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CrankyGrandma55 @crankygrandma55.bsky.social · 21h

The password for tomorrow's Antifa meeting is Nobel

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 20h

Approving new coal mines assuming they will be profitable aligns Australia to IPCC's SSP5 'fossil fueled development' tajectory.
SSP5 means *at least* 2.7C global heating, likely 4C, by 2100.
The government's own National Climate Risk Assessment shows 3C is disasterous for every Australian.

Damien Irving @drclimate.bsky.social · 23h

"An extension of the huge BHP/Mitsubishi Peak Downs mine in Queensland aims to continue operations for almost another century - out to 2116."

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 1d

"The technology of generative AI on its own isn’t inherently bad. But the rush to embrace it at the cost of people’s lives, the environment and the concept of truth in the modern world, certainly fits all the parameters of evil"

#TheNerdReich

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a great Shot debut from David Rayfield. "Writing has nothing to fear from AI – just from those who support it"

Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 23h

Yale researchers analyzed data from 158 million US workers and found that even after the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to raise work absences by 13% and labor force exits by 13%.

The virus has created a new year-round baseline similar to flu season.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 22h

An utterly shameful list of murderous, ecocidal, omnicidal acts by a government that loves to claim it cares

The strategy of trying to get Labor and the bureaucracy to act is an abject failure. Government is a failed institution, most clearly when it comes to climate.

Time to build the next system

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 1d

Seven years ago today, Hurricane Michael continued to intensify as it headed north toward the coast. It made landfall near Mexico Beach FL with 160mph peak sustained winds, making it the 1st Category 5 landfall in the FL panhandle and only the 4th in U.S. history.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 1d

And just like the other U.S. Category 5 hurricane landfalls, Michael was also only a tropical storm three days before landfall.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1d

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief examines how Fukushima helped to recover from nuclear disaster by building solar farms on contaminated farmland.

Read more here ➡️ buff.ly/rxBff7B

View of Shinchi town, Fukushima in 2011 (top) and 2016 (bottom). Credit: Newscom/Alamy Stock Photo

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Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social · 1d

California’s FAIR Plan seeks 36% rate increase as wildfire risk and insurer exits surge. With $650B in exposure but just $1.5B cash on hand, the math no longer works. Homeowners face costly coverage, rising assessments, and a volatile market going forward. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

California's insurer of last resort seeks 36% rate hike

As authorities solve one mystery—who set the fire that devastated Pacific Palisades—another deepens: how to make the math work for home insurance in California

open.substack.com

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Sharanjit Paddam @sharanjit.bsky.social · 1d

Times change. So should presidencies.

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the clients of the lobbying firm the Prime Minister is currently the President of include:

Ampol Australia Petroleum P/L (fossil fuels)

Lion P/L (brewing, alcohol)

Pfizer Australia P/L (pharmaceuticals)

Serco Australia P/L (defence, immigration)

Responsible Wagering Aust (gambling)

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Jules 🍉💔🖤🤍💚🇮🇪 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 1d

Israel dropped around 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since Oct 7th, equivalent to nearly 13 Hiroshima bombs.

Evil.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is totally my wheelhouse lol — namely, the way that climate propagandists take a scientific word like "confidence" and manipulate it to convey something false to the public.

Here's how Pielke plays that trick in this case (screenshots from a 2023 thread over on the Nazi site):

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
@DoctorVive So, I dug into @RogerPielkeJr's claim that the @IPC_CH has "concluded" that a climate signal beyond natural variability will NOT emerge by 2100
for many big impacts, & guess what?
(You'll never guess!)
The self-appointed "honest broker" is misrepresenting the science.
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Pielke centers his claim on AR6 WGI Table 12.12, which shows the "confidence" scientists have that a climate signal has emerged or will
emerge in a particular region.
White signifies "low confidence" of an emerging signal.
There is a lot of white in this Table.
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Chanter 12
Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessmenti
Table 12.12

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.

But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.

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CLIMATEWIRE
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking
disasters to global warming
By LESLEY CLARK, SARA SCHONHARDT, CHELSEA HARVEY | 10/09/2025
06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose
work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Table 12.12 | Emergence of CIDs in different time periods, as assessed in this section. The colour contesponds to the confidence of the region with the highest confidence: white cells indicate where evidence is lacking or the signal is not present, leading to overal bu confidence of an emerging signal.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

oh great, a small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 1d

David Pope in Canberra Times

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

The nervous wait.

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 1d

The NT is sometimes like the worst of the Deep South of the US. Racist. Hateful. Uncaring. Cruel.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

"left for dead on a Darwin road by a driver who did not stop to help, and then later sent text messages to his friends describing the victim as an "oxygen thief" and a "dog"."

This passes for justice, in the N.T. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'There's no justice': Outrage as Jake Danby walks after fatal hit-and-run

A fatal hit-and-run case in Darwin has exposed deep disparities in the NT’s justice system, say Aboriginal leaders, as the victim’s family speaks out.

www.abc.net.au

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 1d

Leaving it to the Coroner to do the pill testing seems sub-optimal

Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 1d

A young person died just days after the LNP make pill testing illegal.

There’s a good chance that if they could have had these pills tested, they’d be with us all today.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Highly potent synthetic opioids found in teddy bear-shaped pills linked to a death in Queensland

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Sharanjit Paddam @sharanjit.bsky.social · 1d

Fafo

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Sharanjit Paddam @sharanjit.bsky.social · 1d

Trump

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my! Are people going to start looking at the technologies driving an unprecedented global energy transition as potential investment opportunities?

Analysis-'Every electron counts': Why renewables stocks are back in play

MILAN (Reuters) -A return of fund inflows into renewable energy stocks is helping to breath new life into these companies' shares, powering their strongest quarterly rise since the sustainability boom...

finance.yahoo.com

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