Collette Snowden
@drcollette.bsky.social
British/Australian - Communication and Media academic and writer interested in media effects on human society. Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.
🚨 Today, Gaza buried children. It buried three years of waiting, heartbreak, and unanswered goodbyes. These children were killed when Israel flattened an entire residential block, leaving their bodies trapped beneath the rubble for nearly three years before they could finally be laid to rest.💔😪💔😢💔😪
We can have politicians like this that represent our interests and ask hard questions of institutions and organisations, or the stupid ones. Guess which the #auspol media give more time and space.
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 2d agoSarah Hanson-Young tears into ACMA following their Senate evidence, saying they’re an “absolute lapdog” for the gambling industry. “I don’t know what those people do”🔥
Sarah Hanson-Young tears into ACMA following their Senate evidence, saying they’re an “absolute lapdog” for the gambling industry. “I don’t know what those people do”🔥
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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Sarah Hanson-Young savages Sportsbet GM Jules Norton Selzer after he refuses to answer whether they've ever returned money to victims after it’s found to have been stolen. SHY “I have to take that as a No”💥 Is it because they thrive on criminal money? Shocking.
It is expected to cost roughly $8,500. It made its public debut June 7, when President Claudia Sheinbaum drove a prototype onto a stage near Mexico City, and manufacturing targeted for early 2027 at a proposed assembly site in Puebla. Charging from a standard household outlet is part of the plan
Mexico unveils $8,500 Olinia EV to challenge market dominated by Chinese-made cars — The Cool Down
"The demand was there. What changed was the supply." Aug 03, 2026 Mexico is aiming to carve out a place in one of the fastest-growing segments of its auto market with a tiny, low-cost electric vehicle...
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“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones, with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
The ocean gives us almost everything we need to survive. Every breath we take. Food for billions. A stable climate. Medicines. Rainfall. Biodiversity. Coastal protection. Beauty. Life itself.
Underwater Ocean Cave with Fish
ALT: Underwater Ocean Cave with Fish
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The man endorsed by Sarah Huckabeast in this video is Arkansas state Rep. Austin McCollum. McCollum was arrested today on charges of aggravated assault against a family or household member, first-degree false imprisonment, and third-degree domestic battery. www.nwaonline.com/news/2026/au...
"Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds" Tegan George thepoint.com.au/new/260731-a...
Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds
New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po...
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Israeli airstrikes bombed medical warehouses near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early Saturday 1 August. The strikes destroyed at least half of the facilities and extensively damaged nearby tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, witnesses said.
"Journalist" William Elliott claims to be interested in public-minded journalism. Maybe he could start by explaining the public interest in duplicity.
Collette Snowden@drcollette.bsky.social · 5d ago"Journalist" William Elliott - a Macquarie University graduate - is telling everyone else "degrees are worthless" and to ditch them for trades. I wonder when he's enrolling in Trade School? Hypocrite. www.news.com.au/finance/work...
"Journalist" William Elliott - a Macquarie University graduate - is telling everyone else "degrees are worthless" and to ditch them for trades. I wonder when he's enrolling in Trade School? Hypocrite. www.news.com.au/finance/work...
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Today's example of Big Sport making demands of government. Where is Big Library in this contest?
Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · 6d agoif this is going to be the line then fuck these guys
They're not "settlers" but illegal invaders/occupiers/thieves. The terminology matters. "Settlers" is Israeli propaganda designed to legitimise land theft. Many people have no idea Israel's presence in the West Bank is llegal except for East Jerusalem. It's not part of Israel. #CallThemInvaders
Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 5d ago
Many Americans are going back to old “dumb” phones, and the reason is an older case that is gaining new attention after federal prosecutors charged Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick over a phone that erased itself during a CBP search.
Infantino now feeling the Trump kiss of reputational death. Like so many before him. It's only going to get worse from here.
The "partnership" between sport, politics, media, and money was already toxic. Infantino's proposal is the final stage of the capture of a grass-roots, community based activity by capitalism.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d agoUEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
The ocean isn’t just overheating, it’s LOSING ITS BREATH. Scientists say global waters have already lost around 2% of their oxygen, pushing marine life towards an “unsafe space” with potentially irreversible impacts. Protect the oceans, stop new oil and gas.
The guy who campaigned on grocery prices is gold-plating horse statues on our dime. It’s going to be hard to tell the difference between Washington, DC and the Las Vegas Strip in a minute.
Of course, the US admin's tactic of distraction succeeds in shifting media focus to scapegoat Fauci instead of the schemozzle of the economy, failed war on Iran, escalation of genocide by Israel, corruption of the Trump family etc. What if they ignored it like they ignore climate change?
Just an appreciation post for this guy. The COVID pandemic would have been far worse without Dr. Fauci's decades of experience as guidance through it. Had he been working under an adult president and not the child that presided over 2020, he would have saved even more lives without having to contend
