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Dr Alan Nixon

@alangnixon.bsky.social

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Eora man on Darkinjung country; Father of 2 boys - #ClimateActionNow; University Teacher and Discipline Lead - Social Sciences. Attempting to start an #antifa garden under the palms and gums of Empire Bay, NSW (Yes, the irony - pic above). Opinions mine.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · Dec 18

Simply being vocal about #ClimateChange is enough. Supporting those taking action is even better. But obviously taking action yourself is the place of #RealHeroes. Please click the hashtag and search by user to see the many actions people are taking. Support them (re-posts and follows), join them.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 10m

#FascistFluffers, #auspol.

Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1h

WTF #ABC730 you get this offensive Israeli propagandist Minister on again to slander all Palestinians as Hamas terrorists and deny the human carnage they have wrought in revenge. Piss off.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 10m

#RealHeroes

The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 12h

I’m ANTIFA. And I am a foreigner to the US. So come get me you fat orange child rapist. I double dare you. And send miller too, I have something for him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 12h

I'll be standing right next to you. #WeAreANTIFA ✊

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 12m

#TheNerdReich - most of the issue is accountability, or lack thereof.

LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 51m

As the UK positions itself as a leader in #AI and frontier #tech, ideas rooted in how technology can integrate with the human body – #transhumanism – are starting to influence national policy, often without public debate.

More accountability is needed – Laurence Radford @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Transhumanism is quietly influencing UK tech policy | British Politics and Policy at LSE

As the UK aims to be a leader in AI and frontier tech, ideas rooted in transhumanism are starting to influence national policy, often without public debate.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 13m

#Losers of #Fascism, #UK.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 57m

I met someone recently who suggested the Tories would slowly revive after Reform implodes.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 6h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 44m

Where that comes from is up for grabs. I think it’s the consequence of an Enlightenment culture which is all about overcoming barriers (No Kings! No gods! Let’s fly through the air! Let’s go really fast! Let‘s split the atom! Let’s go to the Moon!) encountering restriction.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 47m

These movements globally are at root a refusal to hear the word “no”. There can be no external restrictions. No planetary chemistry may interfere with profit, no law may block executive power. Thus the platform.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 50m

… and c) … they’ve hollowed themselves out. Voices of reason and intellectual heft are absent. Attempts to connect policy with reality, knowable consequences and necessity are just not allowed.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 18m

#Tactics against #Fascism, #USA - #EgoPoke

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 19m

#Losers of #Fascism, #USA.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 20m

#Fascism in action, #UK - #Censorship #FreeSpeech?

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 44m

BREAKING: The National Union of Journalists describe the Conservative Party's banning of Byline Times journalists from covering their conference as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"

bylinetimes.com

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marilynjs.bsky.social @marilynjs.bsky.social · 25m

I have read his books about how jews in the arab states were used as pawns to fill the land they had driven Palestinians from, even mossad bomb attacks in his native Iraq and he is correct they have the legal right to resist by all means www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...

Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle

It's time for Israel to accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist - in every way possible.

www.aljazeera.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 28m

#RealHeroes

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Tom Dowling @tomdowling.bsky.social · 6h

Every city, every town - your participation matters. When enough of us take to the streets in protest, we will make a difference.

Take this chance to be part of a coordinated nationwide collective effort. Join us on Sunday at your local March for Palestine.

PLEASE REPOST & TELL YOUR FRIENDS 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 35m

If you can't pay for inputs or labour, you don't run a business, you are a thief and slave trader.

Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 5h

Kind of makes blindingly obvious the truth of all capitalism, doesn't it? It relies utterly on paying as littlle as possible, or not paying at all, for labour.

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 38m

#ClimateReality #Migration #Bangladesh

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 1h

"For millions of Dhaka's residents, the challenges are immediate and relentless. Climate-induced migration continues to swell the city's population as rising sea levels, cyclones, and salinity devastate coastal livelihoods."

cc @wanderinggaia.bsky.social

www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/d...

Dhaka struggles to house climate migrants and growing population

Despite hundreds of acres of government land lying unused, only a handful of the nearly 50 housing projects launched over the past two decades have been completed, hampered by bureaucratic delays and ...

www.tbsnews.net

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 10h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 41m

#Fascism, #USA.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 42m

#NeoLiberalism is the cancer that made everyone but an elite few worse off. #Fascism and #TheNerdReich are the extreme iterations of that individualist ideology now taking what we had left. #Fight Fascism and Neo Liberalism, or lose it all.

#TaxTheRich
#EndOligarchy
#RebuildPublicServices.

Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 1h

"Trade" was supposed to bring benefits to everyone. Instead, powerful wealthy people took all those benefits for themselves. The rest got layoffs, busted unions, wage cuts, etc.

Functioning democracies would not have allowed that.

Now AI is about to do the same -- tenfold.

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 46m

#Fascism, brought to you by #ClimateCriminals.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

It's a little too spot on when the NYT The Daily podcast episode about rising fascism in the streets of Chicago is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 48m

#Fascism in action, #USA.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 49m

#ClimateCriminals and #Fascism, #USA.

Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 18h

You get what you pay for.

share.google/quxB0NBCFQkD...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 50m

#TaxTheRich
#EndOligarchy
#RebuildPublicServices

Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The choice is always tax the rich and their corporations and do things to make regular people's lives better,

OR

Cut taxes the rich and make regular people's lives worse.

Countries where the rich (and their corporations) fund the political system choose to not tax the rich.

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