Debbi Weaver

Debbi Weaver

@debbiweaver.bsky.social

Retired academic, dog lover, gardener, volunteer. Yarra Valley, Victoria.

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PLEASE stop posting AI slop. The 'jokes' are just plain terrible, it portrays 'generic' women as MAGA-bots, it uses water the world needs & enriches Trump's pals. Find good work by real cartoonists & credit them, or draw it yourself with an HB pencil. Anything is better than this.

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In Memory of Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill ✨ (14 September 1947 – 13 July 2026) "When the world seems close to pear shaped, When leaders fill you with despair When things look dark and dreary And love seems far too rare -CUDDLE A DUCK [It works...]"~ Two Paddocks 🪿🦆🍷 #samneill

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Raf Epstein calls out blatant favouritism media gives Pauline Hanson “She could never say ‘show me the good Jews” “She says that about Muslims” “If she said that about Jews there’d be a discussion on this couch whether or not she should be prosecuted under hate laws”💥🎯 #auspol

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Booing the Welcome to Country at an Anzac Day ceremony is the same racism that Pauline Hanson performs every time she turns her back on the Acknowledgment of Country in the Senate. It doesn’t require a lot of analysis; it’s as sophisticated as she is.

Exactly this…

Patrick Stokes@patrickstokes.com

Either population growth is too high so we need to cut immigration, or it's too low and we should encourage more babies. There is no 'more babies but less immigration' option that isn't explicitly and indefensibly racist. Canavan, true to form, will pretend not to understand this, repeatedly.

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The utter sham of offsets, yet again... “Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comQld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists sayConservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

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As an Australian of Jewish background, I was not at all, as the SMH suggested, "deeply hurt and offended" by Cathy Wilcox's brilliant, accurate cartoon. I am deeply concerned and alarmed that a mainstream media agency is so craven that they buckle to Israel lobby bullying. #IStandWithCathyWilcox

Noting today’s apology in the SMH, I feel it important to say that I stand with @cathywilcox.bsky.social & @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social #auspol Australian’s should be governed by Australian not foreign interests. All, irrespective of faith, have a right to free speech & protection from hate speech.

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Ahmed al-Ahmed, the man who disarmed one of the shooters at Bondi Beach in Sydney today, is a Syrian Muslim. He's in hospital, right now. He's a braver man than most I think would be in his situation. He's the spirit of Chanukkah -- he keeps the lamps of hope burning. That's for remembrance.

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Because it’s not getting reported on enough: Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, father of two, was the hero who bravely tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters and took away his gun. He saved lives during a major terror attack. Say his name, and honor the lives of the victims of the shooters

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Replying to @koparafallskid.bsky.social

Any Melbournian who supports the Jewish claim to Israel because they occupied it 2000 years ago can hardly dispute the rights of traditional owners who lived in the Melbourne region for 50,000 years or more.

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This is Monty and Charlie. Monty's back legs are paralyzed. But that doesn't mean he can't race his brother on walks. 14/10 for both (TT: amqzak)

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The Israeli government is depraved. It's deliberately starving and murdering children. The world, and Australia, must make a stronger stand with sanctions. The people of Australia demand it.

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Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

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I don't need history to prove me right because I am fully capable of judging right from wrong now, in real time. Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. It is threatening people with ethnic cleansing by forced removal as the BEST case scenario or complete annihilation.

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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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It is disgraceful that instead of promoting international law, Australia’s top law officer is trying to repair relations with a foreign government found by major human rights organisations to be committing genocide. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

smh.com.auAlbanese minister to fly to Israel to mend fractured relationshipAttorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ mission to resuscitate the Australian government’s relationship with Israel follows months of deterioration.

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Replying to @tomquinn.bsky.social

Too late to leave now for Mafeking - emergency take shelter immediately warning now in place. In the past week our Environment Minister approved another four monster coal mines that will make climate change worse and turbo charge fires like this that threaten to wipe communities off the map.

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As a Jewish woman living in Australia, I am far more likely to be attacked and murdered by a pathetic little man who feels somehow slighted than I am in danger of any antisemitic attack. The imbalance in the responses to almost 100 dead women is very telling. #auspol

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No nation state is above criticism. You can criticise Israel's actions and policies without it being anti-semitic. It does not make Jewish people safer by conflating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism.

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Australia’s Voice senator Fatima Payman has accused political leaders of a “double standard” after an Islamic college school bus was set on fire in Adelaide “There’s no outrage, there’s no pledges of support…why the double standard?” “Not all hate is treated equally”