taraturtle2.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

IF you're lucky enough to own a home in Australia, which for people in my age group and younger is becoming less and less likely, now we need to worry about insurance prices - or if the house is insurable at all. The climate crisis is already happening.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a dark day for Australia’s environment and our democracy. Last night’s passing of amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act weakens the protection of our natural treasures, rammed through by a govt which promised greater protection.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Ahead of next week, remember budgets are all about choices. Right now the govt is choosing to have people on HECS/HELP pay 4 times more than gas companies do on PRRT. @jack-thrower.bsky.social has the numbers #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/in-2023...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Talk to your neighbours. Do they have a generator or a camping fridge you can use? This is an opportunity to get to know your community and pool your resources.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

#BREAKING: Aldi just failed an audit into its plastic use. More details: www.marineconservation.org.au/aldi-confirm...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Are you struggling to pay your bills? Because the gas industry isn’t. If you've paid ANY tax, you've paid more tax than the gas export industry has EVER paid in resources tax. How is that fair? #auspol Add your name to the petition to make big gas pay their fair share: theaus.in/increasePRRT

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

By 2040, plastics could make up 95% of net growth in oil demand. A handful of nations delayed progress at last years' Global Plastic Treaty negotiations, calling for weaker measures. Coincidentally, 220 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the negotiations. theconversation.com/while-plasti...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Thousands march at trans youth rallies opposing Queensland puberty blockers ban, organiser says

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Hold up, what the fuck?!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Australian nature: if our laws don’t radically change, environmental degradation will continue | Adam Morton

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

While there’s plenty of information in the latest data disclosure, Australians are still in the dark about exactly who funds our political parties at election time.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.

submitted 57 days ago • 440 comments

I have no words for this.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Ocean heatwave likely killed 30,000 fish off Western Australia coast, government says

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

In November, AMCS & Dhimurru reps joined nations in Busan for the 5th Global Plastics Treaty talks. Progress was stalled by a few nations protecting industries like the fossil fuel sector, but global momentum to end plastic pollution is strong. More👇 www.marineconservation.org.au/whats-happen...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This #invasionday should be a time for reflection, listening and learning. Honestly, what do we have to lose?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"Not everyone celebrating on Invasion Day is a racist, but every racist will be celebrating on Invasion Day." - Ben Taylor #invasionday

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

As 26 January approaches, let’s take the opportunity to learn from one another, respect varied experiences, and broaden our understanding of the date’s significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

There is a David Lynch sized hole in this world

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

David Lynch's passing calls me to recall "The Perfect Drug," written for Lynch's Lost Highway, a personal NIN fave, though I'd not ever seen the video for it, it's amazing in a real "More goth, no, more goth than that, what part of 'more goth' do you not understand" sort of way youtu.be/dn3j6-yQKWQ

submitted 74 days ago • 198 comments

TIME TO CREATE BUCKAROOS. yes there will be little pieces that you keep seeing and thinking 'this is broken this is wrong' but honestly most of these things fall into two categories 1 they give you flavor and power or 2 nobody even notices. NOW GET OUT THERE AND PROVE LOVE BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING

submitted 84 days ago • 16 comments

Tracing the Triple J’s approach to social issues is a way to trace the priorities of many young people in Australia.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

“To know what is happening to the climate, the answer is in the ocean.” The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans, not only at the surface but up to two kilometres deep, according to a new study. news.stthomas.edu/professor-re...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

submitted 82 days ago • 50 comments

terrible beatboxing noises “My name is Mark Z and I’m here to say that i’m letting people use slurs in a different way!”

submitted 83 days ago • 1152 comments

Christmas done right

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments