Janette McLeod
@truffle157.bsky.social
Feminist, socialist(ish), peace activist, human rights supporter, family historian, traveller, reader, political junkie.
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Great line from London Wildlife Trust.
UK govt war on bats and newts, part 328
Small building developments will no longer need to worry too much about the damage they cause to nature
Or as London Wildlife Trusts say "We’ve got a flatlining economy, I know what’s to blame: hedgehogs"
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Small building developments will no longer need to worry too much about the damage they cause to nature
Or as London Wildlife Trusts say "We’ve got a flatlining economy, I know what’s to blame: hedgehogs"
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Labour weakens nature protections in push for building boom
Rachel Reeves says changes to biodiversity rules will lift block on new housing but conservationists accuse government making wildlife a scapegoat for failure
www.thetimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Great line from London Wildlife Trust.
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3 in 4 AUs hold negative prejudices against Aborigines. 11 out of 12 their kids experience racism. They asked for a Voice to Parliament. One family gave Advance $50k to help 9.5M AUs to vote against First Peoples. Why & how did the Jewish community get A Voice b/c of 'antisemitism'? Please explain.
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
3 in 4 AUs hold negative prejudices against Aborigines. 11 out of 12 their kids experience racism. They asked for a Voice to Parliament. One family gave Advance $50k to help 9.5M AUs to vote against First Peoples. Why & how did the Jewish community get A Voice b/c of 'antisemitism'? Please explain.
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My ideal gun policy would ensure that almost no one* had a gun at home. Recreational hunting would be banned. Gun clubs would be required to store their members' guns with high levels of security. Workers who need guns (security guards, licensed shooters) would store them at their workplace.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
My ideal gun policy would ensure that almost no one* had a gun at home. Recreational hunting would be banned. Gun clubs would be required to store their members' guns with high levels of security. Workers who need guns (security guards, licensed shooters) would store them at their workplace.
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For our last #YouthCorner of 2025, we explore how colonial power shaped rigid ideas of masculinity & how #youth are challenging them today.
In this Q&A, Mariam Gamal Louca reflects on why reimagining #masculinities matters for #equality, #justice & #feministpeace.
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In this Q&A, Mariam Gamal Louca reflects on why reimagining #masculinities matters for #equality, #justice & #feministpeace.
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Q&A with Mariam Gamal Louca: Reimagining Masculinities - WILPF
Why do we need to talk about masculinities with youth? I started thinking seriously about the word ‘masculinity’ when I noticed how men around me interact, they’re always trying to […]
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December 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
For our last #YouthCorner of 2025, we explore how colonial power shaped rigid ideas of masculinity & how #youth are challenging them today.
In this Q&A, Mariam Gamal Louca reflects on why reimagining #masculinities matters for #equality, #justice & #feministpeace.
Read more 👉 shorturl.at/VHa4g
In this Q&A, Mariam Gamal Louca reflects on why reimagining #masculinities matters for #equality, #justice & #feministpeace.
Read more 👉 shorturl.at/VHa4g
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Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
Guns owned with a gun club licence should be kept locked at the gun club.
📢 The Australian government could tighten gun control measures even further in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting, as advocates call for further restrictions.
Globally lauded and locally prided, Australia's gun laws are under scrutiny after Bondi tragedy
www.sbs.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Guns owned with a gun club licence should be kept locked at the gun club.
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Amidst their profound grief, one or more influential Jewish Australians should get the word to Netanyahu to butt out. His heinous accusation is absolutely unfounded and will only serve to make our nation's recovery from this shocking tragedy more difficult
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
‘You let the disease spread’: Netanyahu accuses Albanese of failing to curb antisemitism
The Israeli PM say he warned the prime minister months ago of not taking enough action against antisemitism as other world leaders condemn the Bondi Beach mass shooting.
www.theage.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Amidst their profound grief, one or more influential Jewish Australians should get the word to Netanyahu to butt out. His heinous accusation is absolutely unfounded and will only serve to make our nation's recovery from this shocking tragedy more difficult
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
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Everyone has been getting richer over the past 30 years. The super rich have been increasing their wealth much faster than the rest though. This means inequality increased too.
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Everyone has been getting richer over the past 30 years. The super rich have been increasing their wealth much faster than the rest though. This means inequality increased too.
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From the muddled minds & corrupted brain cells of long-term addicts & alcoholics whose grandiose ambition far outweighs a tiny talent?
America's Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has abandoned science in its new advice about vaccines & autism.
theconversation.com/the-united-s...
America's Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has abandoned science in its new advice about vaccines & autism.
theconversation.com/the-united-s...
The United States CDC has abandoned science in its new advice about vaccines and autism
The CDC website used to state, clearly and correctly, that the evidence shows no link between vaccines and the development of autism.
theconversation.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
From the muddled minds & corrupted brain cells of long-term addicts & alcoholics whose grandiose ambition far outweighs a tiny talent?
America's Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has abandoned science in its new advice about vaccines & autism.
theconversation.com/the-united-s...
America's Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has abandoned science in its new advice about vaccines & autism.
theconversation.com/the-united-s...
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For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter
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Traditional European Christmas Deserts by region. Being from Munich I am favoring the Frankonian Lebkuchen, the Italian Panettone and basically everything from Eastern Europe. Let’s just say that I’m no a picky eater... Source: buff.ly/2WxBIkC
December 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Traditional European Christmas Deserts by region. Being from Munich I am favoring the Frankonian Lebkuchen, the Italian Panettone and basically everything from Eastern Europe. Let’s just say that I’m no a picky eater... Source: buff.ly/2WxBIkC
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FACT OF THE DAY. 10 December 1942. Polish government in exile, based in London, published a detailed report called The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. A week later, Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, gave details of the report in a speech in the House of Commons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
FACT OF THE DAY. 10 December 1942. Polish government in exile, based in London, published a detailed report called The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. A week later, Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, gave details of the report in a speech in the House of Commons.
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#HumanRightsDefendersDay | Women human rights defenders face growing #digitalviolence that shapes how they post, organise & feel safe.
Silencing defenders silences movements. WILPF strengthens advocacy, accountability and protection from grassroots to UN.
Learn more: www.wilpf.org/our-work/hum...
Silencing defenders silences movements. WILPF strengthens advocacy, accountability and protection from grassroots to UN.
Learn more: www.wilpf.org/our-work/hum...
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#HumanRightsDefendersDay | Women human rights defenders face growing #digitalviolence that shapes how they post, organise & feel safe.
Silencing defenders silences movements. WILPF strengthens advocacy, accountability and protection from grassroots to UN.
Learn more: www.wilpf.org/our-work/hum...
Silencing defenders silences movements. WILPF strengthens advocacy, accountability and protection from grassroots to UN.
Learn more: www.wilpf.org/our-work/hum...
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The great tobacco tax mess, and its implications for the national accounts. Cut for space: my recommendation to end the effective ban on vapes.
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Illegal tobacco is messing up economic data. That won’t stop until it’s managed like alcohol
The illicit market has reached the point where it is significantly distorting the national accounts.
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The great tobacco tax mess, and its implications for the national accounts. Cut for space: my recommendation to end the effective ban on vapes.
theconversation.com/...?
theconversation.com/...?
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ICYMI
Fueling a moral panic. www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/h...
Fueling a moral panic. www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/h...
How the Jewish Chronicle Weaponizes 'Antisemitism' to Fuel a Moral Panic
On Yom Kippur, two British Jews were killed at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester, during a cruel, antisemitic act of violence.
www.counterpunch.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
ICYMI
Fueling a moral panic. www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/h...
Fueling a moral panic. www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/h...
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Australia’s new Defence Delivery Agency may finally expose an uncomfortable truth: Australia already has formidable deterrent capabilities through the Royal Australian Air Force & emerging drone systems, making the AUKUS submarine commitment both risky & unnecessary.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Marles’ Defence overhaul raises an awkward question: why AUKUS at all?
Australia’s new Defence Delivery Agency may finally expose an uncomfortable truth – that Australia already has formidable deterrent capabilities through the Royal Australian Air Force and emerging dro...
johnmenadue.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Australia’s new Defence Delivery Agency may finally expose an uncomfortable truth: Australia already has formidable deterrent capabilities through the Royal Australian Air Force & emerging drone systems, making the AUKUS submarine commitment both risky & unnecessary.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
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Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Doesn't say much for Australia's security if we can't bring 40 kids and their mothers home.
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Even less for our humanity.
Bring them home @albomp.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Exclusive: NACC secretly finds Home Affairs Chief of Staff Stephanie Kolobaric acted corruptly.
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/12/07/e...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/12/07/e...
Exclusive: NACC secretly finds Home Affairs Chief of Staff Stephanie Kolobaric acted corruptly
Former Department of Home Affairs Chief of Staff Stephanie Kolobaric was found by the National Anti-Corruption Commission to have “engaged in corrupt conduct by abusing her office and by misusing offi...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Exclusive: NACC secretly finds Home Affairs Chief of Staff Stephanie Kolobaric acted corruptly.
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/12/07/e...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/12/07/e...
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"It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all."
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers
“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all."
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
Gorgeous read on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/16/o...
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Through the Male Allies Group @peacetrack.bsky.social, Hamdan works to challenge patriarchal norms, amplify women’s leadership & create spaces for young women to engage in peacebuilding.
A feminist allyship in action: transforming masculinities, breaking stigma & building a more inclusive future.{
A feminist allyship in action: transforming masculinities, breaking stigma & building a more inclusive future.{
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Through the Male Allies Group @peacetrack.bsky.social, Hamdan works to challenge patriarchal norms, amplify women’s leadership & create spaces for young women to engage in peacebuilding.
A feminist allyship in action: transforming masculinities, breaking stigma & building a more inclusive future.{
A feminist allyship in action: transforming masculinities, breaking stigma & building a more inclusive future.{
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Blistering response by the Australia's Jewish diaspora to the Segal Report.
theklaxon.com.au/segal-threat...
Albanese and Segal should be sacked.
theklaxon.com.au/segal-threat...
Albanese and Segal should be sacked.
Segal “threatening Australia’s freedoms and democracy”, Jewish groups warn - The Klaxon
Nine Jewish organisations have labelled Envoy Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report" an attack on Australia's “democracy” and “freedoms”, and say it must be rejected.
theklaxon.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Blistering response by the Australia's Jewish diaspora to the Segal Report.
theklaxon.com.au/segal-threat...
Albanese and Segal should be sacked.
theklaxon.com.au/segal-threat...
Albanese and Segal should be sacked.