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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Several amazing people I know are facilitating this training, I have no hesitation in recommending their collective work. To find out more information or to start the enrollment process www.intereros.com

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Please pass these on (virtually) to anyone you know who may be interested. more info here: anzpop.org/training-pro...

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Please share this directly with anyone you think may be interested in attending. More details re sign up options in the comments of the OP.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Some light reading: Find public records and leaks - Library of Leaks search.app/nqCxxkE9pcjS...

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

For anyone down at Eastern Beach at the moment, there's dolphins!! What an unexpected magical start to the day! Photos pre dolphin encounter 😅

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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social talks about the inconceivable scale of the fires in LA. Not inconceivable to Australians. Gariwerd (VIC) lost an area the size of Singapore late 2024. For some reason, & I suspect it’s an anachronism, people think extreme weather in Australia is the rule. #auspol 🧵 1/5

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

NoShu - The pen is mightier than the sword, I'll always live by that. But not everyone is a writer.

Screen shot of tweet from NoShu@Noshu4me

The pen is mightier than the sword, I'll always live by that. But not everyone is a writer.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The apricots in the backyard aren't quite ripe yet, and some weird part of my brain is feeling overly competitive with the birds. I don't remember this happening last year. And I've eaten more than one under ripe apricot so far. They're good! Crunchy though.

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Randy, Baron von Greymatter @wowindescribable.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Nature just wants to be LEFT ALONE.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago. We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better. It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Radicalisation is not a dirty word.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A good reads review that may be of interest Partial quote: These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?

Luigi Mangione rated a book

Industrial Society and Its Future

by Theodore John Kaczynski

Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life.

It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.

He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.

A take I found online that I think is interesting:

"Had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he's probably right. Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him.

When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense.

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I wish more people would apply the same logic of "for profit is bad in healthcare" to other things surrounding human needs, like say food and housing. Too much to ask? #PeopleOverProfit

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

They're also actively on a recruitment drive (NSN et al)

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Urban Forest_arboriculture_treerider @arboltreearbre.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Slowly but surely this Pack continues to grow. Almost a hundred in this 4th version. If we don't really know how a tree lives, we won't be able to take care of it. go.bsky.app/L3VSMx7

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I was just thinking about this, and here we are:

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

“Willow trees can accumulate a lot of heavy metals and other contaminants,” Didukh says ... The plant has a unique ability to absorb oil, nitrogen, and phosphorus. It can hold onto heavy and toxic chemicals within its body and in the soil around its roots, where it nurtures microorganisms..."

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Really really don't want to mow the law. It would be nice to not have to have lawn! (renting. yay). Also simultaneously recognise the privilege of having a back yard, having some fruit trees, and having all the amazing birds, insects and other life that come with that.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Also, I'm not into athletics as a general rule. But oh my gosh! Gout Gout! If you haven't already watched the race, he's incredible!!

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Who knew shared hatred of Woolworths could actually unite the working class, even those who don't feel as if they are members of the working class, and don't identify with labour movement politics. I haven't seen such a broad australia wide anti company sentiment during a strike in recent years

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Or -- and this is often more salient in politics -- why not just believe that makes you collectively feel BAD? (Because feeling bad together feels righteous and good!)

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/12/2024

And like the problem with that is… you can create your whole own little world, completely out of touch from reality! Why shouldn’t you? Like, if there’s no consensus reality at all, why not just believe what makes us feel good? We have to be able to collectively do better

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/12/2024

It’s extremely frustrating because people clearly do believe like, actual physical facts that, at the very least, cannot clearly be proven except by emotion/in group adherence. Things about strategy, physics, environmental science, computers, whatever

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

But this "believing fully in the truth of your communally-crafted political narrative independent from its 'real' existence" is very much the Bullshit I am On right now but am still working on how to spell it out.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

and in a decision that surprises no one, once again there'll be cops matching at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Well done to the committee for once again failing to represent anything but their own sheltered interests. Oh and the banks. The government etc Fuck rainbow capitalism. No cops at pride.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

In an ideal world legislation would have an actual foundation in fact, and then if the circumstances change, or new information came to light, the legislation would be changed to reflect that. Arguing for legislative restrictions just because they are legislative restrictions irritates me so much.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Just sharing the details again, a bus full of scab labour was stopped earlier this morning by the community picket line. And if you're still shopping at either of those two big supermarkets, and can possibly do so (I know access/accessibility can be a thing) now is the time to change your habits

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If you've got a kid in highschool in australia, I highly recommend the engineering camps offered by SPARK. These are fully funded which is such a bonus. My youngest kid went earlier this year and had the best time. www.ywb.com.au/spark-engine...

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Spark — Youth Without Borders

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Year 10 kid got a STEM/STEAM award yesterday. Very proud parenting moment!

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

FYI: Woolworths picket will continue over weekend. Please visit if you can 2 Portlink Drive Dandenong South

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It's totally okay to want a satisfying erotic connection as part of a romantic/committed relationship that includes sex. This shouldn't be controversial.

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Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Anarchism, in the sense of opposition to coercive hierarchy and centralized authority, is generally leftist in that it is critical of capitalism and aims to replace capitalism with anarchist society, though there's a Baskin Robbins flavor like assortment of different kinds of anarchism.

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Anarchism is typically included under the libertarian umbrella of socialism. It is an economic system absent any state authority, placing an emphasis on free association to achieve economic goals. You may have a group of builders who voluntarily come together to build housing for a community.

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Teagen @teagenc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Different anarchists have different answers as far as economics. Some advocate a kind of stateless socialism or communism, in which the means of production are neither privatized nor state-owned, but socially or collectively owned. Some support the existence of markets with worker-owned enterprises.

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Cooperatives are very much compatible with anarchism as they are autonomous and voluntary associations. One version of anarchism may be a community consisting of several cooperatives that collaborate for the good of all who live there, based on direct and consensus democracy.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Silly question, in the spirit of there's no stupid questions: Do people who get investors for big projects basically just draw up a business plan and approach people? What am I missing here? Also do not dm me with "financial advice" thanks.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hey! I’ve been covering tech since most of you were eight, so let me weigh in on the “did leftists scare off big tech or did tech employees grow into conservatives” debate. The answer is neither of those. The techno Utopianism that fueled an early, idealistic internet wasn’t a business model.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/11/2024

Anyway go read this, it's good! www.techpolicy.press/where-does-p...

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 29/11/2024

Thank you! Mine was set to "Hot replies first" and had to change it. For others, the settings are in Settings > Content and Media > Thread preferences: bsky.app/settings/thr...

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just in case you haven't already, check your settings to opt out.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I have the worst PMT. Just snapped at the other people in my household about ridiculous things. To be fair the sound of that plastic is so annoying! And would be even if I wasn't so grumpy. Working later. Hopefully I'm in a better mood by then. Sometimes hormones suck.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

And completely changing the way rentals are done in australia. In with the long leases (5, 10 years etc). Out with the constant housing insecurity. Renting in australia is linked with significantly poorer health outcomes.

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Lana Blue @lanablue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm thinking about housing, what are some immediate solutions to the rental crisis we're experiencing? Tighter regulation around AirBnB and short stay holiday accommodation is an obvious one. How about encouragement for all those people who live in big houses with multiple spare bedrooms to (more)

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Melissa Gijsbers @melissagijsbers.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So many don't. I have requested books by my writing buddies in libraries, and then borrow them randomly to keep them on the shelves too!

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