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Mike Lowe

@themikelowe.bsky.social
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Listening, reading, reflecting, walking and holding space, currently on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples in Melbourne, Australia.

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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Election time in Australia and the oligarchs are hoping to exploit people's dissatisfaction with the way things are going. Beware! Just because they speak your language of discontent doesn't mean they have any solutions. mikelowe.com.au/the-trap-of-...
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The trap of discontentment - Mike Lowe
When people are struggling and discontented they tend to vote against the sitting government. Intuitively it
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Thank you for speaking truth to power through love, Rev Mariann Edgar Budde. The kind, just people of this world see you and appreciate you.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 22/01/2025
When the next megafires come, will Australia's media institutions be able to hold out amid the great information collapse?
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How megafires and fake news are forcing information collapse
With each new cataclysmic blaze around the world comes ever-worsening fake news and misinformation, left to fester and spread by the right-wing 'broligarchy'.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Absolutely
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/01/2025
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Projections, Trump and Politics - Mike Lowe
We humans are always projecting. Nothing wrong with that – it is how we cope with the overwhelming amount of i
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Beyond the projections Trump and Musk are real people wielding real power. So long as we are wedded to our projections we won’t be able to respond appropriately. The only answer is to question our projections – and perhaps some of us need to take a break from social media in order to do that!
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Other people project their fears, disgust and anger. One of the worst things about social media is the way it amplifies and reinforces our projections. "We see ourselves in the mirror of relationship”. But social media offers a very distorted mirror reflecting back our own projections on steroids.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It only becomes a problem when our projections are way off and we confuse our projections with reality. Trump & Musk (along with other public figures) are the subject of lots of projections. Many people are looking for a saviour/rescuer/messiah and project that onto them.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Projections, Trump and politics. We humans are always projecting. It is how we cope with the overwhelming amount of information coming at us all the time. It is too much to see things as they really are, all of the time. So we create a simplified model of reality and project that onto the world.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This, more than anything, fuels the mistrust which is collapsing our democracies.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Funny how those who complain about global elites are usually the unwitting puppets of global elites #politics #elonmusk
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Noam Chomsky: I don't know what word in the English language - I can't find one - applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Disinformation and propaganda is ramping up. To discern truth it's essential to listen to rational well informed people like these two. youtu.be/JTtqGSwTLO0?...
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Musk’s Supervillain Era Begins
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Wishing you all lots of Christmas Presence! www.facebook.com/share/p/15rp...
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Welcome to the world of #oligarchy - government of the people by the billionaires for the billionaires. #berniesanders youtu.be/79KDKWEOJ1s?...
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Welcome to the world of oligarchy.
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm loving @crikey.com.au's Shitstirrers Index!
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Yep, always happens!
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Yay! Let's make this a home worth spending time in!
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Shira Agha Irshad🇦🇫شیرآغا ارشاد @shiraaghaershad.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🇦🇫Laleh Osmany, WHRD: “1,187 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school, 727 days since they banned women from university, and 14 days since medical institutes were closed to women. No female doctors for 13 years—a deliberate killing of women.”
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We can’t look at climate change, biodiversity loss, and human wellbeing in separate silos anymore. Next — we need to look for effective, evidence-based solutions at the intersection of climate, nature, and people. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Celebrating #InternationalMigrantsDay. Globally 1 in 30 people are migrants. In Australia it's nearly 30%. Some (like me) migrate by choice, but many are forced to leave due to war or starvation. Done well, migration enriches all. Done badly ... not so much! www.un.org/en/observanc...
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International Migrants Day | United Nations
International Migrants Day aims to raise awareness about the challenges and difficulties of international migration. The United Nations is actively playing a catalyst role in this area, with the aim o...
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Jude Tex Albert @judetexalbert.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
@joebrewer.bsky.social: A special invitation to join around a planetary vision for 2025 -- to help us organize into local "life places" as bioregional and living landscapes youtu.be/edLlicg0ASM @projectdrawdown.bsky.social @themikelowe.bsky.social @globalecoguy.bsky.social @joncors.bsky.social
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Calling Us All to Organize Toward Bioregional Earth
YouTube video by Joe Brewer
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Chris Hedges: Capitalists should never be allowed near a healthcare system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick to not have a choice.
Chris Hedges - Capitalists should never be allowed near a healthcare system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick to not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Now you've got me wondering if they're real 🤔 Hmmm!
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
That's strange, I didn't get followed by bots, just lots of women with impressively large cleavages! 😃
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Who here agrees? 🖐🏾
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/12/2024
Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Actually historians called the dark ages because there weren't many written records so they were "in the dark" about this period, not because they were particularly brutal.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Just a reminder 💚
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
📌“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson *(One of the most prescient things ever said by anybody.)
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Shira Agha Irshad🇦🇫شیرآغا ارشاد @shiraaghaershad.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Attan, Afghanistan’s beautiful traditional dance.🇦🇫
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Mike Lowe @themikelowe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach - a great long read for the weekend. open.substack.com/pub/beiner/p...
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Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach
Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
At Project Drawdown, we know that we have the solutions we need to stop climate change — and more are coming every day! How do we know? We did the math. Here are some of my favorite solutions, like reducing food waste: drawdown.org/solutions/re...
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Reduced Food Waste
Roughly one-third of the world’s food is never eaten. By reducing loss and waste, we can reduce the need for land and resources used to produce food as well as the greenhouse gases released in the pro...
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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Reminder: the stock market is NOT the economy.
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The Stock Market is Not the Economy | Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why the stock market doesn't reflect the real economy.Watch More: The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It ►►...
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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Ending public subsidies for new fossil fuel developments - about time! @roycerk2.bsky.social in The Saturday Paper #GiftLinks/GiftArticles www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/19894/...
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Australia’s Clean Energy Transition Partnership a ‘huge win’ on climate
Australia will soon seal an agreement with a group of Western nations to end public subsidies for fossil fuel export projects, drying up a key source of finance for new oil, gas and coal fields.
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Michael Slezak @mikeyslezak.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
So, I did a bit of a dig through the quarterly emissions update and the projections, and pulled out a few things. Much of this won't surprise those who follow this closely. But all this stuff deserves continued attention. 🧵 1. Our emissions reductions have basically flatlined since 2020.
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Peter Kindfield @peterkindfield.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Here's another set of #transformational #ecological #outdoorlearning #activities I wrote for kids and their adults, including #homeschooling #parents and #forestschool #educators peterkindfieldphd.substack.com/p/were-all-r... #scienceeducation #systemsthinking #solarpunk #edusky #permaculture
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We’re All Related
Exploration in Ecology: Transformational Activities for Children and Their Adults
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Why don’t you stick to acting?” It’s a taunt I often have hurled at me. I am a gay man in America whose marriage is under threat. The last time Trump was in office, hate crimes against AAPIs skyrocketed. I care deeply about this country and the future of our democracy. I’ll stick to activism.
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Ukrainian Nadia 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @ukrainiannadia.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Author: "And here’s what’s even more egregious: that concentrated wealth is strangling our economy, our economic growth, our national prosperity. Wealth concentration drives a vicious, downward cycle, throttling the very engine of wealth creation itself." Read more: evonomics.com/insanely-con...
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Indonesia to pardon tens of thousands including Papua activists ground.news/article/indo.... #Music
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Indonesia to pardon tens of thousands including Papua activists
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto will pardon tens of thousands of prisoners ranging from activists convicted of defamation to those jailed in the easternmost province of Papua for criticising th...
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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
i feel like there should be a person who's job it is to show up the first day of shooting, sit the director and the cinematographer down in a room and say "whatever you're about to do, it does not need to be that dark."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
You’ve had roughly 20 years of policy talk and debate and committees and reports about nuclear power to analyse and to get a grip on what is real. If the best you can come up with “gee dunno, guess the politics could work” maybe think about retirement.
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Jude Tex Albert @judetexalbert.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Join: design-school-for-regenerating-earth.mn.co co-founded & curated by @joebrewer.bsky.social & @goteamlife.bsky.social Citizens are networking, #nurturing ecological #thrivability from #neighborhoods to planetary, from #watershed to continental... #regeneration @phoebebarnard.bsky.social
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Design School for Regenerating Earth
The challenges humanity and the Earth are facing now are extremely complex and unlike anything that has come before in the history of the planet. The good news is that it really is possible to regener...
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So like…
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