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Tim Baxter

@timinclimate.bsky.social

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Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. More anarchist with every passing climate disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy. To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm really glad that people found so much good in this piece. As I said in the thread, I was pretty nervous about it.

If you enjoyed it or learned something from it: Thank you! 💛

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Nov 30

Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.

You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?

A long article and accompanying 🧵

Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility

After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…

medium.com

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty giant fuck you to Greens and Teal voters, not to mention LEAN members in Labor. Apalling, but unsurprising.

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 6h

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 14h

I never thought I would be ride-or-die for Charli xcx, but here we are.

Culture is weird.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians

Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

theaus.in

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Tired: the Gartner Hype Cycle

Wired: The Joshi death spiral

(reckon Spotify's just under the x axis here)

a curve showing a line going downwards from 'oh wow this is magic' to 'fucking hell it's directly causing fascism'

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 2d

The 'statement of reasons' given by enviro minister Murray Watt approving the North West Shelf gas project extension contains some astonishing mental gymnastics.
He assumes the same level of emissions could occur even if the project didn't proceed
epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/_entity/shar...

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 2d

Black coal up from Q3 2024 to Q3 2025

(Growth in demand partially offsetting growth on RE)

www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Thirst for energy undermines effort to pull back from coal

A steady rise in the demand for electricity is slowing the decline of coal-fired power, even as wind and solar generation hits new highs.

www.afr.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 4d

The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 4d

Outer eastern Melbourne.

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 4d

I love our new house so much, but our experience of the new local takeaway places has been *awful*, and the standards of the people here are even worse.

Tonight's chorizo pizza, restaurant rated as 4.6 stars: I genuinely can't taste the difference between the tomato slices and the chorizo.

What.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

It's so pretty

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

I am the Joe Rogan of fuck fossil fuels.

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

So anyway apropos of nothing straight off the dome firing from the hip and unscripted unedited unadulterated extreme, I have a suggestion:

What if we stopped burning fossil fuels?

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

I was including spaces in my count.

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

So anyway apropos of nothing straight off the dome firing from the hip and unscripted unedited unadulterated extreme, I have a suggestion:

What if we stopped burning fossil fuels?

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

I would have taken a different direction with this post from the 16th character, but Pat isn’t wrong.

Racism has always played real well in the colony.

Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 5d

Hastie is a cunning politician and it's risky to dismiss him as a crank because his views are racist. There's a good chance he will be Liberal party leader by the next election, and his white nationalism should ring alarm bells. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Andrew Hastie quits Coalition frontbench over immigration policy dispute

Liberal MP resigns as shadow home affairs minister, increasing pressure on opposition leader Sussan Ley

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

"AT Proto decentralization doesn't exist as a practical reality, and if it ever does it won't be for years"

This is a great post and it is a huge, huge shame to see @jay.bsky.team switching into Musk-Mode. Absolutely irresponsible and really gross.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

"People don't necessarily realize this because if you try to explain to someone how AT Proto works, they immediately go to sleep, but let's try anyway."

🥲

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

azhdarchid.com

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

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CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Breaking News
UK police say armed officers likely shot one of the people killed in the Manchester synagogue attacks by mistake.
https://cnn.it/4mKQEWg

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 5d

All of Taylor's worst faults, her inability to talk about adult topics without sounding ridiculous, her tissue paper skin, her try-hard attempts at Lana Del Reyisms, her not-mad-laughing-actually disses, the boring musical aesthetic, her fading ability to write hooks, all on full display. Atrocious.

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Calum Cunningham @calxcunningham.bsky.social · 6d

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 6d

There’s some pretty alarming stuff happening in NSW right now with big changes to the planning laws being rushed through Parliament.

The proposed amendments create major corruption risks and should be closely reviewed by ICAC.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW’s fast-track planning laws could allow mines to be approved without environmental assessment

Environmental assessments could go out the window for mining projects, windfarms and other developments, green groups say

www.theguardian.com

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 6d

Just a quiet reminder: what was announced was the *option* to close.

Much like the Eraring announcment, which is we all know famously closed in August of 2025.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Queensland’s biggest coal-fired power station could close six years early

Crisafulli government wants coal plants to run longer – reversing previous Queensland Labor government’s plans to end reliance on coal power by 2035

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 7d

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.'

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college

The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.

www.smh.com.au

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Pete Milne @petemilne.bsky.social · 7d

There was an enormous amount of flaring from INPEX Australia's Ichthys offshore facilities on Tuesday afternoon, from both the Venturer FPSO (left) and the Explorer platform right). They are designed for no routine flaring, but it is necessary for safety reasons, like process upsets and emergencies.

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 7d

Would be nice to live in a timeline where it was possible to state that there was zero possibility for Donald Trump and Nigel Farage to be the leaders of their respective countries in 2029.

Because it’s certainly not this one.

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 7d

The News Corp headlines referring to the NCRA were, frankly, disgraceful. Some comments from me are included in this @australia.theguardian.com article.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 8d

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Graham Readfearn

The National Climate Risk Assessment was attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill waste * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast On the front page of the Daily Telegraph, Australia’s first comprehensive assessment of the risks from climate change became “SCIENCE FICTION”. In other leading stories in recent weeks, wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels were a source of mountains of landfill waste. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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