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Vale Dr. Jane Goodall DBE 🐾 Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute 🌍 UN Messenger of Peace 🕊️

Hitler's people basically told the senior commanders of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) the same thing in 1933: they either fight the 'enemy within' (Germany's communists, Jews and others) or they resign their commands.

My campaign hasn't received enough attention despite my tireless efforts to make my family's voice heard. Donations are arriving very slowly. I hope someone will support us.If you receive this tweet, share and donate to be a source of light for my family gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social

The soldiers of the “Khartia” brigade used a ground robotic system to evacuate Prapor the cat (Prapor means Flag in #Ukrainian). The cat had spent several months "on the zero line." The evacuation was successful: Prapor has already settled into a safe place.

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨 Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces. There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities. This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff. I am outraged, and you should be, too.

Are we supposed to be impressed? Proud? This is what our foreign policy has become. Absolutely fckin ridiculous.

Yea right Coal Australia. Go ahead lock us up for using imported needles to sew this banner. We are no longer the “silent seniority” and thanks for letting us know our needling is getting under your skin. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This little piggy… Just in case anyone needed a miniature Iron Age pig in their life this afternoon. (It’s ok to admit it, we all do sometimes). Bronze boar figurine from the Gower peninsula, on display in the Coins of the Iceni exhibition at the Ashmolean museum 2022. c. C1st BC/AD(?)

West Bank’s Route 60: The ‘road of death’ many Palestinians cannot avoid

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

Today, on Volodymyrska Hill in Kyiv. There was something beautiful and fragile in this scene. The man, the piano, and their apple.

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

In a single attack Israel murdered nearly three times as many journalists as were killed in the Charlie Hebdo massacre. This is a state terror attack. They have now killed nearly 250 journalists in two years. More than Putin has killed in 20 years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

The 3,000-year-old gold Shropshire sun pendant was dicovered in 2018. Crafted with incredible skill and decorated with intricate geometric patterns, it symbolizes the importance of the sun in Bronze Age society. As scientific analysis has indicated, the pendant...🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

Something to remember for you all as social media is swamped by people angry over a man they've never met - especially in Australia where that American white guy's killing is being fed out and manipulated by Advance and the Atlas group. You're being played. All of it is scripted agit-prop trash.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Seacliff beach this morning - but it could be Bondi. Our oceans are on fire. Dead marine life all over the beach. Scientists warned us. Now we are in it. End new fossil fuels. Stop subsidising coal and gas. Our world is on fire and our kids will cop it big time.

You didn't need a video of a donkey sharing a watermelon... But, here you go #bluesky... ☺️

And yet everyone is clutching pearls over a former premier being in a photo in China www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Why doesn't big business in Australia invest more? Because it's easier for oligopolies to just gouge their customers instead of taking a risk. @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

David Pope in Canberra Times

Have you ever wished that YOU could be the person who got to drive #BookyMcBookface around #Orkney, delivering books? Well, YOU could be. 👇 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

What’s the real reason it’s being shut down? It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance? This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.

Make no mistake. The $100,000pa that the University of Melbourne will save by trashing an intellectual asset like Meanjin will not be spent in the pursuit of cultural and public value. It won’t even cover the VC’s annual lunch expenditure.

Ben Roberts-Smith is a war criminal And still the only person in prison for these crimes is the man who blew the whistle

The Environment Minister has approved a coal mine extension overnight – the first of the new Parliament. This is a decision that will lock Australia into providing coal for decades, and put threatened wildlife at risk. This is not climate action. This is a climate crime.

So worried for friends in Palestine. A lot of them have gone quiet - I think because of the increasing difficult of getting a connection or quite simply being overwhelmed by the chaos. Please help Adham if you can.

So turns out it's not a $400m deal Australia has done with Nauru - it's a $2.5 billion over the next 30 years 🤯 Big revelation at snap senate inquiry hearing asking the Dept of Home Affairs about the Govt’s agreement with Nauru to send asylum seekers there.

The Australian Government paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Nauru to forcibly disappear migrants is immoral and illegal under international law, and outrageously expensive #auspol #politas

The #FOI Amendment Bill 2025 tabled in the Federal Parliament this morning is highly offensive and a complete assault on Government transparency. If passed, any issue of importance or controversy will be exempt from public access. Shame on you @albomp.bsky.social. More to follow! #auspol

The absolute state of this pissweak flog

ABC RN journo just now 'neo-Nazis had a minor role in the rallies' and honestly she should be taken off air for that - that is clearly untrue even if you only looked at the ABC's own reporting.

That means there are more than 200,000 people waiting for HCPs thanks to the government delaying changes to 1 November. The Greens are calling on Labor to urgently release enough home care packages for everyone who needs one - and they could do it next week in the Senate.

Is there anyone in government prepared to rein in the agency? Because I keep asking, and keep presenting documentary evidence, and not a word from ministers.

Australian-led trial shows nasal spray reduces COVID-19 risk in cancer patients www.petermac.org/about-us/new...

Can I just point out they are clearly driving the vehicles on public roads not private land and therefore should pay the excise on the diesel ok thanks.

If you're disgusted by Trumps attempts to establish foreign gulags and forced deportations, you should be disgusted at this too. Australia has been pioneering these assaults on human rights and decency for decades. We are the model for the authoritarian far right.

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Hope the ATO and government are proud of themselves. Pursued this poor guy for 7 years, wrecked his life for the crime of exposing serious wrongdoing - costing millions - all for a final result of no recorded conviction and a 12-mth good behaviour bond.

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

This is it in a nutshell: firing at a hospital to take out a camera is a war crime, no question and no defence, but the media don't even recognise what they're normalising anymore.

Just dropping by to remind everyone that Bob Katter's grandfather was Lebanese. Wonderfully, beautifully Lebanese. 😎

OMG, partner was just googling snorkelling from Daintree and the Google's AI summary suggested snorkelling in the DAINTREE RIVER!!! For the unacquainted, the Daintree is famous for salt water crocodile watching tours where you avoid the water at all costs. Please never swim in a river in Nth QLD.