The Ice Axe 🧊🪓
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Suburban #NAFO family guy. Think of Bluey's dad. Export Control Specialist, Fallschirmjäger & High Altitude Mountaineer. Sometimes I do 🇦🇺 - 🇩🇪 explainers. #MilSky
Germany has an equally disturbed relationship with ACs as Australia has with proper building standards. In this episode Matzig tries to make the point that ACs are unnecessary for residential dwellings. JFC - they're just heatpumps running in reverse and when 🇩🇪 needs them it's normally very sunny.
Kühlung statt Klimatisierung: Wie baut man für Hitze?
Podcast Episode · Auf den Punkt · 30 July · 13min
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🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 In a new ASPI explainer, ‘From the old world to the new: Why German rearmament matters for Australia’, Carl Janz examines Germany's ambitious rearmament and its implications for Australia's security interests. 🔖 Read it here: bit.ly/4fEujYW
Australia is putting two helicopters into C-17s and flying them to France. That's how bad the wildfires are.
Over the past 115.000 years the global mean surface temperature has gone above 17 °C only during these three years: 2023, 2024 and this year. #climate #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire
Mapping out interdependencies and planning for potential disruptions is probably something Australia doesn't do. But it should. #auspol
Gesine Weber@gesineweber.bsky.social · last wk.The list is quite impressive…
Merz wird wegen seiner Personalentscheidungen immer mehr zur Belastung für die Union aber aus anderen Gründen auch für den Zusammenhalt in der Gesellschaft. Er mäandert zwischen markigem Altherrengetue und väterlicher Fürsorge auf eine Art und Weise hin und her, die verstörend wirkt. 1/x
There's no "here we go again": Somebody in the administration simply found a legal loophole to keep the Trump Tariffs alive and in the SCM world this was expected. The smart thing to do would be to fast-track the ratification of the free trade agreement with the EU. #auspol #logistics #SCM
The Lowy Institute@lowyinstitute.bsky.social · 2w agoHere we go again – the latest in the Trump tariff saga | Jenny Gordon
Vor vier Wochen erschien unser AfD-Gutachten. Drei Erkenntnisse, die noch viel zu wenig durchgedrungen sind: 1. Es gibt keine gemäßigte Strömung mehr in der AfD. Die Partei richtet sich als Ganzes gegen unsere Grundordnung. Die Vorstellung, ohne Höcke & Co. wäre alles gut, ist falsch.
Just said „Is mir egal“ to my son. His reply: „Roboter mit Senf“ 🥺 RIP Kazim
Übrigens ☝️🥸 Falls ihr heute @drfranksauer.bsky.social über den Weg laufen solltet, erwähnt bloß nicht Saudi-Arabien > Verkneift's euch einfach.
Trump went to war to restrict a nuclear program, now he's backing one
Donald Trump went to war with Tehran to stop it enriching nuclear fuel. Now he's approved a deal that analysts warn could open the door for another Middle Eastern power to potentially do exactly that.
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2 days ago #PitchBlack 2026 kicked off in Darwin and @luftwaffe.bundeswehr.de rocked up with some Typhoons and an A400M www.airforce.gov.au/our-work/exe...
0.022% or roughly 1 in 5000 That's the probability of this happening. If we were to randomly re-live 2026 for 5,000 times and we'd compare each of the 2026 temperatures to the 1991-2020 numbers, we'd only experience this 1 time. You get the point. #auspol #climatechange
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2w agoAs of July 19th update, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature is now more than 3.7 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean. With the warming just getting started, this El Nino is still in charted territory, but just barely.
Sie gibt dann auch gleich die Antwort auf Joergs Frage: "Es geht vielen in der Politik, in der katholischen Kirche und in Teilen der Unionsfraktion hier leider gar nicht um Vernunft und Sachargumente, sondern vor allem um die eigene Ideologie."
Joerg Lau@joerglau.bsky.social · 2w agoWarum konnte diese kluge, freiheitlich und human argumentierende Frau nicht ans Bundesverfassungsgericht? Dieses tolle Interview von @heinrichwefing.bsky.social und Kaja Klapsa mit Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf über Jens Spahn und Leihmutterschaft wirft diese Frage wieder auf. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Falls ihr Euch wundert wer der Australier im MoMa vor zwei Wochen war ... It was me 😎 (Und wer sich's nochmal antun will: ARD Mediathek - Morgenmagazin - 12 Euro für den Dom – darf das sein?)
"China does not need to strike Bandiana directly to disrupt the value of a Bandiana stockpile." No 💩 Sherlock - China doesn't need to strike Australia at all to massively disrupt the whole country. If the USMC wants to store some stuff in Albury >> and pay for it << let them. #auspol
Australian Strategic Policy Institute@aspi-org.bsky.social · 3w ago'The proposed US Marine Corps war reserve stockpile at Bandiana should trigger a sharper Australian debate than the one now unfolding. Can Australia and its allies can turn those stocks into operational effect at the speed, scale and place that strategy demands?' writes John Coyne.
"The level of global oil inventories is now much closer to a 'tipping point' compared to a few months ago, there is less room to absorb a sustained loss of oil flows without prices rising sharply." Fun times ahead! #SCM #logistics
Global reserves that spared the worst of the oil shock are spent, IMF says
The International Monetary Fund says the global economy was spared the worst of the oil price shock because of large reserves. Now they are running out.
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Calling @drfranksauer.bsky.social Calling Dr Frank Sauer Doktor Sauer bitte. ( @mattbevan.bsky.social Frank would be great interview partner about nuclear proliferation in general … just saying)
Is Trump pushing more countries toward nuclear weapons? - ABC listen
President Trump promised he'd negotiate a better nuclear deal with Iran than the one struck under Barack Obama, which he's described as "the worst deal ever negotiated." But after another Trump-broker...
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Klimawandel ... so'n Quatsch. Wir bringen hier einfach nur das Wetter aus Australien mit! So sieht's nämlich aus meine Freund!
FYI: This is just a - admittedly very creative - way to replace the Trump Tariffs which were axed by SCOTUS. Slapping Australia with the higher 12.5% tariff instead of 10%, is just another sign the "strategic partnership" is actually an abusive relationship. #auspol
Trump tariff fight resumes as Australia tells US it has no evidence
The Australian embassy in Washington lodges an objection to the Trump administration's proposal for a 12.5 per cent tariff on Australian imports.
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In "normal times™️" this headline would have been discussed widely and probably lead to massive demonstrations within Germany. ... but now we live in the "jungle times™️" and this is merely a side note in the news cycle. ™️by @mattbevan.bsky.social
Merz: Germany agreed to buy Tomahawk missiles at NATO summit
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has informed the Bundestag parliament of a deal to buy US Tomahawk cruise missiles and station them in Germany. He said this closed a "important strategic gap in our defens...
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Can someone* explain to me why the Type 212CD is good enough for Canada, Germany and Norway but not Australia? #auspol * By someone I obviously mean @alxluck.bsky.social 😆
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 4w agoCanada’s next submarine fleet will secure our coastlines and waters, and create massive new opportunities for Canadian industries and workers.
For the running nerds 🏃👟🤓 If you start a course and use Garmin Livetrack, you can see where the phone reception dropped out. This might be a helpful feature for RDs. #ultrarunning #trailrunning #runsky
“Train graveyard adjacent Bolivian lithium mines.” 🚂⚰️🇧🇴🔋⛏ I appreciate @mattbevan.bsky.social 's effort to pronounce "Zugzwang" although it was terrible 😎 Don't let that deter you from listening to him. #auspol
Trump and Xi Jinping’s deadly game of chess
Podcast Episode · If You're Listening · 20 May · 26min
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Is it too much to ask for an Aussie defence podcast with actual depth? 🫠 The takes on major strategic issues feel incredibly surface-level. If we're talking about massive shifts like the Port Kembla sub base or Ukraine striking Russia, we need real, expert insights not just half-baked commentary. 👇
Missile manufacturing, Collins LOTE upgrades and submarine base east
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Ewigkeitsklausel für @sicherheitspod.de 🥳🎉🙌
hartpunkt@hartpunkt.bsky.social · 3mo agoDie Hängepartie beim französisch-deutsch-spanischen Future Combat Air System (FCAS) geht weiter. In der Zwischenzeit soll Airbus Defence and Space an einer eigenen Kampfdrohne arbeiten. www.hartpunkt.de/zukunft-von-...
#FunFact Within the ADF you can not talk about drug use and other inconvenient truths because it's not allowed to acknowledge these problems exists. All the topics @juliaweigelt.bsky.social is covering within the German Bundeswehr would be a big no-no Downunder.
Rainn Wilson: Everything Is Fine Meme
ALT: Rainn Wilson: Everything Is Fine Meme
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