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Margaret Rose
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Appreciate my life. Worry for the future of my family. Wish the people running the world would discover kindness and compassion.

whadjuk country. Western Australia.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines.

Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.

Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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mattnurse.com
If you're an Aussie who has worked in biosecurity comms roles, i'd love to hear from you.

#SciComm
sci-comm-anu.bsky.social The Centre for the Public Awareness of Science @ ANU @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social · 6h
Calling Australian biosecurity comms professionals! 🐝🌾🦠

What do you think about new ways to help people become more resilient to misinformation about science?

15 mins, anonymous survey 👇
anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please share! #Scicomm
@mattnurse.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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robdickinson.bsky.social
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
margaretrose.bsky.social
I’m surprised to learn there are still people around who don’t believe in recycling. They want to throw everything out.

Where actually is ‘out’?
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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grainsofsanity.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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tastromo.bsky.social
Meanwhile, the Australian Liberal party absolutely won’t shut up about “the cost of net zero”.

No way in hell it’s going to compete with the cost of inaction. What utter nonsense.

They really don’t think we can read the news lol

#climate #ukpol #auspol #LNP #PutTheLiberalsLast
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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grandpadavid.bsky.social
Quick, get one before the panels fall off!
Tesla Cybertruck with wood panels
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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brendanamartin.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
Travelers wear pajamas to airports in protest of government request
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked travelers to skip the pajamas and slippers. Many said: Nah, we’re good.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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jonesy101.bsky.social
The Liberal and business way. Blame the employees for the lack of leadership and investment in business that really does affect productivity.
The business I work in is a great example of this. Lack of maintenance, lack of turnover of stock and lack of investment in new technologies.
#auspol
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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theunionthug.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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tedlieu.bsky.social
As a former prosecutor, I know a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. The grand jury’s refusal today to indict Letitia James shows this case should never have been brought.

When we flip the House, we will investigate everyone involved for abuse of power.
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
BREAKING: Federal grand jury REFUSES TO INDICT New York Attorney General Letitia James again
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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wnhy.bsky.social
Come on Australia join the boycott #auspol #Eurovision
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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kackbro.bsky.social
Agree 💯 With Ben Stiller......
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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patti3333.bsky.social
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-c...
It always is the deep south where poverty is extreme and they vote republican which makes no sense
Mapped: U.S. Credit Card Delinquency Rates by State (2025)
The Deep South stands out with the nation’s highest delinquency rates.
www.visualcapitalist.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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rkfatheree.bsky.social
Sorry I’m ranting. How were Americans in imminent or immediate danger from those survivors of a remote operated drone attack? Feels like a Jack Nicholson moment.
a close up of a man 's face with the words you can 't handle the truth
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words you can 't handle the truth
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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gmf1369.bsky.social
#GVerse #RobertDeniro #IHaveADream
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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miafarrow.bsky.social
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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chrispomfret.bsky.social
140,000 homes are currently being left vacant in Australia. 32,000 homes in Melbourne alone!

Air BnB has 160,000 homes on its books.

There are thousands of developers land banking properties in our cities.

We could legislate the end of a housing crisis very quickly.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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chrispomfret.bsky.social
No easy fix but long term policies required. From density policy to tax.

If we truely want a better society we’d have a population that feels like its basic needs are safe.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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spacekat9.bsky.social
Reality is neither Labor or Liberals want housing as a right.
Protecting the value of assets is their priority.
They have shown that repeatedly.
Their disdain for renters/homeless/working poor is palatable
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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sago1950.bsky.social
If these data centre prices want to use OUR power they can either pay triple or generate their own RENEWABLE power. (excess into the grid FREE)
No COAL.
No GAS.
RENEWABLE.
Also set up and run their own renewable energy DESALINATION plants to provide water for their data centres.
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Protestors 'arrestable', police affable @risingtideaus.bsky.social coal protests. 156 arrested incl MWM journalist Wendy Bacon - backlog is 120 so too big for Zero Tolerance
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...
Rising Tide, rising backlog. Coal protests too big for Zero Tolerance, police & courts - Michael West
156 people arrested during the Rising Tide protests, which closed the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle. Wendy Bacon was one of them.
michaelwest.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social
This is especially disgusting considering the ENORMOUS PUBLIC RECORD of just what Trump and Epstein were up to in the summer of 1994. The NY media covered it all, in real time. And yet we still pretend this is some “mystery.” Read a book!
“Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior.
“Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior It's hard to read this in 2019 knowing that it took officials over two decades to lock up Epstein-and that he died in prison before his accusers could confront him in court. It's hard to read it like it's hard to see Harvey Weinstein and many other Hollywood abusers living large and walking free. It's hard to read it as someone roughly the same age as Epstein's victims, a 1990s teenager with my own tales to tell, knowing how my words would be devoured and disbelieved if I ever dared speak. It's hardest to read it now that my daughter is the same age as Jane Doe, and I can't tell her that nothing has changed since the 1990s, because things have changed: the alleged rapist of a thirteen-year-old is now the president. The exploitation of women in 1990s tabloid culture reached its apotheosis under Epstein, and no one covered it in real time. When they covered it after the fact, in the 2000s, it was with amusement and disdain for the victims. When they cover it now, in 2019, it is with the knowledge that the complicity of their profession is part of what enabled Epstein, a convicted pedophile sex trafficker, to cover his tracks. For those still wondering why holding Epstein accountable is inextricable from holding Donald Trump accountable, I ask again: What was Donald Trump doing in the summer of 1994? Excerpts of "Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, complaint in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York," give us one possibility: 7. Plaintiff [Jane Doe] was subject to acts of rape, sexual misconduct, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, forcible… “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior …touching, assault, battery, intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress, duress, false imprisonment, and threats of death and/or serious bodily injury by the Defendants that took place at several parties during the summer months of 1994. The parties were held by Defendant Epstein at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Epstein at 9 E. 71st St. in Manhattan. During this period, Plaintiff was a minor of age 13 and was legally incapable under New York law of consenting to sexual intercourse and the other sexual contacts detailed herein. NY Penal L § 130.05(3)(a). [...] 9. Plaintiff was enticed by promises of money and a modeling career to attend a series of parties, with other similarly situated minor females, held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. At least four of the parties were attended by Defendant Trump. Exhs. A and B. On information and belief, by this time in 1994, Defendant Trump had known Defendant Epstein for seven years (New York, 10/28/02, "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, Trump booms from a speakerphone. 'He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it-Jeffrey enjoys his social life?"), and knew that Plaintiff was then just 13 years old. Exhs. A and B. 10. Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact with Plaintiff at four different parties. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff's pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. Exhs. A and B. “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior 11. Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed. This court document was made available to reporters multiple times during Trump's 2016 campaign. Despite Trump's long-documented history of misogyny, sexual assault, and threats, the press generally avoided the Trump and Epstein allegations, and when they did cover them, they often designated them as irrelevant gossip. One exception was Lisa Bloom, a high-profile attorney who said she was alarmed by the lack of coverage. She wrote in The Huffington Post: In covering a story, a media outlet is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that a lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in context. Unproven allegations are just that-unproven, and should be identified that way. (Mr. Trump's lawyer says the charges are "categorically untrue, completely fabricated and politically motivated.") Proof comes later, at trial. But the November election will come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are permitted—-no, we are obligated—to analyze the case's viability now. Bloom saw the case as viable, particularly given Epstein's documented crimes and the fact that Jane Doe maintained she had a witness, named in the lawsuit as Tiffany Doe. In fall 2016, Bloom agreed to represent Jane Doe in court. A press conference was scheduled for November 2, 2016, in which Jane Doe was going to tell her story in the same way dozens of other women had told their stories following the release of the Access Hollywood video showing Trump bragging of his history of sexual assault. The "grab 'em by the pussy" video gave credence to claims that… “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior were once dismissed. But the press conference never happened. According to Bloom, Bloom and Trump's alleged victim were both threatened with violence and Bloom's computer was hacked. Jane Doe, Bloom reported, was terrified into silence, and dropped her lawsuit on November 4, four days before the election. The Epstein case, the allegations that Trump raped a thirteen-year-old, and the threats toward those who tried to expose them are a shocking story, the sort of high-profile horror that we should expect to dominate cable news shows and inspire books. But much like other aspects of Trump's life that cross from the scandalous to the criminal, the media cowered until it was too late. James Patterson, the bestselling novelist, wrote a quick Epstein biography that received almost no press when it was published in fall 2016. It took #MeToo to get Epstein back into the headlines, and then back into the courts—where both the sex trafficking and the deals with the US government to cover it up are being reexamined. But a large portion of his story remains omitted. Epstein did not run his operation alone. He had an assistant named Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a wealthy British publisher who died under mysterious circumstances after falling off a yacht in 1991. His family, and several biographers, claim he was murdered; the police at the time ruled it an accident. Maxwell was also alleged to be an operative for Mossad. His service to the Israeli government began in 1948, when he fought to aid Israel in the War of Independence with a unit from his native Czechoslovakia. His role as an alleged Mossad agent was not revealed until 1986, when a former employee of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, Ari Ben-Menashe, identified Maxwell as an agent.
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM