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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 12m

Puzzle time!

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Jill Turner @jillhturner.bsky.social · 10h

Good Morning!
Starting the week thinking about the birds. Vote here.

Excellent folks at Friends of Paganini and Food Trees for Black Cockatoos are both doing a great job in providing food and watering stations to support our local Karrakin.

Peta @petabytes.bsky.social · 11h

Good Monday morning

It's a great day to vote for the #BirdOfTheYear. There are still some lesser known, endangered birds in the running.

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Raghad. Raghad is 22 years old and was finishing her studies to be a nurse. She wanted to go into nursing because her mother had a stroke that made her lose movement in her arms and legs. They are now displaced with her 10 siblings.

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Megan E. Human (free Link) @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 9h

"Greta totally betrayed her commitment to the environment"

A) it's not actually a bad thing to be an activist and see something like GENOCIDE happening and having your priorities change a bit

B) Y'all think war and genocide and colonization and all of that aren't* related to the f-ing environment?

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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 11h

Good news via UN:
Humanitarian scaleup in Gaza is underway & "today brought some real progress." For 1st time since March, cooking gas entered the Strip. More tents for displaced families, frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour & medicines also got in. UN & partners distributed 1000s of hot meals & bread

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 9h

Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Max @paisleystars.bsky.social · 13h

Two years I've been after this shot 😆

(Proper photos tomorrow. Lady Aurora has made her dramatic entrance in the most amazing green and purple gown and I am going to be busy)

Bright green aurora borealis behind an old mining cableway tower made of wood

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fashionablyover60.bsky.social @fashionablyover60.bsky.social · 14h

Good News!!!!🗞️

German chemical giant Bayer must pay a $600 million Missouri court judgment that found its herbicide Roundup causes cancer, a ruling the company says could hasten a decision to stop making the popular product.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 14h

Please share the good news: the Jabalia families project, which was forced to end last week, is BACK & rebuilding the camp as the families return north ❤️‍🩹 They need tents, tarps, and more—URGENTLY.

4 hours left ⚠️ 545/1000. Give/find the link here.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 6h

I met my husband of 30+ years (counting unmarried living together years) on a MUD in the early 90s before social media.

For social media, I've made friends I wouldn't've found otherwise, found community, and learnt things that I may never have stumbled across otherwise

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15h

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jean Proudman @bluejeans58.bsky.social · 12h

indigenousx.com.au/recounting-a...

Recounting Abbott’s ‘contributions to Indigenous Australians’ – IndigenousX

indigenousx.com.au

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 6h

This thread of the accuracy and importance of Aboriginal oral history is great actually

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 13h

geologist Patrick Nunn and linguist Nick Reid on Aboriginal oral histories verified by white science.

www.usc.edu.au/about/unisc-...

Evidence the oral stories of Australia’s First Nations might be 10,000 years old

Stories from Australia's First Nations tell of a time when the islands and reefs that dot the coastline were connected to the mainland. By analysing ancient sea levels, Professor Patrick Nunn believes...

www.usc.edu.au

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 10h

I'm old enough to remember when pretty much all of the mainstream media regularly praised Abbott for being the politician with the deepest connection to Indig Australians because he visited a community every year, patted some kids on the head and hammered a few nails.

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 13h

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8h

Both Headspace and Project Rockit making the point that if the ban is about getting kids to go outside and socialise in person, a lot of in-person places for young people are taken away now. They're moved on, can't hang around shopping centres etc anymore.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8h

Here's what she told them fwiw www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Social media ban will create a ‘social gap’ for young people, youth advocate says

The Senate committee looking at the under 16s social media ban and other age checks coming online has heard from youth advocacy organisation Project Rockit on what the ban will mean for young people when they’re kicked off social media from 10 December.

Caitlin Blanch, a member of Project Rockit’s national youth collective and a young disabled person from Tamworth, NSW, said for her social media was a “pivotal way” to make connections with other people with living experience that she could relate to, to find health information, and share her story.

She said:

I think that it’s been pivotal for my friend groups in finding representation of queer people that’s not stereotypical of finding cultural content that is not stigmatised. It’s had an incredibly impactful role on connecting otherwise isolated communities to places that they would not have access to, and for young people in regional Australia who perhaps have that physical isolation.

When the ban comes into effect, she said it will change how young people interact with the world:

It creates a social gap, but it also sends a narrative that young people don’t have the power to articulate their own narratives, that they can’t be in control of their agency online, and that they are responsible for the harmful content that they’re exposed to. And I don’t think that’s fair. I think there should be greater emphasis on the corporations that are in control of the algorithms.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 9h

Ditto to ABA 'therapy' for autistic kids. It's abuse and only teaches them to mask which will have highly negative mental health impacts later, like suicide.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 11h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 9h

It almost took my will to live

I never should have been subject to MOs on sole parenting payment

Having a young high needs child totally dependent on me / both survivors of trauma & FV

Took 3 years for Centrelink to rectify their error after I was cut off
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

Palestinians returning to northern Gaza say they have no means to rebuild amid what they describe as indescribable destruction by Israeli forces, as limited aid trickles in but remains scarce, according to officials.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/n5k3lj

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 8h

MSNBC: "'Look in the mirror and see what we have become': Oct. 7 survivor reflects on the war in Gaza."

The devastation in Gaza can't be overstated. The civilians rely on our donations to survive.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9h

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 12h

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 13h

Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/tasmania-saltmarsh-wetland-restoration-former-sheep-farm/105883488

Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland

A sheep farmer has welcomed the restoration of an internationally significant wetland on his property outside of Hobart. The collaboration of a non-profit organisation with landowners, scientists, the Aboriginal community and governments has allowed the return of a vital ecosystem.

www.abc.net.au

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12h

Life, uh, finds a way

off-white flowering plant, growing from a crook in a stone structure, near a pipe.

Zoomed out photo showing that the plant is blooming from about a story up, on an old stone bridge.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 12h

Uber drivers refusing rides due to guide dog, handler says

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Independence 'chipped away' by Uber driver refusals, guide dog handler says

Sarah Maculans says she was refused rides by four Uber drivers within a week due to her guide dog, Sunny.

www.abc.net.au

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 20h

This man is basically putting every other man on the platform to shame.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

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