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Tom Quinn
@tomquinn.bsky.social
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Number cruncher. Story teller. Coalition builder. Vision setter. Working to build a better future and drive emissions down as fast as possible. #atypoineverypost #climate #energy #economy #IntRel Posting from Dja Dja Wurrung Country
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · Aug 13
So a few weeks ago we packed up the trailer, loaded up the kids and set off on a three month road trip up Australia's East Coast.

Will share some sporadic updates and reflections here as we go.
A wing door trailer with bikes loaded on the draw bar ready to start the adventure.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 39m
This does provide some insight into how the Truth Social sausage gets made.

The note in front of Trump says: "We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 53m
Good lord.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1h
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...
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1h
@albomp.bsky.social says #FOI costs the Govt too much. When I FOI’ed Treasury in 2023 for briefs it had provided Jim Chalmers on stage 3 tax cuts, the Govt spent $53K resisting public disclosure. They lost! The taxpayers lost! FOI is not costing too much - Govt secrecy is. #auspol
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1h
'Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub reports from Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza: “I had to leave my colleagues knowing that they’ll either be kidnapped or killed”.' (2/2)
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 2h
'Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub reports from Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza: “I had to leave my colleagues knowing that they’ll either be kidnapped or killed”.' (1/2)
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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 1h
Will the doctors in the Australian parliament say or do anything about this?
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 2h
'Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub reports from Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza: “I had to leave my colleagues knowing that they’ll either be kidnapped or killed”.' (1/2)
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🤖 SBS News bot (unofficial) @sbs-news-bot.bsky.social · 1h
Melbourne professor Richard Robson among Nobel Prize chemistry winners
Melbourne professor Richard Robson among Nobel Prize chemistry winners
The discovery for the Nobel chemistry prize has been likened to a Harry Potter enchanted handbag.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h
It's awesome how "center concedes to right wing framing, loses to right wing anyway" is a story you can find everywhere ever
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 2h
“While these energy transitions rarely make global headlines, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives show how smaller economies are finding their own pathways to cleaner, more resilient energy.”

theconversation.com/renewables-h...
Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h
The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.
Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…
Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11h
Every breakdown of social order comes from an over-reliance on rules-based orders on maintaining the standards of civilization, whether it is a social media community or a descent into fascism. You have to just sometimes use judgment to remove a shithead because they are a shithead.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12h
In the Trump era, this is terrifying. Apparently criticising capitalism 🥴🤣 is terrorism now in the US.
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Australian Federal Police ® 56m • S The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia's social cohesion. The NSI teams will work closely with state and territory police, law enforcement and national security partners to provide a coordinated, consistent and intelligence-led response to security threats, and also work on a global level through operations, capabilities and relationships with the international law enforcement intelligence community. There are current and emerging groups dispersed across Australia and in some cases, overseas, who are eroding our country's social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation. While many of these crimes may not meet the threshold of terrorism, the AFP has identified concerning behaviours which could escalate to politically-motivated violence or hate crimes, which seriously put the Australian community at risk. There is no place for hate or violence in our communities and the AFP will defend and protect Australia and Australia's future from these threats. Anyone with information about possible threats to the community or suspicious activity should make a report to the National Security Hotline on 1800 123 400. In an emergency or life-threatening situation, contact Triple
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11h
As long as we get sausages in bread every three or four years, Australians are gonna sleepwalk their way through this fascistic global push. More of you need to be more serious, sooner rather than later.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12h
In the Trump era, this is terrifying. Apparently criticising capitalism 🥴🤣 is terrorism now in the US.
#Auspol
Australian Federal Police ® 56m • S The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia's social cohesion. The NSI teams will work closely with state and territory police, law enforcement and national security partners to provide a coordinated, consistent and intelligence-led response to security threats, and also work on a global level through operations, capabilities and relationships with the international law enforcement intelligence community. There are current and emerging groups dispersed across Australia and in some cases, overseas, who are eroding our country's social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation. While many of these crimes may not meet the threshold of terrorism, the AFP has identified concerning behaviours which could escalate to politically-motivated violence or hate crimes, which seriously put the Australian community at risk. There is no place for hate or violence in our communities and the AFP will defend and protect Australia and Australia's future from these threats. Anyone with information about possible threats to the community or suspicious activity should make a report to the National Security Hotline on 1800 123 400. In an emergency or life-threatening situation, contact Triple
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 12h
Good to see the transmission towers for Project Energy Connect going up.

A massive project constructing 900km of new line, its behind schedule, but is absolutely critical for getting new renewable power into the grid so we can completely phase out fossil generators.
A transmission tower being raised up, work vehicles at ground level.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 12h
Should watch the movie with the kids, reckon they would love it now.

So good to see the original photos from the build.

The Dish is now called Murriyang, which is the skyworld where a prominent creates spirit in Wiradjuri Dreaming lives.
A black and white photo of the Dish in a sheep paddock with a tractor, dog and farmer in the foreground talking to a researcher.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 12h
Back to Victoria via Parkes (Wiradjuri Country) to see The Dish.

I love this place, it's such a great facility and every time we've visited there are refreshed and new displays.

Science in action.
A huge white satellite dish points up at an angle with gum trees framing it against a blue sky.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 19h
Two years after Hamas’ attack on Israel, we must all condemn the horrors of that day and the horrors we have witnessed in the region since.

It’s long past time for a ceasefire that ensures Israel’s security and that the Palestinian people can realize their self-determination.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 15h
Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14h
Hamas has demanded the release of a group of high-profile Palestinian leaders, including Marwan Barghouti. Hamas is also demanding the release of the bodies of its former Gaza leaders, the brothers Yahya and Mohammed Sinwar, according to Arab mediators.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...
The Sticking Points to a Gaza Hostage Deal
This week will show whether President Trump’s optimism about a deal to end the war in Gaza can survive the realities that have undermined many past attempts.
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Nino Bucci @ninobucci.bsky.social · 15h
The coroner told the NT government in 2007 to keep a database about maintenance in public housing. It didn’t listen.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Death of three-year-old boy in social housing fire could have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, inquest hears
Inquest is hearing evidence about the 2023 death of Mitchell Thomas at Larapinta in Alice Springs
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 15h
"We continue to hear loud explosions coming from Gaza City, resulting from the extensive use of remotely controlled armoured vehicles that are laden with tonnes of explosives. Is that enough to destroy entire neighbourhoods?"
No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza as peace talks enter third day
Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 15h
Israel is continuing to truck bomb Gaza City as we speak.

"Despite Israeli official orders to halt offensive operations and stick to defensive ones ... We know that Israel is relatively expanding its ground movements inside the urban centres in Gaza City throughout the night and this morning."
No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza as peace talks enter third day
Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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