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spirabo.bsky.social

@spirabo.bsky.social
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Multidisciplinary science degree. Sometime journalist, editor and policy and legislative specialist in the environmental and transport safety domains. I stand with Ukraine against Russian and US imperialism. I block MAGA cultists.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22/03/2025
Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6... I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.
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Message to My American Viewers
YouTube video by Jim's Radio Shop
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Watch this video to see Musk make grandiose claims about people having anything they want because of his robots. No one should believe his grandiosity. It’s a sign of a mental pathology.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
First Canada, now Europe. Way to go Nero!
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you criticise Tim Cook on discussions.apple.com for his disastrous changes to the Mail app, autocorrect and AI stuff-ups in general your post will be deleted by a ‘moderator’. And you can’t give feedback on the Mail app changes in product feedback as the app isn’t listed for phones or iPads.
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Official Apple Support Community
Find answers with millions of other Apple users in our vibrant community. Search discussions or ask a question about your product.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Don't buy Russian. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 Don't buy Israeli. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 Don't buy US either. Buy Australian. #auspol #AusVotes25
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Cameron Webb @mozziebites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is concerning. Japanese encephalitis virus detected in mosquitoes collected in suburban Brisbane. Disease caused by this virus is rare but can be life-threatening www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/japa…
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Japanese encephalitis virus detected in Brisbane for the first time
Queenslanders are being warned against getting bitten by mosquitoes after the Japanese encephalitis virus was found in Brisbane.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When people tell you who they really are.... Listen.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Jacinta Price was booked by a local Nats MP to hold a "Pollies in the Pub" event to talk to white people about her policies re Indigenous people. She cancelled at the last minute when the local Indigenous leaders showed up to protest! #auspol #AusVotes25 www.newsofthearea.com.au/jacinta-pric...
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Australian cafe owners fight back against Trump #Ukraine #Australia www.abc.net.au/news/105054328
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Australian café puts 'tax' on US drinks in solidarity with Ukraine
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Tinu had Long COVID and cancer & shared her struggles to get health-care workers to mask during her chemo treatments. She said, “Those of us at high risk aren’t abstract people you’ve never met. We’re people you know and love, and we might die because you won’t wear a mask.” RIP @tinu.bsky.social
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‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers - Healthy Debate
Let’s start protecting people in health-care settings as that’s where people should have the best understanding of a viral threat.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The internet is authoritarian rather than enlightening warned Richard Levin in 2018. You have to listen to his talk (link in article) about the loss of democracy—which is a global trend. jsis.washington.edu/news/twenty-...
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Twenty ways you can create change and resist tyranny - The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
In his opening remarks about On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century to a crowd of over 400 students, faculty, and members of the public gathered in Kane Hall on April
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/03/2025
@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:
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Rick Wilson Has an URGENT Message for Chuck Schumer: SHUT IT DOWN!
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Australia: I loved lockdowns (no, I’m not deranged) "The idea that those who complied with the laws to protect our health during the pandemic lacked backbone is pretty insulting." Source: archive.md/KINku
I loved lockdowns (no, I’m not deranged)

The idea that those who complied with the laws to protect our health during the pandemic lacked backbone is pretty insulting.
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Cracking the Magafacists code
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I believe no one should be traveling to the U.S. right now, but an extra word of warning to those with disabilities or reliant on medications. If you’re detained, you may not be able to access the care you need. With my health I wouldn’t last 24 hours in a detention camp. Don’t risk it.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The ABC reports that a Ningi man was arrested today by police for attempting to steal a generator powering traffic lights at Caboolture. The the report didnt say he was ‘known to police’. The map shows hotspots in Ningi for crimes of ‘other theft’ such as today’s attempt might be classified.
Crime clusters in Ningi including ‘other theft’
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
There’s a cyclone heading for major population centres and Sandy Cape weather station hasn’t been online for 408 days. The bureaucrats at the BOM seem intent on destroying organisational capacity. They’d rather spend money on name changes. Messaging is more important to them than doing meteorology.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Tropical cyclone #Alfred may cross the southern Queensland or northern NSW coast on Thursday. #QLD #NSW
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A friend’s grandmother died on Saturday (1 March). She was one of two people hit by a motor vehicle. She was 105.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This guy has an Order of Australia Medal and is in charge of a government entity that is supposed to help keep children safe. Can these people be trusted to oversee organisations that have children in their care? Their judgement seems very off.
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Ali France @alifrance.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We need u! And we need u now if we r going to defeat Dutton. Please join our campaign & if you can’t join please donate. So grateful 4 every $. 🙏 Billboards r expensive in this neck of the woods & we want a few of them. Please help ! #Dickson #auspol donate.queenslandlabor.org/ali-france-f...
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Donate to Ali France in Dickson!
Help Ali France's grassroots campaign to win Dickson
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A US-owned business is trying to bust the economic blackout with a one day sale (20% off everything). They’ve now revealed their politics. #Blackout #Boycott #24HourEconomicBlackout
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/02/2025
End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour now. As hundreds of thousands of salmon are dying, the PM is throwing public money at the polluting, tax-avoiding foreign corporations, putting them over Australia's people and wildlife. It has to stop. Add your name: theaus.in/save_the_skate
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Charles Harvey @cjharvey56.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Doesn’t that fact- that Newscorp has used its media heft to protect Lehrmann at every point- really reinforce why a Royal Commission into Newscorp was not just a good idea but necessary to put Australian MSM back to reporting news and not being weaponised in criminal fashion by billionaire owners?
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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
You really get the impression from Bruce Lehrmann that he believed he could get away with anything. I guess when you have Australia’s largest news organisation on your side - News Corp - you might believe you are untouchable.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
On ABC RN's today, Sabra Lane claimed Labor froze Medicare funding! Health Minister @markbutlermp.bsky.social pushed back. Yes, there was a brief pause for a few months. But Dutton froze it for SIX YEARS! Sabra Lane then ended the interview w/o acknowledging the truth of this! #auspol #AusVotes2025
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So the Democrat senators who voted to confirm Trump’s cabinet nominees are now having regrets. How about Democrats primary these drop kicks?
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Australian Government prefers to support racism, fascism, sexism, Elon Musk and every other kind of bastardry than support #Bluesky. #AusPol #Australia #AustralianLabor
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
How is Australia’s gutless and spineless Prime Minister feeling today with the news that he’s been grovelling to a Russian asset in the White House? #Ukraine #Krasnov #AusPol #AustralianLabor
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Gutless Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, won’t condemn Trump’s statements about Ukraine. He doesn’t speak for me—Trump is deplorable. Albanese is a latter-day ‘pig-iron Bob’. #AusPol #Albanese #AustralianLabor #Ukraine
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The age old causal problem of the ‘chicken or the egg’ has finally been solved. No chickens means no eggs. QED.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
David Wonnocott (pictured), aged 51, has been imprisoned today for threatening to kill former political staffer Brittany Higgins, her partner David and their dog, and for his attacks on the LGBTQ community. However, he could be back on the streets in June 2026. #AusPol #NSW #QLD #LGBTQ
David Wonnocott jailed for threats to kill a couple and their dog, and for vile homophobic attacks on other people
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Toronto accident should not be politicised.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Every Democrat voter and Democrat politician needs to watch this video. This is your wake up call!
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Attention State Attorneys-General. Is Elon Musk a polygamist? Musk has multiple partners. Could his contractual relationships and financial support of these partners and his off-spring constitute a marriage under the laws of your state? Polygamy is unlawful.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
#Auspol #Australia #AusElection25 #Dutton #LNPNeverAgain
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Was the Australian-born Queen of Denmark in Hobart at the weekend to secure a deal with the Tasmanian government to buy Greenland? If such a deal were to be struck wouldn’t that cause a Trumpertantrum. #Greenland #Australia #Denmark #Tasmania
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I do not like the "if we annexed Canada he'd get a ton of blue states!" thing like ... no if the US goes to war with Canada, which is what annexing it will require, then it's going to be another Iraq/Afghanistan but right on the border. A lot of very angry people with guns fighting an insurgency.
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loveisphere @loveisphere.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Corruption aside, Elon Musk’s safety record across his companies is atrocious. Here’s my thread starting with Tesla and ending with Space X. It includes last minute additions of Cybertruck and receipts.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It will become a part of SpaceX.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Using Trump’s logic the USA’s trade with Australia is UNFAIR. In 2023 the US imported some $12.59 billion from Australia while exporting $32.48 billion to Australia. A significant trade imbalance. This demands tariffs on vehicles, ships, aircraft, electrical equipment, beverages, spirits & foods.
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💙Kat Chow6 (KC6)💙 @kc6.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
BlueSky; You have homework. The mission? To correct Google of incorrect information. Do the following. There are 27.44 million registered individuals on BlueSky if all of you do this we can correct Google. Get Going, Resistors! Comment and tell you've done this.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A sign of the times?
An old red Morris Commercial truck (circa 1950) with tray back parked near a bookstore, The Big Book, Ferguson St, Glen Innes NSW, Australia. August 2013.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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