Tim Baxter
@timinclimate.bsky.social
Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. Becoming more anarchist with each passing disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy.
To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.
To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.
12 family dinners (four different meals) are off to the chest freezer.
And I made vegan sweet potato cornbread, and I did the time-consuming early stage for another two dishes.
So domestic that I make even me sick.
And I made vegan sweet potato cornbread, and I did the time-consuming early stage for another two dishes.
So domestic that I make even me sick.
February 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
12 family dinners (four different meals) are off to the chest freezer.
And I made vegan sweet potato cornbread, and I did the time-consuming early stage for another two dishes.
So domestic that I make even me sick.
And I made vegan sweet potato cornbread, and I did the time-consuming early stage for another two dishes.
So domestic that I make even me sick.
I just finished making this little set of shelves up high in the garage entirely out of scrap.
The fuck up fairy didn't even visit!
Nothing glamorous - it's two and a half metres off the ground so by design no-one will look at it! - but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.
The fuck up fairy didn't even visit!
Nothing glamorous - it's two and a half metres off the ground so by design no-one will look at it! - but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I just finished making this little set of shelves up high in the garage entirely out of scrap.
The fuck up fairy didn't even visit!
Nothing glamorous - it's two and a half metres off the ground so by design no-one will look at it! - but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.
The fuck up fairy didn't even visit!
Nothing glamorous - it's two and a half metres off the ground so by design no-one will look at it! - but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.
Nah. It is a Powerwall 2, but I don't think that this is to do with that. The apps are showing it going from 10-100% on well under 9 kWh consistently since we took ownership in August.
Loads of PW2s manufactured around 2018-19 have degraded extremely badly: www.netzero.energy/content/2025...
Loads of PW2s manufactured around 2018-19 have degraded extremely badly: www.netzero.energy/content/2025...
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Nah. It is a Powerwall 2, but I don't think that this is to do with that. The apps are showing it going from 10-100% on well under 9 kWh consistently since we took ownership in August.
Loads of PW2s manufactured around 2018-19 have degraded extremely badly: www.netzero.energy/content/2025...
Loads of PW2s manufactured around 2018-19 have degraded extremely badly: www.netzero.energy/content/2025...
And the Tesla fuckery continues.
Since moving into our place in August, I had noticed that our six year old Powerwall has been very vastly underperforming against its 13.5 kWh capacity.
LOL go fuck yourself Tesla. I will not be accepting two-thirds of a battery from you.
Since moving into our place in August, I had noticed that our six year old Powerwall has been very vastly underperforming against its 13.5 kWh capacity.
LOL go fuck yourself Tesla. I will not be accepting two-thirds of a battery from you.
February 3, 2026 at 6:57 AM
And the Tesla fuckery continues.
Since moving into our place in August, I had noticed that our six year old Powerwall has been very vastly underperforming against its 13.5 kWh capacity.
LOL go fuck yourself Tesla. I will not be accepting two-thirds of a battery from you.
Since moving into our place in August, I had noticed that our six year old Powerwall has been very vastly underperforming against its 13.5 kWh capacity.
LOL go fuck yourself Tesla. I will not be accepting two-thirds of a battery from you.
If you're in Victoria, this is your reminder to drink some water, and pester your loved ones to ensure that they have drunk some water.
January 27, 2026 at 4:28 AM
If you're in Victoria, this is your reminder to drink some water, and pester your loved ones to ensure that they have drunk some water.
It really is fucking unbelievable how big the evacuation zone is for the Otways fire is.
For those not familiar with Victoria, the map below shows about a third (...?) of the Western Vic's whole coastline. The "evacuate immediately" region in the middle is about 60km x 40km. 😟
For those not familiar with Victoria, the map below shows about a third (...?) of the Western Vic's whole coastline. The "evacuate immediately" region in the middle is about 60km x 40km. 😟
January 26, 2026 at 7:56 AM
It really is fucking unbelievable how big the evacuation zone is for the Otways fire is.
For those not familiar with Victoria, the map below shows about a third (...?) of the Western Vic's whole coastline. The "evacuate immediately" region in the middle is about 60km x 40km. 😟
For those not familiar with Victoria, the map below shows about a third (...?) of the Western Vic's whole coastline. The "evacuate immediately" region in the middle is about 60km x 40km. 😟
Uhhhhhm. It was Millie Telford who read this statement.
January 26, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Uhhhhhm. It was Millie Telford who read this statement.
In what galaxy is an offshore gas project that ships gas straight overseas "nation-building". I know the NT News is famous for its hilarious headlines, but this is just deadshit.
Words used to have meanings, y'know.
Words used to have meanings, y'know.
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
In what galaxy is an offshore gas project that ships gas straight overseas "nation-building". I know the NT News is famous for its hilarious headlines, but this is just deadshit.
Words used to have meanings, y'know.
Words used to have meanings, y'know.
Yeah. When I'm doing those long trips I often find excuses to stop for extended periods anyway, just because it's a nicer way to travel.
They just need fast chargers in places where I can find baleen whale vertebrae like this one I found on the way back from Mallacoota last year.
They just need fast chargers in places where I can find baleen whale vertebrae like this one I found on the way back from Mallacoota last year.
January 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Yeah. When I'm doing those long trips I often find excuses to stop for extended periods anyway, just because it's a nicer way to travel.
They just need fast chargers in places where I can find baleen whale vertebrae like this one I found on the way back from Mallacoota last year.
They just need fast chargers in places where I can find baleen whale vertebrae like this one I found on the way back from Mallacoota last year.
I have no problem with people not having access to guns but this is a scary basis to restrict them on.
There aren't many areas at all where we would want this thinking applied, and I am extremely wary of normalising it.
The recent pattern in western democracies is one of creeping authoritarianism.
There aren't many areas at all where we would want this thinking applied, and I am extremely wary of normalising it.
The recent pattern in western democracies is one of creeping authoritarianism.
January 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I have no problem with people not having access to guns but this is a scary basis to restrict them on.
There aren't many areas at all where we would want this thinking applied, and I am extremely wary of normalising it.
The recent pattern in western democracies is one of creeping authoritarianism.
There aren't many areas at all where we would want this thinking applied, and I am extremely wary of normalising it.
The recent pattern in western democracies is one of creeping authoritarianism.
I genuinely don't know if this is the case, but can't people just use VISA gift cards? I don't think you need identity verification to use those, do you?
January 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
I genuinely don't know if this is the case, but can't people just use VISA gift cards? I don't think you need identity verification to use those, do you?
As a person who has worn glasses every single day for 25 years, and has bad enough vision that I can't really see myself in the mirror if I'm not wearing them, it occurred to me that I have no idea what I look like without them.
Anyway, who the fuck is this and why was he in my office?
Anyway, who the fuck is this and why was he in my office?
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
As a person who has worn glasses every single day for 25 years, and has bad enough vision that I can't really see myself in the mirror if I'm not wearing them, it occurred to me that I have no idea what I look like without them.
Anyway, who the fuck is this and why was he in my office?
Anyway, who the fuck is this and why was he in my office?
This is it. I found the dumbest fucking thing you will read today.
Apparently free public transport for people under 18 will cause "an issue" because when those people turn 18, they will have been "conditioned" not to pay.
By that logic, toddlers should pay rent and board.
Apparently free public transport for people under 18 will cause "an issue" because when those people turn 18, they will have been "conditioned" not to pay.
By that logic, toddlers should pay rent and board.
![Paul Strickland, La Trobe University senior lecturer in sport, tourism, hospitality and events, said the fare incentives would help the hospitality industry and the environment.
But he warned such decisions were also conditioning children not to pay for public transport.
"If you're a seven-year-old and you're taking public transport, you're doing that for free for [over a decade] and then all of a sudden you have to pay, there's going to be an issue," Dr Strickland said.
"I don't know any model around the world where public transport is absolutely free."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eetlxdmpe6fkpj6bng3wi37l/bafkreia4ylk4jm7cn5gugsf2nnmn3tua66rdtjk36ow7jguafwnr43cqqu@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is it. I found the dumbest fucking thing you will read today.
Apparently free public transport for people under 18 will cause "an issue" because when those people turn 18, they will have been "conditioned" not to pay.
By that logic, toddlers should pay rent and board.
Apparently free public transport for people under 18 will cause "an issue" because when those people turn 18, they will have been "conditioned" not to pay.
By that logic, toddlers should pay rent and board.
Tonight's adventure in home maintenance was a blocked overflow relief gully (👇).
After an hour and a half of pissing about I pulled a clump of aggregate the size of my fist out of the pipe, which had been the nucleus of the blockage.
I sure hope that wasn't from something important. 😬
After an hour and a half of pissing about I pulled a clump of aggregate the size of my fist out of the pipe, which had been the nucleus of the blockage.
I sure hope that wasn't from something important. 😬
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tonight's adventure in home maintenance was a blocked overflow relief gully (👇).
After an hour and a half of pissing about I pulled a clump of aggregate the size of my fist out of the pipe, which had been the nucleus of the blockage.
I sure hope that wasn't from something important. 😬
After an hour and a half of pissing about I pulled a clump of aggregate the size of my fist out of the pipe, which had been the nucleus of the blockage.
I sure hope that wasn't from something important. 😬
I think my equivalent to this would be bioenergy and particularly biomethane.
This list is the top tier members of Bioenergy Australia. It makes you wonder who they are advocating for.
This list is the top tier members of Bioenergy Australia. It makes you wonder who they are advocating for.
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I think my equivalent to this would be bioenergy and particularly biomethane.
This list is the top tier members of Bioenergy Australia. It makes you wonder who they are advocating for.
This list is the top tier members of Bioenergy Australia. It makes you wonder who they are advocating for.
I was going to complain about the reporting, but in the journalist's defence, this is the media release Crime Statistics Agency put out. Pretty irresponsible.
They don't mention that it's little more than an artefact of their methodology until the final paragraph.
They don't mention that it's little more than an artefact of their methodology until the final paragraph.
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I was going to complain about the reporting, but in the journalist's defence, this is the media release Crime Statistics Agency put out. Pretty irresponsible.
They don't mention that it's little more than an artefact of their methodology until the final paragraph.
They don't mention that it's little more than an artefact of their methodology until the final paragraph.
You won't know this until paragraphs 13 and 14, but Victoria made a new crime, then the number of people charged with crimes went up as people who mightn't have been charged for the previously non-existent crime started being charged for it.
That's why the numbers are up.
That's why the numbers are up.
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You won't know this until paragraphs 13 and 14, but Victoria made a new crime, then the number of people charged with crimes went up as people who mightn't have been charged for the previously non-existent crime started being charged for it.
That's why the numbers are up.
That's why the numbers are up.
It's just down to the arbitrary way the rules were drafted, I think.
I don't think the evidence points to this law having been particularly well considered, so weird inclusions and exclusions are a given.
I don't think the evidence points to this law having been particularly well considered, so weird inclusions and exclusions are a given.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It's just down to the arbitrary way the rules were drafted, I think.
I don't think the evidence points to this law having been particularly well considered, so weird inclusions and exclusions are a given.
I don't think the evidence points to this law having been particularly well considered, so weird inclusions and exclusions are a given.
We're not feeding them, but someone sure is. My main phone camera is broken so I had to shoot this on the 0.7x lens. He was even closer than he looks.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
We're not feeding them, but someone sure is. My main phone camera is broken so I had to shoot this on the 0.7x lens. He was even closer than he looks.
I know it looks like my child is wearing a bucket on his head while blindly staggering down the aisle at Bunnings, but he's actually wearing three buckets on his head while blindly staggering down the aisle at Bunnings.
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know it looks like my child is wearing a bucket on his head while blindly staggering down the aisle at Bunnings, but he's actually wearing three buckets on his head while blindly staggering down the aisle at Bunnings.
Somehow I have ended up on the side of TikTok where topless hairy man feeds cereal to a sunglasses wearing pig with a spoon while lipsyncing along to born to be alive. For some reason there is also a bantam and a parrot in the background.
Not even mad.
Not even mad.
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Somehow I have ended up on the side of TikTok where topless hairy man feeds cereal to a sunglasses wearing pig with a spoon while lipsyncing along to born to be alive. For some reason there is also a bantam and a parrot in the background.
Not even mad.
Not even mad.
To complement this, I quite liked the CCA's "inter-annual emissions figures are noisy, and not much to crow about", graph on a day that the government is literally crowing about an interannual change in emissions.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
To complement this, I quite liked the CCA's "inter-annual emissions figures are noisy, and not much to crow about", graph on a day that the government is literally crowing about an interannual change in emissions.
We should urgently change how we generate electricity in Australia, but the government's claim to be on track to meeting its 2030 target is based on coal and gas generation permanently dropping to a third of current levels this decade.
They do not have the policies in place to make this happen.
They do not have the policies in place to make this happen.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
We should urgently change how we generate electricity in Australia, but the government's claim to be on track to meeting its 2030 target is based on coal and gas generation permanently dropping to a third of current levels this decade.
They do not have the policies in place to make this happen.
They do not have the policies in place to make this happen.
Ha! I literally sent this to someone last night. 👇
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Ha! I literally sent this to someone last night. 👇
This weekend I did about half of the work required to sand three(?) layers of paint off the fucking ugly white-washed pine balustrade around the top of the stairs.
I genuinely can't think of a less worthwhile activity to have engaged in.
I genuinely can't think of a less worthwhile activity to have engaged in.
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This weekend I did about half of the work required to sand three(?) layers of paint off the fucking ugly white-washed pine balustrade around the top of the stairs.
I genuinely can't think of a less worthwhile activity to have engaged in.
I genuinely can't think of a less worthwhile activity to have engaged in.