Ardent

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

Top scientists sound alarm over damage caused by prescribed burns A group of Australia's top environmental scientists calls for changes to prescribed burning after government documents confirm hundreds of trees in an ecological hotspot have been destroyed by a gover...

Love how the department here wouldn't release its burn plan until forced to do so under FOI. And the environment minister refused to be interviewed about it.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Alice Nannup and My Nan I bought When The Pelican Laughed in 1992. It was the first book I'd read with a personal account of the Stolen Generations.

Celebrating #NAIDOCWeek with posts and stories from Tall And True: Alice Nannup and My Nan (2020). "When The Pelican Laughed was the first book I read with a personal account of the #StolenGenerations." 🖤💛❤️ #NAIDOC #Indigenous #Aboriginal #Australia www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/alice-n...

Bupa fined $23mn in Australia after ‘unconscionable conduct’ British health insurer denied legitimate claims made by patients over 5-year period

Which raises the question, what is Bupa doing in the UK and the rest of the world?

The profit motive should have no place in healthcare
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Domino's pizzas allegedly cooked using woodchips from endangered possum habitat A Victorian sawmill has harvested wood from endangered mountain ash forests and sold it to Domino's as woodchips to smoke meat for pizzas.

'Dr Taylor initially raised the issue with Victoria's Office of the Conservation Regulator ... who dismissed it on the basis that they were unsure of the boundaries of the state forests they regulate.'

Victoria's environmental watchdog, ladies and gentlemen.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

International survey shows 81% back forcing big oil to pay for climate destruction People are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of fossil fuel giants all over the storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires devastating their lives, and they want accountability, said t...

An international survey in 13 countries - half the world's population - commissioned by Greenpeace and Oxfam found 81% of respondents support taxing fossil fuel companies for climate damage.

86% support for using these taxes to aid climate-impacted communities.

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Well done, @riveractionuk.bsky.social and legal teams from Leigh Day & Matrix Chambers - top work!

YouTube video by Tommy Rod Back In the U.S.S.R.

Filmed at Trumps inauguration! My wife and I drove 16 hours!
Check out my first ever music video to Back In the U.S.S.R.!
Thank you! ☮️❤️🇺🇸
#bluesky #art #music #musicvideo #backintheussr #protest #resist #hope #peace #love #indie #thebeatles #beatles #musicsky #promosky

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Loved the music and the video!!

This works for me …

What is Jim waiting for … anyone would think the ALP are in opposition and have no power to change anything.

#auspol #PRRT #TaxTheGas #EndNG&CGT

If you need some wild, ancient beauty in your day... here is 10 seconds of a river on Dartmoor in England.

I have been coming here for forty years and it looks exactly the same as the first day we found this place.

#WitchSky #NatureSky

We need our leaders to face up to reality and start talking careful and thoughtfully about how to navigate this change

Cup of tea in hand!
Quarterly essay
‘Hard New World , our post American Future’ by Huge White
Decline of U.S. global leadership - rise of authoritarian powers Australia can no longer rely on the longstanding U.S.-led “rules-based order” and must reassess its foreign policy and security strategies.

Australia cheats. Simple as that. We do it knowingly and with support of fossil fuel industry and Climate Change Authority, Bowen and Albo. 100% offsets and dodgy HIR ACCUs is perfect for Woodside’s purposes. #auspol

Hoping to get tickets to Jen Brister June 6th

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👆😂😂

Made my day to see these beauties!

How to spot a native bee and what to do to help bolster populations. Here's what you need to know Flowers, honey and plenty of produce: bees play a vital role in nature's ecosystem, and without them, we wouldn't have any of these things.

May a bee be with you on World Bee Day. Here's a little info on the state of native bees here in Australia. #WorldBeeDay 🇭🇲 🐝 www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05...

In memory of Ian Curtis 💔

July 15, 1956 - May 19, 1980

Joy Division - Transmission

#punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis #punkrockhistory #otd

Goodbye to an American Deathcamp and Charming Wedding Venue Yesterday, Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana burned to the ground. It was the main house and command center of an American death camp that, at its height, held up to 176 human beings in the bonds of sl...

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Today’s errands on the bike:
-Grocery shopping
-Taking kids to swim lessons
-Hand delivering daughter’s birthday invites because she wanted to give them to her friends in person

Sign the Petition Save threatened species from imminent planned burn in Toolangi

Hi! It would be great if could spare a minute to sign this petition. Forest Fire Management seem to be hellbent this Autumn on destroying all the places we love.

The petition itself offers a good explainer of why we oppose these burns.

chng.it/p894stCYhb

Selling super tax changes will require a steadfast advocacy from decades past The reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, often sentimentalised by people who weren't there, came about through a mixture of policy intelligence and political rat cunning.

Laura Tingle:

"The best friends the govt might have in [policy conversation] are the crossbenchers in the House of Reps...who can give the govt room to discuss policy ideas in a slightly more rational fashion than ones purely contested on partisan lines." #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Possibly the greatest Tesla takedown video ever - maybe the best thing ever

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has announced on X that he is withdrawing consent for the Russian consulate in Krakow, following a year-long investigation that revealed Russian secret services were behind a massive fire that nearly destroyed a Warsaw shopping center in May 2024.

I love this for both of them! Hehe

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Underwater image of a dugong swimming amongst a shoal of golden trevally in clear blue water. The sun shines down from above, enhancing the blue colours of the water, below is a bed of seagrass.

The gentle nature of dugong captured in a single image. 📸

These amazing animals spend much of their time peacefully grazing on seagrass in the Indian and West pacific #Oceans. 💙

#WildlifePhotography

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

This is a seismic gut punch to the weather enterprise.

It is impossible to overstate how important @unidata.bsky.social is in implementing many datasets/libraries (LDM, netCDF, THREDDS, metPy) we currently use in meteorological research & operations.

www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...