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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 6h

But not under a Coalition Government. #auspol #abc730

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1h

Yes - be very literal and start bringing people unequivocally onto the same page

Also stop using terms like “president” or “presidential” - call it what it is, “authoritarianism”

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1h

🤣😂

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 2h

Wait until climate warming makes it impossible to live in the Torrid Zone and their glaciers evaporate dry - BILLIONS of people will be climate refugees demanding to be saved

They’ll see Australia as a place of refuge

Then we’ll see the true agenda of the extreme right!

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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 10h

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 6h

WTF!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 3h

Oh … you mean they haven’t already?

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 3h

Look at Mallacoota during the Morrison Fires

They had to flee for their lives to open sea in little boats expecting someone would help them .. despite being in an electorate that for a decade demanded brown people be sent to Nauru concentration camps for doing exactly the same thing

Hypocrites!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 3h

Facts don’t stop some though!!

bsky.app/profile/gekk...

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 6h

Are we still listening to Canavan - is he setting the pace and the vibe in our body politic?

Because voters continue to flip flop between Labor and the LNP IPA they leave behind the rubbish, the detritus from electorates that remain sheltered, gaslit and stuck with even lower expectations

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 3h

I agree - I did think that after Lismore flooded

And it’s not as though that region suddenly rose up and threw out their politicians and installed community representatives on a mandate to fight climate change is it!

I think it will be a social-wide calamity.. a Mad Max scenario when it’s too late

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5h

Democracies are working hard to muzzle free speech

And when democracies start to do that, the principles and vision upholding democracy start to crumble, which is exactly what is happening in many democracies - AU, NZ, UK and France

PAY ATTENTION VOTERS - YOUR COMPLACENCY IS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5h

Australia the stupid country

China is our biggest trading partner, by far.

Our slavish dependence on Amerika for our foreign and defence policies damages our perspective and options with China

We may as well shoot ourselves in the foot if this persists

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Lack of China capability can only do harm to society: Our current situation is a disgrace

In March 2023, the Australian Academy of the Humanities sounded the alarm on the decline in our understanding and knowledge of China through a report on “Australia’s China Knowledge Capability”.

johnmenadue.com

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5h

Coral reefs, ice sheets, and the Amazon rainforest are approaching tipping points due to global heating.

Coral reefs have already reached a tipping point and are facing long-term decline

You've walked past this before

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5h

Climate warming

A summer of extreme weather events - the full bag!

Now is the time to assess YOUR risk to life, property and plans

Because the personal impact of long-term consequences will be devastating. As will be the social impacts on food prices etc

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄?

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 6h

Let's be clear

If people are still using the word "presidency / president" and tRump together, they are misreading the issues and enhancing the problem

It infers legitimacy

Be explicit. Call it out for what it is so that everyone is clear and on the same page unequivocally

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 6h

Are we still listening to Canavan - is he setting the pace and the vibe in our body politic?

Because voters continue to flip flop between Labor and the LNP IPA they leave behind the rubbish, the detritus from electorates that remain sheltered, gaslit and stuck with even lower expectations

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 20h

I feel it’s nearly time for every person who is fighting to save democracy does need to have one of these costumes on hand!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 22h

And not even hiding the deceit!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1d

My God!

Attitudes are NOT changing!

Documentary on TV just had the tagline ..

“WILL WE EVER CONQUER THE ARCTIC?”

Seems the mentality is to destroy everything

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes … the DETAILS inside the peace points

Plenty of room for everybody to renege - as planned

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1d

When duopolies converge this is what it looks like

When there’s a landslide win this is what the message was - “do anything you like”

When voters simply flip flop between one party to the other - duopolies know, low expectations, mediocrity keeps the power inside the tent at all costs

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a very generous estimation!

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Arash Mohebbi @thatoldbear.bsky.social · 1d

a scene from Dune 2
EMPEROR "tell me more about these 'inflatable frog people'"
BARON "They're violent terrorists, extremists!"
RABAN "One twerked at me and I got horny so I pepper sprayed it!"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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