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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 14h

Signed and reposted. Aren’t you tired of the billionaires rigging the system?

Juanita Hardy @pikiran2ku.bsky.social · 16h

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/VOVJ8CKKMSaJ...

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

getup.to

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 20h

I hope she enjoyed the final few years of her life -so many people wanted to hear her story. vale

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 1d

Not really God’s work, is it. Complicity.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 1d

With the Powerful Owl now out, I'm going for the Southern Emu-wren. It needs protection from habitat destruction (I'm looking at you rocket launch site). It'd be great if it could survive the next couple of days of voting and finish in the top 5. Vote here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 1d

This is fascism.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I could love this post more than once! ❤️📚

Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 1d

Another great turn-out in #naarm #melbourne this Sunday in support of #gaza #nomoregenocide #freepalestine

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 3d

“…resistance means, among other things, being the opposite of them in how we use language. To me that not just telling the truth (and checking the facts) as best we can but using language with precision and describing the world accurately.” Another on-target article by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing! Long live writers and artists!

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 6d

It’s almost disorienting to see something this nakedly wonderful put in place by a non Scandinavian Western government in 2025.

Way to go Ireland.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 6d

Good one! 😄

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Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉 @wolftickler2000.bsky.social · 7d

Please consider Petition EN8047 - Expel the Israeli ambassador from Australia

Please sign & share.

#auspol

e-petitions

www.aph.gov.au

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to this webinar. @vicforestalliance.bsky.social

www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/vfa_webinar_...

The Planetary Importance of our Giant Trees: A VFA Webinar

The Victorian Forest Alliance is a grass-roots collective of more than 30 forest groups fighting for protection of Victoria's native forests from logging. We live and work stolen land which has been c...

www.victorianforestalliance.org.au

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 12d

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza.

A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters.

Israel intends to violate international law once again.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 11d

A very sad day for our planet. One of our greatest has passed. 😢 Thank you Jane Goodall.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 12d

Just signed this. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/ban_fossil_f...

✍️ SIGN NOW: Ban fossil fuel lobbyists from COP31

It’s no surprise that fossil fuel corporations are out to sabotage global climate action. But did you know they do it from within UN climate talks?

nb.australiainstitute.org.au

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 13d

Ffs

Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 13d

The signs of AI Writing.
I’ll be sharing some of this with my classes this term.
www.tiktok.com/@willfrancis...

The Signs of AI Writing - Wikipedia just published a guide to spotting AI-generated writing, and it's the best one on the internet. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the other AI chatbots (LLMs) still write...

TikTok video by Will Francis - AI + Marketing

www.tiktok.com

Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 14d

No need to go jump on a plane. Why not get curious and explore you in the here and now.
Loved reading this.

moretothat.com/travel-is-no...

Travel Is No Cure for the Mind - More To That

Who you are in a venue matters far more than the venue itself.

moretothat.com

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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 14d

@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
You are complicit in a genocide.
You supplied the F-35 parts that operate the release of the bombs. You gave 1 billion to Elbit Drone manufacturing and then 10 million on the day you bragged about recognising Palestine.
SANCTION ISRAEL NOW

Rearteira @rearteira.bsky.social · 15d

No words.........

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 14d

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 14d

WTAF!!
so inhumane, so sneaky, so expensive. Helping rich jailers get richer while making vulnerable people pay the soul-destroying price. Will there be alligators there too? @albomp.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract

Exclusive: A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of control’

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 15d

Australia lost its public broadcasting corp (ABC) several years ago as Murdoch trained execs took over the the top managerial positions and ruined it from the inside out. Sadly now no different to the other commercial media. 😔

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 18d

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this:

everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...

It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

Let's All Remember When We Saved The World

To remind ourselves we can do it again.

everythingisamazing.substack.com

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 17d

Nothing like great paleo-anthropological news to start the morning!

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

www.theguardian.com

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