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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 9h

Yes.

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 9h

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

It leaves us without big institutional defenders. It means that, in contesting the assaults of capital, we have to start almost from scratch. I sometimes wonder whether we'd be better off without the big nature NGOs. Rather than mobilising, as we'd otherwise do, we wait and wait for them to step up.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

Hello, @rspb.bsky.social, @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk.
Where the hell are you?

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 9h

That is a very different thing to replacing humans. It just replaces grunt work.

It won't replace your psychologist, or teacher, or anything that requires some level of human understanding because it can never be fit for purpose.

The only profitable AI companies are already doing that.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 9h

In 10 years time, the only real profitable - and by profitable, I mean extremely *profitable* - AI companies will be those powering grunt work industrial/info processes. AI won't replace humans, it will only replace the stuff that requires humans to do (like testing if A+B+C= potential cancer drug)

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 16h

Craven career politician. Likewais #MurrayWatt. Sorry to change the subject but choosing to deal with the COALition rather than the Greens on the EPBC act is to deal with the party no one wanted.

FFS get real @albomp.bsky.social

#Environment

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

We need Labor’s Mr Fixit to fix the environment, not the politics

Environment Minister Murray Watt is Labor’s political "fixer" – Australians want him to fix something for us, and our planet.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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tzortzo.bsky.social @tzortzo.bsky.social · 1d

Albanese is a craven career politician who has self interest as his top priority, followed closely by the interests of lobbyists. He is as corrupt as his bedfellows in the LNP.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Excellent.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Thank goodness for the cross bench.

Holding @albomp.bsky.social Labor Government to account.
#auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI #auspol

FOI amendment bill. A transparency counter-revolution. - Michael West

The biggest ever assault on government transparency has been launched by Labor's tabling of the FOI Amendment Bill 2025.

michaelwest.com.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

It’s great to see the cross bench coming out early and with strength opposing the Govt’s evil #FOI Amendment Bill. Here’s @helenhainesindi.bsky.social’s amendment killing off the ability of the Govt to charge FOI applications fees and for officials to summarily dismiss FOI requests. #auspol

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Cartels are for sure offering CBP and ICE bounties now that officers have been pulled off of tracking them down in order to go after empanada vendors, nannies, and inflatable unicorns. Makes total sense.

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Cartels are for sure offering CBP and ICE bounties now that officers have been pulled off of tracking them down in order to go after empanada vendors, nannies, and inflatable unicorns. Makes total sense.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

So IDF shooting Palestinians it doesn't like while Hamas executes informers and collaborators.

Ceasefire. What ceasefire?

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...

Cracks in shaky ceasefire as Palestinians killed, aid halted

Israeli forces are restricting aid into the Gaza Strip after hostage families expressed dismay that only four of 28 bodies were returned.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

I curiously find myself wishing it was he who was posthumous. 😆

Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Donald Trump debases everything he touches. The man is a disgusting piece of work.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday

www.theguardian.com

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Debbies @7debbies2.bsky.social · 1d

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Spectral Phoenix 🇦🇺🐈🐈 @spectral-phoenix.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think the 'cease fire' will hold. You can call me a pessimist.

As for the Dunt (Dumb...t), he's just confirming what we already know. No surprise.

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Donald Trump debases everything he touches. The man is a disgusting piece of work.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday

www.theguardian.com

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’…

Gives new meaning to Hubris.

I think this will unravel. Any odds?

#Gaza #hubris #Trump

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders

www.theguardian.com

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Rosco The Grouch @roscothegrouch.bsky.social · 1d

I watch in horror from half a world away as events unfold in the US. How ordinary folk become complicit as Trump's ICE Gestapo.

No man is an island. Everything is connected to everything else. Every word. Every kind act. Counts.

To remain silent is to be as complicit as they are.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8d

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?