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Sailor, environmentalist, unionist, musician etc

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seastops.bsky.social @seastops.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I just signed a petition to ban bottom trawling in Australian marine parks . Sign here: www.saveourmarinelife.org.au/actions/ban-...
saveourmarinelife.org.au
Ban bottom trawling in Australian marine parks - Save Our Marine Life
Destructive bottom trawling is an intensive fishing method that ploughs heavy gear across the seabed, removing target species while damaging entire marine communities that can take generations to reco...
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Bob Mehr @bobmehr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My latest for The New York Times: a look at the life & legacy of the late great D. Boon. Visited San Pedro to talk to the surviving Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley, as they continue to carry forward the spirit of Boon and the band. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
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D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/01/2026
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
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seastops.bsky.social @seastops.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
membersfirstunion.org
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Members First - Vote for a better UWU in the April 2026 union election
Only Members First will put our Union back in the hands of members Only Members First will put our Union back in the hands of memberS Here's everything you need to know about how we'll put Mem...
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Never gets old
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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seastops.bsky.social @seastops.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Have Pulp or Jarvis Cocker expressed a view on the destruction of Adelaide Writers' Week? They're meant to be opening the Festival on February 27. www.nme.com/news/music/p...
nme.com
Pulp, IDLES and Fontaines D.C. among dozens of artists to sign Heavenly Recordings letter defending Kneecap’s “freedom of expression”
Dozens of artists have signed a letter from Heavenly Recordings supporting the right to freedom of expression for musicians and artists.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/12/2025
It has basically become accepted that the Bondi terror attacks were perprated by leftist anti-genocide protestors who heard the phrase 'from the river to the sea' at the harbour bridge and were immediately activated into committing mass murder
theguardian.com
NSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so far
NSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says
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seastops.bsky.social @seastops.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Worthwhile read. slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
What’s Coming in Australia Is Unimaginable
This isn't supposed to happen here. Except now it does.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Never forget it took less than a day for the right-wing conservative forces in Australia politics and media to turn the Bondi massacre into their own political grandstanding in order to sew division. Contemptible.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/12/2025
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that two years of weaponised genocidal mass murder in Gaza has probably made global political violence and terror *MORE* likely, not *LESS* likely And that opposing mass death makes you anti-terrorism, not pro-terrorism www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
MORE THAN 67,000 Palestinians have been killed in two years, with thousands still under the rubble
At least 20,000 children are among the dead, or one child killed every hour
That's 1 out of every 33 people in Gaza
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Source: Al Jazeera, Gaza Media Office
October 7, 2025
@AJLabs
ALJAZEERAAT LEAST
169,000
Palestinians have been injured over the past two years, many with life-altering wounds
That's 1 out of every 14 people in Gaza
Source: Al Jazeera, Gaza Media Office, United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) | October 7, 2025
@AJLabs
ALJAZEERA125 hospitals and clinics are damaged
health and aid 1,722-workers have
Source: Al Jazeera, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), World Health Organization (WHO) | October 7, 2025
@AJLabs
ALJAZEERAAT LEAST
2,600
people have been killed
MORE THAN
19,000
injured while trying to collect
food aid
Source: Al Jazeera, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), World Health Organization (WHO) | October 7, 2025
@AJLabs
ALJAZEERA
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“Fellow Australians. If you are watching this videotape, I’m in Sydney hoping to make political mileage from people who have been murdered”
Old screenshot of a Pauline Hanson video where she said ‘Fellow Australians, if you are watching this I have been murders’Pauline Hanson getting news coverage in Bondi
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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The vast majority of Australians, everyone I've spoken to, my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, want to just be good to one another in this moment, and avoid inflaming the endless blame cycle. A loud minority want otherwise. Unfortunately they're among the loudest in the nation
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A proposal to the gov’t that would improve Labor's changes to our environment laws so they actually protect nature, with 15 changes including removing native forest logging exemption & removing fossil fuels from national interest test You can read more below: www.davidpocock.com.au/proposal_to_...
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PROPOSAL TO PASS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REFORMS THAT ACTUALLY PROTECT NATURE
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
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seastops.bsky.social @seastops.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Give me back my hand Charlie Brown
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This energy infrastructure that is proven to kill whales is ruining my view.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla. Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained. The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out domestic American media & politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The Leeroy Jenkins Administration
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers. As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example. Meet Torrey Canyon.
Oil tanker Torrey Canyon. One careless owner. Sold as seen. In this image it's almost completely awash and broken in half. At the very least you've got to imagine they've voided the warranty.
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
one very, very big chart www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project
The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries
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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
'disturbing' you say
In one disturbing post obtained by news.com.au, she shares a post depicting Peter Dutton and former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wearing Nazi uniforms.Daily Telegraph depicting Labor leaders as nazis
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state. my latest for @thenation.com
thenation.com
The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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Graham Readfearn @readfearn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
From me - "It’s an ashen pallor": More than 80% of the world’s reefs now hit by bleaching during worst global event on record.
theguardian.com
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Australia has a moral responsibility to stop approving new coalmines and gas fields, instead of exporting failed attempts to resuscitate overheating coral reefs. (So far, the number of hectares of reef successfully restored in Australia is approximately zero). theconversation.com/we-have-a-mo...
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We have a moral responsibility to help low-income nations restore coral reefs
Around the world, coral reefs are suffering. But scientists in high-income nations are developing new ways to build coral resilience. We have a duty to share our skills and build capacity elsewhere.
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It's 9 years today since Prince died and this happened on Twitter. Sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Pete Hegseth back on his shit I see
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a person is digging a hole in the ground to rescue a dog from a hole in the ground .
Alt: A sheep is rescued from a ditch and immediately jumps back into the ditch
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hughes said the Great Barrier Reef had just suffered its sixth mass bleaching event in nine years, but the major parties seemed to be “quite strenuously avoiding talking about climate impacts.” In 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2025. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own
With Peter Dutton’s views on climate change in the spotlight, the focus has turned onto whether there will be any policies to reduce emissions in the next decade
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2025
vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Trump administration is quietly drafting a bold new policy for combating terrorism that targets a wide range of perceived foes, from Tesla vandals to protesters, intelligence sources tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team...
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Trump Team Prepping New Strategy for Domestic Terrorism
Goodbye January 6, hello “Hands Off” protesters
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"The Liberals can no longer attract serious representatives. Instead, they pick through the dregs of whatever crawls out of the right-wing swamp. This is the hallmark of a minor rightwing party from the fringes of politics, not the MO of a major party." open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...
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Why can't people admit the Liberal Party is falling apart?
Not just struggling, but collapsing
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025
one of my tiktok followers made this
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question? BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 01/04/2025
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/03/2025
What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky. Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia. Credit: Joshua Rozells
Photograph of the Sky with streaks of light cutting across it in patterns from satellites
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Paul Woods @paulwoods.io · 28/03/2025
Global Fishing Watch joined forces with UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) and @climatetrace.org to conduct a first-ever study to map and estimate the emissions of all large industrial vessels operating at sea, accounting for 3% of global fossil fuel emissions. buff.ly/M2E2tAW
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Mapping industrial vessel emissions at sea
Pilot study first to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions of all large industrial vessels operating in the ocean
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Basically Dutton's speech is migrants are bad and the cause of your problems, and also we need a lot more fossil fuels being pumped out while giving $20k a year for blokes to take their mates golfing
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/03/2025
Labor & the Coalition rammed through undemocratic changes to our environment law, to protect the foreign-owned salmon industry in Tasmania This will have devastating consequences Just adds insult to injury it's to protect an industry that is so, so cooked. @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A non-compete for a minimum wage child care worker.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/03/2025
'mums for nuclear', backed by famous Mum For Nuclear Dick Smith, is massively ramping up its targeted spending on Meta: just flat-out lying to people by claiming nukes will bring down power bills. Extremely dodgy and unethical stuff via @commsdeclare.bsky.social
If you’re a middle aged female with an interest in solar power, nuclear campaigners want you.


In the week 15th to the 21st of March, Nuclear for Australia and its offshoot astroturfing group, Mums For Nuclear, spent a combined $89,233 on Meta ads, according to online political database WhoTargets.Me. 


Mums for Nuclear targets mothers with claims that nuclear power will reduce power bills and is essential to a “clean energy future for our children”. The ads (sample below) claim “We’re not activists or lobbyists, but we know nuclear is our future”. Nuclear for Australia, which is backed by mogul Dick Smith, is the contact email address on the account.


While men and women saw the ad, around 18% of the budget was spent targeting women only. The group is also running print ads and issued a media release.


Belinda Noble, founder of climate communications group, Comms Declare said, “Targeting mums with false promises of cheap power bills and climate solutions is as manipulative as it is cynical. The CSIRO has confirmed that only renewables can provide the cuts in climate pollution that we need this decade.”


People classified as being interested in renewables, sustainable energy or efficient energy were among the top contested audiences between climate and nuclear campaigners, Independent candidates and the Liberal Party.a screenshot of the facebook adIf you’re a middle aged female with an interest in solar power, nuclear campaigners want you.


In the week 15th to the 21st of March, Nuclear for Australia and its offshoot astroturfing group, Mums For Nuclear, spent a combined $89,233 on Meta ads, according to online political database WhoTargets.Me. 


Mums for Nuclear targets mothers with claims that nuclear power will reduce power bills and is essential to a “clean energy future for our children”. The ads (sample below) claim “We’re not activists or lobbyists, but we know nuclear is our future”. Nuclear for Australia, which is backed by mogul Dick Smith, is the contact email address on the account.


While men and women saw the ad, around 18% of the budget was spent targeting women only. The group is also running print ads and issued a media release.


Belinda Noble, founder of climate communications group, Comms Declare said, “Targeting mums with false promises of cheap power bills and climate solutions is as manipulative as it is cynical. The CSIRO has confirmed that only renewables can provide the cuts in climate pollution that we need this decade.”


People classified as being interested in renewables, sustainable energy or efficient energy were among the top contested audiences between climate and nuclear campaigners, Independent candidates and the Liberal Party.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’ve seen a Palestinian father tenderly cradle and stroke the decapitated head of his toddler through my screen this morning while blogging about tax cuts and Australian politics and I’m not sure I’ve ever been more outside my body. How can anyone still defend what Israel is doing? How???
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