Alison Jones
@alisonjones.bsky.social
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Retired Educator & OD Consultant Wife,Mum &Nan On Awabakal Land NSW Aus #auspol #ClimateCrisis #CleanAir #CovidIsNotOver
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jommytee.bsky.social
Earlier this year (January 2025) Special Envoy Jillian Segal confirms the US govt lobbied and convinced the Aust Govt to get her position established.

www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
User Clip: Jillian Segal
US applies pressure on Australia to introduce Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism.
www.c-span.org
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npr.org
NPR @npr.org · 6h
Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles in the Pacific Ocean. Underwater heat waves like this can disrupt disrupts the ocean’s food web and fisheries, and alter weather on land thousands of miles away.
Return of The Blob: Heat wave spans Pacific Ocean
A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California.
n.pr
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lalegault.bsky.social
I am horrified & fascinated how fascism manifests itself in fandom/ cult culture. We see it with Israeli supporters, Trump supporters, Carney supporters, and now even Taylor Swift supporters. The inability to accept evidence because you like someone is very powerful and you have to check in.
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
And nobody questions this… alternate reality
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
"Everything they do is extremely violent."

Greta Thunberg on Israel:
Excerpt of greta thunberg article in link below
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jvipondmd.bsky.social
metaphor for covid mitigations
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:
Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.
alisonjones.bsky.social
“Crypto is neoliberalism made into computer code. It promises that individuals can create value out of nothing, that markets can exist without governments, and that rules are unnecessary if everyone pursues their own self-interest..”
bylinesnetwork.co.uk
The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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beansproutsmom.bsky.social
More for the "Venn diagram of fossil fuel interests and pro-COVID team is one circle" research.

@karambales.bsky.social @walkerbragman.bsky.social @adrian7745.bsky.social
crikey.com.au
Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.
Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company
When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.
www.crikey.com.au
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kcar.me
Who are 'Advance' & what are they doing to our politics?

Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite" but it is Oz MAGA funded #aupol

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Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?
Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.
johnmenadue.com
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joffirphd.bsky.social
I get so tired of messaging that adds an "out" to the presumed message. The Yale graphic says "...it's important to take a multi-layered approach (one of more of the following) to protect yourselves & others."

Except, nope. "Multi-layered" means more than one. Not "one or more." Not "vax & relax."
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
To the many people who say “I’ll mask or stay home if I’m sick, but you’re CRAZY if you want me to mask regularly, & btw I haven’t even been sick in years”… yeah you have, & you probably spread it to a bunch of other people, some of whom, statistically speaking, lost their lives as they knew them
Graphic from Yale School of Public Health:

49% OF COVID INFECTIONS
ARE ASYMPTOMATIC,
which means you may not know if you are actually sick. This is why it's important to take a multilayered approach (one or more of the following) to protect yourselves and others:
N95 and
KN95 masks
HEPA air filtration
Good ventilation (carbon dioxide <800 parts per million)
Up-to-date vaccinations
Rapid tests before gathering
Attention to wastewater levels of COVID-19

Yale SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Sources: The Lancet Regional Health, CDC
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sarajadebl.bsky.social
FFS this man #AndrewHastie wants to be the leader of the opposition and dreams of being Prime Minister? This is a dangerous man with a huge ego, lacking in empathy and vindictive. Sounds like a threat there as well.
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blairwilliams26.bsky.social
I've finally finished it!!!

It has taken almost three months to complete and is by far the most difficult and complicated thing I've ever knitted, but I do love to push myself.

This is only my second time ever knitting cable... so why not do a complicated vintage cableknit pattern?? 😂

🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶
Alex, a white man with brown hair, wearing a pair of ray bans and a handmade green cableknit jumper A handmade cableknit jumper A closeup of the cables
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sheencr.bsky.social
Japan is reporting a flu epidemic much earlier than is usual. This early season could have implications for other countries via international travel so do get your flu vaccines (if you can) soon! 🧪 #HealthPolicy
Japan declares a flu epidemic — what this means for other nations
Researchers say that the number of infections for this time of year is unusual.
www.nature.com
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thatingrid.bsky.social
Coming to the painful realisation that the only way for me to be happy in a job I genuinely love is for me to lower my standards and expectations, Which will crush my soul. That or being permanently on some kind of sedative to calm my rage. 🫠
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marcuskelson.bsky.social
Today we spent four hours at the Atomic Bomb dome and then at the nearby Hiroshima Museum - walking distance - the museum was utterly incredible, profound and understandably traumatic - I’m not sure we could have had more time given the enormity of what we took in but definitely a must #japan
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.
crick.ac.uk
NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?

Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB
Panel of speakers with the title ‘Can We Survive Climate Change?’ from BBC Studios and The Francis Crick Institute.
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cameronwilson.bsky.social
so thrilled to share that my CONSPIRACY NATION co-author @arielbogle.bsky.social is on Conversations with Richard Fidler today! It's on ABC local radio stations at 11, RN at 3, or you can listen back later.

you can pick up the book here http://bio.to/conspi...
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nickfeik.bsky.social
“The ceasefire has held since the exchange, except for the Israeli military killing six Palestinians.”
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angry-goddess.bsky.social
Good 👍 we don't want you here
exposingnv.bsky.social
Just in! Candace Owens has lost her High Court challenge over the Aus Govt’s decision to deny her entry to Australia
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yungenchee.bsky.social
"Officials from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, while unhappy about the use of AI and errors in the original report, told a Senate estimates hearing last week the recommendations in the Deloitte report had not changed and would be taken up by the department."

JFC🤯🤬
nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social
Wow.
"The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on"

www.afr.com/politics/fed...
More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report
Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.
www.afr.com