Tim Fisher

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Vogue's absorption of and closure of Teen Vogue feels like -- is -- a direct attack on a new generation of queer journalists who were committed to excellence and the power of journalism to illuminate the stories of people at the margins.

And it impacts all of us, no matter our age.

Interesting that 1 and 6 are split. Surely there’s a way to combine these, and reinforce the benefits of non-car travel for those who live in places where it’s viable.

Another 2025 report and another signal that we are failing at facing the crisis head on.

No one is treating this as an emergency!

WMO: Emissions are still going up.
UNFFFC: Nations have only committed to 10% reduction in emissions by 2035 (35% required to stay below 2ºC)

Now this👇🏻

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

What Kin-Building Actually Looks Like The Future of Family

“I want to...ask for something and hear the word “no,” and feel emotionally safe in that exchange, but it’s not how I grew up. I grew up to believe that you only ask for help when you really need it, and at that point, it’s not OK for someone to say no.”

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Could not agree more.

Thanks for posting this Tim. Are there organisers or info about how patients and locals who care about cohealth can get involved that you can point us to online?

"Advance" major spreader of fossil fuels lies before federal election: ARC study - The Klaxon The group that ran the “No” campaign against the Indigenous Voice was one of the biggest spreaders of fossil fuels propaganda ahead of the federal election, a major study has found.

Important piece by @theklaxon.bsky.social @anthonyklan.bsky.social. Advance ran the “No” campaign against the Voice, aggressively spreading disinformation. Why? One of biggest impediments to fossil fuels is Indigenous rights. #auspol #IndigenousRights #FossilFuels theklaxon.com.au/advance-spre...

would subscribe. Reminds me - can’t believe we haven’t mentioned the True North email, where @deniseshrivell.bsky.social rounds up the day’s independent Australian reporting. Nothing else like it, and so valuable I’m non-plussed it’s free (+ similar to your idea @danambergstrom.bsky.social)

Wonderful list. Would only add @lamestreampod.bsky.social if you’re interested in media, and of course the outstanding Zee Feed by @crystaljane.bsky.social.

Anything to avoid actual immigration.🙄

he’s truly unbothered by the no kings stuff. he’s not thinking about it at all and he’s definitely not mad.

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks”

Just contemplate that sentence.

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Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

Working on climate change is skipping like a stone over sentences like "A new study analysing 49 years of data from 20 sites indicated carbon is being emitted because trees are dying and decaying faster than they can be replaced." every day while people with power do everything to make it worse.

This is horrendous news.

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.

The role of PR agencies in delaying climate action is increasingly being recognised by academics.

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Reminder: Australia's only emissions reduction legislation - the safeguard mechanism - allows for unlimited use of offsets instead of requiring genuine cuts from polluters

A reminder.

That would assume everyone is interested in being asked to think when they’re encountering culture & politics. Most people consume culture because they *don’t want to think.*
And most people react to politics with their gut, and resent being asked to do otherwise.
Sorry. It’s just what it is.

what a shabby, small town secret society Australia's ruling class are.

Put down my phone and went outside to look at it. Thanks Ben.

‘When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and… is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists, all of us have been living with them already all along.’

“The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club.
WTF.

Every single Democrat needs to say that. Every single one.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained. "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

We’re talking about career members of the US military, right? We’re probably agreeing with each other.

Could that have something to do with him straight up threatening to strip them of their rank if they did?
I’m sure no one in the room took that “joke” any less seriously than it deserved.