Perfect. 1984 is the number of hours you will waste on mandatory online training courses in an average decade.

It's an open goal. Let's see how they miss it.

Ah, the crime of EWB... (existing while black) www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up. C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.” allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

I think this might be right.

How did we get to the shitshow of Australia's 2035 62% emissions reduction target (aligned w >2.4°C of warming above pre-industrial levels)? Find out in @marchudson.bsky.social's rollicking romp through a history of spine-deforming acts of climate target bastardry

Instead of scientific peer review, here comes political peer review

Australia and its climate targets - a dismal history (1988-2025) allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/20/a...

@marchudson.bsky.social From DAG:

Monbiot- “The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New tattoo, perhaps.

I am so old that I can remember the dodgy dossier, 45 minutes and the attorney-general’s advice to his former flatmate Tony Blair. As per Nick Tomalin, “they lie they lie, they lie”

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

September 19, 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/18/s...

September 19 1969 – ABC Radio warns listeners abt CO2 Frank Fenner- INCREASING COMBUSTION OF FOSSIL FUELS MEANS ADDING MORE CARBON DIOXIDE TO THE ATMOSPHERE FASTER THAN OCEANS CAN ASSIMILATE IT. POSSIBILITY OF MELTING POLAR ICECAP OR CREATING ICE AGE. allouryesterdays.info/2024/09/18/s...

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

It only took 538 days.

They make the laws to chain us well

Remember that whole year you had to have Piketty on your coffee table to be accepted in polite society? COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/unread PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Not much new under the sun, is there?

RIP Robert Redford - lotta great films, as star and director. Also, the Sundance film festival. Long life, well-lived.

📰 10 years ago TODAY 📰 @insideclimatenews.org published part 1 of its bombshell "Exxon Knew" investigation. The reporting showed how #ExxonKnew its fossil fuel business could cause "potentially catastrophic events" — but then led efforts to deceive the public and block solutions.

Neo-liberal intelligence is about NOT joining the dots Of the Emperor's New Clothes, positivism, ocean acidification and impact/action denial. allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/16/n...

I went to see a climate activism documentary. Yikes. In this thread lay out What we get again and again. And again. WHY we get that Why that matters What we need Why we don't get it Why it wouldn’t matter, even if we did get it. What is to be done? 1/n allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/15/o...

Surely the most shocking news to be reported today was that Number 10 had a Director of Strategy.

Like a fist when you open your palm.

The slop has already won... "This level of attention was largely unfamiliar to my very bright, well-prepared students because the nature of what they’d previously been asked to do with texts had little relationship with what I was trying to model." biblioracle.substack.com/p/are-platfo...

The new hagiographic documentary abt JSO - “The Line We Crossed” - left me cross. Here are some (ok, many) lines about that.. "On documentaries, delusions and doom: Why we get what we get, what we need and why we won’t get it." allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/15/o...

There is no hope whatsoever. We are toast

Piss-poor documentaries boil my piss. They are at very best useless, but more usually are actively harmful

What Meatloaf has to tell us about the current atmosphere in the United States - aka "Jumping the Gun" marchudson.net/2025/09/14/j...

The slop machines will destroy the ability to see propaganda for what it is

In the end, Israel's airstrike on Qatar will long be remembered as the moment the Arab world decided that the US was no longer a friend, but an unpredictable power whose promises are written in sand Hafed Al-Ghwell www.arabnews.com/node/2615211

“there's not enough recognition from editors that journalists in the press gallery are trapped in a toxic dynamic when they're expected to keep staffers & MPs on side, regardless of how they're treated, so they don't miss any "drops" on big policy announcements” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Like the old joke: “I faint at the sight of blood. MY blood. I can paint a barn with anyone else’s.”

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Was trapped under a geriatric cat (pots and kettles, I know) and so read a 900 word short story by Isaac Asimov, called The "Immortal Bard." Great fun, and whoever wrote Rodney Dangerfield's film Back to School nicked the gag and turned it to Vonnegut. www.angelfire.com/weird/ektoma...

From Belloc, not the one whose face melted at the end of raiders…

And best of all, your chances of running into its MP is basically zero.

Jimmy Baldwin. So many great perspectives.

September 13, 1856 – the game’s a Foote. Scientific American publishes an article about EuniceFoote and her experiment on carbon dioxide, even though she is only a woman. allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/12/s...

Just heard a guest on Steve Bannon's show call for new "McCarthy hearings like with the communists" - and now we learn that UC Berkeley is volunteering names. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Three brilliant podcasts: on Callan (etc), Henry IV pt1 and the proscription of Palestine Action 1/4 marchudson.net/2025/09/12/t...

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Australia fails now by to look itself in the mirror again

This podcast is superb. On the history of proscription of organisations, terrorism legislation etc podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Seems relevant to [waves arms]

When #climate activists who engage in non-violent civil disobedience are allowed to fully explain the reasons for their actions, they are often acquitted by juries 👇

In late June, Google quietly scrubbed its pledge to hit net zero by 2030 from its sustainability website as it goes full steam ahead on hyperscale data centers and generative AI.