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John Dinning

@wotsit.bsky.social

Programmer | Humanist | Pro common sense, logic, science, human rights | Interested in almost everything | Sydney Australia.

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I want to go to Canada. Love the videos Canada is making. Y’all saw the one w Reagan narrating the video? #canada

24.10.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1067    πŸ” 441    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 60

They just murdered another six people in the Caribbean.

They didn’t even know the names of the people they just blew up.

Obviously there is no evidence of drug trafficking.

They could board the boats.

But no.

They murder people without any due process and then they celebrate their heinous acts.

24.10.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1056    πŸ” 369    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 19
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Critical minerals industry cheers US investment deal Australian critical minerals companies could expect more international and domestic investment in producing and processing following the deal, experts say, however, more investment is needed in refine...

All Australians should benefit from the sale of our resources - not just a few mining magnates. We must not see a repeat of what has happened with our gas exports where we’ve being essentially giving it away for free. Time to build a sovereign wealth fund.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

21.10.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I got my gold Opal card recently and was looking forward to paying no more than $2:50 for a days travel. I got on the bus to find the tap on/off system out of action and had to travel for free.
I was so disappointed.

22.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Controversial rare earth mine in Victorian town fast-tracked by government deal The federal government grants major project status to a joint US and Hong Kong mine in regional Victoria.

Mining rights for #rareEarth approved but how much does Australia make from them, and, is it an ongoing $benefit to Australian coffers?

Anyone know?
Get this right.
No more giving away our natural resources.

#Astron (Hong Kong) #EnergyFuels ( #US )

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

22.10.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Lmao

21.10.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 392    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 13
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i'm no lawyer but "i am a government official and i am discriminating against you because of your political beliefs" seems like a bad thing to put in writing

20.10.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 261    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6
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β€œThis is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

20.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6173    πŸ” 2304    πŸ’¬ 193    πŸ“Œ 94

Trump wouldn't understand the difference. It made him happy and that's what matters.

20.10.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PETITION: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.

I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...

20.10.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

18.10.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13530    πŸ” 4794    πŸ’¬ 323    πŸ“Œ 187

It is certainly unreasonable to stop any phone working with any car if it's working now.
Getting all old phones to work with all old and new cars is problematic and sometimes impossible (speaking as a software developer).

17.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Android 9 was released in August 2018, so your son's phone would need to be more than 7 years old for this to be an issue, but maybe it is. Android phones are becoming very reliable these days.

17.10.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

15.10.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5638    πŸ” 2272    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 78
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Water fluoridation leading to lower rates of tooth decay in children, study finds The findings are released as more Queensland councils opt out of water fluoridation and amid rising rates of misinformation.

In the 'very unsurprising' category today...

Major study finds tooth decay in Queensland children has declined since water fluoridation expanded.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

14.10.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

15.10.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 32369    πŸ” 9907    πŸ’¬ 897    πŸ“Œ 486

You can read it too: open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

#Auspol

14.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.

None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.

None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.

He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.

13.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1558    πŸ” 457    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 31
A tweet from Donald J. Trump says: β€œDon’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT.” The account features Trump’s profile picture with an American flag overlay.

A tweet from Donald J. Trump says: β€œDon’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT.” The account features Trump’s profile picture with an American flag overlay.

Someone in or close to the White House is making a killing with inside information on what Trump will threaten next before chickening out.

13.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2417    πŸ” 412    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 22

The new ceasefire in Israel and Gaza offers a moment of relief, but not resolution. Trump’s mediation may claim success, yet peace built on power, not justice, remains unstable.
True peace requires confronting the causes of violence, not merely pausing it.

13.10.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree or not with PM Carney, but he knows:

anti-fa is an idea not an organization
habeas corpus is not a proper noun
asylum seekers aren't escapees from an asylum
how tariffs work and
which fork to use

#cndpoli

09.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 906    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

10.10.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How are people not just protesting outside Johnson’s office and home 24/7 until she is sworn in?

Are Americans even taking this fascism seriously?

09.10.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop β€œleft-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag β€” meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

07.10.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4143    πŸ” 1591    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 88

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

06.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6315    πŸ” 2432    πŸ’¬ 281    πŸ“Œ 127

"Two weeks" is GOP-pol-speak for "never." Putin understands this

06.10.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think that the United States military murdering Venezuelans at sea is getting anywhere near the attention it should

05.10.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4521    πŸ” 1295    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 41
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04.10.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2488    πŸ” 797    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 26
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NASA ordered to destroy fully functional carbon-monitoring satellite despite its vital climate data contributions : "This is illegal" - African In Space NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s

www.africaninspace.com/space/nasa-o...

The trump administration are now in the process of not just negating, in fact ridiculing the science behind climate change, but destroying the evidence of the same.

This gold standard carbon capture satellite has been ordered to be destroyed.

#ClimateCrisis🌍

03.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ya' think?

bsky.app/profile/pale...

03.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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