Siobhán
@sewingdogs.bsky.social
She/her. Living with dodgy mitochondria 🩼🩼, dogs 🐾, bees🐝 and chickens 🐔. Queer 🏳️🌈 and here for equality.
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you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.
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It's not tragic mishap unless it comes from the Accident Tragique region of France.
Otherwise it's just another fucking war crime committed by Israel
Otherwise it's just another fucking war crime committed by Israel
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It's not tragic mishap unless it comes from the Accident Tragique region of France.
Otherwise it's just another fucking war crime committed by Israel
Otherwise it's just another fucking war crime committed by Israel
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Quite good column from Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
July 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Quite good column from Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
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If I can sum up what just happened as neatly as possible: a Federal Court judge found the Australian government had ignored climate science when setting emissions targets, appeared to want to find for the applicants, but said his hands were tied by the law of negligence in Australia.
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Federal Court Justice Wigney is beginning his summary of his decision in Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth with a sketch of the changes to the Torres Strait islands. He is describing profound changes to the landscape.
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At 2pm today, we'll learn whether a group of Torres Strait Traditional Owners who sued the Australian government for negligence over its failure to meaningfully address climate change have been successful, and whether they've won.
I'll be reporting the decision for @reneweconomy.com.au.
I'll be reporting the decision for @reneweconomy.com.au.
July 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
If I can sum up what just happened as neatly as possible: a Federal Court judge found the Australian government had ignored climate science when setting emissions targets, appeared to want to find for the applicants, but said his hands were tied by the law of negligence in Australia.
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i love a feel-good story
June 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
i love a feel-good story
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Bwahahahahahaha... on dear, journo's in Australia are going to write screeds of copy about what this means aren't they.
June 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Bwahahahahahaha... on dear, journo's in Australia are going to write screeds of copy about what this means aren't they.
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Israel is a rogue, genocidal state and it will continue acting like a rogue, genocidal state because it has been enabled for nearly two years to openly carry out a genocide. This will not stop until Israel is forced to stop but the states that can do so are instead enabling it to continue
June 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Israel is a rogue, genocidal state and it will continue acting like a rogue, genocidal state because it has been enabled for nearly two years to openly carry out a genocide. This will not stop until Israel is forced to stop but the states that can do so are instead enabling it to continue
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Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in #Gaza: Dutch investigation
Researchers from Israel, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada say Israel's conduct meets the legal threshold of #genocide
#FreePalestine www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-gen...
Researchers from Israel, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada say Israel's conduct meets the legal threshold of #genocide
#FreePalestine www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-gen...
Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
Researchers from Israel, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada say Israel's conduct meets the legal threshold of genocide
www.middleeasteye.net
May 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in #Gaza: Dutch investigation
Researchers from Israel, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada say Israel's conduct meets the legal threshold of #genocide
#FreePalestine www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-gen...
Researchers from Israel, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada say Israel's conduct meets the legal threshold of #genocide
#FreePalestine www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-gen...
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Disagree with this analysis. Not about Gaza. My experience in balance of power is that Australians do not tolerate excessive obstruction from a minor party on an elected government’s policy agenda. One year’s obstruction was excessive. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
The Greens bet on Gaza and may have lost the House
Greens leader Adam Bandt has suffered a devastating verdict. The party of protest has just discovered it protested far too much.
www.smh.com.au
May 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Disagree with this analysis. Not about Gaza. My experience in balance of power is that Australians do not tolerate excessive obstruction from a minor party on an elected government’s policy agenda. One year’s obstruction was excessive. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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No, "Australia" is in not in "a cost-of-living nightmare".
For many, inflation is no biggie.
We're in a poverty and inequality nightmare.
If the media and political class only focus on the cost of things, and not structural problems, we'll never properly tax wealth.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
For many, inflation is no biggie.
We're in a poverty and inequality nightmare.
If the media and political class only focus on the cost of things, and not structural problems, we'll never properly tax wealth.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
How did the cost of living get so bad? These graphs show how prices skyrocketed
The election may be over, but cost of living is still front of mind for Australians. These graphs show how we got here and what the new government has to do to rein in rising prices.
www.abc.net.au
May 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
No, "Australia" is in not in "a cost-of-living nightmare".
For many, inflation is no biggie.
We're in a poverty and inequality nightmare.
If the media and political class only focus on the cost of things, and not structural problems, we'll never properly tax wealth.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
For many, inflation is no biggie.
We're in a poverty and inequality nightmare.
If the media and political class only focus on the cost of things, and not structural problems, we'll never properly tax wealth.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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After the election results are finalised and The Liberals elect a new leader, the Australian media should give us a 3 month break from even mentioning them.
We deserve it
We deserve it
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
After the election results are finalised and The Liberals elect a new leader, the Australian media should give us a 3 month break from even mentioning them.
We deserve it
We deserve it
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I think you mean colonize.
BREAKING: Israeli ministers agree on plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there for an unspecified amount of time, two officials say.
Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says
An Israeli official says Cabinet ministers have approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip.
bit.ly
May 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think you mean colonize.
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We’re not connecting to women, says senator who connects to women mostly by suing them
'People aren’t relating to us': Linda Reynolds unloads on Liberal Party
Retiring Liberal senator Linda Reynolds labels the party's federal election campaign a "comprehensive failure", blasting it for not doing more to increase female representation.
www.abc.net.au
May 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
We’re not connecting to women, says senator who connects to women mostly by suing them
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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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I can't tell you how to vote, but I can tell you that I started my career researching and writing about Peter Dutton and have been forced to do it over and over for thirteen years. If after Saturday I still have to do it, I'm a professional researcher, I will find you. I. Will. Find. You.
April 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I can't tell you how to vote, but I can tell you that I started my career researching and writing about Peter Dutton and have been forced to do it over and over for thirteen years. If after Saturday I still have to do it, I'm a professional researcher, I will find you. I. Will. Find. You.
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"It's not a genocide because the Palestinian population isn't shrinking."
It is, actually, but even taking that lie at face value, the "argument" is saying that murdering people is okay as long as they have enough babies to replace the ones you're killing, and that's utterly grotesque in every way.
It is, actually, but even taking that lie at face value, the "argument" is saying that murdering people is okay as long as they have enough babies to replace the ones you're killing, and that's utterly grotesque in every way.
April 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"It's not a genocide because the Palestinian population isn't shrinking."
It is, actually, but even taking that lie at face value, the "argument" is saying that murdering people is okay as long as they have enough babies to replace the ones you're killing, and that's utterly grotesque in every way.
It is, actually, but even taking that lie at face value, the "argument" is saying that murdering people is okay as long as they have enough babies to replace the ones you're killing, and that's utterly grotesque in every way.
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Keep conservatives away from Dolly Parton at all costs
April 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Keep conservatives away from Dolly Parton at all costs
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There is no justification to this. There is no 'both sides'. You can not justify genocide. It is illegal. It is immoral. It is evil. The west continues to justify the evil, immoral and illegal murder of civilians through the murderer's lens – and then wonders why its people have lost faith
March 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There is no justification to this. There is no 'both sides'. You can not justify genocide. It is illegal. It is immoral. It is evil. The west continues to justify the evil, immoral and illegal murder of civilians through the murderer's lens – and then wonders why its people have lost faith
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I don't need history to prove me right because I am fully capable of judging right from wrong now, in real time. Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. It is threatening people with ethnic cleansing by forced removal as the BEST case scenario or complete annihilation.
March 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I don't need history to prove me right because I am fully capable of judging right from wrong now, in real time. Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. It is threatening people with ethnic cleansing by forced removal as the BEST case scenario or complete annihilation.
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Dear (US) Pharmaceutical Industry:
"No way. Get fucked. Fuck off"
Yours sincerely
Australians living with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
#auspol
"No way. Get fucked. Fuck off"
Yours sincerely
Australians living with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
#auspol
March 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Dear (US) Pharmaceutical Industry:
"No way. Get fucked. Fuck off"
Yours sincerely
Australians living with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
#auspol
"No way. Get fucked. Fuck off"
Yours sincerely
Australians living with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
#auspol
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Situation ongoing.
I reckon we’re fucked.
Just putting it out there.
Just putting it out there.
February 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Situation ongoing.