Louise Gill
@louisegill.bsky.social
PhD History, author; people, politics, climate, wildlife, bush life, history, art—
Naarm; Dja Dja Wurrung Country|
#HumanRights #ClimateAction
Naarm; Dja Dja Wurrung Country|
#HumanRights #ClimateAction
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"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "
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for you, a softly vibrant + peaceful moment with some African daisies
🤍🕊️
(from a few summers ago, needed on a rainy windy day such as today)
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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #daisy #flowers #oregonphotographer #oregon
🤍🕊️
(from a few summers ago, needed on a rainy windy day such as today)
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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #daisy #flowers #oregonphotographer #oregon
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
for you, a softly vibrant + peaceful moment with some African daisies
🤍🕊️
(from a few summers ago, needed on a rainy windy day such as today)
.
#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #daisy #flowers #oregonphotographer #oregon
🤍🕊️
(from a few summers ago, needed on a rainy windy day such as today)
.
#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #daisy #flowers #oregonphotographer #oregon
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Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
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Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony
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Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony | Focusing on Wildlife
The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, chaotic life. Normally, the shores host
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December 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
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Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz cleverly creates a double memorial portrait of his deceased mother and father by depicting his artist father painting a portrait of Dirck’s mother. Both parents now gaze at us (1550) Toledo Museum of Art
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz cleverly creates a double memorial portrait of his deceased mother and father by depicting his artist father painting a portrait of Dirck’s mother. Both parents now gaze at us (1550) Toledo Museum of Art
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Sure Murray Watt will be clapping his flippers at that news.
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sure Murray Watt will be clapping his flippers at that news.
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Sunset behind partly cloudy skies.
#blueskyartshow #sky ##clouds #sunset #apalachicolabay #photography
#blueskyartshow #sky ##clouds #sunset #apalachicolabay #photography
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sunset behind partly cloudy skies.
#blueskyartshow #sky ##clouds #sunset #apalachicolabay #photography
#blueskyartshow #sky ##clouds #sunset #apalachicolabay #photography
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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Meister Bertram von Minden’s “Madonna Knitting” depicts the Virgin Mary making the young Christ’s red tunic, by knitting “in the round”, using 4 needles, to produce a seamless garment (early 15C)
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December 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Meister Bertram von Minden’s “Madonna Knitting” depicts the Virgin Mary making the young Christ’s red tunic, by knitting “in the round”, using 4 needles, to produce a seamless garment (early 15C)
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kn...
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“When journalists internalise the state, the state no longer needs to silence them.
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Australia’s New Censorship Is Voluntary - and That’s Why It’s Dangerous
When journalists internalise the state, the state no longer needs to silence them. Australia has discovered the most polite form of censorship ever devised. No jackboots, no warrants, no midnight raid...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“When journalists internalise the state, the state no longer needs to silence them.
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theaimn.net/australias-n...
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32 degrees but the red tailed hawks are back. They’re not as skittish as the northern harriers
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
32 degrees but the red tailed hawks are back. They’re not as skittish as the northern harriers
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Reposted by Louise Gill
Brazil's environment minister; "Our climate efforts continue, as ever, to buy time when we have no time"
'The Dinosaurs didn't know what was coming, but we do'
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'The Dinosaurs didn't know what was coming, but we do'
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‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Brazil's environment minister; "Our climate efforts continue, as ever, to buy time when we have no time"
'The Dinosaurs didn't know what was coming, but we do'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'The Dinosaurs didn't know what was coming, but we do'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here"
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” warns Kerry O’Brien
YouTube video by The Walkley Foundation
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November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here"
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
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Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
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19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
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“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,”
Hannah Arendt.
Are we there yet?
Hannah Arendt.
Are we there yet?
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,”
Hannah Arendt.
Are we there yet?
Hannah Arendt.
Are we there yet?
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“The mining lobby has gorged itself for decades. They’ve extracted our wealth, minimized their taxes, blocked our progress, and corrupted our politics so thoroughly that both major parties compete to serve them.”
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The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy
“You can’t always get what you want,” sang The Rolling Stones. The Australian mining lobby never received the memo. For decades, it has secured its every wish: a royalty regime that ranks among the wo...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“The mining lobby has gorged itself for decades. They’ve extracted our wealth, minimized their taxes, blocked our progress, and corrupted our politics so thoroughly that both major parties compete to serve them.”
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theaimn.net/the-midas-cu...
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Insult to injury.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Insult to injury.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.