Jay
@jaywhittaker.bsky.social
I listened to an interview on with a Nationals politician the other day. He described the key issue driving rural anger and support for One Nation (and driving the rightward wedge) was that we’ve become too concerned with offending people (too woke essentially).
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
I listened to an interview on with a Nationals politician the other day. He described the key issue driving rural anger and support for One Nation (and driving the rightward wedge) was that we’ve become too concerned with offending people (too woke essentially).
Right. Many need to hear the message in this one.
The latest podcast from @volts.wtf on reactionary centrism really is exceptional. Gets to the heart of so much that our media and politics get wrong in the face of climate crisis and rising fascism.
open.spotify.com/episode/5l5d...
open.spotify.com/episode/5l5d...
All about "reactionary centrism"
open.spotify.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Right. Many need to hear the message in this one.
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HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria
‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria
‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL
January 25, 2026 at 10:48 AM
HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria
‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria
‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL
They didn’t need to be there
They didn’t need to have guns drawn
They didn’t need to act hyper-aggressive
They didn’t need to be incompetent & fearful
They didn’t need to dehumanise people unlike them
They didn’t need to be given explicit permission to act unlawfully.
This didn’t need to happen
They didn’t need to have guns drawn
They didn’t need to act hyper-aggressive
They didn’t need to be incompetent & fearful
They didn’t need to dehumanise people unlike them
They didn’t need to be given explicit permission to act unlawfully.
This didn’t need to happen
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 AM
They didn’t need to be there
They didn’t need to have guns drawn
They didn’t need to act hyper-aggressive
They didn’t need to be incompetent & fearful
They didn’t need to dehumanise people unlike them
They didn’t need to be given explicit permission to act unlawfully.
This didn’t need to happen
They didn’t need to have guns drawn
They didn’t need to act hyper-aggressive
They didn’t need to be incompetent & fearful
They didn’t need to dehumanise people unlike them
They didn’t need to be given explicit permission to act unlawfully.
This didn’t need to happen
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This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
What in the hell is this? In Murdoch news website this morning (news dot come dot au). Disgusting dog whistling and justifies Khawaja’s points IMHO.
January 6, 2026 at 11:21 PM
What in the hell is this? In Murdoch news website this morning (news dot come dot au). Disgusting dog whistling and justifies Khawaja’s points IMHO.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
The media and political environment in Australia has been disgraceful this week.
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The media and political environment in Australia has been disgraceful this week.
The new #Myki readers being rolled out to trams in #Melbourne seem like a huge improvement. But often mounted way too low to view the screen. I and several others had to stoop to see the display. There is a lip above the screen that hampers viewing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The new #Myki readers being rolled out to trams in #Melbourne seem like a huge improvement. But often mounted way too low to view the screen. I and several others had to stoop to see the display. There is a lip above the screen that hampers viewing.
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
😢
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Long. Good. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Long. Good. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
Uber at Melbourne airport should be enough to convince us all that airport rail should be built already! #ubersucksnow
August 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Uber at Melbourne airport should be enough to convince us all that airport rail should be built already! #ubersucksnow
Jacinta Price should become opposition leader. They’d do just great /s
She is odious.
She is odious.
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Jacinta Price should become opposition leader. They’d do just great /s
She is odious.
She is odious.
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Many folks assume global heating means continuity, but with a few more weather disasters.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
Weather is getting more variable, creating unpredictable energy demands, and challenges for agriculture and health. Over 60% of the globe has "experienced more frequent, intense, and rapid flips since 1961, and this trend will expand to most areas in the future."
Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature Communications
Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbask...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Many folks assume global heating means continuity, but with a few more weather disasters.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
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The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
April 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
I hope Americans realise that regular people in the rest of the world - of ALL backgrounds & ethnicities - are openly discussing rethinking travel plans and using burner devices if they go to the USA.
April 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I hope Americans realise that regular people in the rest of the world - of ALL backgrounds & ethnicities - are openly discussing rethinking travel plans and using burner devices if they go to the USA.
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If you're an American, your *personal* exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now.
This will not end pretty.
This will not end pretty.
Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
This executive order confirms that. They are attacking all "state laws" that address climate change, ESG, environmental justice and/or greenhouse gases.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
If you're an American, your *personal* exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now.
This will not end pretty.
This will not end pretty.
I never ever want to hear that the Republicans are better for the economy.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I never ever want to hear that the Republicans are better for the economy.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
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"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
US apps updating: “Embrace the spring season with a new seasonal theme…”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
April 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
US apps updating: “Embrace the spring season with a new seasonal theme…”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
It’s a stupid as you think.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s a stupid as you think.
Some of the worst of Twitter is seeping into the debate here. Pointless and overly focussed on personal vs the issues we all face.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some of the worst of Twitter is seeping into the debate here. Pointless and overly focussed on personal vs the issues we all face.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
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Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
www.wired.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
Trump is Liz Trussing the whole economy.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
March 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trump is Liz Trussing the whole economy.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
Just the dumbest moves with the least earned confidence.
Surely the experiment with young Cooper Connolly and Jake Fraser McGurk is over for a while until they get bat on ball. Swinging like a rusty gate and not enough 🧠 #ausvind #cricaus #championstrophy #cricket
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Surely the experiment with young Cooper Connolly and Jake Fraser McGurk is over for a while until they get bat on ball. Swinging like a rusty gate and not enough 🧠 #ausvind #cricaus #championstrophy #cricket