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A few days ago, I sat down to write a short Twitter thread explaining the size of the bushfire crisis in my native Australia. What I didn’t expect was that this thread would spread around the world, quoted and retweeted by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Neil Gaiman and more than 125,000 other people.
Clearly my tweets struck a nerve, eliciting responses of shock, sadness and a desire to help.
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