Rob
@ausrob.bsky.social
I'm a husband/father/technologist/human not necessarily in that order. NSW-based, but have lived and worked abroad. Interests include the environment, politics and film/tv, games and such.. I have a large vinyl collection.
The perpetrators were the boards and CEOs of fossil fuel companies who have known for decades what they were doing, have known the consequences of it, and carried on with reckless indifference to those consequences. aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon...
The Reckoning
That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?
aliensideboob.substack.com
Vale Dolly Parton. She was by all accounts a thouroughly good and decent person. We need so many more like her.
If there are worse climate vandals than fossil fuel companies, it’s big tech.
molly taft@mollytaft.com · 4d agoNEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
This is genuinely heartbreaking on so many levels, let alone Minns being a tool. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Missing teen hiker Lily Hooper found dead after disappearing in NSW national park a week ago
Premier Chris Minns tells parliament ‘this is obviously devastating’ after earlier announcing 18-year-old had been ‘found alive’ with half a bottle of water
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Instead of voting for the bloody ALP, vote for the Greens or a worthy independent already. #auspol
Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy "social, economic and community participation" and "improved daily living skills"? Because (according the legislation) they apparently don't "affect supports that are essential to a participant’s health, safety or continuous care needs" Yep living skills are not essential to health or safety.
If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.
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Exactly this, plus also wanting to save the planet/environment isn’t a right wing/left wing thing either.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
Aye: "Europe staggers into its fifth lethal heatwave of the northern summer, wildcat elements of the Trump regime and the US fossil fuel industry are manoeuvring to create a premise for seizing Greenland, and four point five million voters in Australia are playing footsie with bunyip fascism."
Claire Connelly@claireconnelly.bsky.social · 2w agoI can’t believe I was forced to learn about this from JB and are you fucking serious? Albo can you not just like, be normal?
You can’t appease power. In 1938, the head of the BBC assured the Nazi ambassador to Britain the UK broadcaster was ‘not anti-Nazi’ and willingly censored BBC news. Appeasement doesn’t work www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
Appeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating history
No matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster.
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Dear Australian news media, I have zero interest in your daily coverage of everything Pauline Hanson says and does. Yes, report her policies (when she releases them). But also report the policies of the Greens too. For balance. With some factual analysis of both. Do some bloody #journalism! #auspol
As I wrote a few weeks ago, Australia's federal data centre guidelines **DO NOT** limit the use of fossil fuels. You can build a single 1 watt solar panel plus 2 gigawatts of gas and be in compliance. Nicely laid out here: www.minister.industry.gov.au/king/media/i...
![STEWART BRASH: There’s set to be 12 data centres planned for the Northern Territory,
some are more advanced than others. SunCable are talking about one, in the Barkly
Murranji Station, also in the Northern Barkly, one hyperscaled, one in the Darwin rural area
as well.
Now the Chief Minister, Lia Finocchiaro, wants a carve-out for the NT when it comes to
power and water, 'cause the Prime Minister's made it clear he wants unified guidelines
relating to the development of data centres across the country. The Chief Minister
wants – well, we're different, we have access to power, we have access to say gas, easy
gas, and also to water. What's the Federal Government's perspective on the call for that
carve-out by Lia Finocchiaro?
MINISTER MADELEINE KING: It is important to have uniform rules and to have a
framework around data centres, which is a new industry. And if we think about the gas
reservation. If only we had done this reserve type work 15 years ago before the exports
started, it wouldn't be as complicated to implement now.
And that's the same for data centres, we need to have some ground rules, because people,
you know, they read a lot in the media about how much water, we're not quite sure how
much water, some demand more than others, the power they require is enormous.
Nonetheless they're inevitable, and they're going to be important for our future, and I think
it was – well, I know it was the Pope in his encyclical wrote, “It is the building site of our
time,” or “the construction site of our time.”
STEWART BRASH: Well it’s the Industrial Revolution --
MINISTER MADELEINE KING: And we want to be part of it.
STEWART BRASH: [Indistinct] revolution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreicuxu3fqhjnoztqcsgo5tqsu6yan3zkjmglrhaxpy7obh4eo35ube)
Ugh Reddit. I don’t want to install your stupid iOS app. Stop blocking me from reading the website.
Jane Whom? on the radio bleating the Liberal party won’t do something.. that’s reassuring. #auspol
I’d really like it if some big player in tech actively pushed back against this shit and focused on decent quality technology that actually solves problems. Perhaps that’s too “old school”?
Anthony B,@swearyanthony.bsky.social · 4w agoIncredible commitment to something that users have shown over and over a feeling between disdain and loathing. "What if we make it even louder, then they will love it as much as I, Satya Nadella, love it" gizmodo.com/microsoft-wi...
This is one of the reasons why hyperscalers are buying batteries -to help smooth the fluctuations in their gas turbine use and reduce wear and tear Essentially using what should be an energy transition technology to enable worse, more prolonged use of fossil fuels www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Harriet Weber@harri.bsky.social · last mo.Here's the deal with the pre-review study Tesla funded on turbine carnage. This is my first piece on the Data Centers Breaking Things beat. TLDR; AI training is wearing out, even breaking, a critical source of energy for AI training www.investors.com/news/turbine...
Apparently we couldn't have a "Voice to Parliament" because it might have granted favour to indigenous folks under the constitution, but this is OK? #auspol
Andrew@boatie.bsky.social · last mo.Nothing says ‘social cohesion’ like a gun! #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Meta, Facebook, anything Zuckerberg has ever touched really is fucking insidious, not just morally or ethically dubious.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last mo.Meta has officially abandoned all pretense of giving a shit about clean energy or decarbonization. Truly an evil company. If you work there, you should quit. If you use their products, you should stop.
I'm starting to think that a large part of life in the future is going to be taken up with fighting fires and, during winter, preparing to fight fires. What we're seeing is barely the beginning, a lot more warming is already baked in, and CO2 emissions rising. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
More than 200,000 people flee or lock down as wildfires sweep France and Spain
‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergency
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2026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/...
In 1984 we had Band Aid in response to famine in Ethiopia. This spurred on further fundraising in the form of the unparalleled epic Live Aid in 1985. Where the fuck are today’s huge bands and singers while the world burns from climate change? Are you too timid to try something that epic? #aid
This just in. Captain Obvious reporting.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last mo.Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says
"We never did that". The person quoted here seems to have the type of personality which can be used as a form of birth control.
HR @ Weyland-Yutani@professormusgrave.bsky.social · last mo.I’m sorry but the only person who should be denied access to the grocery store is this person.
