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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 23h

“Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way?” That truck is climate change.

Great to speak with @theguardian.com’s Maya Goodfellow about my new book, #RunLikeAGirl.

Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism

Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’

www.theguardian.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13h

Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide

apnews.com/article/clim...

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

apnews.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8h

Steel and aluminium manufacturers are feeling the effects of high gas prices driven up by exports.

Australia Institute research shows gas exports have TRIPLED Aus gas prices and DOUBLED electricity prices.

📺 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on ABC News Breakfast
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 7h

Facts are facts, and no amount of superlatives will change them!
The Courier 2 Oct 2025
#climatecrisis #LNPfail #auspol

Fossil quartet are more active
Facts are facts, and no amount of superlatives will change them!
The Courier 2 Oct 2025

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 23h

Political and media attacks on renewable energy and climate action in Australia in recent months have come “out of the climate obstruction playbook” that has been honed over decades around the world by fossil fuel interests.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint on the switch of the terrestrial carbon sink into a source

Its simple: ever more system show not a declining carbon uptake, but they switch into a source...

One more temperature jump to go....

#earth #climate

Decadal sink-source shifts of forest aboveground carbon since 1988

As enduring carbon sinks, forest ecosystems are vital to the terrestrial carbon cycle and help moderate global warming. However, the long-term dynamics of aboveground carbon (AGC) in forests and their...

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

The costs of extreme weather events such as floods, bushfires and storms have nearly tripled in Australia since the 1990s, insurers have warned, with poorer communities disproportionately burdened.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

At $4.5bn each year, extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say

‘The trajectory is only up, in terms of insured costs,’ professor of climate risk warns

www.theguardian.com

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 1d

Solar and Wind Overtake Coal for the First Time #Climate

Solar and Wind Overtake Coal for the First Time

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does.

The more extreme climate events and disasters that occur around the world – the higher Australian insurance premiums will be.

It's why we're calling for compensation levy on gas & coal exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research by the climate thinktank Ember.
#renewableenergy #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 4d

Fascists deny climate change because they cannot control it. They can’t bend the laws of physics to their ideology. And so they pretend it isn’t real. Our task - as citizens, as voters, as people of conscience - is to prove them wrong.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/why-are...

Why Fascists Reject Climate Science

At the United Nations last month, Donald Trump stood before global leaders and the world and declared again that climate change is a hoax. He did this while floods and fires are ravaging communities, ...

www.lyrebirddreaming.com

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 4d

“The destruction of Western Australia’s northern jarrah forests for bauxite mining will push a threatened black cockatoo “to and beyond the brink of extinction” if governments allowed it to continue, conservationists have warned”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’ Stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion

BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 5d

Some real nonsense here. If the parliament is expanded there's no strong reason to think either major will benefit or not benefit proportionally. Sure if people voted like in 2025, ALP would win more new seats than L-NP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWi...

The plan that could wipe the Coalition off the electoral map | 7NEWS

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 4d

One of the myths that politicians, and the media that covers them, like to propagate is the idea that politics is very complicated and difficult to understand, so it’s easier to just not pay attention. It's not!
#auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

It's really quite simple: We need hope, not more of the same

Politics is not complicated. And anyone who pretends it is, has the luxury of not having spent their lives beholden to it.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 5d

According to AILA, ICE is launching a nationwide operation today, Friday, 10/3, reportedly named “Freaky Friday,” that will target unaccompanied children aged 14 and older of all nationalities.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 5d

Karen Barlow: “The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings. So far the only response has been 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling senators to back off.”

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21740/...

News Corp and Advance called to misinformation inquiry

The Senate inquiry into climate misinformation invited both News Corp and Advance to its hearings. So far the only response has been 5000 emails from Advance supporters, telling senators to back off.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · Sep 3

An extraordinary situation has arisen in NSW, and inland rivers and internationally significant wetlands will miss out on vital watering this season.

Essentially the rivers are being persecuted as if they are stealing their own water.
#waterislife
#biodiversity

naturensw.good.do/letthewaterf...

Join me in supporting the Let the water flow Campaign

In an unprecedented crisis for the mighty inland rivers of NSW, the state and federal government are stopping water from naturally flowing down stream to wetlands and waterways that rely on it. The...

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 12d

4x4 #EV utes are coming to Oz.. Finally.
the KGM Musso EV will be coming to Oz.. will it take BYD shark sales? will it take diesel ute sales?
youtu.be/5Uls8FHrYUM?...

KGM EV Ute is coming!

YouTube video by SydneyEV

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 17d

so many commentors, bots and trolls have told me, this IS impossible.
An #EV Towing, recharging from #solar, in the Australian Outback. to non Australians, the outback, is Not The city.

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 5d

For the first time scientists say they have shown unambiguously that the numbers of “societally disastrous” wildfires – the ones that hit economies hard and take lives – have increased around the world as global heating bites.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade

www.theguardian.com

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Termites @termites.bsky.social · 5d

This is great news . Will get more businesses going bigger with solar .
150kw is the sweet spot with a 25k discount

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 6d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 5d

September 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the 11th lowest on record for the month...

This was 1,660,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. September ice extent is decreasing at about 11.86% per decade. Data: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

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