Jules
@julesdigsforfire.bsky.social
She/her. AuDHD. Inclusive feminist cat lady. Antiracist. Antifascist. Atheist. LGBTQIA+ ally. Pro choice & science.
South African living on unceded Wurundjeri Land.
No DMs please.
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South African living on unceded Wurundjeri Land.
No DMs please.
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'Eltis said the party’s constitution was fully drafted and one plank of its policy platform was the mass deportation of people of Jewish faith.'
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
Far-right figure who visited ‘motherland’ Germany is close to forming national party
Sydney man Jack Eltis said the National Socialist Network “was about 90 per cent” of the way to forming state and national parties.
www.theage.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
'Eltis said the party’s constitution was fully drafted and one plank of its policy platform was the mass deportation of people of Jewish faith.'
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
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Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
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Indeed.
The Age called out the Myanmar genocide. Why not Gaza's?
The paper's treatment of the Palestinians reeks of double standards.
www.deepcutnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Indeed.
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"Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points. 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C"
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points. 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C"
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Waking up to find out VIC Labor is following the lead of the QLD LNP is infuriating and will have absolutely devastating consequences. On the great Leo Puglisi’s birthday no less
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Waking up to find out VIC Labor is following the lead of the QLD LNP is infuriating and will have absolutely devastating consequences. On the great Leo Puglisi’s birthday no less
The Liberals continue to fail the younger generations with their pandering to the industries that are making affordability, sustainability and health further out of reach for many. Here's hoping that they fade into obscurity with each of these decisions that they make.
#auspol
#auspol
'The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity" - Intifar Chowdhury
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity | Intifar Chowdhury
For a Coalition desperate to prove it can govern again, ignoring millennials and gen Z is a curious kind of strategy
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The Liberals continue to fail the younger generations with their pandering to the industries that are making affordability, sustainability and health further out of reach for many. Here's hoping that they fade into obscurity with each of these decisions that they make.
#auspol
#auspol
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Badly worded poll published by the SMH, which implies that it’s more costly overall/less affordable to reach net zero. Verging on a push poll.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Badly worded poll published by the SMH, which implies that it’s more costly overall/less affordable to reach net zero. Verging on a push poll.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
Despite this, a majority of Australians still support net zero.
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sounds familiar 🤔
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
sounds familiar 🤔
Today's walk around Birdsland with the old man. Spotted lots of kangaroos on the way round and paused here too appreciate the views.
#yarraranges
#wurundjeriland
#australia
#yarraranges
#wurundjeriland
#australia
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Today's walk around Birdsland with the old man. Spotted lots of kangaroos on the way round and paused here too appreciate the views.
#yarraranges
#wurundjeriland
#australia
#yarraranges
#wurundjeriland
#australia
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Our housing system is broken. There are 175,000+ people on the waiting list for social housing. Housing is a human right. It’s time we acted like it. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Broken public housing policy not unfixable, former top judge says - ABC listen
How has the dream of owning a home become so intertwined with generating wealth, that it's led the system to failure, and affected now chronic demands on public housing?
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our housing system is broken. There are 175,000+ people on the waiting list for social housing. Housing is a human right. It’s time we acted like it. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
Youth offenders, aged as young as 14, could face 20 year jail terms for violent crimes under proposal
Children as young as 14 who commit “serious crimes” will be sentenced as adults under a Victorian government plan to combat youth crime.
The state government said on Wednesday that it will adopt an “adult time for violent crime” laws similar to those in Queensland, which implemented the tough approach in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
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Look, what happened to Gough Whitlam was terrible, he was a visionary. But, I'm far more concerned about how terrible @australianlabor.bsky.social are TODAY, especially their pathetic environmental law reform package. Let's talk about the future, shall we?
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Getting the EPBC Act right | Biodiversity Council Australia
Our factsheet outlines the strengths, weaknesses, and recommended improvements to the Australian Government’s proposed environmental law reforms.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Look, what happened to Gough Whitlam was terrible, he was a visionary. But, I'm far more concerned about how terrible @australianlabor.bsky.social are TODAY, especially their pathetic environmental law reform package. Let's talk about the future, shall we?
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
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Australia’s desert country is rarely part of the global climate conversation despite it being home to the world’s oldest continuing culture, and the largest connected conservation corridor on Earth.
#climatecrisis #COP30 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #COP30 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Australian deserts don't get climate-change headlines – they should
Australia’s desert country is rarely part of the global climate conversation, although it's Earth's largest connected conservation corridor.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Australia’s desert country is rarely part of the global climate conversation despite it being home to the world’s oldest continuing culture, and the largest connected conservation corridor on Earth.
#climatecrisis #COP30 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
#climatecrisis #COP30 #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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'The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone.'
The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- by Arash Azizi
#Iran #women #rights
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- by Arash Azizi
#Iran #women #rights
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
'The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone.'
The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- by Arash Azizi
#Iran #women #rights
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- by Arash Azizi
#Iran #women #rights
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪
Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone
Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect…
www.sciencedaily.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪
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NSW Police:
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
www.smh.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NSW Police:
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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NSW Police are on the same side as Nazis. They're an institutionally racist police force responsible for deaths in custody & the over policing of Indigenous kids. Of course they're ok with Nazis. #auspol
Chris Minns is odious. He could have copped to the error and put police on notice. Instead he creates a pro-cop straw man when they have already demonstrated the violence they are willing to commit with their existing powers. Just not against Nazis.
NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers
Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising ‘entirely inconsistent police responses’ and ‘unfathomable approval’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
NSW Police are on the same side as Nazis. They're an institutionally racist police force responsible for deaths in custody & the over policing of Indigenous kids. Of course they're ok with Nazis. #auspol
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Just another reminder for the Christofascists trying to gain power in Australia: Separation of Church and State is one of the concepts our Constitution is based on, so keep your sky daddies out of our secular Government #auspol
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Just another reminder for the Christofascists trying to gain power in Australia: Separation of Church and State is one of the concepts our Constitution is based on, so keep your sky daddies out of our secular Government #auspol
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Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
Israel has murdered:
• 69,169 people (incl. 18,500 children)
• 217 journalists
• 224 aid workers
• 120 academics
• 165,000 injured
Yet STILL your Govt refuses to #SanctionIsrael or expel the Israeli Ambassador. Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism
Israel has murdered:
• 69,169 people (incl. 18,500 children)
• 217 journalists
• 224 aid workers
• 120 academics
• 165,000 injured
Yet STILL your Govt refuses to #SanctionIsrael or expel the Israeli Ambassador. Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
Israel has murdered:
• 69,169 people (incl. 18,500 children)
• 217 journalists
• 224 aid workers
• 120 academics
• 165,000 injured
Yet STILL your Govt refuses to #SanctionIsrael or expel the Israeli Ambassador. Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism
Israel has murdered:
• 69,169 people (incl. 18,500 children)
• 217 journalists
• 224 aid workers
• 120 academics
• 165,000 injured
Yet STILL your Govt refuses to #SanctionIsrael or expel the Israeli Ambassador. Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism
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"It is tricky to determine whether Andrew Hastie’s Fundamentalist Christianity or his global networking with Trumpist forces should worry Australians more"
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
Murdoch’s culture warriors are interlinked with the Atlas Network & national conservatism more and less officially. Rita Panahi is pushing Atlas partner affiliate Jacinta N Price with natcon-ish Andrew Hastie as a ticket. This is part of Murdochista’s job. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
Andrew Hastie: soldier for an extreme version of governing by Christ
Andrew Hastie is a more extreme Fundamentalist Christian than Scott Morrison. Australians cannot let his attempts to lead the nation go unchallenged. His place on the ARC Board is a warning.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"It is tricky to determine whether Andrew Hastie’s Fundamentalist Christianity or his global networking with Trumpist forces should worry Australians more"
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
If Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, says @lucyham.bsky.social, it will be for "the Christian Nationalist and ethnostate faction". #auspol
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I have zero expectations for LNP - and they exceed those expectations every day.
I did however have some expectations for Labor - and I now feel completely betrayed.
I truly didn’t think they would be this bad.
Could and should be so different 😞😞 #auspol
I did however have some expectations for Labor - and I now feel completely betrayed.
I truly didn’t think they would be this bad.
Could and should be so different 😞😞 #auspol
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I have zero expectations for LNP - and they exceed those expectations every day.
I did however have some expectations for Labor - and I now feel completely betrayed.
I truly didn’t think they would be this bad.
Could and should be so different 😞😞 #auspol
I did however have some expectations for Labor - and I now feel completely betrayed.
I truly didn’t think they would be this bad.
Could and should be so different 😞😞 #auspol
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Chris Bowen: so we’ll keep doing the bare minimum and we’ll pat ourselves on the back for it and pray the public will buy it.
The only contestation is driven by fossil fuel disinformation and propaganda.
#auspol
#climatecrisis
The only contestation is driven by fossil fuel disinformation and propaganda.
#auspol
#climatecrisis
“plenty of debate and contestation around. But one thing hasn’t changed since the Paris accord: science, which tells us that net zero by 2050 is the bare minimum necessary to keep the world as close as possible to 1.5C of warming.”
#NegativeNeeded #ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#NegativeNeeded #ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Chris Bowen agrees with UK PM that the ‘consensus is gone’ on fighting climate change
Minister endorses Keir Starmer’s grim view on global action, saying net zero by 2050 policies are ‘bare minimum necessary’, as Australia fights to host Cop
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Chris Bowen: so we’ll keep doing the bare minimum and we’ll pat ourselves on the back for it and pray the public will buy it.
The only contestation is driven by fossil fuel disinformation and propaganda.
#auspol
#climatecrisis
The only contestation is driven by fossil fuel disinformation and propaganda.
#auspol
#climatecrisis
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1/ Unfortunately for Minister Watt, environmental & conservation science, environmental legal & political integrity experts show how untenable his boast of "stronger environmental laws" is
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
1/ Unfortunately for Minister Watt, environmental & conservation science, environmental legal & political integrity experts show how untenable his boast of "stronger environmental laws" is
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...
Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...