"Russian horse breeders are reporting a surge in sales because a steed is now cheaper to maintain than a car." billmckibben.substack.com/p/oil-as-ach...

The ABC is running these two stories in the same 24 hour news cycle. No wonder people don’t trust government. AI oligarchs are marching through our economy and Labor is buying their boots for them.

Between extreme radiation levels and temperatures, there are no suitable planet within our reach. Better concentrate on what we have.

The race to develop AI, which requires data centers to handle the energy-intensive computing, has resulted in plans for 74 new or expanded methane gas plants across the U.S. Trump says he'll approve plans for more “in a period of a matter of weeks.”

We're so screwed. Unprecedented, record-smashing, norm-ending El Nino. Deviation of 3.5°. For maximum fear, Google 'methane calthrates'.

Effective #climate policy must be grounded in historical & political reality. Pretending the transition will be smooth or inevitable sets the world up for disappointment & delay. The real debate is about political will, consumption patterns, & structural change, not just technology swaps.

The insanity of the world summarised in two headlines "US fossil fuel power spending to beat China for the first time in decades" "Heat dome over eastern US sends electricity prices soaring"

Universities are in the same boat. The boosterism for AI in teaching and research is mind-boggling!

Excellent @cameronwilson.bsky.social article here on the ABC rolling out text plagiarism systems to staff and trying to encourage use. Grim beyond belief that the executive's own statement is clearly written by software, as well. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

Sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac MI Constantly living with that noise would definitely make me go crazy after a few days...

So 5 experts on AI data centres and no one mentions climate change...says it all really! "Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts" theconversation.com/should-austr...

We could reach 3C by 2070

An excellent reality-check by @ketanjoshi.co on Google's greenwashing and the insane amounts of energy generative AI is consuming: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

The lack of journalism on the bombing of Lebanon is proof how dystopian news publications are.

Baffle no more. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Carbon capture lives like a dream in the heads of politicians who want to keep going with fossil fuels. Is there any evidence that it’s a reality? https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/

Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.

How can the international community allow this devastating debasement of children's lives?

Basically the agency was set up by the LNP with the nefarious purpose of ignoring the greatest threat to the reef so it's hardly surprising that its culture is sus.🤷‍♂️

I haven't finished reading but the @commsdeclare.bsky.social report is a great (& disturbing) read Do we really want fossil fuel corps insiduously inserting themselves, their brands & their messages into childcare centres, classrooms, museums, sport, & community programs❓

Whatever happens next—whether that's political debate, scrutiny, or hopefully deeper investigation—I'm glad this conversation is finally out in the open. Thank you all for your support. Please share the report commsdeclare.org/cradle-to-ca...

Today we launched 'From Cradle to Career' Six months ago, I started asking what I thought was a fairly simple question: How are fossil fuel companies engaging with Australian children and young people? 🧵 1/

And it's not just school programs & children's sport! Health-, climate- & environment-destroying Coal & Gas corps buy social license via a large & diverse range of Arts, Community, Conservation, Education, Health, Journalism, & Research programs Check out @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List

Interesting discussion on @restispolitics.bsky.social focused on climate and energy - but misses the way in which fossil energy has been constructed as the 'common sense' of politics and society. Understanding this hegemonic process is central to challenging it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg_9...

Speaking of "rogue states", they seem to have missed one! "University of Sydney: New ban restricts research and collaborations with Iran, Russia, Belarus and North Korea" www.smh.com.au/national/uni...

Good God! We are in deep trouble. “Parts of France are recording land surface temperatures above 55°C...approaching values commonly seen in the Sahara. The difference is that one is a desert. The other is supposed to be one of Europe's most productive agricultural regions.” @pdynes.bsky.social

This Must Be Done….. “BREAKING: AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet. 💪 I support this 💯”

Killing journalists isn’t only murder, it’s a war crime. Israel killed more journalists in 2023 than had been killed in all wars

AI represents the latest wave in capitalism's creative self-destruction: "Logjam of loads:" Network says data centre rush will push some parts of grid to capacity by 2033 reneweconomy.com.au/logjam-of-lo...

Two things more people need to understand about global heating: 1) it's almost entirely caused by burning fossil fuels & 2) it's on a ratchet; every additional tonne of fossil carbon we put into the atmosphere damages the climate forever.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

And it will only get worse given the continued expansion of fossil fuel extraction and use - "France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country": www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

firststreet.org/research-lib... "Approximately 54% of #global #datacenter capacity operates in markets facing elevated chronic #heat or #drought stress, while 79% is exposed to significant acute hazards such as #flood, #wind, or #wildfire." #AI #GenAI #LLM #climatechange #water #climatecrisis

Yes there will be signs of hope. And then more ocean heating from fossil fuel burning, another severe bleaching event and finally, quite soon, no hope at all. Wake up numpties! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Damn this a good essay by Emmett Rensin on resistance, politics and the construction of "extremism". "The United States commands the world from atop a mountain of skulls": lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

The FACT the BRITISH GOVERNMENT is still arrested peaceful protestors against ongoing GENOCIDES, whilst Ben Gvir is telling the world all Lebanese should be BURNED. WTF ? And the British GOVERNMENT are fine with that statement, apparently for £50k a pop made them let Israel just carry on. CUNTS.

So the world’s only trillionaire, who hates taxes, opposes wealth redistribution, wants to cut public spending, and barely gives to charity, wants you to think he will lead the world to abundance for all if you buy his robots? How has that worked so far?

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

DATA CENTERS = BAD

“The scandal of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is such a complete encapsulation—and such a perfect metaphor—of incompetence and corruption that it deserves to be both a long-remembered failure and a final straw for a restless, angry nation.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

What two scenes have the same vibe. I'll go first:

Having a break from the doom-scrolling on climate and AI and really enjoyed the cinematography in "Spider-Noir" and the homage to famous movies of bygone years! Plus you can choose stunning colour or B&W versions!