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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns" 'Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim ...' www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns
Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Out now
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Radiant Star is on special, let’s go!
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Radiant Star ebook by Ann Leckie - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Radiant Star" by Ann Leckie available from Rakuten Kobo. Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning a...
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New book highlights the power of witness testimonies from Australian and New Zealand healthcare workers in Gaza - Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/new-book-hig...
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
World Health Organization urged to declare climate change a Public Health Emergency of International Concern - Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/world-health...
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach, whether he should apologise or why it took months for OpenAI to detect and report it to the Australian government" Silent about the hacking from OpenAI #auspol
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OpenAI boss refuses to answer Medicare hack questions after Trump-Xi dinner
Sam Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach or why it took so long to report.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So the war criminal Netanyahu gets to deliver a speech at the UN, but Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas is denied a US visa and can’t attend.
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Zyphex🇨🇦🍉🇺🇦 @zyphex-skybreaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone should be sanctioning Israel full stop and declaring its military and government terrorist organizations.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“A factory of targets… there was approval once to kill 500 people…” 👇🏽 new trailer for ‘NAZA’ (‘collateral damage’) — a Guardian-produced film with testimonies of 24 IDF soldiers Israel doesn’t want you to see. (released free online next month) More: jewishcurrents.org/naza-will-ch...
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hmm almost sounds like addressing misogyny should be a top priority for governments bent on fostering social cohesion
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Support indie media to read full article: www.ettemedia.com/who-writes-f...
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Quarterly Essay calls itself Australia's leading journal of politics and culture. Whose politics? Whose culture?
Quarterly Essay published its 100th edition late last year. Who is chosen to write for it - and what they write about - is revealing.
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Analysing who writes for Quarterly Essay is revealing. Just 1/3 are women. Men more likely to write about politics. Women 'softer' issues. Triple the number of essays by men called David than women of colour. Lots of conflict essays, none dedicated to Gaza & Israel youtu.be/3aqPtasD_LM?...
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We analysed who writes for Quarterly Essay — the data is revealing
YouTube video by Ette Media
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Australia is about to co-host COP31 in Turkey but Australia isn't really talking about climate change. To help fix this, Lyndal and I arranged this talk about why the biggest threat to the human species remains the biggest story going. When: 6pm, 29 September. How: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lyndal Rowlands and Royce Kurmelovs talk climate journalism and COP31. Riot starts Tuesday, 29 September at 6pm. Registration required.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Help is needed for this little boy
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australian Government urged to invest in wider local and global uptake of key Indigenous empowerment program www.croakey.org/australian-g...
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Ruth Mitchell @drruthmitchell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I recently returned from a medical mission to Gaza, working as a neurosurgeon with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association. I spoke to Croakey Health Media about my experience, and here is the interview. #neurosurgery #publichealth www.croakey.org/inside-gazas...
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Inside Gaza’s hospitals: neurosurgeon Ruth Mitchell on deprivation, courage and determination
With Israel enforcing a blanket ban on international journalists entering Gaza it is getting harder to find independent accounts of
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Retweeting, because we MUST keep bearing witness. '...the physical witness written on the bodies of these patients was that the ceasefire really has not meant the cessation of hostilities, of violence against the bodies of the people of Gaza. It’s ongoing.' #genocide💔
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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Join UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti and Australian neurosurgeon @drruthmitchell.bsky.social for an evening examining the impact of the ongoing genocide in Palestine on children. www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
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“The essence of childhood has been destroyed”
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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“If this happened at Sydney Children's Hospital…it would be considered malpractice.” Neurosurgeon @drruthmitchell.bsky.social and UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti have delivered a breathtaking presentation on the harm being inflicted upon the children of Gaza www.theillawarraflame.com.au/mps-respond-...
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MPs respond after Gaza lecture reveals children's plight
Federal leaders Alison Byrnes and Carol Berry attended Thursday's public lecture about the Gaza war's toll on children. On Friday, the Illawarra MPs responded to a call for Australia to meet internati...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
All four supporting acts have backed out of Ed Sheeran’s tour, including his own backing band. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We didn't choose this reality; it was imposed upon us.Some decided on our destruction, others on our marginalization, and still others chose silence.Our homes were destroyed, we lost everything, and hunger is gnawing at my children's bodies. Your support is life for us chuffed.org/project/plea...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At $9 billion per obsolete boat only the UK arms dealer making them thinks the Hunter frigate is a good idea. We should scrap them now before billions more are wasted. The only naval ships that cost more anywhere on the planet are nuclear powered aircraft carriers.
Mocked up image of $9billion future Hunter frigate
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Entire Defence careers are based on diverting rivers of our public money to US weapons platforms, whether they turn up or not. The whole thing stinks. Labor, One Nation, the Coalition are all the same here.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Federal Government needs to get out of Israeli surveillance giant Cellebrite, and see what of our data they have scraped and stored. greens.org.au/campaigns/ge...
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Get Cellebrite Out of Our Data and Lives | The Australian Greens
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For the first time we are building cross-party agreement that the Federal Government can’t just allow the states and territories to keep brutalising, jailing and harming children. We have a national youth justice crisis and it demands a national response.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Greens are on the side of the public, protecting our data, keeping power prices down, preserving jobs and defending our national interest from vampire US Big Tech. I can’t believe how we are the only party making this case in Canberra.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI data centres are projected to use 13 per cent of Australia’s electricity and 20 per cent of Sydney’s water within a decade. These things are mushrooming across the country and Labor has issued a “consultation paper”. Like New York, we need a moratorium not a survey.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Instead of talking to US billionaires in Silicon Valley the Prime Minister needs to be talking to Australians opposing massive US data centres on the Western Downs, in Fitzroy, Western Sydney and Moss Vale. If he was listening he would hear a chorus of “Stop!”
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An acting commissioner was questioned by the Joint Standing Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission about the agency's track record. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJNxDRp6pM…
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Dr. Karen Austria @kavienna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Spot on. Threatening a NATO ally for months, then calling the outcome a “deal,” is not partnership it’s leverage. Australia does not need to jump into every US power play in the Arctic as if it were our fight.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
While the media might find it fun to do another 500 hours of Piker discourse, it might be fruitful to look at the actual political record of Mike Rogers as a lying war-monger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Why Aren’t We Talking About the War-Mongering Lies of Mike Rogers?
The media's relentless focus on Hasan Piker allows the dishonest GOP hawk (and actual Michigan Senate candidate) to evade scrutiny.
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Whistler’s Mama @alphagal007.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This needs to be a much bigger story, folks.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can help save Naser's life by sharing & donating so Lubna & Rami can afford his thyroid medicine. Israel is starving Palestinians while keeping essential medicine from them in their genocidal siege. Lubna's family urgently needs $250 to cover Naser's medicine & food for the family:
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Support Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mohammed's son Elias urgently needs treatment to save his fading eyesight. You helped Elias survive horrific malnutrition through your shares & donations, & he urgently needs your help again. Time is running out to keep him from going blind, & he's already hurt his hand badly falling down:
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Help Mohammed and his famile.
Father's Urgent Call: Save Little Elias's Sight and Life
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iina 🚒 @maitokiisseli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
looking like a sexy villain
hudson williams at tiff yaga premiere in a dark jacket
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You can help Fouad get treatment for injuries that have blinded him by sharing & donating. His family's starving, homeless, & his brothers are also suffering from untreated injuries from Israel's genocidal airstrikes on civilians in Gaza. Share/donate:
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💻 Help Mohammed rebuild his future and feed his family of 9 💔🏕️🍽️
I am Mohammed, a young man whose future was buried under the rubble.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026
This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
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Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Criticism of Israel and the genocidal Zionist project is not antisemitism. We will not be intimidated into silence. Free Palestine.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 Free Palestine Free Palestine Free Palestine Free Palestine Free Palestine Free Palestine 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 #Auspol #Genocide
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Prof Marcia Langton demolishes One Nation's bullshit approach to 'race characteristics' - never based on good data & science but - for more than 200 years - on wanting a justification for barbaric words & policies. nit.com.au/16-09-2026/2...
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Racist pseudo-science still shapes Australian politics
Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said 'they're the most primitive race on Earth and we're supposed to be holding them up and saying what they've a...
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How to tell the government is complicit in genocide. Complicity must have consequences. #Auspol #Genocide
LABOR JOINS THE COALITION TO SHUT DOWN SCRUTINY OF
RED LINES This morning, Labor joined the Coalition to block scrutiny of the Red Lines legislation in a Senate Inquiry before the
evidence could even be heard. If Labor had concerns, an inquiry was the
place to raise them. Hear the experts. Hear affected communities. Test the
legislation. Amend it. Instead, Labor chose to shield
the status quo.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wonder if this is the good news story Czar J was looking for? Where did the $50 million of scam funds go?
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Record jail sentence for Israeli money launderer after Sydney trial
Shabtay Yaacoby, 56, was sentenced today for laundering more than $50 million in scam funds.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The total estimated cost of delivering enhanced Income Management for the period 4 March 2025 to 3 March 2026 $61.0 million. Another cruel policy bought to you by the duopoly to transfer public money to private companies. #Auspol
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@australianlabor.bsky.social the government for punch down politics. NDIS participants Aged care Jobseekers International students Women and children experiencing domestic violence Refugees #Auspol We need Change
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