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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 6h

If corporate profits are more important to the people who decide the shape of our economy than basic human well-being, you get an economy that values corporate profits above basic human well-being.

Who could have guessed.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 6h

It's in the face of deadassed shit like this that the message @richarddenniss.bsky.social has been banging his head against the wall for so long for - broadly, that we get to choose an economy that values the things we value - becomes most vital.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16h

How about no.

AFR headline: RBA says Australians will have to accept lower wages growth

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19h

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 16h

Disgraceful that betting agencies are skirting laws to market their brand to ppl who have self-excluded through BetStop.

This is precisely why a partial ad ban won't work

Review of BetStop urgently needed to stop this from happening.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Betting industry 'out of control', says former gambler

Diehard Richmond fan "Tiger Shaun" says he's watched on in horror as gambling advertising and sponsorships have come to dominate football — and become a constant reminder of the addiction he has strug...

www.abc.net.au

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15h

Five alarm fire that's illegal and impeachable. Newsrooms and electeds should be yelling this.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 14h

14 years of methane leaking from Santos’s Darwin LNG plant.

Instead of fixing it, they argued that meeting international standards was too costly.

When major emitters dismiss responsibility as an “intolerable risk” it’s all of us that pay the price instead.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Prospect of net zero an 'intolerable risk' for leaking Santos plant

Santos's Darwin gas plant is set for a new lease of life despite a major methane leak. The company told federal officials the risk it could be forced to meet best practice on carbon emissions was "int...

www.abc.net.au

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 2d

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
www.afr.com//policy/ener...

Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths

The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

www.afr.com

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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 3d

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

"Currently, data centres in China use between 0.9% and 2.7% of the country’s annual electricity, according to different estimates"

"By 2030, China’s data centres are projected to consume anything from 400TWh to 600TWh of electricity, with associated emissions of perhaps 200MtCO2e"

Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres - Carbon Brief

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has driven the “surging” growth of data centres in China, with associated increases in energy demand and emissions

www.carbonbrief.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

This Republican US Senator is kind of neatly laying out the centre-right vision for renewables

- No wind, only solar / batteries
- No displacement of fossil fuels; only supplementing
- Mostly there to serve data centre / AI power demand

This isn't something to celebrate or welcome. It's v v bad

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This is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with China. Our country needs an all-of-the-above approach to energy (like Utah). We should be all in on nuclear/natural gas/geothermal and keeping our coal plants open for as long as possible. However, there are innovation/permitting/supply chain issues slowing those down. While intermittent sources have been overvalued in the past (and offshore wind is a disaster and should be discontinued), the incredible leaps in battery technology completely change the value proposition of solar in the right places. Solar with batteries can now be close to baseload power and we should keep these projects rolling until we get the gas/nuclear/geothermal plants we need.
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This just in: The Esmeralda 7 Solar Project — which would have generated a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power — has been canceled, the BLM says.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE ON @drilledmedia.bsky.social

(you may recognise one of the names on a future episode.....)

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My mates @dickon.bsky.social + Klimakultur put this entire series together, and I am so excited to consume it all --->>>

The Black Thread, Ep 1 | Meet the Norwegians

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Microplastics are released from plastic when exposed to heat, including leaching from tea bags into hot tea and plastic containers releasing nanoplastics when microwaved. While health effects are still unclear, minimizing heating plastic is a simple way to reduce exposure.

Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them.

The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 2d

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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 2d

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

Nature @nature.com · 2d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com

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Rosemary Vass @coonavass.bsky.social · 2d

Well done the young people of #TimorLeste! There are many of them and they are the future of that beautiful place of very resilient people.

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Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · 2d

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests.

But sure — protest doesn’t work.
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

screenshot of ABC article. text captured says Timor-Leste scraps lifetime pensions after student-led protests
Topic:Activism and Lobbying

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Friday 26 September
Police officers in the street usher crowds.
Police appeal to students to clear the road to await the result of the parliamentary vote. (AFP: Valentino Dariell de Sousa)

In short
Protests broke out last week in Timor-Leste, with thousands of demonstrators demanding parliament cancel a $4.2 million plan to purchase SUVs for lawmakers and lifetime pension for MPs and public officials.

Sixty-two members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped the pensions for MPs, former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers.

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Rosemary Vass @coonavass.bsky.social · 2d

Ain’t that the truth!! #democracy not #theocracy #Auspol

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 3d

Green economic populism fights fascism by rooting green progress in working class life

—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants

—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants

—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 3d

We need Nobel Prizes for Climate

- Nobel Prize for Climate Tech
- Nobel Prize for Climate Journalism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Activism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Infrastructure
- Nobel Prize for Climate Success

Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 8d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 3d

I’m tired of having to repeat this but it still hasn’t sunk through to my economically illiterate colleagues. Clean energy is cheap energy. Attack one and you attack the other. Why not have both? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she expects the parliamentary committee into Australia's internet search codes/teen social media ban will supoena Meta, Snapchat and TikTok to appear, after they were invited but did not show.

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