This asbestos metaphor is brilliant.

We Decide to Re-Make The World online festival offers you a great opportunity to be part of the inevitable revolution!! Sign up today for this weekend and join the exciting action!! Online & Free → tinyurl.com/rev21festival

Academics from all fields should be at the forefront of the action for the planet everywhere. Their absence is the greatest betrayal of academia's mission. #ClimateSky "There’s no research on a dead planet - so why do so few academics engage in activism?"- @charliejgardner.bsky.social

Join 5 local Climate & Environment groups demanding meaningful leadership & action from the majority Labor govt (94 seats)❗️ EVERY FRIDAY, 12.30pm-1.30pm Josh Burns' office, 219 Barkly St, St Kilda (rain or shine, everyone welcome, except Dave Hughes)

Rent is due in just 2 days, I’m terrified of not being able to keep this roof over my family heads💔 STILL NEED (£331) We’ve already been through so much loss after the genocide, I just want them to feel safe, to wake up in the same place tomorrow. Please, help us finish this 🥹😓love you all.🫂

love this for you ICC www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

Two Palestinian children were shot and killed by Israeli forces on Thurs. in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa. Israeli troops took the boys’ bodies after the shooting and declared the surrounding area a closed military zone. IMEMC News reported...

PhD Opportunity! 📣 🎲 If you are excited by interdisciplinary social science, climate action and tabletop/role play games, have I got a project for you! Come to beautiful Tasmania for 'Serious Fun: Using Games to Democratise Carbon Dioxide Removal Decision-Making' tinyurl.com/6s6yuwtc #AcademicSky

Middle-class journos (who muchly benefit throughout their careers from white supremacy) being shocked to discover lotsa nazis are also middle-class stock and not simply the scruffy poors is a genre that will never die

“Minns Government Fast Tracks Destruction as Planning Bill Passes”. No community consultation. Every single Greens’ amendment voted down by the major parties. Shameful. www.nature.org.au/minns_govern...

So the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act reforms bill has passed. The reforms were touted as the biggest changes to the Act since it was drafted, with the planning minister saying numerous times that it was no longer fit for purpose. What purpose that is we will soon see.

Ketan Joshi on the environmental toll of Meta’s genAI advertising product newrepublic.com/article/2028...

WHAT A WIN❗WHAT A WIN‼️✊✊✊ Reminder: you can go to @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List & search 'university' to bring up the long, long list of programs fossil fuel corps sponsor at Australia's higher education institutions Be like @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social, start your own campaign‼️

In 2020 @wwf.panda.org identified the 100 global cities expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050- home to at least 350 million people! We've already seen several megacities just days away from running dry. Here's a🧵 with eg's

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Some debate now on amendments the EP&A Act in the upper house.

Dr Amanda Cohn (Greens, Upper House) has just called on the Minns Government to condemn neo Nazi activities on the next sitting day

Open consultations for #NSWGovernment IPART is seeking feedback on the performance of the NSW #biodiversity credits market in 2024-25. Closes 27 November www.nsw.gov.au/have-your-sa...

Have you read the Lock the Gate Alliance's statement on the EPBC reform package❓ Have you signed their Open Letter❓ (links to both below)

"Lock the Gate Alliance condemns Federal Labor’s environmental law reforms, saying they are worse than current laws, & take the country backwards on protecting environments, backwards on integrity, & backwards on community rights & interests." ✍️ Open Letter 👉 www.lockthegate.org.au/federal_envi...

We, the filmmakers of No Other Land, are asking you to please speak up for the Palestinian village of Umm Al-Khair in the West Bank, a community now under immediate threat of total demolition starting Tuesday, November 10. ✍️ Sign the letter: [bit.ly/saveummalkhair] 📍 Link at @nootherland.film

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

This guide for journalists is also a good guide on how to post about them on social media. “1. Do not assist their media strategy”.

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

This is terrifying — from @francescabria.bsky.social and José Bautista

Headspace are hiring two #identifiedroles for Participation Coordinator First Nations. One in Sydney and one in Melbourne. www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/head...

I’ll be keeping the live stream of NSW parliament open for the next few weeks and will post if anything significant about the changes to the EP&A Act is happening.

Everything we learn about gas expansion in WA confirms those who are making the decisions are very clearly not working in the public interest. The next and most obvious question to ask is - whose interests are being advanced by Government, and why? #StateCapture www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

My kid was looking up some stuff the other day and discovered a theorem that the universe as a whole, over time, does *not* conserve matter/energy, thought this was SO COOL and wondered aloud why we don’t all know the woman’s name who came up with it. Me: “I bet I know.” 🫠

We are suffering from a lack of food and clean water, and Nasser’s medicine is gone. Nasser is 5 and needs daily thyroid medicine. Without it, his body weakens and he can’t handle the cold. I need $300 for food and his medicine. Any amount can help save us.🫂 gofund.me/edd687b8

Queer As… a podcast features expansive conversations with LGBTIQA+ Indigenous creative practitioners who share their work, lives, and processes of making. Partnering with @IndigenousX, we explore anti-colonial queer-centred joy, practice, and the everyday acts of resistance. queer-as.org/a-podcast/

Cairo Takeaway has always been more than a restaurant—they’re a community hub that’s never been afraid to stand for Palestinian rights. Now they’re facing a defamation lawsuit. Legal costs are mounting and they need our support. Donate chuffed.org/project/cair...

My local library got a copy of Extraction from @triofrancos.bsky.social — it starts with a description of the Atacama desert and salt flats in Chile and how a colonial narrative of emptiness justified extraction of mineral wealth. Made me dig out an old photo album from 2002 when I was there.

Farewell to one of the GOATs www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

One for the type nerds

Zohran and this moment shows us that another kind of politics is possible: one that’s grounded in justice, led by those most affected, and fuelled by hope. The lesson is clear — change doesn’t trickle down. It never has. It’s built from the ground up.

If only the insurance lobby was as powerful as the mining lobby

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

“When someone says we can’t miss the boat, I ask: where is the boat going? What exactly will this technology improve? That’s rarely discussed. Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?” — says Nicky DRIES, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven

Screw you Boileroom, this outfit are bringing together DJ sets with Japanese culture. There’s a focus mix with an archer, an ambient mix with a matcha tea ceremony, a party mix at a green onion stall, amapiano at a candy store, chill mix with a grandpa at a stationery stall, and more.

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Solar Panel Recycling Facility Fires Up In Sydney #solarpanels #Sydney www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/solar-r...

Bodies of prisoners returned by Israel show signs of torture, as 3 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes despite truce.

In case you’re looking for ways to help people in Sudan

Anyone still engaging with the UAE after the last two years, and what has just happened in El-Fasher, is someone comfortable abetting genocide.

We lost our home…but we haven’t lost hope. We hold on to what’s left of life, our family & faith that kindness still exists. We’re trying to rebuild our lives, step by step. Every donation, every share, every word of support is a mark that restores our sense of safety❤️ Be the reason we start again🕊

Hello, I’m from Gaza. We’re living through hell homes destroyed,memories erased,loved ones gone. Even the innocence of our children has been shattered. Every bit of help—even a small donation—could save a life or rekindle a flicker of hope. 👉 gofund.me/0fa0750c Thank you for remembering Gaza 😢🙏

Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics. Watch what happens to dating around 2007...

Fix it Ken Henry warns Labor’s nature laws ‘are worthless’ unless minister tightens ‘national interest’ exemptions | Australian politics | The Guardian share.google/Beqk2vZZN0Sv...