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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1h

Today’s book pile brought to you by Healey, Jacobs, Winograd & Flores, Nussbaum, Menzies, and MacFarlane. I am loving this research life.

Book spines for Collaborative planning by Healey, Jane Jacobs famous book on the death and life of American cities, a blue spine of Winograd and Flores Understanding Computers and Cognition’. A brown and upside down volume of Martha Nussbaum’a tome on the social contract, then a small edition of Pam Menzies’ social history of Port Kembla and the glossary of landscapes from Robert MacFarlane.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I dunno, maybe if I was creating a government document I might hide the fact I’d used ChatGPT to find the information.

Screenshot of a page from the Explanation of Intended Effect document from the Port Kembla Land Transformation project. There is a paragraph of text relating to “Local Contributions” and then a URL at the end where they’ve not taken off the UTM source, in this case ChatGPT.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 10h

Never wanted to go to Portland more than now

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for the reposting!

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"Grave" Robert TOMBshany @robtomshany.bsky.social · 1d

Igor Stravinsky could have heard all the original Beatles albums. And he DID hear Charlie Parker live in a club once; Parker acknowledged his presence by quoting a melody from the Firebird (in some tellings, the Rite of Spring), causing Stravinsky to pound his table in laughter, spilling his drink.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

The seemingly deliberate misuse of the term “astroturfing” is one thing I noticed, as was the amount of submissions from the Illawarra (having just gone through the offshore wind process), and the lack of media organisation submissions (only 2 that I could see)

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

OMG the lack of self awareness is astonishing

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

@jonpiccini.bsky.social thanks for the repost!

Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

Just putting this out into the world. Come March next year I’ll be looking for #PostDoc research assistant work in Sydney (or remote). Please keep me in mind and send any ideas my way. Looking for projects in one or any of #EnergyTransitions #Decarbonisation #EnvironmentalPlanning #HumanGeography

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

The Member for Pittwater replied “It was not my yacht”.

Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

The Labor Member for Manly quipped that “I was surprised when the honourable member for Pittwater complained about lack of time to study the bills… it seems that he did not have time to study the bills on Friday because he was out in his yacht. Whether he had the bills with him I do not know.”

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

November 1979 when the Environmental Planning & Assessment Bill was enjoying its second reading in the NSW Legislative Assembly, the Liberal Member for Pittwater complained of the great volume of material that needed to be read and that some 407 amendments had to be digested over a weekend.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

Is it relevant that the National Press Club sponsors include at least 5 corporations who work with the Israeli arms industry??
Incl:
Lockheed Martin
KBR
Raytheon

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

It looks very much like the National Press Club statement lied about their cancellation of Chris Hedges. His appearance WAS confirmed, and even listed on the website, according to this.
(Hedges believes his talk on Gaza was cancelled following pressure from the pro-Israel lobby):

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia — Australian Friends of Palestine Association

AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

www.afopa.com.au

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 1d

It really has. There’s a conflation of astroturfing and philanthropy going on in a few of them that could be intentional, coached? Perhaps a way to lessen the power of the term when directed at them.

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 1d

2 years of pain that never heals, of children who slept and never woke up.
2 years of ashes,of tents,of cold, hunger & fear.
2 years where even the sky can no longer tell the difference between night and blood...
Yet despite the pain, we believe that justice will come, no matter how long it takes.💔

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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 2d

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project

The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

docs.google.com

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 3d

This is pretty amazing from Bayswater Unit 2 over the weekend - so-called "two shifting".

i.e. black coal turning off* in the middle of the day due an abundance of RE and low prices.

🔌💡

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 3d

This 26kg heffalump just got a bindi in her paw and made me carry her 400m home from the park even after I removed said bindi. No need to do a weights session today then. Thanks pup.

A brown and white American staffie is looking at the camera with a forlorn look but don’t believe it, she’s a big sook

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Mr. Propagande @mrpropagande.bsky.social · 4d

Marée humaine à Barcelone contre le génocide en Palestine. Même les chauffeurs de Taxi ont rejoint la manifestation.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4d

🇮🇪🇵🇸 Palestine supporters in Dublin went all out for Gaza today.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 4d

A visual summary of the submissions

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

media.tenor.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4d

🇫🇷🇵🇸 #WATCH | A massive protest in support of Palestine erupts in the streets of Paris today.

One of many large demonstrations across Europe this weekend.

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 4d

Highlights thus far: Malcolm Roberts wishes to use his experience of “logical scientific reasoning” to inform governance. Advance accuse the EDO of being an astroturfed organisation, and the ECAJ suggest their media literacy curriculum to fight antisemitism will help address climate misinformation

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 5d

Would sure be great if any aspiring scholar on the immensely important topic of climate obstruction would study the 193 (!) submissions to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. Many from lobby groups ...
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Submissions

www.aph.gov.au

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 4d

Against my better judgement and a need to do other things I’ve also started delving into submissions. Perhaps we should collaborate @amywestervelt.bsky.social !

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