Damo LB
@damo1954.bsky.social
I eschew capitalism as much as I can. Treehugger. I'm also a Lawnbowler. I'm out of fashion,especially on this.Old fossil.NonCarPerson
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United States puppet Machado repeating the US line that Hezbollah are operating in Venezuela.
December 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
United States puppet Machado repeating the US line that Hezbollah are operating in Venezuela.
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This is just piracy right?
US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says.
Prelude to a full scale invasion.
When dictators become unpopular they divert attention by starting wars.
What will he seize next?
Prelude to a full scale invasion.
When dictators become unpopular they divert attention by starting wars.
What will he seize next?
US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says
Venezuela condemns the operation as an act of
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is just piracy right?
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We're definitely on track for a Mad Max future🫠
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We're definitely on track for a Mad Max future🫠
www.theguardian.com/business/202... Boycott McShit.Give the planet a chance.. #deforestation #methane #animalcruelty #slavewages #pollution etc.etc.
‘Ruined my Christmas spirit’: McDonald’s removes AI-generated ad after backlash
Commercial in Netherlands depicting festival-season chaos at ‘most terrible time of year’ prompted flurry of criticism online
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
www.theguardian.com/business/202... Boycott McShit.Give the planet a chance.. #deforestation #methane #animalcruelty #slavewages #pollution etc.etc.
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Meanwhile, the climate-heating gas industry keeps expanding... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Chevron's Gorgon stage 3 backfill development gets $3b go-ahead
The works will connect gas fields in the Greater Gorgon Area to existing infrastructure on Barrow Island.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Meanwhile, the climate-heating gas industry keeps expanding... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... Ban Gas Exports.Simple.
Victoria green-lights new gas exploration in Gippsland and the Otways
The Victorian government calls for tenders after it approved exploration licenses for two new gas projects in the Otway and Gippsland basins.
www.abc.net.au
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... Ban Gas Exports.Simple.
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As Indonesia prepares a new official history, an Australian historian is challenging the long-silenced truth of the 1965–66 mass killings, Duncan Graham writes. #Indonesia #History #HumanRights #ColdWar #AsiaPacific
Blood, silence and history: questioning Indonesia’s 1965 narrative
As Indonesia prepares to release a new official national history, an Australian historian’s account of the 1965–66 mass killings threatens to reopen a long-suppressed debate about power, violence, and memory.
johnmenadue.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
As Indonesia prepares a new official history, an Australian historian is challenging the long-silenced truth of the 1965–66 mass killings, Duncan Graham writes. #Indonesia #History #HumanRights #ColdWar #AsiaPacific
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What happens when a government erases the evidence? Under Trump, the EPA is removing proof of human-caused climate change from its own websites, writes Stephen Prager. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateScience #EPA #Transparency
Deleting climate science: the Trump EPA rewrites the causes of warming
The Trump administration has removed references to human-caused climate change and key scientific data from EPA websites, alarming climate scientists and health experts.
johnmenadue.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What happens when a government erases the evidence? Under Trump, the EPA is removing proof of human-caused climate change from its own websites, writes Stephen Prager. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateScience #EPA #Transparency
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
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Another example of our ‘shared values’ - piracy?
December 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Another example of our ‘shared values’ - piracy?
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We have to protect nature from billionaires.
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We have to protect nature from billionaires.
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Which is why there should be taxes on unrealised capital gains, because these greedy pricks are not using super for their retirement but to AVOID PAYING TAX
Reminder - they are not self-funded retirees, they are tax-break funded retirees.
Reminder - they are not self-funded retirees, they are tax-break funded retirees.
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Which is why there should be taxes on unrealised capital gains, because these greedy pricks are not using super for their retirement but to AVOID PAYING TAX
Reminder - they are not self-funded retirees, they are tax-break funded retirees.
Reminder - they are not self-funded retirees, they are tax-break funded retirees.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... More please.
Two remote outback stations in NSW to be converted into national parks
Two outback stations 800 kilometres west of Sydney are purchased by the state government in an effort to protect the environment.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... More please.
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Were I in a govt that really cared about kids, I’d be banning new coal and gas mines with rather more fervour than the current ban on social media.
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Were I in a govt that really cared about kids, I’d be banning new coal and gas mines with rather more fervour than the current ban on social media.
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
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Capitalism could not exist
without the encouragement of human greed
which inevitably become insatiable
#TaxTheRich
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
meme via @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
without the encouragement of human greed
which inevitably become insatiable
#TaxTheRich
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
meme via @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Capitalism could not exist
without the encouragement of human greed
which inevitably become insatiable
#TaxTheRich
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
meme via @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
without the encouragement of human greed
which inevitably become insatiable
#TaxTheRich
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
meme via @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
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I look forward to news.corp’s new found care for teenagers applying to all the trans kids.. *oh wait, I am being handed a note…*
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I look forward to news.corp’s new found care for teenagers applying to all the trans kids.. *oh wait, I am being handed a note…*
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Teens have been sharing how to get around this with each other literally for weeks
This is peak tech boomer idiocy.
Grandpa Albo 'shouting at his modem to try an make it work'
ZERO evidence it'll help
ZERO way to actually enforce it
ZERO people asking for it
...
Except the Murdochs
This is peak tech boomer idiocy.
Grandpa Albo 'shouting at his modem to try an make it work'
ZERO evidence it'll help
ZERO way to actually enforce it
ZERO people asking for it
...
Except the Murdochs
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Teens have been sharing how to get around this with each other literally for weeks
This is peak tech boomer idiocy.
Grandpa Albo 'shouting at his modem to try an make it work'
ZERO evidence it'll help
ZERO way to actually enforce it
ZERO people asking for it
...
Except the Murdochs
This is peak tech boomer idiocy.
Grandpa Albo 'shouting at his modem to try an make it work'
ZERO evidence it'll help
ZERO way to actually enforce it
ZERO people asking for it
...
Except the Murdochs
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An absolute hero for so many animal charities and sanctuaries in need 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️ this helps so many continue their work - so fuck govt inaction and hollow promises Ricky shows he means it 👏👏👏
Ricky Gervais donates £2.5million to animal charities
Ricky Gervais donates £2.5million to animal charities
Proceeds from premium tickets on his Mortality tour
dlvr.it
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
An absolute hero for so many animal charities and sanctuaries in need 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️ this helps so many continue their work - so fuck govt inaction and hollow promises Ricky shows he means it 👏👏👏
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Victoria’s Grand Prix keeps bleeding public money. Record losses, rising state debt and opaque reporting sit alongside cuts to public services, writes Noel Turnbull. #auspol #VicPol #GrandPrix #PublicSpending #StateDebt
Victoria government unfussed by Grand Prix debt
Victoria’s Grand Prix continues to post record losses, quietly adding to state debt while public services are cut and financial scrutiny is avoided.
johnmenadue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Victoria’s Grand Prix keeps bleeding public money. Record losses, rising state debt and opaque reporting sit alongside cuts to public services, writes Noel Turnbull. #auspol #VicPol #GrandPrix #PublicSpending #StateDebt
It was said to me once,if General Electric Corporation of America could've patented the sun's clean power 1975 we would laughing.If the world had' ve done this utopia.beckoned.Your capitalist ideology indoctrination stopped this from happening.
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It was said to me once,if General Electric Corporation of America could've patented the sun's clean power 1975 we would laughing.If the world had' ve done this utopia.beckoned.Your capitalist ideology indoctrination stopped this from happening.
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Even more US military assets coming to Australia. More US bases. More US weapons. Celebrating a dominant foreign government sending its military into our harbours and cities and taking multiple footholds here … it’s cringeworthy, tragic and wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Even more US military assets coming to Australia. More US bases. More US weapons. Celebrating a dominant foreign government sending its military into our harbours and cities and taking multiple footholds here … it’s cringeworthy, tragic and wrong.