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Jen Williams

@misguidedjenni.bsky.social

Loves public transport, cycling and walking. Interested in urban planning, with zero expertise. Former Medical Scientist in microbiology so of course I'm COVID-19 cautious. From Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). No DMs unless you know me.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d ago

A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!

Line chart titled "A first year above 2 C in the mid-2030s looks increasingly plausible". It shows global mean surface temperature from 1940 to 2050 as the annual anomaly against the 1850 to 1900 baseline, in degrees C. Data is ERA5 from Copernicus, running to 31 July 2026. A thin gold line shows individual years, wobbling around a thick dark blue smoothed trend. Both sit near 0.2 C through the 1940s to the early 1970s, then climb steadily from the mid-1970s onward. Three red dots mark the first year each threshold was passed. 0.5 C in 1980, 1.0 C in 2010 and 1.5 C in 2024. Labels beneath note the gap of 30 years between the first two and 14 years between the second and third. Everything above 1.5 C is shaded pink. Two dashed lines run forward from 2025. A blue line follows the 15-year trend of 0.42 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2037. A fainter grey line follows the 30-year trend of 0.27 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2044. Two orange circles mark estimates for the developing El Niño, at about 1.5 C for 2026 and about 1.7 C for 2027.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re using the word e-bike to describe too many things. Electric assist bikes are a version of bike & have many public interest benefits. But vehicles being driven by food delivery app drivers aren’t a form of bike…they’re a form of motorcycle. They don’t belong on sidewalks or pedestrian streets.

Picture of food delivery app driver, one of many, I see each day on downtown Vancouver’s Granville Street pedestrian zone. It’s a motor vehicle, and doesn’t belong on a vehicle-prohibited pedestrian street like Granville Street, and definitely not on sidewalks either.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 3w ago

Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly reptile caught in bike chain

Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly reptile caught in bike chain

Woman in her 60s was riding on popular cycling trail in northern NSW when she ran over the two-metre long eastern brown snake, one of the world’s most venomous A woman in her 60s is recovering after being bitten by a two-metre-long eastern brown snake that had become entangled in her bike chain in regional Australia. She was riding on the northern rivers rail trail near Burringbar, in the Tweed shire in northern New South Wales, when she ran over the snake. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Tim Hollo@timhollo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Albo’s grand plan for AI? Step on the gas (literally) and make it even easier for these massive, extractive corporations to build fossil-fuelled data centres. This is unpopular and thoughtless policy. The whole system underpinning this is bankrupt.

Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech

theguardian.com

Public Transport Users Association@ptua.org.au · 4w ago

V/Line will have free rides on Monday and Tuesday... What's more important is that V/Line and the government look at what went wrong, why backup systems failed, the response, and what can be done to ensure our rail system is more resilient and reliable.

Why most train networks dodged the Telstra outage except in Victoria

Rail services for regional Victorians have resumed after a Telstra outage caused every line to be shut down for a day and a half. Why was the scale of disruption so severe?

abc.net.au

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w ago

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Per Ahlberg@perahlberg.bsky.social · 4w ago

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

A man with his back to the camera, wearing a blue jacket and a grey woolen hat. A puffin is sitting on top of his head. On the left, an arm holding a mobile phone can be seen. In the background, a green slope and the sea beyond.In this photo the puffin is taking off.
Daniel Bowen@danielbowen.au · 4w ago

Between planned Metro works and V/Line's complete suspension of trains, there are no trains at all from western #Melbourne reaching the City. The only silver lining is it’s school holidays. Also incredibly disruptive for the rest of the state of course.

V/Line status: no trains running Google Maps image showing traffic congestion around Melbourne mostly in the west
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4w ago

“There is no doubt that oil, gas and coal companies already bear a disproportionate share of the blame yet have a financial incentive to further disrupt the climate. These perverse incentives will continue unless their generous government subsidies are replaced with windfall taxes.” #ClimateCrisis

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

theguardian.com