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Environmental Scientist working and living on Wadandi Boodja in southwest Western Australia. Bird & native plant nerd. Lifelong leftie. Mum of two neurodivergent children. LGBTQIA+ and disability ally and advocate. No profile description = block.
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Academics & others need to understand a few things. A 🧵 I) First, fascism is not inevitable. Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them. Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends. That why visible resistance matters. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

It’s no longer safe for Australians to go to America. This is insane. We ALL have American friends. Mine are like family. Dear god.

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

Well said.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I agree. POTUS tanks the stock market, encourages his sycophants to buy up 3 hours before he reduces tariffs. The world has gone mad.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? It’s about time the media covered the appalling lack of environmental policy and commitment from the ALP this election #auspol #australianwildlife

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Who will they blame when the baby boomers are gone and no longer the fall guys? Because they never blame the real culprits- the mega rich. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar #EatTheRich

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Crucial news today, with the AFP revealing that a sizable portion of the genuinely scary antisemitic shit going down is… deliberate scaremongering by organised crime, diverting police resources, trying to secure deals with the cops, and shifting blame and attention.

submitted 44 days ago • 23 comments

Really ABC.David Speers? Where’s our Laura Tingle?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Psychologist Gustave Gilbert, who interviewed Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials, said… a definition of the nature of evil: “It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants,” he said. “A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

submitted 49 days ago • 695 comments

Keep up the good work Australia!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Trump and Vance berate and bully Zelensky like a pair of sleazy, drug-fucked neighbourhood standover crooks.

submitted 54 days ago • 42 comments

My native garden brings me peace in a chaotic world.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible new study suggesting longevity in whales has been grossly underestimated since whaling extirpated old individuals

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Some parents can't deal with having kids that are “different”. Then emotionally abandon & reject their children. They have limited capacity to reflect on their behaviour or adapt their parenting style to suit the needs of their children. It’s heartbreaking. They have no idea #disability #autism

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

However you ring in the new year, we hope you have as much fun as Joan and Julia! 🎉💃🎆

submitted 114 days ago • 9 comments

reminder that the coalition voted for holding a referendum in 2023 and against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament for the publicly funded seat-by-seat racism data it generated, to mine for the 2025 federal election.

submitted 124 days ago • 3 comments

The WA government giving $70,000 to support endangered black-cockatoos in care seems great But without both a full stop to habitat destruction AND some serious urban forest restoration this money will make 0 difference in the long term. #wildOz 🪶 www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

My thoughts on the Sandy Hook massacre of small, innocent children back in 2012. #gunlaws in the USA are equivalent to a horror story. And yet nothing changes.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoy the sound of our resident Grey Shrike-thrush. I’d love to capture a photo of him one day. Taken 6 weeks ago on Wadandi Boodja. #wildoz #ozwildlife #ozbirds

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment