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Congratulations to DrLeith from a down under follower 🙂
Albo wants to rush changes to our nature laws in the final week of Parliament before the election. These changes would mean the Environment Minister could not reconsider projects based on new evidence. 🧵
Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totali- tarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.u
This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:
Alan R MacLeod on Twitter—
"This cartoon is 13 years old, but it could be from today."
Chart showing how much dissolved inorganic nitrogen is produced each year: Tas salmon farms - 4,193tonnes, Tas sewage - 755 tonnes
It's enough to give you the sh*ts. @rodcampbell.bsky.social reveals that Tasmanian salmon farms produce 6 times more pollution than all of Tasmania's sewage #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-big...
Yep. Media, do your fricken job
Israel is blowing children up again. The images are beyond harrowing.
This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.
One more time, because I’m not afraid of being fired from the VA - and I will NOT let this go quietly.
Ukraine’s right to independence and territorial integrity must be absolute. Any peace deal must recognise this.
The international community should not concede to aggression and we must not allow Putin’s violence to be rewarded.
Also known as ‘appeasement’
Peter Dutton said today about the Coalition's nuclear energy policy that "you would expect a 44 per cent reduction, or of that order, being passed through in energy bill relief".
To say this isn't true and has no basis in the Frontier Economics modelling he cites is an extraordinary understatement.
Charts showing a negative relationship between the pay of university vice-chancellors and student satisfaction
Australian uni Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world.
You'll be shocked (*shocked*!!!) to discover that higher pay does not lead to a better student experience.
@jack-thrower.bsky.social writes #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-hig...
Trying to get some traction on Bluesky as I move from X any reposts of my pub research /work much appreciated @matthew-wright.bsky.social
The level of racism required to liken the first fleet to the first missions going to Mars - a plant with no life whatsoever- is off the charts
“Ms Ley said Australia's colonisation "could have ended in disaster and collapse", overtaken by the "imperial impulse to extract wealth and rule through naked violence".”
Isn’t that EXACTLY what happened!!!!
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Cursive or copperplate?
How long are we going to keep subsidising these palaces of privilege?
The Albanese Government committed to rebuilding public sector capacity prior to the 2022 election but reliance on consultants is still an overwhelming feature of its policy making.
The overuse of consultancies leads to bad government decisions ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/report/neith... #auspol
"The bottom line is that every dollar extra Western Australians pay, because we allow the export of domestic gas reserves, is a dollar of windfall profit.
It’s a direct transfer of wealth from Australian households, business & industry to gas producers." - @markogge.bsky.social #auspol
Mad props to @hannahforsyth.bsky.social for her book 'Virtue Capitalists' - everyone should go and read it right now
Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.
johnmenadue.com/disingenuous...
My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Yes please addme
Chart showing the monthly temperatures since 1880, and that the monthly temps for 2023 and 2024 have consistently been higher than anything previously recorded
The latest Global surface temperatures are out for October, and FMD the past two years...
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