"The Greens are pursuing division through polarisation" says the party demonising and scapegoating refugees, trans people and the disabled, the party whose so-called "credible policy commitments" are commitments to segregation and genocide.
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"The Greens are pursuing division through polarisation" says the party demonising and scapegoating refugees, trans people and the disabled, the party whose so-called "credible policy commitments" are commitments to segregation and genocide.
It just occurred to me that, with Thomas Sewell temporarily out-of-the-picture, an opportunity has arisen for cucked fuehrer Blair Cottrell to seize the moment and re-assume his rightful place at the head of the Nazi table.
Opinion: What Anthony Albanese and Michelle Rowland appear to be doing is using legitimate concerns about FOI laws as a Trojan horse to more broadly undermine transparency. #auspol www.afr.com/politics/fed...
I had the plant balls on the weekend just to mix things up and they were pretty good. I wasn't expecting much but they vastly exceeded expectations.
News Corp's Courier Mail linked a teen girl's suicide bullying on social media as part of its campaign for the <16 ban. But the child's parents said she wasn't bullied on social media. Which News would have known if they contacted them before publishing.
Thank you Mary Doyle.
‘Camp Sovereignty founder Krautungalung elder Robbie Thorpe told the ABC's Indigenous Affairs Team the men targeted women first, destroyed Aboriginal flags and injured four people.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
"Deport New Zealand born immigrant Thomas Sewell" LOL www.change.org/p/deport-new...
Sorry Robbie! Somehow I never saw these replies, and only saw them tonight after someone liked a comment in the thread. I didn't intentionally ignore your generous tip-offs. I will look into this, albeit very long after the fact.
'KAP leader says he was unaware man next to him at rally was wearing neo-Nazi insignia'. mate. maaaaaaaaaaaaaate. The only pub test this would pass at is a Munich beer hall in NOV 1923. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Love when an extraneous apostrophe sneaks in and then I have to suffer through seeing nothing but it. It's like: What are you even doing there mate?
Oop, my bad. Thomas Sewell was apparently defending himself when he and his boyfriends stormed up a hill and bashed women begging them to leave. Thanks for clarifying, Herald Sun. Very responsible reporting. Good to see that providing cover for Nazis is how you’re choosing to play this one
Good and honest government's don't need to hide from public scrutiny or accountability. I wish we had one of those. Apparently the problem with Robodebt was just that you were able to learn about it, and the best solution to avoiding that happening again is to change the law so you can't.
Feeling for students today who didn’t feel safe to venture out of their homes, to trek across the city to come onto campus. I’m not making this up, many of our international students are genuinely scared with Nazis on the loose. If I were VC I would put out a statement at the very least…
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Anthony "there were some good racists" Albanese
What could possibly go wrong?
Fucks sake, there really is no escape is there.
What were they arguing about
“I think it is an act of terrorism that happened here,” Robbie Thorpe said at the camp on Monday. “It was a premeditated attack on our people; it has been allowed to happen. “Where were the police at that time? There was a group of armed people walking around. Why weren’t they monitored?”
Albo: “there are some good Nazis”
repeat after me: when we look for methane emissions, we find them.
Norway's government has a new tourism ad out, and it's refreshingly honest By @thejuicemedia.bsky.social!!!!
'The PFA unequivocally condemns the 'March For Australia' rallies, their message, violence, and the harm they caused to Australia’s multicultural communities and our First Nations people.' Not too many football fans at the rallies; This is more than any trade union's done in response.
This is so deadassed. All this will do is open up whole new vistas in opportunity for judicial review. What a pack of drongos.
What the *actual* fuck ConocoPhillips - and more recently Santos - have had a leaky LNG storage tank in use at Darwin LNG terminal for EIGHTEEN YEARS and not only are we just finding out now, but Santos has no intention to fix it and aren't even required to report its emissions.
Devastatingly excellent reporting by @roycerk2.bsky.social—
Global societies are adding 40 billion townhouses worth of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. As big as the earth is, when you think about it that way, it makes it exceptionally difficult to imagine how our fossil fuel use couldn't be having catastrophic effects.
*live. bloody hell.
I never thought I'd love to see the day that this would appear on the family calendar.
Oh god. You're going through so much. I'm sorry. 💛
6 months before the ocean algal bloom was detected, the Lower Lakes at the end of the Murray experienced an unseasonal blue green algae bloom that would not resolve. We'd been getting flood water flow for 18months and the lake had 3 states worth of farming fertiliser run off.
This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight. But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist. But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
Now I have a challenge to meet.
I have to do a family IKEA trip tomorrow. It is currently 1 am, and I feel like the only reason I am still awake is because if I don't get enough sleep I might be able to convince everyone else to cancel it. I will be UwU so tired you see.
So what you're saying is that @ketanjoshi.co is the Elon Musk of Bluesky? 😛 Is it the megalomania? It has to be that.
This is kind of funny for me, because while I do ok without it I usually see a big jump in engagement after Ketan shares any of my stuff. That said, he is also very much just a friend. I don't think I know how to be his sycophant. Maybe I should try harder.
This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight. But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist. But you all already knew that. Didn't you?
Fucken boomer landlords will be the death of us all.
Global societies are adding 40 billion townhouses worth of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. As big as the earth is, when you think about it that way, it makes it exceptionally difficult to imagine how our fossil fuel use couldn't be having catastrophic effects.
Something I am finding increasingly interesting - and that I did a bit of here - is to find ways to put greenhouse gas emissions into contexts other than cars off the road. Did you know one tonne of carbon dioxide is pretty much the same amount of gas that it would take to flood a townhouse?
Who's there?
Now with added bonus content!* * a comparison between RCAC and gas that isn't completely stacked in favour of gas.
So what you are saying is that if you have the cheapest possible gas deal, and the most efficient possible gas heating, it might (you haven't checked) be cheaper than the least efficient possible RCAC system (ignoring of course that you get a free air conditioner with RCAC). I sure am convinced. 🙄
Well this one was a quick bit of fun. Have you heard the line about if you don't have solar and a battery, it's more efficient to heat your home with gas than electricity? You'll be stunned to learn that it's bullshit.
The average price of gas in Victoria is more like 4c a MJ. You can say anything is cheap when you make up numbers.
You should read a post before attempting to comment on it. 😬
Well this one was a quick bit of fun. Have you heard the line about if you don't have solar and a battery, it's more efficient to heat your home with gas than electricity? You'll be stunned to learn that it's bullshit.
It is ok to not understand things, or to half-remember factoids and get them a bit wrong. It is ok to hold outdated knowledge. But it is important to correct your misunderstandings when they are pointed out to you and not continue to spread nonsense. Have a great weekend.
A talking point doesn't stop being bullshit if you repeat it. A low-end RCAC will beat a high-end gas heater in Victoria *today*, even in a home without solar and even ignoring that grid emissions intensity will continue to fall. Here's the maths with the dice loaded *massively* in favour of gas.
Seems a fairly gross abrogation to me but hey you do you Tanya
This is a brilliant example of how 'individual vs systemic' action on resisting generative over-deployment is a false dichotomy Here, an institution is forcing it down student's throats, an academic softening that project, and students collectively resisting it while they individually boycott ->
cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
Labor accused of trying to ‘sneak through’ law change to strip non-citizens of fair process
From the Labor adviser who pitched “net zero fossil fuels” comes a sequel: “Don’t set climate targets too high, or the government might have to do something". #auspol #climate www.afr.com/policy/energ...
I dunno if there's much to add at this stage, but I'll be sharing further infos on the w/e. Basically, the nazis have declared Melbourne/Naarm is their toy to play with & have vowed to assemble outside Flinders on Sunday, to be joined by an unknown number of sympathisers (c00kers, mostly).
Dry areas of SA and Vic, plus high fuel growth areas in northern WA, are at higher than normal fire risk entering Spring. Overall, a reasonably benign spring fire outlook for the nation. Bushfire outlook for spring from AFAC, BoM and State & Territory fire agencies. www.afac.com.au/public-resou...
While we're on racism and Katter. His electorate of Kennedy is named in honour of the white supremacist Edmund Kennedy who called for the extermination of indigenous Australians and the removal of children from Nth QLD to Tasmania. It's 2025, and we have a federal seat named after this scumbag.
Call me a crAzy anarchist, but I reckon older people deserve much better than to be treated like expired meat.
It‘s fascinating how many in the UK (including in politics and in the media) still insist on a difference between Farage and the “real” far right. And if you call Farage far right (which he is a textbook case of) you just “call everyone you don‘t like far right“
No country has ever devolved into fascism with a cowardly liberal majority that acquiesced until it was far too late. It is now too late. Be safe, put yourself and your people first. Allies, please punch a nazi.
We had a double rainbow! I was on a work call at the time though so I didn't get a photo. 😕
Good.
There are very few non-reversible heat pumps used for temperature control in Australian homes. There are some attached to hydronic heating systems, but that's rare here. RCAC refers to reverse cycle air conditioning. So an AC unit that can reverse its refrigerant cycle to heat as well as cool.
Yeah. We are lucky that the induction hob was already here for us. Lots of people manage to make that switch with small/moderate cost, but I have heard horror stories about - for example - asbestos lined meter boxes needing to get removed in order to upgrade the wiring for induction. 😬
No. We would need to remove the whole gas unit to put in the compressor. I can’t imagine repurposing the system in that way would be effective or cheap, either. It seems like a big waste of effort compared to basically anything else you could do.
Ha! Ducted gas heating. Down here we had a decades-long push to ensure every house in the state was as reliant on gas as possible. Luckily Victoria's gas supply will never run out, right?
“A new study from Australia found sheep [who graze among solar panels] had better wool compared to sheep grazing on traditional pastures.” Knitters for clean energy! Let’s go!!! 🐑🧶💪
We just got quotes on the final steps of electrifying our new home and getting off gas. It is crazy how cheap it is to do in Victoria at the moment. Replacing our gas hot water service with a 300L electric tank will cost us $900! Replacing our ducted gas with a four head unit RCAC is under $6k!
This is who I went with for quotes: energymakeovers.com.au
Get a company out to do a home consult. They know their way around the various rebates better than you ever will. I don't know if they service your area, but we went with Energy Makeovers. I contacted them via the website late yesterday and they were at my kitchen table by midday today.
Of Australia’s 37 public universities, 26 take money from fossil fuel companies, according to new Australia Institute research. Coal and gas companies should not be funding science in the 2020s. The science of climate change is clear. Universities teach it. #auspol
Sorry, but this is a terrifically out of date talking point. Even if you didn't have solar (like one in three Australian homes do, including us), heat pumps hit lifetime emissions parity with gas in Victoria 5 years ago. They are also cheaper, smarter and better in basically every possible way.
🤦♂️ IPG agencies break their own climate pledge with work for the world’s biggest climate polluter.
Heat pump, yup. This one specifically:
It's so depressing to read this over the ditch in NZ when all the flashing lights are warning 'DANGER: GAS CRISIS! DANGER ENERGY CRISIS!' The solution is RIGHT THERE but our government love fossils and our media just want to write about which politician got in the snarkiest insult this week #nzpol
In fairness, we already had solar, a battery and induction installed when we moved in, and those are all decently large steps, but wowsers.
I know that isn't exactly chump change, but with install fees the hot water system is $3.4k before rebates and the RCAC is worth $12.5k! It's nuts that we can get that all that - and never burn another molecule of methane at home, completely getting off gas for good - for well under $7k.
We just got quotes on the final steps of electrifying our new home and getting off gas. It is crazy how cheap it is to do in Victoria at the moment. Replacing our gas hot water service with a 300L electric tank will cost us $900! Replacing our ducted gas with a four head unit RCAC is under $6k!
Lord help us all if he is.
Sure. But he is already elected and has three years to do a lot of damage.
JD Vance though…! Perversely, and only in the extreme, I think Trump’s ego does keep him in check a little. What does JD Vance have that keeps him from going down the very few paths Trump wouldn’t?
The fact that so many otherwise decent - well... uhh... ok... - climate folk are being successfully taken on this ride is a fucking indictment of the potential for otherwise clever people to display critical thought.
The only reason that the tech industry is so aggressively keen to individualise the climate impact of an AI query is because they don't want anyone to look at how much they are shoving it down our fucking throats. Where it lands in our bodies afterward isn't a concern for them.
Late, but goddamn I love this hairy Norwegian (@ketanjoshi.co): "You could easily generate a Substack post highlighting how a single Grok query is a tiny fraction of your daily energy diet, but it would be no consolation to the communities of colour that are choking on this feature’s fumes."
"No" is one thing, but like: Really, really obviously "no". "No" in a way that you would have to renegotiate the definition of every single word in the question to even get to "maybe".
“Ducking” was obviously a typo, but I feel like leaving it this way gives the article - and the “debate” - about as much respect as it deserves.
Where to ducking start with this one. Jesus fuck. 😳
Over the past week or so I have been busy moving house, and have undoubtedly missed a lot, but excuse me what the everloving fuck is this...?!
Lol go fuck yourself Chevron.
Can confirm that he hasn't shut up about it (Yes, I'm proud of him!)
*My* old mower. Saying just "my mower" without the possessive sounds very odd.
My mum tells me that I must be channelling her father (who was notoriously handy.) A steel vat from his firebombed factory has served as my fish pond for a decade. Where was Vic when I took the exact same approach to old mower, and fucked *everything*? Ghost Grandpa needs some consistency is all.
Sunk cost fallacy is definitely playing a role given we have committed a significant chunk of the next 30 years of our combined salaries to this house: however I genuinely think that they are a great idea. Investing in perfecting that tech makes way more sense to me than bloody roombas.
Honestly I'm kind of surprised that they aren't more of a thing. In principle it all seems like a good idea, though I guess if something goes wrong (e.g. a nail that went into the wrong bit of wall) it would be a very, very, very expensive thing to repair.
Totally! My sole connection to them was that in the late 80s my Nanna had a ducted vacuum system in her retirement-village-ajacent unit complex. I don't think I have even acknowledged their existence since then.
I can quantify this very precisely: The call-out fee for the ducted vacuum cleaner place one and a half kilometres away from our house is $180. It's a heck of an hourly rate for driving in outer suburban traffic.
I told five different strangers (in person) about my ducted vacuum cleaner repair today. Worth it.
I'm still buzzing from this.