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South West Hiker
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Dogs, EVs, Hiking, Politics 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈
Now, we get to that time of the year where temps are greater than 35 degrees for days where I say “fuck summer” ☀️
January 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Both Morrison & Albanese dismissed the urgent pleas of over 500,000 Australians. A record breaking Australian petition was completely ignored.
Grace Tame understands that decorum won't cut it.
It's time to get louder Australia.
#auspol #Murdoch #democracy
Opinion | "Anthony’s predictable response to my two-word statement has reinforced just how poisonous Murdoch’s grip still is on the Western world," writes Grace Tame.

Read her article for Crikey here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/g...
January 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Really hard to find hope in humanity when so many are so openly cruel yet they are cheered on for it. The devil's work of dehumanizing our fellow humans to normalize mass death and suffering has been wildly successful.

The world we inhabit today is one that is intolerable for those with empathy.
January 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
#walk over the new BoorLoo Bridge in Perth, Western Australia. 🇦🇺
January 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I have tried various methods of cooking tofu today and they all taste like I’m eating a flavoured dishwashing sponge. 🧽
January 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Some are actively working to undermine our democracy as they've done in the US.

No one is coming to save us from them but us.

We all have a role to play. Time to step up #auspol
January 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
So sad that David Lynch died. A friend and I did a road trip to the North West a few years ago. I was amazed how Lynch turned a few locations in North Bend into the fictional town of Twin Peaks.
January 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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After 18 months of operation and a cost of $140 million to Australians, the staggeringly incompetent NACC has concluded its top 3 major corruption investigations, and guess what?

It has found no corruption.

The #NACC is a failure and a national embarrassment.

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theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-n...
NACC finds “no corruption” – spends $140m to date
The embattled National Anti-Corruption Commission has completed its first three investigations – and found zero corruption.
theklaxon.com.au
January 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The media in QLD hve switched from blaming Labor for “youth crime” - to blaming the justice system for not handing down harsher sentences now that the LNP are in govt.

The media continue to provide an LNP protection racket & the numpties who listen to this shyte suck it up.
January 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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People are dying and losing their homes while these dipshits blame women and people of color for it. Nothing but contempt for these despicable opportunists.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Australia’s stupid fucking people once voted for this.

That’s the point👇
January 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Hot trends for 2025*
Composting
Bicycles
Libraries
Repair cafes
Wetlands
Voting rights
Plant based diets
Home weatherization
Water conservation
Sharing
Rain gardens
Green roofs
Agri-voltaics
Electric school buses
Dense housing
Walkability
Fossil fuel phase out
Peace

*If I ran the world
December 31, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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When looking for an ideal choice to make plastic, you want something with high concentrations of cellulose, such as #hemp.

Hemp’s manufacturing process doesn’t create hazardous compounds like benzene, and the energy required to produce hemp plastic is up to 45% less than traditional #plastic.
December 30, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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Albanese govt's transition on track to reach 82% renewables by 2030 w 43% emissions cut. Dutton's nuclear fantasy unnecessary & prolongs fossil fuels. Aust has a plan to decarbonise already being achieved. We're at 40% VRE w assets to get to 50% in train #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/this-talk-of...
This talk of nuclear is a waste of time: Wind, solar and firming can clearly do the job
Australia’s economic future would be at risk if we stop wind and solar to build nuclear: Big industries would have to close and the risk of blackouts would be significant.
reneweconomy.com.au
December 30, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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I viewed Friendly Jordies’ vid of Gina Rinehart speaking at a mining conference to her sycophants.

Rinehart has been emboldened by Trump’s win & she’s off her leash.

She literally called 4 a takeover of govt & a Musk DOGE for Australia.

Given the chance, she would fck this country via her greed
December 29, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Elon Musk is a danger to democracy globally. The sooner countries realize this and go after him, the better. Ban Tesla, Twitter, and Starlink from their countries.

Musk thinks he's a global emperor who can dictate to countries around the world. We need to stop him.
Politico-owner Axel Springer prints a Musk op-ed promoting Germany's fascist AfD party. Welt's opinion editor resigns in protest. Here are two excerpts (translation is Google's) via Lexis. Does this sound like the NSDAP to you? It does to me.
Guardian report:
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
December 28, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I spend more time in this @bsky.app blocking bot accounts trying to follow me than I do actually interacting with real people. 🤖
December 29, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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Elon Musk didn't come to the US on a H1B visa. He came on a J-1 student visa, failed to get a work visa, and worked in the country illegally. He claims to have later gotten a H1B visa without providing any proof.

Like Melania Trump, he used money to make his history of illegal immigration go away.
December 28, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Elon Musk is lying. He came to the USA on a student visa, worked illegally, and then overstayed his visa. He's a fucking hypocrite, liar, and selfish pig.

@elonmusk
December 28, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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We're ending 2024 with record high North Atlantic sea surface temperatures.

A possible slogan for 2025: "Charting the unchartable."
December 26, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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"Taxpayer money is not for getting drunk," said Dutton
chaser.com.au/national/cal...
December 27, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure.

www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss
Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs
www.voanews.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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It took only three weeks to apprehend the killer of a CEO, while more than three years have passed since the Epstein list became known, and no arrests have been made.
December 26, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Congrats Trump voters.
You elected a serial sexual predator who brags about grabbing women by the pussy & surrounds himself with rapists, sex traffickers & pedophiles, but at least you’re “protecting” your daughter from the nonexistent trans boy on her middle school basketball team.
December 23, 2024 at 5:53 PM
#Walk along the coastal boardwalk. Albany, Western Australia. 🐳
December 23, 2024 at 12:31 AM