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🇬🇧 Investigative journalist Richard Sanders on how 's government is more worried about protecting Israel's genocide in Gaza than averting the deaths of eight political prisoners in jails.

https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2001675288657424653

@democracy @workersrights @socialmedia

on a plane: flies rescue mission for a critically endangered species https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/21/campbell-keeled-glass-snail-translocation-norfolk-island

"in 2020, Dr Isabel Hyman received surprising photos from a citizen scientist of an unusual . Hyman recognised the species... 'As far as I knew, it was extinct, so we were very excited'. She and colleagues made a trip to the island, and in a sheltered valley found what they were looking for: a lineup of Campbell’s keeled glass-snails, hidden under a palm frond"

close-up photo of a tiny brown snail on a green plant leaf

Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns

Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’

Archive:
https://archive.ph/GI2GZ

Original:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/20/some-will-take-their-own-lives-puberty-blocker-bans-in-queensland-and-nz-risk-extreme-harm-to-trans-youth-uk-expert-warns

If you want to understand what's happening in Australia, and especially NSW, right now read The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.

I will email you a copy if you shoot me your email address.

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Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/write-the-darn-book/

Write The Darn Book! | Beat Writer's Block, Procrastination, Overwhelm And Self-Doubt, To Confidently Finish Writing Your Novel With Maddison Michaels Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website

" comprise 0.2% of the world’s population.

Take a group of 500 random people, and on average, 499 won’t be .

So you may be wondering what it’s like to be part of that 0.2%.

Here’s a little snapshot:

In May, Jews gathered at a museum reception in . A started . Two attendees were .

In June, Jews gathered at a park in , . An assailant threw into the crowd. A woman was killed.

In October, Jews gathered at a in , . A man drove his car into pedestrians and them. Two people were killed.

In December, Jews gathered on a beach in , . opened fire. Fifteen …

It is nearly , so here is a very seasonally appropriate target.

is comprised of two parts - there is the , which is a , and the accompanying . For us here in this is a complex - appearing for us in the lead up to Christmas itself.

This is a two and half hour exposure, or 150 frames, at 60s/frame, gain 80, using the inbuilt Ha/OIII filter, shot on a .

Post processing was using Stellar Studio in the app, and .

A bright cluster of stars somewhat resembling a Christmas tree illuminate a patch of nebula near the top centre. At the top of the nebula is a triangular incursion with a red glowing tip. Elsewhere in the shot fainter dust clouds are being illuminated. Text in the corners is replicated in the body text.