Optimists that really want a techno fix that will solve climate change without changing anything, and grifters that want investment dollars without delivering anything
Environmental field worker. Studying ecology. Plant based. Old punk. SciFi and nerdy stuff. Kaurna Yerta, South Australia. Himbo
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Optimists that really want a techno fix that will solve climate change without changing anything, and grifters that want investment dollars without delivering anything
Did AI write the headline on the article?
He's a rich white guy with a dad that had a career in politics. He's never going to smell a consequence
Sounds about white
#MurrayWattTF is probably too busy lining up a post-politics job with Woodcide to even slap them with a wet lettuce. Listened to him on the 7am podcast and it was beyond painful. @albomp.bsky.social did you deliberately pick the worst man for the job?
Wouldn't it make sense to scrap the luxury car tax breaks on oversized utes first?
The late 2020s is now.... :(
Have a problem that needs one of at least 74 practicing shark researchers to comment on. We know olives don't have Ampullae of Lorenzini, but can Lorenzini store olives in an ampulla? @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
The smart missile from Dark Star is the most accurate prediction of the current state of AI.
Norway's government has a new tourism ad out, and it's refreshingly honest By @thejuicemedia.bsky.social!!!!
Just came to the realisation that florists are plant nurseries for those that just don't want to try
Actually rather glad the cookers have done the decent thing and decided to move Australia Day from Jan 26
In Punjab province, all three major rivers overflowed simultaneously, for the first time in the country’s history.
Lichen subscribe... Ralph Illidge Reserve Victoria
When the NSN speak at the rally it is definitely a NSN rally
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Terry the Fat Shark has a slap on the face for this guy
Ear muffs.
There is nothing inherently wrong with the Earth 400k years ago. The problem is that humans evolved to live in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. The same goes for the animals and plants that we love and love to eat. Climate change is pain for everyone.
Newspaper columnists are so used to their offices they don't get it that most of us aren't willing to survive in radioactive hellscapes with toxic atmospheres.
An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions
The current US government stokes the beliefs behind violent antivaxxers. We should be deporting their diplomats for supporting terrorism
Slap with a wet lettuce coming in soon....
Passing by over the city/ by Gregory Fromenteau
You can't make one worse than Scientology
New secret scouting programme for the 2032 Olympics MTB team
Connections Puzzle #809 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Perfect rainbow. I might actually be getting better at this
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
He's still on hard drugs isn't he?
He's a Facebook comments section in human form
Everything they want to bomb is Hamas
Australia needs its own “moonshot” to galvanise the country’s best minds behind stopping the spread of feral species, a parliamentary roundtable has heard. Invasives cost the nation around $24.5 billion a year, and efforts to contain them are failing. au.news.yahoo.com/innovative-m...
He's a uni educated second generation professional politician who's been playing country bumpkin for so long he's lost the line where the act ends and reality begins
Is it too late or too early for #SundewSunday ?
In my suburb pretty much every house within two blocks of the beach has no lights on at 7pm on a weeknight in winter. All short term holiday rentals. And all giant double story things, with teams of tradies always adding more or embiggening the ones already there. We need a march against AirBNBs
Subjugate. Today’s @theage cartoon
Whales and windmills, it must be Spring
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
The start of the algal bloom off the South Australian coast began like a horror film and only grew worse from there. I took a direct look at the role of climate change in making this disaster in my home state for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
The least dreary moment in my highschool education was when they rolled out the projector and we got to watch this
It's everyone's sacred duty to make every techbro AIvangelical suffer
Every single day that UK, Canada, France, Australia, and the rest of their European and Anglosphere friends twiddle their thumbs and issue meaningless and symbolic statements of discontent is a day where they in function and in practice support this genocide. Arms embargo, sanctions, arrests, today!
Murray-Sunset National Park, Lake Becking, no sunset photos as I was still driving... So quiet, almost spooky
Donny better hope Rio Tinto doesn't notice all the gold in the Oval Office. Be a pity if the White House got accidentally excavated with high explosives
Do you ever feel:
Planning on camping near there tomorrow night on my way to uni in Albury. Last time I stayed at Mt Crozier but this time I'm going to stay nearer the main road. Any chance of recommendations on which campsite is best? Thinking Lake Becking or Lake Crosbie at this point
This entire timeline is a @christopherbrown.bsky.social novel
"Without either a Productivity Commission or its neoliberal agenda, the Nordic countries have managed to drive much stronger productivity growth than Australia. Those countries have also delivered stronger wage growth and better quality of life, and managed to tax their fossil fuel industries"
The Laboral Party (acting as a wholly owned subsidiary for Woodcide)
And as Reddit gets more and more filled with people using ChatGPT it's just going to become a worse and worse ouroboros of shit
As it was prophesied
Funny and true and well worth a watch, not just because it features friend of the @theshot.net.au @purplepingers.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9k-...
Cops + court blocked the bridge - NOT OUR VOICES. Tomorrow's march for Palestine will now commence at Queen's Gardens at 1pm (Sunday Oct 24th) 🍉 SEE YOU THERE, BRISSIE! 🇵🇸
Europe's wildfires worst on record - with a month of the burning season to go - More than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and toxic air pollutants #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Perfect timing for my 13 hour drive to uni next week
Great to see the Guardian picking up this great new research on forest density and based off decades of silvicultural measurements in Victoria. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pips #3 Hard 🔴 3:19
Our world is being run by a bunch of grifters that don't know the difference between confidence and competence
“Governments, businesses and communities will need to factor in these abrupt Antarctic changes that are being observed now into future planning for climate change impacts, including in Australia” Prof Nerilie Abrams, Chief Scientist of the Australian Antarctic Program @climatenerilie.bsky.social
Adam Morton - “Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong”
Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes which most likely will significantly intensify in the future. Caused by climate change, they span ice sheet, sea ice, ocean & life itself . These changes are a clarion call to all of us, ‘cause what happens in Antarctica affects us all. 1/
He spelt "criminal" wrong
The closest historical analogy we can find, to the argument that we should let the owners of AI engines steal everything and be responsible for nothing, is the case for slavery.
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
So what you're saying is Bluesky is smooth in all directions?
Worked for me as well. No more AI response on my web searches. A little more sanity restored.
At least he'll steal it all when he leaves so no one will have to see it again
The job AI should be coming for is the Chancellor
#DementiaDonny
Above a set wealth threshold all penalties should be community service orders. Make them spend precious time picking up rubbish from expressway gutters
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
Holy shit.
Fun facts about Chevron! 1. They get all the Aussie gas they export from FOR FREE 2. They’ve NEVER paid PRRT 3. They were fined $340 million for tax avoidance 4. Our stupid government is refunding half the royalties they’ve paid for Aussie oil to pay their cleanup costs 5. They’re massive whingers
Zelinsky should offer Alaska to Russia
Connections Puzzle #799 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟩🟦🟦🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 saw the obvious red herring, made up my own complex one instead..
Ruin a movie: *casts Jared Leto*
Well played
"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
The Discontinuity continues
I am so sick of being told artistic expression needs to be done in a ‘safe’ way. Art and intellectual debate aren’t supposed to be ‘safe’. They’re supposed to be challenging, provocative and profound. If you want ‘safe’, stay on the couch.
How about in reverse outsourcing NASA provide their acting head as chief test pilot to Space X? Finally get some value for money
Murdoch's ABC...
Those of us who drive brick shaped petrol or diesel vehicles really should pay attention to this and how logarithmic the curve is. The difference between cruising at 90km/h and 110km/h is 450km instead of 400km in my older Hilux.
Is this the property that borders Dutchmans Stern or is there one in between? Critical population of Senecio megaglossus just north of the fence line that really needs a land owner willing to do something about the goats
‘The great cowardice of Australian politics is in its refusal to confront climate change. Federal policy is still set by the quarry-headed west. There are corals that have put up more fight than the cabinet.’ #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21346/...
It's a coincidence that every single right winger that commits acts of violence is a lone wolf with psych issues and not a part of a large orchestrated global network that leans heavily on fear and intimidation...
Is Murray #WattTF going to do something useful or just continue his tradition of being a big rubber stamp for extractive industries?
Anything that could lead to Trump throwing AUKUS out the window is a good thing
I'm actually surprised I've never been called Bort at this point
The Friends' School in Hobart - a Quaker institution - boycotts STEM programs sponsored by weapons manufacturers www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
As a Bert I've learnt just to listen out for Brett and Brad.
Who cares! This person is a genocidal lunatic, why are they regularly on the radio and leading news websites
Yes we object to being clumped with the boomer-x crew, but no, we are not calling ourselves "goonies", we're internet savvy enough to know what that means in young people speech.
I'm sure there's pro sports people testing it to the limit. If there's a benefit to be found there will be greedy sports medicine practitioners happy to use young athletes as lab rats
He also somehow missed the full frontal assaults on climate and environmental sciences.
