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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 1d

#Pastor in #Chicago who was shot multiple times with pepper balls by #ICE agents and #protestors were assaulted, pushed to the ground and shot with #pepperballs. He speaks out about the raids and people doing them.
#USApolitics #UKPOLI #AUSPOLI #CDNPOLI
#Chicago #IceRaids #NationalGuardDeployment

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting shift in UK politics. The Greens occupying the social justice space as Labour adopts Farage lite policies on immigration. Polanski is charismatic and a really good communicator.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 2d

Universities: we teach critical thinking, we are so passionate about challenging orthodoxies

Also universities: here is our entirely uncritical adoption of AI-bleat that turns platitudes (about both the nature of academic labour and 'the digital') into "policy"

What gives, mates

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 2d

Horrible reporting from the ABC describing China as “once a climate villain”. Actually no, on a per capita basis and since industrialisation they are middle of the pack. Whereas Australia 👇

#auspol

Graph showing global emissions on a per capita basis since 1750.

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 2d

Look at the size of those paws 🐾

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

I have not actually read the new climate obstruction book yet but my mate sent me this really excellent extract

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Corporate Ventriloquism

Corporate ventriloquism is a rhetorical process by which companies transmit messages through other entities, usually of their own creation, to construct and animate an alternative ethos, voice, or identity that advances their interests.

Some companies have used corporate ventriloquism to advance their agendas through support for community organizations.

Ventriloquism Companies may create front groups and information campaigns, but also leverage corporate social responsibility strategies that invest in community development. Such strategies have been used for decades as a means for industry actors to underscore their legitimacy and to shore up the perception that they are positive social contributors to the environments in which they operate.

Research has shown how extractive industries such as coal have invested heavily in local communities to sow solidarity and support for the industry.

Material investments such as parks, community centers, sponsored events (concerts, car shows, etc.), and museums are not only a means of winning support through material investment in communities (a form of philanthropy or bribery), but also of symbolically “branding” the community and of making it more difficult for the community to oppose industry goals.

Similarly, investor-owned utilities sponsor sports stadiums and museums—branding efforts that double as philanthropy—in their efforts to effectively blur the line between public and private interests.

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 3d

This is an inspired strategy !

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 3d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 6d

Zeteo demands Israel release the activists kidnapped from the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, including Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg.

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 7d

Andrew Hastie is just Tony Abbott in khakis.

#auspol

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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · 12d

Need-to-Know: The unsubsidized costs of clean energy have plunged 60% to 90%

Largely thanks to China

leahy.substack.com/p/how-china-...

How China is Powering a Clean Energy Revolution

And bringing cheap electricity and energy security to poor countries

leahy.substack.com

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 13d

Shutting down Biden’s renewable energy programs going about as well as you would expect. Not to mention building enormous energy hungry data centres to generate AI slop.

Meanwhile, China is becoming a renewable energy superpower.

Total own goal 🥅

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 15d

More people should be talking about this.

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Alan Berry @trueblueberry.bsky.social · 15d

A mild criticism

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 14d

“The stadium would cost every Tasmanian household not on Commonwealth benefits $5900; by comparison, Sydney’s Allianz Stadium cost $273 for every New South Wales household”

Yet another report concluding the Mac Pt stadium is a disaster for TAS.

#auspol

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21684/...

Tasmanian government punts official AFL stadium report

The Tasmanian government has dismissed yet another report advising against building a stadium on Hobart’s waterfront, this time by its own planning commission.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 15d

this absolute tour de force is the only article you and everyone you know needs to read today.

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The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us) - The Shot

American authoritarianism is an echo of tyrants’ past and its own unique perversion: shrouded in goldleaf, ski masks, and utter bullshit.

theshot.net.au

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Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 15d

Tony, you bloody dead set legend mate 🙏
#GoodNews

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Australian wins peace prize for farming idea feeding millions in Africa

A Victorian scientist whose farming technique has revolutionised agriculture in Niger has been awarded an international peace prize.

www.abc.net.au

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 15d

Can’t let the fruit rot on the ground 😉

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

the exact right question if you ask me

Lia Russell @liaoffleash.bsky.social · 15d

Scoop: a bunch of Hollywood A-listers are pressuring Gavin Newsom to sign legislation regulating AI.

"The question is — can we trust big tech companies to build AI for the public good? And the answer is — no, we can’t.”

www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Celebrities sign letter pressuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom to regulate AI

“There’s a consensus that after two years, California needs to do something,” said Sunny Gandhi, an AI oversight advocate.

www.sacbee.com

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Sista Cate Ruth ♿ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · 15d

King Abdullah of Jordan is absolutely scathing of Israel, over Gaza.
youtu.be/g2L7kqNsfQA

MUST WATCH: “How Long?” – King Abdullah Erupts At UN General Assembly Over Gaza!

YouTube video by The Africa News Network

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 15d

Bucket list stuff. What a road trip !

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · Aug 13

So a few weeks ago we packed up the trailer, loaded up the kids and set off on a three month road trip up Australia's East Coast.

Will share some sporadic updates and reflections here as we go.

A wing door trailer with bikes loaded on the draw bar ready to start the adventure.

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 15d

Wonderful thread. What a magical trip.

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 16d

Fabulous piece 🙏

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16d

FULL TEXT: Unofficial transcript of remarks delivered by China's president Xi Jinping to the UN climate action summit, including the outlines of China's 2035 climate pledge

docs.google.com/docu...

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 16d

Any way you cut it, China pollutes far less than the US, unless you take the absurd proposition that a country with quadruple the population should somehow emit less than a vastly smaller country.

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