Caroline Difficult Gardam
@cazuarina.bsky.social
Writes, studies, gets muddy on stolen Jagera and Turrbal land. QUT DMRC PhD student researching multimodality and climate denial. Occasional ceramicist.
There’s one upside to the kids taking up (real) smoking again. Lighters!
Ne'er thought I'd be cheering for Belgium in any capacity but there you go...
Learning that it might be me. I am Reviewer 2.
If you don't subscribe to Boiling Cold, you missed: 🔥 Glitch shuts 20% of WA's gas 🌲 Another jarrah forest mining threat 🪓 Santos culls Perth office 😶🌫️ Is the sunk cost fallacy driving Woodside's Browse? 👨🏻🍳 Roger Cook's gas propaganda 🗞️ The West 🧡 Pauline www.boilingcold.com.au/email/cc9b99...
Santos culls Perth office
Wheatstone down • Browse sunk costs mount • Telupac
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Love a Scot win. Sad it’s against Haiti. And now…
Bart Simpson Points to Australia on Globe
ALT: Bart Simpson Points to Australia on Globe
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These insects don’t give a damn about how much is being invested in AI
Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt took 4.5 billion years of precise cosmic history to build an Earth that can support human life. Yet, we are risking it all for quarterly earnings. True intelligence means recognizing that a dead planet has a GDP of exactly zero. 🛑💼 #ClimateAction #EarthFirst
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo agoScientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
This morning, in the service of unsolicited oversharing — and task-avoidant behaviour — I offer you: my desk.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: URGENT: Call on Penny Wong and your MP to stand up for Australians onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
To Minister Wong: Stand up for Australians onboard Global Sumud Flotilla
Send a message to Penny Wong and your local MP now to secure the safe release of all Australians intercepted by Israeli military.
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Women were likely, as women, to take the next generation’s part, not this one’s; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.
🆕 I am exceptionally pleased to announce the release of the 'twitter' issue of M/C Journal, which I co-edited with @hermida.bsky.social. This celebrates / commiserates / memorialises / laments the 20th anniversary of what used to be #Twitter. #mcjournal journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
A story. Was at suburban Hammerbarn when a bloke started yelling abuse at the information desk assistants next to me. Immediately hostile, nasty: this is the fifth Bunnings I’ve visited… you’re all fucking arses, etc So I turned and said hey mate thats not her fault, calm down. Control yourself. 1/
