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“We have political leaders who insist that mining & forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.” “Mining & native forest logging industries, collectively, employ only ~2% of the labour force." – Ken Henry

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

As Gernot Wagner said over on Mastodon, Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

Never thought I would see this day. Thank you to the x million US citizens who couldn’t be arsed to vote and have led us to this flaming pile of excrement.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Brexitocracy - Worth remembering this ..

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

This photograph will live in perpetual infamy in history books.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Some GOP bills introduced since January: 🤡 Make Trump’s birthday a holiday 🤡 Carve Trump into Mt. Rushmore 🤡 Rename Dulles Airport after Trump Other GOP bills from the last Congress: 🤡 Print $500 bills w/ Trump portrait 🤡 Rename US coastal waters for Trump (h/t @macfarlanenews.bsky.social)

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

This hits on the important but often neglected point that a Russia that controlled Ukraine’s defence industrial sector, natural resources & manpower would be a much greater threat to Europe - & Trump is doing his best to help Putin get his hands on those things.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

At what point did the British and American Right unlearn that the Rule of Law is an important underpinning of democracy?

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Whatever happened here probably elected Donald Trump, and it doesn’t make a single lick of sense to say “Oh it’s just that Democrats didn’t listen hard enough.”

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments

Jaws sequel from Temu.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

He really is a Bond villain.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 11 days ago • 402 comments

Indonesia is now targeting 5.7 million acres of protected forests to convert into food & palm oil crops This is part of an overall plan to cut a total of 50 million acres of forests to expand agriculture The inclusion of protected forests now has sparked concerns over biodiversity loss:

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

New explainer on the customs union. Key points: - UK can't join *the* EU customs but there could be *a* new UK-EU customs union - Theresa May's 2019 withdrawal agreement sets a model to follow - A customs union would really help manufacturing trade but constrains UK's independent trade policy

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Labor just voted with the Coalition to kill THEIR OWN Nature Positive reforms🤯 Enough crossbenchers voted to keep it alive in the Senate for Labor to have passed their long promised reform. Neither of the major parties will stand up for Nature 😥

submitted 17 days ago • 73 comments

#bbcpm The USA has stopped tracking agricultural disease outbreaks. We absolutely should not be opening our borders to their meat.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Corruption in plain sight.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Overheard: You ever get the feeling that the right has gotten far more mileage out of the term woke than the left ever did?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump has said US tariffs on imports from the EU "will definitely happen" following similar moves targeting Canada, Mexico and China. And the US President told BBCNews he did not rule out imposing tariffs on UK goods

submitted 19 days ago • 86 comments