Philip (Piripi) McKibbin
@piripi.net
Writer, PhD candidate (SEI/USyd), teacher. 🤓 All about the Politics of Love! 🥝 - Māori (Kāi Tahu), Pākehā - based in 🐊🦘🕸️ …for now. Serves on NZ Peace Foundation council, @animalstudies committee. ❤️s colour! 🌈
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‘This is why the artist […] absolves instead of condemning. Instead of being a judge, he is a justifier. He is the perpetual advocate of the living creature, because it is alive. He truly argues for love of one’s neighbour…’ - Albert Camus
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Create Dangerously
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argue…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
‘This is why the artist […] absolves instead of condemning. Instead of being a judge, he is a justifier. He is the perpetual advocate of the living creature, because it is alive. He truly argues for love of one’s neighbour…’ - Albert Camus
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www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...
‘…and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.’ - Albert Camus
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
‘…and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.’ - Albert Camus
'Saying the marine creature would be “annoyed as hell” if he knew, sources confirmed Friday that a shrimp currently inhabiting a local salt marsh would be completely pissed off if he were able to see the awful party he will one day be served at.'
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Shrimp Would Be Pissed If He Could See The Lame Party He’s Going To Be Served At
MURRELLS INLET, SC—Saying the marine creature would be “annoyed as hell” if he knew, sources confirmed Friday that a shrimp currently inhabiting a local salt marsh would be completely pissed off if he...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
'Saying the marine creature would be “annoyed as hell” if he knew, sources confirmed Friday that a shrimp currently inhabiting a local salt marsh would be completely pissed off if he were able to see the awful party he will one day be served at.'
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'“When our families came together, the house suddenly became full of life: three little girls running around, laughing all the time,” says Fei. “[T]hey’re now surrounded by double the love.”'
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Single mothers in China find a new kind of partner – other single mothers
Posts from women seeking like-minded parents to share a home and child-rearing responsibilities are appearing on social media
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November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
'“When our families came together, the house suddenly became full of life: three little girls running around, laughing all the time,” says Fei. “[T]hey’re now surrounded by double the love.”'
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Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
This is the story of Frog who urges the cowardly Mr. Ka…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
'Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.'
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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October 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
'Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.'
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‘The preservation of knowledge is fundamentally not about the past but the future.’ - Richard Ovenden
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Burning The Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
'Burning the Books is fascinating, thought-provoking an…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
‘The preservation of knowledge is fundamentally not about the past but the future.’ - Richard Ovenden
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www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991
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October 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It’s all Darling Harbour and QVB until you get a 39C day in October. 😳
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It’s all Darling Harbour and QVB until you get a 39C day in October. 😳
‘The world is not prepared for the impacts of crossing these tipping points…’
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The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN
The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
‘The world is not prepared for the impacts of crossing these tipping points…’
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‘Anger wants a voice, voices wanna sing, singers harmonise, till they can’t hear anything…’
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Harmony Hall
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October 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
‘Anger wants a voice, voices wanna sing, singers harmonise, till they can’t hear anything…’
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‘Speaking on a farm in Waikato on Sunday, ministers described their new goal as “science-based” [but] the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has repeatedly stressed the importance of reducing, specifically, methane emissions.’
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Fucking stupid. 🤬
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Fucking stupid. 🤬
Government almost halves methane reduction target, farmers celebrate
Ministers describe their new goal as “science-based”, while Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the plan appears to be “cooked up by lobbyists” working for farming companies.
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October 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
‘Speaking on a farm in Waikato on Sunday, ministers described their new goal as “science-based” [but] the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has repeatedly stressed the importance of reducing, specifically, methane emissions.’
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Fucking stupid. 🤬
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Fucking stupid. 🤬
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October 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
‘Despite the possibilities, I think the survival of US democracy is the least likely outcome over the next years. I hope I am wrong.’
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The end of US democracy and what this means for international relations
Once the pillar of democracy, the US now flirts with authoritarianism. ANU expert Ben Goldsmith unpacks what this means.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
‘Despite the possibilities, I think the survival of US democracy is the least likely outcome over the next years. I hope I am wrong.’
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‘The assembly line, the foundation of modern capitalism, came from perfecting methods to slice up animals while—and this is the important part—preventing them from resisting.’
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How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism
Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
‘The assembly line, the foundation of modern capitalism, came from perfecting methods to slice up animals while—and this is the important part—preventing them from resisting.’
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