Watching Wong and others writhe under the pressure of continuing to do nothing of any consequence, it's truly terrifying to see how far our international and domestic politics are directed by the US - particularly as they gear up for an election contest of corpse vs. clown.

This is sickening. Everything that is wrong with the world in one photo.

I am trying to pull on anger but I am grief stricken. My stomach turns when I try to speak. How do I explain that burning children alive in tents is bad? Who does not know that? What is this system we’ve built that has normalized advanced tech barbarism & dares to lecture us?

It's actually amazing how stupid the propaganda has gotten. Bombing kids and hospitals is self-defense. An extremely blatant ethnic cleansing campaign is actually a war. A few western Zionist Jews saying they feel unsafe on campus is a more urgent concern than an active genocide.

Everything we're seeing on our screens from Rafah is beyond depravity.

This is of course not just the Israeli Government - this is all the countries that look away in complicity.

It's beyond complicit at this point. It's enabling. Stop arms sales & end the violence.

2000 lb American bombs are indiscriminate by nature and are designed to level city blocks. When you see a dead child who looks like they're asleep, no visible wounds, it's because the pressure from these massive bombs exploded their organs.

Israel dropped them on tents tonight.

Update from Gaza: Following an Israeli air strike that hit a camp for displaced people tonight in Tal Al Sultan, Rafah, Gaza, dozens of wounded and more than 15 dead people were brought to the trauma stabilization point that we support.
 
We are horrified by this deadly event,

Or you could do something scientifically sound and practically achievable by investing proper money into (a) finding out exactly why young people are depressed (as far as I know, the science doesn't say social media is the cause), and (b) providing widely accessible help.

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

10. Camberley Kate and her stray dogs in England, 1962.

She never turned a stray dog away, taking care of more than 600 dogs in her lifetime.

Red-capped robin.
Gluepot Reserve.

National Simultaneous Storytime is on Wednesday 22nd May! Over 2 million kids reading the book Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker together!

Join in anywhere OR be there with Aura at the #NSS2024 official reading at Green Square Library!

whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/scholas… via City of Sydney

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

I cannot get my head around the Budget finding only $111 million a year for additional mental health services while we’re still happy to give the fossil fuel industries $14.5 billion a year in subsidies.

A 12 - 2 vote. 👏🏼
Same sex parenting book ban reversed at tonight’s Cumberland City Council meeting.

smh.com.au/national/nsw/c…

A group of children's book creators who want a better future for our readers joined 350Australia Australian Conservation Foundation + other great orgs outside the Commonwealth Parliament Offices in Melbourne to tell Labor to stop funding climate-wrecking fossil fuels.

Melbourne children's book folk, we're rolling out the banner today at 12pm along with a bunch of great organisations who have not and will not give up the fight for an adequate government response to the climate crisis. Join us today at Treasury Place.

The joint statement by 10 Australian University encampments, published the same day the Coalition calls for a senate inquiry into antisemitism on campuses:

“What the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

Btw, my response was a warming of 3C, in line with many of my IPCC colleagues… theguardian.com/environment/ng…