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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing has ever been more real than the Trump Putin collaboration
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🫠 Trump in 2025: «China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products… They’re funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?»
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Has the high court set Australia’s fossil fuel producers shaking in their boots? They should be | Jacqueline Peel
A high court victory sets a new baseline for coal and gas projects in New South Wales – and potentially for the rest of Australia
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
theconversation.com/the-migratio...
theconversation.com
The migration debate has a big blind spot: much of regional Australia is shrinking
Limiting our attention to short-term workforce needs ignores a much bigger conversation about what it will take for regional Australia to thrive in the future.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia
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Jeremy @callmenerdy.com · 01/10/2026
In case you were wondering what it'd be like to talk to somebody from the 18% who "strongly approve" of the job Trump is doing.
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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.
The cover for a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, "Climate Fraud 101: Big Oil's Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents, 1957-2026"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 10/09/2026
August the hottest month in global history after record European summer
abc.net.au
Extreme heat, fires and floods mark record hot month
Climate data has been released confirming August 2026 as the hottest month on record after heatwaves and severe drought dominated Western Europe's warmest summer.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy Beetaloo Day!!!
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 03/09/2026
🔥 Rising temperatures are exceeding thermal safety margin of crops, livestock & aquatic species. Physiological stress can begin in 25–35°C range during critical stages such as flowering & reproduction. More in @fao.org-@wmo-global.bsky.social report👉 doi.org/10.4060/cd9394en #ExtremeHeat
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
According to the officer, each runner was assigned between four and six police, dressed as competitors, running the 42 kilometres beside them. michaelwest.com.au/sydney-marathon-…
Sydney Marathon. Who told NSW Police to run bodyguard for Israel’s army?According to the officer, each runner was assigned between four and six police, dressed as competitors, running the 42 kilometres beside them.The point is bigger than six runners. Up to 40 current and former IDF soldiers were admitted to Australia without any apparent screening, for a fun run, in the face of public anger at who they were and what they had reportedly done in Gaza.Public picks up the tab
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Landsat 9 captured very clear images of the Himalayan glacier that collapsed, triggering the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal. Estimating very roughly from these images, it appears that the area that failed may have spanned ~1 km² of ice and rock.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A direct line can be drawn from the fossil fuel corporation CEOs in their smart suits and swanky offices, to the brutal deaths of the terrified people you can see in these films Himalayan glaciers are collapsing, and meltwater lakes breaching, due to global heating www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
bbc.co.uk
Hundreds missing, including 291 foreign tourists, after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border
In Tibet, CCTV captured a wall of mud and water hitting a border crossing. The missing in Nepal include more than 100 from India and 12 from the UK.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.reuters.com/business/env...
reuters.com
Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly Nepal flash flood, experts say
A deadly flash flood near ​Nepal's border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and ‌crashed on to the valley floor hundreds of metres below, exper...
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Ryan Singh @singhisking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A 2,000 foot chunk of glacier snapped off and dropped 4,000 feet in Nepal. The flash flood killed 98 people. 391 tourists are missing. 47 Americans unaccounted for. 19 bridges gone. This isn't a natural disaster. This is climate breakdown.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😱 A massive mudslide and flash flood struck the China–Nepal border, with terrifying footage showing a wall of debris crashing through the Gyirong Port area and sweeping away vehicles. At least 9–16 people have died in Nepal, while 384 travelers are reported missing, including 291 foreign nationals.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Dozens or even hundreds feared dead after catastrophic flash floods and mudslides hit Jilong Port in Tibet on the border with Nepal
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.reuters.com/business/env...
reuters.com
India faces weakest monsoon in nearly two decades as El Nino strengthens
India is on course for its weakest monsoon in nearly two decades, with rainfall likely to end the season around 15% below the long-term average, the lowest since 2009, two ​senior weather department s...
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
theguardian.com
This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Could the macadamias hidden in Queensland’s rainforests be the key to saving ‘the world’s finest nut’? | Australian food and drink | The Guardian share.google/vjhBhP8nbk3m...
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Could the macadamias hidden in Queensland’s rainforests be the key to saving ‘the world’s finest nut’?
While grown in huge numbers commercially, macadamias are a vulnerable crop. A group of wild Australian nut hunters is seeking to change that
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/08/2026
Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
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Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When we look back, what will be considered worse, cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence? (the answer is yes)
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Pilot who quit flying due to climate change now loving life as a baker - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Quitting dream job over climate fears a 'no-brainer' for former pilot
Geoff Collis spent 40 years flying high in the sky, but left his dream job to become a baker due to concerns about his role in a warming climate.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/08/2026
Just another record-breaking day in the moronocene, while peak idiocy still lies ahead.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...
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What Keeps Me Up at Night
Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.
abc.net.au
Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/08/2026
The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Time to update the sea surface temperature anomaly maps for the strong El Nino events 1982, 1997, 2015 and 2026. Over 90% of the excess heat from global warming goes into the ocean, making each El Nino world hotter than the last. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/daily_m...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dutch energy storage company Alfen and Chinese battery manufacturer CATL agreed to deploy 5 GWh sodium-ion battery energy storage systems in Europe. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/16/a...
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Alfen, CATL to deploy 5 GWh of sodium-ion battery storage in Europe - pv magazine Global
Dutch energy storage company Alfen and Chinese battery manufacturer CATL have agreed to deploy 5 GWh of sodium-ion battery energy storage systems in Europe.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 10/07/2026
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
theconversation.com
Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Sydney records hottest June since 1859 as expert warns new high a ‘signature’ of global warming
Bureau of Meteorology says city’s mean temperature reached 16.1C, surpassing the previous record of 15.7C set in 1991
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Multi-billionaire Steven Lowy again publicly preaching about "values", this time calling for national service. He's far less vocal about $550,000 in secretive payments he directed to the Liberal Party via an obscure company weeks before federal election…(ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/nation-suffe...
theklaxon.com.au
Nation suffering from "slide in values"... says billionaire who made $550,000 in secretive payments to Liberal Party - The Klaxon
Multi-billionaire Steven Lowy — who directed $550,000 in secretive payments to the Liberal Party weeks before the last federal election — says the nation is suffering a “slide in values”.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/07/2026
Human-caused climate change is increasing the risk of hotter temperatures, including these dangerous heat waves. Watch the entire distribution shift to the right. I'm afraid these headlines about record heat are only going to become more common. 🌡️ Visualization by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/
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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Lots of new all-time temperature records in France. Note that virtually all of the previous monthly records - and quite a few of the previous all-time ones - were set yesterday.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
‼️UNBELIEVABLE -RECORDS EVERYWHERE 40.8 Doksany HOTTEST DAY IN CZECH REP. HISTORY 38.7 Nitra HOTTEST JUNE DAY IN SLOVAKIA HISTORY 38.5 Slubice HOTTEST JUNE DAY IN POLAND HISTORY 39.3 Bad Deutsch HOTTEST JUNE DAY IN AUSTRIA HISTORY (38.7 Innsbruck ALL TIME RECORD) See below👇
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 20/06/2026
A mass killing, bodies burnt and a 'conspiracy of silence': an outback massacre is not forgotten
abc.net.au
Mass killing, bodies burnt, a 'conspiracy of silence': Why this massacre is not forgotten
Ronnie's great-grandfather collected bones and teeth from an outback creek bed. Now police say they're 'not proud' of what occurred.   
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This absurd no-winter continues in Australia and New Zealand. Full summer like temperatures again in New Zealand with up to 24.8C at Tai Tapu and 24.6C at Port Hills, smashing their June records of highest temperatures. This is beyond abnormal.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
abc.net.au
Gina Rinehart says Qld should give some of its islands to Elon Musk
The mining magnate, speaking at the National Bush Summit, also talked about how she believed Townsville could become a base for the Israeli military.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Those with all the power and wealth are uniting around white supremacy, and they literally get to decide what the rest of us see and hear.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
abc.net.au
Socceroos quick hits: Irankunda's stunning strike and Beach's brilliance
Nestory Irankunda scored a goal for the ages and then celebrated like Tim Cahill, while Patrick Beach's palm proved enormous. Here are the five quick hits from the Socceroos vs Türkiye.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
abc.net.au
The Socceroos' greatest ever World Cup gamble just paid off
With his first World Cup team selection, Tony Popovic produced one of the biggest shocks in Socceroos' history. After 90 minutes against Türkiye, his gamble was vindicated.
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Matt @mljojo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown
Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region
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