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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 13h

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 1h

The little cat steps on the wizard's hand, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with rambutan marmalade and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of autumn leaves. As he eats, he reads the spellbooks that were delivered from magic interlibrary loan.

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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 4h

Trade unions supported yesterday's action for Palestine 🇵🇸

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 22h

Protect our nature and biodiversity.

Please sign this open letter to our members of parliament:
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www.ccwa.org.au/openletter

Open Letter

Sign the open letter today. We are part of a growing movement of people who are doing what we can to protect, recover, and revive nature...

www.ccwa.org.au

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 22h

Please click & sign the open letter to MPs

“First Nations peoples have cared for these ancient, interconnected ecosystems for tens of thousands of years. But since colonisation, the lands, waters, & skies have been degraded & polluted. It hurts to see relentless damage happening all around us…”
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2h

thanks for reading & sharing & your very kind words 😊

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 5h

The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.

#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 6h

Massive crowds in every major city and all the small towns protesting also against Israel's genocide and our governments complicity. People are angry and sad and sickened by the monster in chief, albanese.

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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 3h

South Korean activist on Gaza aid flotilla detained in Israeli prison: civic group
The activist, identified as Kim Ah-hyun or Haecho, was among scores of people aboard one of 11 ships bound for Gaza that were intercepted by Israeli forces.
www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

Korean activist on Gaza aid flotilla detained in Israeli prison: civic group - The Korea Times

ISTANBUL — A Korean activist aboard an aid vessel seized by the Israeli military while approaching the Gaza Strip has been reportedly detained at a...

www.koreatimes.co.kr

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 7h

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

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

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h

thanks for reading & sharing!

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h

Fri 10 Oct: week 20 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of Woodside's carbon💣 North West Shelf Extension

Meanwhile Enviro Min Murray Watt opts to do a deal with the Coalition on EPBC laws that yet again, rules out a climate trigger

Not promising 👉 theconversation.com/labor-is-clo...

Protestors outside the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' St Kilda office. The dark orange banner says STOP NEW GAS IN WA and NT

Foreground on photo shows the XRmobile whose bonnet is decorated with a owl with outstretched wings beseeching us to Save Our Forests
A placard on the windscreen says LABOR = CLIMATE WRECKERS
In the background, protestors across the road hold up a banner and placards.
The dark orange banner says STOP NORTH WEST SHELF GAS

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14h

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

www.nwo.nl

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 8h

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

retractionwatch.com

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 7h

Huge rally for Free Palestine today - I think the biggest ever. South Australian’s want a just, lasting peace, Palestinian statehood and self-determination, hostages free, pursuit of war criminals and an end to any Australian public investment in armaments.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 7h

The Zionist lawsuits against @marykostakidis.bsky.social John Keane & Nick Riemer are a massive test for free speech in Australia, and costly. We check the claims. Keane kicks off in the morning.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/zionists-v-k...

Zionists v Keane, Riemer, Kostakidis. Australia's massive test cases for free speech - Michael West

Zionist lawsuits against Mary Kostakidis and Sydney Uni academics John Keane and Nick Riemer are a mighty test case for free speech in Australia

michaelwest.com.au

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 7h

It was 32° in Brisbane/Meanjin but the Palestine march still went on ... in BAKING HEAT.

Some great signs.

Not done yet - a checklist that ends with The Hague

A senior rescue dog marching for the animals of Palestine.

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

Sunday 12 Oct
Naarm/Melbourne #MarchForPalestine
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸✊️✊️✊️

In the middle of Swanston St near Lonsdale. In the bottom-left a front guard of protestors hold up Palestinian flags. Directly behind them, many protestors hold up the edges of a massive Palestinian flag

Looking down from steps leading down from the state library. There's a massed crowd and a sea of Palestinian flags

Looking up Swanston St from in front of Flinders Station. A massed crowd of protestors are arriving, bearing banners & waving flags

Some location as previously image. A banner says GENOCIDE DEMANDS SANCTIONS

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 9h

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 13h

Guess which idiot is now seeking this induction pack under FOI?

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 17h

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 9h

Bravo 👏

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11h

'University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against them under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.'

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Anti-Zionism on trial - ABC listen

University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against the...

www.abc.net.au

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 9h

The best kind of menace!

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 15h

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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