This season isn’t easy for many of us and that deserves compassion, not silence. May you feel seen, held, and less alone. We see you! You matter! You are not alone! Sending you peace & calm over the holiday season 🎄🫂🎄 #DefendersOfDemocracy

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It's lovely to hear in today's second @theguardian.com young country diary how Theo's community organised a clean up of his local river and now the birds and other animals are back. #countrydiary #naturewriting

No caption but I think this is a Snowy Owl.

Pigoneer Advent Calendar Day 5 🎅 Who's behind the door today? It's Nelson dreaming of a Pigoneer Pigmas🎅 Pls become a #pigoneer & help support Nelson & pals at Beneath The Wood Sanctuary in Wales from £2.50/month🎅 globalvegancrowdfunder.org/pigoneer-200... Or donate to donorbox.org/beneath-the-...

Pigoneer Advent Calendar Day 7🎅 Who's behind the door today? It's Odysseus dreaming of a Pigoneer Pigmas🎅 Pls become a #pigoneer & help support Odysseus & pals at Beneath The Wood Sanctuary in Wales from £2.50/month🎅 globalvegancrowdfunder.org/pigoneer-200... Donations donorbox.org/beneath-the-...

Pigoneer Advent Calendar Day 9🎅 Who's behind the door today? It's Hercules dreaming of a Pigoneer Pigmas🎅 Pls become a #pigoneer & help support Hercules & pals at Beneath The Wood Sanctuary in Wales from £2.50/month🎅 globalvegancrowdfunder.org/pigoneer-200... Donations donorbox.org/beneath-the-...

Pigoneer Advent Calendar Day 10 🎅 Who's behind the door today? It's Cwtch dreaming of a Pigoneer Pigmas 🎅 Pls become a #pigoneer & help support Cwtch & pals at Beneath The Wood Sanctuary in Wales from £2.50/month🎅 globalvegancrowdfunder.org/pigoneer-200... Or donate to donorbox.org/beneath-the-...

Thanks to all that shared and contributed - they reached their initial target last night! The stretch target is still in play so please do what you can do spread the word. These fine folks face serious risk of being imprisoned for a considerable amount of time, such is the state of UK protest law.

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

Powerful words and petition from the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social. Please read and consider signing. #auspol #nswpol #antisemitism #racism #GunViolence #diversity #community jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

Huge life lesson here. Conforming does get you stuff, but not what many of us are after.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported the Vegan Land Movement in 2025 - our donors, volunteers & community. The VLM couldn’t do this without YOU. ✨Wishing you Season’s Greetings and a very happy, hopeful New Year! 💚✨🌍 Let's keep saving lives in 2026🌱 veganlandmovement.com/animal-agricul

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

The Dorestad Brooch (800 AD) was found in 1969 at the bottom of a well in Wijk bij Duurstede. Likely made in a Swiss or Burgundian workshop. 📍 National Museum of Antiquities, Netherlands

6.47 pm. #Bondi #Sydney #LestWeForget #DayOfReflection

Light over darkness Peace 🕊 #Bondi #auspol

So sad that Reflection Day at Bondi turned into a political rally. Thankfully Sam Mostyn brings it back on track. #Bondi #DayOfReflection

Appreciating ABC Classic FM music chosen for our Day of Reflection #Bondi #grief #Australia #ABC #music #gratitude #Chanakah #solidarity #StandTogether

Absolutely worth your time #ClimateChange #Science #Overshoot #TechnoFantasies #Crisis #inequality + #Solutions #Hope #Change #Degrowth #AnimalAgriculture

“The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the ten million inhabitants of Burundi.” Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet Hardcover – 14 January 2026 by Chuck Collins

Please share, and chip in if you can. www.crowdjustice.com/case/6-clima...

Someone's angry that the courts decided to side with the people... '"That might be any part of the state or all over the state. No public assemblies in a designated area will be able to be authorised, including by a court,” he told reporters.'

Brilliant. "Be angry at the right things. " A masterclass in making sense of the incomprehensible.

In the wake if the horrific events at Bondi, many references have been made to the Port Arthur massacre. Much less has been said about what happened in Christchurch in 2019, even though the parallels are much closer. #auspol #nzpol

@veganftaofficial.bsky.social has been very kind to me by writing this review of my new book "Why Vegans Don't" (which you could buy it at a discount price directly from me at the official launch this Saturday 13 December 2025 at Karamel London N22 ) veganfta.com/blog/2025/12...

Teeny tiny but full of winter cheer... it's time to see who's hiding behind door number 16! #RSPBAdvent25

Check out this gorgeous little gang gang cockatoo 😍

Artichoke flower update

New book chapter by TASA member Leah Williams Veazy et al. Communities of Care in Migration

Absolute legend.

Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms. The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.

personally, after this terrible incident, I would like to see another gun buy back scheme like they had after Port Arthur - Australians know how to come together in times of grief, clearly remember the 2003 bushfires in my home town of Canberra - everyone rallied and helped, we are community.

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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

shocked, horrified and saddened by the vicious mass shooting at the Chanukah by the Sea celebration at Bondi Beach thinking of all those whose lives this has changed forever misinformation & disinformation already in action in genAI-powered/partnered media, take care with what you read, and share

The unarmed bystander who disarmed one of the gunmen during the #BondiBeachShooting has been identified by media as Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43yo Muslim father of two who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland. He was shot twice by the other gunman but is recovering in hospital. #AhmedAlAhmed

3 everyday Aussies: The guy who disarmed a gunman The guy who threw rocks at the other gunman The Bondi lifesaver who grabbed his board & ran out to rescue someone in the midst of an active shooter situation Let's talk about more gun controls & less about weird conspiracy theories #Bondi

My thoughts and sympathies are with all those impacted by the horrendous scenes unfolding in Bondi. Over the next days and weeks, we will learn a lot more. At this stage we know very little - hoping we can all lead with kindness and wait for the facts to emerge in due course. #auspol

Just think very carefully about what you may hear in the coming hours and days. There will be things claimed, some not factual. Blame will be apportioned by some before facts are known. This is awful. Let's think of the victims, their families and friends. Let's not jump to conclusions. #bondi

Via Daniel Sinnott on X: “Shout out to the #bondi beach life guard who, while there was shots being fired and we were all ducking for cover behind their buggy, noticed someone in the water struggling so grabbed a board and went to rescue them.”

Feeling festive yet? Many of you will know "Carol of the Bells" was a Ukrainian song. Today is the birthday of composer Mykola Leontovych, born in Vinnytsia and murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921, aged 44 - some things don't change. "Shchedryk" sung by Ukraine choir 'Homin' in Austria's parliament

#SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine #WeStandWithUkraine #CarolOfTheBells #Peace #Christmas

Here's the link to the start of Saturday's 50-post thread, which saw a lot of encouraging news for Ukraine, and a beautiful story and a beautiful rendition of "Carol of the Bells" in its original Ukrainian. Dive in, scroll through, but come back. bsky.app/profile/twmc...

Every kinder future begins when someone decides the present doesn’t have to be permanent.

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec. 12 Dee Dee Dee! Black-capped Chickadees stay with us all year round, and don’t seem to care about the cold at all. This little one was busy foraging in the frosty trees! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Revealed: spies for hire used ‘Big Brother’ tactics on salmon farm activists who expose the horrendous conditions the lice infested salmon suffering terribly to profit farm salmon industry www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...