Diane Livesey

Human assistant to Buffy, the Blue Burmese. Yearning for leadership that is caring and visionary. Just retired proud public educator. All views are my own.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

And don’t get me started on these so-called call centres: a room full of poor bloody Filipinos or Bangladeshis, making $1.50 an hour for a 10 hour day, and given 10 possible responses to parrot to any given query.

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

Congratulations News Corp -- ten great years of appearing in the ATO's company tax data without paying a cent in tax on tens of billions of revenue!

But keep on lecturing us about how the country should be run!

https://t.co/rbNeyPEk6S

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Why are developers allowed to build future slums like this? All the trees bulldozed. Houses a metre apart. Hardly a solar panel to be seen. The answer of course is money, profit. And they get away with it.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump's DHS Secretary, following the 58th death in ICE custody:

"What we do at Homeland Security is not controversial"

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

I wonder why people don't look at data when they talk about the economy.
The role of public sector demand is a case in point.
Here are the quarterly contributions to GDP growth from public & private demand in the last couple of years:
Public Private
Dec 24. 0.0% 0.5%
Mar 25. 0.0% 0.4%
Jun 25. 0.1% 0.5%
Sep 25. 0.4% 0.8%
Dec 25. 0.2% 0.4%
Mar 26. -0.1% 1.0%
Jun 26. 0.1% 0.2%
Qtr avg: 0.1% 0.5%

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

A listener asks: "Do you think business leaders and politicians consider Trump a “stable genius” or a “useful idiot?”

[Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell]

The US has a large military presence on Australian soil - due to decisions made by both major parties - and has only increased under the current Labor Govt.

This 👇 should concern all of us greatly.

What a betrayal by Labor 😞😞 #auspol

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Misspelling the name of your own country in a document about super intelligence is an impressive feat.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This administration will be studied for generations.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Superintelligence community has a spelling error 🤣

[The Singleton Argus @SingletonArgus]

This year there have been 262 air quality alerts for the Upper Hunter. IPC’ s approval of HVO they said air quality impacts can be mitigated. The question is when and how? The community has been calling for a health study on the cumulative impacts of air pollution for 15 yrs.

[Malcolm Farr @farrm51]

Many decades ago I worked in The Australian’s Melbourne bureau.
Journos sat in a line from most senior back to junior ranks. Only person behind me was the finance cadet. These days I would be well behind him. Best wishes Alan.

[Anncaro1 🙄🤣 @Anncaro11]

Walking to school , the local public school. Engaging with the local community , one of the unsung benefits of public education. Building community cohesion. #nswpubliceducation @NSWEducation

[Lee-Anne Walker 🌸🦋🍃 @L_AWalker]

Brava Melissa Clarke💃🏼, across all areas #Insiders
An assured, insightful, informed journalist and panelist🥇
#Auspol

[Richard D Boyle @Richard_D_Boyle]

That’s such a creepy, fucked up thing to do.

Kind of like the dweeb at school that nobody liked who always dobbed on people.

No wonder so many people can’t stand the State of Israel anymore. 🇮🇱

[Aprajita Nafs Nefes 🦋 Ancient Believer @aprajitanefes]

🇮🇷|🪳Israel has the bombs. Iran gets bombed.

Pezeshkian said it at the UN. And the world heard it:

"Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran."

"Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in Gaza, but Iran, while behind the table of negotiation, was bombed."

"Israel has the bombs, has weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, during her shameful life has not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded by all the means necessary for them to be able to bomb any capital in the region at will."

Read that again.

Israel has nuclear weapons. Israel is not in the NPT. Israel has never allowed a single IAEA inspection. Israel has killed over 70,000 people in Gaza. And Israel gets rewarded with American bombs, American money, American vetoes.

Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. Iran is in the NPT. Iran allows inspections. Iran was at the negotiating table. And Iran gets bombed.

This isn't about security. It's not about non-proliferation. It's about power. The power to define who is allowed to have weapons and who is not. The power to define who gets bombed and who gets rewarded.

And the answer is always the same: Israel gets the bombs, Iran gets the sanctions.

They don't want a nuclear-free Middle East. They want an Israel-dominated Middle East.

That's the truth. And Pezeshkian said it to their faces.

#Iran #UNGA #Pezeshkian #Israel #NuclearHypocrisy #DoubleStandard

[Anthony Klan @Anthony_Klan]

🚨The Exclusive Brethren was highly active at remote, NT Indigenous polling booths at the last federal election, an inquiry has heard.

Inquiry told Gina Rinehart's private jet ferried Brethren members.

Rinehart rejects the claims as "fake news" ...
https://t.co/cn70RPpafU

[Calliss Clan (@callissclan.bsky.social) @CallissClan]

SAD NEWS 😭 Life on the farm isn’t always beer & skittles - this morning I found our darling #Cricket had been mauled & I’ve just had to have her put down. I patted & reassured her til her last breath. Abla’s last baby & our smallest, most vulnerable sheep. Rest easy, sweet girl.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Xi smiling because he knows the "gold" accessories were bought on Temu