962. Not #Japan since the 50s. And not #NATO countries since the start of the Cold War. Nor anywhere else where the #US has shared its military technology in exchange for long term basing facilities (of whatever form and size). The #Philippines even kicked them out, though they’ve let the US back in since (I guess they saw the light and #China helped them with that).
As for suggesting that the #RAN might be unable to control #Australian owned #Virigina boats due to, I presume, the fake-news that some ‘US cut-off switch’ exists, is absolute bullocks. Virginia boats have dual US-UK nationality (in terms of its engineering and component parts), if there was such a switch we would know about it from the UK. To boot, the personal relationship which forged and currently maintain #UKUSA are too strategically important to all participants for any such ‘switch’, though cooling-off periods and niggly spats have occurred since 1942 - all resolved with the strength of many high-level relationships and 5-Eyes strategic imperatives.
Resources:
https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
https://www.twz.com/latest
John Fahey’s The Factory,Allen&Unwin 2023
Anthony R. Wells’s Between Five Eyes, Big Sky Publishing, 2021No, #Marles didn’t say as much (see article). The MInister is reveling in playing the press — and the Australian public — because he *knows* and we don’t. That’s his job in this #secrecy obsessed #Labor govt. Make what you will of his words, just don’t extrapolate by pretending you know what he means by them.
Enjoy Amy’s column here:
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/09/09/sovereignty-albanese-govt -
[edited for typos - there’s always some]
Look, I’m an avid reader of #AmyRemeikis columns and I share most of her political views. Her reporting, opinion pieces and books are packed full of facts and level-headed analysis. But in this article, I have to strongly disagree with her (in part). Her view that #Australian #Sovereignty is imperiled by the #AUKUS Agreement(s) — towit: Tiers One and Two — is quite factually over the top (and I’m refraining from using the term hysterical out of respect). History simply does not bear her opinion out. Not in the case of the #UK since 1962. Not #Japan since the 50s. And not #NATO countries since the start of the Cold War. Nor anywhere else where the #US has shared its military technology in exchange for long term basing facilities (of whatever form and size). The #Philippines even kicked them out, though they’ve let the US back in since (I guess they saw the light and #China helped them with that).
As for suggesting that the #RAN might be unable to control #Australian owned #Virigina boats due to, I presume, the fake-news that some ‘US cut-off switch’ exists, is absolute bullocks. Virginia boats have dual US-UK nationality (in terms of its engineering and component parts), if there was such a switch we would know about it from the UK. To boot, the personal relationship which forged and currently maintain #UKUSA are too strategically important to all participants for any such ‘switch’, though cooling-off periods and niggly spats have occurred since 1942 - all resolved with the strength of many high-level relationships and 5-Eyes strategic imperatives.
Resources:
https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
https://www.twz.com/latest
John Fahey’s The Factory,Allen&Unwin 2023
Anthony R. Wells’s Between Five Eyes, Big Sky Publishing, 2021No, #Marles didn’t say as much (see article). The MInister is reveling in playing the press — and the Australian public — because he *knows* and we don’t. That’s his job in this #secrecy obsessed #Labor govt. Make what you will of his words, just don’t extrapolate by pretending you know what he means by them.
Enjoy Amy’s column here:
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/09/09/sovereignty-albanese-govt -
[edited for typos - there’s always some]
Look, I’m an avid reader of #AmyRemeikis columns and I share most of her political views. Her reporting, opinion pieces and books are packed full of facts and level-headed analysis. But in this article, I have to strongly disagree with her (in part). Her view that #Australian #Sovereignty is imperiled by the #AUKUS Agreement(s) — towit: Tiers One and Two — is quite factually over the top (and I’m refraining from using the term hysterical out of respect). History simply does not bear her opinion out. Not in the case of the #UK since 1962. Not #Japan since the 50s. And not #NATO countries since the start of the Cold War. Nor anywhere else where the #US has shared its military technology in exchange for long term basing facilities (of whatever form and size). The #Philippines even kicked them out, though they’ve let the US back in since (I guess they saw the light and #China helped them with that).
As for suggesting that the #RAN might be unable to control #Australian owned #Virigina boats due to, I presume, the fake-news that some ‘US cut-off switch’ exists, is absolute bullocks. Virginia boats have dual US-UK nationality (in terms of its engineering and component parts), if there was such a switch we would know about it from the UK. To boot, the personal relationship which forged and currently maintain #UKUSA are too strategically important to all participants for any such ‘switch’, though cooling-off periods and niggly spats have occurred since 1942 - all resolved with the strength of many high-level relationships and 5-Eyes strategic imperatives.
Resources:
https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
https://www.twz.com/latest
John Fahey’s The Factory,Allen&Unwin 2023
Anthony R. Wells’s Between Five Eyes, Big Sky Publishing, 2021No, #Marles didn’t say as much (see article). The MInister is reveling in playing the press — and the Australian public — because he *knows* and we don’t. That’s his job in this #secrecy obsessed #Labor govt. Make what you will of his words, just don’t extrapolate by pretending you know what he means by them.
Enjoy Amy’s column here:
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/09/09/sovereignty-albanese-govt -
Just got these chords done. Strumming Racist Friend by Bodyjar. Great message. Try the harmony. Full chords:
https://chordyes.com/chord/bodyjar-racist-friend
#guitarlessons #musician #australian #punkrock #malevocalist #socialcommentary #rebellious
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I've been on a bird kick after talking with the Sarasota Audubon Society about some of my bird art. :)
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/soft-white-cockatoo-bird-art-sharon-cummings.html#art #artwork #artist #artists #Florida #Floridalife #bird #birds #birdart #birding #birdwatching #australia #australian #cockatoos #cockatoo #parrot #parrots #pets #animals #tropical #beach #beachy #coastal #coastalliving #rainforest #SharonCummingsArt #Sarasota #fun #whimsical #cute #buyintoart #nature #naturelovers #birdlovers #homedecor
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Giant ‘sea scorpions’ hunted #Australian waters like sharks.
The two NSW sea scorpion or “eurypterid” fossils, which are in the order of 400 million years old, shed new light on how these fearsome creatures reigned in the #Paleozoic era.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/350392767/giant-sea-scorpions-hunted-australian-waters-sharks #fossils
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CW: Aussie terrorist destinations need some timely revisions
I need to finish these emails… constructive feedback welcome… but I'm not looking for s heated debate.
THE LONG RANT VERSION…
Dear (Australian MPs or senators),
We need to revoke the permissions we have given Israel to wage a #war of total obliteration in #Gaza.
Thus #Australia should remove the political wing of Hamas from our designated #terrorist entity list. If we designate any related entity as terrorist, it should only include the divisions of the organisation that were directly involved in attacks on #civilians in Israel.
I don't like Hamas - I disagree with them on almost every issue - but the leadership of #Palestine should be chosen by Palestinians. Israeli or foreign imposed regimes will only exacerbate #violence.
Hamas is a political party, their militant wing is the Al-Qassam Brigades. Their relationship is roughly analogous to #SinnFein and the #IRA. The militant wing is the only division that is directly involved in attacks on Israel.
The rest of Hamas is a #civilian government. They were overdue for an election, but they have been in long term talks with the #Fatah opposition party to re-establish democracy in Palestine.
Designating the entire Hamas-led #government as terrorist lets the #IDF claim everything in #Gaza is a valid #military target. Including hospitals, police, banks, and every other facet of civilian rule. Even aid distribution efforts from Gaza's internal police force are being labelled "terrorist activity" by the IDF.
By designating the entirety of Gaza's governing party as terrorist Australia are effectively giving permission to the IDF to destroy everything in Gaza. Because everything is "Hamas infrastructure".
In in addition to the possibility of genocide (deemed "plausible" by the International Court of Justice) even the disingenuously alleged goals of this war - the total destruction of Hamas - will make the world less safe, and INCREASE the risk of #terrorism
If Australia's goal in shunning those listed entities is to reduce terrorism then including Hamas is unwarranted and possibly counter productive. In addition to the #undemocratic aspect of shunning an entire major political party based on the demands of outsiders.
Israel's current plan to completely exterminate the Hamas government is going to massively increase the real risk of #terrorism
The IDF are doing almost exactly what the #USA did (with Australian support despite massive public outcry) in #Iraq to the #Iraqi Ba'athist party. That disastrous attempt to completely dismantle a government and impose one from the outside ended up contributing to the rise of #ISIS
The IDF are using our excessively broad #terror designation (and others - by supposedly #democratic countries) to justify fighting the war in ways that would never usually be acceptable. They are looting millions of dollars "to stop it getting to Hamas" - #looting is a #WarCrime - they are systematically killing police officers who are not engaged in any offensive action against Israel, and they are trying to completely obliterate any #Palestinian civilian control of the Gaza Strip.
Arguably Australia should remove the special “terrorist” designation from #AlQassam military wing of Hamas as well. We can maintain normal measures (such as financial sanctions), like we would for any other violent organised crime network or a normal foreign military that has committed war crimes.But this giving them a special “terrorist” label, is acting like an endorsement of the IDF throwing out the rule book when fighting in Gaza.
The IDF have no intention of merely overthrowing Hamas or #demilitarising Gaza. They plan to execute nearly 40,000 suspected members of Hamas' militant wing, and the IDF are clearly willing to wipe out their entire families in the process. When the IDF talk about #HumanShields what this often means is the IDF barely bother trying to target actual combatants, they routinely kill their opponents by bombing family homes. Having a family is not “using human shields” it is simply being human!
Australia cannot claim to be unaware of the IDF using this strategy. The IDF killed two of our citizens this way in #Lebanon last year, Ali and Ibrahim Bazzi. Fighting for #Hezbollah is illegal under Australian law, and I am not saying we should change that, but summary execution for Ali's suspected involvement is in no way a #proportionate or morally acceptable penalty, especially when it directly causes the death of his brother Ibrahim in the process. Ibrahim was also an Australian citizen from #Sydney and he was due home shortly after he was killed, Ibrahim was not even suspected of fighting for Hezbollah.
We should not accept this total disregard for justice and morality. We ignored the summary execution of an Australian while he was at home with his family, meaning even Ali was NOT a #combatant, and now, predictably, it escalated to #Australian aid workers being murdered in Gaza.
We should hold Israel accountable for their violence. But ending the special terrorism designation of Hamas in Palestine and demanding justice for our citizens who were killed in Lebanon.
Sincerely,
(full name)
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Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?
#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots
#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post
and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/
The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?
Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.
But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.
But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?
I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.
a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState
cc other mes @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
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Happy Pride Month! In this episode of #Elden_Ring, I finally attend the #Academy_of_Raya_Lucaria and have a lecture with the lovely #Rennala... where queer shenanigans ensue! 🏳️⚧️🥚🏳️🌈
🔗 https://youtu.be/EYfwByXLGGQ
#EldenRing #EldenRingGameplay #Elden_Ring_Gameplay #Soulsborne #SoulsborneCommunity #EldenRingCommunity #LGBTQIA+ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Transgender #GenderDiverse #Gender_Diverse #Charagender #Nonbinary #Trans #Enby #Egg #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023 #Pride_Month #Pride_Month_2023 #Academy #AcademyOfRayaLucaria #Liurnia #LiurniaOfTheLakes #Liurnia_of_the_Lakes #Glintstone_Dragon_Smarag #GlintstoneDragonSmarag #Smarag #Glintstone #Dragon #Key #GlintstoneKey #Glintstone_Key #RedWolfOfRadagon #Red_Wolf_of_Radagon #RedWolf #Red_Wolf #Wolf #RennalaQueenOfTheFullMoon #Rennala_Queen_of_the_Full_Moon #BellBearingHunter #Bell_Bearing_Hunter #Ensha #EnshaOfTheRoyalRemains #Ensha_of_the_Royal_Remains #FirstPlaythrough #First_Playthrough #Gaming #VideoGames #Commentary #Kabba_Plays #Australian #Aussie #Neurodivergent #Leftist #Fantasy #FantasyGames #Fantasy_Games #Kabbaway #Kabba #Kab #Kabbidge #Kabbidges #A_Quirky_Australian #Gday_Websurfers
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#December 4, 1896
#OTD Edna Walling, #Australian #GardenDesigner & #Writer, is born.Edna's #Naturalistic #Gardens never felt #Contrived or overly planned.
Edna #Randomly threw #Potatoes on the ground, & planted #Trees in those spots.
If potatoes landed almost on top of each other, Edna let the chips (or #PotatoChips 😂) fall where they may.
Edna embraced the #Beauty of #Random.
#Landscape #Design #Gardener #Plants #Flowers #DesignTricks #Hack #Nature #Wild #Garden
#GardenersofMastodon
