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Engineer & News Junkie. Climate Action Now! Against labour casualisation & privatisation of monopolies. Integrity Tesla model 3 owner powered by solar - before Elmo went mad

A government official in Australia says the Northern Territory needs data centres to use lots of water so......the Earth's axis doesn't flip

Jewish Australian Yasmin Johnson says to claim ‘River to the sea’ is antisemitic because some Jews are offended, is a “smear on the Palestine movement” Says during the civil rights era, racist white ppl also claimed to be threatened by black ppl. Feelings weren’t the point.💥

Mentally, one of the most difficult things about modern life is watching the planet burn, understanding why it's burning but having swathes of people with the analytical powers of a tree frog influenced by Big Petro to genuinely believe it's a hoax

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

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Raf Epstein calls out blatant favouritism media gives Pauline Hanson “She could never say ‘show me the good Jews” “She says that about Muslims” “If she said that about Jews there’d be a discussion on this couch whether or not she should be prosecuted under hate laws”💥🎯 #auspol

Very privileged to have been invited onto Australia's premier podcast/radio program, ABC Conversations. Had a great chat to the legend Richard Fidler about Angertainment, and the story of social media outrage it tells. Have a listen where you get your podcasts, or: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

'Angertainment', algorithms and the online outrage industry - ABC listen

Political advisor Ed Coper on the cold-blooded machine that is feeding angry people angry content online to make them even angrier, and what we can do about it. Ed Coper is a political advisor and co...

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The Albanese Labor Government has just given the Federal police $200 million, as part of the new 'AUKUS Command' force. Today we learnt this is solely to protect US and UK submarines. Australians paying for the protection of the US military, that's AUKUS.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

We need many more stories like this to normalise a change that *is* happening “Batteries have outgrown their initial niche role as a grid stability service and are now core infrastructure designed to store excess daytime electricity and release it in the evening”. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Batteries the key to unlocking an energy revolution, and one state is racing ahead

Western Australia in particular is proving to the world that grid-scale batteries are no longer a complementary technology but can play a central role in power grids.

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Having thoroughly trashed the reputation of the organisation by refusing to resign when it first became obvious that he should, Brereton has managed to do even more damage. He lasted until just after the Robodebt findings, too. Shocked I say.

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Commissioner Brereton has resigned from the NACC the day before he was due to appear at Senate Estimates for the first time ever following a successful Greens motion in the Senate. Incredible timing.

Anti-semitism has always been a problem in Australia and needed addressing. But it’s not on the rise. Anti-genocide sentiment is on the rise. The two are not the same.