Kerry

[Heather Ewart @heatherewart1]

Shout out to school kids of all ages nationwide, their teachers and parents that the deadline for this year’s #DorotheaMackellar poetry awards competition is June 30. Get those entries in

[Kerry @frivolk]

Is that the end of my tether I see before me? I believe it is. ARGHHH

[Kerry @frivolk]

Struggletown today. Gondor calls for aid! Or perhaps, mind over matter...

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[Martin Flanagan @Martin_Flanagan]

A helluva poem….

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Since early morning, my family and I have been living in a state of total psychological collapse.
Today we learned that our homes, our land, and our entire neighborhood, every house belonging to our family and our neighbors, have been completely erased. Bulldozed. Flattened into a barren stretch of yellow dust.

From the first light of day, we have been living the full meaning of defeat.
We have lost more than seventy members of our family. We have lost our land.
We now have no home to return to, no walls to protect us, no place left to call our own.

And then, one of Hamas’s leaders appears on television declaring that “the people have not been defeated,” that “Gaza has stood firm and fought a historic war.”

So let history record this:
I, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, from Gaza, together with my family, my friends, and their families, did not fight any war.
We were the victims of an annihilation ignited by Hamas from within our homes, only for the Israeli army to descend upon us and unleash its full cruelty on the civilians of Gaza, while Hamas’s fighters vanished into their tunnels.

Let history record the truth: we were defeated, utterly, painfully, and completely defeated.
And it is we, the people of Gaza, who have the right to say whether we were defeated or not, not those who sit comfortably in Qatar or Turkey.

We were crushed, humiliated, and broken after our city was destroyed, occupied, and erased from existence.
We were displaced, stripped of everything we had built, left to wander through the ruins of our own lives.

And somewhere amid all this, I understood something simple and terrible:
My mother’s tears are holier than the homeland itself, and my father’s brokenness matters more to me than any flag.
Because what meaning does a homeland hold when it devours the ones you love, when it glorifies death but forgets the living?

We were not steadfast. We were held hostage in our own land.
We could not leave. We could not change those who claimed to rule us.
We were trapped between a merciless occupier and rulers who feed on our suffering.

And if there is one moment in my life when I must speak the truth, without fear, without hesitation, then this is that moment.

Let it be written clearly:
We were not soldiers in a war.
We were the bodies buried beneath it.

#GazaGenocide

[Martin Flanagan @Martin_Flanagan]

Agree

[Kerry @frivolk]

Struggletown yesterday. Will try harder today.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is now in Gaza.
Whenever you see the words “air strike,” this is what it looks like.
Imagine how many get murdered.?!??

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

Poetic justice. Today’s the day we silence Dutton’s Voice to Parliament.

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

Just a general rule for life - if you ever find yourself asking the same questions as Nazis, it's time to look at where you went wrong

[Kerry @frivolk]

Feeling distinctly like a second- class below stairs person today. Urghhhh.

[Martin Flanagan @Martin_Flanagan]

Worth bearing in mind at this time

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.

[Olivier Awards @OlivierAwards]

Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of renowned British stage and screen actress Dame Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, who died earlier this week at the age of 95.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

In November @PenguinUKBooks Modern Classics announced that they are publishing an annotated edition of Night Watch to coincide with Terry Pratchett Day in April next year 👇 #TheBooksellerMostRead
https://t.co/GioVPqFdwp

[simonrosenberg.bsky.social @simon_rosenberg]

"what the opposition leader is accusing the prime minister and deputy prime minister of is just not true."

Laura Tingle doing what too many journos fail to do: calling out Dutton's Murdoch-fueled lies. #auspol
https://t.co/G2fEH7RByt

[Olivier Awards @OlivierAwards]

Following the sad news of the passing of legendary actress Dame Maggie Smith, West End theatres will dim their lights for 2 minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 1 October, in her memory.

Smith was a six-time Olivier nominee and was the recipient of the 2010 Special Award.

📸: John Haynes

[Kerry @frivolk]

Gondor calls for aid.
Taking a moment to reset.
As you were...

[Kerry @frivolk]

Discombobulated to grrrr. Focussing on nice polite people, of whom there are many. Thankfully.