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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 8h

It's starting to look like more than a coincidence that the push fronted by beauty queens.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 11h

Mine has nostalgia

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 11h

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot tell you much I needed to read this today. *Cries in very defeated climate campaigner*

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19h

Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action.

cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 18h

Soluble and insoluble fibre. But sand is mineral not vegetable. I think?

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19h

Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action.

cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 18h

Literally no fibre! Roughage, yes, but not fibre.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 19h

I cannot explain how frustrating it is to parent a child who had about 10 safe foods and one of them is sand 😩

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 1d

It surely was!

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #abc730 why a profile of the sad dorks of the young Liberal Party of NSW? Why not a profile of the young greens or young socialists. Also why talk up Freya Leach as one half of a ‘power couple’ (sqwawk), and not mention her hosting a Zionist wearing bacon on SkyNews and getting cancelled?

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting how they glossed over Freya no longer having her show. And that they barely mentioned any actual policies 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Assal Rad—

"This is how you do a front page story."

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Varsha Yajman @varshayajman.bsky.social · 2d

The ceasefire has not magically solved
Israel’s genocide and 76 years of illegal occupation.

In fact:

- Israel just shot a Palestinian journalist

- Israeli tanks are still firing towards Gaza

- Palestinians still do not have their land back

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 2d

How the most moral army in the world is going

PaisleyPrickles(Wendy) @paisleyprickles.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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PaisleyPrickles(Wendy) @paisleyprickles.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes. I should read more carefully before running my mouth.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 5d

I want to go back in time and box the ears of the GP who told my friend she was making up 'chronic fatigue syndrome' and just wanted attention. I wanted to do it then, too. I'll still want to do it in 10 years time.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 6d

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 5d

If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 6d

like fucking clockwork.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 6d

I told my tiny son that I love him and he swallowed his milk, looked me dead in the eye and said, "thank you."

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 6d

Love a tawny! So sweet and sleepy

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 6d

Palestine Action Group has lost the legal challenge over this Sunday’s march. This does not mean the march is prohibited — it means that it will not have immunity for eg. obstructing traffic.

They should march to the Opera House anyway. Minns made it a symbol, so we should too.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8d

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

www.annualreviews.org

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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