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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 6h

Yikes. I should read more carefully before running my mouth.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

I want to go back in time and box the ears of the GP who told my friend she was making up 'chronic fatigue syndrome' and just wanted attention. I wanted to do it then, too. I'll still want to do it in 10 years time.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2d

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 2d

If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 3d

like fucking clockwork.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 2d

I told my tiny son that I love him and he swallowed his milk, looked me dead in the eye and said, "thank you."

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 3d

Love a tawny! So sweet and sleepy

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 3d

Palestine Action Group has lost the legal challenge over this Sunday’s march. This does not mean the march is prohibited — it means that it will not have immunity for eg. obstructing traffic.

They should march to the Opera House anyway. Minns made it a symbol, so we should too.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

www.annualreviews.org

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 5d

Just how???

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 5d

The incongruence I am experiencing between *knowing* this this and still just going about my life is making me feel completely unhinged.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 5d

Whatever *this* is, system collapse, economic collapse, ecological collapse, social collapse, it is very clear we are in it. It's not starting. WE ARE IN IT.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 5d

ABC News had three separate stories on Palestine tonight. Not one single mention of the six Australians kidnapped and tortured by Israel.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 8d

Have you considered the theory of change though?

Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah the idea that some random guy in a cap can just arrest whomever is wild.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 8d

Not for the first time, Australian citizens have been illegally plucked from the sea and detained by Israel. Our government will do NOTHING. Remember, none of us matter to these ghouls.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 9d

New:
Labor’s climate policies are genuinely atrocious, yet Aus political commentators gave Albanese the big thumbs up for the quality of his announcement.
Time to inject a bit of reality into issue, instead of regurgitating Albanese’s talking points.

The media regurgitated Albo's PR, but there's no commendable 'middle path' on climate targets

The Albanese government sailed through its week of climate announcement, courtesy of media coverage that obsessed over the political fallout instead of the actual policy.

www.crikey.com.au

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 9d

Just got sent this and ... what to what now? Guys, I don't think we are winning the war on extinction. Oil,military and big fossil are in the front door.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 10d

With “Free Palestine” chants, protest erupts in Barcelona denouncing the Israeli attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10d

the trump administration is threatening a troop deployment in Portland, and the naked bikers are _on it_

www.instagram.com/p/DPRoaR8D3m...

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 10d

Counting down the days!

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 10d

Protests erupt in Naples, Italy after the Global Sumud Flotilla's interception.
Keeping their promise to act if crew were harmed, Italian Unions and protesters block the Naples train station

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 10d

It's utterly wild that this is totally legal

Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 10d

LNP corruption continues

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