#HumanRights #ClimateAction #auspol #USPolitics #journalism #SciFi #history #books #RefugeesWelcome Sydney, Australia 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 http://linktr.ee/peterwmurphy1https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mlbo2n43oc23RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds?! Does anyone else think this is because certain creepy men like young girls who have a nice tan? Srsly, what possible justification can there be for this dangerous decision?! #USPolitics #health https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-05-06/rfk-hands-major-win-to-indoor-tanning-industry-to-dermatologists-dismay07 May 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbo2n43oc23https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mlbefbrin225"Facts" I learned • Nations that have the right to defend themselves? USA & Israel. • Nations who may have this right? Countries that do whatever the USA & Israel tell them to do, incl. ignoring US & Israel's crimes. • Nations that don't have the right to defend themselves? Palestine. Lebanon. Iran.07 May 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbefbrin225https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml6rxl3nbk2rEx-Liberal leaders Alexander Downer and Tony Abbott to vie for the Liberal Party federal presidency?! Srsly?! The Liberal Party really is in its final days. Good. #auspol06 May 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6rxl3nbk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml6qkqrd6k2oGenuine qn: Do Americans have any idea how horrifyingly obscenely cruel their profiteering "healthcare" industry looks to the rest of the world?! Or the way US medical drama tv shows make it sound perfectly normal with a throwaway line: "do you have insurance?" #capitalism #healthcare #USPolitics06 May 2026 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6qkqrd6k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml6mettxd22kFinish this sentence: Tell Albo to stand up ... (Sadly, the list is impossibly long.) • on the VAW epidemic • on protecting the environment • on funding the NDIS • on protecting whistleblowers • to the USA • to the Zionist lobby • to the fossil fuels industry • to the gambling industry 😔 #auspol06 May 2026 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6mettxd22khttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml62pv6jpc2bWhen the White House orders pizza. 😏 #USPolitics06 May 2026 06:21 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml62pv6jpc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml4ihjbf3c2gIsrael has obliterated 39 villages in southern Lebanon and destroyed 40,000 homes. 39 villages entirely destroyed. This is ethnic cleansing. This is terrorism. Australia's Albanese Labor Govt STILL refuses to rebuke or sanction Israel. 😠 #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #LebanonUnderAttack05 May 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4ihjbf3c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml4hv5k7y22gAustralian author Craig Silvey has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material. If he's pleaded guilty in court, why was he then released on bail?! Why wasn't he held in custody ahead of sentencing?! #justice05 May 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4hv5k7y22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml46yeoonc2qPerfect clothing choice for English teachers on May the 4th. #teaching #education #StarWarsDay #MayTheForceBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #MetaphorsBeWithYou05 May 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml46yeoonc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml467wesns25The videos of President Barack Obama and @markhamillofficial.bsky.social promoting the Obama Presidential Center are a joy. There is hope for the future. #USPolitics05 May 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml467wesns25https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml42enmd7c24Srsly Ch10's #CheapSeats?! I tuned in for @meladoodle.bsky.social & Tim McDonald. Glenn Robbins' humour is crass & unfunny. He's become the creepy uncle who gets a kick out of being inappropriate. Jokes about grooming? workplace sexual harassment? sleazy innuendo? No thanks. I switched off. 😠05 May 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml42enmd7c24https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml3hevhjwk2aI'm sick to death of the Australian news media calling Labor left-wing or centrist. It's right-wing. When the hell did supporting Israeli genocide, illegal US wars, the fossil fuel industry's destruction of the planet or protecting the gambling industry get labelled as "centrist"?!?! #auspol05 May 2026 05:29 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3hevhjwk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3ml3ggklzrk2aFor those who celebrate, Happy Sith Day! #StarWars05 May 2026 05:12 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3ggklzrk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkztdgwxyk2kICYMI: "The Gentlemen" (2019). The action comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant, is avail. on #SBSonDemand for one more week. #film 🎥 https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/the-gentlemen/248963846774804 May 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkztdgwxyk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkzphgd4sk25Happy #StarWarsDay! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou Excellent astronomy news story today. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/04/scientists-discover-27-potential-new-planets04 May 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzphgd4sk25https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkzobkgyws2s"Icons Unearthed: Star Wars" A 6-part doco series on the making of the #StarWars films, on #SBSonDemand. Happy #StarWarsDay #MayTheFourthBeWithYou https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/icons-unearthed-star-wars04 May 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzobkgyws2shttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkzk6zdjks2gOverjoyed that Ten's "Have You Been Paying Attention?" with Tom Gleisner, Ed Kavalee & Sam Pang has returned for 2026. 😊 #HYBPA #news #comedy04 May 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzk6zdjks2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkyju647gc22"One year since the election, we've been focused every day on helping with the cost of living." – AUS PM Anthony Albanese Albo channelling his inner-ScoMo. Empty self-promotion. His Govt is focused on protecting the interests of party donors, incl. the fossil fuels and gambling industries. #auspol04 May 2026 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyju647gc22https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkydodinjk2gTHIS 👇 is how Australian media used to report Israeli atrocities. A 1948 account of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ronald Monson, the Sydney Daily Telegraph's Jerusalem correspondent. Factual reporting of Israel's crimes, with compassion for the victims. #IsraeliTerrorism #FreePalestine03 May 2026 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkydodinjk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkybmpihbk2gFor those who celebrate, Happy #StarWarsDay! May the Fourth Be With You, always.03 May 2026 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkybmpihbk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkxcnpwya22fIsrael has murdered 2600 people in Lebanon since 02Mar26. 1.2 million people displaced. Entire towns destroyed in southern Lebanon. Journalists and aid workers murdered in targeted air strikes. And our AUS Albanese Labor Govt STILL refuses to rebuke or sanction Israel. 😠 #auspol #LebanonUnderAttack03 May 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxcnpwya22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkxc7hggls2pParents on TikTok, quizzing their teenage children about the 1980's. That's 40 years ago!!! That would be like parents of us teenagers from the 1980's, quizzing us about culture, customs and events from the 1940's !!! 😲 #history #popculture03 May 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxc7hggls2phttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkx7note2s2eEven as a teenage boy in the 80's, I remember finding this song creepy: 🎶 "She's just 16 years old Leave her alone, they said Separated by fools Who don't know what love is yet But I want you to know If I could fly I'd pick you up I'd take you into the night ..." 🎶 😲 https://youtu.be/iTRaRQQGOVY?si=9UmAEAORE1ws_oIw03 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx7note2s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkx6nz6tcs2l"Time Lords of Gallifrey (Labor), Daleks of Skaro (Coalition). I serve notice on you all. Too long I have stayed my hand. No more. Today you leave me no choice. No more." – The War Doctor, #DoctorWho Under Albanese, Labor IS as bad as the Coalition. Vote Greens. Vote Teal. #NoMore #auspol03 May 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx6nz6tcs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkx67pkrws2lAs a "left-leaning" voter, I've always considered myself a Labor voter (with a dash of Greens). The Albanese Govt is NOT a Labor Govt. Albo's complicity in Israel's horrific crimes, support for #AUKUS, protecting the fossil fuels industry (not the environment), defunding #NDIS. #NoMore 😠 #auspol03 May 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx67pkrws2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkx5fhxiz22lCartoonist @cathywilcox.bsky.social deserves a bouquet of flowers (and a packet of Tim Tams) for this utterly brilliant insightful political commentary. 💐 #auspol #PaulineHanson #OneNation #GinaRinehart03 May 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx5fhxiz22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkx2pgsz6s22I couldn't believe it until I checked. The US Govt's official White House Twitter account has posted a video-loop of US President Donald Trump saying the word "Winning." on repeat for ONE HOUR. What is this? Hypnosis ASMR for MAGA subs? Does Trump think he's Charlie Sheen?! 🤔 #USPolitics03 May 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx2pgsz6s22https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkv7utwmfc26How long before the US Supreme Court rules that slavery is a states' rights issue and that individual US states can pass legislation to reintroduce it if they so choose? 🤔 #USPolitics #VotersRights #slavery02 May 2026 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv7utwmfc26https://bsky.app/profile/peterwmurphy1.bsky.social/post/3mkv5clp65c26#AUKUS LET IT SINK. Our AUS Govt (both Labor & Coalition) is always spending AUS $$$ on the wrong things, 'Say No' to AUKUS. Outstanding protest art by the talented James Hillier @nordacious.bsky.social. Model: @kubar69.bsky.social. #auspol Prints/tees: https://nordacious.com/search?q=let+it+sink02 May 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:bnrisatodm3fhyyoqdzbcyt3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv5clp65c26