Ardent
@ardentdent.bsky.social
Living on beautiful Wurundjeri Country. Family, friends, good food, music and laughter.
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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.
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IG risolve
July 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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
IG risolve
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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...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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...
www.abc.net.au
July 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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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...
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.
www.tallandtrue.com.au
July 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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...
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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
www.ft.com/content/6ff6...
The profit motive should have no place in healthcare
www.ft.com/content/6ff6...
Bupa fined $23mn in Australia after ‘unconscionable conduct’
British health insurer denied legitimate claims made by patients over 5-year period
www.ft.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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
www.ft.com/content/6ff6...
The profit motive should have no place in healthcare
www.ft.com/content/6ff6...
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'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...
Victoria's environmental watchdog, ladies and gentlemen.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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.
www.abc.net.au
June 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
'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...
Victoria's environmental watchdog, ladies and gentlemen.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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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...
86% support for using these taxes to aid climate-impacted communities.
johnmenadue.com/post/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...
johnmenadue.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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...
86% support for using these taxes to aid climate-impacted communities.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
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Well done, @riveractionuk.bsky.social and legal teams from Leigh Day & Matrix Chambers - top work!
🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: A landmark victory for the River Severn and turning point for polluting factory farming across the UK
We’ve just overturned the approval of a 200,000-bird factory farm in the High Court, a major legal victory against Shropshire Council.
🔗 - bit.ly/3HY4xl4
We’ve just overturned the approval of a 200,000-bird factory farm in the High Court, a major legal victory against Shropshire Council.
🔗 - bit.ly/3HY4xl4
River Action wins landmark High Court case against Shropshire Council over industrial chicken farm chaos - River Action UK
High Court ruling sets national precedent that marks turning point for polluting factory farming in the UK We have won a major legal victory in the High Court against Shropshire Council today, success...
riveractionuk.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Well done, @riveractionuk.bsky.social and legal teams from Leigh Day & Matrix Chambers - top work!
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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
youtu.be/bso_pNIfSg0?...
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
youtu.be/bso_pNIfSg0?...
Back In the U.S.S.R.
YouTube video by Tommy Rod
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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
youtu.be/bso_pNIfSg0?...
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
youtu.be/bso_pNIfSg0?...
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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
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
We need bold tax reform. Productivity is falling, living costs are rising & intergenerational inequality is growing. It's time for a fairer system that drives innovation, cuts pollution, & makes fossil fuel multinationals pay their share by fixing the PRRT and ending subsidies.
#TaxReform #auspol
#TaxReform #auspol
June 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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
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
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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
I have been coming here for forty years and it looks exactly the same as the first day we found this place.
#WitchSky #NatureSky
June 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
I have been coming here for forty years and it looks exactly the same as the first day we found this place.
#WitchSky #NatureSky
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.
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.
June 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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.
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.
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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
Opinion | The Australian government and the carbon industry have been lockstep in their defence of the integrity of the domestic carbon market. But academic research tells a very different story.
Cheap carbon credits from dodgy projects keep Labor’s gas-fired future alive
The Venn diagram of arguments used to delay action on climate change and defend carbon markets is rapidly becoming a circle.
www.crikey.com.au
June 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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
May 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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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...
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.
www.abc.net.au
May 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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...
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In memory of Ian Curtis 💔
July 15, 1956 - May 19, 1980
Joy Division - Transmission
#punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis #punkrockhistory #otd
July 15, 1956 - May 19, 1980
Joy Division - Transmission
#punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis #punkrockhistory #otd
May 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In memory of Ian Curtis 💔
July 15, 1956 - May 19, 1980
Joy Division - Transmission
#punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis #punkrockhistory #otd
July 15, 1956 - May 19, 1980
Joy Division - Transmission
#punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis #punkrockhistory #otd
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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
-Grocery shopping
-Taking kids to swim lessons
-Hand delivering daughter’s birthday invites because she wanted to give them to her friends in person
May 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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
-Grocery shopping
-Taking kids to swim lessons
-Hand delivering daughter’s birthday invites because she wanted to give them to her friends in person
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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
The petition itself offers a good explainer of why we oppose these burns.
chng.it/p894stCYhb
Sign the Petition
Save threatened species from imminent planned burn in Toolangi
chng.it
May 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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
The petition itself offers a good explainer of why we oppose these burns.
chng.it/p894stCYhb
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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...
"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...
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.
www.abc.net.au
May 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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...
"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...
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Possibly the greatest Tesla takedown video ever - maybe the best thing ever
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Possibly the greatest Tesla takedown video ever - maybe the best thing ever
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"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.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"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.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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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.
May 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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.
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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
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
May 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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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
These amazing animals spend much of their time peacefully grazing on seagrass in the Indian and West pacific #Oceans. 💙
#WildlifePhotography
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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
These amazing animals spend much of their time peacefully grazing on seagrass in the Indian and West pacific #Oceans. 💙
#WildlifePhotography
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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...
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...
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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...
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...
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Just received this lovely note from the Dept. of Commerce. Always great hearing DOC say "Look we're forced to do this and say you weren't fired for performance issues and part of a government wide mass termination. But don't worry we think that's wrong and we're gonna fight it tooth and nail."
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just received this lovely note from the Dept. of Commerce. Always great hearing DOC say "Look we're forced to do this and say you weren't fired for performance issues and part of a government wide mass termination. But don't worry we think that's wrong and we're gonna fight it tooth and nail."