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Marns🌿🍉

@marnshibski.bsky.social

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Kid wrangler. Anti fascist . Lover of flora and fauna, occasionally people. Hates dirty Frackers. Not team affiliated. #auspol

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · Jul 15

The dissonance between the mundane and the monstrous.

youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?...

Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis

YouTube video by Adam Curtis Documentaries

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 32m

Disappointing but still great.

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 1h

We're just one licensing deal away from the President of the USA selling M-16 assault rifles.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 34m

Yep. Fuck that.

Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 1h

Came across this clip and just HAD to share it. Please repost so it reaches millions of us on this platform and convinces them to step out and join. The October 18 protests should be bigger than anything America has ever seen.

Let's go‼️💪✊💙🇺🇸

PS: Thank you, Robert DeNiro‼️

Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 37m

Shall now use ‘gambling lobbyist Anthony Albanese…’ when referring to the PM.

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 57m

How it started:

Albanese - “we will ban gambling ads and take on the gambling industry”

How it’s going:

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 41m

😱

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 48m

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 58m

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 42m

Do it here.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 46m

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 44m

🙌 Happy birthday, have a great night.

Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 45m

You mean gambling lobbyist Albo’s presser.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 52m

It’s an effective strategy on a population who have shown will believe anything.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1h

Touché❗
Senator David Pocock has been kicked out of the parliamentary sports club "after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry"

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 1h

Coal seam gas and mining operations within a recharge area like Narrabri and Pilliga require the precautionary principle applied. All the money in the world doesn’t warrant ground water contamination. This has been the concern for many for a long time.

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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 3h

Yes it does 😞😡 #auspol

eX Citizen @snotrejected.bsky.social · 3h

They threw the sportsman out of their gambling club. It makes more sense like that.

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 4h

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 7h

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 6h

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

#WorldMentalHealthDay #RaiseTheRate #AbolishMOs

phonakins.com/2025/10/10/t... via @phonakins.com

The impact of a livable welfare safety net on this World Mental Health Day

I’ve written plenty before about how different aspects of Australia’s public health care and social welfare systems have helped or hindered my mental health. Getting DSP was a huge fact…

phonakins.com

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Erialc @erialc.bsky.social · 6h

Politicians who want to unwind and exercise don’t need sponsorship-it’s buying pollies. Get rid of gambling from sport. Protect children and ban gambling advertising.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/former-wallabies-david-pocock-banned-parliamentary-sports-club-gambling

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 6h

#RealHeroes Vs #Fascism, #USA.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 6h

a cartoon bird with green eyes is saying " happy birthday "

ALT: a cartoon bird with green eyes is saying " happy birthday "

media.tenor.com

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 6h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You can vote once a day - I’m switching to the black cockatoo about to go extinct due to an expansion of a bauxite mine

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 6h

Like his partner appointed to the
on -line gambling BETR board? 🤐

Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 7h

One of the sources of PFAS is hydraulic fluid, used in fracking.
#frackoff

www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/inqui...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Narrabri rations water amid PFAS contamination 'crisis'

Two of Narrabri's three water supplies have been switched off amid claims the state government is "taking too long" to find a solution to a chemical contamination issue.

www.abc.net.au

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7h

This was a MAGA before The BBB passed and then this is after he actually read the BBB and found out the real truth about what was in it and how Trump lied to everyone! 👇👇👇

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 7h

This has broken my brain 😞

benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 7h

Watching this now and wasn't expecting them to play it so straight, it really is an actual purely factual doco

The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile today at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.