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The US is at the international summit for energy security, actively trying to bully other countries out of decarbonizing.

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"Republicans still hold the constitutional power to remove Trump from office, but that’s meaningless if they’re paralyzed by fear of MAGA mob violence. Trump’s hold over his party and the Congress it currently controls is inherently corrupt, not legitimately persuasive." — @playtyperguy.com

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Too poor to be thin It used to be rich people were fat, poor people thin US obesity rates tripled over last 60 years US survey: 43% of Americans are obese, 10% are morbidly obese usafacts.org/articles/obe... And also who you vote for: Democrat vs Republican journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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There, are at last, more female S&P 500 CEOs in total than S&P 500 CEOs named John This is a step in the right direction It's not an end point But, yes, it's still overwhelmingly a sausage-fest www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... @bloomberg.com Fortunately,Trump is addressing DEI - oh, no, wait 🤦

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Electrification of everything Pop quiz results in! Li ion battery use from battery-operated cordless power tools: 2017 some of us had a few batteries 2018 more of us had more batteries 2019 we're heading for lots of batteries (poll gap years🙄) 2025 we all have lots of batteries

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Pedestrians almost never collide with cars🤔 But drivers in cars crash into people And kill people The number one best antidote to prevent road deaths is a speed limit under 30km/h Meanwhile the death toll of pedestrians in Australia rises www.perthnow.com.au/news/disaste...

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The post hoc justifications Americans have for this are incredible

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Peeps missing the obvious - they're 100' enhanced transmission beacons to the Kremlin nypost.com/2025/04/23/u...

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Hey Apple How about an additional feature on Apple Maps? 🧭 Avoid all routes cross borders with the USA Perhaps tuck it in just after 🧭 Avoid tolls Or an expanded cateogory 🧭 Avoid all routes to authoritarian countries (Useful to avoid a killer app)

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Thanks for posting. In addition to cover ups of war crimes, #AUKUS fiasco this RW #politicisation of our #ADF will make recruitment very difficult among young. No recent military action defending Australia & disruption of military ally by #Trump makes it worse. #auspol @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social

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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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US advances a 'let's embrace self harm and ignore science as much as humanly possible on every front imaginable' agenda Meanwhile, China embraces and utilises science as much as humanly possible across every part of the economy to full advantage of the its people bsky.app/profile/prof...

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IRON at the Shanghai Auto Show XPENG sees Iron as a personal assistant for admin and customer service in homes, offices, and retail—beyond just manufacturing Convergence of AI, automation, and supply chain expertise, enabling EV makers to extend their technological prowess into humanoid robotics

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To utter a classic Australian phrase at you Yeah, nah World energy transition to renewables is unstoppable, and within reach Coal will rapidly exit Gas will follow We won't need fossils Renewables will deliver (supported by batteries) @iea.org More bsky.app/profile/prof...

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The problem with the unimaginative is their questions and conclusions invariably only reflect their past lived experience For them, the future can't be imagined. They live in the point in time of their last breath, not their next one The future is here It's just not evenly distributed yet

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“And Breathe Normally” Impacts of low emission zones on sick leave and mental well-being All particulates do damage (Tho', some particulates more equal than others) It's criminal air quality not better regulated/enforced www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #urbanism+

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For decades, forecasts of a clean hydrogen economy have relied on rapid scale-up driving down costs. However, production costs are dominated by engineering and energy, and supplemented by transport, storage & usage costs which seem unlikely to exhibit rapid reductions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Published in Nature, an important analysis of the liability of fossil fuel polluters for climate change impacts. “Chevron, the highest-emitting company, very likely caused between US $791 billion & $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Ageing population dramatically shifts voter balance #auspol Past 20yrs: Popn aged 85+ up 133% Total pop up 33% 32% voters 60+ IMO reason to bring voting age down at least to 16 Perhaps even 15 15 can work, pay taxes 16 legally give consent 17 drive Old enough to vote, too

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Quality, independent public broadcasters are crucial to a free world, and must be enabled to speak truth to power Public broadcasting must serve a public good They're not meant to the mouthpiece of the government of the day The sign below is the antithesis of the purpose of good journalism

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"There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign."

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The US Navy's new Director of Communications, Kristina Wong, is a Jan 6 terrorist and an anti-Ukraine, pro-Kremlin mouthpiece. Likely an unregistered foreign agent (spy).

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A federal judge has blocked the US government from dismantling Voice of America and Radio Free Asia and required the administration to let the news organisations' journalists return to work. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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China's Government and economy is fully informed by science🧪, scientists and their professions Not science denial Clean tech > 10% share of China's GDP China global share of major clean technology products - solar, wind, batteries, EVs

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Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn’t just wrong – it’s precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking

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