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Armchair activists this one’s for you! A quick read to bring you up to date then click. Our weekly Knitting Nanna “community service” for everyone who wants to take #climateaction

everyone should get one of these, even if it's just for the art

I found this absolutely unhinged tea towel at an op shop today

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Wild this even needs to be said, let alone campaigned for

What you'll hear about at this event tomorrow: - change needed to remote area allowance, a $9 supplement payment for people in remote areas - challenging debts & accessing waivers for Centrelink & child support-related FTB debts - unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations & to assert your rights.

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

So interest rates have to go up because we need 100,000s people to lose their jobs, but a climate catastrophe coal mine has to be expanded because we can't use 1,500 jobs? I'm not indifferent to the material conditions of workers, but this system sure is.

According to reports, at George Megalogenis' book launch, the PM said Tony Abbott calls him regularly. Dude. Why are you answering? You barely talk to your caucus, let alone rank and file members, but you're taking calls from Tony Abbott?

Warned? WARNED???!!!!!!

I wonder why this obviously dodgy company is getting kid-glove treatment? Couldn't be because the owners wife is the country's highest profile publicist?

Happy International Tenants’ Day! This day originated in 1986 by a French tenant organisation, and the International Union of Tenants. The day helps to raise awareness of tenants’ rights internationally. We believe that renters have the right to healthy homes! Join our project: tr.ee/AZ5kUl

I *love* that ABC News framed the Pre-COP as being about the cost of the event and which countries showed up, not, you know, THE CLIMATE CRISIS.

Given how close the game was, perhaps Freo would have won the grand final if all the players weren't weighed down by that big heavy Woodside logo on their chest.

Our industrial pollution law (The Safeguard Mechanism) is being reviewed! A submission takes minutes but can make a world of difference. Tell the government by midnight Friday 18 September: Cap the offsets, and keep them out of reach for coal, oil and gas. 👉 bushfiresurvivors.org/safeguard

Hold the front page! ‘EV passes the pub test’…

New from @mollytaft.com in @wired.com, 🏆 we're all winners!! 🏆 'Congratulations! You Just Lived Through the Hottest Month Ever Recorded; While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.' www.wired.com/story/august...

Santos boss Kevin Gallagher spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday. It'll blow your mind to discover that he spread an awfully large amount of shit. Me in The New Daily:

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Is Barnaby Joyce ok? He looks unwell #ABC730

The wonderful Jack Charles would have been 83 today

Hottest winter on record. Snow season closing weeks early. Records broken in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. And spring's shaping up even hotter. This is what climate pollution from coal, oil and gas looks like for our alpine regions, but it's not too late to change course.

3/ Ahmed Mahil, CEO & Pres of MEL-based robotics & 3D printer manufacturer Luyten 3D; multimillionaire & former VIC Tory treasurer, Andrew Abercrombie; Luke Tobin, head of public affairs @ Sportsbet; Kai Cantwell, CEO of Responsible Wagering AUS ... 🙄 www.afr.com/politics/fed...

How had this been published with no mention of the actual IDF soldiers, credibly accused of war crimes, running in the marathon? We know *exactly* who was being targeted.

Christ, this is ominous

Fossil fuel companies have known about man-made climate change for fifty years. Politicians have known about it for fifty years. Every climate disaster is a massacre.

SHOT: "The study’s results are clear: 'There is no level of emissions that does not contribute to changing climate impacts,' Callahan told me. 'Every ton matters.'”

If you support energy justice and are in northern suburbs of Melbourne/ Naarm, come along to our forum tomorrow (Wed 26) Make sure no one gets left behind Save on energy bills while protecting the climate and environment Affordable Renewable Energy for All!

This very personal speech from Jacqui Lambie won't get anywhere near as much attention as it should - but again goes to choices about who we care about. No one should have to go through this live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...

Oh, well, if it's hurting the economy...

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

I'm so embarrassed for the ABC. PHON bans them from media events and their response? An Australian Story puff piece on their lead MP. Have some self-respect.

Next week I'll be running a workshop at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas teaching how to file a FOI request! I think there's still a few tix left festivalofdangerousi...

FFS not now. We have enough to worry about.

This clickbait headline is bullshit. They say, eventually, it's $3k per year cheaper.

i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth

I'm sitting by my kid's bed waiting for him to fall asleep and he's quoting The Odyssey at me. "Off you go to the pig sty!"

israel is killing palestinians in gaza every day - ten today. stop the genocide, boycott israel, israeli institutions, and the companies contributing to the genocide and apartheid, and free palestine!

As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it.

Fantastic 600th TrueNorth newsletter hitting thousands of inboxes Australia wide this afternoon. If you've not yet signed up to TrueNorth - please do so here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com

I look forward to ALP apologists sorting out the future for my level 3 autistic kid because the "better than the other guys" party has sold out his future. You he's just as fucked when Labor does it, right?

I was 43 years old when I learned that 'not tested on animals' was an animal rights notice, rather than a warning to not wash my dog with this particular shampoo because they weren't sure how his coat would react.

Why is this power switch rolling its eyes at me?

To live as a Palestinian is to be told, every single day of your life, that you're subhuman, that you're inbred, that you're an animal, that you deserve to die — all things that have actually been said to my face — and then to be branded an extremist for daring to respond.

I just heard a rodeo announcer describe a championship roper as “hotter than climate change,” and he said it in a completely unironic manner. Breakthrough cultural moment?!?

Americans are increasingly feeling a personal impact from extreme heat, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. https://to.pbs.org/4fIXDil

So @heidialexander.bsky.social thinks that transport being in the "real world" means abandoning climate targets. So devastated agriculture, burnt homes, decimated wildlife, thousands of extra deaths aren't the "real world"? What the hell is? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A majority of the 44% of those who bothered voting in Clacton favoured a filthy-rich idi0t over a galactic space warrior? Shame job. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...