Look deep into nature....

Nature Lover

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Invasive species are doing huge damage to our continent's incredible biodiversity. Cats alone kill over two billion reptiles, birds and mammals per year. Add in foxes, cane toads, carp and other invasives, and native species are under massive pressure.

We have the resources and tools to protect native species - all that's missing is political will and investment.
https://t.co/0MhxlQxQ09

[Look deep into nature.... @DevoLive]

@7AFL Hopefully that umpire gets drug tested.

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Little Rainforest Weevil!💛🖤
This beautiful little beetle gem, Enteles vigorsii, is only found in the Gondwana rainforests of QLD & NSW.🌳

I have always wanted to see this species, so I was SO EXCITED to get the chance to see one near Brisbane in 2024! 😍

[Toad @LearnToToad]

White smoke emerges from White House as Trump declares himself the new Pope

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.”

Remembering the late great

KURT VONNEGUT

who left us 19yrs ago today.

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

EVs, renewables and storage not just climate action

They’re strategic assets that bolster energy security

Charged on Aus solar and wind, EVs reduce oil imports and cut household fuel costs

Past scare campaigns on EVs delayed opportunities for Australia to reduce oil dependence

[news.com.au @newscomauHQ]

It is the viral video of a “grub” act that all Australians should find shocking. For the first time, the full story is coming out.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Most Dangerous Idiot In The Room

Here is a man who once rang a New York newspaper under a fake name to tell them how extraordinarily wealthy he was. Not because he needed anything. Not because there was a point to be made. Simply because the silence in his own head had become unbearable without someone, anyone, confirming that he existed and that he was tremendous.

Donald Trump is, by any reasonable measure, the most catastrophically self-regarding human being ever to be handed the nuclear codes. And I have met some truly spectacular idiots in my time. I once watched a man try to overtake a lorry on a blind corner in a Robin Reliant. Trump makes that man look like a careful, considered intellectual.

The thing about genuinely dangerous people is that they are usually more threatening to their friends than their enemies. Trump has torched more alliances, betrayed more loyalists and humiliated more supporters than any foreign adversary could dream of.

He opened Pandora’s box across the Middle East with the casual confidence of someone who has never actually read about the Middle East. Or anything else, for that matter. The plan, as far as anyone could tell, was to fly in, rearrange the furniture and leave with a deal so beautiful it would make your eyes water. What actually happened is what always happens when a man with no knowledge and no patience tries to solve a problem that has been fermenting since before America existed.

Almost a billion people in allied nations looked at what was happening and reached the same conclusion simultaneously: this man is not well, we have nothing in common with him, and he understands nothing about anything.

He calls himself a Christian. A deeply devout one, apparently. Although when asked his favourite Bible verse, he declines to share it. Because it is personal. Which is an interesting position for a man who has made absolutely everything else about himself a matter of loud, relentless, exhausting public record.

The verse is personal. The fraud trials were not. The affairs were not. The bankruptcies were not. The fake newspaper calls were not. But the Bible verse. That stays between him and God.

Which tells you everything, really.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

@barkmeta

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Trump is finding out the hard way that you can’t tariff Europe, abandon Ukraine, praise Putin, threaten to invade Greenland, constantly insult Europe, and then expect Europe’s support in an illegal and badly planned war built on lies that he launched without warning us

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

This song was written in 20 minutes of pure rage after hearing how a senator got his son out of the draft for Vietnam...

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him.

He did not stop.

Then one stranger got up and joined him.
Then another.

Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field.

Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world."

The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them.

Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

[Jemaine Clement @AJemaineClement]

You don't think that the guy who bought the Miss Teen USA pageant, bragged about watching them getting changed and was best friends with pedophile and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein should be investigated about accusations about him and Jeffrey Epstein? Oh yeah, I'm sure you're right.

[Look deep into nature.... @DevoLive]

So people clearly were impressed by the LNP dropping net zero as a policy. Look how their poll numbers have shot upwards since then. Woops I read the graph upside down.

[Gail 💦 @GailCoastie]

#auspol Angus Taylor and his family@have been very very lucky.

[Gail 💦 @GailCoastie]

#auspol Maybe Angus Taylor can explain how his family received these very generous grants?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Springsteen ! Brilliant ! Play it loud. https://t.co/gKPEUUBJWM