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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Now, we get to that time of the year where temps are greater than 35 degrees for days where I say “fuck summer” ☀️
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🎧Ms Twylite Zowne 🕊️⚖️ @vacuumofmyheart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Both Morrison & Albanese dismissed the urgent pleas of over 500,000 Australians. A record breaking Australian petition was completely ignored. Grace Tame understands that decorum won't cut it. It's time to get louder Australia. #auspol #Murdoch #democracy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/01/2025
Really hard to find hope in humanity when so many are so openly cruel yet they are cheered on for it. The devil's work of dehumanizing our fellow humans to normalize mass death and suffering has been wildly successful. The world we inhabit today is one that is intolerable for those with empathy.
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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#walk over the new BoorLoo Bridge in Perth, Western Australia. 🇦🇺
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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I have tried various methods of cooking tofu today and they all taste like I’m eating a flavoured dishwashing sponge. 🧽
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Some are actively working to undermine our democracy as they've done in the US. No one is coming to save us from them but us. We all have a role to play. Time to step up #auspol
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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So sad that David Lynch died. A friend and I did a road trip to the North West a few years ago. I was amazed how Lynch turned a few locations in North Bend into the fictional town of Twin Peaks.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
After 18 months of operation and a cost of $140 million to Australians, the staggeringly incompetent NACC has concluded its top 3 major corruption investigations, and guess what? It has found no corruption. The #NACC is a failure and a national embarrassment. 👇🏽 theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-n...
theklaxon.com.au
NACC finds “no corruption” – spends $140m to date
The embattled National Anti-Corruption Commission has completed its first three investigations – and found zero corruption.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The media in QLD hve switched from blaming Labor for “youth crime” - to blaming the justice system for not handing down harsher sentences now that the LNP are in govt. The media continue to provide an LNP protection racket & the numpties who listen to this shyte suck it up.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/01/2025
People are dying and losing their homes while these dipshits blame women and people of color for it. Nothing but contempt for these despicable opportunists.
"Screenshot of a Twitter exchange: The first tweet by 'Libs of TikTok' lists grievances against fire department management and policies, sarcastically attributing them to climate change, including hiring a DEI manager, defunding fire departments, and mismanaging forests. The second tweet, a reply from Elon Musk, questions this perspective, suggesting: 'Wild theory: maybe, just maybe, the root cause wasn’t climate change?'"
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Taylor Jane @roobiefox.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Australia’s stupid fucking people once voted for this. That’s the point👇
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Hot trends for 2025* Composting Bicycles Libraries Repair cafes Wetlands Voting rights Plant based diets Home weatherization Water conservation Sharing Rain gardens Green roofs Agri-voltaics Electric school buses Dense housing Walkability Fossil fuel phase out Peace *If I ran the world
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Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today · 30/12/2024
When looking for an ideal choice to make plastic, you want something with high concentrations of cellulose, such as #hemp. Hemp’s manufacturing process doesn’t create hazardous compounds like benzene, and the energy required to produce hemp plastic is up to 45% less than traditional #plastic.
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Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Albanese govt's transition on track to reach 82% renewables by 2030 w 43% emissions cut. Dutton's nuclear fantasy unnecessary & prolongs fossil fuels. Aust has a plan to decarbonise already being achieved. We're at 40% VRE w assets to get to 50% in train #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/this-talk-of...
reneweconomy.com.au
This talk of nuclear is a waste of time: Wind, solar and firming can clearly do the job
Australia’s economic future would be at risk if we stop wind and solar to build nuclear: Big industries would have to close and the risk of blackouts would be significant.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I viewed Friendly Jordies’ vid of Gina Rinehart speaking at a mining conference to her sycophants. Rinehart has been emboldened by Trump’s win & she’s off her leash. She literally called 4 a takeover of govt & a Musk DOGE for Australia. Given the chance, she would fck this country via her greed
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/12/2024
Elon Musk is a danger to democracy globally. The sooner countries realize this and go after him, the better. Ban Tesla, Twitter, and Starlink from their countries. Musk thinks he's a global emperor who can dictate to countries around the world. We need to stop him.
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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I spend more time in this @bsky.app blocking bot accounts trying to follow me than I do actually interacting with real people. 🤖
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Elon Musk didn't come to the US on a H1B visa. He came on a J-1 student visa, failed to get a work visa, and worked in the country illegally. He claims to have later gotten a H1B visa without providing any proof. Like Melania Trump, he used money to make his history of illegal immigration go away.
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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Elon Musk is lying. He came to the USA on a student visa, worked illegally, and then overstayed his visa. He's a fucking hypocrite, liar, and selfish pig. @elonmusk
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 26/12/2024
We're ending 2024 with record high North Atlantic sea surface temperatures. A possible slogan for 2025: "Charting the unchartable."
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 27/12/2024
"Taxpayer money is not for getting drunk," said Dutton chaser.com.au/national/cal...
Image of Peter Dutton giving a press conference next to an image of Barnaby Joyce drunk after falling off a planter box. Headline: Calls for Barnaby Joyce to be put on a cashless welfare card.
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure. www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
voanews.com
Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss
Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs
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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It took only three weeks to apprehend the killer of a CEO, while more than three years have passed since the Epstein list became known, and no arrests have been made.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Congrats Trump voters. You elected a serial sexual predator who brags about grabbing women by the pussy & surrounds himself with rapists, sex traffickers & pedophiles, but at least you’re “protecting” your daughter from the nonexistent trans boy on her middle school basketball team.
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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
#Walk along the coastal boardwalk. Albany, Western Australia. 🐳
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The major parties don’t want a duty of care on climate because it would mean they’d have to put Australians & our futures ahead of the fossil fuel industry - an industry that is putting short term profits ahead of people & our future. Let’s change that this election👇 adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au
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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
David Attenborough is right, “if we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything.” We know what we need to do, it’s the corruption & lies of the fossil fuel companies & our leaders that makes extinction more likely. We need zero emissions within 5yrs!
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Robyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Be careful everyone. Sunscreen, hydrate, stay in a/c if possible. Hottest summer weather in five years predicted for coming days as heatwave engulfs half of Australia
abc.net.au
Hottest summer weather in five years predicted for coming days
An oppressive heatwave stretching from Darwin to Victoria will send temperatures soaring up to 15 degrees Celsius above average during the coming days.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/12/2024
When people say 'run government like a business,' they mean cut services, raise prices, and pay the CEO 400 times more than the workers.
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Media Analyst @mediaanalyst.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
BREAKING: Dutton's nuclear meltdown LNP admits nuclear "not serious... not going to cut it." A parody showing what a properly unbiased front page would look like, free of billionaire propaganda #auspol
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If a church doesn’t have a food pantry or a soup kitchen or a closet full of clothes and blankets open to the public or isn’t showing up at natural disasters to help, why does that church have a tax-exempt status?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The richest man in the world who is about to shutdown our government tweeting support for a German neo-nazi party in the middle of the night
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/12/2024
What he really means.
The image contains a tweet by "Elon Musk" and a quoted tweet:

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Elon Musk (@elonmusk):

Only the (AfD- crossed out) nazis can save Germany"
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Quoted tweet from Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi):
"🇩🇪🚨 CHANCELLOR FRONTRUNNER SLAMS MUSK & MILEI❗
The presumptive next chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) is horrified by the idea that Germany should follow Elo..." (text is truncated).
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Video has emerged of a Nationals senator saying his party is not serious about its nuclear policy bringing down energy costs. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
abc.net.au
Nationals senator claims Coalition introduced nuclear as a political fix
Nationals senator Matthew Canavan has said in an interview that his party introduced a nuclear policy as a political fix, in a video that emerges amid his colleague Keith Pitt announcing he will quit ...
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SkyOwl @skyowl.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Jim Chalmers in the Sydney Morning Herald today, pointing out that his party has saved Australia from a recession while creating a million new jobs and starting wages growth Outperforming most OECD nations by ignoring all the LNP free advice to slash & burn the economy putting people out of work!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
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South West Hiker @swhiker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What pisses me off most about this ABC Kim Williams appointment is people saying “oh, well the pool of available people available was small”. Hello, it’s small from the constant failure of Aus governments to promote diversity, instead of just more of the Murdoch, Stokes and Costello shite 💩 #auspol
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Pnkl @bopeep99999.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Ho ho ho ABC Chairman Kim Williams laughs off all those pesky "feverish, anecdotal" reports of bullying and sexual harassment related to his new Managing Director Hugh Marks... It's all SO fucking funny... #auspol
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Daniel Bray @drdanbray.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
According to Carbon Tracker Initiative: “the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure” #auspol
abc.net.au
Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush
Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
People who write anti trans stuff under the pretense of "we care a lot and don't want people to so something they'll regret" are so funny because a) no you don't and b) you're kind of admitting it's none of your business
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It’s no surprise 🇦🇺 is a world leader in extinction when we’re still subsidising the cutting down of our native forests in 2024 🤯 The Forest Wars is a must-read this summer. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Coalition’s nuclear plan will hit Earth with 1.7bn extra tonnes of CO2 before 2050, experts warn Peter Dutton’s path ‘would be an absolute failure’ in decarbonising the electricity sector and meeting Australia’s emission targets, analyst says www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Coalition’s nuclear plan will hit Earth with 1.7bn extra tonnes of CO2 before 2050, experts warn
Peter Dutton’s path ‘would be an absolute failure’ in decarbonising the electricity sector and meeting Australia’s emission targets, analyst says
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
At the rate of #renewable and #solar energy installation, #Australia is on track to meet 2030 Renewable (82%) #energy targets... someone wants to end all that, burn more #coal and wait, forever, for #nuclear...#auspol reneweconomy.com.au/tidal-wave-o...
reneweconomy.com.au
“Tidal wave” of big batteries and record solar and wind put 2030 renewables target within reach
A “tidal wave” of big batteries and record amounts of new solar and wind are driving down prices and will help deliver 82 pct renewables by 2030, but only if momentum can be maintained.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
So nuclear power would lay waste to rooftop solar use and savings? Nuclear energy is also the most expensive energy source. Genius Solar switch off: Dutton's nuclear plan amounts to declaration of war against household energy systems | RenewEconomy
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"A modern, multicultural Victoria is one that is built on a simple promise: whoever you are, whoever you pray to, you are safe and welcome in this state," she said. Many Victorians are more concerned about being protected from religion than protecting religion. #AusPol
abc.net.au
Victoria plans protest crackdown in bid to boost social cohesion
The Victorian government has pledged to introduce a raft of new restrictions on protesters, including banning protests from being held near places of worship.
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ArchedEyebrow @archedeyebrow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
All Australian rooftop solar owners must make sacrifices so that Australia's leading oligarch can make another few billion dollars. #auspol #nuclear #solar
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SkyOwl @skyowl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
She’s wishing herself a merry and profitable Christmas By getting her political party to promise to ruin the cost savings of all the people that got solar panels installed!
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The new ABC CEO is the same Hugh Marks who hosted a $10,000 a head Liberal Party fundraiser at Nine's headquarters. Wow. We'll now have a middle-aged white male who supports conservative causes in charge of the ABC. What a refreshing change. I mean . . . I can hardly wait.
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Terry Sedgwick 🦘 T.S. un ami. @lordsedgwick.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In December 2011, Kim Williams was appointed CEO of News Limited. In March 2024 Williams was appointed Chair of the ABC. In December 2024 Williams appointed Hugh Marks, former CEO of Nine Entertainment as Managing Director of the ABC. Nice little club we have going here.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“Holmes à Court said that figure did not included the cost of the additional petrol, diesel and gas that would be needed, and estimated this would add $501bn to the Coalition’s plan.” @simonahac.bsky.social #nuclear #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Coalition’s nuclear plan will hit Earth with 1.7bn extra tonnes of CO2 before 2050, experts warn
Peter Dutton’s path ‘would be an absolute failure’ in decarbonising the electricity sector and meeting Australia’s emission targets, analyst says
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