Ruth R 🇦🇺

The Pseudoscience of Economics Value comes in many shapes and forms.

“Our concept of prosperity and happiness involves committing so much ecological fraud and telling ourselves so many lies that, being honest at this stage would require denouncing almost all of our history and culture. This would be a great start”
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The Bondi Beach terror attack: 15 dead
Royal Commission
National Day of Mourning.

Port Arthur Massacre: 35 dead
Australian Women Murdered:
2024: 105. 2025: 77.
No Royal Commission
No National Day of Mourning.

Are some Australian lives more precious than others? 🤔 #auspol

In a functioning society, this would have been front page news everywhere.

In our society, this didn't make the fine print.

As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social pointed out once, it's quite depressing to check the headlines when you know what the real headline should be...

New 'micro-volunteering' plan helps treat wombats with mange Many people don't want to become long-term volunteers, Yolandi Vermaak realised. So she came up with a new system to allow people to get involved and save the wombats.

Canberrans are stepping up to help wombats that are under threat from mange - a cruel disease devastating populations.

This community-led program is giving volunteers the tools to treat and protect wombats in the ACT.

Great to see this grassroots conservation 👏
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I lost a good friend in March, only 21 yo. Been down in the dumps ever since. Trying to find joy in the #littlethings but I am still finding it difficult

We just found a new toxic chemical in the air over the U.S. Science calls it “exciting.” We watch the biosphere fill with long-lived poisons… and still treat it like a fascinating science fair project instead of another warning flare.

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The End of the Climate Watchers: How Trump Is Destroying Humanity's Most Important CO₂ Satellites – And Why the World Knows Nothing About It Eine investigative Recherche über die systematische Abschaltung der NASA-Missionen OCO-2 und OCO-3, das Schweigen der Mainstream-Medien und die katastrophalen Folgen für die Zukunft Wir bitten auch um...

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 8, 2025 ~ if thine eye offend thee ...

"It is the deliberate blinding of humanity in the greatest crisis of its history. And it is happening right before our eyes..."

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Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change

Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change theonion.com/slaught...

YouTube video by GZERO Media Washington rescinds West Point role for former cyber director | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take

in this time of polarization and disinfo, it’s important not to shy away from being honest even when it’s uncomfortable and inconvenient.

let’s talk about the trump administration rescinding jen easterly’s appointment at west point @gzeromedia.com

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

‘The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.’

The decline of evidence-based reasoning represents an existential threat to collective problem-solving capability.

This erosion is not random but systematic, driven by:
1. Commercial incentives that reward engagement over accuracy

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#science

It ended not with a whimper but a bang

Love to hear this ❤️

On our 1 acre we make branch offcut heaps and let our native grasses grow long for our resident Northern Brown Bandicoots to live. The neighbours hate it! They mow theirs flat. In the long frost cured grass you can see tunnel entries from frequent use. #southerndownsqld #wildoz got cameras finally!

I’m home alone for 3 weeks, family in England. We’ve had 170mm winter rain this month (average July rain 29mm). I have whooping cough and I’m flooded in, can’t get out of my yard. So pretty peachy 😬

"The findings could also mean that the land carbon sink – which normally removes billions of tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere each year and is essential for meeting climate targets – is weakening decades earlier than expected"

😒😡

Very low on frost here on the darling downs also. Our first frost was 6 weeks late. It’s been very wet too, 136mm this month of which 70mm fell in 3 hours yesterday

I dunno Australian childcare centres are giving them a run for their money

if you damage something man-made we call it vandalism if you damage something made by nature we call it progress

Power is a zero-sum game.

Democracy vs Autocracy.

As Trump seizes more power - that power is at the expense of America and American democracy.

Editors and journalists need to make this clear.

Brilliant cartoon by
@lelievre.bsky.social
5/5

Peter Zeihan the end of the world is just the beginning. For me filled a lot of gaps that you sort know about the world but don’t know how it came about, the US as a superpower, the fiat money system and how geography and demographics matter to the world.

When my baby daughter was learning to eat she looked like this after eating pumpkin.

Once you’re in there though it’s very easy to repost before you realise you’re over there not here. And you can’t undo a repost. Another big flaw over there

A bit late for me, the increase in our land value has meant council will increase my rates 114% this year. We are rural in a run down cottage and instead of spending money on the house it goes to council so they can grade our dirt road in two years time and not provide us town water.

Trump flags tariffs of 200pc on pharmaceuticals, 50pc on copper Donald Trump flags a possible 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals — one of Australia's biggest exports to the US — and says copper could be hit with a 50 per cent levy.

We must never allow the US to dictate the terms of our PBS.

The PBS is a pillar of our universal health system. It is the reason why in Aus, we pay just A$21/month for cholesterol meds, while US citizens can pay A$2,628.
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I live in a rural area and it’s the most reliable place 4 fire, police, flood, extreme weather & traffic updates current & easy 2 access. If someone builds an all in one app for that instead great but that’s the reason I joined & it’s the reason I still use. It’s a vital tool to keep my family safe

I’m on X because local weather, fire and traffic alerts r still there. I can check in one place quickly without trolling thu individual websites. A lot of gov depts still use it as the primary notification area and Facebook filters out too much of that stuff and shows you mindless videos instead

The Most Overlooked Value of Political Protest Small acts of staying quiet may seem merely polite or indifferent, but they can easily spiral.

"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes: