Australian-in-exile, unfashionable, austere, bewildered, touchy, a luddite, the sort of person who waves at dogs.
In the Antipodes.
Joined April 2009
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Meredith Henderson retweeted
Little trailer for my book 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors', out from @thwupbooks next Thursday, 14 April 2022. 🖤 💛 🖤 💛
teherengawakapress.co.nz/ano…
Meredith Henderson retweeted
So @miss_hen_ felted cat ornaments for @bckmph and me, based on our three cats, and they are perfect.
Meredith Henderson retweeted
A researcher at the University of California uncovered documents from 1967 showing that sugar companies secretly funded studies at Harvard University designed to blame fat—not sugar—for the growing obesity epidemic econ.st/2XjOwtg From @1843mag
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While so many are fixated on the #MullerReport the world is being destroyed by species extinction, massive deforestation (Amazon close to going into a death spiral), glaciers evaporating, plastics flooding the oceans, over fishing (no fish by 2050), coral reefs dying... #WakeUp
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.@Nestlé produced 1.7 million tonnes of plastic packaging last year—that’s a 13% increase from the year before! #PlasticMonster
RT this video and tell @Nestlé to stop polluting our planet with single-use plastic! #BreakFreeFromPlastic
Meredith Henderson retweeted
Finally some good news!! The @guardian have decided to include CO2 levels in their weather forecast. Please share this news so that all newspapers and news outlets follow the example. Now! #ClimateBreakdown
theguardian.com/environment/…
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In the midst of a climate emergency, we are subsidising tax breaks for private jets. These refunds are paid for by all British taxpayers. theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
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Evidence from an American fossil bed is revealing details of the hellstorm that drove dinosaurs to extinction econ.st/2UkW8yu
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The EU has voted to end Daylight Savings Time from 2021 econ.st/2K0ciZp
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“Over the last few years, whenever scientists have gone out to look for plastic in the ocean, they have almost always found it. Whether on the remote ocean floor, in the ice in the Arctic, in the stomachs of seabirds and fish, or now in sea salt.”
- oceanographer Erik van Sebille
Meredith Henderson retweeted
“In my experience, if you give money away it comes back double. Anyway, it is better giving it to your children than letting it go to death duty. So give it away, I say. That is what money is for, to be given away.” —Beryl Bainbridge theparisreview.org/interview…
Meredith Henderson retweeted
100,000 women protest against the compulsory head scarf covering for females ruling in Tehran, Iran, 1979 by photojournalist Hengameh Golestan #womensart
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Research suggests that the simplest way to become extremely rich is by being born to the right parents
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Leopard Thought to Be Extinct Is Spotted in Taiwan for First Time in Over 30 Years mymodernmet.com/formosan-clo…
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Despite what you may think, Mercury is on average the closest planet to Earth: it is closest to Earth 46% of the time; Venus is closest 36% of the time, while Mars is closest just 18% of the time ow.ly/mGEV30o85ST [source of the gif & full video: ow.ly/oIWR30o85Tf]
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This is #Ecocide. In a just world, it would be treated as a crime against humanity - and against the rest of the living planet.
theguardian.com/business/201…
