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Taxpayers should not be underwriting infrastructure to import foreign LNG at the same time as multinational companies pay little tax & bank eye-watering profits from exporting 🇦🇺 LNG. We need affordable energy but this is madness 🤯

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social let’s make this happen!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How about that NACC? Are we going to get to the election without them delivering a single successful corruption investigation?

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

No one should have any illusions about Trump’s trade ‘diplomacy’. It’s America First enforced by crude, strong arm tactics. Australia must respond with strength, putting critical minerals supplies, #AUKUS and JDF Pine Gap on the negotiating table. #auspol

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

submitted 27 days ago • 3190 comments

Bluesky is great, a refreshing change from the enshittification of corporate social media. But, since joining, I can’t shake this feeling that we are still collectively missing the point. It’s not enough to have “a new place to post”. This piece elegantly articulates what I’m trying to describe.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Opinion | Stop obsessing about what Trump says and focus on what he's doing, because that's where he's weak. The rest is spectacle, writes @keanebernard.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The Liberal Party of Australia has made an ad about its #nuclear plan, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! #auspol youtu.be/JBqVVBUdW84?...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

An important follow up to his first post about how we're absolutely in the middle of a coup, @brockm.bsky.social explains how simply calling out the truth in the face of a bombardment of lies is critical. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/t...

submitted 33 days ago • 35 comments

It’s oddly satisfying, and in many ways a microcosm of current geopolitical power shifts, that after billions of dollars in speculative investment in AI foundational models, OpenAI and co are being quietly leapfrogged by Chinese open source models.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is perfect explanation

submitted 46 days ago • 1244 comments

Not only do we basically give our gas away for free, we don’t even keep enough for our own use 🤯 It’s just inconceivable that 🇦🇺 as one of the biggest LNG exporters will now start importing. The major parties have failed us. www.afr.com/companies/en...

submitted 49 days ago • 34 comments

They shut down their own app for a day, then turned it back on thanking Trump. What an obvious scam this was. Disgusting on the part of the Tik Tok owners, Trump, and all his sycophants who reversed their positions on it one second after he did for no reason other than he did.

submitted 49 days ago • 1008 comments

The biggest problem in the world is #misinformation. Most problems stem from it. The solution is simple. Treat misinformation like a virus. Vaccinate children against misinformation via education. Start yesterday. #viruses #education #Finland #auspol edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

This is precisely what first people and environmental experts were warning would happen. “Imperial Oil and Gas has reported an incident in which contaminated water was "inadvertently released" onto vegetation near a fracking well in the Beetaloo Basin.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Your daily reminder that Dutton is pushing the two most expensive forms of energy - nuclear and gas - in the middle of a cost of living crisis

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

serious question: what's stopping anyone else from doing the same thing? can i legally Wii-ify a live sports broadcast and share it myself? if so, isn't this a huge threat to the value of live sports rights, the only thing in media that still has any value? kotaku.com/australian-o...

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Fact-checking suddenly looks quaint, inadequate and practically irrelevant. Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child sex-abuse scandal in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight. We no longer need fact-checkers. We need reality-checkers.

submitted 58 days ago • 20 comments

This is the most thorough scientific breakdown I've seen so far of what is and isn't attributable to climate change, political negligence, and bad building practices re: the LA fires: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

submitted 59 days ago • 11 comments

Five years on: the relentless spread of the #BlackSummer fires down the east coast of Australia over six months between 2019-2020. The scale and speed of the fires is still pretty shocking and difficult to comprehend. (Geoscience Australia #DigitalEarthAU Hotspots data)

submitted 68 days ago • 5 comments

Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.

submitted 74 days ago • 101 comments

The largest battery capacity version of the MG4, one of Australia’s cheapest EVs, could power an average 3-person home for over 4 days without needing the grid. Soon, many Australians will have that kind of capacity sitting in their driveway. Vehicle-to-grid has so much potential.

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments

Here is the last cartoon for 2024 thanks to everyone who has enjoyed the cartoons this year and also to everyone who has been nice to me I really appreciate it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 80 days ago • 43 comments

Very interesting reading from OECD's International Transport Forum on dealing with scarce energy resources. TL:DR; electrify where possible: road transport, heat pump - avoid bio/e-fuels, hydrogen, so they can be deployed in specific alternative-less sectors. www.itf-oecd.org/managing-com...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Good to see the ABC putting the global dominance of solar and batteries into perspective while our confused little country is drawn into a silly debate about nuclear. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Solar rush: fossil fuels eaten alive by #solar Soz, but renewables now inevitable Climate deniers & paid obfuscaters acts to delay only hurt those that are delayed China installing 2/3 world solar Our @fssau.bsky.social projection: China will reach 1000GW solar by 2026 www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

So Dutton's plan: 🤔underestimates construction, fuel, operations costs, & construction time 🤔ignores SMR, coal power plant extension, nuclear waste disposal & accident liability costs 🤔assumes less consumption 🤔spreads costs over 50 yrs but only models 25 yrs Well, he's convinced me. #auspol

submitted 85 days ago • 18 comments

Peter Dutton and the Coalition’s war on renewables provides no relief to Australian’s trying to reduce their energy bills, locks in expensive coal and gas for another 10-15 years and does nothing to address escalating climate risks.

submitted 87 days ago • 18 comments

“in seeking to conflate and confuse on its centrepiece policy, the Coalition is doing little more than treating voters like mugs, assuming they'll be more interested in style over substance.” www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 87 days ago • 22 comments

If you just ignore existing state and federal laws, the cost of nuclear waste, water use, decommissioning costs, rising construction costs, building a new industry from scratch, the falling cost of renewables and the fact that Dutton’s figures are blatantly cooked, his plan is actually reasonable.

submitted 87 days ago • 12 comments

🚨When people are struggling with high household costs, facts matter. Here is the data: the only way for power prices to come down is with more renewables & electrification of households. Govt needs to help people get off expensive gas. #smartsolutions #auspol

submitted 95 days ago • 12 comments

@reneweconomy.com.au ‘If the Liberal-National Party’s policy leads to slower emission reductions (even if they ultimately deliver net zero by 2050) this carries a serious penalty for our children and future children,’ writes Tristan Edis #energy #nuclear #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/a-sneak-prev...

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submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Should be front page news “World-first analysis of the superpower trade finds 🇦🇺 could contribute up to 9.6% of the world's emissions reductions while generating 6-8 times larger revenues than those typical from Australian fossil fuel exports” www.superpowerinstitute.com.au/work/the-new...

submitted 100 days ago • 7 comments

Are we sure he hasn’t secretly made himself environment minister?

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

submitted 106 days ago • 936 comments

The growth here has been astounding, & the @bsky.app dev team has been working miracles. I pray they will have the strength to resist the urge to become absolutely gobsmackingly rich by selling ads or do the bidding of billionaires. We will all gladly pay you not to ruin this place 🙏

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

want to quickly follow a bunch of aussies who have moved from X/twitter recently? go.bsky.app/F46ebLH

submitted 115 days ago • 110 comments

The Trump Administration's approach to climate and energy will likely be a gift to China and set US competitiveness back. China will capture clean technology markets fully leaving the US even further behind. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

submitted 113 days ago • 5 comments

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

submitted 115 days ago • 2947 comments

High resolution image of a planet 3 billion km away and its rings. Uranus by JWST. 🔭 🧪

submitted 115 days ago • 265 comments

Six months ago, I would have said Labor's plan for caps on political donations is excellent. But I've learned otherwise. This is a plan to entrench the major parties. Please read the below 🧵 (and screengrabs) to see why. 1/n #auspol

submitted 115 days ago • 3 comments