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Jules
@julesdigsforfire.bsky.social
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She/her. AuDHD. Inclusive feminist cat lady. Antiracist. Antifascist. Atheist. LGBTQIA+ ally. Pro choice & science.
South African living on unceded Wurundjeri Land.
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nickofnz.bsky.social
Scientists now say we're on track for a catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise.

It would mean the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe and drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, with lethal heat and humidity widespread.

#cop30 #climatechange
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Interesting how msm has buried BHP story - horrific Brazil mine collapse - given scale of disaster, multi-bil claim & directors possibly on hook for negligence
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/bhp-liable-f...
BHP liable for 2015 Brazil dam collapse, UK court rules - Michael West
BHP can be held liable over the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, London's High Court has ruled.
michaelwest.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Dr Assal Rad—

“This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.

“And the media needs to call it what it is.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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politikarma.bsky.social
Single most compelling reason to legislate a super tax, or high net worth wealth tax in Australia.
With obscene wealth comes an obscene sense of entitlement and an elitist view that one should shape government policy…for everyone else.
#auspol

Exhibit A …
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
julesdigsforfire.bsky.social
I read White Fragility a few years ago. This is an excellent critique through the lens of social conditioning (familial and external social factors incl our status via our "in group") as well as our biological and psychological response to our homeostasis being destabilised.
#auspol #colonisation
Colonial Defensiveness: Exposing the Supremacy-Preserving Reflex Beneath White Fragility
By Christian ZacaTecho Ortiz
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
'Their banner singled out not the Jewish people but the Jewish “lobby”, which has also been a target of the political left.'

🤔

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Sanitise, manipulate, infiltrate: inside the neo-Nazis’ plot for power
Like middle managers on a recruitment drive: How neo-Nazis are taking hate mainstream.
www.smh.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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pik-potsdam.bsky.social
"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...
Iceland on alert amid Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
Sussan Ley's Liberal Party offers
• zero policies
• empty rhetoric
• marketing spin photo-ops
• lies re climate action
They won't win govt but the Coalition will try to stop the Labor Govt from taking real action on climate. All to serve their fossil fuels industry donors. Shameful. #auspol #Climate
Edited image from Liberal Party post, adding a question mark after the text Responsible Action.
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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patsimons.bsky.social
New research shows rural Victorians are strong supporters of renewable energy, with the majority of ppl living in regions with the biggest projects backing wind and solar.

www.thecourier.com.au/story/911088...
'Broadly supportive': regional Victorians actually back renewable projects
Research finds anti-renewable voices are being 'amplified'.
www.thecourier.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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lucyham.bsky.social
Important to remember that Murdoch has been part of the eugenics end of neoliberalism for decades. He’s entrenched with the Islamophobia industry. Also had Peter 👿 Brimelow and Tucker “Great Replacement” Carlson reporting directly. #Auspol

www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...
Strange Bedfellows Fox journalists soon had another reason for concern. Around the same time Mr. Carlson was promoting the notion of a South African ethnic cleansing, Fox was lurching through a post-Ailes rebuilding of its human resources organization. Lines of authority and power had always been mysterious at Fox, and so when a formal organizational chart appeared on the company's employee portal, some curious employees logged on to see who reported directly to Rupert Murdoch. Most of Murdoch's subordinates were unsurprising, according to several people who viewed the chart. But one came as a shock: Peter Brimelow, founder of the website VDare. The British-born Mr. Brimelow had known Mr. Murdoch for decades and once worked as a columnist for Market Watch, the Murdoch-owned financial news site. But over the years, he had adopted more pronounced nativist views; VDare, started in 1999, had evolved into a hub of the new, more online-oriented white nationalist movement. Mr. Brimelow once described the Obama administration as a "Minority Occupation Government" and California as "totally overrun by barrios of illegal immigrants." Shortly after Mr. Trump was elected, he spoke at a conference held by the National Policy Institute, a latter-day white nationalist group. (Mr. Brimelow sued The Times in 2020 for articles in which either he or VDare was described as white nationalist; a judge dismissed the case later that year. A separate lawsuit brought by VDare is still pending.) Mr. Brimelow's apparent role at Fox set off a new wave of consternation and gossip. Employees who asked about the relationship were given a variety of explanations. Mr. Brimelow was said to be helping with Mr. Murdoch's memoirs — a project that, as far as most people understood, their boss had abandoned in the 1990s - or writing speeches, or attached to some other Murdoch initiative. In short order, several former Fox employees recalled, the organizational chart was taken down entirely.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
julesdigsforfire.bsky.social
"It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."

#auspol #environment #climate #netzero #medialiteracy
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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melhalpin.bsky.social
This. Decades of worsening wealth and income inequality hasn’t happened by accident, but by design.

The good news is it can be redesigned.

Time for major tax reform. Time for Universal Basic Income. Time to get Big $ out of politics and break up media monopolies.

#auspol #UBI #TaxTheUltraWealthy
australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d
"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."

- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
'Eltis said the party’s constitution was fully drafted and one plank of its policy platform was the mass deportation of people of Jewish faith.'

www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
Far-right figure who visited ‘motherland’ Germany is close to forming national party
Sydney man Jack Eltis said the National Socialist Network “was about 90 per cent” of the way to forming state and national parties.
www.theage.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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timhollo.bsky.social
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.

This is politics today.

We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Indeed.
The Age called out the Myanmar genocide. Why not Gaza's?
The paper's treatment of the Palestinians reeks of double standards.
www.deepcutnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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proftimstephens.bsky.social
"Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points. 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C"

#climatecrisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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purplepingers.bsky.social
Waking up to find out VIC Labor is following the lead of the QLD LNP is infuriating and will have absolutely devastating consequences. On the great Leo Puglisi’s birthday no less
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
julesdigsforfire.bsky.social
The Liberals continue to fail the younger generations with their pandering to the industries that are making affordability, sustainability and health further out of reach for many. Here's hoping that they fade into obscurity with each of these decisions that they make.
#auspol
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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michaelmazengarb.bsky.social
Badly worded poll published by the SMH, which implies that it’s more costly overall/less affordable to reach net zero. Verging on a push poll.

Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
Headline in the Sydney Morning Herald “Third of voters want net zero gone as Coalition meets to decide position” by James Massola Poll results which show between 54% of Australians supporting a net zero target. 31% say it should be abandoned. The third option in the poll is worded “Australia should abandon the target, but still take action on emissions where it is affordable”.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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antipovertycentre.org
sounds familiar 🤔
ldobsonhughes.bsky.social Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 6d
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:

- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
julesdigsforfire.bsky.social
Today's walk around Birdsland with the old man. Spotted lots of kangaroos on the way round and paused here too appreciate the views.
#yarraranges
#wurundjeriland
#australia
Path leading away into the distance, with eucalyptus trees and grass on the sides and overcast skies. Looking towards the city in the distance with grass progressing to trees moving into the horizon.
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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barbarapocock.bsky.social
Our housing system is broken. There are 175,000+ people on the waiting list for social housing. Housing is a human right. It’s time we acted like it. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Broken public housing policy not unfixable, former top judge says - ABC listen
How has the dream of owning a home become so intertwined with generating wealth, that it's led the system to failure, and affected now chronic demands on public housing?
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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euanritchie.bsky.social
Look, what happened to Gough Whitlam was terrible, he was a visionary. But, I'm far more concerned about how terrible @australianlabor.bsky.social are TODAY, especially their pathetic environmental law reform package. Let's talk about the future, shall we?

biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Getting the EPBC Act right | Biodiversity Council Australia
Our factsheet outlines the strengths, weaknesses, and recommended improvements to the Australian Government’s proposed environmental law reforms.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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davidctomkins.bsky.social
Australia’s desert country is rarely part of the global climate conversation despite it being home to the world’s oldest continuing culture, and the largest connected conservation corridor on Earth.
#climatecrisis #COP30 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Australian deserts don't get climate-change headlines – they should
Australia’s desert country is rarely part of the global climate conversation, although it's Earth's largest connected conservation corridor.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM