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Janet.
@lamentsky.bsky.social
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Northerner of NSW. Interested in everything, almost.
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commondreams.org
"Systemic change is needed 'from the cradle to the grave' of plastic production, use, and disposal," said one expert. "Much more ambitious action from governments and industry transparency is needed to curb this growing global plastics public health crisis."
Lancet: Plastics Could Cost Humanity 83 Million Years of Healthy Life
A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm global health over the next couple of decades.
www.commondreams.org
January 27, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
I’ve seen too many Americans talk about how the USA used to be an example to other nations. Let me just tell you, yes it has been. It has been an example of what not to be.

Healthcare, education, law enforcement, military use, gun laws, social security etc…

But yeah you make some good movies.
January 25, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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australia.theguardian.com
Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark
Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark
Teachers who attended ‘compulsory’ creationist conference run by US-based fundamentalist group told radiometric dating techniques were flawed * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Teachers employed by a large group of Queensland Christian schools were told to teach creationism in science classes, including that vegetarian baby dinosaurs would have been taken aboard Noah’s Ark. Last year, the Open Brethren organisation Christian Community Ministries (CCM) hosted a Christian science conference by the US-based fundamentalist group Answers in Genesis, which once built a replica of Noah’s Ark – with model dinosaurs included. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
"Australia does not suffer from a lack of empathy. It suffers from selective empathy. .. nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who is allowed to mourn"

Andrew Brown on #Bondi #indigenous
#auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/mourning-bon...
Mourning Bondi. Australia's hierarchy of grief - Michael West
Australia suffers from selective empathy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the way our political and media class decide who can mourn.
michaelwest.com.au
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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financialtimes.com
The US president has withdrawn an invitation for the Canadian prime minister to join the 'Board of Peace' just days after Mark Carney warned that the rules-based international order was over. ft.trib.al/ksNejda
January 23, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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lisatellstruth.bsky.social
#vaccines
January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
He says he will meet with Trump on Wednesday, accompanied by the Belgian monarch Philippe: "But it will have a different character than we had planned. It will probably be the message that we have to send: you're crossing red lines here. We either stand together or we will stand divided, and if we are divided, there is the end of an era, of 80 years of atlanticism, really drawing to a close. And you know, as Gramsci said, 'if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters, and it's up to him to decide if he wants to be a monster - yes or no."
January 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"Verily, I say unto thee: Blessed is any money set aside to feed the lazy freeloading hungry and heal the lazy freeloading sick for it may be used instead for tax breaks so that you might buy your third or fourth homes and more luxurious transportation. Glory!"

17 Gospel of Republican Jesus 11-14
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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franksting.bsky.social
‘…lifting people out of poverty (by giving them more money) is a policy choice…’ Successive governments instead choose to give $4 Billion a year ‘…to force people to do compulsory activities that don't get them jobs, cause harm and are operating unlawfully.’

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix
In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the mora...
www.abc.net.au
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Why are a small group of pro- Israel players at Victor Chang research institute being allowed to weaponise antisemitism in a way that stops researcher working on a publicly funded project? Wendy Bacon

michaelwest.com.au/heartless-vi...
Heartless. Victor Chang Cardiac Institute and the Israel lobby - Michael West
Professor Peter Macdonald returned to St Vincent’s Hospital, but the Victor Chang Laboratory is still excluding him from doing his research.
michaelwest.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Oct 24
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally. Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Not just another flu, COVID-19 complacency risks lives

Former ABC medical reporter Sophie Scott warns that complacency about COVID has set in. Public health messaging has faded, yet large numbers are still catching COVID, being hospitalised, or dying — COVID hasn’t gone away.

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Not just another flu, COVID-19 complacency risks lives By Katelyn Catanzariti Updated October 25 2025 - 7:31am, first published 7:30am Two healthcare workers in full protective gear, including gowns, gloves, and masks, wheel a patient on a stretcher into a hospital. The image accompanies a headline warning that COVID-19 complacency is dangerous and that the virus is not “just another flu.”
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
What is humanity's purpose, if not its collective knowledge, collective creativity, and our capacity for both?

It's astonishing and devastating to watch our species destroy what make us unique as we mainline the predigested pap of AI, convinced by snake oil billionaires that it's good for us.
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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australia.theguardian.com
When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny
When my daughter eats, it is with joyful abandon. Her behaviour is helping me unlearn toxic standards for women | Léa Antigny
Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s “Now there’s a girl who’s comfortable in her own skin,” my father-in-law said about my daughter, his granddaughter. She was about one year old and we were watching her bounce happily in her high chair, egg smeared across both cheeks as she shoved pieces of fritter into her mouth. I realised with pride it was true: she was comfortable. My pride was followed quickly by unease. How long had it been since I could say I was comfortable with myself? Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
AI NEWS
October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
bluesky got me hooked by showing me posts by people I like and follow on purpose
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Pretty freaking wild to hear "actually AI is useful for climate change" constantly and from people who should know better when the people deciding how the massive resources it consumes are used are saying stuff like this
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Jfc this is dystopian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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lisatellstruth.bsky.social
certifiable…
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Australia’s journalistic class stans white young men and pretty blondes
jessielilley.bsky.social Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Oct 10
The ageing fellas at the news desk have such a boner for a strong, young white man in politics they are going to will Hastie to the top of the pile whether we like it or not.
Opinion piece in the 9Papers: Hastie's got the right stuff but one obsession may fast-track or derail his ambitions By Peter Hartcher October 11, 2025 - 5.00am "The train coming down the tracks isn't the one that you expected. It's not the one advertised on the board," says actor Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of a pro-Brexit strategist. "Well, tough," he says. "It isn't even the one that I imagined. But I accept it. And you can't stop it," he says in the 2019 movie Brexit: The Uncivil War in the persona of the notorious Dominic Cummings, adviser to Boris Johnson. "There is a new politics in town. One that you cannot control." Article extract: As he read his charter letter from his leader, Sussan Ley, setting out his duties as opposition home affairs spokesman, he realised he would have no part in immigration policy - opposition immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, not Hastie, would "lead" and "develop" the policy. Hastie practised his personal policy of a 48-hour cooling off before making any major decision. At this point, a more typical politician would accept the ruling, but then begin a quiet campaign of leaking and undermining against the leader. Hastie did not. He was careful to take counsel with a handful of trusted allies, including only two Liberal MPs, so that he couldn't be accused of "doing the numbers" as a prelude to a leadership challenge. He told the most trusted of his trusted circle, his wife, Ruth, that he'd have to take a 25 per cent pay cut if he went ahead with the resignation. She rejoined that the family budget would simply have to adjust.
October 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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irlagainstfascism.bsky.social
Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.
October 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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garybutler.bsky.social
Asking shops for permission would kill the shoplifting industry.
October 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Junior says he doesn’t watch Fox anymore because “it is so ridiculous” how biased they are against his dad, he complains they barely ever invite him on now, and “they’re just about clickbait.” (I did not speed this up).
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM