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Erialc
@erialc.bsky.social
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Lol 😝- generated profile "Skydiver of ideas and a navigator of trends on BlueSky. Ready to soar through the endless conversations and make a few soft landings in your feed!" #auspol Wiradjuri/Dhudhuroa country 🌱🪶
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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · May 5
Time to be brave Labor-deal “issues of integrity, religious protections, climate, sanctioning Israel, tax reform, poverty, inequality and housing “. No excuses, this is Australia’s chance. #auspol #binnight
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Australia rejected the right's agenda, we'll see if Labor do the same
We are about to find out whether the Labor government has the bravery to govern without the approval of right-wingers.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 12h
When you see large expenditure on transmission infrastructure, this is why.

Long term it will pay off.

It’s up to voters to encourage long term planning.

#AusPol
Netherland's renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid
Homes asked to use less electricity as network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.
www.bbc.com
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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 10h
Yay, we’ve got a winner. Tawny frogmouth. #birds #Birdoftheyear
Small family of birds on a branch. They look like stick themselves. This feathery lump on the branch doesn’t appear to have eyes, and the. Eakins a fine grey line. Hard to spot.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 11h
“Single JobSeeker [payment] $400 week. Let me know how you’d go if you were getting that little & were randomly not paid.”

This comment, from people behind Nobody Deserves Poverty, points to ignored cruelty at the heart of one of Australia’s most shameful open secrets.”
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 11h
Interesting hearing Amerikans complain about bailing out Argentina

Of course I would too

BUT Australians are paying an open-ended $360Bn+ possibly $1Tn+ for AUKUS submarines from Amerika we will never get!

No Australian politician ever sought a mandate for that
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 14h
$40 billion could modernize water systems in every lead-poisoned town in the US and bring high-speed internet to rural America, but instead it's going towards bailing out Argentina
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 10h
So @murray.senate.gov it might really be a good idea to include strong air #pollution #laws , including public monitoring and #taxing high #emissions in the new #environmental protection scheme
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Gan Lab @liganlab.bsky.social · 5d
Mao, Han & Dawson labs reveal air pollutant PM2.5 triggers αSyn misfolding, forming a pathogenic strain (PM-PFF) that drives Lewy body dementia. This study illuminates the link between air pollution & neurodegenerative disease, offering insights for public health
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants
Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...
www.science.org
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Dr Hilary Joyce ⚕️ @drhilary.bsky.social · 1d
This might be interesting for Austen fans
tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events/All-T...
All Things Austen! Jane Austen Anniversary Special
Be part of this major event as we celebrate all things Austen! Over 200 years since Jane Austen's works were first published, her insights into daily life, manners, love and tragedy are more relevant....
tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au
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Eithne @efrl.bsky.social · 14h
'A new study analysing 49 years of data from 20 sites indicated carbon is being emitted because trees are dying and decaying faster than they can be replaced.'

#ClimateChange 😭😭

www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.
www.abc.net.au
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 13h
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW anti-protest law ruled unconstitutional after Palestine Action Group court challenge
PAG had challenged expanded police powers to restrict protests near places of worship
www.theguardian.com
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 12h
The Reserve Bank has the unemployment rate it desired.

Our government will continue to shit on the unemployed, make them leap through all the hoops, make them live in poverty, despite their unemployment being a deliberate plan.

And our media will keep pushing the bludger line.

#AusPol
Australia's unemployment rate jumps to 4.5pc
Australia's unemployment rate jumped to 4.5 per cent in September, up from 4.3 per cent in August.
www.abc.net.au
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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 15h
My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland

...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care.

Thread below on how they did it.

Write up in @australia.theguardian.com
@australiainstitute.org.au
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties
Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23
www.theguardian.com
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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 13h
It is worth a lot-and made with love for your partner. Used to people/women had side hustles of knitting but now, materials expensive, labour is huge, people won’t pay I suppose.
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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 16h
Do you take orders? This is beautiful.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 2d
“CSIRO will embark on further cost-cutting to research units to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Aust’s national science & research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding..funding as a percentage of GDP..is now at its lowest since 1978”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding
CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’
www.theguardian.com
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt
Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants
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Trish Fraser @trishf42.bsky.social · 1d
No great surprise: it's October, it's dry, activate the fire plan (and put the snake water well away from the house, they're out and about).
victoriannews.com.au
Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d
Total Fire Ban declared for Mallee region
#cfa #tfb #fireban #summer #Mallee #fires #TotalFireBan #fireseason
Total Fire Ban declared for Mallee region
MALLEE, VIC. — The first Total Fire Ban (TFB) of the 2025/26 fire season has been declared for the Mallee tomorrow, Thursday, October 16, 2025.
www.victoriannews.com.au
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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 1d
Seeds?seedlings? Conventional wisdom for Maguire country is Melbourne cup but I’ve got mine in now and going well. Climate change?
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d
Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.
Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval
Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.
www.abc.net.au
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 1d
Whohooo! It's the Ides of Rocktober which means it's my (and my oldest son's) birthday today!
We have a tradition in our family (that I made up about 30 years ago) whereby the birthday person gets a Festival of Me. If it's a normal birthday you get a week, if it's a multiple of 5, two weeks...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 2d
Timeline cleanse.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 2d
Just a reminder that political parties are exempt from privacy legislation in regards to contacting you on your private phone number and email

So goose - gander applies

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
AFP promises ‘swift action’ after Albanese, Ley and Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed online
Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases
www.theguardian.com
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Eithne @efrl.bsky.social · 2d
Hell hath no fury!
#LindaReynolds

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins
Former senator Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins as she tries to recover damages awarded to her for defamation.
www.abc.net.au
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2d
Things that have helped me recently:
1) little things still matter
2) the power of a solid meal, a big glass of water, and a good night's sleep
3) remembering how much words of encouragement or a compliment meant after a tough day
4) action is the enemy of despair
5) I can do things through spite
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 2d
I challenge anyone to find better service than the Wangaratta Woollen Mills. Speedy, accurate- and they even matched my dye batch number from 3 years ago!
#crochet #CrochetSky 🧶
A large brown paper parcel prominently labelled Wangaratta Woollen Mills, containing 30 balls of a favourite but soon-to-be-discontinued yarn.
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 2d
It’s the Murray and Albo show! Watch two gutless dickheads unnecessarily sacrifice irreplaceable rainforest and species out of sheer laziness and spite.
Newspaper article describing the latest act of unnecessary vandalism.
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 2d
Reynolds won’t rest until we all agree she is the worst person in Australia.

#AusPol
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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 6d
Is Linda Reynolds the worst person in Australia?

#AusPol
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