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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 16h

Older self-employed, with failing physical capability, trying to preserve a little Super? Apply for Job Seeker to get you through to Age Pension only to find that giving up a business is treated effectively as voluntarily giving up a job.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 1d

Lisa must be away again. No one at home to call him out.

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Richard Douglas @maitrereynard.bsky.social · 4d

Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Climate denial and the defence of modernity

What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As much as we need policy wonks, scientists, and ...

www.resilience.org

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 6d

But books are expensive. An investment the value of which is held in the object for the buyer/reader, not as a saleable item, but as something desired and won.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 10d

It seems to me he has both - leadership and charisma. And the Greens have policies. Actual sensible policies.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 11d

It’s appalling you have to suffer this. Sending good wishes and solidarity.

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Dr Priest @pennypriest.bsky.social · 13d

"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.“

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

www.thenerve.news

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mandi 👻💜 @mykinkiskarma.swifties.social · 14d

You 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 unreasonable 👏🏻

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 14d

You should be able to have a party which says "actually these are reasonable ideas... and the only thing holding it back is people not having faith and confidence that enough other people support those ideas" 👏👏👏

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 16d

Albo is the John Howard of our age.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 19d

The Guardian: Always seeking to occupy some rational common-sense middle-class neoliberal-lite ground. Are some good opinion writers but the tenor is always to offer a comfortable centre. An Establishment Pet.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 19d

Hence this mornings Guardian poll results. Comforting skeptical narrative produces complacent skeptical respondents. Quelle surprise.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 20d

So, we need to understand history of landscapes so that, with traditional custodians, we might establish what “restoration” means in terms of both culture and biology. Just letting it “go wild” erases culture.

Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 20d

Could be moulting, unless he’s making whisky!

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 21d

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 22d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 21d

We have to regulate the bejeezus out of it. We have to convince Governments that AI is not an answer to any question about “productivity”. And we have to tax the richest.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 23d

In Aus, from carbon offsets to shark nets, we love a worse than useless gesture.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 25d

A taster for my future work on the safeguard mechanism.

Have you heard our Climate Minister say that the reformed safeguard mechanism delivered on-site abatement equivalent to two-thirds of Australia's annual aviation emissions?

Who cares and somehow also I do and no it didn't.

The safeguard mechanism, Minister Bowen, and the no good very bad maths

When a number sounds big, but is small, and is also somehow fucken wrong.

timinclimate.medium.com

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 24d

Read it out of respect. But like most of your followers, already convinced (good work!) that the safeguard mechanism is a boondoggle and Ministers lie and cynically misrepresent fossil fuel
emissions.

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 24d

She’ll grow out of it. Had a couple of cats like that. Giver her space.

Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 24d

So what does she propose should be done about growing inequality? She doesn’t say. Labour needs a vision and a strategy. The economic rules have to be changed.

Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 29d

Reasons to be cheerful…..

Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 29d

China’s new-build solar additions in the last six months are more than the US has installed in total.
In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year.

via @adamtooze.bsky.social

Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025 | Ember

ember-energy.org

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · 29d

Wondering if you have seen Adam Tooze’s Chartbook today? Solar production in China so far this year mind boggling.

Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · Sep 16

I’m an old leftie white guy who hasn’t changed. I either have the worst case of confirmation bias or, maybe, I’m just correct. 😉

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Pete Stroud @pedro657.bsky.social · Sep 16

It can’t even be framed as a strategic move. Its unfathomable why they are promoting this idea.

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