Roland van Amstel
@rvanamstel.bsky.social
Integrated warning systems for flood, bushfire, and extreme heat. Bush firefighter. I believe humans can, and should, do better. Tread lightly. Born at 319.65 ppm. Part-time potty mouth.
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“The question isn’t “who are we letting into our country?”, it’s “why are we letting grasping politicians spread further hate and division?””
Such a great piece by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Such a great piece by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australian hearts are shattered – and some would-be leaders have broken them further
There is no denying Australia’s sense of safety has been shattered.
thepoint.com.au
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“The question isn’t “who are we letting into our country?”, it’s “why are we letting grasping politicians spread further hate and division?””
Such a great piece by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Such a great piece by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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www.nu.nl/klimaat/6380...
Het blijft voor omwonenden van datacenters vaak gissen: hoeveel stroom verbruiken die kolossen eigenlijk? En hoeveel water? Veel datacenterbedrijven weigeren gegevens daarover te publiceren, ondanks een EU-wet die voor transparantie moet zorgen. Via @nu.nl
Het blijft voor omwonenden van datacenters vaak gissen: hoeveel stroom verbruiken die kolossen eigenlijk? En hoeveel water? Veel datacenterbedrijven weigeren gegevens daarover te publiceren, ondanks een EU-wet die voor transparantie moet zorgen. Via @nu.nl
Veel datacenters weigeren te publiceren hoeveel water en stroom ze verbruiken
Het blijft voor omwonenden van datacenters vaak gissen: hoeveel stroom verbruiken die kolossen eigenlijk? En hoeveel water? Veel datacenterbedrijven weigeren gegevens daarover te publiceren, ondanks e...
www.nu.nl
December 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
www.nu.nl/klimaat/6380...
Het blijft voor omwonenden van datacenters vaak gissen: hoeveel stroom verbruiken die kolossen eigenlijk? En hoeveel water? Veel datacenterbedrijven weigeren gegevens daarover te publiceren, ondanks een EU-wet die voor transparantie moet zorgen. Via @nu.nl
Het blijft voor omwonenden van datacenters vaak gissen: hoeveel stroom verbruiken die kolossen eigenlijk? En hoeveel water? Veel datacenterbedrijven weigeren gegevens daarover te publiceren, ondanks een EU-wet die voor transparantie moet zorgen. Via @nu.nl
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Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West
Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.
michaelwest.com.au
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
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The US is happy to take our $380BN for Aukus and use our military bases but our citizens are not welcome there unless their social media and online history is deemed appropriate by a murderous criminal dictator.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The US is happy to take our $380BN for Aukus and use our military bases but our citizens are not welcome there unless their social media and online history is deemed appropriate by a murderous criminal dictator.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
And Albanese will say nothing because he is a fraud and a coward.
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So instead of requiring gas exporters to supply gas to Australian manufacturers at reasonable prices, the cost would be transferred to taxpayers.
Let’s gas cartel keep price gouging Australians, and taxpayers foot the bill.
Really!?!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Let’s gas cartel keep price gouging Australians, and taxpayers foot the bill.
Really!?!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
So instead of requiring gas exporters to supply gas to Australian manufacturers at reasonable prices, the cost would be transferred to taxpayers.
Let’s gas cartel keep price gouging Australians, and taxpayers foot the bill.
Really!?!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Let’s gas cartel keep price gouging Australians, and taxpayers foot the bill.
Really!?!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Too young for Instagram, not too young for an ankle monitor...
The legislation removes the requirement for either the child, or their parent or guardian, to consent to wearing the device.
Children as young as 10 to be fitted with ankle monitors under proposed laws
The legislation removes the requirement for either the child, or their parent or guardian, to consent to wearing the device.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Too young for Instagram, not too young for an ankle monitor...
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Good plan. Starting with itself.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Good plan. Starting with itself.
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Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense
Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
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"We couldn't have done it without the judges," said West in a teary acceptance speech
#walkeys
michaelwest.com.au/michael-west...
#walkeys
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Michael West Media scoops the prize pool in the 2025 Walkey Awards - Michael West
Journalists from Michael West Media have scooped the pool in this year’s Walkey Awards for Excellence in Journalism with 28 Walkeys.
michaelwest.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"We couldn't have done it without the judges," said West in a teary acceptance speech
#walkeys
michaelwest.com.au/michael-west...
#walkeys
michaelwest.com.au/michael-west...
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It's the last day of parliament and I am all out of fucks to give:
Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's the last day of parliament and I am all out of fucks to give:
Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>>
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>>
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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I made this very prediction back when I was studying ecology and climate change some 15 years ago.
It's happened faster than I expected, though.
It's happened faster than I expected, though.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I made this very prediction back when I was studying ecology and climate change some 15 years ago.
It's happened faster than I expected, though.
It's happened faster than I expected, though.
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Mega fossil subsidy ahoy! Bluescope bid for Whyalla demands massive gas subsidy. Not economic says @TimBuckleyCEF (except for Santos)
@kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/whyalla-resc...
@kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/whyalla-resc...
Whyalla rescue, Santos gift. A multi-billion-fossil-subsidy-fest in the pipeline? - Michael West
State and Federal Governments are proposing $2.4 billion to rescue Whyalla from disaster, while the man responsible rides into the sunset.
michaelwest.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Mega fossil subsidy ahoy! Bluescope bid for Whyalla demands massive gas subsidy. Not economic says @TimBuckleyCEF (except for Santos)
@kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/whyalla-resc...
@kimwingerei.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/whyalla-resc...
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Shein is a human rights and environmental abomination.
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Shein is a human rights and environmental abomination.
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Urgent action is required as the world is getting dangerously close to breaching major tipping points. If the Albanese Government took this bold global action, it would have the support of the Parliament, because the current Senate would support this action. #auspol #fossilfuels #climate
Australia could be a world leader in tackling the climate emergency
My recent P&I article, “The world isn’t even trying to phase out fossil fuels”, explained why it is imperative that fossil fuels be rapidly phased out.
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Urgent action is required as the world is getting dangerously close to breaching major tipping points. If the Albanese Government took this bold global action, it would have the support of the Parliament, because the current Senate would support this action. #auspol #fossilfuels #climate
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It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
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The media keeps pushing the lie that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables. They’re not. CSIRO and AEMO show solar and wind are far cheaper. The fossil fuel lobby funds the lie, and half our grid’s already renewable. The transition’s happening, like it or not.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The media keeps pushing the lie that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables. They’re not. CSIRO and AEMO show solar and wind are far cheaper. The fossil fuel lobby funds the lie, and half our grid’s already renewable. The transition’s happening, like it or not.
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A series of reports published last week by Climate Analytics — and commissioned by Fortescue — set out to support this view by demonstrating that pathways exist to eliminate fossil fuels in key global sectors like power, shipping and transport. #auspol #forrest #fossilfuels
Andrew Forrest says real zero is already the 'winning business case' in three key fossil fuel guzzling industries
As the federal Coalition continues its interminable internal debate over whether net zero emissions is even a thing, let alone a thing it can get behind, new reports have found that “real zero” is both technically feasible and economically preferable to its carbon-lite alternative in numerous hard-to-abate sectors.
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A series of reports published last week by Climate Analytics — and commissioned by Fortescue — set out to support this view by demonstrating that pathways exist to eliminate fossil fuels in key global sectors like power, shipping and transport. #auspol #forrest #fossilfuels
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Excellent piece. The #Albo-tross grows more loathsome every day. Dobbing on Kevin, chortling about it - what larks, eh?
Maybe if spineless Albo had held that RC into the media that HALF A MILLION Australians wanted, Murdoch's creepy minion Clennell might not have been there to shaft Rudd.
Maybe if spineless Albo had held that RC into the media that HALF A MILLION Australians wanted, Murdoch's creepy minion Clennell might not have been there to shaft Rudd.
Here's Australia's current #1 bestselling novelist, @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Mr. Albanese goes to Washington'
Mr. Albanese goes to Washington - The Shot
Albanese’s pilgrimage to pay homage at the feet of our lords and masters, the United States of America, is over...
theshot.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Excellent piece. The #Albo-tross grows more loathsome every day. Dobbing on Kevin, chortling about it - what larks, eh?
Maybe if spineless Albo had held that RC into the media that HALF A MILLION Australians wanted, Murdoch's creepy minion Clennell might not have been there to shaft Rudd.
Maybe if spineless Albo had held that RC into the media that HALF A MILLION Australians wanted, Murdoch's creepy minion Clennell might not have been there to shaft Rudd.
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Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Eugenics is back on the menu, boys'
Eugenics is back on the menu, boys - The Shot
The new name for the ideology, human biodiversity (HBD), is handy: it’s not just race science that this marketing of biological determinism promotes. It allows for the idea that class, like Murray arg...
theshot.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Eugenics is back on the menu, boys'
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"He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible."
Yep.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yep.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible."
Yep.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yep.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Which is why we're going to use police powers to stop a person’s welfare payment before any court process. Just like Jesus would have wanted.
At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Which is why we're going to use police powers to stop a person’s welfare payment before any court process. Just like Jesus would have wanted.
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The Government is seeking a deal with the Coalition to pass changes to our environment laws….
Which means those changes will need the support of climate sceptics like Matt Canavan, who recently called for renewable projects to be replaced by new coal plants.
📺 @ebonybennett.bsky.social
#auspol
Which means those changes will need the support of climate sceptics like Matt Canavan, who recently called for renewable projects to be replaced by new coal plants.
📺 @ebonybennett.bsky.social
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The Government is seeking a deal with the Coalition to pass changes to our environment laws….
Which means those changes will need the support of climate sceptics like Matt Canavan, who recently called for renewable projects to be replaced by new coal plants.
📺 @ebonybennett.bsky.social
#auspol
Which means those changes will need the support of climate sceptics like Matt Canavan, who recently called for renewable projects to be replaced by new coal plants.
📺 @ebonybennett.bsky.social
#auspol