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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18h

really looking forward to this conversation next week with @lancerichardson.bsky.social about his exceptionally fine new biography (published today) of the exceptionally fraught Peter Matthiessen

www.gc.cuny.edu/events/lance...

Lance Richardson on Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), a towering figure of twentieth-century American letters, achieved so much during his lifetime, in so many different areas, that people have struggled to pin him down.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 1d

I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it.

Heartbreaking.
Vale.

Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 2d

Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 2d

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social · 3d

Vale, lovely one.

Fritzie Hall @fritzandtheoscars.bsky.social · 3d

I always go back to this scene. Not because Diane Keaton portrays her fear so vividly but because her understated reaction to seeing Warren Beatty is able to say more about love and closeness, about feeling relaxed and secure in somone's presence, than probably any other in movie history

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Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social · 6d

Truly brilliant.

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Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social · 6d

Same.

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Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social · 6d

Me in @sydmorningherald.bsky.social today. (Paywall) #auspol.
www.smh.com.au/traveller/tr...

Airport taxis are so bad I now have a pathological fear of getting one

On one occasion, I felt so intimidated by a driver I was fearful the whole way home. What had I done? I’d questioned the route he was taking.

www.smh.com.au

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 8d

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

www.gofundme.com

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Lee Tulloch @leetulloch.bsky.social · 8d

Taxi drivers at Sydney airport regularly rip me off for about $100 for a short trip home. They always say they can't show me the meter. Taxi companies do nothing. This week, using the Uber rank for the first time, the fare was $53. So, boo hoo taxi drivers. #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Taxis to lose millions as Sydney Airport’s Uber rank made permanent

Transport officials are drafting plans to make Sydney Airport’s popular Uber kerbside service permanent in a move that will anger the city’s taxi drivers.

www.smh.com.au

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18d

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"

Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 9d

In March 2025, the median Australian taxpayer earned $55,619 per year.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

Looks like a fascist lice comb.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 11d

Does a single one of the Australian National Press Club 'people' care about the murder of hundreds - HUNDREDS - of journalists, photographers, news crews & support staff in Gaza? The 'Freedom of the Press section' of its website has two entries from 2022, about China & Russia.
npc.org.au/our-people

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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 12d

you know what we really need though? a new stadium

#politas

A screenshot of a pulse article talking about tas TAFE arts courses facing a 5000% fee hike

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13d

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13d

BREAKING: Two people have died and three others are in serious condition after a synagogue attack in the UK, police say.

Police are at the scene of a reported stabbing at a synagogue in English city of Manchester

Police are at the scene of a reported stabbing at a synagogue in Manchester, northwest England. Andy Burnham, the mayor of the Greater Manchester Area, said Thursday that the “immediate danger appears to be over” after reports of the incident in Crumpsall, north of the city.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 18d

One mother and calf trapped for five days ... in distress all this time. FOUR whales now caught in these filthy nets and no way to free them.
Drowning!
Heartbreaking 🥵
BAN shark nets!!!!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast

‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 19d

devastating register and report into anti-Palestinian racism in schools.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Anti-Palestinian racism 'unbelievably prominent' in schools, report says

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network releases its first national register report to examine "the climate of fear, censorship, intimidation and punishment" experienced by students, teachers and mem...

www.abc.net.au

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 23d

We’re looking for a temporary (two months) refuge/cheap rental outside the EU from early October. I’m undergoing further medical stuff this week and unlikely to be fit enough to return to sea.

Open to anything/anywhere, on this side of the Atlantic.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 22d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 24d

It hasn't helped that the MSM so clearly got bored covering climate. They liked the disaster narrative around the 1.5 report and having figures like Greta but at the moment, because there's not enough catastrophe or excitement happening *right now* they just DGAF

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24d

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 26d

Heart surgeon Peter McDonald trashed by Hospital after Zionists complain, media goes off

St Vincent's go to ground. Wendy Bacon investigates
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism...

Antisemitism? St Vincent's heartless treatment of cardiologist who asked a question - Michael West

Peter McDonald asked questions about Israel in a public forum and has been censored and condemned by St Vincent's Hospital.

michaelwest.com.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 27d

Labor’s real climate policy is to extend and expand fossil fuel mining until 2070, and not care abt those emissions because they’re overseas.
Local emissions volumes will be “offset” in fraudulent sequestration schemes.
They’ll bang on about renewables as if they are driving solar & battery tech.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · Sep 15

And yet Labor governments continue to approved fossil fuel mega projects and seek to impose heavy penalties on people who protest to make us pay attention to our looming fate
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

www.abc.net.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Sep 15

Had a read of the climate risk report... oddly didn't see anywhere it saying "and therefore approving a 50 year extension to the North West Shelf is all good"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns

Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Sep 12

A Friday afternoon special from the Albanese government.
Literally the worst environmental decision imaginable.

Australia's largest gas project given final approval to operate until 2070

Australia's biggest gas project, Woodside's North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.

www.abc.net.au

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