Retired , Sthn Tasmania, 2 greyhounds, Elsa & Blondy. Grey Winston, Labs Magnus, Sally, Harry live on in memory. Disgusted with Labor
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Robbie Johnson retweeted
Australian police are rolling out Cellebrite's Israeli phone cracking software, and now another Israeli tech firm has turned online ads against our agencies. We need an urgent review of all surveillance companies operating here and the risks they pose to privacy and public data.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
A man killed his four-year-old Australian daughter in South Korea on Monday. He took the little girl out of Australia without her mum’s consent and despite legal attempts to stop him doing. He also ended his own life.
She the 26th Australian child killed this year. We lost 27 children to violence in 2025.
The girl's mum tried everything to stop him. He kidnapped the girl in October last year. Local police failed to conduct welfare checks and authorities disregarded Hague Convention child recovery orders.
* You can help me get a Royal Commission into the Killing of Women and Girls by signing the petition using the link in my bio (Insta) or go to: change.org/FemicideRoyalComm….
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I document all Australian women & children lost to murder, manslaughter, neglect and other unlawful acts regardless of perpetrator gender or relationship to the victim. This means not all women and children killed are lost to domestic violence. They are also killed by people known to them (ie friends) or by strangers. My work includes Australians killed overseas. Every death is documented at AustralianFemicideWatch.org/… (link in bio).
Robbie Johnson retweeted
In June 1965 a 27-year-old Scot weighing 456lb stopped eating, didn't start again for 382 days, and the fat he was carrying kept him alive for every one of them.
Angus Barbieri worked in his father's fish and chip shop in Tayport, across the Tay from Dundee. He had eaten his way past 32 stone. He checked himself into Maryfield Hospital for what his doctors intended as a short fast.
It went well. He felt fine. He asked to carry on.
The doctors agreed, warily, and let him go home, provided he came back in regularly for blood and urine tests. He lived on tea, coffee, sparkling water and vitamins. No food. A week became a month. A month became a season. The weight came off at about three-quarters of a pound a day. Day 100 came and went, then 200, then 300, with the hospital checking his blood every step and waiting for something to break.
Nothing did.
For long stretches his blood sugar sat at around 30mg per 100ml, about a third of normal, the kind of reading that has junior doctors reaching for a drip. He went about his days perfectly lucid.
On 11 July 1966 he sat down to his first meal in over a year: a boiled egg and a slice of bread with butter. He weighed 180lb, under 13 stone. He had lost 276lb, very nearly 20 stone, and it went into the Guinness Book of Records as the longest fast in history. Five years on he was still around 14 stone, and he lived until 1990. His doctors wrote him up in 1973 under the driest title in medicine: Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration.
His brain kept working the whole year, which is the part the textbooks of the day had no answer for.
In 1967, in Boston, George Cahill's team supplied one. They ran fine tubes into the blood vessels draining the brains of three obese patients five weeks into a fast and measured what the brain was burning. It had switched to ketones, made in the liver from body fat, as its main fuel. The organ every textbook said ran only on glucose was running on fat, and running happily.
So every thought Barbieri had that year was powered by the fat around his middle.
A human body carries months of fuel and a brain built to use it. It was shaped by two million years of hunts that came good one week and failed the next, and it treats an empty plate as an ordinary Tuesday.
Angus Barbieri had 382 of them.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
Roy Orbison sat all alone atop the UK charts on this day in 1960, with this classic that he co-wrote with Joe Melson. Legend has it that he offered the song to Elvis and the Everly Brothers but decided to record it himself when they both rejected it.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
50% of modern medicines come from plants. 70% of cancer treatments come from nature.
The Amazon holds 10% of all life on Earth. We've studied <1% of it for medicine.
We are cutting down cures faster than we can discover them.
Every forest cleared = A cure lost.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
4 years since the Australian gvt disappeared one of it's citizens at the behest of a foreign power, and he's still languishing in high security prison.
This is an act of terrorism, and another conspicuous injustice from Labor.
This month marks 4 years since Dan Duggan was arrested in a supermarket carpark in Orange, after dropping the kids at school. He was supposed to be meeting his wife, Saffrine for coffee, when he never showed.
The agony and trauma of waiting for Dan to come home over the last 4 years is incomprehensible.
The family just want Dan home.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
Yes. Ambrose Bierce was spot on
POLITICS, n.
"A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
POLITICIAN, n.
"An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of an edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive."
Incidentally, which of the following, are not really industries, & or share conflicting priorities (such as: Dept for Foreign Affairs AND TRADE for indtance) in your opinion?
Robbie Johnson retweeted
I'll be there
Hey folks in December the South Australian Housing Trust turns 90 years old. We are holding a forum to celebrate what it was, what it became and what it could be once again. Please rsvp lunch will be provided ❤️ events.humanitix.com/saht-pu… get your tickets!
Robbie Johnson retweeted
#HelenHaines
It's sounding more & more like the alleged attacker of Helen Haines is the son of a family friend who has mental health issues. I know Albanese & Asio want him to be a terrorist however everything is pointing towards Brendan Nugent is suffering from schizophrenia.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
Leaving a sheep alone is the cruellest thing you can do to it, and there's a fleece in a museum in Canberra to prove it.
On 13 September PETA protesters crashed the COS show at New York Fashion Week with placards against wool, and Steven Kolb, who runs American fashion's trade body, ended up wrestling them beside the catwalk while the models kept walking. The demand was simple: stop taking wool from sheep.
One merino has already had that granted in full. In 2015 a personal trainer, Sue Dowling, was out with a client on the edge of Canberra when she noticed him standing in a paddock, not moving. He'd been living wild for about five years with nobody for company but the kangaroos. Nobody had sheared him. Nobody had done anything to him at all.
She named him Chris, after the unhappy sheep in Father Ted, which was the right call.
He could barely walk. His legs had started to bow under the weight of his own coat. The RSPCA put out an urgent appeal for a shearer, and within hours a four-time Australian champion, Ian Elkins, had put his hand up. They sedated Chris first, for fear of shock, and the job took about 45 minutes.
The fleece weighed 41.1 kilos, a world record and enough for about 30 jumpers. Underneath it his skin was infected from years of urine and muck trapped in the wool. With it on, he'd been reckoned to have weeks left.
That's what a merino does without a shearer. He doesn't shed. Thousands of years of breeding saw to that. The coat just keeps coming until it buries him.
Chris took the record from Big Ben, shorn of 28.9 kilos in New Zealand in 2014, who'd taken it from Shrek, 27 kilos, in 2004. Every one of them a sheep that went years without a haircut, and every one saved by somebody with clippers.
Several farmers came forward to claim Chris. None of their markings matched, so he went to a sanctuary instead and lived another four years. The RSPCA turned him into a children's book about animal welfare, and the welfare in question was a haircut. His fleece went to the National Museum of Australia, where it's the second most sought-after thing in the building, after the heart of the racehorse Phar Lap.
Leave a merino alone for five years and what you get is Chris.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
When politicians such as @ChrisMinnsMP allow their police to MUTILATE & bash citizens engaged in lawful
protest, violence is normalised & nobody should be surprised when it occurs in the community.
It starts at the top.
Robbie Johnson retweeted
THE FACTS ARE COMING OUT, AND THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVES HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO.
The man arrested following the horrific attack on independent MP Helen Haines has been identified as Brendan Nugent, 43, from Tarrawingee, Victoria.
And guess what? The neat little political narrative that people were so desperate to push is falling apart.
Within hours of the attack, social media was flooded with people confidently declaring the attacker must be a One Nation supporter, a Muslim extremist, a radical leftist, a pro-Hamas activist or some other convenient political enemy.
There was just one tiny problem. Nobody had established who he was or why it happened.
Now we have some actual information.
According to ABC News Verify, Nugent has a history of environmental activism, criticism of both major political parties, support for Gaza and sharing conspiracy-related material.
He has expressed anti-establishment sentiments, but his political views don't fit neatly into one party's ideology.
There is no verified evidence establishing him as a One Nation supporter or an Islamist extremist.
In fact, he previously expressed support for Helen Haines herself, praising her approach to climate change.
And police have STILL not publicly established a motive.
So where does that leave everyone who immediately blamed Pauline Hanson, Muslims, the Greens, Labor or whichever group they happen to despise?
Looking rather foolish.
Here's something apparently revolutionary in Australian political discourse:
WAIT FOR THE BLOODY EVIDENCE.
Someone's environmental activism doesn't make environmentalists responsible.
Supporting Palestinians doesn't make someone a terrorist.
Criticising the government doesn't automatically make someone a right-wing extremist.
And sharing conspiracy theories doesn't establish membership of any particular political movement.
Political violence is not a team sport.
A woman has suffered catastrophic injuries. Her life has been permanently changed. Yet some people seem more interested in scoring political points than finding out what actually happened.
If you're condemning collective blame when your side is accused but enthusiastically participating when it's the other side, you're not standing up for facts.
You're practising tribal hypocrisy.
The accused deserves due process. Helen Haines deserves justice. Australians deserve facts rather than politically convenient fiction.
And anyone who spread unsupported allegations about the attacker's identity or motives should have the decency to correct themselves.
Facts over outrage. Every bloody time.
#FactsOverOutrage #HelenHaines #PoliticalViolence
Robbie Johnson retweeted
This post has unleashed the most vile Holocaust denial.
This is what Zionism has done. Weaponised the Holocaust until people stop believing it.
Zionists are committing a Holocaust by using the one done to us as justification.
How fking heartbreaking.
@kthalps @DanielBMate
Robbie Johnson retweeted
My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.
They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.
It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.
Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.
My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.
When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.