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Shane Bryan @shanebryan.bsky.social · 13h

3 failed M&As with #Santos suggest deep environmental or infrastructure issues - and likely huge hidden financial risks. If only someone from Abu Dhabi National Oil or Harbour Energy would leak what they found in due diligence… #auspol

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

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 12h

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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pinconp.bsky.social @pinconp.bsky.social · 13h

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

No shitful move is too small to make for the Libs, is it? #auspol

Victorian Liberals will scrap Australian-first Treaty within 100 days if elected

The Victorian Liberals will scrap the state's proposed Treaty agreement with First Peoples' if elected. The opposition had previously withdrawn support for the proposed agreement, which is set to be d...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23h

Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.

No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.

But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.

Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 21h

In any case, here’s a “fun” document by his contemporaries of what a fucker Columbus was:

Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean

Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document u...

www.theguardian.com

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Michael West Media - investigative journalists - always indepen… @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy · 1d

Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side

It was Jim Chalmers’ superannuation reform but it is Anthony Albanese’s reform of the reform that we’re getting. Michael Pascoe reckons it sums up the Albanese Government’s risk-adverse incrementalism.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 17h

The results challenge claims that the climate risk posed by an individual projects is negligible or cannot be quantified.

👉 theconversation.com/for-the...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Hedges sets out truths about the 'peace plan' that so many western journalists avoid.

Truths that National Press Club members,
especially the ones who have accepted Israeli junkets and drunk the Zionist Kool-Aid,
preferred not to be confronted with? #GazaGenocide #NPC #auspol

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 1d

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has rolled out yet another baseless conspiracy theory in his relentless campaign to lie and spread misinformation to the public. His latest claim, that the FBI orchestrated the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and that Biden ordered it, collapses under even the most basic scrutiny.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Watch with sound (if you can)

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Karen Black @maisiemontnruby.bsky.social · 1d

Why oh why is the entire western political class beholden to these "people".
Can it all be explained away by the white colonial history of the West???
Geez, they're horrible horrible

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Eddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 1d

The mirage of peace: Will Israel fool the world yet again? There has to be hope but it’s hard to ignore the history and Netanyahu’s desire to destroy everything in sight. #GazaCeasefire open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

The mirage of peace: Will Israel fool the world yet again?

The world needs to act now, otherwise, it will just a brief silence in between the dropping of the bombs, before history repeats itself again.

open.substack.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 2d

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Floki Snow @flokisnow.bsky.social · 2d

Another great show, best yet I would go so far to say and Ronni exposing the reality of the NACC as a public education unit and not the promised "anti-corruption unit with teeth" really blew the mind!

#auspol

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 2d

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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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d

Study: Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Published: 27 February 2024

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

www.nature.com

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Karen Black @maisiemontnruby.bsky.social · 2d

JobSeeker: Shame, and now with added AI slop

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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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2d

A message from Nasser Mashni and Francesca Albanese.

"Get out, get loud and get proud for Palestine!"

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d

Study: Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner.

Published: 11 October 2025

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications

Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

www.nature.com

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Karen Black @maisiemontnruby.bsky.social · 2d

JobSeeker: Shame, and now with added AI slop

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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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 3d

#LestWeForget #GazaGenocide

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Karen Black @maisiemontnruby.bsky.social · 3d

One of my magpie "friends" sits beside me when I weed.
If I don't go fast enough for him/her to be able to catch worms he/she pecks my bum!!!
Cheeky bugger!

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 3d

Dr Assal Rad—

"Israel assassinated Hossam Shabat over 6 months ago. But his name barely made the headlines.

"He would’ve turned 24 years old today. 24."

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