What's currently wrong with @australianlabor.bsky.social's EPBC Act reform package & how can they make it fit for purpose? @biodivcouncil.bsky.social has put together a detailed policy brief. 12 key concerns are discussed & solutions are provided. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...

This is really dumb and lazy, even for Bjorn. Hey, B, what's the biggest cause of both air pollution and climate change? (burning stuff, mainly fossil fuels) And what's causing forest fires to increase, dramatically raising air pollution? (climate change)

I've no doubt that my ramblings about ducks, the meaninglessness of a trillion dollars, and the latest corporate demand for compensation for being told not to be evil, will draw immense readership to my blog. No doubt at all. If you'd like to read that, here you go:

Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago. Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?” But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth. You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars. Capitalism is fucked

you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt

Super important point about the incredible dangers inherent in the “Abundance Requires Deregulation” agenda

PANIC!! My @smh @theage cartoon

31% of Jewish New Yorkers voted for Mamdani. To me, this says the absolute dominance of Zionism in the diaspora has broken. As New York goes, the rest of the diaspora follows. This is massive.

“Ends” 🤪

Nobody will ever match the Simpsons’ perfect summation of America’s indefensible two-party system.

Sharing mostly because “Matthew Prince of Cloudflare” sounds like a character from a book I kinda want to read But also, he’s probably right

Hey everyone, I do graphic recording / live illustration and note taking at conferences! If you want to cater for your visual learners and also get some cool artworks to share after, hit me up! I was at a UNICEF conference last week and Youth Action conference today ✌🏽

“In union, there is strength.” ― Aesop Please, all in the conservation movement, do not do deals that simply favour your pet areas, in exchange for publicly endorsing @australianlabor.bsky.social's pathetic environmental law reform bill. Demand the whole package is improved, back in the science!

Pretty stunned by this @danrepacholimp.bsky.social comment. Cannot process how disconnected from reality this is. Labor are kindergarten students who've convinced themselves they're teachers Via @timhollo.bsky.social's VERY GOOD newsletter (SUBSCRIBE) in-between-days.ghost.io/net-zero-rea...

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

‘they've realised that they can use the same tactic to buttress their meaningless policies just enough to let them keep burning fossil fuels while pretending to care about the climate.’

"Net zero" is a signifier with no actual meaning. And that, of course, is why it is so beloved of the major parties and the press gallery. They can sound serious and committed without actually promising to do anything. Net zero commitment indeed. -- Have you subscribed to my blogletter yet?

This is a must read, all the way to the end, from @timhollo.bsky.social. The best analysis I’ve seen of the bad faith tactic of the major parties of presenting pro fossil mining environmental policy and then bullying the cross bench into supporting it:

Yes, I'm angry, and deeply saddened. I'm so tired of the enablers that are actively contributing to our dying planet. Pieces like @zoedaniel.bsky.social's do tremendous harm to genuine environmental law reform and are deeply upsetting to the many scientists and experts on the front lines.

Absofuckinglutely NOT. Just no. Haven’t even started in academia and this old profile is being resurrected and turned into slop?!? Seriously, though. Can you turn it off? Or should I just quit the service? Any point being on there?

Here is Indivisible's video on how to cancel your Spotify subscription: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

Re the Anti-Defamation League, it happened some time in the last two weeks. #TrueStory

This below, from @timhollo.bsky.social , is worth your time. Academics use terms like "praxis traps" and "agentic deadlock" to capture the same thing. This is better, gets the same point across. As per Elvis - "We're caught in a trap, we can't walk out..."

I'm Still On X For The Engagement I Signed Up For StormFront Because That's Where The Influencers Are I'm Staying On TruthSocial Because I Can't Let The Right Fill The Space

Thoughtful post by Tim

Super excited to be starting a PhD next year at @seisydney.bsky.social with the brilliant @dschlosberg.bsky.social @danycelermajer.bsky.social & @amandatattersall.bsky.social Topic is: Living “between the no longer and the not yet”: practices of political transformation in a climate-changing world

Question mark leads by a landslide What a complete mess our political system is in. Just an utter laughable debacle.

Wedgie politics. It has massive, horrific, real-world implications. It’s cutting into a grand old tree, forcing a beautiful living entity to fall & die so you can profit. It’s cutting off your nose to spite your face. This inanity is the banality of ecocide #FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol

Do yourself a favour & read @timhollo.bsky.social's brilliant piece. He's articulated, with humour, concerns & feelings many of us share. "It's like a 14 year old boy who's read a few meme-quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and played some Dungeons and Dragons and thinks he's a strategic genius."

"Wedgie" politics - from my brother @timhollo.bsky.social, thinking about the banality of adversarial politics, used as a means of distraction from the ecocide it's enabling. Subscribe to his non-Substack blogletter! in-between-days.ghost.io/wedgie-polit...

Blogging today on the inanity of politics and the banality of ecocide. Here, perhaps for the first time ever, we have a piece of writing that includes Sun Tzu, Hannah Arendt, and Nelson Muntz. I think it says something useful. And I think it is slightly hopeful, at the end.

Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?

A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros. www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...

this is good right murray watt??? how many more coal mines will labor approve before these trees are extinct

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Some Saturday afternoon rambly thoughts on jamming as politics Inspired by learning that Hegel's term Aufhebung - the dialectical process of both abolition and transcendence in political transformation - is also the word for making jam! How delicious :-) in-between-days.ghost.io/whos-up-for-...

Some Saturday afternoon rambly thoughts on jamming as politics Inspired by learning that Hegel's term Aufhebung - the dialectical process of both abolition and transcendence in political transformation - is also the word for making jam! How delicious :-) in-between-days.ghost.io/whos-up-for-...

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

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

This. Ban the bastards.

I didn't intend to write this today On the sick lie of sick people in a sick culture, that violence and military might can bring peace and harmony On Trump in Israel On the wisdom of dissenting Jews, Arendt and Butler On the necessity of grief in-between-days.ghost.io/bombs-for-pe...

immensely powerful & thought provoking An important read.

I didn't intend to write this today On the sick lie of sick people in a sick culture, that violence and military might can bring peace and harmony On Trump in Israel On the wisdom of dissenting Jews, Arendt and Butler On the necessity of grief in-between-days.ghost.io/bombs-for-pe...

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible". Turns out that's wrong. Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it. Every tonne of CO2 matters. @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @minderoo.bsky.social #climatechange www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

On noticing that the ground has slid away My 2nd post at In Between Days is about how you can paper over cracks, but you can't paper over an abyss We're over the cliff We're in freefall We have to live in this reality together Because that's the only way to get from the no longer to the not yet

I think it’s time to get this out into the world… Here’s my new blogletter. I’ll be writing here about life and changemaking in this discombobulating space between the no longer and the not yet. Do please have a read of this first post, sign up, and spread the word!

"We're working within a system that is actually over, expecting it to be able to solve the crises it created."