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humanism, secularism, realism, anti-theism, anti-superstition, anti-irrationalism, anti-supernaturalism, anti-fucking-stupidism.

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · Nov 14

Yo newbs

Here are a few tips to get you up and running.

Sky Bridge helps migration from Twitsville, thanks to @kawamataryo.bsky.social :
bsky.app/profile/kawa...

Kawamata Ryo @kawamataryo.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi Bluesky community 🦋.

I just pushed the official website for Sky Follower Bridge 🚀

sky-follower-bridge-docs.vercel.app

I hope this tool helps with the transition from X to Bluesky.

Sky Follower Bridge

Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky

sky-follower-bridge-docs.vercel.app

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 33m

A note on Queensland's coal extension plan - it can easily achieve a "75% by 2030 emissions cut" by continually quietly revising land-use emissions, only a little bit more brazenly than the prev govt' would've needed to when cutting coal by 2035.

No sweat

@adammorton.bsky.social

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Dec 16

Okay, deep cut here, but it's important. I ran the numbers on Queensland (Aus) new emissions target of a 75% reduction by 2035 with one Q in mind: is it really ambitious?

Important because QLD remains one of the world's biggest coal pits - and it burns a lot for power, too

So: here's a thread!

Queensland sets new 2035 climate emissions reduction target

Steven Miles says one of his first tasks as the new state premier will be legislating a 2035 emissions reduction target of 75 per cent. He says the new goal "sets a floor for the federal target".

www.sbs.com.au

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 38m

Good luck keeping a stadium on time and on budget.

They'd probably build it then find it was unsuitable for AFL matches.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 6h

"A 2014 analysis of about 9,000 discarded nets that washed up on Australia’s northern coast estimated ghost nets had killed between 4,866 and 14,600 sea turtles in the year before they made land...

Ghost Net Initiative, a $15 million fund...is about to expire."

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

The ocean's least natural predator has come for Australia

Illegal fishing is ravaging the world's oceans of fish and shellfish but it is what is left behind that is creating a mess for governments worldwide and of Australia's most remote beaches.

www.abc.net.au

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Another badly constructed headline.

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Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 9h

Just in! Candace Owens has lost her High Court challenge over the Aus Govt’s decision to deny her entry to Australia

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 5h

Papa Xi says "Yes. Women's rights. But not like that."

#GenderEquality

Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference

Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’

www.theguardian.com

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 10h

There's no need to destroy a book to enjoy a book.

PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

All the alliterations

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll consider putting my faith in AI the day it detects the obvious spam and phishing attempts that are constantly delivered to my email inbox.
Peter Myers, St Kilda
The Age, letters

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

We have known this for several decades

But knowing means nothing to those who care nothing for the natural world, our climate, or our future

The lungs of the world (along with plankton) are dying

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Sooo many meeces

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Monday, everyone!

Here's our reminder that without far stronger environmental laws the wildlife and places we all know and dearly love will continue to be destroyed and disappear, forever.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... By @drphilmccormack.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and me.

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that they are 'negotiating' with the Libs is all the evidence we need that the new 'reforms' will be catastrophically shit.

They're 'consulting' the minerals council ffs.

The environment is doomed.

PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#EveryoneIsHamas

PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

And the Israeli's are hostages.

But the Palestinians are 'prisoners'.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
www.afr.com//policy/ener...

Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths

The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

www.afr.com

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Artificial Intelligence is the worst kind of Aberrant Ignorance.

PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

"The mutual obligations system – the system by which we set (through privatised “job providers”) mostly demeaning and useless tasks for unemployed people to meet in order to receive their welfare benefits – is documented to cause harm..."
@amyremeikis.bsky.social

#AusPol
#RaiseTheRate

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 2d

It's OK, a whole new system is starting on November 1, we'll never know how similar it is to the whole new system that didn't actually start in February or the other one that didn't start in July

but this one is the real deal

fear not

#auspol

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 2d

Queensland THE LAGGARD

‘QLD the most coal dependent state in the country, and the LNP government has condemned it to stay that way – possibly for decades’
#ClimateCrisis #auspol
reneweconomy.com.au/queenslands-...

reneweconomy.com.au

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 2d

"mutual obligations – the system by which we set (through private “job providers”) demeaning & useless tasks for unemployed people..to receive their welfare – is documented to cause harm, with little evidence it actually does anything to..get people into work"
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d

Leo Puglisi from @6newsau.bsky.social gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry on the social media age ban - I asked him about the real impacts on young people. This isn't about protection, it's about control. You can't lock kids out of news and social connection and call it safety.

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 2d

When they change the law, they will lock you up. Or maybe send you to Nauru.

In the near future, all reality tv will be AI.

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