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Now is the time to be disruptive - to be silent is to be complicit! ✊
Engage with me on issues in climate change, politics, technology and global affairs
Melbourne/Narrm, Australia
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David Pocock arguing in the #Senate against the cancelling of Centrelink benefits pending criminal prosecution. This is what an ethical equality warrior looks like. We need 20 more like him in the halls of power and hope we get them in the next election. He makes me proud to be Australian. #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Climate warming

𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 global "leader" left COP30 affirming their corporate agendas

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇

Fossil fuels, are the primary drivers of Earth’s changing climate, greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events and accelerated warming due to human influence

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
What science tells us about Earth’s changing climate
As leaders leave Brazil and the 2025 UN climate summit draws to a close, it's worth reflecting on what science says about Earth’s climate – what’s changing, why it’s happening, and where we’re heading...
johnmenadue.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Climate warming

The Sahel - a semi-arid region in Africa, a transition zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the humid savannas to the south

Battling desertification

COP30 didn't fight for them - their crisis continues.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How rolling sand dunes are creeping up on last remaining oases on edge of Sahara
In western Chad, villagers are desperately trying to hold back the sand as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on one of the hottest countries in the world
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Yep - and I just ran a marathon then ran up the stairs of Melbourne's highest tower without breaking a sweat!

The Right thugs have a tactic - break the law, give excuses and apologies if caught AND, expect everyone to move on

Bolsonaro, Trump, Farage, Johnson, Morrison etc

𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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“I don’t do politics”

Well, politics is doing us, regardless.

So pay attention.
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“What have we learnt from COP …”

That every global “leader” - INCLUDING ALBANESE - has elected to continue their corporate agenda of profit till death

Labor’s CLIMATE MACHINES continue to pump out increasing emissions till well past 2070s

ARE YOU READY YET TO VOTE FOR CLIMATE ACTION?
Blah blah /$&#%^{*?•\

He never does anything transformative

His rhetoric is a cheap & short wash rinse cycle
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Northern Australia is under threat right now of becoming uninhabitable for the people who live there.

bsky.app/profile/euan....
I love Northern Australia, and it breaks my heart what's happening and is planned for this region. More people need to know why this place is so special and what's at risk, so I wrote about it. My first article for @australiainstitute.org.au's The Point. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Northern Australia is extraordinary, and it’s under severe threat
Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North.
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Climate warming

EVACUATE NOW .. EVACUATE NOW

A city and a nation - facing the terminal decision

EVACUATION due to climate warming
Climate refugees expecting safe haven, on the move

futurism.com/science-ener...

futurism.com/the-byte/tuv...

Are YOU next?

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄?
President of Iran Says It's Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.
futurism.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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About 100 members of the Sudanese community and supporters rallied at Parliament House to call for an end to the genocide in Sudan. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/ne...
Stop genocide in Sudan!
Members of the Sudanese community and their supporters rallied at Parliament House to call for an end to the genocide in Sudan. Markela Panegyres reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Climate warming

“Evacuate Now, Evacuate Now”

We’re all going to hear that alarm and at some stage whether that’s your house, workplace, district, city or even society itself .. it will be a terminal, absolute end

We can address that now or kick the can further

ARE WE READY YET TO VOTE CLIMATE?
Just Saying

33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!

is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”

we are mining our way to extinction FFS

how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a

it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.

#Auspol
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Agree but when can we start doing programs to plan ways to develop a stronger more #representative system of #government with less immunity to #corruption and more #investment in #adapting to the future.
great show Dave - Jo - is it worth doing a SundayShot on major parties pros/cons, our performative system of govt, duopoly & 1/3 voters not voting for it? Are minority govts at least a start?
@davemilbo.bsky.social / @instanterudite.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"The Morrison government was brazen in its corruption. The Albanese government is more insidious. It uses the mask of virtue to hide a vicious agenda. It was elected to end the cruelty and has instead systematised it, ..."
@revandrewklein.bsky.social

#AusPol
#MostDisappointingPM
The Great Betrayal: How the Albanese Government Perfected the Art of Accountability Laundering
They were elected on a promise of integrity. They vowed to be kinder, more transparent, and to govern for all Australians. The Albanese government presented itself as the antidote to a decade of Coali...
theaimn.net
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Climate warming

Our building has an alarm system that shouts, “Evacuate Now!”

Imagine it that was real, final, literal and permanent

Global warming is starting to permanently alter rainfall and the availability of water

This city only has a few days of water left

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'The worst possible situation': This major city only has a few days of water left
Tehran's main water sources are in a dire situation, with two major dams reaching what officials are calling "dead capacity".
www.sbs.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
AI music you say?

In the early days of computing - I was a primary school teacher. I mentioned to one of my Grade 6 students who excelled at music, that one day computers would compose music!

He was highly offended and angry - I got a note from the parents!



www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Breaking Rust: Can you tell the difference between real and AI music?
An AI-generated music persona has topped the US Billboard charts for the first time, at the same time as a “first-of-its-kind" study from French streaming service Deezer reveals that 97 per cent of pe...
www.euronews.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
AI music you say?

How good is it? Well YOU be the judge!

Suno allows you to describe your own music

Checkout this webpage for a listening experience of AI generated music:

suno.com/explore
Suno Explore
Explore new styles of music with Suno v5
suno.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Colonialism in Africa might be over - but the West is still there to rape, pillage, exploit and control Africa

GENOCIDE in Sudan

Not to be helped at all by Amerika ONLY interested in exploitation

Where are other countries ensuring African nations have the tools to determine their own futures?
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚

There .. rewrote the headline to reflect the truth

If democracies now are rewarding the aggressors then we all stand for nothing - and can expect nothing from our "enemies" if that threat comes

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Climate warming

The "leaders" voters voted for are sticking to their corporate agendas - profit till death

Can you afford to do that?
We all stand to lose property, lives, habitat and enter into social decay and breakdown

FIGHT BACK

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
AI is a conundrum, a threat to some, opportunity to others

Especially in the workplace.

Particularly as school leavers decide what tertiary studies to pursue, trying to map out their future

The world needs problem solvers - that's the future!

time.com/7335048/stud...
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Cluster bombs to torture: The treaties Israel has not signed to continue slaughtering Arabs with impunity
open.substack.com/pub/palestin...
Cluster bombs to torture: The treaties Israel has not signed to continue slaughtering Arabs with impunity
It is worth reminding that for the Israelis signing or not signing on to these conventions is merely an academic exercise.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Donald Duck has a new plan for Ukraine in it's war with Russia!

-> DELAY / WITHDRAW ALL ASSISTANCE
-> UKRAINE TO SURRENDER
-> UKRAINE TO ADOPT THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Australian voters think AUKUS protects us and Amerika is a reliable ally, in recent polling

How stupid are we!!!
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Climate warming

Have you lived through a cyclone?

My family did in Darwin in 1974 when Cyclone Tracey hit - the impact on the community and the personal losses were life-changing, even years afterward

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍?

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/n...
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A great article with a message to voters

Investigation and data should guide good governance.

Instead, our duopoly promotes ideology over solutions, lowering expectations and weakening the Senate’s review role.

As long as voters accept this status-quo trap, the nation bears the consequences
This: how randomised controlled trials can "puncture caricature" and make policy decisions more in tune with reality than with ideological expectations. Recommend this. It's a good read.

themonthly.com.au/november-202...
The courage to learn
How randomised trials, typically employed in science and medicine, could help governments make better policy and rebuild public trust
themonthly.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Lies, gaslighting and shonky numbers underpin the Coalition's climate and energy 'policy'.

Thank you, Adam Morton @australia.theguardian.com for providing what too few in Australian media do: the facts. #ClimateCrisis #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost
As Liberals join Nationals in abandoning a 2050 emissions target, we unpick some of the opposition’s talking points
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM