Dr Alan Nixon
@alangnixon.bsky.social
Eora man on Darkinjung country; Father of 2 boys - #ClimateActionNow; University Teacher and Discipline Lead - Social Sciences. Attempting to start an #antifa garden under the palms and gums of Empire Bay, NSW (Yes, the irony - pic above). Opinions mine.
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Dr Alan Nixon
@alangnixon.bsky.social
· Dec 18
Simply being vocal about #ClimateChange is enough. Supporting those taking action is even better. But obviously taking action yourself is the place of #RealHeroes. Please click the hashtag and search by user to see the many actions people are taking. Support them (re-posts and follows), join them.
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK are running a 'cash for access scheme in all but name', a senior SNP MP has alleged after they launched a £10,000-per-year membership
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Over at the bad place the dumbest people are learning about libertarianism
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Federal Judge Orders Release of Epstein Grand Jury Documents newrepublic.com/post/204045/... via @newrepublic.com
Federal Judge Orders Release of Epstein Grand Jury Documents
More Epstein documents are on their way.
newrepublic.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm talking about you too, @australianlabor.bsky.social
They aren't even #Labour anymore... So is it really a split as much as them abandoning their base?
Same happening in #Australia and #US. Worker's parties infected with #NeoLiberalism and serving the #Oligarchy instead of their base.
Same happening in #Australia and #US. Worker's parties infected with #NeoLiberalism and serving the #Oligarchy instead of their base.
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm talking about you too, @australianlabor.bsky.social
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Emily Thornberry makes an incredibly patronising, smug video on Labour account on Instagram - even by her standards!
These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.
And it's just making membership rise & rise!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.
And it's just making membership rise & rise!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Emily Thornberry makes an incredibly patronising, smug video on Labour account on Instagram - even by her standards!
These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.
And it's just making membership rise & rise!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.
And it's just making membership rise & rise!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
I think this is our path in #auspol too. We must create a true #Progressive alternative too.
100%.
Labour thought we'd have nowhere else to go and they were wrong. It hasn't made them think and change direction though. They're just doubling down, attacking the Greens and giving the far right their support.
Labour thought we'd have nowhere else to go and they were wrong. It hasn't made them think and change direction though. They're just doubling down, attacking the Greens and giving the far right their support.
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I think this is our path in #auspol too. We must create a true #Progressive alternative too.
#RealHeroes in training.
This country is on the cusp of a revolution and everyone is totally missing it.
Wow, actual chills. This is so powerful. Amazing work @handsoffnyc.bsky.social.
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#RealHeroes in training.
#EndImpunity for #Fascism.
It says a lot that This lady was cited in the manifesto of Anders Breivik and she is still invited to be on TV over 15 years later
Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#EndImpunity for #Fascism.
💯 It's a law of species survival in Nature. Diversity exists because environments are unpredictably variable. Since future dangers are unknown, the only way to ensure group level survival is diversity.
The future is only becoming more unpredictable and complex.
The future is only becoming more unpredictable and complex.
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
💯 It's a law of species survival in Nature. Diversity exists because environments are unpredictably variable. Since future dangers are unknown, the only way to ensure group level survival is diversity.
The future is only becoming more unpredictable and complex.
The future is only becoming more unpredictable and complex.
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
SCMP: ‘On the morning the Dutch government […] Nexperia, it wanted to give Berlin a heads-up. […] After trying all day to get in front of the right officials, an audience was finally granted after business hours, by which time the order had already been given’
The great slowdown: Germany at a standstill as ‘China shock’ hits
As Europe’s biggest economy is pummelled by structural problems and external threats, rocky China ties are compounding the dreary picture.
www.scmp.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
SCMP: ‘On the morning the Dutch government […] Nexperia, it wanted to give Berlin a heads-up. […] After trying all day to get in front of the right officials, an audience was finally granted after business hours, by which time the order had already been given’
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Germany minus 0.2% while turning into out of the closet Nazis again is never not funny.
December 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Germany minus 0.2% while turning into out of the closet Nazis again is never not funny.
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
A daily thing is seeing UK folks genuinely and justifiably disgusted by an anti immigration line that has been the absolute widely accepted norm in Australia for decades
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A daily thing is seeing UK folks genuinely and justifiably disgusted by an anti immigration line that has been the absolute widely accepted norm in Australia for decades
If someone tells you the CO2 is coming out of the sea, they try to fool you. We know exactly where it comes from and where it goes. We emit CO2, about half of that stays in the atmosphere, and a quarter each is taken up by oceans and forests.
Measured facts!
globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
Measured facts!
globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Hollywood Doesn’t Want Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...
Opinion | Everybody in Hollywood Secretly Hates Netflix. So Now What?
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Thousands on the right side of history today #InvasionDay on Gadigal Country
January 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Thousands on the right side of history today #InvasionDay on Gadigal Country
The only thing that can save the environment is stopping new gas and coal - The Australia Institute
#auspol
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-onl...
#auspol
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-onl...
The only thing that can save the environment is stopping new gas and coal
The EPBC is a planning instrument and while this bill is stronger with the Greens' amendments, it will not secure a safe climate and protect biodiversity.
australiainstitute.org.au
December 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Trump, Jr. is getting $620 million loan from the Pentagon.
Trump, Jr. is getting $620 million loan from the Pentagon.
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Dr Alan Nixon
Yes they certainly do 🤬🤬🤬
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes they certainly do 🤬🤬🤬
This is uncanny right?
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"Today the conditions for apocalypticism—gaping inequality, pandemics, rapid technological development—are amply present."
Think of airport growth, SUVs in cities and billionaires as the pyramids of our time.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Think of airport growth, SUVs in cities and billionaires as the pyramids of our time.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common
A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Batteries are going to get a lot cheaper
Gas won't
California invests big in battery storage leaving rolling blackouts behind
California now has around 14GW / 50GWh of utility storage and another 3GW of domestic and commercial storage
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Gas won't
California invests big in battery storage leaving rolling blackouts behind
California now has around 14GW / 50GWh of utility storage and another 3GW of domestic and commercial storage
www.latimes.com/environment/...
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM