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Peggy Sanders

@peggysanders.bsky.social
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Climate change believer with deep concerns for our children’s future. Progressive political leanings believing in equality for all people.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 13h
Greens position re Ukraine: Stop buying fuel made from Russian oil: youtube.com/shorts/odHDL...
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There is a massive loophole in sanctions against Russia following their illegal invasion of Ukraine.
YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
Or even any meaningful action at all 😡
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 15h
That’s why Aged Care facilities (Nursing Homes) were established in the first place. To establish an alternative to hospital medical wards being used for long term frail, dying people. Why Registered Nurses required on premises 24/7. #auspol
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gazotbmtb.bsky.social @gazotbmtb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The patient gets emergency admitted, their co-morbidities further reveal themselves and they become a 3 month admission in an acute medical bed awaiting a care home bed that does not exist thanks to Duttons cuts a decade ago. Bed blocks like this increase surgical waitlists....
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gazotbmtb.bsky.social @gazotbmtb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just another instance of stressing acute public healthcare provision to facilitate privatisation. Remove bulk-billing and funded care home places and chronic conditions are not managed by the patient due to cost....
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 15h
Aged Care Nursing homes will also be overwhelmed with people with disabilities needing nursing care. Nursing homes were originally established cater for frail, dying elderly people. All public hospitals had ‘medical’ wards full long term destitute elderly, mentally ill, disabled. Forgotten.
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D @greygoshawk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quelle Surprise.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stranded. Thousands in hospital beds as NDIS cuts bite home support Claudia Weisenberger reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/stranded-thousan…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More allegations of crimes by M23, these in relation to mining, incl extrajudicial executions, torture, beatings. M23 also engages in extensive kidnappings of children to use as child soldiers. #intLaw #IHL #warCrimes #humanRights www.jurist.org/news/2026/09...
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Treatment of miners in the DRC by M23 rebels violates international humanitarian law, Amnesty International says
Amnesty International on Monday condemned the March 23 Movement (M23) over human rights abuses committed in the mines they control in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Commenting on the dire dom...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every Australian government in every jurisdiction gives public money to adults - police officers, prison officers, welfare officers - who target and incarcerate and abuse children.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year	Total income	Company Tax
2014-15	$3,389,399,798	$0
2015-16	$3,476,002,729	$0
2016-17	$3,715,263,715	$0
2017-18	$3,498,043,596	$0
2018-19	$4,360,612,850	$0
2019-20	$5,013,931,702	$0
2020-21	$4,070,327,153	$0
2021-22	$4,746,037,784	$0
2022-23	$6,257,384,778	$0
2023-24	$8,210,276,022	$0
2024-25	$5,117,008,013	$0
Total	$51,854,288,140	$0
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More terrifying is that the techbros could probably make him a special chatbot designed just for him that they could program to tell him anything they want him to do.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we are paying Doran to dial in to the ABC and repeat things a wanted war criminal has told to US outlets that anyone who cares can look up and watch for themselves.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Australian news outlets including the public broadcaster will be allocating a LOT of resources to covering Israel and Israelis this month, out of all proportion to the public interest and closely aligned with interests of the powerful. Evidence here:
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Senior Kaurna Elder recognised with first-of-its-kind honour at Adelaide University
Aunty Lynette Crocker has dedicated much of her life and work to Aboriginal Education.On Tuesday the Senior Kaurna Elder was recognised as such, for her 'distinguished service and exceptional contribu...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OpenAi tech does not improve or enhance information assembled by experts and published on official websites. It churns through precious and scarce resources to enshittify what is/was digital information unless/until OpenAi siccs its tech into the space. On purpose. Intentionally. By design.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
regular reminder that publicly available information is useful unless or until it is attacked by OpenAi tech, which steals data to assemble completely unreliable digital simulations that intentionally resemble information and MUST be verified using <checks notes> publicly available information.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates
Final Results and Concluding Thoughts
Adding it all up, we estimate that the AI sector is responsible for almost 1,900 TWh of global energy consumption in 2026. And after accounting for additional factors that we did not explicitly analyze, like the construction of new electrical substations, robotic-centric warehouses, water reclamation facilities, and other infrastructure specifically designed to support the data center buildout, it’s likely that total AI-driven global energy demand is already closer to 2,000 TWh. Even at 1,900 TWh, the AI share of total global energy use in 2026 would be roughly 1.1%. We also estimate, after adding up all the sectoral numbers and landing at roughly 650 million metric tons of AI-driven CO2 emissions, that the AI share of global GHG emissions in 2026 stands at about 1.2%, with total annual global emissions sitting at roughly 55 gigatons of CO2-eq, albeit with a wide range of figures from EDGAR to UNEP (anywhere from 53 gigatons to 58 gigatons depending on a broad array of different assumptions). As we’ve discussed already, these numbers are much higher than many others in the media and academia have guessed on the basis of simplistic calculations and naïve assumptions.

The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability. ChatGPT alone “processes approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day worldwide.”122 The scale of AI growth and diffusion globally is truly astounding, and the industry’s corresponding ecological footprint will soon rival that of major countries like India. It's not farfetched at all to think that the AI share of total global energy demand could rise to something like 5% by 2030, rivaling and in some cases surpassing the footprint of established dominant industries. The potential consequences of this extra resource pressure on biodiversity, global warming, freshwater scarcity, and biogeochemical cycles could be absolutely staggering and devastating for the…
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
more slop from the ABC. Calling Senator Hanson Young “Senator Hanson” when she is commenting on the real Senator Hanson is typical of algorithms with exactly zero intelligence.
In a social media post today, Senator Hanson-Young congratulated Senator Shoebridge and thanked those who had supported her bid for the leadership.
"Sorry we couldn't pull it off this time but buckle up because we've got a lot of work to do,
"she said.
Senator Hanson said politics could be "brutal" with friendships "made and lost" and argued it was going to take a "huge effort to stop Pauline Hanson and the radical right from wrecking this country".
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Burns lecturing the Greens leader on what “the progressive side of politics” is supposed to be and do is pretty funny too. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Labor MP accuses Greens leader of 'prejudice' over Jewish community comments
Labor MP Josh Burns accuses new Greens leader David Shoebridge of "prejudice" over comments about the party's relationship with Jewish Australians.
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@davidshoebridge.bsky.social #auspol
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the pro-Israel crowd are so obviously lining Shoebridge up for a Corbynin
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the assertion that LLMs can deliver “accurate information” is even more laughable when it seems highly likely OpenAi decided to feed Australian Medicare data into its LLMs so they can pitch for this grift.
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The president on Tuesday also unveiled his own chatbot-driven initiative in the form of America gov: a one stop shop designed to give Americans accurate information and spare them from navigating a maze of clunky websites.
The AI-powered portal is intended to eventually let people do everything from finding jobs and searching government websites to enrolling in Medicare and renewing passports.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it’s the first Sunday of the month! That means tree day with Uncle Chris Tobin on Burramattagal lands at old Gov House, Parramatta Park (10am to 1pm). Here is the stunning Fathers Day tree from last month.
ochre depiction on a silver trunk of a man holding a baby on one arm and one baby on his shoulders. There is a colonial cottage in the background and milk crate at the foot of the tree. same tree from another angle showing a shield and axe on yellow ochre background a kangaroo on yellow ochre on a silver trunk tree with low hanging branches and office buildings of parramatta in the background.
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Green Left @greenleftonline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Join nationwide rallies on October 11 to mark three years of genocide and call on Labor to cut ties with Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1463/ne...
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3 years of genocide rallies: Demand Labor cut ties with Israel
Israel’s genocide in Gaza is now approaching the three-year mark, with no sign of slowing down. Join nationwide rallies on October 11 to demand Labor cut ties with Israel.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the destruction we are causing. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Australia's fossil fuel expansion 'slap in the face' to Pacific nations
Having just approved a major coal mine expansion, Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji.
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Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He had a freaking event with Pauline Hanson about the horrible NDIS reforms before he left office too. Just a terrible person.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At the time, Kath Madgwick et al were displeased I suggested their faith in Shorten and the ALP to ensure justice was misguided. How much did Gordon Legal make from the class action? When the victims and families barely saw a dollar, if at all?
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robodebt recipients and their families know Labor has denied them justice
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He trotted them out to press conferences, he used quotes from them to create the illusion his government could be trusted to enact justice. And then he moved on
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quick! Better invite Shorten to speak on another panel on autonomous decision making
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While he was a politician Shorten told these women he was on their side and he’d help them get justice. How much is his salary at University of Canberra now? While grieving families won’t ever see a dime www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensation
Commonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shorten traded their grief as political currency and flung them away once he no longer had a use for them
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
as you would expect, because it does not exist, Altman does not name public benefits delivered by OpenAi tech, and nor does the reporter note “he said, without presenting any evidence” as they have belatedly started adding to lies told by Trump. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh we should do this thing and this other thing and enact extremely harmful and costly processes to endow presumptive innocence and benefit of doubt on white men whose entire history evidences nothing but destructive malfeasance - how colonial white patriarchy boosts OpenAi tech, and rapists.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
starting to think corporate media coverage of tech billionaire bullshit is even more ridiculously credulous than the garbage barfed up by cops.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
A Mamdaniesque state supermarket?! Anything that causes the duopoly to suffer is good for me| First Dog on the Moon
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A Mamdaniesque state supermarket?! Anything that causes the duopoly to suffer is good for me| First Dog on the Moon
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they said the legitimacy of struggle for “liberation from colonial domination, apartheid, and foreign occupation by all available means including armed struggle” and we do not need a group of the safest people on earth - wealthy white Australians - who support genocide to define liberatory struggle.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle for independence, territorial integrity, national unity, and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid, and foreign occupation by all available means including armed struggle: Resolution 45/130, UN General Assembly 14/12/1990 www.un.org/unispal/docu...
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Pre-2017 documents - Question of Palestine
Browse documents: By Date| By Subject| By Entity| By Type
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination: Resolution 3379 passed by the UN General Assembly on 10 November 1975 as part of the UN Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Decade against Racism). www.un.org/unispal/docu...
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Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination: Zionism as racism - GA resolution - Question of Palestine
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/10320)] 3379 (XXX). Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination   The General Assembly, Recalling its resoluti...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
not be outdone, disgraced smh journalist Matthew Knott gives zionist Jeremy Liebler a right of reply to Jews Against the Occupation 48 whose Jewish members are not only not quoted on the event they actually organised but antisemitically erased from the story completely.
The third anniversary of October 7 will be marked not only by Jewish community commemorations in Australian capital cities but several pro-Palestinian vigils.
Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler decried the vigils as "an attempt to erase what happened on October 7"
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
nobody owns October 7 or September 11 or 26 January. Colonising a date is a disgusting thing to do. It is not up to the colonial white class in Israel or the USA or Australia to dictate how anniversaries are commemorated by subjugated Peoples.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 15h
the assault rifle armed police will patrol, says the super, in “places of mass gathering”. Not at protests, mind. The example he gives is at Circular Quay. Some people may see a beautiful part of Sydney at the Quay, he says, while he sees a potential mass casualty event. Again with the no evidence.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 15h
will they get training in response to people experiencing a mental health episode? The superintendent says all police are so trained. In empathy, he says. So the same empathetic response as features in half of all critical incidents - injury or death during policing - now with bigger guns.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
he remember when an unarmed bystander wrestled one gunman to the ground and police killed the other one
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you want to know more about the NatCon organisation, I did a deep dive into signatories etc. This was before I’d seen Palantir’s Peter Thiel as another driving force, I think. lucyham29.substack.com/p/whos-who-a...
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Who's who at NatCon
National Conservatism is one of the hubs of the transnational, authoritarian Right. In the week of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship's second conference, it needs attention.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Note Libertarian Party (Atlas Network partner spawned) MLC Ruddick has agreed to be platformed alongside Neo Nazi-adjacent Hugo Lennon. Last year BAC co-hosted an event with an ugly UK far right crew to import their toxic UK influencers here. Why are eg Bronze Age Pervert granted visas? #Auspol
ВАСРАС 2026 - Abolishing Anglophobia: The Road to Success
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Later in the month there is another pair of conferences. One is Atlas partner CIS’s Consilium. (Watch this space) At the same time is this utterly creepy BACPAC event where far right fogeys work to bring their fascistic reasoning to a new, young crowd. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-white-...
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The White identitarian crowd is hard at work in Australia
Australians need to be decide how we address efforts to (re)make a white or “anglo-celtic” country.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reproductive healthcare to be stripped. "Feminism" (women in the civic sphere) is "unnatural,"" LGBTQIA existence is "unnatural." Science & God are perverted to enforce that only RW White Straight wealthy men are designed to rule. Fossil fuel funds are inherent. Climate science is denied.
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