Graham Lea
@evolvable.bsky.social
Technologist working on Climate Action • Software, Product, Leadership • agile, startups, microservices, UX, & more • Getting quite political
Dharawal country, Sydney, Australia
Also:
https://aus.social/@evolvable
https://linkedin.com/in/grahamleasydney/
Dharawal country, Sydney, Australia
Also:
https://aus.social/@evolvable
https://linkedin.com/in/grahamleasydney/
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Graham Lea
@evolvable.bsky.social
· Jun 1
Announcing a little thing I've being working on:
⚡️ The Electricity Sector Field Guide ⚡️
🌏 grahamlea.github.io/Electricity-...
When I joined the electricity sector 18 months ago, there was suddenly about a million new things I needed to learn about to get my job done.
⚡️ The Electricity Sector Field Guide ⚡️
🌏 grahamlea.github.io/Electricity-...
When I joined the electricity sector 18 months ago, there was suddenly about a million new things I needed to learn about to get my job done.
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Russia says President Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza.
Astonishing to invite one of history’s most egregious warmongers on to a peace board. The international rules are already in the bin.
Astonishing to invite one of history’s most egregious warmongers on to a peace board. The international rules are already in the bin.
January 19, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Russia says President Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza.
Astonishing to invite one of history’s most egregious warmongers on to a peace board. The international rules are already in the bin.
Astonishing to invite one of history’s most egregious warmongers on to a peace board. The international rules are already in the bin.
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Every time you vote for a party or candidate that doesn’t have serious policies to limit global warming to 1.5°C, you vote for a future with more and more devastating events like this.
Just days ago, communities along the Great Ocean Road were inundated as their roads turned to rivers - with parts of the region recording 180mm of rainfall in just six hours.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
As the world warms, extreme rain events are coming hard and fast
When it comes to extreme rainfall, it's hard for climate scientists to say what's natural and what's caused by climate change, but they do know the most extreme events are dropping more rain, more oft...
www.abc.net.au
January 19, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Every time you vote for a party or candidate that doesn’t have serious policies to limit global warming to 1.5°C, you vote for a future with more and more devastating events like this.
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Anyone using the term "virtue signalling" is simply outing themselves as a person with no virtues. They can't imagine someone not pretending to give a shit. It describes them way more effectively than it describes anyone they're directing it at.
“Virtue signaling”
Otherwise known as “leading by example”
Otherwise known as “leading by example”
Virtue signaling is good and we should do a hell of a lot more of it. It's literally signaling the values of your society to other members of that society and young people don't just magically have values as some innate feature within them. They're given to them through osmosis by those they watch.
January 18, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Anyone using the term "virtue signalling" is simply outing themselves as a person with no virtues. They can't imagine someone not pretending to give a shit. It describes them way more effectively than it describes anyone they're directing it at.
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The Albanese Government has decided to risk Victoria's 90 Mile beach so foreign owned gas corporations can explore for gas.
It will be almost entirely FOR EXPORT and our Government will give them the gas FOR FREE.
www.gippslandmonitor.com.au/p/government...
It will be almost entirely FOR EXPORT and our Government will give them the gas FOR FREE.
www.gippslandmonitor.com.au/p/government...
January 18, 2026 at 10:14 PM
The Albanese Government has decided to risk Victoria's 90 Mile beach so foreign owned gas corporations can explore for gas.
It will be almost entirely FOR EXPORT and our Government will give them the gas FOR FREE.
www.gippslandmonitor.com.au/p/government...
It will be almost entirely FOR EXPORT and our Government will give them the gas FOR FREE.
www.gippslandmonitor.com.au/p/government...
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Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com
It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!
It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!
January 19, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com
It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!
It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!
Every time you vote for a party or candidate that doesn’t have serious policies to limit global warming to 1.5°C, you vote for a future with more and more devastating events like this.
Just days ago, communities along the Great Ocean Road were inundated as their roads turned to rivers - with parts of the region recording 180mm of rainfall in just six hours.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
As the world warms, extreme rain events are coming hard and fast
When it comes to extreme rainfall, it's hard for climate scientists to say what's natural and what's caused by climate change, but they do know the most extreme events are dropping more rain, more oft...
www.abc.net.au
January 19, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Every time you vote for a party or candidate that doesn’t have serious policies to limit global warming to 1.5°C, you vote for a future with more and more devastating events like this.
Senior USA officials saying things like this has to raise serious questions about Pine Gap and other US involvement in Australia’s military and intelligence.
#auspol
#auspol
Aside from this being incorrect - the underlying rule on sovereignty and statehood is the Montevideo Convention, which doesn’t imply defence capabilities - this is illuminating on what is now pseudo-official U.S. policy: any territory you cannot defend is fair game for someone else
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Senior USA officials saying things like this has to raise serious questions about Pine Gap and other US involvement in Australia’s military and intelligence.
#auspol
#auspol
I love how tiny this perspective makes the people and the ship, turning the vast, beautiful wilderness into the hero of the shot instead of the expedition.
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 10:55 AM
I love how tiny this perspective makes the people and the ship, turning the vast, beautiful wilderness into the hero of the shot instead of the expedition.
Under-funding science is just mental. As the country whose publicly-funded science made WIFI possible, you’d think we’d understand this and do better.
And this is the best time in a generation to attract scientific talent.
Make us a science superpower please @albomp.bsky.social?
#auspol
And this is the best time in a generation to attract scientific talent.
Make us a science superpower please @albomp.bsky.social?
#auspol
In the words of a world-renowned cardiologist, Australia’s young medical researchers are “left to flounder with total job insecurity and family pressures. It’s the best recipe we have for raiding our future, in terms of a medical research workforce and the benefits of medical research”
‘We’re losing careers’: Leading cardiologist warns Australian medical research is in crisis
The head of the Heart Research Institute is telling young scientists medical research is a “terrible career path”. There’s a $5 billion answer in the government’s budget.
www.theage.com.au
January 17, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Under-funding science is just mental. As the country whose publicly-funded science made WIFI possible, you’d think we’d understand this and do better.
And this is the best time in a generation to attract scientific talent.
Make us a science superpower please @albomp.bsky.social?
#auspol
And this is the best time in a generation to attract scientific talent.
Make us a science superpower please @albomp.bsky.social?
#auspol
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Extraordinary the Australian did this entire article about increasing risks of climate change while not mentioning climate change. #auspol #localgovernment
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Extraordinary the Australian did this entire article about increasing risks of climate change while not mentioning climate change. #auspol #localgovernment
IMPORTANT: It can be very tempting to block the accounts of orgs you don’t like, but you should remember that who you block on Bluesky is PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA.
A nefarious regime could create accounts with the purpose of harvesting a list of opponents.
Be careful what you make public.
A nefarious regime could create accounts with the purpose of harvesting a list of opponents.
Be careful what you make public.
January 17, 2026 at 5:52 AM
IMPORTANT: It can be very tempting to block the accounts of orgs you don’t like, but you should remember that who you block on Bluesky is PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA.
A nefarious regime could create accounts with the purpose of harvesting a list of opponents.
Be careful what you make public.
A nefarious regime could create accounts with the purpose of harvesting a list of opponents.
Be careful what you make public.
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Unprecedented presidency-ending corruption for anyone from Truman to Obama.
The deal has kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50mn barrels of Venezuelan oil, with more sales expected in the ‘coming days and weeks’. ft.trib.al/a2pf6om
January 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Unprecedented presidency-ending corruption for anyone from Truman to Obama.
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If everything is getting you down and you need a laugh, just remember that some people paid money for NFT images
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 AM
If everything is getting you down and you need a laugh, just remember that some people paid money for NFT images
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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Record *low* temperatures are becoming rarer and rarer (only one city in the past 10 years has experienced its coldest year on record)
But in 2025 nearly 4,000 cities experienced their *hottest* year on record
archive.is/Bi6qf
But in 2025 nearly 4,000 cities experienced their *hottest* year on record
archive.is/Bi6qf
January 16, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Record *low* temperatures are becoming rarer and rarer (only one city in the past 10 years has experienced its coldest year on record)
But in 2025 nearly 4,000 cities experienced their *hottest* year on record
archive.is/Bi6qf
But in 2025 nearly 4,000 cities experienced their *hottest* year on record
archive.is/Bi6qf
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
“We won. We got a democracy.”
A life well lived. Read this if you want to feel better about people.
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:43 PM
“We won. We got a democracy.”
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The Greens cannot support laws that could be weaponised to shut down legitimate political protest.
Labor must make it crystal clear that criticism of Israel’s actions, just like those of Russia, China or Australia will not be criminalised.
Labor must make it crystal clear that criticism of Israel’s actions, just like those of Russia, China or Australia will not be criminalised.
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 AM
The Greens cannot support laws that could be weaponised to shut down legitimate political protest.
Labor must make it crystal clear that criticism of Israel’s actions, just like those of Russia, China or Australia will not be criminalised.
Labor must make it crystal clear that criticism of Israel’s actions, just like those of Russia, China or Australia will not be criminalised.
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The Greens have serious concerns about the proposed hate laws legislation, which we have shared with the government, and we will not support it in its current form.
We can’t combat hate if we don’t combat it for everyone.
We can’t combat hate if we don’t combat it for everyone.
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 AM
The Greens have serious concerns about the proposed hate laws legislation, which we have shared with the government, and we will not support it in its current form.
We can’t combat hate if we don’t combat it for everyone.
We can’t combat hate if we don’t combat it for everyone.
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Here's the data:
January 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Here's the data:
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Every Australian in every city, suburb and town is already paying a price today for worsening fire conditions driven by climate pollution.
Surviving and recovering from fires has cost us billions since 2009, and insurance premiums have jumped as high as 138% since 2020 in bushfire danger zones.
Surviving and recovering from fires has cost us billions since 2009, and insurance premiums have jumped as high as 138% since 2020 in bushfire danger zones.
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Every Australian in every city, suburb and town is already paying a price today for worsening fire conditions driven by climate pollution.
Surviving and recovering from fires has cost us billions since 2009, and insurance premiums have jumped as high as 138% since 2020 in bushfire danger zones.
Surviving and recovering from fires has cost us billions since 2009, and insurance premiums have jumped as high as 138% since 2020 in bushfire danger zones.
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Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
January 13, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*