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Retired poet. Work with South Coast Health and Sustainability Alliance as secretary emanuensis. Two offspring, one partner, butler to a very floofy cat. Language learner. French, Japanese beginner, Gaeilge, a bit of German and Italian to sing with

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Chump tried to Lure Our Attention
Away from The Epstein Files, but His Failure in Alaska Didn't Work....

16.08.2025 05:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 859    ๐Ÿ” 424    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
Meme with a dominant Obama talking to the murderous war criminal, Vladimir Putin. 

It reads: 
THE EXACT MOMENT PUTIN DECIDED RUSSIA WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF AMERICA HAD A WEAK, STUPID PRESIDENT

Meme with a dominant Obama talking to the murderous war criminal, Vladimir Putin. It reads: THE EXACT MOMENT PUTIN DECIDED RUSSIA WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF AMERICA HAD A WEAK, STUPID PRESIDENT

Nailed it. ๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ

16.08.2025 06:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1242    ๐Ÿ” 402    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Australians should have access to the National Climate Risk Assessment.

โ€œWhile the Government knows whatโ€™s in the report, the insurance companies and the fossil fuel companies know because of their own analysis, Australian voters continue to live in the dark.โ€

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

14.08.2025 05:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 194    ๐Ÿ” 95    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Octopus Energy partners with BYD to offer free EV charging in UK's first V2G bundle Octopus Energy has partnered with Chinese EV giant BYD to offer the UKโ€™s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bundle offering โ€˜freeโ€™ home charging.

The real potential of EVs to not just provide free mileage, but to contribute to a cleaner grid.
www.current-news.co.uk/octopus-ener...

25.06.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before But the Climate Change Committee warns there's still a long way to go for the UK to reach net zero by 2050.

Everything needs to move faster.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.06.2025 10:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

22.06.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25730    ๐Ÿ” 10118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 625    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1337
โ€œFire and Iceโ€ by Robert Frost:

Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

โ€œFire and Iceโ€ by Robert Frost: Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Robert Frost wrote โ€œFire and Iceโ€ in 1920, contemplating the relative destructive potential of desire and hate. 105 years later, the current president relies on both, willingly destroying all in his path for the sake of his endless hunger for power and hatred for humanity.

15.06.2025 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 305    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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National Sorry Day

May 26, 2025

Each year marks the anniversary of the formal apology made in 2008 by the government and the Parliament of Australia to Australiaโ€™s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people โ€“ in particular to the Stolen Generations.

#auspol .. ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’”

26.05.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Memo to the dinosaurs running the National party in Australia and all those who vote for them election after bloody election. ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ #auspol

24.05.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NSW floods: estimated 10,000 properties damaged after deadly flooding as communities face โ€˜mammoth taskโ€™ SES warns the โ€˜worst impacts that people feel are often after the eventโ€™ as areas reel from โ€˜devastatingโ€™ floods

But letโ€™s open up the Narrabri gas project /1

24.05.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Met my first Australian today who got yoinked by US immigration for no good reason. Chucked in a plexiglass cell for the crime of transiting via LAX from Canada. No reason given and allowed to carry on back to Melbourne. She said โ€œnever againโ€, rightly so.

16.05.2025 08:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 534    ๐Ÿ” 131    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Half-yearly loss of almost $15m for NSW native forest logging shows industry future shaky, conservationists say Former independent MP accuses division of throwing โ€˜good money after bad only to see our native wildlife sufferโ€™

Native forest logging in NSW just posted a $15 mil loss in 6 months. Itโ€™s environmentally destructive & economically broken.

Time to stop propping it up with public money & invest in communities to transition to sustainable industries of the future.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

15.05.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 237    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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The Greens are about to choose a new leader. Hereโ€™s how it works โ€“ and who could be Adam Bandtโ€™s successor Sarah Hanson-Young, Larissa Waters and Mehreen Faruqi among possible successors after Bandtโ€™s shock loss in Melbourne

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... #Auspol. We all should give the Greens a fair go after they sort their leader out. Ie: Acknowledge they don't get a fair go in the media. Keep an eye on the Greens policy website. Decide what we agree with and see who we trust in the Greens

14.05.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Armed with millions from mining magnates and Liberal Party insiders, Advance Australia executed a ruthless disinformation blitz, crushing democratic movements like the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and vilifying the Greens as โ€œextremists.โ€

#auspol

10.05.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rallies held across country to demand to end to violence against women Rallies across Australian cities are taking place to demand more action on violence against women. Victim-survivors are frustrated and calling on the government to act.

Rallies across Australian cities are taking place to demand more action on violence against women. Victim-survivors are frustrated and calling on the government to act.

10.05.2025 06:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The US can stop you at the border or anywhere, put you in immigration jail indefinitely, separate you from or deport your children & not tell you where they are. It says it won't follow legal orders. Australian consulates are powerless. Too dangerous for family holidays, sports, conferences etc.

10.05.2025 05:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades

Scientists have linked fossil fuel companies to specific climate harms for the first time, with five Australian oil, gas and coal companies potentially responsible for $900bn in loss and damage from extreme heat alone.

Latest from me in The Guardian this morning.

04.05.2025 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 308    ๐Ÿ” 163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Fixed. Thank you to whoever created this!!

04.05.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

04.05.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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The sun peaks from behind a tall leafy tree, set against a bright blue sky.

The sun peaks from behind a tall leafy tree, set against a bright blue sky.

On this sunny Friday morning I am very grateful to live in a country where

๐Ÿ’š I feel safe when voting
๐Ÿ’› It's mandatory to vote
๐Ÿ’š I can vote a day (or more) early
๐Ÿ’› We have preferential voting
๐Ÿ’š We have more than two choices
๐Ÿ’› It took me all of 6 minutes to vote

#Australia

02.05.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland election The Australian Institute for Progressโ€™s โ€˜Can you afford the Greens?โ€™ ads claim minor partyโ€™s housing policies would lead to increased rents

As Greens we are pissing off the right people (big coal, billionaires, big gas). In return they are pouring cash into Liberal-aligned think-tanks to run anti-Greens ads. I think Australians are smart enough to see through their self-interested crap. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

01.05.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

01.05.2025 03:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18746    ๐Ÿ” 4310    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 583    ๐Ÿ“Œ 317

A fantastic 4-minute explainer video on the #AtlasNetwork and how it operates, both here in Australia and around the world. It stokes culture wars, reinforces conservatism, undermines the response to climate change, and aids the wealthy elite to society's cost. #auspol #ausvotes

29.04.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why Australiaโ€™s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate Global warming sceptics now argue it is more palatable with the electorate to pivot from climate denialism to anti-renewable energy scepticism

Why Australiaโ€™s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate #Climate

26.04.2025 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Read the F.B.I.โ€™s Charging Document The F.B.I. filed this document on Thursday in the case of Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested on Friday.

THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST: The brownshirts of Federal Law Enforcement are arresting judges now.

What you gonna do when they come for YOU?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

26.04.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

It's always a good time for a reminder
20 Lessons on Tyranny

youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?...

24.04.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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GOP talking points 'come from the Kremlin': Ex-security advisor warns of collapse into authoritarianism An American writer and commentator is warning the Republican Party is collapsing into authoritarianism โ€” and dragging the nation with it. โ€œThere's been this shift in the American right over the last decade. I mean, I could feel it even in the late Obama years โ€ฆ but now I would argue that the whole Republican Party has moved to the far right, who feel this affinity for (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin, and it's based on tearing (democracy) down. It's based on a preference for autocratic politics over small-d democratic politics,โ€ said Ben Rhodes, former deputy of National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications under President Barack Obama. Putin is seizing advantage of the national shift, he claims, by demonizing LGBTQ issues and so-called โ€œcancel cultureโ€ in the west in an attempt to install a โ€œfar-right internationaleโ€ that now includes Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and (Hungarian Prime Minister) Viktor Orban, among other despots. READ MORE: 'Needs to be stopped': 'Embarrassed' Trump voter explains why supporters have gone silent Rhodes said the โ€œTrump componentโ€ of this is particularly troubling considering Trump makes no bones about his embrace of Putinโ€™s strong man ideology. โ€œWhat is clear is that he wants to be like Putin. He would like to have the kind of power that Putin has. He would like to be unbridled in the way that Putin is, but I think part of the rot that's deeper that we have to acknowledge is that there are a lot of (American) โ€ฆ who (also) feel like they're on Putinโ€™s team,โ€ Rhodes warned. โ€œ[Vice President] JD Vance basically delivered a message โ€” in Munich, of all places โ€” Munich, the birthplace of Nazism. JD Vance goes there and tries to lecture the Germans to embrace their far right, the AfD party.โ€ The American Jewish committee considers the AfD โ€œa party with a clear record of antisemitism and hostility to America.โ€ Rodes added that this intra-national culture shift is โ€œbigger than the war in Ukraine.โ€ READ MORE: McConnell schools Trump on 'America First' policy that helped 'move the Depression worldwide' โ€œIt's whether this new autocratic, ethno-nationalist politics thatโ€™s taken over the right wing of a bunch of countries is going to become normalized to the extent that it replaces small d democratic values, where we โ€ฆ we fundamentally agree upon the rule of law and things like state sovereignty and nations not being invaded.โ€ If the U.S. and other democracies discard the rule of law in favor of authoritarianism, Rhodes warns the world will be back to โ€œliving in the law of the jungle.โ€ โ€œWe're back (to the age) before the world wars, and that is an inherently dangerous place,โ€ he said. Author Ruth Ben-Ghiat agreed that Trump's goals are autocratic, so he will ally with the "new autocratic world order that's coming into being." READ MORE: 'We take our direction from the judge': Florida sheriff vows to ignore DeSantis directive "I think Americans maybe aren't aware to the extent that the GOP has been embedded into these transnational networks," said the 'Strongmen' author. "Talking points about LGBTQ people and social anarchy are things that Putin was circulating ten years ago. And we have absorbed and normalized these autocratic talking points, many of which come from the Kremlin. Watch the video below, or by clicking here.
25.04.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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