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Vern Veitch 1952 AU

@vernv.bsky.social

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🇦🇺 Retired ecologist. Dad to 2 adult daughters & 2 adult puppies. Humanity, anti genocide & ecocide. Polite conversation including criticism welcome. Abuse, porn, religious radicals & bots 🚫. DM's will be muted or 🚫

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Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · Nov 24

Just a quick reminder to all who have either followed me or intend to and that I haven't followed back. If you don't have either a profile or at least a few posts to provide some indication of your interests, I'll just put a follow back on hold until I see something.

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Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 4h

I'm grid independent and don't draw any power but required by law to stay connected, apparently.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 4h

Do other countries include Queensland?

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 4h

Just one of Putin's foot soldiers. When he is no longer of any use, there's a 10th floor window waiting for him.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning from 20 years & 1 hour behind, especially on energy & climate change action Dave. So glad to be grid independent.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 15h

Perhaps he is Benjamin Button reincarnated but with a nasty streak.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 15h

14 months?

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 21h

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk, has declared the Christmas Island shrew is extinct. This little animal is extremely common all over the island, and at night its shrill shriek, like the cry of a bat, can be heard on all sides. Continue reading...

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Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 15h

K'gari is probably the only place in Australia where dingoes are genuinely protected. It's not as if visitors are not warned.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 17h

Trump had the power to stop supplying weapons, equipment and ammunition to Israel 8 months ago and all of a sudden he is apparently a pedo, oops I mean hero. Lets see how long it takes for Israel to cancel the deal and then what happens next.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 17h

I was surprised today that media were highlighting the risk of a wind farm to Orange Bellied Parrots but their were crickets about the risk the Queensland Government's new energy policy imposes on the Great Barrier Reef and numerous other already threatened habitats.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

Is this just another ambush?

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

Labor's environmental policy is closer to LNP's than it is to The Greens'. That tells us the answer.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

Get Queensland to build one of its coal fired power stations down there & that should solve the wind farm problem.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

Is Humpty Dumpty wriggling closer to the edge of that wall?

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

Coal power's founding fathers in Great Britain gave up on coal a few years ago but the LNP want to continue to destroy the Great Barrier Reef and fire endangered forrests & the jobs they support to appease their mining mates.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

It seems that the reason this has been raised is because the administration wants to start a war either internal or external to use an excuse to cancel future elections.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 1d

Sucking up to an environmentally toxic LNP government that today plunged a stake through the heart of coral reefs, tropical rainforests and a future livable human environment all to pander to big multinational businesses that pay next to no tax.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 2d

Including ABC.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 2d

I'm 73 & I'm not outlier.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning Dave. A 2 duck day.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning Ben. Your native alarm clock.

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Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with Dr Denniss.

Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see you are back and had a safe adventure. More should see and learn about their own country.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2d

We should never forget, that in the face of these daily atrocities and so much more, our government did nothing to sanctions Israel and its genocide of Palestinians.

Nothing.

Contemptible.

They shamed us all through their inaction.

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Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning Dave.