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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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 4h

What's the go with Albo? Is he doomed and does anyone care anymore? These questions are not answered by this cartoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon

How could this happen?

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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Two things easily missed while we were distracted by trivia

In Australia, we’re too busy looking at the next carriage on the political sushi train to realise the track itself is broken.

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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 9h

what a glorious day to stop some native forest logging!! if any of you ever want to join me on an adventure hmu 😎

a logging coupe with a big orange machine in it and protesters standing around it

logs laying on the ground in a logging coupe with ecocide spray painted in big letters on one log

a protester sitting inside the claw of a big logging machine inside a logging coupe

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 14h

Israeli AI cameras livestreamed a Ballarat Basketball game. Then a female player was allegedly contacted by a man who had a family violence intervention order against him. “No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...

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Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.

Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it

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ClaireV @clairemv.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly this. And handing out show bags

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13h

The cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are staggering. This feels like cigarette producers touring oncology wards www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Live: Albanese heads to pre-COP in Fiji, Tuvalu

Anthony Albanese will attend a pre-COP meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu today with Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Follow live.

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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David Shoebridge has been party leader for 3 days. But the media is grilling him on everything from the housing crisis, Jewish relations, party democracy and the war in Ukraine. Pauline Hanson has been leader of her party for 30 years, and she gets grilled on, well, practically nothing. #auspol

Image of newly elected Greens leader David Shoebridge at a press conference.

Image of Pauline Hanson scowling, after being leader of One Nation for almost 30 years.

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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026

Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

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Joan ofArc-ing @paisleynclouds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Howard’s stinking legacy raised its ugly head again. He’s hard to flush.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates

Final Results and Concluding Thoughts
Adding it all up, we estimate that the AI sector is responsible for almost 1,900 TWh of global energy consumption in 2026. And after accounting for additional factors that we did not explicitly analyze, like the construction of new electrical substations, robotic-centric warehouses, water reclamation facilities, and other infrastructure specifically designed to support the data center buildout, it’s likely that total AI-driven global energy demand is already closer to 2,000 TWh. Even at 1,900 TWh, the AI share of total global energy use in 2026 would be roughly 1.1%. We also estimate, after adding up all the sectoral numbers and landing at roughly 650 million metric tons of AI-driven CO2 emissions, that the AI share of global GHG emissions in 2026 stands at about 1.2%, with total annual global emissions sitting at roughly 55 gigatons of CO2-eq, albeit with a wide range of figures from EDGAR to UNEP (anywhere from 53 gigatons to 58 gigatons depending on a broad array of different assumptions). As we’ve discussed already, these numbers are much higher than many others in the media and academia have guessed on the basis of simplistic calculations and naïve assumptions.

The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability. ChatGPT alone “processes approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day worldwide.”122 The scale of AI growth and diffusion globally is truly astounding, and the industry’s corresponding ecological footprint will soon rival that of major countries like India. It's not farfetched at all to think that the AI share of total global energy demand could rise to something like 5% by 2030, rivaling and in some cases surpassing the footprint of established dominant industries. The potential consequences of this extra resource pressure on biodiversity, global warming, freshwater scarcity, and biogeochemical cycles could be absolutely staggering and devastating for the…

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Government promised no access changes to the NDIS before 1 January 2028. They've already started, per the tribunal. And the big 50% social and community participation cuts are now in force. Families tell me they will have to give up care of children. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

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Exclusive: NDIS changes secretly brought forward

An Administrative Review Tribunal decision reveals that the government is already implementing NDIS access restrictions it promised would not take effect for more than a year.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧵Australia’s power elites will have speeches from this rabidly pro-Israel event recycled as The Oz op/ed columns. Aussies will see the videos in their YT feed. Anderson is connecting #Auspol more closely to some of the world’s worst far right “intellectuals.” lucyham29.substack.com/p/why-does-i...

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Why does it matter than John Anderson AO is spending 7/10 on a stage in Jerusalem?

Former Deputy PM John Anderson is a “featured speaker” alongside the accused war criminal Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich and many other illiberal extremists at NatCon Jerusalem.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“This is a devastating decision. It's a decision that will quite literally kill people - we will be able to attribute a measurable proportion of the increased deaths & disasters & destruction of property from accelerating climate chaos to this decision.“ #FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol

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But I think the real earthquake here is that a major Australian climate and environment
organisation has today very publicly called this a catastrophic failure of our institutions. And they set out systematically exactly why that is. The process was clear. The context was clear. Everything was set up for the decision to be made to protect life. But the decision was
made to protect profits instead, and screw life. In my view, it's been obvious for quite some time that Australia's governing institutions - our executive governments, our parliaments, our media, our "independent" planning bodies, our police - have absolutely no capacity to actually face up to the reality of the climate crisis. Coercive, extractive power closes ranks to protect and prolong itself. As that photo at the top demonstrates again, governments will use the police to protect profits
against people and the planet. Many of us have recognised this for a long time. Many have talked about it, mostly quietly,
behind closed doors.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0

Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes"

rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia's

Spreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data

KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Woodside’s proposed Browse project could expose almost one million more people to unprecedented heat and kill an additional 29 million coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef every time it bleaches. Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/QeokZYwt

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Senator Lidia Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse, operating in direct violation of this country’s domestic and international human rights obligations and all morality." Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/THUZhU4A

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/09/2026

Very important that Australia has its own controlled access to abusive, energy-wasteful and incorrect computation Doesn't matter if it's harmful or socially corrosive, as long as it's Australian www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.au

Push for big tech to pay for Australian-made AI

Union figures and leading academics want big tech companies building Australian data centres to help fund the local AI industry through a levy.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This sort of fall takes house prices back to where they were only a few years ago, when the headlines were about the insane unaffordability. It's the more expensive homes (already over inflated) which are experiencing a drop - the lower end of the market has barely moved.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most radical arm in Australian politics (and the world) right now is the far right. And yet this is the analysis for the Greens.

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Kate Lance @katelance.com · 30/09/2026

How the flying fuck can economic benefits of any kind outweigh life-threatening climate change? Oh, silly me. Economic benefits are for the 1%, climate change is for the rest of us.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, the NSW Independent Planning Commission approved the largest coal project in the state's history, in a move Lock The Gate called "catastrophic system failure". That's the context in which @davidshoebridge.bsky.social takes on the leadership of the Australian Greens. Some thoughts here

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The Greens change leaders amid catastrophic system failure

Shoebridge over troubled Waters? A huge earthquake in environmental politics happened in Australia today. And no, I don't mean the change in Greens leadership. Important as this event is - and I wi...

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ClaireV @clairemv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agree. I also can no longer listen to ABC RN Breakfast or ABC Radio news headlines. State capture

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A reminder that this year the unemployment rate has gone up 0.56%pts - roughly an extra 87,000 unemployed. So in 15 min when the RBA raises rates again just remember 35-44yos on Jobseeker are almost 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare: www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Chart showing deaths per 100,000 by age
22-34yo: 17.1 no welfare; 137.0 on Jobseeker
35-44yo: 30 no welfare; 288.1 on Jobseeker
45-55yo: 83.4 no welfare; 427.0 on Jobseeker
55-64yo: 201.6 no welfare; 615.6 on Jobseeker

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 18/08/2025

"Defying common misconceptions, the results from more than 160 global studies of Universal Basic Income report positive effects on entrepreneurship, education outcomes, and wellbeing, with no detriment to people’s willingness to work." True story. Start UBI! www.themandarin.com.au/297523-preve...

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Prevention or patch-up? Universal Basic Income could be the productivity force multiplier

Universal Basic Income trials worldwide reveal stronger education outcomes, increased entrepreneurship and sustained work effort, with big implications for Australia.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tell us who does receive lasting benefit from the data extraction economy then. Who is it? What is it? How are Australian governments responsible for fabricating a use case for tech whose owners are causing harm on a mass scale?

University of New South Wales Al Institute said Al data centre developments presented opportunities for Tasmania, but only if binding conditions were put on them to ensure public benefit.
"Data centres do not, by themselves, build a local Al industry or deliver lasting community benefit," the institute's director, Sue Keay, said.
"Without deliberate mechanisms, the economic benefit of data centre approval may largely end when construction ends, leaving the land, energy and water commitments behind.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Days before the Palestinian olive harvest, the Israeli military bulldozed, uprooted and torched thousands of fruit-bearing trees in the Occupied West Bank. Olive orchards account for more than 8% of the West Bank’s GDP and provide more than 60,000 jobs.

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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An article from Daniel James cannot be missed. An article in 2026 that shouldn’t have to be written. “We have spent long enough being told to wait while the numbers get worse. Our ancestors are as tired as we are. The soul of the nation will be found in what happens next.”

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lone voice pleads for action in unfolding catastrophe - how are we so good at delivering missiles, but not climate action asks Nepal’s PM at UN www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...

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A lone voice pleads for help addressing this global catastrophe

As the world wrings it's hands over AI, which it seems to be enabling, a lone voice called for help fighting a true global catastrophe.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Calculated effort to destroy Palestinian life': Israel blocks 900 wheelchairs for amputee children in Gaza Over 900 wheelchairs, intended for wounded children in Gaza, have been held in Jordan since 2025 due to Israel blocking the shipment.

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Israel blocks 900 wheelchairs for Gaza’s child amputees

Over 900 wheelchairs, intended for wounded children in Gaza, have been held in Jordan since 2025 due to Israel blocking the shipment.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

in a discussion about slop machines in education today - most of us are being shoved into expensive, productivity-tanking, slop-legitimising policy frameworks - a colleague told me that one “use” students describe is “thinking partner”. With a thing that does not think. At a university.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone needs to pay for that stadium

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If this was a state actor they’d call it espionage. This is amongst the most sensitive data there is. Instead our governments, universities and institutions are lining up for OpenAI subscriptions - there’s something deeply cooked about that.

abc.net.au

How OpenAI agents tried to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack

OpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence agents appear to have worked together to try to circumvent cybersecurity defences and find ways to access Australian government health data, according to conversation logs.

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

October 11 Sydney. Protest Israel Support Palestine. Spread the word

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the first time, an Australian court has heard expert evidence linking Pine Gap to Israel's atrocities. Prof Richard Tanter tendered a 34-page report to the Alice Springs Local Court in a case involving two protestors. www.deepcutnews.com/p/pine-gap-l...

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Pine Gap linked to Israel’s atrocities, NT court told

Expert evidence was tabled in the defence of two protestors charged for an offence at the US spy base

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ America’s Fox News model is being rebuilt in Australia, one empty local-news market at a time. Murdoch’s hard-right channel now reaches regional voters free. The warning for us: when local journalism dies, propaganda does not leave the space empty. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What a brilliant example for little Aussie kids. Even if you grow up in public housing you can still aspire to stand next to a corrupt pathological narcissist, compulsive liar, sex abusing bully who’s destroying the world order, the global economy and the environment, smile and get a selfie

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Absolute nonsense statement 🙄 96% of Australians want more action for protecting & restoring nature Govts should do their job Nature is a public good & should be funded through tax & spend A position of needing to 'incentivise' govts to do their job is neoliberal, free market brainrot

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