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Rob

@crigs.bsky.social

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I am interested in Climate Change, SF (hard) environment, gardening, cooking, and beaches. In many ways an old school left social democrat but politically the climate emergency is my overarching political concern. Blocking no profile, no posts followers.

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 2d

You're not even literal. I wrote "they" when referring to the right in Australia.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think Australia is immune to fascism but I do think that this joining, unjoining, mutation, hybridisation that's going on with the rightwing parties is a road to nowhere.
They need an Australian Trump. Someone who is a clean skin when it comes to politics.
#Auspol

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 2d

If there is one media outlet that tells the truth about climate change it is the Guardian. I doubt there is a 24 hour period that the Guardian does not mention climate change and who is responsible for it.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 7d

No Governor Generals! Australians will know what I mean.
Seriously, while I am a republican (in the constitutional sense) I would not want a President as the head of state. No one person should embody the state.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 9d

Then there is the indigenous history of how Narrm Narrm (Port Phillip Bay) was formed with a sudden flooding event caused by an earthquake.
We have barely scratched the surface when it comes to the long indigenous history of Australia.

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 9d

Tony Abbott; yesterday's man campaigning for yesterday's men so we can go back to yesterday.
#Auspol

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 9d

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 9d

The end is in sight for coal.
#Auspol
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

www.theguardian.com

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 15d

I love our BYD Dolphin. A zippy enjoyable car to drive.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 20d

Not until it looks like Beirut 1978. Armed political conflict in the US will be a squalid bloodbath.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 20d

Israel has to be treated like the pariah that it is. The only way that South Africa was freed from apartheid was to have severely curtailed relations with the rest of the world.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 20d

America is unravelling. The rest of the world can't help them and they can't seem to help themselves.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 21d

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

This is on par with Trump's pick of RFK junior as the Secretary of Health.
Blair's tendency to "exaggerate" when dealing with the Arab world was called out by a 2016 UK government report on the Iraq war.
This is a disaster waiting to happen

Tony Blair: Ruler of Gaza? Why the former British leader is suddenly in the frame

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has praised former UK prime minister Tony Blair for his "constructive" involvement in the Middle East.

www.sbs.com.au

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 21d

www.nbcnews.com/storyline/la...

Since 1968, guns have killed more Americans than all U.S. wars combined

By comparison, roughly 1.2 million service members have been killed in every war in U.S. history.

www.nbcnews.com

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 21d

Dunno. But it could be the subconscious reason I can't stop doom scrolling.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 23d

The White House interiors look like Saddam Hussein's office circa 1989.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 26d

Strong man Trump:
Let's Israel lead him around by his nose.
Has a summit with Putin and Russia tests NATO defences within a few weeks
Has a public shitfit about escalator malfunction.
Gets mean comedians taken off the air.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 26d

I remember the day the LNP essentially said the car industry in Australia can piss off. The Abbott government did a lot of dumb things but even then you could see that this decision was one we would regret for years to come.

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@charlespattonbooks.com @generalpatton22.bsky.social · 26d

Trump

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 27d

One for the Presbyterians.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 27d

Republicans are exploiting kinks in the Constitution like the states being in charge of running elections. A lot of what is happening in the US is baked into the system. Americans seem to sacralize their constitution to an unhealthy extent. I doubt they can change it before it is too late.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 28d

The headlines should be, but won't be:
"Trump embarrasses himself and the US in incoherent, rambling, shameful speech at the UN"

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · 29d

"The response to the latest attempt to impose a terrorist state in the heart of our land will be given after my return from the United States. Wait for it." -Netanyahu

What a two bit gangster is Netanyahu. What's he going to do to Australia? Bomb us?
#Auspol

'Wait for it': Netanyahu warns Australia, other nations for recognising Palestinian state

Australia's recognition does not require ratification in the parliament or any United Nations vote to come into effect — it is now official government policy.

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Rob @crigs.bsky.social · Sep 16

"There are no evident examples of a UN member country ceding recognised, independent territory to another UN member following a war or invasion"...."since the end of World War Two"
theconversation.com/since-wwii-i...

Since WWII, it’s been taboo to force nations to cede land after war. Russia wants to normalise conquest again

Territorial concessions used to be common after wars. The formation of the UN after WWII was meant to put an end to this.

theconversation.com

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · Sep 16

The consensus that this guy will wander off and form his own party of one in the Senate within a very short time is justified by past experience. Thank God the far right in this country is so fractured and ineffectual.

Rob @crigs.bsky.social · Sep 16

Opposing the Italian state's war aims in the 1930s would not make one an anti-Italian racist just as opposing Israel actions in Gaza today does not make one antisemitic.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jews and Israel are not the same. That lie is enabling atrocities | Norman Solomon

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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