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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 9h

new work

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 10h

Can this cuntry get any more stupid or childish?

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 10h

They don't give a fck about half a million innocents slaughtered for the crime of not being Jewish and I don't give a fck about 20 hostages.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 10h

"You walk over from Iran to Qatar, you can walk in in one second. You go boom, boom, and now you’re in Qatar. That’s tough territory.” The closest border-to-border distance is more than 190 km. The idiot should be selling steak knives.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12h

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 11h

Dr Assal Rad—

"This is how you do a front page story."

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 11h

"... when he is no longer of this world, is by far the most heartless thing to do, because we love Saleh, and we all mourn his death, and it was important for us to have an account that he had created himself and where we could return and pay him tribute."

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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 12h

www.instagram.com/p/DPug3KbCOW...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

I didn’t want to believe it was true. Say his name: Saleh Al-Jafarawi. He had the most beautiful smile. He was not among the 270+ journalists killed prior to the latest ceasefire. He was ebullient that the bombing stopped. And now he’s been killed.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza

From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...

news.un.org

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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/reel/DPsEM23...

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 12h

Blah blah "the hostages" but Gaza is still starving. Israel 'says' it will allow about 600 trucks into Gaza each day, enough to feed half the population of Gaza at present. Children are still dying from diarrhoea and malnutrition. Women are trying to breastfeed newborn babies with empty breasts.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 13h

Blah blah "the hostages" but Gaza is still starving. Israel 'says' it will allow about 600 trucks into Gaza each day, enough to feed half the population of Gaza at present. Children are still dying from diarrhoea and malnutrition. Women are trying to breastfeed newborn babies with empty breasts.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 13h

The old world is dying and it stinks like death. Godspeed the rise of the Global South.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 14h

Damn I loved that man :(

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 15h

We're told the online age verification codes will prevent young people from seeing sexual or violent content but it's simply not true. Those searching in a logged out state can still search for this content.

Companies are going to be age checking all of us for nothing!

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

We owe Hamas everything for opening the blinds and letting the light shine in the shadows of our "civilsation.' Activism is our best gratitude for their sacrifice.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

The sweetest heart in the soul of a lion, he was the best of us.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

Assimilation (or “integration”) with the dominant Anglo culture was a rite of passage for the European migrants in the middle of the last century and later, for Asians.
But the idiosyncracies of an Islamic life limit how much that is possible.

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d

Melissa McIntosh says she agrees with “both” anti-immigration colleague Andrew Hastie that Australians feel like strangers in their own country & pro-immigration colleague Paul Scarr that migration is needed
I believe this is what is known as having your cake & eating it too🍰🙄 #Abc

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 15h

Great restoration effort. . .

Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 17h

Wetland ecosystem welcomed at Tasmanian sheep farm after 20-year restoration effort

His property, Richmond Park Estate, hosts a wetland that was once abundant in wildlife and used regularly by Aboriginal people before colonial farming practices degraded the landscape

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

Abundance returns to wetland after man-made sheep pasture removed

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...

www.abc.net.au

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

The world is being killed by ugly old white men. If we allow them to.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

5 Gaza represents not only a tactical and symbolic Palestinian victory in terms of resistance but also a profound challenge to the established peace process and regional power structures.

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

4 is not peace but a pause from genocide w/ future conflicts likely dependent on developments in the W Bank and ME. Palestinian leadership under Mahmoud Abbas & the old Oslo framework seek to reclaim relevance but the political landscape is shifting towards new paradigms of resistance & resilience 5

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

3 Gaza stands as an anomaly in this context because it has maintained armed resistance despite intense Israeli military operations, devastating wars, and a crippling siege since 2007. The current ceasefire 4

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Shayne @shaynechester.bsky.social · 15h

2 Frameworks like the Oslo Accords, only constrained Palestinian leadership and served Israel and the US. The Palestinian Authority's entanglement in corruption became a part of the continuation of Israeli control and violence. 3

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