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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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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I was merely making a suggestion. It seems you have something to showcase. As you said you’re made some allies in bushfire brigades. So much knowledge has been lost that as a country we need to inform and empower people.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Our Nation's Pedestrian Safety Crisis
Walking is one of the most basic ways to get from place to place. In the U.S., more than a quarter of all trips are less than one mile, and many of those are made by walking. Many choose to walk becau...
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s important to work with fire brigades to spread awareness. Try holding a field day with brigades from your region with talks from botanists and ecologists who can explain the role of smoke in the germination of some species, patch burning etc. Show them what you’ve done.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I wasn’t trying to be comprehensive, it was just an example and I agree with you. I’ve seen it done properly and badly, including lighting fires in strong dry winds. Wetlands, grasslands, wet sclerophyll on the western rainforest margins in the wet tropics etc. require different regimes.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Which takes research and implementation is more labour intensive than large scale hotter burns which take out the wetter gullies that are meant to provide a refuge.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Air, walking, cycling, reading.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Labor has a long running love affair with the coal mining industry. Massive tax-payer handouts to the Adani crime family by the former Qld Labor government. Tanya approving new coal mines on the basis that they were extensions of existing mines—both the industry & Qld Govt classified them as new.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
True to a point but we need real on the ground action to control feral animals and pest plants. We need fencing to protect threatened species from predators. Tree clearing laws are easily overturned. Secure conservation tenure is harder to remove.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Take her name and those of the university administration. They should be put on trial for collaboration with the unlawful actions of the fascists when fascism is defeated.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
But Elon Musk gets a briefing on military capability.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Figure shows 5G+ coverage. Town selected was Mansfield. Probably only one or two towers near Mansfield support 5G +.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
One of the issues in Indi is telecommunications. Like most of us they’ve been screwed over by the NBN and closure of the 3G network for over-hyped and illusory 5G and 5G+ services. However they are served better than other parts of rural Australia. Figure shows 4G coverage.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We need politicians with a brain and a heart. These are things she’s asked the Federal Treasurer to do for Indi.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
That wasn’t anywhere as technologically demanding or as energy intensive. Apart from that, Trump’s regime is anti-science and it will take decades to rebuild science once he’s gone.
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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
Yes YouTube has been promoting a lot of right wing channels lately. one day seemed like wall-to-wall Musk fan boys.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Your story should be sent to every Tasmanian parliamentarian to remind them of this disgrace.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Boycott all things American and press for stronger domestic laws on social media. Demand that Truth Social and X be banned in your jurisdiction.
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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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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
‘Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far’. His cult members may believe this crap but how can ordinary people afford a robot? Some 11.1% were living in poverty in 2023. This figure will rise dramatically under Trump and Musk (though no doubt they will cook the books).
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
They could have described you as being scatological, which unfortunately can be a scientific endeavour or a pathology.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Twenty pedestrians are killed each day on US roads. The motor vehicle fatality rate is 3–6 times higher than most western countries. It’s a very backward country.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It seems that the electorate must value candidates that lack analytical and reasoning skills.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I saw a tent burn brightly once. The occupants had been using a candle for light.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Using Apple’s disingenuous logic no Apple device would be allowed to pair with 3rd party devices because this would hinder Apple’s ability to innovate.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Maybe it didn’t taste good.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Retrograde travel.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Nice piece. If you did make another one, instead of investing in a router bit you could take a bit of metal off the sides of the c-channel with a bench grinder to make fitting easier.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you can count them there aren’t enough.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Australian Cancer Atlas shows a slight decrease in the rate of new brain cancer diagnoses between 1996 and 2019. If cell phones were so dangerous the incidence rate would be increasing.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The hospitals should get batteries as well.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
One Australian state funded air conditioning to make schools cooler with the energy demand offset by solar. alt-qed.qed.qld.gov.au/programs-ini...
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Cooler Cleaner Schools Program
Cooler Cleaner Schools Program (CCSP) which will provide a total funding package of more than $477 million over 4 years to air condition state schools and expand the existing Advancing Clean Energy Sc...
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Europeans didn’t arrive here until near the end of that period. As a uni student, one of my high school teachers worked on a dig at an Aboriginal site that was occupied up until about 1850. See 1CU5 in article. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Dingoes, companions in life and death: The significance of archaeological canid burial practices in Australia
The dingo, also known as the Australian native dog, was introduced in the late Holocene. Dingoes were primarily wild animals but a number resided in Aboriginal people’s camps. Traditionally, these ind...
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Take their names. When fascism is defeated you have to know who to put on trial.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The tribulations of a perfectionist.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And it’s still a few months until winter.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A sketch of similar subject matter instead?
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Or he’s a criminal mastermind (or thinks he is) who’s trying to fit you up for a crime he’s planning on committing.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Legislated agreements are one transparent possibility where a legislative enactment includes the text of an agreement between a government and a 3rd party for the delivery of a product or service to the host jurisdiction and others. Any subsidies, loans, concessions & waivers would be specified.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Q: What did the octopus say to the shark? A: Forget the squid game let’s play something new.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Are there any remaining government-owned pharmaceutical manufacturers?
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
They’ve agreed to pay a bribe.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
She’s a Republican in disguise.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When DOGE is run by a full grown toddler with gaming and substance addictions what can you expect?
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Dutton wants to protect his billionaire friends
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Looks and smells like corruption.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
More victims of the love affair between the major political parties and the gambling industry.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When people show you who they are, believe it.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And people want us to trust AI.
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spirabo.bsky.social @spirabo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What has been done to stop imposters?
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