Massive heat wave. Record demand levels and the grid? No emergency generation needs, no load shedding warnings, no huge price spikes! Why? Renewables. #auspol. #solar. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Not the soaking reference 😆

There's going to be a lot of writers boycotting the AF...why not do an alternative fest?

Ballarat is getting a One Nation branch…

#Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to #Venezuela ‘terrible’ for #climate, experts warn ‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The indictment against Maduro is a joke, first line “to import tons” just vibes. Count three is that he had machine guns… www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

The 'Tone Deaf' award this week goes to the Victorian National & Liberal parties, who have launched a pro fossil gas ad campaign during a heatwave which has the potential for catastrophic fire conditions. Well done, team. www.miragenews.com/libs-nationa...

"If we wait to let the atmosphere “perform the CO2 experiment,” we will finally learn how well our models have served in making these predictions of #climate change. But then it will be too late to do much..., if the warmer Earth should prove to be a sadder Earth"- W. Kellogg, 1978 @thebulletin.org

Occasionally they spell it out. Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon

We are doomed because Trump is a deranged baby.

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

You knew this was coming. New Racket. theracket.news/p/america-fi...

If AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social wanted to know what's happening in Gaza, the West Bank & East Jerusalem, he could've invited UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social to visit the Lodge. Instead he invites Israeli President Herzog, who signed bombs to be dropped on Gaza. 😠 #auspol #FreePalestine

Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities. - 800,000 consultations - 22,700 surgical operations - 700 million litres of water

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

“barely 2% of all global economic efforts are destined for upstream measures, whereas this paper shows that if we are to control plastics pollution, the control of the extraction and production of polymers and plastics chemicals will be the most impactful” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“When you look at wildlife documentaries on television – for instance of wildebeest migrating – it is easy to conclude that wild mammals are doing quite well,” www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Benjamin argues, what we must master is not nature but our relation to nature. It is through labour that we relate to nature, so mastering that relation means collective mastery of production." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“when I hear bad faith commentators and politicians weaponizing this tragedy, exploiting the situation and conflating the pro-Palestine movement with the shooting at Bondi, I despair for my country.” Katerina Cosgrove www.newarab.com/opinion/we-m...

The Delburn wind farm will become the first publicly owned wind project in Victoria. Once built, it will overlook the Hazelwood coal mine from the Strzelecki Ranges www.melbournefoe.org.au/friends_of_t...

Getting sponsored ads from IPA with Tony Abbott "The massacre at Bondi was an attack on Australia | Australia's Future with Tony Abbott"

ICYMI, interview with drafter of IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern. Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go"; worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

A little reminder that the idea that US LNG exports are some sort of heroic global climate solution is laughable and you should literally film yourself laughing at anyone who says this and send them the footage

Report on the condition of Marwan Barghouti from his Israeli attorney on X

I wrote about Bondi for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Second wind farm in two days reaches financial close, first on main grid for 2025 reneweconomy.com.au/second-wind-...

1 hour 8 minutes? You probably don't have the time. But in case you do, here is a recording of my @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar at @exeter.ac.uk earlier this week in which I talk about overshoot, consequences and possible ways forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...

Two great reads on Lamestream today: An analysis of the political response to Bondi, and a look at how Australia’s gun laws haven’t kept up to speed with weapons manufacturers. www.lamestream.com.au/how-politics...

My girlfriends sleeping on me on the couch, I’m stuck so I’m reading a Productivity Commission report on a Friday night 🙃

Productivity Commission recommends an implied carbon price in a new report

Investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation assets.pc.gov.au/2025-12/net-...

Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation's large scale renewable energy project Baru Marnda has been awarded Strategic Project Status. nit.com.au/16-12-2025/2... #auspol #mobsky #energy

a gentle reminder that both the wind and solar industries need to unironically reproduce this exact energy

"The futility of wishing coal generation back into the grid mix is starkly illustrated by this chart, which shows the capital cost component of generation over the eight years since CSIRO began compiling GenCost." newsletters.theenergy.co/posts/csiro-... #GenCost #CSIRO

There are more than four million guns in Australia and Australia Institute research shows that a gun is stolen every four hours. Read more on our research into firearms here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/firearm-theft-in-australia/

#COP30 did not deliver all it could and should have. So while the COP on the one hand disappointed, it did deliver the Just Transition mechanism. It is not only important to look at what these wins were, but also how they were achieved. climatenetwork.org/resource/can... (1/2)

Amandeep ate a kebab as the sun set — then helped stop one of the alleged Bondi shooters www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

New research: The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's an oldie but a goodie #auspol ... www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...

Important call-out for O type blood donors. Make an appointment if you can: my.donateblood.com.au/app/utils/lo...

What happened at Bondi is a tragedy and a crime. If there's one thing I hope for, it's that we don't fall into "now is not the time to talk about gun control" bullshit. Now is EXACTLY the time to talk about gun control. We need to stop this from happening again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

Australia still selling arms to the UAE, which arms the RSF. Utter disgrace.

At the end of this profile of Harold Hamm (an oil CEO I've been writing about for a decade), he uses some interesting language, doesn't he? “We’re in a very good spot in the U.S.,” Mr. Hamm told oil executives this year. “We are in the era of abundance.” Harold Hamm. Just another abundance bro.

An analysis of 700,000+ climate change papers found that the five most climate-vulnerable countries produced 0.04% of them. US, China, Uk, Germany, Australia, meanwhile, account for 52%.

Given that the only thing that has ever led to climate progress was the global wave of alarm that rose in the wake of *The Uninhabitable Earth* and the IPCC Special Report of 1.5 C, I think it is irresponsible and counterproductive to downplay how much danger we’re in. 5/n

First #climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking #Tuvalu in South Pacific #SYDNEY, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in #Australia, foreign affairs officials said on Thursday www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

“transmission network was 43,350 km.… built with hardly a complaint from the regions. ….Why? Because it meant regional Australia had electricity, something the National Party and its increasingly close ally One Nation, no longer seems to think is desirable.” reneweconomy.com.au/aemos-latest...

Kids can listen to talk back radio now…did ya know that Nine and Nova funded the social media ban.