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@lizff.bsky.social
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Media researcher/educator. Here for animals, politics & good stuff to read.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This dossier on Pauline Hanson's utterances, actions, controversies, attempts to solicit money, donations & gifts accepted & voting record looks incredibly comprehensive‼️ Kudos & thanks to the person/team/org behind this incredible public service‼️ 🙏 No journo will be able to say 'I didn't know'
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 19/09/2026
"My university continues to deny the psychosocial damage their policies have caused staff, and in so denying they continue to perpetrate it." trib.al/UpcKos1
trib.al
How a university destroyed my life
What hope is there for university staff when, a terminally ill academic writes, her workplace is more harmful than her cancer?
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Must reread Voss. Loved Riders in the Chariot so much. And Fringe of Leaves. Now that my elderly mother is approaching death I think Eye of the Storm should be next on my PW list.
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Australia is breaking international law by allowing this.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Terrific response. www.abc.net.au/religion/sen...
abc.net.au
Blaming feminism for the manosphere simply repeats the manosphere’s central claim - ABC Religion & Ethics
Senator Matt Canavan has responded to new evidence of widespread sexism and misogyny in Australian schools by blaming the “feminisation” of education. This explanation repackages one of the manosphere...
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fabulous response to McKellar's iconic poem. 🤩👏🏼🙏 I am also in Bris & ugh this heat already! scared abt what is to come. 🥵
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 04/09/2026
At times like these I find myself increasingly saying, sarcastically, "I love a sunburnt country", the first (and best-known) line of the second verse of Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" (linked). I thought I should put my mouth where my mouth is. Following is a response to the whole poem. 🧵
dorotheamackellar.com.au
My Country - Dorothea Mackellar
The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft dim skies I know but cannot sh...
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are all deeply concerned about the potential for bird flu to severely impact multiple native species, including sea lions, penguins and other native birds, possibly to the point of extinction.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Absolute betrayal 😡
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and po...
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
act.getup.org.au/s/7q86eaAl
act.getup.org.au
Meta: Stop paying to poison our democracy
Thank you for adding your name. Meta only moves when the pressure gets loud enough – when the Guardian exposed its payments to Hanson-linked accounts, seven…
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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Don't expect any government in Australia to care, they give their money to people who kill, traffic and deport children they don't like the look of. #auspol #ChildrenAreCommoditiesToGovernments #SlavesofTheNextGenForOldWhitemen www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Foster carers in Victoria receive just $231 per week – one quarter the cost of caring for a child
Exclusive: Report by Australian Institute of Family Studies found payments to foster carers fall ‘significantly short of a meaningful contribution’
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Immigration policy steps. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Unbelievable.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Independent and Sydney Morning Herald's coverage of my book being banned at a public library in Australia engaged in at least three of the tropes detailed in the book itself. I thought, as an object lesson, it would be useful to document them.
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Coverage of My Book Being Banned Proves the Thesis of the Book
A library in Australia “removed” How to Sell A Genocide from its shelves, and the media’s coverage of it committed at least three of the tropes I document. Let us review them.
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Totally unsurprising that the QPS would choose the interpretation that protects DV offenders in the force 😒
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Last year, in the wake of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Russ Vought, and Republicans trying to destroy the federal science funding infrastructure that has made the United States a technological and economic superpower, I wrote an essay for American Scientists magazine
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
She is proud of her ignorance 😖 knowing that will appeal to anti intellectual Australians. she reeks of it like someone who uses too much Lynx deodorant.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm picturing the human equivalent of an old English sheepdog.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/08/2026
NEW: i dove deep into the plans for several massive power plants being built specifically to power data centers crucially, they're designed much less efficiently than gas-fired power plants that are connected to the electric grid: www.wired.com/story/real-r...
wired.com
The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Low-income Australians should accept substandard homes, Liberal frontbencher says Another Liberal frontbencher said some Australians could put "a jumper on in winter" instead of stricter housing standards. SBS Australia Australian conservative liberals should not expect to be in office ever again.
sbs.com.au
Low-income Australians should accept substandard homes, Liberal frontbencher says
Another Liberal frontbencher said some Australians could put "a jumper on in winter" instead of stricter housing standards.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Kindle book is $2 today! You too can be engaged, terrified and depressed for less than the cost of a latte! (Sorry to link to Amazon, but.) www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...
amazon.com
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America - Kindle edition by Lavin, Tal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 10/08/2026
IDK, but if Jane Norman wants so desperately to amplify The Australian’s hatchet job on the Prime Minister, perhaps she should just go work for them ? Plenty, plenty, PLENTY of reasons to criticise Anthony Albanese these days – no need to make up new ones. #melongate
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Have said it before, will say again: The mix of too-accessible-AI for both academic authors and editors (both categories currently overstretched) and the broken academic system of publishing will make for a huge amount of cherry picking of topics that get to be peer reviewed, let alone be published
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People rightly worry abt research papers written with AI but we need to acknowledge that reviewers are also using AI.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A brilliant take down of Andrew Forrest and his deplorable self promotion as a champion of First Nations people as he trashes the land and sacred sites of Yindjibarndi peoples. Well worth the read.
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Eldritch kcarruthers @kcar.me · 09/08/2026
Tl;dr? Yes: Did the Israeli and US hostility toward Spain embolden Morocco to think it could get away with creating a border control crisis? The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta www.thenation.com/article/world/…
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #news #Qld
theguardian.com
A Queensland domestic violence victim was promised a voice – then told she was no longer welcome to call the minister’s office
Some of the victim-survivors who produced an official report for the state critical of police say their work has been buried and their members ignored
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Digital parenting is a relatively new phenomenon, and doing it well is about finding balance www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/15/d...
crikey.com.au
Digital parenting is a relatively new phenomenon, and doing it well is about finding balance
What makes a family is a gloriously open question, and it's worth thinking about how much the digital world enmeshes with new families as early as possible.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
abc.net.au
Screen time may not be as bad as we thought - ABC listen
If you've ever agonised over how to manage your kids' screen time, or worried that their tech obsession is stunting their development, new research suggests you can probably take a big sigh of relief....
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
An important piece by @roycerk2.bsky.social @deepcutnews.bsky.social Anthony Albanese Listens to Lobbyists Over Public Opinion From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza to gambling, there's a pattern: Albo listens to power & wealth over public opinion. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
deepcutnews.com
Albanese keeps backing lobbyists over public opinion, our analysis shows
From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza, the PM has consistently backed those with power and wealth
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What characters they are 😆
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Great to hear this discussion of the importance of sex education in schools. Sadly there are still many reasons why educators are fearful of the potential consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
abc.net.au
Teachers want better training to deliver the sex ed teens need - ABC listen
If you went to high school any time before the 2010s, you probably had to endure some truly mortifying lessons on the miracle of life.  Sex education has come a long way in recent years, but research...
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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EgretsAndHerons White-faced Heron. I can't figure out if its surrounded by pollen or it disturbed some insects. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae), Jerrabomberra Wetlands, Canberra.  The bird is inflight with its wings spread as it comes into land in the spindly tree part of which can be seen in bottom left..
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Sign the Petition
We Demand Accountability: Remove Jillian Segal from Public Office
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Of all the reasons Albanese has given folk like me - former ALP voters - to give up on the ALP - this is the most significant- his pandering to Israel and the Zionist lobby in Australia . 🤮
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In Canada it is Atacand or apo - candisartan. For some it works well . For others an anti histamine - periactin (cyproheptadine) works to prevent migraines. That one didn't work for me .
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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alan @alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #YourChoice Fledgling Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) and both its parents, Brisbane. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Owls #POwls
A fluffy fledging Powerful Owl peers into the camera from its perch high in a vine-wrapped eucalypt.  A pair of adult Powerful Owls are perched high in a tree.  One of the POwls is looking into the camera with one eye.  The other has its back to the viewer.  Of note is the powerful talons (the reason for its name) gripping the branch.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”" novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...
novaramedia.com
AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.
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lizff.bsky.social @lizff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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