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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 08/04/2026

GiveDirectly has sent $1 billion in cash directly to people in extreme poverty. Their model has no middle man and study after study shows it works. Any billionaire could call them tomorrow and help pull an entire country out of poverty. For some, it would cost about a year in the stock market.

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Jo Sharp @jofeanelwa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

They always use the word "brigade" when it's a group of people who disagree with them but who are right. This reads like "House fire is exactly what fire brigade wants" no they have just been telling you not to fry chips while drunk for the last 50 years.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The tree being cut down today started growing before the pyramids were built. Before the Roman Empire. Before written history. We aren’t just "logging timber." We are executing beings that have survived millennia, simply because they can’t run. 1% of original old-growth remains. Protect it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

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Gita Sonnenberg @moretreesnow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

There’s no reason to expect the Western Australian government to be any different

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Within the space of 7 days the Albanese Labor Govt has welcomed the head of state of a country committing genocide - and given another $30b of our public money to the Trump fascist administration through AUKUS. Can’t believe it #auspol

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ah yes, social cohesion in action

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good... Their claim was self defense, sir Just don’t believe your eyes It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 13/01/2026

In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Leave Cathy alone - one of this nation's greatest, bravest 'toonists in these difficult times Or come after me too, you fuckers!

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Scabbyhabby @scabbyhabby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

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God @thegodshow.com · 21/12/2025

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

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Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.

Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Nothing says ‘new pathway’ better than turning up with John Howard 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #auspol

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽 Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club. That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group. Just utterly unbelievable.

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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 27/09/2025

Danke Berlin! #AllEyesOnGaza

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

As for biodiversity, a brand new study also confirms what's well established: overall ruminant meat, especially from grazing animals (which require more land, entailing more carbon & biodiversity opportunity costs) has the biggest 'extinction footprint' of all foods: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

But on the morning of Aug. 31, as the bus made its way to the airport, A.R.M.D. worried that he would be returned to Guatemala without the opportunity to make his case in court.
Sharing his anxiety were other Guatemalan children who, like A.R.M.D., had been roused from bed in the middle of the night at their respective foster homes or care facilities. At a children's shelter in McAllen, Texas, one young.girl "was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician." Another teenager, who said that her sister was murdered in Guatemala last year, worried that she, too, would be killed if she returned. Other potential deportees cited personal histories involving family violence, sexual abuse, or human trafficking as reasons why they were afraid to return to their home country.
In theory, the law is supposed to protect unaccompanied children from being summarily whisked out of the country by the government.

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The head of the Western Australian Museum has told staff that burning fossil fuels is something “almost all of us are guilty of in one way or another” in an email defending the institution’s renewed research partnership with Woodside.

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WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership

Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Crossing climate tipping points, such as ice sheet loss and AMOC collapse, becomes possible beyond 1.5°C To prevent this, emissions cuts need to speed up Could +ve tipping points, shifts to zero-emissions technology and behaviour, foster self-sustaining change? theconversation.com/how-to-help-...

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How to help trigger positive tipping points – and speed up climate action

The beauty of positive tipping points is that it only takes a small change to make a big difference.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2025

Very cool that the broad techno-apologist effective altruist substack complex maintains that the energy consumption of AI is incredibly insignificant, while the tech overlords they're apologising for are casually dropping data centres on top of manhattan

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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

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The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 29/08/2025

What happens when voters have a choice between the party least shit

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2025

"Around 2.5% of all global marine fish caught are used to feed Norwegian salmon farms" - wtf!!!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/08/2025

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Solidarity ✊ with WA folks who will be holding a #RequiemForOurReefs as the @wamuseum.bsky.social accepts WoodCIDE sponsorship & hosts a Woodside Open Day on 17 Aug as part of #NationalScienceWeek (cringe) #NorthWestShelfExtension #ScottReef #NoNewCoalAndGas #EndGreenwash #EndReputationLaundering

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

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The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City

“We understand these are our last days.”

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Dr Sue Chapman @drsue4forrest.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Feeling overwhelmed. Here’s some help to send in your submission wafa.org.au/wp-content/u...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/07/2025

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

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Gita Sonnenberg @moretreesnow.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I feel sorry for all the “nurses, teachers, police, hospitals, roads and other services and infrastructure for Queensland families and communities” who have missed out on $22bln. #StopAdani #AdaniWatch @qldaah.bsky.social @betootaadvocate.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Thank you, good teacher. The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. -Joanna Macy

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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Join the dots. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social (both newly arrived to Bluesky)

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God @thegodshow.com · 25/06/2025

The reason we fight against fascism is because of love. Love for our friends and family. Our children deserve better than this. They deserve not to live in a place where they must fear getting shot. We love them. So we have to win. And in time, we will. The axe forgets but the tree remembers.

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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Something is off at #Woodside When Howard and Downer bugged Timor to steal their #gas #helium it was to benefit #Woodside an American managed and majority owned company that doesn't pay tax in Australia. On it goes, why? #auspol are we under duress, being held to ransome in some way?

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I beg the Australian gov. Take sanctions against Israel. End the blockade. Support the flotilla that’s waiting to bring food into #Gaza that has not seen food for a frighteningly long time. Never let it be said that Australia assisted in starving a nation to death. #Auspol youtu.be/1R8JHrNAlYM

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Miriam Margolyes calls on the Australian government to impose sanctions against Israel

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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Love this story - the sacred (religion) providing sanctuary for the sacred (nature). Some of these trees protected by Chinese temples are thousands of years old www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese temples

Survey uncovers the rich biodiversity protected at sacred sites.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/06/2025

How much of global warming is human-caused? More than 100% How can that be? Doesn't climate change naturally too? Of course But according to natural factors--changes in the sun's energy, volcanic eruptions, natural cycles & more--the planet should be slowly cooling now. Instead, it's warming 😬

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This is all just a part of a natural cycle, right?

YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

G, by Zaffar Kunial

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