Sarah J
@cooee.bsky.social
Pakana | Lutruwita
Communications and engagement nerd | Knitter
Learning culture and language of the old people 🖤💛❤️ #mobsky
Communications and engagement nerd | Knitter
Learning culture and language of the old people 🖤💛❤️ #mobsky
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#Denmark: Despite a ban on "parenting tests" for Greenlandic mothers, a child was just removed 1 hour after birth
The council said the mother (born in #Greenland, with Greenlandic parents & foster parents) "wasn't Greenlandic enough" for the ban to apply
Horrific.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The council said the mother (born in #Greenland, with Greenlandic parents & foster parents) "wasn't Greenlandic enough" for the ban to apply
Horrific.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#Denmark: Despite a ban on "parenting tests" for Greenlandic mothers, a child was just removed 1 hour after birth
The council said the mother (born in #Greenland, with Greenlandic parents & foster parents) "wasn't Greenlandic enough" for the ban to apply
Horrific.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The council said the mother (born in #Greenland, with Greenlandic parents & foster parents) "wasn't Greenlandic enough" for the ban to apply
Horrific.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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I've been working on story about the toxic algal bloom spreading off the South Australian coast. I just went back and looked at how hot the waters off the coast of Australia were getting starting in September 2024. Here's the visual:
July 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I've been working on story about the toxic algal bloom spreading off the South Australian coast. I just went back and looked at how hot the waters off the coast of Australia were getting starting in September 2024. Here's the visual:
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www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/navajo-... Navajo Nation pushes for water rights as Colorado River shrinks | News | stgeorgeutah.com
Navajo Nation pushes for water rights as Colorado River shrinks
As the Colorado River faces historically low levels, Native American tribes that have depended on its life-sustaining waters for generations are raising concerns about the impacts on their communities...
www.stgeorgeutah.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/navajo-... Navajo Nation pushes for water rights as Colorado River shrinks | News | stgeorgeutah.com
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“They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway.”
Bushfire Survivor Serena Joyner
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bushfire Survivor Serena Joyner
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved
‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway.”
Bushfire Survivor Serena Joyner
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bushfire Survivor Serena Joyner
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NT once again demonstrating it is competent to govern itself.
Independent panel found against candidate for NT Legal Aid CEO as she had "none" of the relevant experience.
AG appointed her anyway.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/nt-legal-aid-charmain-resigns-over-ministers-captains-pick/105287800
Independent panel found against candidate for NT Legal Aid CEO as she had "none" of the relevant experience.
AG appointed her anyway.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/nt-legal-aid-charmain-resigns-over-ministers-captains-pick/105287800
NT govt's 'captain's pick' for legal agency sparks multiple resignations
Several Legal Aid NT board members, including its chair, have resigned following the Attorney-General's "captain's pick" appointment to head up the embattled organisation.
www.abc.net.au
May 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
NT once again demonstrating it is competent to govern itself.
Independent panel found against candidate for NT Legal Aid CEO as she had "none" of the relevant experience.
AG appointed her anyway.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/nt-legal-aid-charmain-resigns-over-ministers-captains-pick/105287800
Independent panel found against candidate for NT Legal Aid CEO as she had "none" of the relevant experience.
AG appointed her anyway.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/nt-legal-aid-charmain-resigns-over-ministers-captains-pick/105287800
I can think of a few as comms, engagement and cultural safety trainer/advisor…
- engagement fatigue
- editing a life choices thesis
- colonial load clearance
- engagement fatigue
- editing a life choices thesis
- colonial load clearance
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a geographer: topology error
Me, a geographer: topology error
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a botanist: Stress-induced dormancy.
Me, a botanist: Stress-induced dormancy.
May 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I can think of a few as comms, engagement and cultural safety trainer/advisor…
- engagement fatigue
- editing a life choices thesis
- colonial load clearance
- engagement fatigue
- editing a life choices thesis
- colonial load clearance
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
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Qld LNP's Premier David Crisafulli & Brisbane Mayor Adrian Shrinner have now both endorsed Victoria Park stadium. Barrambin is along a songline, it's a Bora & a meeting place for the Turrbal & Yuggera tribes. It's also a massacre site. #qldpol www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
Queensland plans to build 2032 Olympics stadium on significant Indigenous site
For tens of thousands of years, the site served as a meeting and gathering place for Turrbal and Yuggera peoples, as well as a location of sacred rituals.
www.sbs.com.au
March 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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might think that the amendments this week to the EPBC Act were specific to the salmon industry. THEY WEREN'T. Salmon/fish farming is not even mentioned. The amendments can be applied to ANY project or industry. It guts the protections & the power of the Enviro Minister
March 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
might think that the amendments this week to the EPBC Act were specific to the salmon industry. THEY WEREN'T. Salmon/fish farming is not even mentioned. The amendments can be applied to ANY project or industry. It guts the protections & the power of the Enviro Minister
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The Indigenous Governance Toolkit is an online resource to help Indigenous organisations, communities, nations and individuals build, strengthen and evaluate their governance.
aigi.org.au/toolkit
#mobsky
aigi.org.au/toolkit
#mobsky
Toolkit - AIGI
aigi.org.au
March 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The Indigenous Governance Toolkit is an online resource to help Indigenous organisations, communities, nations and individuals build, strengthen and evaluate their governance.
aigi.org.au/toolkit
#mobsky
aigi.org.au/toolkit
#mobsky
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so let me get this straight. @albomp.bsky.social promised environmental protection only to throw it out the window this term. But he is also promising environmental protection next term. Does he really think we are that stupid? #auspol
March 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
so let me get this straight. @albomp.bsky.social promised environmental protection only to throw it out the window this term. But he is also promising environmental protection next term. Does he really think we are that stupid? #auspol
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anyone who is shocked by salmon companies potentially selling diseased salmon flesh has not been paying attention
www.bbc.com/news/world-l...
www.bbc.com/news/world-l...
Brazil meat-packing giants 'exported rotten beef' - BBC News
The authorities close three processing plants and suspend 33 officials over the allegations.
www.bbc.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
anyone who is shocked by salmon companies potentially selling diseased salmon flesh has not been paying attention
www.bbc.com/news/world-l...
www.bbc.com/news/world-l...
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"It's the only way to stay safe" chaser.com.au/national/dutton-suggests-his-electorate/
March 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"It's the only way to stay safe" chaser.com.au/national/dutton-suggests-his-electorate/
Trying to keep my spirits up lately is challenging so I took the opportunity on a hot day to have a lunch time swim. Check out this little fella who had been hanging around for half an hour before finally getting what he’d been smelling for his lunch! 🥰 #Coningham #Lutruwita #mobsky #selfcare
March 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trying to keep my spirits up lately is challenging so I took the opportunity on a hot day to have a lunch time swim. Check out this little fella who had been hanging around for half an hour before finally getting what he’d been smelling for his lunch! 🥰 #Coningham #Lutruwita #mobsky #selfcare
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Australia boiling in its own hot soup sea #climatechange
February 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Australia boiling in its own hot soup sea #climatechange
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the poorest State and the one with the worst health metrics is the one where it costs the most to see a GP.
February 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
the poorest State and the one with the worst health metrics is the one where it costs the most to see a GP.
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Have you heard the good news?
The UK is investing in🌡 climate detection systems.
So even as the US takes belligerent steps backwards, Europe is making investments & advancements.🌍
One thing is certain everyone needs to take this sh't far more seriously.⌛
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK is investing in🌡 climate detection systems.
So even as the US takes belligerent steps backwards, Europe is making investments & advancements.🌍
One thing is certain everyone needs to take this sh't far more seriously.⌛
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Early warning system for climate tipping points given £81m kickstart
Ambitious UK project aims to forecast climate catastrophes using fleets of drones, cosmic ray detection, patterns of plankton blooms and more
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Have you heard the good news?
The UK is investing in🌡 climate detection systems.
So even as the US takes belligerent steps backwards, Europe is making investments & advancements.🌍
One thing is certain everyone needs to take this sh't far more seriously.⌛
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK is investing in🌡 climate detection systems.
So even as the US takes belligerent steps backwards, Europe is making investments & advancements.🌍
One thing is certain everyone needs to take this sh't far more seriously.⌛
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race 🖤💛❤️ #mobsky
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race
The Freedom Ride hit the road in 1965 to protest racism and segregation throughout regional NSW. For descendants of the original riders, images from the trip are a source of immense pride
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race 🖤💛❤️ #mobsky
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...
Echoing of the white gaze in Evie Wyld’s The Echoes - Overland literary journal
Wyld’s creation of voiceless-nameless-lifeless Blak people in The Echoes serves no narrative purpose. This novel is not truth-telling of invasion and occupation, and it does not envision justice for A...
overland.org.au
February 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...
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Communities on Tasmania's west coast are bracing as bushfires bear down, with several communities on alert. Follow live.
Live: Bushfires threatening communities on Tasmania's west coast
Communities on Tasmania's west coast are bracing as bushfires bear down, with several communities on alert. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Communities on Tasmania's west coast are bracing as bushfires bear down, with several communities on alert. Follow live.
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the news from these fires just gets worse.
Leatherwood trees under threat
A hut lost on the overland track.
😒😪😥😢
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Leatherwood trees under threat
A hut lost on the overland track.
😒😪😥😢
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Bushfire threat to worsen with beekeepers fearing hives won't survive
Bushfires that have burnt through wilderness areas in Tasmania are now threatening trees that grow nowhere else in the world and are critical to the state's honey industry — as authorities confirm an ...
www.abc.net.au
February 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
the news from these fires just gets worse.
Leatherwood trees under threat
A hut lost on the overland track.
😒😪😥😢
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Leatherwood trees under threat
A hut lost on the overland track.
😒😪😥😢
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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I still don't understand how this isn't huge news. This is absolutely iconic Tasmanian alpine vegetation — around Cradle Mountain ffs — about to be burnt and killed, TONIGHT.
The 'Canning Peak' fire is now approaching Lake Will, south of Cradle Mountain. Goodbye pencil pines.
(The limited fire detections visible here will be due to current cloud cover, not reduced fire extent. Detection satellites cannot see through cloud.)
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#t:tsd;d...
(The limited fire detections visible here will be due to current cloud cover, not reduced fire extent. Detection satellites cannot see through cloud.)
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#t:tsd;d...
February 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I still don't understand how this isn't huge news. This is absolutely iconic Tasmanian alpine vegetation — around Cradle Mountain ffs — about to be burnt and killed, TONIGHT.