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Yung En Chee
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Applied ecologist, conservation science, structured decision-making, spatial modelling, waterways research, she/her #StayGrounded #NoFlyForWork #NoAISlopware Proud to #PayTheRent
People are being mean to invertebrates but truly, this is a treat to read!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdaySix mind-bendingly amazing facts about invertebrates
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Please interact if you can see this. The only ask is five dollars. The ONLY ask. Is five dollars! That you make weekly/monthly! It’ll help Mohamed, his siblings, & their disabled parents who are boiling in a tent. Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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"I work in physics research and the AI situation makes me feel insane." www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/c...
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4 CSOs have formed the Karen Worldwide Advocacy Network (KWAN) to advocate for more international support for the Karen people, to ensure rights and protection, self-determination, sustainable development & long-lasting peace. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Tell Kmart not to stock or sell PERVERT GLASSES petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.au
Demand Kmart take the Anko surveillance glasses off the shelf
Camera glasses are moving quickly into the mainstream. Meta has sold more than 7 million pairs and hired Kylie Jenner to sell more. At $89, against several hundred dollars for the Meta version, the te...
petitions.getup.org.au
These people will all be dead in 50 years. The damage they inflict on your children and grandchildren will exist for geological time. Are you going to let them get away with it? www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
1/ Myopic that in a world that's on FIRE or in FLOOD, with millions harmed, Ken Henry's focus is "meeting the net zero by 2050 target" & opining that "the only mechanism we've got for doing that is carbon offsets. And carbon offsets are under threat" from environmentalists & conservationists
Dangerous times for climate policy: Ken Henry - ABC listen
Former Secretary of the Treasury Department Ken Henry is addressing the Clean Energy Council's summit in Sydney today.
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The ignominy and utter disgrace of war-profiteering fossil fuel corps laid out in a First Dog on the Moon cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 14h agoThe blood-soaked WAR-PROFITEERING is actually even MORE obscene Aramco, BP, Chevron, ENI, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies made nearly $93 billion🤯 in the Apr-June quarter Off the back of war & heatwaves, drought, fires, & floods caused by entrenched fossil fuel use
⭐ New paper in @natclimate.nature.com: Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action ⭐ Excited to share this from @samhampton.bsky.social, me & @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, bringing together evidence on how influence operates in the context of climate action. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action - Nature Climate Change
Individuals and groups shape others’ attitudes and actions through social influence. This Perspective articulates a research agenda of social influence for climate action, synthesizes existing evidenc...
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Something that’s been lost in the NAPLAN reporting today: the equity gap in our school system is growing. First Nations kids, kids living in poverty, and those in regional, rural and remote communities are falling further behind. Most of them attend an underfunded public school.
A large language model fed exclusively on unverified blog content has begun generating cultural material of its own, most notably a four-minute Welcome to Country for Level 3 of a suburban shopping centre car park, near the trolley bay. #satire #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Westfield #Bunnings
For a local comparison, Australia's corporate tax rates: 1987: 49% 1990: 39% 2025: 30% That's a whole lot of corporate income that is going to corporations and not to citizens. Source: statbase.org/data/aus-cor...
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
These multinational gas corporations like Inpex and Santos are proving time and again that they'll put profits ahead of people, local communities and the environment. All the while, they're making billions from Australia's gas and paying next to nothing in tax.
Inpex released thousands of tonnes of toxic chemicals like benzene and toluene into the Northern Territory, and underreported these emissions to the territory's EPA for five years.
The news that charges will be sought against Inpex for under-reporting its toxic emissions is yet more evidence that these multinational gas corporations will always put profits before people and planet.
According to Environment Centre NT, Inpex had been under-reporting benzene and toluene emissions from its Ichthys LNG facility by more than 13,000% between 2019 and 2024 Read that again, under-reporting the emissions of toxic gases by >13,000% between 2019 an 2024 🤯
NT Independent (unofficial)@ntindependent.bsky.social · 13h agoJapanese gas company Inpex has been charged by the NT Environmental Protection Authority over alleged under-reporting of emissions from its Ichthys LNG facility in Darwin, which an independent review found had been “systematically underestimated”.
ASRC MEDIA RELEASE: Don't let Labor follow One Nation on immigration. Albanese Gov reportedly considering restricting work rights and appeal rights of people seeking asylum even further. We need Labor to know we want compassion and leadership, not fear and more division. asrc.org.au/2026/08/05/l...
MEDIA RELEASE: Labor must not capitulate to Pauline Hanson’s politics of hate
Human rights, refugee and migrant organisations are warning the Albanese Government not to capitulate to Pauline Hanson’s politics of hate by stripping rights from people seeking asylum in an attempt ...
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Royal commissioner denies pro-Palestinian groups tried to 'hijack' antisemitism inquiry
Commissioner rebukes claim pro-Palestinian groups tried to 'hijack' hearing
The royal commission on antisemitism has hit back at comments from a prominent member of the Jewish community who accused pro-Palestinian groups of attempting to "hijack" the inquiry using "clickbait theatrics and gratuitous slurs".
abc.net.au
Native title holders have had a victory in the High Court against the NT Government's decision to grant Singleton Station a massive water licence that would allow 40,000 megalitres a year to be drawn for an intensive horticulture business, with the court ruling today that the water licence had not…
Singleton Station water licence not lawfully granted: High Court
Native title holders have had a victory in the High Court against the NT Government's decision to grant Singleton Station a massive water licence that would allow 40,000 megalitres a year to be drawn for an intensive horticulture business, with the court ruling today that the water licence had not…
ntindependent.com.au
The blood-soaked WAR-PROFITEERING is actually even MORE obscene Aramco, BP, Chevron, ENI, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies made nearly $93 billion🤯 in the Apr-June quarter Off the back of war & heatwaves, drought, fires, & floods caused by entrenched fossil fuel use
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 5d agoGuess who LOVES PROFIT-BOOSTING WAR & couldn't care less about deadly heatwaves, drought, fires, floods & landslides❓ "BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies will collectively earn $45 billion in net income during April-June 2026, up from $23 billion in the previous quarter"
HINT: Bill Gates isn’t blurbing your book because you told him a hard truth. He’s blurbing your book because your call-to-action fails to hold power to account.
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If you catch a Hurstbridge train between Greensborough and Montmorency Stations you’ll pass a row of businesses on Para Road. Most are dilapidated, some permanently closed - and one, conspicuously, is gleaming and thriving. There’s profit in genocide and if you push back, they’ll throw away the key.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayArson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’
There is a lot we can do to help Australia’s native wildlife survive and recover from H5N1 bird flu. It will require far greater care and investment from governments than we’ve seen so far. theconversation.com/powerless-ag...
Powerless against bird flu? Not entirely. Here are 8 ways to help protect Australia’s birds and mammals
As lethal bird flu spreads in Australian wildlife, it can be easy to think nothing can stop it. That’s an error – much can be done.
theconversation.com
What ceasefire? One million Gazans live in tents, more than 265 Palestinian children have been killed in the last nine months and humanitarian aid continues to be restricted. www.deepcutnews.com/p/five-point...
Five points that show the Gaza genocide hasn't stopped
It's just been recalibrated, says Médecins Sans Frontières
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