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Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. More anarchist with every passing climate disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy. To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.
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Even with the context Greg provided, I sort of half-expected the last para to be "this is fucked and it is a loophole that must be closed". Nope.

If you want to get just how rigged the tax system is for the rich, have a read of this tip from the AFR "wealth reporter"

Right-wing violence yesterday: 🔫2 dead in Minnesota. 🎯Mass shooting at march in Utah. 🚗Car attacks at 2 protests. 🚔Police violence at multiple rallies. Viral misinfo + conspiracies - more concerned about policing protests - spread about far-Right groups going "undercover" downplayed real threats.

I’ve started adding the phrase “or else” to everything I say to Alexa and Siri. “Set a timer for 15 minutes… or else.” Ha ha, the robots are gonna kill me first, guys.

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

Grim spectacle of fed+state govts in Aus begging data centre companies to plant giant, power hungry video card melting facilities in their backyards Among all the other harms, it'll make cutting emissions harder - recent @crikey.com.au piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/12/a...

Shameful really One of the big contributors is our poor quality of housing. You can rate the thermal performance of housing on a star rating of 0-10. The average star rating of Australian homes built before 2003? 1.8 stars…

NSW Nationals vote to dump net zero by 2050, increasing pressure on Littleproud to follow suit

What a hot mess. Climate change dashboard updated through last month: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

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Fwiw arstechnica did a better write up of what he believes and it's more fucked up and more clearly based in eugenics He says it's miasma theory but in classic RFK Jr. fashion he defines it wrong. It would actually be better if he believed in miasma theory than his actual beliefs imho

lol, always Third Way

I know no-one follows me for my hip hop takes, but Lil Wayne's latest is one of the worst albums by a once great artist that I've ever heard. Not a word of a lie: When he was part way through his cover of Weezer's Island in the Sun (WHY?!), my app fucking quit itself because the tune was so bad.

The Israel attack on Iran and what unfolds is very likely to boost the efforts of many countries to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels - something that is already gaining a lot of momentum this year from cheaper renewables + storage:

This, though one of the more left field impacts of climate change we have seen so far is Eddie Vedder having to cancel a concert due to the impacts of wildfire smoke on his singing. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j...

Please note: if your answer to the climate crisis is "we shouldn't have pop concerts", I *will* block you.

I love randomly scrolling on apps and coming across my work being cited by people I've never heard of before. Especially when they are relatively new accounts to making that stuff (I think?) 🔗 vt.tiktok.com/ZSk9M7gVp/

Some people claim that reducing oil/gas production won't help the climate because demand is fixed and other countries will increase production to compensate. A 2024 paper shows this is false: Reducing production reduces emissions by ~half the lifecycle emissions of the oil/gas left in the ground.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

We feed you. They hunt us.

The world's largest welfare queen regrets biting the hand that feeds him. The State is more powerful than any and every billionaire. Money comes and goes - there's always money, but only a fixed pie of power. News at 11

Crikey Moses. It's not like Suzanne Moore - a Brit - approached the SMH to publish some worthless drivel and they were morally obliged to publish it under freedom of speech. Someone on the SMH editorial team read this in The Telegraph (UK), decided it was worth the money, and paid to republish it.

Coal and gas generators on Australia's largest grid have broken down 69 times since 1 January 2025. Nice!* * But not actually because many of these are potentially lethal worker safety incidents even before you realise that lives depend on us maintaining a stable grid and this is why we should pha

A reminder that dotted lines on a map do not prevent ocean acidification or rising sea temperatures. Australia’s marine parks are being destroyed by policies that promote more fossil fuel pollution until 2070. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This piece raises a lot of questions, and not many answers, but I reckon that they are important questions and if you intend to do national climate advocacy - or have opinions on it - they are questions that you should have an answer to.

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

Jesus fuck this map alone is enough. Then consider the Great Barrier Reef bleaching on the east coast the Gnoorea Beach fish kill and the toxic algae bloom in At Vincents Bay off Adelaide. And so far I've only seen the extent of this marine disaster reported by one team of journalists.

In news that will surprise absolutely no one who has paid attention It is nonetheless astounding to see how far the benefit of the doubt extends for prominent personalities when it comes to their clear far-right beliefs or affiliations... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recorded biggest loss in its 118-year history. Legal bills helped blow a $3.3 million hole in its budget Concerts were postponed & members protested over its sacking of Gillham after he dedicated a song to killed Palestinian journos www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

It’s not ‘uneconomic’ to build houses in Australia. Builders & developers are doing very nicely. High income earners are spending a fortune on extensions & holiday homes What’s ‘uneconomic’ is thinking builders will ever build small houses for the poor instead of big ones for the rich

Slick has been given a reprint --now with a fancy sticker on the cover. If you want to understand Why We Are Like This on climate change, or read about things like that one time the oil and gas industry spied on the son of a prime minister, and you haven't picked up a copy, now's your chance!

House hunting is the pits. Found an incredible house today. Immediately struck by the reality that there is no chance that we will get it. 😔

First day in Court - our client Raelene Cooper has a hearing in mid-July The Court noted Minister Watt’s agreement to give Raelene 3 business days’ notice before approving Woodside’s NW shelf extension. This gives our client time to consider applying for an injunction www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...

"What matters here is that those futures manifest depending on the decisions made today. "We already know about possible futures; the question is, which one are you fighting for?" www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/02/n...

It’s me. We’re so sick of being gaslit. www.theguardian.com/environment/...