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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 51m

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 17h

I've attended many motor vehicle accidents. Last NOV we got paged to a car which had hit a tree at high speed. Completely on fire, incl the battery pack & internal combustion engine.
There is a lot of anti renewables hype out there. Most of it is fear mongering crap. We know how to deal with this.

Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 19h

People who oppose renewables love to talk up the perceived fire risks of wind turbines, batteries & electric/ hybrid vehicles.

The fact is that the risk of fire is actually very low & can be managed by responders.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 18h

if a minister in their 30s did this they’d be smeared for weeks

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 22h

David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC.
Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 20h

It’s symbolically significant but not *actually* significant

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 20h

Senator Malcolm Roberts in being an absolute piece of shit shock

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1d

I think seeing this sign in a warehouse could bring Karl Marx back from the dead www.reddit.com/r/Uninfluenc...

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 1d

The beauty of a tawny frogmouth’s nest is that, like the bird itself, it’s beautifully camouflaged. It just looks like a bunch of stick that have fallen down and gathered in the fork of a tree! From the ground you’d never know there were eggs in there!

Now pigeon nests, on the other hand…

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 1d

OMG!

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 1d

What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits?

A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state.

But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

making my annual pilgrimage to one of the most objectionable road signs in the country, which is also responsible for the one and only time I "went viral" on the other site

A sign that reads "pedestrians please consider motorists and cross in groups". at a zebra crossing. which gives pedestrians right of way. at the exit from a train station on a local street

a post I made on twitter on 21 July 2023, which is a photo of the same exact sign that I've captioned "flew all the way to Sydney just to see the single most offensive road sign I've ever seen as a transport planner"

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 2d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 2d

It's difficult to check (registration is by product, not constituent), but last I looked there were well over 100 herbicide chemicals registered for use in Australia.

So why are we running a free advert for the latest one?

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

We've been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world's most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam. But after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D, Roundup's owner says it has an alternative.

German chemical giant to release Roundup alternative in Australia

We've been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world's most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam. But after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D, Roundup's owner says it has an alternative.

www.abc.net.au

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Many more are buried in rubble or vaporised by bombs

a Lancet study in June (when officially recorded deaths were 37,877) estimated a real toll of 64,260. UN data shows 40% were children & 22% women

This was before lsraeI started the mass starvation & aid traps. Now, lsraeI kills 100 Gazans a day

Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d

The official death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 67,000

Equivalent to the population of Napier

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a reason he’s not called Daniel Defriend

Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 2d

A fine and noble bird

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 2d

Things are looking grim for the migratory eastern curlew in the opening round of the #birdoftheyear, but there’s never been a more appropriate time to vote for a bird which challenges our nationalistic obsessions with what‘s from “here” and what’s from “there”: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a hell of a bird!

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn’t believe my ears when I first heard the call of the majestic white-bellied sea-eagle IRL and someone should definitely put it in a movie:

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

PARTNERS WITH FLYTREX, AN ISRAELI DRONE COPMANY, ALL WHILE ISRAEL USES DRONES TO KILL CHILDREN

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 3d

Not a fan of either the Storm or the Broncos but I think that’s nice for Ben Hunt and I’m happy for him

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3d

#auspol #ausunions

Australia, March 31, 2023:

'Duck hunting inquiry launches mass sparkie walk-off from Vic’s largest construction project.'

Italy, October 4, 2025:

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 3d

Canberra might not be in the grand final but at least one of their set plays made it in 🥲

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 3d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 3d

Many have said that Whittlesea was the Bali of the early 1900s

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 4d

Probably that just when we thought we’d seen all the babies, another one appeared (there were four)

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