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Natural history, ecology, Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria, Australia. Taungurung Country. Pessimistic but fighting. strathbogierangesnatureview.wordpre… strathbogiesustainableforests.wordp…

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Joel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It is a military colony of the United States", for all intents and purposes, in all but name" Diplomatic heavyweight former Ambassador John Lander sets straight the nature of Australia's alliance with the United States. Link: youtu.be/huf5-dAnazQ #auspol
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, Geoffrey Hinton seems to disagree.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s all ok, ‘cause we are the innocents down here at the bottom of the world. How can The Lucky Country be seen to be doing anything wrong?
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Paul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Albanese appointments: - NewsCorp CEO Kim Williams to ABC chairman - Liberal leader Sussan Ley to Snowy Hydro board - Liberal Party fundraiser Hugh Marks to ABC MD - Robodebt queen Kathryn Campbell to $900,000 AUKUS job - NewsCorp executive Siobhan McKenna as NYC diplomat And they all loathe him.
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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fall into the glorious cadence of @storyclare.bsky.social as she helps us recover, re-imagine and re-weave the myths of Britain and Ireland, fit for the 21st Century. accidentalgods.life/we-all-came-... #Accidentalgods #ThrutopianPodcast #Podcast #Mythweaving #Mythology #MythsForANewWorld
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We All Came By Boat’ - exploring Ireland & Britain’s ancient myths and the world’s future mythologies with Clare Murphy
Cupla Focal!  (Irish Gaelic for 'A Couple of Words')  - so here are a couple of words and then a few more: what happens when the Fires in our Hearts become tsunamis of feeling that take us beyond the ...
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore spoke out. Now you can take action. Sign our petition urging institutions to reject the IHRA definition. Don’t let Israel define antisemitism. Let’s get to 30k. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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butterfly-mcgee.bsky.social @butterfly-mcgee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The argument that we need more domestic production because otherwise we will import more oil and gas is essentially an argument for maintaining fossil-fuel demand. It takes the failure to reduce demand and uses it as the justification for producing more."
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas, but a premeditated, calculated, intentional act." www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...
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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I like the term Surveillance Centres.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I love these comparisons even if this one is pretty sad. Here is the 1941 vs 2004 view of the Muir Glacier in Alaska. Source: buff.ly/sKlaZoL
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“the Greens have shown they now support putting publicly-owned forests into the ‘carbon marketplace’, and have tied the protection of trees and koalas to the expansion of gas and coal.” @richarddenniss.bsky.social The real news is not the 3 crossing the floor, but the others backing bad policy.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust, just like it was lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the US involves itself in. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/three-majo...
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Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In this November's state election we're fielding candidates across all 88 of Victoria's lower house seats and all 8 upper house regions. It's a historic campaign, and we want you to get involved! (links below)
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Hamish @hamishoz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We either take Facebook down in the free world or it takes democracy down.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Palantir's Gotham tech helped to kill 25k kids in Gaza, & also behind the 'precision targeting' of the 150 Minab schoolgirls in Iran So naturally the Aus govt thought it was a top idea to bring them onboard the NDIS! #auspol youtu.be/Z7yQVfg9OKo?...
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How Palantir has infiltrated the Government | Michael West
YouTube video by The West Report
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think this carrot is as confused as I am about the state of humanity 🫤
Large carrot with multiple roots
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've not seen or heard our usual family of magpies for weeks. I hope they're ok 😢 www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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'Pretty overwhelming': The 23 species in Australia hit by bird flu so far
Bird flu has quickly spread around Australia. Hidden in the numbers are more than 20 distinct species of birds and mammals that have fallen to the disease.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We really are governed by elites. Labor, LNP, PHON etc have little regard for the populace. Independents, Greens and some other grass roots parties should be the only electoral choice. #auspol
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The first line just about sums up the @albomp.bsky.social legacy - Albanese concedes.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Unimaginable horror
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 26/08/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "Things will get ugly. The only way to leave will be to buy a ticket. Tickets will be priced at exactly the amount that can be accrued by abandoning basic humanity." poets.org/poem/index-0
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The Index
In the beginning there was darkness, / then a bunch of other stuff
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Esteemed author Richard Flanagan delivered a powerful speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas warning of a new McCarthyism, accusing Israel of "seeking to silence" Australians with the slur of antisemitism. We have published the full text of the speech.👇️ www.deepcutnews.com/p/segals-pla...
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The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan
This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great. What could go wrong?
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Really no hiding that Labor and @albomp.bsky.social are totally signed up neoliberal, necro-capitalist planet destroyers. The world seems to be falling apart before our eyes, in real time. Those with a moral compass, stay true.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The type of representative we want and need. 👏👏
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Unbelievable, but actually very believable.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Southern Greater Glider drone survey - another hot-spot in the Strathbogie Forest. strathbogiesustainableforests.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/s... #auswildlife #wildlife 🌏 #greaterglider #strathbogieforest #marsupial
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Sandy Creek – another Greater Glider hot-spot
Sandy Creek drains a significant portion of the Strathbogie Forest and its catchment comprises one of the larger planned burn units (2000+ ha, maps below) in the entire forest. Sandy Creek is also …
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A short history lesson about two economic systems. m.youtube.com/watch?v=c_o3...
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The Empire Is CRUMBLING: British Free Trade vs the American System | Alex Krainer
YouTube video by Alex Krainer
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨This is happening right now 🚨 Labor + Coalition + One Nation just cut a secret deal to pass laws on ASIO's power to detain and interrogate you without charge with a warrant issued by a politician. They're trying to do this while media is distracted.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Disgraceful and morally bankrupt.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.au
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Demand Kmart take the Anko surveillance glasses off the shelf
Camera glasses are moving quickly into the mainstream. Meta has sold more than 7 million pairs and hired Kylie Jenner to sell more. At $89, against several hundred dollars for the Meta version, the te...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Why won't Labor pass a Human Rights Act? Because they care more about protecting the state's power to surveil you than your right to privacy. I say enough.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Not just Segal, but @albomp.bsky.social and every Australian politician that has refused to say GENOCIDE.
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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Nothing has changed in 25 years!
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A wonderfully appropriate Banksy
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We expected at least one story or opinion piece, c’mon. P.S He’s the only person jailed over war crimes in Afghanistan, and the Attorney General can grant him parole.
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Predatory capitalism, particularly the US variety, threatens to disembowel the entire biosphere, including humanity. It’s staggeringly deliberate and brutal. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbs...
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How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State(w/Whitney Webb) |TCHR
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Remember the referendum in which Australians voted to create a Voice to Parliament for Israel? You don’t. It never happened. We got one anyway." #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
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The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for - Michael West
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Quite something! m.youtube.com/watch?v=6sj2...
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Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell Interview Count Binface.
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Support Our Legal Challenges to the North West Shelf extension chuffed.org/project/1358...
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Support Our Legal Challenges to the North West Shelf extension
We’re taking the government to court over Woodside’s destructive and damaging gas project!
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The execution is complete. Karim Khan has lost his job. Netanyahu still has his. What a sinister state of affairs.
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ICC member states remove Prosecutor Karim Khan by majority vote
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Sparkle JumpRope Bunny Esq. @sparklebluebunny.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... Trump's fake goId touch
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Gold Lamé Caligula Strikes Again.
The Executive Branch of Bed Bath & Beyond.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Monique Ryan says Pauline Hanson’s dream of a Trump-style ICE machine hunting down visa overstayers makes her “sick”, saying it shows she’s not fit to be a leader.💥 Yup, Hanson has a habit of making Australians sick. Every time she speaks.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"More than 60 villages have been totally or partially destroyed.. this appears to be official policy.. Israel Katz just a few days ago said 'we promised to apply the Gaza model in southern Lebanon & we did. We destroyed everything'" Part of a report by Zeina Khodr
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Lighter Footprints @lighterfootprints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Love Victoria's forests? Join us for a free event Aug 11! Hear expert ecologist Phil Zylstra & senior environmental lawyer Natalie Hogan: what fire management do scientists & First-Nations experts recommend? What logging is still happening & what should we do? lighterfootprints.org/event/protec...
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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 14/07/2026
You can support the call for a moratorium new data centres here > www.foe.org.au/ai_moratorium
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Moratorium on all data centre developments now
Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...
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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Making sense of Russia/Ukraine and US/Israel/Iran, in light of oil/energy, colonialism, capitalism/Marxism/socialism etc. A great overview. m.youtube.com/watch?v=viI9...
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Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Global Economy on the Brink as U.S.-Iran All-Out War Erupts
YouTube video by Dialogue Works
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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How do four podcasters who spend their entire lives thinking about this think about systemic change – what it is and how we get there? With Tim Logan, Nathalie Nahai, Amit Paul - and me. accidentalgods.life/podcasters-u... #accidentalgods #podcast #Thrutopia #Systemschange
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Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Logan, Nathalie Nahai, Amit Paul, and Manda Scott
How do we think about systemic change? Specifically, how do four podcasters who spend their entire lives thinking about this think about systemic change - what it is and how we get there?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Apologies if you thought the role of journalism was to hold the most powerful in the country to account; turns out it's actually about showing off how close you all are." @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social Pic from Parliament House Midwinter Ball. #auspol 1/2
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 21/05/2026
Read the harrowing testimony of Ahmad Mhanna, former director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern #Gaza, who survived 22 months in Israeli detention. We will continue to document these systemic abuses, including Israel’s widespread use of torture and other ill-treatment against #Palestiniandetainees.
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'My only "crime" was being a doctor': Dr. Ahmad Mhanna on his 22 months in Israeli detention
In the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian healthcare workers have been facing unprecedented dangers, with many detained under conditions that violate international humanitarian law. Amnesty Internationa...
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