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One last ride on the V-set: NSW train fans farewell ‘old but plush’ steel rattlers in style
One last ride on the V-set: NSW train fans farewell ‘old but plush’ steel rattlers in style
The beloved train was treated like a visiting superstar on its ‘rowdy but enjoyable’ final journey from Lithgow to Central Station
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As the sun rises over the Blue Mountains, on a train platform 150km from Sydney, hundreds of tired rail enthusiasts jostle to secure a purple seat on board an old steel train.
Some had slept overnight on the platform. Others took a midnight service from the city to wait for a few sleepless hours before heading back the other way. A lucky few woke up in one of Lithgow’s motel rooms before the crack of dawn. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:16 AM
One last ride on the V-set: NSW train fans farewell ‘old but plush’ steel rattlers in style
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Me: Cool look at this old jug, lets clean it.
Genie: You get one wish.
Me: WTF
Genie: Inflation, it hurts us all.
Genie: Oh and your one wish has to improve everyone.
Me: Ban Religion.
Genie: Oh I did not see that one coming, very well done.
Genie: You get one wish.
Me: WTF
Genie: Inflation, it hurts us all.
Genie: Oh and your one wish has to improve everyone.
Me: Ban Religion.
Genie: Oh I did not see that one coming, very well done.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Me: Cool look at this old jug, lets clean it.
Genie: You get one wish.
Me: WTF
Genie: Inflation, it hurts us all.
Genie: Oh and your one wish has to improve everyone.
Me: Ban Religion.
Genie: Oh I did not see that one coming, very well done.
Genie: You get one wish.
Me: WTF
Genie: Inflation, it hurts us all.
Genie: Oh and your one wish has to improve everyone.
Me: Ban Religion.
Genie: Oh I did not see that one coming, very well done.
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Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2025)
The last 3 years really jump out, rather like 2015-6 did when we first produced this graphic back then. Now, 2015-6 looks rather cool...
More on the spiral: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
The last 3 years really jump out, rather like 2015-6 did when we first produced this graphic back then. Now, 2015-6 looks rather cool...
More on the spiral: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
January 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2025)
The last 3 years really jump out, rather like 2015-6 did when we first produced this graphic back then. Now, 2015-6 looks rather cool...
More on the spiral: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
The last 3 years really jump out, rather like 2015-6 did when we first produced this graphic back then. Now, 2015-6 looks rather cool...
More on the spiral: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
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As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations.
First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.
The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.
First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.
The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations.
First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.
The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.
First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added.
The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.
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Heads up #MelbWeather folks, we are heading into the unofficial #MelbourneCup day 4 day long weekend and the weather gods have decided to smite Melbourne.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Heads up #MelbWeather folks, we are heading into the unofficial #MelbourneCup day 4 day long weekend and the weather gods have decided to smite Melbourne.
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive
Read here: bit.ly/3g1vEtL
Read here: bit.ly/3g1vEtL
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive
Read here: bit.ly/3g1vEtL
Read here: bit.ly/3g1vEtL
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Wikipedia is one of the few mostly bright lights on the internet. This is bad.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Wikipedia is one of the few mostly bright lights on the internet. This is bad.
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Lot's of RE curtailment in the NEM - just ticked over 6TWh for the last 12 months
Not every electron is sacred - but there's plenty of room for improvement!
More words and lots of figures in the piece below -
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theenergy.co/article/lear...
Not every electron is sacred - but there's plenty of room for improvement!
More words and lots of figures in the piece below -
💡🔌
theenergy.co/article/lear...
Learning to live with curtailment
Rising curtailment is playing havoc with the economics of new wind and solar projects
theenergy.co
October 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Lot's of RE curtailment in the NEM - just ticked over 6TWh for the last 12 months
Not every electron is sacred - but there's plenty of room for improvement!
More words and lots of figures in the piece below -
💡🔌
theenergy.co/article/lear...
Not every electron is sacred - but there's plenty of room for improvement!
More words and lots of figures in the piece below -
💡🔌
theenergy.co/article/lear...
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Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
“Climatic Change appears to be underway, in fact.” - the 1965 commencement speech that should have rocked the world. - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago today, n Thursday August 26th 1965, Carl W. Borgmann stood in front of hundreds of young Americans in Knoxville. Borgmann, who was the director of the Ford Foundation’s Science and Eng...
allouryesterdays.info
August 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
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The Mauna Loa Observatory, home of the iconic Keeling Curve is at risk of shutdown. A new Conversation piece by CCRC's Alex Sen Gupta, @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & @timraupach.com explains why this matters for climate science. Don’t miss it.
theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...
theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...
Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down
Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.
theconversation.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The Mauna Loa Observatory, home of the iconic Keeling Curve is at risk of shutdown. A new Conversation piece by CCRC's Alex Sen Gupta, @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & @timraupach.com explains why this matters for climate science. Don’t miss it.
theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...
theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...
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Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
n.pr
July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
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Cool upper air combines with a surface trough to produce midwinter thunderstorms across eastern NSW and the ACT.
July 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Cool upper air combines with a surface trough to produce midwinter thunderstorms across eastern NSW and the ACT.
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Look, I am old enough and wise enough to admit when I am wrong.
The footage I shared of Starship36 blowing up, was indeed not the best thing I have seen all day.
Multiple angles of the explosion, including drone footage and slow motion video IS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Aw...
The footage I shared of Starship36 blowing up, was indeed not the best thing I have seen all day.
Multiple angles of the explosion, including drone footage and slow motion video IS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Aw...
SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase
YouTube video by NASASpaceflight
www.youtube.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Look, I am old enough and wise enough to admit when I am wrong.
The footage I shared of Starship36 blowing up, was indeed not the best thing I have seen all day.
Multiple angles of the explosion, including drone footage and slow motion video IS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Aw...
The footage I shared of Starship36 blowing up, was indeed not the best thing I have seen all day.
Multiple angles of the explosion, including drone footage and slow motion video IS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Aw...
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This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...
committees.parliament.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ballroom Blitz is the only song where the singer checks if the other band members are ready before the song starts. He makes every other singer look like a thoughtless pig
May 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Ballroom Blitz is the only song where the singer checks if the other band members are ready before the song starts. He makes every other singer look like a thoughtless pig
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Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...
May 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...
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A passenger captured a stunning view of a waterspout from an airplane as they were preparing to land.
The thin, rope-like funnel was estimated to be at least 100ft high, snaking between the ocean and the clouds.
The thin, rope-like funnel was estimated to be at least 100ft high, snaking between the ocean and the clouds.
May 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A passenger captured a stunning view of a waterspout from an airplane as they were preparing to land.
The thin, rope-like funnel was estimated to be at least 100ft high, snaking between the ocean and the clouds.
The thin, rope-like funnel was estimated to be at least 100ft high, snaking between the ocean and the clouds.
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Here's bit of an explainer I was involved in on how the NEM works, and the energy transition unfolding within it.
(..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear)
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
(..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear)
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
What might our future power grid look like? This illustrated guide explains
Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a gri...
www.abc.net.au
April 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Here's bit of an explainer I was involved in on how the NEM works, and the energy transition unfolding within it.
(..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear)
🔌💡
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
(..including why it's a tough gig for 'baseload' technologies .. like nuclear)
🔌💡
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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A new study suggests that people who were vaccinated for shingles might be less likely to develop dementia.
But despite proven protection against shingles, less than half of Australians in their 70s get the vaccine.
Here's why - and what to do about it. buff.ly/NfmjFfC #auspol
But despite proven protection against shingles, less than half of Australians in their 70s get the vaccine.
Here's why - and what to do about it. buff.ly/NfmjFfC #auspol
April 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A new study suggests that people who were vaccinated for shingles might be less likely to develop dementia.
But despite proven protection against shingles, less than half of Australians in their 70s get the vaccine.
Here's why - and what to do about it. buff.ly/NfmjFfC #auspol
But despite proven protection against shingles, less than half of Australians in their 70s get the vaccine.
Here's why - and what to do about it. buff.ly/NfmjFfC #auspol
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Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
April 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
So obvious
A major cause of rising house prices has been increased demand from investors.
Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.
Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.
April 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So obvious
A bit of light relief
April 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A bit of light relief
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Cool, tourist numbers look like all the international stock markets do today.
Just one small point, the US will not be +5 percent in a few hours.
Just one small point, the US will not be +5 percent in a few hours.
This is an astonishing chart - the collapse in visitors coming to the US post Trump’s border incarcerations.
Bye-bye tourism industry.
Bye-bye tourism industry.
April 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Cool, tourist numbers look like all the international stock markets do today.
Just one small point, the US will not be +5 percent in a few hours.
Just one small point, the US will not be +5 percent in a few hours.
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Let's just say China knows how to negotiate from a position of strength
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica
In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.
cleantechnica.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Let's just say China knows how to negotiate from a position of strength
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...