Meadow Argus
@meadowargus.bsky.social
Anarchist, atheist, artist, antifascist.
Combative in person, conciliatory online.
Combative in person, conciliatory online.
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Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere
Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat
Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere
www.newscientist.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Australian waters in one of the biggest algal blooms ever seen, could harm marine life elsewhere
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Homes without power and buildings damaged across Top End after Tropical Cyclone Fina brings gales and torrential rain
Homes without power and buildings damaged across Top End after Tropical Cyclone Fina brings gales and torrential rain
Category 3 system the strongest cyclone to approach Darwin since Tracy in 1974, but no serious injuries reported by Sunday morning
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Top End residents are preparing to launch into cleanup mode after a night of damaging winds and heavy rain from Tropical Cyclone Fina.
With top gusts of 195km/h and sustained winds of 140km/h near the centre of the system, Fina tore down trees, damaged houses and cut power in many places across Darwin and surrounding areas. It also brought torrential rain, with 168.6mm falling at Darwin airport in the 24 hours to 9am Sunday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Homes without power and buildings damaged across Top End after Tropical Cyclone Fina brings gales and torrential rain
Drew 4 more weird little guys who did that photo op at the NSW parliament that time.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Drew 4 more weird little guys who did that photo op at the NSW parliament that time.
Still drawing NSW weird little guys; two of them named now.
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Still drawing NSW weird little guys; two of them named now.
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Jack Eltis is a 28-year-old part-time air-conditioning mechanic.
He's also the leader of the NSW branch of the National Socialist Network.
This is his story.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
He's also the leader of the NSW branch of the National Socialist Network.
This is his story.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
The neo-Nazi behind anti-Jewish rally in Sydney has bank accounts frozen
While federal and state governments, police and national security agencies grapple with how to respond to the National Socialist Network, several financial institutions and service providers have acte...
www.abc.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Jack Eltis is a 28-year-old part-time air-conditioning mechanic.
He's also the leader of the NSW branch of the National Socialist Network.
This is his story.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
He's also the leader of the NSW branch of the National Socialist Network.
This is his story.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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📢 A new report has painted a grim picture of Australia's employment system, calling on the federal government to urgently intervene.
'The worst we've seen': The type of job that's getting harder to find in Australia
www.sbs.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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National Socialist Network rallied with police permission at NSW Parliament. The state remains ineffective in responding to the advancement of neo-Nazi groups. Here are their faces sent to us by community members - help us ID them!
write.as/thewhiterose...
write.as/thewhiterose...
Do you know these nazis?
Today, Saturday November 8 2025, NSW National Socialist Network (NSN) members held an antisemitic rally outside NSW Parliament House un...
write.as
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
National Socialist Network rallied with police permission at NSW Parliament. The state remains ineffective in responding to the advancement of neo-Nazi groups. Here are their faces sent to us by community members - help us ID them!
write.as/thewhiterose...
write.as/thewhiterose...
Sketching some more NSW natzis this morning.
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sketching some more NSW natzis this morning.
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police love using their weapons against members of the public who are exercising democratic rights.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
police love using their weapons against members of the public who are exercising democratic rights.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
Some more numpties photographed outside NSW parliament by @whiterosesociety.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Some more numpties photographed outside NSW parliament by @whiterosesociety.bsky.social
This Epstein stuff puts me in a mood. I am going to give myself permission to log off for a while.
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This Epstein stuff puts me in a mood. I am going to give myself permission to log off for a while.
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If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
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BIG UPDATE! Alex Volvach, a National Socialist Network member who attended the rally at NSW Parliament, has a police-issued license allowing him to install and maintain security devices and has held contracts with the NSW Education Department. Click the link below for the updated story.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
BIG UPDATE! Alex Volvach, a National Socialist Network member who attended the rally at NSW Parliament, has a police-issued license allowing him to install and maintain security devices and has held contracts with the NSW Education Department. Click the link below for the updated story.
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oh noes!
Feat. Mr Matthew "Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?" Gruter & Mr Dean Alessi-Was-A-Race-Car-Driver.
That still leaves dozens of others ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Feat. Mr Matthew "Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?" Gruter & Mr Dean Alessi-Was-A-Race-Car-Driver.
That still leaves dozens of others ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Unmasking the men who attended a Neo-Nazi protest at NSW parliament
Around 60 men attended a protest at NSW parliament organised by the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network on Saturday. Without masks, it gave the ABC the opportunity to identify some of them.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
oh noes!
Feat. Mr Matthew "Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?" Gruter & Mr Dean Alessi-Was-A-Race-Car-Driver.
That still leaves dozens of others ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Feat. Mr Matthew "Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?" Gruter & Mr Dean Alessi-Was-A-Race-Car-Driver.
That still leaves dozens of others ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Sydney Trains employee Cooper Stephens has been stood down after attending the National Socialist Network's rally at NSW Parliament last weekend www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Sydney Trains employee stood down after attending neo-Nazi rally
In a statement, a spokesman for Sydney Trains said it had stood down an employee while it investigated his potential involvement in the rally and was “very concerned with the matter”.
www.smh.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Sydney Trains employee Cooper Stephens has been stood down after attending the National Socialist Network's rally at NSW Parliament last weekend www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Drawing some nice lads photographed outside NSW parl by @whiterosesociety.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Drawing some nice lads photographed outside NSW parl by @whiterosesociety.bsky.social
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#OtD 11 Nov 1887 4 of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. Learn more in this history of May Day, which commemorates them: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
#OtD 11 Nov 1887 4 of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. Learn more in this history of May Day, which commemorates them: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
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2/ By which I mean, inter alia:
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told [NOV 7, 2025]:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told [NOV 7, 2025]:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
2/ By which I mean, inter alia:
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told [NOV 7, 2025]:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told [NOV 7, 2025]:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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#OtD 10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8237...
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#OtD 10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8237...
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Often police visited in the middle of the night, or in the early hours of the morning when the children were asleep.
“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
150 police visits in 20 months: Indigenous mother takes action after her boys subjected to ‘relentless’ checks
Exclusive: A family has launched a court case against NSW police alleging racial discrimination is behind excessive bail checks
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Often police visited in the middle of the night, or in the early hours of the morning when the children were asleep.
“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“They would knock on the door, bang on the windows with their torches, shine torches through the windows. It was relentless,”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Pro-tip:
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers
Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising ‘entirely inconsistent police responses’ and ‘unfathomable approval’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Pro-tip:
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
