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roslording.bsky.social

Social researcher from Naarm (Melbourne) striving to make the world a better place. Passionate about social inclusion, equity, justice, public health, and sustainability. Pacifist, runner, and devoted cat lover.

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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

theshovel.com.au/2025/02/07/p...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter

submitted 53 days ago • 40 comments

Jumping on this trend > Enter the year you turned 10ish into the gif bar and see what was popular back then…

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the West yawns as the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

submitted 65 days ago • 22 comments

These graphics always blow my mind. The idea that humanity basically cannot exist without fossil fuels gets shown up as being a total scam when you realise that they only grew to dominate energy systems a few decades ago

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

"The Australian Government collects more money from HECS than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. "Thank you, children. You're the backbone of our economy, not the gas industry." Richard Denniss at the National Press Club, back in January. #auspol