@drmeth.bsky.social
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There are five days left in 2025 and I'm way out of f%cks
December 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There are five days left in 2025 and I'm way out of f%cks
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The USS Bone Spurs
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The USS Bone Spurs
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“The Government has acknowledged there is no gas shortage and exports are the problem, said Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor at The Australia Institute.
Read more: https://thepoint.com.au/news/251223-federal-government-announces-gas-reservation-policy
Read more: https://thepoint.com.au/news/251223-federal-government-announces-gas-reservation-policy
Federal Government announces gas reservation policy
80 per cent of Australia’s gas is currently exported – including two thirds of gas produced on the east coast. This has
thepoint.com.au
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
“The Government has acknowledged there is no gas shortage and exports are the problem, said Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor at The Australia Institute.
Read more: https://thepoint.com.au/news/251223-federal-government-announces-gas-reservation-policy
Read more: https://thepoint.com.au/news/251223-federal-government-announces-gas-reservation-policy
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"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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The seismic echoes of capsizing icebergs falling from Thwaites Glacier have been detected for the first time.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The seismic echoes of capsizing icebergs falling from Thwaites Glacier have been detected for the first time.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...
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Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world
The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world
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Were I in a govt that really cared about kids, I’d be banning new coal and gas mines with rather more fervour than the current ban on social media.
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Were I in a govt that really cared about kids, I’d be banning new coal and gas mines with rather more fervour than the current ban on social media.
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
Probably wouldn’t get the same boasting front pages in the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph though…
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Here’s what he’s missing:
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Here’s what he’s missing:
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
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Australia Institute research shows 80% of Australia’s gas is exported by multinational gas corporations, who then tell us we have a gas shortage. Big Gas is Taking the Piss.
Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Australia Institute research shows 80% of Australia’s gas is exported by multinational gas corporations, who then tell us we have a gas shortage. Big Gas is Taking the Piss.
Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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📚 A new book, Goliath’s Curse, will reset everything you thought you knew about the rise and fall of civilisations – with worrying implications for our world now.
Friday essay: how societies evolved into fear-dominated goliaths – then collapsed
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
📚 A new book, Goliath’s Curse, will reset everything you thought you knew about the rise and fall of civilisations – with worrying implications for our world now.
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Ever grateful to those that speak up & out, & for their solidarity.
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ever grateful to those that speak up & out, & for their solidarity.
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
Science suppression & self-censorship is rife. I understand why many are reluctant to speak truth to power, it can come with great costs, seen & unseen, with the latter often being the most insidious, upsetting & damaging. #ESA2025
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
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Thank you for writing this, @timhollo.bsky.social. I've been very critical of COPs for a long time, and you've articulated the fundamental issues with precision.
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs are bastards.
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs Are B*stards
On the need to "Defund the COPs"
The ACAB slogan has always jarred with me somewhat.
I understand (and respect) it as a systemic critique, intended to reveal that it's impossible for any individual,...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Thank you for writing this, @timhollo.bsky.social. I've been very critical of COPs for a long time, and you've articulated the fundamental issues with precision.
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
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Australia Institute research shows the gas industry pays ZERO royalties on more than half the gas exported from Australia.
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Australia Institute research shows the gas industry pays ZERO royalties on more than half the gas exported from Australia.
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
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"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change."
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change."
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
- co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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"The miners will scream. The captured press will print their talking points. The Minerals Council will commission studies proving that apocalypse awaits if we tax them fairly...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Worst Deal in History: Why Mining Has Ransacked Australia While the Press Looked Away
How Australia became the world’s cautionary tale in resource management. The mining industry didn’t steal our wealth. We handed it over. The press, owned by the same mining interests si…
urbanwronski.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"The miners will scream. The captured press will print their talking points. The Minerals Council will commission studies proving that apocalypse awaits if we tax them fairly...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
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"We live on a planet on the brink of disaster -- This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos" by @brianmchugh.bsky.social for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk:
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
We live on a planet on the brink of disaster
This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"We live on a planet on the brink of disaster -- This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos" by @brianmchugh.bsky.social for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk:
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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Hey @billgates.bsky.social: Thought you might want to read our new study:
"22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there's still time to act" | Nice article on our new #Bioscience article by @saschapare.bsky.social for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there's still time to act
Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to prevent that from happening, scientists say.
www.livescience.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey @billgates.bsky.social: Thought you might want to read our new study:
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Listen to the bloke unable to stop his right hand from moving
Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap it makes a profit selling it to other countries!
"We are disincentivising Japan to do anything about their emissions."
- Chief Economist Greg Jericho at our #RevenueSummit25
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
"We are disincentivising Japan to do anything about their emissions."
- Chief Economist Greg Jericho at our #RevenueSummit25
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Listen to the bloke unable to stop his right hand from moving
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For reference, @senatorwong.bsky.social.
96% of Australians believe that more action is needed to look after the environment
86% of Australians have expressed concern over the decline of native plants and animals
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20...
96% of Australians believe that more action is needed to look after the environment
86% of Australians have expressed concern over the decline of native plants and animals
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20...
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
For reference, @senatorwong.bsky.social.
96% of Australians believe that more action is needed to look after the environment
86% of Australians have expressed concern over the decline of native plants and animals
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20...
96% of Australians believe that more action is needed to look after the environment
86% of Australians have expressed concern over the decline of native plants and animals
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20...
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