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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 7h

300billion+ for subs that *best case* we get 1 in a decade but maybe never, can't staff, can't fuel, and wont work. #AUKUSisTreason

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 3d

"Is this funny or is this a nightmare?"

From the new 'We're Not Kidding', actor Arian Moayed from HBO's 'Succession' joins @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for a rapid-fire game of 'Succession Character or Real Billionaire?'

Watch the full episode:
zeteo.com/p/succession...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

NEW RESEARCH confirms:

Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right.

(I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 21h

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

www.worldscientific.com

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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 17h

thanks for sharing your knowledge.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 3d

Heads-up! Pullitzer Prize-winning journo Chris Hedges will be on ABC #RadioNational #LateNightLive with David Marr this Monday 20Oct25 at 10pm. 📻

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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 17h

listening to this now, have lost all respect for Marr. he's so obviously trying to tear down Hedges and airbrush the reputation of western media.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1d

"New scenes from the intense #Israeli raids on the eastern part of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip."

t.me/sndnewsa/440...

#BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #MiddleEastNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 20h

THIS IS HUGE. Completely ignored by ABC & MSM. And it explains why POS Marles is upset. Indonesia is buying 42 China 4.5th Gen J10C Jet Fighters worth US $9B over USA & France fighters. Pakistan J10C recently scored victory over India France Mirage Fighters

www.newsweek.com/largest-musl...

World's largest Muslim country agrees fighter jet deal with China

The sale will make Indonesia the third country to operate the fourth-generation J-10.

www.newsweek.com

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 1d

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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 19h

the front fell off.

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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear:

Instead of working with the Greens to strengthen enviro protections, Labor is teaming up w/Libs to ram through dirty laws in the final sitting weeks.

Another complete capitulation to coal and gas barons and another betrayal to our future.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition

Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

www.theguardian.com

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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 22h

Just like the knackered NACC, the LibLab fix is in and they're set to sell out all australians to the planet fuckers.

arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 22h

#LibLab knackered the NACC deliberately. Is it still corruption when the racketeers are always in government?

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

It is grimly amusing that Australia’s second largest Defence acquisition deal ($46bn!) was referred to the NACC - for good reason - but the Commissioner won’t look at it bc he’s still a ranking ADF officer.
Readers will be astonished that this referral two yrs ago has yielded nothing yet.

BAE frigate deal referred to anti-corruption commission

Referral comes in same week the controversial procurement will face a second parliamentary hearing

open.substack.com

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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 23h

ah sheeeit :( boo to the workaholics in your immune system, and to whatever exogenous factors are driving the increase in autoimmune disease globally. sending up several prayers to the gods for your recovery.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is, until you have personally experienced this kind of targeted operation it sounds like tinfoil hat or the ravings of someone who has lost their grip on reality.

And once it happens, almost no one will believe you if you so choose to confide. You end up alone, frozen

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

"The aim was to induce personal crises in victims, leaving them too unnerved and psychologically distressed to have the time and energy for anti-government activism"

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Rachel Williamson @racheljourno.bsky.social · 1d

Two coal power units in Victoria tripped on Thursday and nobody realised, because a gigawatt of wind and solar was available to step into the breach.

Six of the state's 10 coal units were out neatly replaced by batteries, renewables, and a bit of gas.
#energy #climate

reneweconomy.com.au

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arriviste houso @sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social · 1d

you don't even care about the tears of the dolt at the Hun!

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Sodastream, country barcode prefix '729', is a product of Israel, now advertised on Australian streaming services (and pretending to be Australian — 'refilled in...').

Would you have bought products/services from apartheid South Africa? We didn't. We resisted. We protested. Even Malcolm Fraser did.

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 1d

Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for showing how groups of people, often groups of men, collaborate to sustain their shared natural resources. They impose sanctions on ("cancel") those that violate the group's norms. And it works! But Ostrom was a woman, so...
www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2021...

Lobster Gangs and Debunking “The Tragedy of the Commons” - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism

Discover insightful articles on Lobster Gangs and Debunking “The Tragedy of the Commons”. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #Lobster Gangs and Debunking ...

www.yesmagazine.org

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 1d

By way of example, I used FOI to break this story where I confirmed that 10,000 zombie robodebts had been sent out by mistake. A senate estimates hearing confirmed that someone had built a dead-man's switch into the program and forgot to input the code.

The harder we make it the more we lose.

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Robo-debt restart affects thousands

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked correspondence shows an error caused the controversial robo-debt algorithm to ‘unpause’ in April this year.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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TK Ramsay @tkramsay.bsky.social · 2d

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

A lot of regular MAGA filth followed Trump administration accounts to Bluesky. Their only purpose is to troll, to trigger libs. Block them on sight, starve them of oxygen, let them scream into the void.

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