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Jameow
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Game designer, environmental science background, kpop and Doctor Who enthusiast. Lover of MMOs, ancient history and cats
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turnleft8.bsky.social
because bluesky is not well served by news or govt agencies - here is a map of just some of the 150 plus bushfires and other incidents in NSW right now

last update: 550pm
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
yes, there's quite a few points of regression in the EPBC but for me the signs confirming their Big Business fealty were:
👎 'national interest' exemptions & ministerial discretion power grabs
👎 #PayToDestroy biodiversity offsets
👎 bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states/territories
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Oct 17
Feel & sound like a broken record—4th story about EPBC law reforms that says NOTHING about how changes will STRENGTHEN environmental protection & conservation

Instead
Climate Trigger-OUT
Fully independent EPA decision maker-OUT
Bilateral Agreements delegating Federal powers to States-IN

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November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
Here, again, is the human cost of the government's unlawful system of payment suspensions

Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
Emma knows about imperfect systems. When she called the Centrelink compliance line to contest her first suspension—the one that arrived while she was in hospital—she was on hold for forty-three minutes. She counted. The hold music was a tinny loop of Vivaldi’s “Spring,” chopped and distorted through cheap speakers. By the time someone answered, she’d missed her next appointment with her psychologist. Which, naturally, triggered another suspension notice the following week. “You can’t win,” she says. “The system is designed so you can’t win.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
Earlier, @davidpocock.bsky.social calls out Plibersek for saying critics of the amendment (to cut ppl's welfare before they're guilty) "are on the side of rapists & murderers"

"What a way to make laws: to rush something through, point the finger at those who dare question these provisions"
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The stock market's gains are being overwhelmingly driven by seven Big Tech companies who have invested heavily in AI, which has made tech oligarchs even wealthier.

But when that AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.

Be warned.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
The Government is trying to push through changes that will weaken our environment laws.

This is the same Government that changed environment laws to protect the toxic salmon industry, and continues to approve fossil fuels for decades to come.
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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phonakins.com
"We heard stories from the mob at Wilcannia the other day … asking questions around rashes for people who've been swimming during the summer,"

First Nations people say the Darling Baaka River is sick. A report confirms it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
The river is life for these remote communities, but no-one will swim in it
For months, people in remote Indigenous communities have been reporting skin rashes after going in the water, and a report confirms something is wrong with the river.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
The Albanese Government is about to rush through a bill which, Australia Institute research shows, would fast-track 94 new fossil fuel projects.

This will undermine environmental protections and lock in emissions for decades.
#auspol
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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mikescopp.bsky.social
This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?

Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
I’m a former submariner who’s been to sea on conventional, AIP and nuclear powered submarines. I’m a former senator who knows how Canberra works. Tomorrow night I will participate in an webinar about #AUKUS. It’s not a podcast, but a conversation you can join in on. #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
jameow.bsky.social
It's funny - when the corporate world is monetising things that should be free, offloading all the costs onto the public to increase their profits + increase inflation, paying as little as possible , where do they think people are gonna get the money they want to extract from them?
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d
'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to
CNBC THE BOTTOM LINE Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy PUBLISHED SUN, NOV 23 2025-10:05 AM EST | UPDATED SUN, NOV 23 2025-8:57 PM EST Kevin Williams SHARE f X in
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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lakitukl.bsky.social
#auspol #ausecon
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
Senator Thorpe criticises the government for ignoring these 100+ experts and groups to sneak the amendment through "without any scrutiny"

"I'd be putting my head down in shame too, Minister"
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
The shit this guy gets away with is stunning. Transplant the exact same words into Scott Morrison's mouth and we get 300 debunks and fact checks in response
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Albanese basically just blurting out ExxonMobil / Woodside Energy talking points - but because it's Albanese, it doesn't get debunked in the article text.

youtu.be/iclIVwl8KIA?...
2 wondering how that kind of fits with the 8:54 government's future gas strategy which 8:55 states that natural gas will be needed 8:57 to 2050 and beyond a fossil fuel. 9:00 Well, it is needed. It's a part of the 9:02 transition uh which is occurring. What 9:05 you need uh to back up renewables is 9:08 firming capacity. That's what's enabling 9:10 the investment to occur and uh all of uh 9:14 the energy experts. So the cheapest form 9:18 of transition is renewables backed by 9:20 gas, backed by hydro, backed by 9:23 batteries. That's Australia's position. 9:25 But this statement, we're told, is the 9:27 strongest language on phasing out fossil 9:29 fuels that Australia has ever supported. 9:31 So if we're talking about signing up to 9:32 international declarations, on phasing 9:34 out fossil fuels, but acknowledging that 9:35 we're still going to be needing natural 22 that now that you've signed up to this 10:23 declaration that there'd be movement on 10:25 tapering off coal exports or gas exports 10:28 or or gas in general? You're saying 10:30 that's not the case? 10:31 No. Okay.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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aramsinn.bsky.social
This awesome little doggie is older than The Odyssey and it looks like it just rolled out of a Chinese factory & onto the shelves of 5 Below
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a three quarter profile of an ancient Egyptian figurine of a leaping dog facing left. Carved from ivory, now a warm caramel brown colour with glossy surface. The dogs eyes are outlined in black, the ears are floppy, the mouth is slightly ajar (the inside of the mouth is painted red - not sen in my photo). The front and back legs are outstretched as if running at full speed. A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth so that the dog looks as if it’s barking. Dimensions: L 18.2 cm × H 6.1 cm × W 3.6 cm. Dated to Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC, reign of Amenhotep III who was Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The dog is mounted on a thin metal rod in a display case. In the background in the same display case is a ‘galloping’ brown horse, which is the handle of an ancient Egyptian fly whisk or light whip.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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politikarma.bsky.social
Trusting @albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social to deliver a genuine, effective environmental protection bill is like trusting the fossil fuel lobby to draft it.
🤔…Oh, but they did, didn’t they?
And like the toothless NACC, a sweetheart deal with LNP will see it passed into law
#auspol
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
HEY FRIENDS

For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal

You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it:

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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nozomimats.bsky.social
It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
A woman with pale skin, white hair in two braids, and delicate gold tattoo on her face floats in the night sky with a full moon and starry sky behind her. She is wearing a thigh length purple dress with long sweeping sleeves. There are glowing blue lines etched on the fabric of the dress, and two ribbons of light with geometric patterns are trailing behind her. A ring of magic with glowing orbs is circling around her as she floats. Commission work done for YeetMaur A dark skinned man with dark brown hair and a beard framing his jaw, dressed in a white robe and dark brown pants crouches with one hand on the ground as he swings at demons with his katana. The enemy demons are dressed in red rusting armor that looks worn and damaged. The scene is set in a bamboo forest with a path cutting through it, red banners on either side of the road. It appears to be in the afternoon, with a rich orange glow streaming in between the bamboo. A man sits in his study, contemplating a dark, box shaped artifact, while a dark spirit looms behind him. This was a commission work done for JacenLandry
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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us.theconversation.com
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Paying a ransomware demand makes businesses more likely to be targeted again despite the criminals’ assurances to the contrary, according to new Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) research that found Australian SMEs receiving multiple ransomware demands www.aic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
www.aic.gov.au
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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olthwaiteeric.bsky.social
Sadly, this does not surprise me. #auspol
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM