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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A state-owned Mamdani style commnist supermarket chain that causes Colesworths to fall into the sea? Yes please! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A Mamdaniesque state supermarket?! Anything that causes the duopoly to suffer is good for me| First Dog on the Moon
I endorse this completely
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another feather in my cap. Fuck the Zionists with a dildo wrapped in barbed wire, no lube required. 😁
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is so fucked - 2 of the staunch forest defenders who were arrested today have been given bail conditions including a curfew from 10pm to 7am every day until their court date in january. obscene overreach by cops trying to intimidate protestors 🙄
A screenshot of an Instagram post from Bob brown foundation featuring a pro Esther logged onto a logging machine with the caption “forest defenders arrested and given outrageous curfew”a post from bob brown foundation instagram “Two retired Tasmanian health professionals have today been placed on an outrageous nightly curfew until January 2027 after protesting to defend Lutruwita / Tasmania's native forests from logging.
They are two of three peaceful forest activists who were arrested in the Central Highlands for halting logging destruction.
In an example of complete police overreach, the two protesters were bailed from Bridgewater Police Station this afternoon with a strict 10 pm - 7 am house curfew until 25 January 2027. They are also forbidden from entering any "permanent timber production zone" land until their court date. This accounts for all public forests, approximately 12% of Tasmania's land mass.
"This is draconian overreach and impinges on our basic rights to protest in a fair and reasonable society. It won't work and I will appeal this home imprisonment for standing up for our native forests and all the animals that live within,"-Alison Salisbury, 61 years old retired nurse and grandmother.
Protesters are willing to wear their charges for civil disobedience when breaking unjust laws that protect the loggers, but outrageous bail conditions imposing house imprisonment on forest defenders is truly appalling.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're constantly told that Donald Trump is playing three dimensional chess when, instead, he's just trying to play demential go-fish.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As his government approves its 37th new fossil fuel project
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No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why does this micronation have a commercial airline with seven Boeing 737s? Because the Australian government goes to absurd and dangerous lengths to prop it up. The scandal of Nauru Airlines and Australia’s offshore detention regime. Now on my substack:
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The scandal of Nauru Airlines and Australia’s offshore detention regime
Why does this micronation have a commercial airline with seven Boeing 737s? Because the Australian government goes to absurd and dangerous lengths to prop it up.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's me. 'Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?'
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Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?  - The Shot
Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”....
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Morabeets 🍉 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🌏♀️ @morabeets.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"It’s reasonable to infer that a staggering portion of the rubble, of the death, of the infanticide was carried out using Australian made explosives." #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland understood the assignment! ✊💚
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ICYMI: Our entire Four Corners story, Christian Brothers Inc, is here. I am posting the YouTube so our international viewers, including those in Ireland, can watch. Thank you to everyone who sat down with us for this important story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-x...
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The scandal rocking the Christian Brothers | Four Corners Documentary
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
MAGA Marles is all the way with Trump www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Everyone but Australia reconsiders relationship with America
No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's @boganintel.bsky.social "The IDF ran in the Sydney Marathon the same week they spat on Zomi Frankcom’s grave"
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The IDF ran in the Sydney Marathon the same week they spat on Zomi Frankcom’s grave - The Shot
The iconic Sydney Marathon hosted more than 40 current and former IDF personnel on the weekend. In the same week,...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The RBA, 3 years late to the party, last week confirmed profits drove the sky high inflation in 2022. In 2023 they attacked our research, & briefed media companies about how we were wrong. I guess they'll apologise now? Me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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RBA's own research shows that profits drove post-pandemic inflation, not wages
Last week, research by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) confirmed that they were wrong in 2023 to criticise research by The Australia Institute, which showed rising profits were the significant cau...
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DrMary @drshowup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What Calvin said..
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/08/2026
Update: this horrific and devastating event was not caused by a GLOF but something else, similarly worsened by climate change - a huge chunk of ice that fell off a glacier and plunged into a river 😱
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Photos: A Deadly Flood Tears Through Nepal and Tibet (Gift Article)
An ice avalanche that started high in the Himalayas tumbled thousands of feet, releasing vast amounts of energy that pulverized the ice into a significant volume of flood water.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Meta paid its lowest effective federal tax rate in company history last year while raking in record profits. Earlier this year, Meta began laying off 8,000 workers as it ramps up AI investment. Zuckerberg is now worth $190 billion. The irony of a Big Tech King buying a castle is not lost on me.
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Meta’s Zuckerberg buys 19th-century castle in southeast of Ireland
Strancally Castle was built around 1830 on land overlooking the River Blackwater and underwent extensive renovation in 2
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/08/2026
The headlines this summer make it easy to feel as if nothing can be done: record heat and wildfires continue, while fossil fuel companies rake in billions. But feeling powerless is exactly the trap, and this week there's new science on how to avoid it. Read on!
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Polluters should pay, not taxpayers | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Resisting climate doom, Big Oil’s $45 billion quarter, and how you can make polluters pay If you’re a regular Talking Climate reader, you kn
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nick McKim lets loose on Labor for being "captured by Zionist interests"—then hits James Paterson straight to the face as he interjects “Mate you’re captured by Zionist interests as well” 🔥 #auspol
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is 100% on brand from a company, in the words of the venerable @doctorow.pluralistic.net, that was "founded by a young Zuckerberg in his dorm as a means to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of his fellow Harvard undergrads."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Under the current forecasts, by the end of 2028 real wages will on average be the value they were at the end of 2011. But yeah, gotta keep those wage growth expectations down, don't we RBA! www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Screenshot showing a graph of real wages. Shows that the RBA predicts real wages in Dec 2028 to be only as they were in Dec 2011 and still around 3.5% below what they were in March 2021
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here's me. "How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads"
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How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads - The Shot
This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO...
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Incident” was the wording used in the Sydney Swan’s press release. Media should know better than to adopt euphemistic language from corporations — particularly when it comes to allegations of serious crimes.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It is important to understand that Trump is not the cause of the enshittification of America. He is a consequence. Unless the system is fundamentally changed, the enshittification will continue even after Trump is long gone. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-ensh…
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If the heat bothers you, plant a tree. If the rain bothers you, plant a tree. If you like fruit, plant a tree. If you like birds, plant a tree. And if you like life, plant a tree.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
It was Count Binface’s best-ever result at a parliamentary election.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I asked why the NACC has apparently never looked into billions in sketchy secret Nauru contracts, the answer was simple: nobody could explain it.
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On all the fucking melon-drama
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Through blindness they perished.
I’ve tried really hard to ignore the melodrama of the melon drama, but it seems I am fated, like you, like Albo, perhaps like poor Odysseus, to suffer the wrack and sorrow of this bullshit, for though...
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The liberals’ response to the shitty housing standards everyone is paying exorbitant amounts of rent for: “deal with it peasants”
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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"If you were surprised by people using Meta’s smart glasses to harass and covertly film women on the street, then you quite simply haven’t been paying attention. This kind of tech-enabled abuse is commonplace, and it is predominantly aimed at women." www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
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Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm crossing the Texas-Canada border tomorrow en route to Montreal to see a man about a beaver. Forgive me if there's a lot of reshared content over the next two weeks. (📷: Colin Bruce, Algonquin Highlands, Ontario)
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social "Our politics is a farce and you’re paying for the tickets"
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Our politics is a farce and you’re paying for the tickets - The Shot
Those of you not into torturous, pantomime-level political inquisitions may not have been following recent events at the NSW Independent...
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
On civility brain rot and appeasing power www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
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Appeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating history
No matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster.
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Morabeets 🍉 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🌏♀️ @morabeets.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Again I say #fuck and #Thanks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fears of ‘catastrophic’ decline of giant Australian cuttlefish after only 44 counted in dive survey
Calls for South Australian government to release official estimates for cuttlefish, which once numbered in hundreds of thousands in upper Spencer Gulf
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 09/08/2026
This hurts my heart so much. Cuttlefish are the most incredible creatures. My understanding is that if any species can recover from low numbers like this, it is the giant cuttlefish, with short lives and as many as 1000 eggs per season per female, but these are still exceptionally low numbers.
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Fears of ‘catastrophic’ decline of giant Australian cuttlefish after only 44 counted in dive survey
Calls for South Australian government to release official estimates for cuttlefish, which once numbered in hundreds of thousands in upper Spencer Gulf
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tragic www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fears of ‘catastrophic’ decline of giant Australian cuttlefish after only 44 counted in dive survey
Calls for South Australian government to release official estimates for cuttlefish, which once numbered in hundreds of thousands in upper Spencer Gulf
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Eat the rich
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The Rise of the $100 Hot Dog
Premium toppings, extravagant presentations and supersize varieties are pushing hot dogs into the realm of haute cuisine.
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