'Have I gotten lost in a creation that only thrives because of a capitalist culture of online mass consumption? Maybe.' Rafqa Touma theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/…

Nobody had faith in le crookie – the miscreant, the nonconformist, the other 😔🥐🍪🙏
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Palestinians arriving in Australia on visitor visas are facing hardship – and community organisations are stepping in to help.

Meet the Sydney volunteers who are feeding families fleeing Gaza, by Mostafa Rachwani 👏
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Salma and her daughter are on the brink of homelessness, because a tourist visa is the only way in for Palestinians seeking refuge in Australia from Israel's bombardment. Guardian Australia ASRC Human Rights Law Centre
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Study of global heating finds snowfall in Victoria and New South Wales could decline much faster than in other alpine areas around the world.
theguardian.com/australia-news… by Rafqa Touma

Cheers to everyone who trusted us with this story, and the editors who backed us to head up to the NT in the first place, especially Guardian Australia’s irrepressible Lorena Allam. You can read our main piece here: amp.theguardian.com/australia-news…

My Etsy delivery arrived at just the right time #SamKerr

“A good student, someone who values their education, is someone who pays attention to things happening in the world.”
- Ethan Floyd to the rally of students striking outside Sydney’s Town Hall as part of a national action for Palestine.

Police stand in front of Sydney Town Hall, ahead of today’s student strike for Palestine

Police line Pitt St as the student strike for Palestine marches toward Town Hall. Some workers are leaving their offices to watch on from the sidewalk.

Among chanting “free free Gaza,” students shout “shame shame Albanese”

Protesters from University of Sydney have marched up to the University of Technology Sydney campus to join the student march for Palestine to Town Hall

”We're going to keep protesting and striking,” Johnson said.

“Israel has said that it's not ready to end its war on Gaza, so we're not ready to stop protesting.”

“Today's strike is to demand an end to the genocide that's going on in Gaza, and to say that students are not going to sit quietly in schools while the government gets away with supporting Israel and its crimes against humanity.”

Yasmine Johnson, UTS student strike for Palestine

Caitlin Cassidy seems to have apparently forgotten that she also works at such a workplace:

Poetry forged in war: Palestinian exile and social media sensation Plestia Alaqad leaves Sydney audience in tears | Daisy Dumas BankstownPoetrySlam theguardian.com/australia-news…

What is UNRWA and how dependent on western funding is its work in Gaza? via Rafqa Touma theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Good news !!!

Why are doctors still telling women with endometriosis to become pregnant? Wrote about some really disappointing new research and what might happen if we thought about the uterus like we do other organs

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