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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 7h

Nope ... nothing politicians do is surprising anymore. Not a single thing. Especially when self-interest is the driver. Ha! Self-interest is ALWAYS the driver.

I guess the Q is, what do "we" do about it, since they work for "us". Oh that's right, use the power of the electoral system.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

The mindlessness of such an act, nevermind the utter disrespect. What a tragic loss.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

Typos, apologies. 30 years prior to '82. 1982.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

A reference would be helpful esp. when it's a misleading graph. There have been far fewer mass shootings in the US - just over 150 since 1882 - than this 'cumulative graph' suggests. Hard to believe there were in excess of 5000 in the 20 yrs leading up to 1982.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Number of mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2025| Statista

As of August 11, there were four mass shootings in the United States in 2025.

www.statista.com

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

No worries. Why not just say that in your original post. You wouldn't get all these lame-ass comments from Statistical Analysis challenged morons like me ...

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get these statistics ... I mean I do, for the US, but where and when in 2025, given we've still got 11 weeks left, did Australia have 64 'Mass Shootings'? 64!

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

Corrupt, it would seem, if the stalling of the Murujuga report; the datum fudging, then the consequential sign-off of Woodside's activity on the Burrup, condeming Murujuga to permanent damage, is anything to go by.

Who voted him in? And why, are the Qs I'd be asking if I was in his electorate.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

Noooo ... drove it in Feb, again in June ... one of my favourite stretches of road with amazing stuff to see along it (the most gorgeous dingo, in June!) or if you stop, the Southern Rights @ Head of Bight ... and the sunrises/sunsets ... phWOAH!!

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣 ... but seriously, it's the million tanks & attack aircraft on those ships with those people that we should all be focused on ... and ... AND ☝️... where they will all land to invade ...

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 3d

Slavery abolished in the UK in 1834. This article circa 1948-1962.

"Corunna Downs stations manager Mr. Bligh admitted a 'mild form of slavery' and declared that pastoralists could not carry on without this slave labor."

'... light chains' & 'mild slavery' ... s'all good, nuthin' to see here.

FS

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 3d

It'd be interesting to know how many of those were Trump related ... I wish none of them were.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 4d

Oh ... I dunno ... anyone stupid enough to pick one of these up to cuddle it probs deserves to d .... no, no, no ... no touchy!! Stay alive ... just try hard to not stay stupid ... stupid.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 5d

No words. I could spit some sh*t out but ... jesus christ on a bike, I hope my belief in karma is justified. I just can't with this. I've run out of whatever reserves I had of "compassion, empathy & wisdom".

But what I NEVER want to be is NOT shocked & horrified by this appalling behaviour. Never.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 5d

This ...

The world has lost such a great human being ... let's ensure her legacy of curiousity and her ethics, emotional intelligence, integrity & kindness continue on ... and on ... and on ...

www.instagram.com/reel/DPRuV7X...

amandaoleander on Instagram: "Forever in our hearts ❤️The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE,…"

Forever in our hearts ❤️The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world. Repost @janegoodallinst#janegoodall

www.instagram.com

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, you're correct, me too.

I do not get the whole 'tall poppy' so 'pull her down off her perch' mentality, especially from women! And especially because she works so hard - her Wembley shows were 3.5 hrs long! Fans didn't pay more for a longer show, they paid the same as they'd pay for a 2hr gig.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 5d

Aren't we all ... and that there are others who aren't, is yet another symptom of how deeply we've fallen into the 'sh*t bucket' of short term, mindless titillation instead of the "Jane Goodall" approach of almost a century of holding fast to ethics that matter & acting on them.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 5d

... and that's it in a nutshell: "... because someone told her." How on earth have we lost so quickly the basic skill of simply being curious without judgement? Of finding out for ourselves. Of deciding whether we agree or disagree. Of having an opinion that's broadly based in a basic set of ethics?

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 5d

She's just a very decent human being.

Regardless of anyone's music preferences, it's small minded to single 'her' out because 'I don't like her music'. Look at what she does to make aspects of the world a better place for so many people.

What are the negative nellies 'doing' other than slandering?

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 6d

I agree. One generation. One generation was all it took to completely destroy those Wheatbelt areas where towns 'popped' up. The greed & stupidity driving those decisions is nothing short of criminal, to my mind. And now, they're all trying to turn "Wildflowers" into an industry they make
$$$$ from.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, this ...

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 6d

Fuck off

Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 6d

Harry Lush should be nominated for Australian of the Year ... or at least, every single one of us should pitch in and support this project in Tassie and/or all around the country ...

The Gondwana Project Inc.

Fire, heat, and drought threaten to destroy Tasmania's alpine relict forests. We need conservation through custodianship.

thegondwanaproject.org

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 6d

Such a brilliant idea ... a tragedy to have not done the same thing for the region referred to as WA's 'Wheatbelt' which pretty much was one of the most biodiverse regions ON THE PLANET prior to colonisation. Now people go apeshit over a selfie with canola. "So pretty". ONE fucking yellow 'flower'

Harry's trying to save Tasmania's 'alien' plants using people's backyards

The backyards of ordinary Tasmanians are becoming urban climate refuges for a "biobank" of alpine plants threatened by climate change and bushfire.

www.abc.net.au

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you @ronnisalt.bsky.social for calling out the bullshitting, gaslighting bastards.

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 7d

Disclaimer: I am NOT a Swiftie but it's one song out of 100s of hers. Take a look at the extraordinarily l o n g list of causes & the $$$$$ she has donated over the course of her l o n g career ... & it's the stuff fucking legends are made of, never mind for someone her age. Hit the mute.

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