Alive & kicking. Ex Sydneysider, Climate Change refugee, Conservationist, musician. Views my own.
Tasmania
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Sean tooker retweeted
The Government™ has made an ad about the protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.🌍🌎🌏
Sean tooker retweeted
Hatteras Island is cut off. Hwy 12 closed last night at Pea Island, 17 days after it reopened. Second time in 26 days. NC spent $155M on a bridge to fix the last washout. The ocean moved 4 miles north. 27 homes gone since 2020. We keep rebuilding a road on a beach that’s leaving.
Sean tooker retweeted
Long Beach spends $ 1-1.5M a year moving the same sand back and forth across its own peninsula. It adds no new sand. It just puts it back.
The dredge that actually adds sand is $11.4M for 415,000 cubic yards. The federal project feeding Huntington was $23.1M and repeats every ~5 years.
Permanent fix: $ 150-350M. The city’s entire emergency reserve is $ 10.3M.
Eight buildings red-tagged last weekend.
So when someone posts a satellite photo and says see, the ocean isn’t rising, understand that beach is held in place with money.
Sean tooker retweeted
Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive...
She was the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, a Native American language native to California. At 82, Marie Wilcox realized something that completely changed the course of her life. For centuries, her native language was passed down only through word of mouth from one generation to the next. It had never been written down in a book, recorded on paper, or saved in a digital document.
That meant if Marie passed away without recording it, the language would disappear from the Earth forever.
Instead of letting her heritage fade into silence, Marie decided to take action.
She had no prior experience using computers or typing on a keyboard, but she did not let that stop her. She bought a basic computer and taught herself how to type, press key by key, and navigate the software.
Every day, she sat down at her desk to recall words, phrases, and grammar rules from her memory. She typed out every word carefully along with its translation and meaning in English.
Marie spent seven long years working on this project almost every single day. There were times when it felt overwhelming, but her devotion to her culture kept her moving forward.
She once shared her heart about the project, saying, "I am just keeping it alive. I hope my people learn it." She knew that every keystroke was bringing a piece of her history back from the edge of total extinction.
By the time she finished, Marie created a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary. It became the very first written record of the language in human history. To make sure people could actually learn how to pronounce the words correctly, she also spent hours recording audio lessons.
Her daughter and grandchildren joined in her efforts, listening to her speak and learning the traditional phrases alongside her.
Marie passed away in 2021 at the age of 87, but her dedicated labor made sure that Wukchumni did not die with her.
Today, younger members of her tribe use her dictionary and audio files to study and speak the language of their ancestors once again.
Marie's journey shows us that a language is far more than just a list of words or grammar rules. A native language carries the very soul, memory, and spiritual breath of a people.
Through her deep love and quiet strength, Marie preserved a sacred spiritual bridge connecting the ancient past to the generations of the future, ensuring her ancestors' spirit remains alive forever.
#archaeohistories
Sean tooker retweeted
Newport Beach flooded two days before the storm got there.
Southern California is under only its second tropical storm watch ever. The ocean was already 12 to 18 inches above normal, so high tide ran 20 inches above the charts, a record for the city.
Sunday is worse.
Sean tooker retweeted
Downtown LA has hit 90 degrees 49 times this year, the most in 150 years of records.
LA sits 15 miles from the ocean. The marine layer is supposed to shut the heat down at night, and the water is now too warm to do it.
Sean tooker retweeted
We need a WikiLeaks now.
On 20th anniversary of @WikiLeaks, recall its hopeful role brilliantly substituting for the drivel in gov’t-controlled 4th Estate. If WikiLeaks were now in full swing, we could perhaps confirm or deny alarming reports that US has given Israel the green light to nuke Iran.
Sean tooker retweeted
One of the most beautiful berries - the joyously pink spindle berry🩷🧡🩷
They hang from thin, straight branches, once used to make spindles, hence the name🩷
In the Language of Flowers spindles mean 'your charms are engraven on my heart'📚🩷📚#folklore
Sean tooker retweeted
The last 5 years we entered an Era of extreme ice loss in the Alps! 🧊🔥
Over this period, 20% of initial ice volume has gone! 📈
This is evidenced here on Aletsch Gl. (2,900 m asl), a place where the ice shouldn’t melt to maintain glacier in balance! ⚖️
📷 @matthias_huss
Sean tooker retweeted
Food waste uses almost a third of the world's agricultural land for food that is never eaten. We cut forests, use water, apply fertilizer... to grow food that rots. That's not a farming failure. That's an environmental failure.
Sean tooker retweeted
Scientists are warning that Switzerland's glaciers have lost an ‘enormous’ amount of ice due to a combination of a winter with too little snow and record high temperatures across Europe this summer.
Sean tooker retweeted
For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch…
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
Evening glow.
Your moment of quiet reflection.
Go happily.
Your day is done.
#tasmania
Sean tooker retweeted
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue.
The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
Sean tooker retweeted
60 mph wind gusts, moderate to major coastal flooding and beach erosion.
The sand behind me was pumped in less than 18 months ago. The 2025 project put more than 1.35 million cubic yards along these 5.6 miles, and the dredging contract alone was about $19.6 million.
Sean tooker retweeted
Polo hit 892 mb off Mexico, second strongest hurricane ever recorded in the East Pacific, after going tropical storm to Cat 5 in 33 hours, the fastest on record there.
Nolo is about to give Hawaii its third hurricane of the season, with 20-30" of rain forecast for the Big Island.
Sean tooker retweeted
Look at this.
“but according to the media, the Iranians are the bad guys and the Yankees are the ones bringing democracy to Iran.”
El 22 de septiembre de 1980, un año después de la expulsión del Sha de Irán por la revolución iraní, el dictador iraquí Sadam Husein, con el apoyo de EEUU, invadía el territorio de Irán para derrocar a la recién creada República Islámica.
Durante la guerra contra el pueblo iraní, Irak lanzó más de 350 ataques químicos a gran escala a lo largo de la frontera de Irán, los materiales químicos fueron suministrados por varias corporaciones alemanas, francesas y holandesas y al menos 30 ataques químicos dirigidos específicamente a civiles.
Saddam también utilizó armas químicas para atacar Halabja, bastión de los kurdos iraquíes que luchaban contra él, donde murieron 5.000 civiles, en su mayoría mujeres y niños.
Documentos desclasificados de la CIA prueban que Estados Unidos sabía del uso de armas químicas por parte de la Irak de Saddam contra Irán, pero no hizo nada para detenerlo. De hecho, continuaron proporcionando a Irak información satelital estratégica.
En Irán, se estima que 75.000 víctimas todavía padecen lesiones crónicas debido a los ataques quimicos de Irak y una de las empresas que suministró el agente químico a Sadam, Melchemie Holland BV, fue acusada de participar en el envío de 1.850 toneladas de cloruro de tionilo, un componente del gas mostaza, a Irak.
La misma EEUU y Europa que hablaria de Sadam como un dictador unas decadas después porque le interesaba para invadir Irak, fue quien financió y armó al propio Sadam en 1980 para que invadiese y arrasara a Irán, solo porque era un pais enemigo de sus intereses geopolíticos.
EEUU fracasaría en su intento de derrocar al nuevo gobierno de Irán a través del dictador Sadam Hussein, dejándose miles de millones en asistencia militar y armamento en el intento, aunque su invasión a Irán dejó a más de 1,2 millón de personas muertas.
Apenas 1 mes antes de los acuerdos de paz en agosto de 1988, EEUU en un intento de recrudecer el conflicto y en un arrebato de impotencia al no poder ganar la guerra, derribó con misiles tierra-aire el Vuelo 655 de Iran Air, matando a 290 civiles que viajaban en él.
EEUU incluso terminaría ejecutando a Saddam Hussein más tarde, haciéndole creer al mundo que era enemigo suyo para saquear el petróleo de Irak, cuando lo financió y lo armó para atacar a Irán.
Estamos en 2026, EEUU sigue atacando y bombardeando a Irán... pero según los medios, los iraníes son los malos y los yankis los que llevan la democracia a Irán.
