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Stew Smith

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I've been very interested in the timing of it all. Trump visited with Charles, just before the files were released. As soon as he left, Andrew became a major target and it spiralled fast. I really think Trump tried to take the focus off himself & made a deal with Charles to get rid of Andrew.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I refuse to accept a future where we continue to do this.
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is so concisely and honestly put, Uk Labour Rep shakes her head with faux outrage but we all know every word is true, Read Monbiot piece on Mandela on and Brown, Labour is rotten, the so-called centre is hollow - filled with corporate dollars, And all the political players are merely … players
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’s not from Epstein, But it’s immaterial, clearly they both knew this kind of stuff
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
How about get the data analysts to look at whether killing 280 journalists is unusually bad luck. Findings could form the basis of a question to the visiting President?
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
State-sanctioned violence, where police appear to be immune from what's typically considered reasonable and proportionate, i.e. _normal_ laws and common decency. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Hope you're pleased with what you've allowed, @albomp.bsky.social and Premier Minns!
abc.net.au
New video shows elderly man's arrest began with a hand on a shoulder
New video obtained by ABC NEWS Verify shows in vivid detail the arrest of a 76-year-old man, who was later released without charge.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A lot of the users I reported on in that story made threats but some just expressed political opinions viewed as extremist. However the official definition of extremism can change, as we have seen
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Like all offsets, it’s a made up thingy
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Pat-HEX-myth (love, with a routing number) @patri.xyz · 19/01/2026
It is absolutely imperative that collectively, we build a bsky appview that is hosted and managed outside of the United States. This is absolutely critical, and we needed to have this months ago. No US staff, no US banking. I can't stress how critical I consider this.
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
They’re buying social media offsets which allow them to keep doing it
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And Albanese remains silent
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Between Musk's porn generator, Zuckerberg's trauma machine, and the suicide-encouraging bots that Google invested in - Big Tech is finding that child sacrifice is very, very profitable. I feel especially strongly about this one. New from me: buttondown.com/creativegood...
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The upside of child sacrifice
Those Moloch worshipers were pikers. Back in those days, I imagine the ancients brought a child or two to the altar to be knifed in early spring, in order...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Have seen centrists trying to claim that Zionism just means you believe in a 2 state solution so you shouldn't use Zionist as a pejorative. And cripes. Centrists really are the most useful idiots invented.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Tash has written an open letter to Mr Jarvis, asking him to join the hundreds of other artists expressing solidarity w Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah ...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/01/2026
It is so blatant that right-wing forces are calling for this royal commission because they want a few months of viciously xenophobic anti-immigration headlines - something that directly contributes to worse safety for everyone, surely including Australia's Jewish community. Fully support Cathy
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
When are Australians going to realise Zionism is fascism? - racist - supremacist - silence critics (through censorship and violence) - infiltrate government & media - mass propaganda - victim complex - ethnic cleansing, genocide and apartheid Capitulating to Zionism is the death of freedom.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It feels pre-ordained. Rigged. The Australian establishment manoeuvring the nation into a subservient fascist surveillance shithole against the will of the informed populace. The newspapers moving in lockstep with conservatives and Zionists; the ALP capitulating wherever it can.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You're a scab for fascists if you don't boycott the Adelaide Festival btw
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
More and more AUKUS as a defence policy is essentially “our best way to stop being invaded is to keep bribing the USA”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/12/2025
It is really unclear how Australia's far-right, anti-immigrant and pro-race-hate media organisations and political parties are going to make violence less likely, rather than more likely. It is also remarkable how little scrutiny they're facing for their reactions to Bondi.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ALJAZEERA
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I also read this and was disgusted
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Solidarity is appalled by the horrific mass shooting targeting the Jewish Hannukah event at Bondi Beach yesterday. While the exact motives for the attack remain unclear, this is clearly an antisemitic attack.
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Bondi beach attack no excuse for smearing Palestine movement – Solidarity Online
The mass shooting targeting the Jewish Hannukah event at Bondi Beach is horrific. But already there are attempts to use it to smear the pro-Palestine movement and further demonise Arabs and Muslims.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We launched our Crowdfunder an hour ago - and we've already sailed past £10,000. Extraordinary. Hope is here. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Hope is here: help us deliver it
Raise £100,000 to turn our incredible momentum into election wins. Will you help us beat reform in May?
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Offer not applicable to women of Palestine.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So, @albomp.bsky.social, Murray Watt, @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social, Josh Wilson, & @australianlabor.bsky.social is it a problem that: www.abc.net.au/news/science... * You've approved a climate bomb theconversation.com/woodsides-no... & many other terrible fossil-fuel focussed projects?
abc.net.au
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels tipped to hit record high in 2025
Despite rising CO2 emissions there are hopes for exponential growth in renewable energy take-up as major emitters like China near a peak for greenhouse gas creation.
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What do you mean - like, please explain how
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
But Ian, didn’t you support all this centrist (hidden fascist) stuff all the way through? Isn’t that way you masqueraded as a sober realist centre-left dude whilst doing hatchet jobs on Corbyn and the actual left? Should I go trawling through your archives?
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The UAE-backed horror in El-Fasher exposes the West's empty words - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uae-b…
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The UAE-backed horror in El-Fasher exposes the West's empty words
For over 500 days, urgent warnings of an impending slaughter in the Sudanese city were ignored as the UAE's 'unlimited cash' spoke louder
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It is true that all men never age beyond being 14 year olds. Some of us just manage to pretend hard enough that you can't always tell.
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Ruth and Tilly @ruthparslow.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If you insist - I’ll just pass it on to a few friends 🤣😂
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Netanyahu could have had these terms at any time after 7 October. In particular, could have extended the first ceasefire, only a month or so in, IIRC
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Instead of praising Trump the media should be asking why it took him so long & why he waited for the US & Israel to become completely isolated from the world for him to lift a finger when there was an obvious genocide going on. Trump & Netanyahu will forever be war criminals.
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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 07/10/2025
It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger. The answer is empathy and compassion.
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
He’s believing his own hype, X is absolutely full of Aussie right wingers who love Price and Hastie and want their kind of Liberal Party
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Oh, how surprising, a MAGA infected Christian nationalist subverts his leader “Hastie said on Friday that he was resigning as the shadow home affairs minister, after weeks of posturing and his refusal to see Ley during her visit to Western Australia this week” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Andrew Hastie quits Coalition frontbench over immigration policy dispute
Liberal MP resigns as shadow home affairs minister, increasing pressure on opposition leader Sussan Ley
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
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Stew Smith @stew-smith.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
gifted kids definitely exist, The whole point as that good testing identifies them regardless of socio-economic status, Originally, those programs were intended to help those kids from lower SES families achieve ‘potential’, They are now filled with upper middle class kids and reinforce privilege
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Deeply concerned about the safety of those on the flotilla. We know the government will try ignore it - it's really important we all speak up and raise our voices. This is a group of people delivering baby food to Gaza and the Government must intervene to ensure their safety.
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retired-n-happy.bsky.social @retired-n-happy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I stand with Maya Song.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
You’re a terrorist if you don’t support capitalism, Christianity, ‘traditional American values’ whatever the fuck that means. Think about this for a moment. There is no peaceful exit from this.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Australian Labor recognises the State of Palestine but won’t sanction Israel or stop supply of weapons parts Australian Labor recognises the devastating effects of climate change but keeps approving massive fossil fuel projects and won’t tax the industry sufficiently Sensing a pattern here..
Headline stating that Australia recognises the state of Palestine with a photo of Albanese and Wong
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 21/09/2025
CW I have no words for this. I only share it as a record for the day that every complicit party is held to account, if that day ever comes. I also share it to show solidarity with these Drs & the people in Palestine. #SaoirseDonPhalastín
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This is all very well, but immediate sanctions and a condemnation of the genocide Israel *is currently committing* would go a lot further
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Australia joins UK and Canada in formally recognising Palestinian state
Move comes as Anthony Albanese tries to secure meeting with Donald Trump and amid warnings that recognition could spark ‘punitive measures’ from the US
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22/09/2025
The mainstream media's silence about the murder of 35 Yemeni journalists is part of a much larger, shameful cover-up aimed at protecting Israel. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/just...
mondoweiss.net
Just as they have in Gaza, U.S. journalists failed their murdered colleagues in Yemen
The mainstream media’s silence about the murder of 35 Yemeni journalists is part of a much larger, shameful cover-up aimed at protecting Israel.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This is the way. Re-pledged to PBS, as well.
Yes
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