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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 6h

THIRD PLEDGE IN 💚 All week, we're doing something different and special: getting new members to the Hope Giving Circle, with pledges as low as a dollar. Click "weekly/monthly" to join 300+ folks helping 21 families in Gaza survive. Not nothing...! chuffed.org/project/hope...

A colorful graphic with text: A coffee powers hope. 26 members to go! Join the hope giving circle and power a lifeline for 6 families and a displacement camp of 15 more. On the side are three coffee cups arranged in a cycle, labeled: affordable pledge; reliable aid; longer-term, stable relief. At the center reads: food, water, & shelter with greater dignity.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h

Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.

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The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @maraisproject.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks to SoundsLikeSydney for this insightful review of our Exquisite Harmonies album. And to Move Records for distributing and promoting the release soundslikesydney.com.au/album-review...

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 11h

A senior official with 26 years of service at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization was fired for writing a factual report on food scarcity in Gaza and for holding silent protests. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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Senior UN figure says lost job for criticizing Israel over Gaza

A senior official at the UN’s agriculture agency said Wednesday he had lost his job for criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza, as the body’s head condemned staff who “play the game of human rights”.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9h

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 8h

The many & varied ways carbon offset projects worldwide continue to repeatedly fail integrity tests Adrien Tofighi-Niaki investigates #CarbonMarket auditors & '3rd-party verification' for @carbonmarketwatch.bsky.social "what are auditors actually auditing & approving if failure is so widespread?"

Screenshot of post from Adrien Tofighi-Niaki

Our latest research for Carbon Market Watch finds that carbon market auditors and 'third-party verification' are not ensuring integrity for carbon offset projects. We assessed 15 of the largest carbon offset projects worldwide and found:

• 13 different auditors reviewed the 15 projects between 2012-2026.
• 88 validation and verification audits were conducted by these auditors
• 1,641 findings were raised across the 88 audit reports, 483 of which were 'non-conformities' or 'corrective action requests', the most severe category of findings. Nearly all of the findings were subsequently resolved, leading to project approval.

Some of these major auditors include DNV / SCS Global Services / Aster
Global Environmental Solutions / TV SÜD / AENOR / Earthood.

However despite intense and repeated auditing (in some cases, up to 3 audits per year), we find that every single project actually failed our comprehensive project integrity assessment. This assessment combines:

X three ratings agency scores: 13/15 projects failed the ratings agency scoring from Calyx Global, BeZero Carbon, and/or Sylvera.
X two methodological assessments: 15/15 projects failed both the academic and Oeko-Institut's CCQI assessments.
X project developer claims of harm: 12/15 developers had notable and publicly known claims of harm or wrongdoing, such as land grabs, community evictions, sexual abuse, and controversial financial and lobbying practices.

So what are auditors actually auditing and approving if failure is so widespread? We find that project failure is basically written into the voluntary carbon market rulebook. Some examples of these poor rules include:

• Consultation vs. consent: Verra's REDD+ permanence risk tool treats a project as low risk if only half of the people living in and relying on the project area are 'consulted'. The tool, which is used to determine a forestry project's overall permanence, does not ask if a supermajority actually consent to or agree to the project. In fact, the tool doesn't even address FPIC at all

• Conflict of interests by design: Under the "select and pay" model, project developers get to choose and pay the auditors they like, creating problematic and dependent professional relationships. On Verra's side, roughly 90% of its revenue historically came from carbon project levies
and fees. So more project approvals = more revenue for Verra's "non-
profit" model.

• Old data for new offsets: Major projects like Pacajai and Kulera were last verified by auditors in 2020, and those audits are based on project monitoring data that predates 2020. Yet, credits were still being retired between 2023-2026, meaning buyers are currently purchasing credits from forestry projects but nobody seems to be legally required to even check if those forests are actually still standing today.

Do you think VCM audits work?

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 12h

Years of livestreamed genocide, comprehensive destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, public utilities, livelihoods, & ongoing siege in what amounts to an open air concentration camp is deemed "obsession with the middle east" 2GB's James Willis demonstrates dehumanisation at work

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13h

This 'national interest' gambit is familiar to Australians--PR lingo for fossil fuel/mining project free pass Mark Carney is Canada's Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social --unceasing new/extension fossil fuel projects in a world already deep in climate crisis

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Juzabel @juzabel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"...systemic child abuse, operating in direct violation of this country’s domestic and international human rights obligations and all morality, with evidence of neglect, excessive force, trauma, sexual, psychological and physical abuse inflicted on children as young as ten.” Fucking shameful.

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Senator Lidia Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse, operating in direct violation of this country’s domestic and international human rights obligations and all morality." Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/THUZhU4A

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 19h

What a crock of shit is ABC RN coverage this morning. Not mentioned at all: 1. Global heating impacts and policy responses. 2. Anything happening in our region – Southeast Asia, the Pacific. Policy regards that. 3. Anything from Africa, largest populated continent after Asia, or from South America.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 17h

ARC has given some details of how new Explore scheme will run ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... ❗️There's a lottery❗️ Peer review yields 3 categories: highly competitive, competitive, uncompetitive. After funding highly competitive apps, competitive ones enter a lottery for remaining $.

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 23h

Gas-fired power stations to run new US data centers will generate as much emissions of the entire United Kingdom. This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/348_...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.

Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year Total income Company Tax
2014-15 $3,389,399,798 $0
2015-16 $3,476,002,729 $0
2016-17 $3,715,263,715 $0
2017-18 $3,498,043,596 $0
2018-19 $4,360,612,850 $0
2019-20 $5,013,931,702 $0
2020-21 $4,070,327,153 $0
2021-22 $4,746,037,784 $0
2022-23 $6,257,384,778 $0
2023-24 $8,210,276,022 $0
2024-25 $5,117,008,013 $0
Total $51,854,288,140 $0

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17h

Well, this is happening. Come along if you wanna learn about our cool Aussie mammals. October 20, at the Espy. Feels cool to say that. Tickets 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-secret...

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The Secret Lives of Our Native Mammals: Australia's Fabulous Fuzzballs

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-min Q&A with Professor Euan Ritchie

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 17h

A dozen federal public servants are earning over $1 million a year at the Future Fund Management Agency. We’re not talking about Secretaries who run big government departments but employees. How can the government justify this? What kind of APS work warrants $1 or $1.5 mil?

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 18h

Given all the announcements this week, thought I'd re-issue this piece from last week. The answer BTW is YES! Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...

nationalobserver.com

Is Mark Carney a climate denier?

This new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for poli...

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Earth Journalism Network @earthjournalism.bsky.social · 21h

🌊 Explore #MiningTheUnknowns, our cross-border probe into Asia-Pacific deep-sea mining. South Korea has a hand in nearly every stage of the seabed supply chain, but no law for mining in international waters. Experts warn that gap puts Earth's least explored habitat at risk. loom.ly/rCtRGy8

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The cognitive disordering induced by AI even extends to senior union officials like Joe Mitchell, who appears to be genuinely lobbying for the development of new technologies to destroy his own members’ jobs www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.au

Call for big tech to pay for Australian-made AI

Union figures and leading academics want big tech companies building Australian data centres to help fund the local AI industry through a levy.

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Sasha Chavkin @sashachavkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PAHO announced a partnership this January with Ferrero, a candy giant with a track record of lobbying and suing to block nutrition policies It then quietly backed out after objections about conflict of interest... and really doesn't want to talk about what happened New from @theexamination.org

theexamination.org

An international health agency partnered with candy giant Ferrero — then quietly backed out

Critics saw a conflict of interest in Ferrero helping fund vaccinations in Ecuador, where childhood obesity is rising. The Pan American Health Organization has since ended the deal.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 21h

Falls too quickly into liberal/humanitarian moral framework—good for creating a scandal, bad for analysis and figuring out what to do next.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 21h

Listening to Gates on @ezraklein.bsky.social is fascinating because he oscillates between his two modes—1) AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and 2) AI will help the world's poorest—with no real effort to reconcile the two.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Palantir is plotting a coup against our democracies. We are organizing our representatives to stop them — before it is too late. 🔗 Sign the Palantir Pledge: buff.ly/W4tFit4

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 15/08/2026

pickle and worm

a shrew mole and a star nosed mole with their snacks of choice

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☆living dead bambi⁷ *⁀‧₊˚ @yooni1verse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

alrighty, starting this series off with moles! these always get a squeal outta me, they're just so cute! they must be protected when they're above ground as they are vulnerable check the alts for a little fun fact! #bambi'sAOTD

a star nosed moles' star is the most touch sensitive organ known to any mammal, containing more than 100,000 nerve fibers

naked mole rats can live up to 5 hours in a low oxygen setting (5%) and a high carbon dioxide atmosphere (80%)

without any oxygen, they can live up to 18 minutes without any harm

hairy-tailed moles create what's essentially known as "feeding chambers" where they store earthworms to consume later

when threated, the crawford's gray shrew emits a musky oder that makes it seem unappetizing to predators

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VERY important to note that desmans have their very own species of phoretic leiodid beetle pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

have you ever heard about the pyrenean desman excellent water shrew-type ball

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?

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The New York Times

GIVE THE TIMES

Data Center's Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River Cleanup The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

Listen • 5:15 min

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heavy rainfall in Nepal since Thursday has triggered 285 landslides, leading to 15 fatalities with a further three people missing and three people injured. eos.org/thelandslide...

Recorded landslide incidents in Nepal in the period 24 to 28 September 2026, via the Bipad portal.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine being a healthcare provider and a botched “death penalty” victim is brought into your ER. This is so depraved

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would you let the local drug dealers cultivate relationships with school children if they called themselves the Performance Enhancement Club❓️ Right, so don't be fooled by the Petroleum Club name-change to the Energy Club‼️ #FossilFuelPropaganda #BuyingSocialLicense

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Kate Larsen @katelarsenkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tune into Critics Corner on ABC Radio National around 1045am this morning for my chat with Sky Kirkham about Australian arts funding and the impact of grassroots campaigns like #DontBreakOurArts. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

abc.net.au

Critics Corner with Hilary Harper - ABC listen

Your front row seat to the arts, culture and ideas, Critics Corner brings fresh perspectives from ABC Radio National's leading voices across film, music, literature, and the visual and performing arts...

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Kate Larsen @katelarsenkeys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The arts and culture in Victoria are in crisis. But arts and culture are not warm-fuzzy optional extras. Don’t Break Our Arts is a new campaign to restore cultural funding in Victoria. Get involved!

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 01/10/2026

For our friends in Aotearoa-New Zealand as they head to an election on Sat 7 Nov 🇳🇿 👉 Make sure you’re enrolled to vote: https:/:vote.nz 🚨 Enrolments close October 25!

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Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"[We are] working alongside Jewish Australians who are fighting genocide, who are speaking up for core values that they hold dear," he said. The fact that Burns thinks this is somehow prejudicial or chilling is actually chilling.

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 30/09/2026

The 2026 Right Livelihood Award goes to women and women-led organisations challenging entrenched power structures: 🏆 Jalila Haider @jalilahaider.bsky.social 🏆 Rural Women's Assembly 🏆 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association 🏆 Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app rightlivelihood.org/2026-announc...

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We vote, we make submissions, we go to court,we meet our MPs, we compile & present evidence.All of this activity rests on a belief in the systems of govt that have now clearly failed to meet their solemn public duty.We must seriously consider what avenue remains available to us to fend off despair"

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The bits with Shoebridge's own words are fine But then it degenerates into horse race anecdotes Why's that more newsworthy than matters he's effectively pursued & exposed in Senate Estimates e.g. ❌ profligate waste in AUKUS, Defence polices & governance ❌ conflicts of interest & inefficacy in NACC

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A ‘huge ego’ but effective: who is David Shoebridge, the polarising new Greens leader taking on One Nation?

The 55-year-old senator is renowned for his sharp brain but he divides opinion and could face opposition from the party’s grassroots

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 30/09/2026

Singapore plans to merge several islands into a new “western island” for industrial development. Conservationists warn the mega-project could bury up to 60% of the country’s remaining coral reefs, which serve as ecologically vital “mother” reefs. Robin Hicks reports for #Mongabay.

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Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs

SINGAPORE — “For seven thousand years, Singapore has changed around these reefs,” says Debby Ng, a Singaporean biologist who studies the city-state’s shrinking coastlines of seagrasses, mangroves and…

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

George Woods summarises the context of NSW IPC's approval of HVO's coalmine extension (809 MtCO2e pollution) and the profound institutional failure it represents "our systems of government stand condemned. They have shown themselves to be incapable of dealing with the threat of climate change"

Excerpt from Tim Hollo's essay

"As my friend, Georgina Woods, the National Coordinator of Lock The Gate, wrote in sharing this news:

This was the first big mine expansion determined by the IPC since the creation of NSW's Climate Change Act three years ago and since the International Court of Justice advisory opinion about the obligation of states regarding climate change.

In the course of its deliberations the IPC heard from hundreds of people, many of them already directly harmed by climate change, and compelling evidence from experts on climate change, water, biodiversity and local air pollution. Over 4,000 objecting submissions were made. The approval comes despite overwhelming evidence that the project was not in the public interest and it was made under the best decision-making process of its kind in the country in a statutory framework that requires consideration of the public interest, intergenerational equity, downstream greenhouse gas emissions and the local impacts of climate change.

In our view, this decision is a turning point with much wider implications beyond the Hunter region and NSW. If this process, at this point in history, could not prevent the harm from this project, then our systems of government stand condemned. They have shown themselves to be incapable of dealing with the threat of climate change.

George declared this a "catastrophic failure" of the system."

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.

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