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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes.
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· May 3
2025 BingoCard | Aide Mémoire
In something of a tradition for me, at the start of each new year, I deal with my existential dread by creating a BingoCard. Here is my 2025 BingoCard: Here is a link to the pdf version
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It’s how I deal with my existential dread katecarruthers.com/2025/01/09/2...
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Congress wants to weaken the Marine Mammals Protection Act, a key ocean conservation law that’s safeguarded species for over 50 years. The proposed rollbacks would strip protections for marine life and expose them to harmful industrial activity.
From Whales to Walruses, Sea Mammals Are Under Attack—and So Is the Law That Protects Them
In yet another attack on science, Congress is proposing to dismantle the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
www.nrdc.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Congress wants to weaken the Marine Mammals Protection Act, a key ocean conservation law that’s safeguarded species for over 50 years. The proposed rollbacks would strip protections for marine life and expose them to harmful industrial activity.
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Now that Putin's Russia controls the entire United States government, can we finally show a little bit of respect for the Baltic states?
They were right all along.
Their societies have held up well under pressure.
They were right all along.
Their societies have held up well under pressure.
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Now that Putin's Russia controls the entire United States government, can we finally show a little bit of respect for the Baltic states?
They were right all along.
Their societies have held up well under pressure.
They were right all along.
Their societies have held up well under pressure.
Trump really is a miracle worker 🤣
South Korea & China agree to fast-track phase-two FTA talks
https://www.europesays.com/2668451/
Trade chiefs of South Korea and China have agreed to accelerate follow-up negotiations for the second phase of…
https://www.europesays.com/2668451/
Trade chiefs of South Korea and China have agreed to accelerate follow-up negotiations for the second phase of…
South Korea & China agree to fast-track phase-two FTA talks - EUROPE SAYS
Trade chiefs of South Korea and China have agreed to accelerate follow-up negotiations for the second phase of their bilateral free trade agreement.
www.europesays.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Trump really is a miracle worker 🤣
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Good job, every major US media outlet! By uncritically parroting the narrative of a lying MAGA streamer, there are now hate crimes being committed against daycares that cater to the Somali community!
Fantastic job!
www.startribune.com/police-inves...
Fantastic job!
www.startribune.com/police-inves...
Police investigating overnight burglary of Somali day care in south Minneapolis
The break-in comes in the aftermath of a viral video alleging fraud by several Somali child care centers.
www.startribune.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Good job, every major US media outlet! By uncritically parroting the narrative of a lying MAGA streamer, there are now hate crimes being committed against daycares that cater to the Somali community!
Fantastic job!
www.startribune.com/police-inves...
Fantastic job!
www.startribune.com/police-inves...
This sounds so very stupid 🙄: Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine
www.psypost.org/some-men-may-d…
www.psypost.org/some-men-may-d…
December 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This sounds so very stupid 🙄: Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine
www.psypost.org/some-men-may-d…
www.psypost.org/some-men-may-d…
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Children from Lutsk are sharing their light with Odesa—a city plunged into darkness for days due to russian shelling🕯️
Growing up under constant attacks and hardships, Ukrainian kids forge their sense of resilience, kindness and compassion❤️
Let’s protect them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
Growing up under constant attacks and hardships, Ukrainian kids forge their sense of resilience, kindness and compassion❤️
Let’s protect them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
December 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Children from Lutsk are sharing their light with Odesa—a city plunged into darkness for days due to russian shelling🕯️
Growing up under constant attacks and hardships, Ukrainian kids forge their sense of resilience, kindness and compassion❤️
Let’s protect them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
Growing up under constant attacks and hardships, Ukrainian kids forge their sense of resilience, kindness and compassion❤️
Let’s protect them:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
I’m very full from eating delicious paella at a new year dinner 🥘
December 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m very full from eating delicious paella at a new year dinner 🥘
Happy new year folks. Wishing you all a good and not at all an interesting year. 💕🥳
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Happy new year folks. Wishing you all a good and not at all an interesting year. 💕🥳
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Before the war, we welcomed the New Year with celebrations, joy, and fireworks. Today, fireworks are forbidden, celebrations are muted, and nothing feels the same. We have lost so many beautiful people. Russia is a terrorist state!
December 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Before the war, we welcomed the New Year with celebrations, joy, and fireworks. Today, fireworks are forbidden, celebrations are muted, and nothing feels the same. We have lost so many beautiful people. Russia is a terrorist state!
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MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was born in part of the realization by the Red Cross that they'd failed to speak out against the Holocaust of Jewish people in the Nazi camps. Founding MSF in 1971, former RC medics vowed to bear witness as well as rendering aid.
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was born in part of the realization by the Red Cross that they'd failed to speak out against the Holocaust of Jewish people in the Nazi camps. Founding MSF in 1971, former RC medics vowed to bear witness as well as rendering aid.
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
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The Australian govt should be telling the Israeli govt to fuck right off.
How dare they suggest this about Australians, including senators.
How dare they suggest this about Australians, including senators.
December 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Australian govt should be telling the Israeli govt to fuck right off.
How dare they suggest this about Australians, including senators.
How dare they suggest this about Australians, including senators.
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Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi.
🫡 to those on the list
🫡 to those on the list
December 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi.
🫡 to those on the list
🫡 to those on the list
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From mobile medical units to reinforced hospitals, Finland's hospital system is adapting to harsh lessons learned from Ukraine.
Finland's hospitals bolster wartime preparedness
From mobile medical units to reinforced hospitals, Finland's hospital system is adapting to harsh lessons learned from Ukraine.
yle.fi
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
From mobile medical units to reinforced hospitals, Finland's hospital system is adapting to harsh lessons learned from Ukraine.
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The Feds don't want to run a Royal Commission into anti-semitism and Bondi, because they don't want buckets of shit poured on intelligence services failure, and they don't want public findings of particular Israeli government actions driving hostility to Jewish people both domestic and abroad.
December 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Feds don't want to run a Royal Commission into anti-semitism and Bondi, because they don't want buckets of shit poured on intelligence services failure, and they don't want public findings of particular Israeli government actions driving hostility to Jewish people both domestic and abroad.
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Segalism: www.aseca.gov.au/news/article...
Human Rights Commission: humanrights.gov.au
Australian Law:
Human Rights Commission: humanrights.gov.au
Australian Law:
December 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Segalism: www.aseca.gov.au/news/article...
Human Rights Commission: humanrights.gov.au
Australian Law:
Human Rights Commission: humanrights.gov.au
Australian Law:
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The same Israel minister who put targets on Australians via his 'antisemitism list' is also behind the banning of world aid orgs into Gaza.
No response by Govt yet
#auspol
youtu.be/k9mjGsCU6QU?...
No response by Govt yet
#auspol
youtu.be/k9mjGsCU6QU?...
Israel Targets Aussies While Blocking Aid to Gaza | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The same Israel minister who put targets on Australians via his 'antisemitism list' is also behind the banning of world aid orgs into Gaza.
No response by Govt yet
#auspol
youtu.be/k9mjGsCU6QU?...
No response by Govt yet
#auspol
youtu.be/k9mjGsCU6QU?...
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Israel should be banned from every international forum.
That Israeli President Isaac Herzog is coming to Australia is a disgrace.
That Israeli President Isaac Herzog is coming to Australia is a disgrace.
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Israel should be banned from every international forum.
That Israeli President Isaac Herzog is coming to Australia is a disgrace.
That Israeli President Isaac Herzog is coming to Australia is a disgrace.
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He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
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“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
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Brazil has no aspirations to invade & conquer its neighbors which is why Lula was willing to say that Russia should leave Ukraine when Xi wasn’t
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Brazil has no aspirations to invade & conquer its neighbors which is why Lula was willing to say that Russia should leave Ukraine when Xi wasn’t
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I worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in multiple countries to bring medical care to refugees and other populations at risk. There are a 100% committed, professional, non-political organization.
Netanyahu banning them from Gaza is an unspeakable outrage. People will die.
Netanyahu banning them from Gaza is an unspeakable outrage. People will die.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in multiple countries to bring medical care to refugees and other populations at risk. There are a 100% committed, professional, non-political organization.
Netanyahu banning them from Gaza is an unspeakable outrage. People will die.
Netanyahu banning them from Gaza is an unspeakable outrage. People will die.
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It's interesting that people just totally forgot that masking in 2020 literally drove one strain of flu extinct. It no longer exists, because people wore masks.
And, that after a bunch of covid infections, they find it very hard to understand why you'd mention masks when talking about the flu
And, that after a bunch of covid infections, they find it very hard to understand why you'd mention masks when talking about the flu
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's interesting that people just totally forgot that masking in 2020 literally drove one strain of flu extinct. It no longer exists, because people wore masks.
And, that after a bunch of covid infections, they find it very hard to understand why you'd mention masks when talking about the flu
And, that after a bunch of covid infections, they find it very hard to understand why you'd mention masks when talking about the flu
Wow first mozzies now this! FYI this is warmer than Sydney on Boxing Day in 2025: Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded #ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Wow first mozzies now this! FYI this is warmer than Sydney on Boxing Day in 2025: Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded #ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
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I think it's a mistake to view the events in Yemen purely through a Saudi-Emirati conflict model
I think that's a big component, but there are local actors with their own agendas
The STC doesn't necessarily work on remote control, and pulling back from Hadramawt would be a BIG loss of face
I think that's a big component, but there are local actors with their own agendas
The STC doesn't necessarily work on remote control, and pulling back from Hadramawt would be a BIG loss of face
December 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I think it's a mistake to view the events in Yemen purely through a Saudi-Emirati conflict model
I think that's a big component, but there are local actors with their own agendas
The STC doesn't necessarily work on remote control, and pulling back from Hadramawt would be a BIG loss of face
I think that's a big component, but there are local actors with their own agendas
The STC doesn't necessarily work on remote control, and pulling back from Hadramawt would be a BIG loss of face
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All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN!
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
This is monstrous. He wants to turn the residents of the state against Walz and against the Somali-American population.
BREAKING
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN!
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.