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Amanda Simpson 🍉
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Apprentice Polymath; perpetual student
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Bluesky is consistently censoring Palestinian people. There is a blatant pattern of this and you can't argue it's down to ignorance because they've been directly confronted on it.

Kick up a fuss. Lift the voices of Palestinians. Let Bluesky know that you see this pattern and you won't let it slide.
September 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Last week, hundreds of current and former NASA employees released a letter protesting the proposed budget cuts to the agency. “Discovery and invention and exploration is not a faucet that you can turn on and off,” says retired astronaut Cady Coleman, who signed the letter.

buff.ly/Dk6ZyjJ
NASA Employees Protest Cuts In Formal Dissent Letter
Retired astronaut Cady Coleman explains why she felt compelled to sign “The Voyager Declaration.”
www.sciencefriday.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Where's the voice and respect for First Nations peoples and their culture, @albomp.bsky.social & Senator Watt?

"Murujuga custodian Josie Alec said it was a "disgrace" to think industry and culture could co-exist. This is the battle of all battles," she said."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Traditional owners say 'there's always hope', vow to keep fighting Woodside
Traditional owners have pledged to continue fighting the decision to extend the North West Shelf gas plant, as environmentalists shift their focus to Woodside's next major project — the development of...
www.abc.net.au
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Cannot emphasise enough how much the episode this is from is about the doctor saving Space Eurovision from a group of evil, horned, Space Palestinians
i have not watched this season of doctor who but i have learned this screenshot is real and lmao
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Eurovision in Salzburg would be epic ... alas if Israel is banned no chance of me being there
🏙️ Salzburg’s mayor considers hosting #Eurovision 2026 to be difficult financially. Also, Salzburgarena will be unavailable in May. State representatives however claim that hosting would be possible with “pragmatic creativity”.

[📸 Urlaubsguru]

More: www.salzburg24.at/news/salzbur...
May 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Why is Russian excluded from Eurovision and Israel isn't?
May 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Very proud to be a signatory to this letter. We as a digital community are utterly failing to stand up for the shockingly vulnerable Palestinian community, and bsky's staffers are failing to listen.

The 'moderation' here has been obviously excessively aggressive in banning Palestinian accounts
We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
May 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A few million square kilometers of global sea-ice extent has gone missing ...
May 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The precautionary principle applies to political engagement, just as it does to pandemics. You don't wait and see and only react once things go badly. You need to be proactive when there are warning signs.
May 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s true we’re coming out of a mini ice age. But the rate that we’re doing so is unprecedented and is a clear indication of something terribly wrong
Reform is twisting the truth on climate change. Yes, natural climate change HAS gone on for hundreds of millions of years. But only a tiny fraction of that time has been suitable for human life. Even less for human society. We've now added manmade climate change to the mix. That's speeding things up
May 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Bluesky wonderfully free of hypocritical Eurovision fans who won’t boycott an event that platforms a nation committing genocide
May 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Sickening
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.
🌎🦑🧪
May 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
LOVE this map - I’m obsessed with both the Arctic and Antarctica
The fantastic cartographer @MtnMapper made this physical map of the North Pole region available for free. Source: shadedrelief.com/arctic
May 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The fantastic cartographer @MtnMapper made this physical map of the North Pole region available for free. Source: shadedrelief.com/arctic
May 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Well then stop trivializing respiratory viral illnesses as “just the flu”: “Australia has had over 60,000 flu cases already this year. Here’s why experts are worried”.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Australia has had over 60,000 flu cases already this year. Here’s why experts are worried
Australia's vaccination rates for the flu have been trending downwards in recent years, and experts are concerned about what could be a record flu season.
www.sbs.com.au
May 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🤭
May 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This
May 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Yep Albo doesn’t care about the environment (other than performative speeches that do nothing)
Disaster for the environment tonight, utter disaster 😢 #AusVotes25
May 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Swing towards Josh Burns? Charming.
May 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Perhaps Albo will feel secure enough to start growing a spine now.
May 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Let's make Gina mad again tomorrow night like when she first saw her portrait.

#auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes2025 #abc730 #TemuTrump
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM