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Spinbelt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇦🇺
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Australian frustrated writer and gamer... busy educator and family man.

Spinbelt? A nickname derived from the worst pronunciation of my last name…

Advocate of those that are not heard. He/him.

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I agree with climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe! Every day should be Earth Day! 🌎💚 I took this quiz from her newsletter. If everyone lived like me, we'd need 2.2 Earths. 😳 Better than 5.5 Earths of average Americans, but I could do better. You? footprintcalculator.org/home/en
How many planets does it take to sustain your lifestyle?
Calculate your Ecological Footprint. Find out how many planets would be needed if everyone in the world lived like you?
footprintcalculator.org
April 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes
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My Vote Compass Results - 2025 Australian Election
Vote Compass calculated my alignment with the candidates running in the 2025 Australian election. Try it for yourself!
share.votecompass.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Like And Repost Everyone 😔
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I’m down for Al Sharpton’s boycott on Friday.

If we want to be effective, we need to stop giving these people our money.

Are you in?
February 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“Woke just means you give a damn about other people.” -Jane Fonda
February 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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February 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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AOC is the only elected official who walks into Congress like it’s a battlefield, armed with facts, common sense, and zero patience for BS.

Fearless, sharp, and always ten steps ahead—exactly what politics needs.

And that’s why they are terrified of her!

#AOC #QueenEnergy #FightBack
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039
January 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity, yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress to date in interventions tha...
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January 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm

This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality.

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
January 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Thank you, Canada. And we’re so sorry about him.
January 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I saw this here and I had to take a picture of it. It’s so true. This is MAGA they will never believe anything negative about their Cult Leader. He spews the same hate as they do. With Mango he emboldened half of America to hate and be an ass hole 24/7. It’s now accepted in our society sad.
January 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Congratulations! We are all within hours of surviving 2024 & ready to face the challenges of the decade that will be 2025.
a man with a beard is standing in front of a red wall and making a gesture with his hand .
ALT: a man with a beard is standing in front of a red wall and making a gesture with his hand .
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December 31, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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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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December 31, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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This is it in a nut shell 🦋
December 27, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Happy Holidays to one and all!!!
December 25, 2024 at 9:43 AM