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Librarian. Writer sometimes but mostly gush at other people's stories. ❤️💜💙

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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Identify the problem, come together, conceptualize how to address it, and work together to systematically do it." youtu.be/OvcgZKmNdjw
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Why Trump and Putin Aren’t Winning Like You Think
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not that I want to entertain the #auspol migration debate because it is trumped up and doesn't solve the issues that people actually have. But one of the biggest causes of migration is war and global and national instability, so you'd think the anti-migration crowd would want to avoid those things.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Governments, religious institutions, and companies that commit murder are just as bad as individuals that commit murder and should be punished accordingly. Any body of people who are attempting to dismantle the mechanisms we put in place to ensure accountability should be viewed with suspicion.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What is with the fascist's fascination with fleeing to Argentina and setting up 'havens' there?!? Brb, gotta do some research.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 24/09/2026
You cannot be worried about the rise of the far right and want to continue with politics as usual or return to pre-Trump/Brexit/RN/AfD etc It is precisely these politics which have led to the rise of the far right I understand this may be hard to accept but I really don't think there is a choice
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was telling that the President of the United States was met with absolute silence during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. It's telling that delegates walked out on Netanyahu. These are all diplomats. I don't know if it's possible for either of them to grasp how screwed they are.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Hey!!! Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece - on why the bullshitty AI doom hype frenzy perfectly represents the tech industry's cutlist climate denialism and their unhealthy methane addiction. Plus the media's total failure to grasp the real risks at play. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The scale of the USA's crime against immigrants and asylum seekers these past two years is too horrible to comprehend the scale of. Nothing justifies what they have done.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mostly agree with Adam Conover about the AI apocalypse being another fear mongering ploy. It shifted the story from all the actual AI risks (to jobs, to the environment) to a massive existential threat. The villains from billionaires who want deregulation to the code itself. youtu.be/pauBYSQ1K_c
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"AI Existential Risk" Was Invented to Distract Us
YouTube video by Adam Conover
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Rights, safety, well-being are under attack … it’s a comprehensive onslaught." www.washingtonblade.com/2026/09/22/u...
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UN human rights chief sounds alarm over ‘comprehensive onslaught’ against LGBTQ rights
Volker Türk on Monday spoke at UN LGBTI Core Group event
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't understand Anthony Albanese. I see how they are trying to forge stronger and independent bonds in the Pacific region and fixing the housing market to make it easier for young people to enter it. I listened to Chalmers address and wondered why they can't communicate like that usually...
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Digging further into the AfD and they are deeply concerning to me. They even seem to earnestly believe Hitler was far left which is rhetoric I thought mainly isolated to US talking points because the USA has muddied the waters so much people genuinely believe it. I didn't expect it from Germany.
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Hildemara🌷 @hildemara.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#AusPol #HansonSupporters #OrangeMAGA #OneNationParty 👇👇👇
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 23/09/2026
Canada’s proposed closer relationship with the EU could be the beginning of something much bigger: a trade bloc linking Europe with Australia and other Asia-Pacific nations, built on stable rules and democratic consent, Crispin Hull writes. #auspol #Trade
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Could a Europe-to-Asia alliance tackle autocracy and redraw the world trading map?
Canada’s proposed new relationship with the EU opens the door to a much bigger idea: a trade and cooperation bloc spanning Europe and the Asia-Pacific, built around the rule of law, democratic consent and stable international agreements.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The reason the news feels particularly targeted at the moment is likely because it's preparing a population for potential major conflict. I thought this was fairly inevitable with a fascist USA and warmongering Russia but I hoped not. #auspol: youtu.be/ApaOIjclID0
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Why The World Is Preparing For Conflict Right Now
YouTube video by Omar Agamy
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every time I hear population scaremongering I want to scream. Learn to manage smaller, aging populations, stop trying to think up ways to trick women into having more children. We are humans who can make our own autonomous decisions about who we have relationships with and whether there's children.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I actually think this was a smart, coordinated move and something they should have done long before. I also think this may undo even more of his hinges. He likes attention.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My simple truth in politics #auspol? Anyone who can treat any community with cruelty will eventually treat you the same. Never trust outrage cycles, it's often spin. At least research them. Find politicians and a philosophy that does try to be as egalitarian as it can. Always stand for human rights.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"They need a story that discounts the lives of large swaths of people and that is the fascist narrative": youtube.com/shorts/-sFwG...
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Naomi Klein on Tech Billionaires: ‘The Money Is Making Them Fascist’
YouTube video by The Interview
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don't think people realize how big a deal it is that Canada is joining the EU— they could become a real counter balance between China and the USA. youtu.be/LnYuvyRSTbU
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Mark Carney Brings European Parliament to Its Feet With Rousing Speech | FULL SPEECH
YouTube video by Hook Global
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He didn’t think we’d live to be 59, couldn’t imagine gay marriage or that we’d have a husband, and was often told he couldn’t be an out gay writer. He‘d be a little sad about our hair. But I live the life he fought for.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🇨🇦 leads the way for other middle power countries to build trade options away from only 🇺🇸
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These people rely on grievance farming #auspol. Conservative and right wing politics need to poison the conversations so they can ride a wave of panic and outrage to power. youtu.be/PFfAQNTo5Rc
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Deplatforming Works, You Cowards
YouTube video by Carlos Maza
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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
somehow we are only two days away from the release of this book?? it's pretty great. please buy it so my publishers agree to keep paying me to sit hunched in front of a screen making words.
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-globaltrac2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/14/r...
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Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. • Florida Phoenix
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn littl...
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 4th estate needs to do its job and stop gassing up far right talking points, or you are going to get people like Hanson and Taylor, funded by the wealthiest person in this country, scapegoating for power. #auspol
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hanson understands nothing about Aboriginal People in this country. She never even tried. There's nothing in her that sees the beauty of diversity. In her 30+ years of being a politician, her only goal has been to use rural voters to validate her own prejudice, ignorance, fear, and greed. #auspol
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm sick of the nihilism in the #auspol tags when that too is a tactic. People are worth your effort, the world is worth your effort, and there's still plenty of good that's being done: youtu.be/K_ToMu4_p98
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Your Monthly Dose of Good News | September
YouTube video by Good News
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026
"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am angry at Labor too. Furious, even, at some of the choices they've made. But they are not the same as PHON and the LNP. Saying so is an incredibly privileged position to take. The kind of politics PHON and the LNP are playing at leads to eradication and enslavement of vulnerable people. #auspol
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 12/09/2026
ICYMI: I have books out!
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 12/09/2026
World-first trial on Phillip Island discovers floating wetlands can cut emissions
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World-first trial finds floating wetlands can cut greenhouse gas emissions
A floating garden of native plants in Victoria's east cuts a wastewater lagoon's emissions by about 30 per cent, with researchers now testing the approach on farm dams.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hanson just attacked Albanese's dead mum for *checks notes* being poor. Jesus wept. What with that and Taylor's typical attempt at attacking trans women. These people are scum #auspol. Just drop them in the outback together somewhere. Make them work together to get back.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning. A look at the librarians who've settled lawsuits for defending the right to read and where that stands in contrast to lawsuits about the right to read more broadly. bookriot.com/librarians-s...
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Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning: Book Censorship News, September 11, 2026
Librarians who've been fired for not banning books and sued are winning settlements in their cases.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
OUT NOW: @natania.bsky.social 's complete LOVE IN NETHERFORD trilogy feat. queernorm regency romance, with a much loved cast of vampires, werewolves and witches! Book 1: geni.us/NetherfordH Book 2: geni.us/viscountstal book 3: geni.us/GameoH #booksky📚💙
Against a floral patterned background split into pink, yellow and teal panels.

At the top a teal banner with white text "Love in Netherford"

Below, three book covers for NETHERFORD HALL, THE VISCOUNT ST ALBANS and THE GAME OF HEARTS.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban
“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The US bipartisan obsession with Hasan Piker is pretty funny. Just— Republicans threw up a mostly naked picture of him to stare at. South Park is basically journalism at this point.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This. Is. Why. You. Punish. White. Collar. Crime. Properly. #auspol At least Hastie was forthright when he said he couldn't charge Hanson because Gina Rinehart would likely bankrupt him.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Right wing #auspol and media: be afraid of Muslims!!! They're extreme, they're scary. Me: religious extremism from any religion is scary, but my Muslim colleague mostly proselytizes to me about One Piece and then looks sad when they realise I haven't watched One Piece yet.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Europe is concerned about this far right turn in Germany." Considering Nazi Germany attempted to take over Europe and by 1942 had controlled over half the population of Europe, I imagine they would be, yes.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People get too caught up in identity and think less about the values someone has. Gay Alice Weidel, married to an immigrant, isn't being inconsistent in her mind. She just thinks all those constraints she wants to wrap everyone else in do not apply to her and her wife.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I like this quote by Bertolt Brecht (1935), it describes the problems with centrism well I think: "Those who are against fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf."
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you say you're a leftist and are trying to undermine superannuation, I'm just going to assume it's Advance and block the account. I's compulsory, it compounds over time, and gives individual workers autonomy as they age. There's a reason the LNP and PHON are trying to take it away. #auspol
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Elizabeth Wheatley situation is exactly why I back up my digital media. Especially my queer ebooks and audiobooks. It absolutely is censorship brought on by purity culture and readers have a right to feel betrayed and uneasy. This is also why digital preservation is so important.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There's a lot of things that would be better if people would learn to take accountability for their actions instead of building mental scaffolding that protects them from ever taking accountability for their actions.
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Sunafiction @sunafiction.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I love that Robert attempts to give advice to prospective cult leaders in these episodes. "Cult leaders start saner then they end up, it's like getting crazy rich, you become more unmoored with reality the less you interact with it, got to get a part time job or be like Hubbard, the goat."
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nash flynn @itsnashflynn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
i guess my question is have we ever really given strange women in ponds distributing swords as a system of government a chance
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