Pete Stroud
@pedro657.bsky.social
All living things. Sanity is a garden to be tended. Facts always. Kindness. It’s bigger than us.
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Help! Sign & share the petition to save the State Library of Victoria from rolling crises, gallery closures, harassment/jettisoning of staff & new cuts to destroy services for children & adults. c.org/Hj9G9WSg2f. (Or change.org, search Save The State Library of Victoria.) #StateLibrary #librarians
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save the State Library of Victoria!
c.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Help! Sign & share the petition to save the State Library of Victoria from rolling crises, gallery closures, harassment/jettisoning of staff & new cuts to destroy services for children & adults. c.org/Hj9G9WSg2f. (Or change.org, search Save The State Library of Victoria.) #StateLibrary #librarians
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Inspiring article. I learned a lot from this and I thought I knew surrealism well. Worth your time.
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Inspiring article. I learned a lot from this and I thought I knew surrealism well. Worth your time.
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A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
“There is no moment in the human story when safe and prosperous living conditions have coexisted with above replacement-level fertility.” !
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“There is no moment in the human story when safe and prosperous living conditions have coexisted with above replacement-level fertility.” !
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More disturbing reporting from The Nerve.
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news.
We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.
And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.
And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this.
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🙏🙏🙏
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
www.thenerve.news
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
More disturbing reporting from The Nerve.
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
@therestpolitics.bsky.social As a regular listener, quite concerned by your extended plugs for Google and AI. Are you folllowing the news? Apart from copyright issues, hallucinations, and tech-bro lunacy, if the AI bubble bursts, as looks very possible, there will be massive economic consequences.
October 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
@therestpolitics.bsky.social As a regular listener, quite concerned by your extended plugs for Google and AI. Are you folllowing the news? Apart from copyright issues, hallucinations, and tech-bro lunacy, if the AI bubble bursts, as looks very possible, there will be massive economic consequences.
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Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Climate denial and the defence of modernity
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As much as we need policy wonks, scientists, and ...
www.resilience.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.“
And he’s back!!
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME
STEWART LEE
www.thenerve.news
October 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.“
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You 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 unreasonable 👏🏻
You should be able to have a party which says "actually these are reasonable ideas... and the only thing holding it back is people not having faith and confidence that enough other people support those ideas" 👏👏👏
October 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 unreasonable 👏🏻
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A taster for my future work on the safeguard mechanism.
Have you heard our Climate Minister say that the reformed safeguard mechanism delivered on-site abatement equivalent to two-thirds of Australia's annual aviation emissions?
Who cares and somehow also I do and no it didn't.
Have you heard our Climate Minister say that the reformed safeguard mechanism delivered on-site abatement equivalent to two-thirds of Australia's annual aviation emissions?
Who cares and somehow also I do and no it didn't.
The safeguard mechanism, Minister Bowen, and the no good very bad maths
When a number sounds big, but is small, and is also somehow fucken wrong.
timinclimate.medium.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A taster for my future work on the safeguard mechanism.
Have you heard our Climate Minister say that the reformed safeguard mechanism delivered on-site abatement equivalent to two-thirds of Australia's annual aviation emissions?
Who cares and somehow also I do and no it didn't.
Have you heard our Climate Minister say that the reformed safeguard mechanism delivered on-site abatement equivalent to two-thirds of Australia's annual aviation emissions?
Who cares and somehow also I do and no it didn't.
China’s new-build solar additions in the last six months are more than the US has installed in total.
In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year.
via @adamtooze.bsky.social
In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year.
via @adamtooze.bsky.social
Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025 | Ember
ember-energy.org
September 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
China’s new-build solar additions in the last six months are more than the US has installed in total.
In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year.
via @adamtooze.bsky.social
In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year.
via @adamtooze.bsky.social
The world is changing.
Trump’s retreat from Nato was priced in. But his humiliation of Qatar and India spells total chaos | Nesrine Malik
Allies indulged the US president on the basis they wouldn’t be bombed or suffer economic damage. So much for that idea, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The world is changing.
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"Anthony Albanese's claim that more fossil gas is needed for the energy transition is unscientific nonsense - it is gas industry propaganda raised to the level of state policy – and reflects a stampede toward more fossil fuels rather than a transition away."
Australian government gaslights the nation as it puts Woodside ahead…
Climate Analytics responds to the Australian government's approval of Woodside Energy's gas production project out to 2070
climateanalytics.org
September 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Anthony Albanese's claim that more fossil gas is needed for the energy transition is unscientific nonsense - it is gas industry propaganda raised to the level of state policy – and reflects a stampede toward more fossil fuels rather than a transition away."
@australia.theguardian.com Please shift the Charlie Kirk story down the page. It is NOT and never has been the most important story of the day in Australia, the US or the World.
September 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@australia.theguardian.com Please shift the Charlie Kirk story down the page. It is NOT and never has been the most important story of the day in Australia, the US or the World.
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Here's @boganintel. 'From maniacal to outright insane'
From maniacal to outright insane - The Shot
If there was a world tension meter, constructed with similar materials as the nuclear doomsday clock (89 seconds to midnight BTW), it would be ringing alarm bells.
theshot.net.au
September 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Here's @boganintel. 'From maniacal to outright insane'
Et tu @aunz.theconversation.com ?
“Today marked the loss of a unique leader in the US conservative movement.” Seriously Jared Mondschein?
By your own account, today marked the death of a harmful, deceitful, divisive, polarising voice.
“Today marked the loss of a unique leader in the US conservative movement.” Seriously Jared Mondschein?
By your own account, today marked the death of a harmful, deceitful, divisive, polarising voice.
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Et tu @aunz.theconversation.com ?
“Today marked the loss of a unique leader in the US conservative movement.” Seriously Jared Mondschein?
By your own account, today marked the death of a harmful, deceitful, divisive, polarising voice.
“Today marked the loss of a unique leader in the US conservative movement.” Seriously Jared Mondschein?
By your own account, today marked the death of a harmful, deceitful, divisive, polarising voice.
Nails it again. Brilliant as always.
This week's column on Labour's rapid implosion resembling the Tories' slower one, and ending up in the same place of government by bullshit and crackdown.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reshuffle it how you like, Starmer’s ‘grownup’ Labour has the Tory whiff of spiteful incompetence | Nesrine Malik
Here we are again: constant rebooting, cruel rhetoric and crackdowns. And hurtling towards a Reform-shaped future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Nails it again. Brilliant as always.
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This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight.
But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.
But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.
But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.
Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.
drilled.media
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight.
But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.
But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.
But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
cc @senatorwong.bsky.social
The Handala has just been illegally intercepted by Israel while carrying baby formula to starving children in Gaza. Will the Australian Govt condemn this illegal action at sea by Israel? #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
cc @senatorwong.bsky.social
The Handala has just been illegally intercepted by Israel while carrying baby formula to starving children in Gaza. Will the Australian Govt condemn this illegal action at sea by Israel? #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
July 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
cc @senatorwong.bsky.social
The Handala has just been illegally intercepted by Israel while carrying baby formula to starving children in Gaza. Will the Australian Govt condemn this illegal action at sea by Israel? #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
cc @senatorwong.bsky.social
The Handala has just been illegally intercepted by Israel while carrying baby formula to starving children in Gaza. Will the Australian Govt condemn this illegal action at sea by Israel? #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
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An absolutely damning insider account of what has just gone down in Paris. Murujuga traditional custodians took the fight to protect their Country to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris. They lost.
@unesco.org
www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/inside-unesco/ Inside UNESCO
@unesco.org
www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/inside-unesco/ Inside UNESCO
Inside UNESCO
Reflections from Paris on World Heritage for Murujuga
www.lastplaceonearth.com.au
July 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
An absolutely damning insider account of what has just gone down in Paris. Murujuga traditional custodians took the fight to protect their Country to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris. They lost.
@unesco.org
www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/inside-unesco/ Inside UNESCO
@unesco.org
www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/inside-unesco/ Inside UNESCO