So smart. #politics #democracy #protest youtube.com/shorts/0IegV...

Love MP Monique Ryan's suggestion that we name climate disasters after the perpetrators? What a great idea! People are still suffering the 2026 “Santos Heatwave” #australia #climate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Fri 30 Jan 2026: 5 local climate groups resume our weekly protest (started on 29 May 2025) against the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf carbon 💣 Strong support & honks galore📣 When will Labor stop serving fossil fuel interests & start protecting public interests❓️

TODAY Friday 30 January 12:30-1:30pm continuing every Friday in 2026 @ Josh Burns MP electoral office, 219 Barkley St , St Kilda #melbourne #naarm to express our outrage Labor is about to approve fracking in the Kimberley! #energy #environment #australia

Finally government scrutiny of the Atlas Network explained, one of a network of ‘think tanks’ (stop calling them that - they are misinformation" & "disinformation machines) pushing their agenda. #australia #auspol #politics #atlasnetwork

The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The Women Saving US Climate Data time.com/7344773/wome... archive.md/0FLGp Groups are working to rescue environment & climate data—the majority led by women— to keep federal databases alive & accessible to the public. Q: How to make it accessible & how to fund this long-term? #science #climate

Friday 23 Jan 12:30-1:30pm continuing every Friday in 2026 @ 219 Barkley St , St Kilda #melbourne #naarm Labor is about to approve fracking in the Kimberley! #australia #protest We gather at Josh Burns' office every Friday to express our outrage. Not in our names!

feditrends.com www.meidasplus.com heathercoxrichardson.substack.com www.mediaite.com apnews.com www.propublica.org www.reuters.com popular.info newrepublic.com prospect.org pmc19.com/data/ (Covid-19, US) phys.org (science) drudge.com (blog index) www.theguardian.com/us www.bbc.com/news/us-canada

Graphic 🤣 #auspol #fossilfuel youtu.be/6oLENtcnoss?...

The Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate & Energy has published my 75pp submission on the history of fossil capital's systemic global disinformation war via the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks against climate science, policy & clean energy. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

Apology for the thread hijack, but have you seen this, Jane? Our writer fans in Vic might want that to gain some traction. www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

I had no idea the funding for Writers Victoria had been completely cut. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Thank you for posting

1/2 Australian longest waterway is under such dire threat of collapse that the entire lower Murray River ecosystem (nearly 1000 km) from west NSW via Vic to the sea in South AUS is again classified as critically endangered. Water scarcity, our future #climate www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Cry, our beloved earth. #nature #animals “ACF analysis finds amount of habitat approved by Albanese government for land-clearing hit a 15-year high last year” #australia #environment What will it take? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chevron's Gorgon CCS project is the biggest and ‘best’ carbon and capture project in the world. Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored. @ketanjoshi.co #auspol

In addition to capturing carbon dioxide (CO2), trees soak up hydrogen (H), methane (CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO). Research just reported in "Science" found that tree bark microbes eat those gases as they diffuse up through trees as well as draw in the gases from the surrounding air.

we can’t trust US tech with any data #usa Solution 👉 repeal anti-circumvention laws so programmers can reverse-engineer US’s cloud software to swap out proprietary, US code for robust, open, auditable alternatives that will safeguard our digital sovereignty. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

youtu.be/twZLqlIAPLY?... #australia #politics #democracy Atlas belongs to a bigger perspective, flagged here by Noam in 1990

I Don't Like It. 'The conditions are set to be the worst since the catastrophic 2019-20 summer bushfires that killed more than 30 people directly & burned through millions of hectares.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Royal Commission? Oh wait..we had one...

At last some concern about the environmental impact #australia #water #energy #climate archive.md/GBrna

The USA has participated & interfered, both overtly & covertly, in replacing many foreign governments: 81 overt & covert known interventions in foreign elections from 1946 to 2000. 64 covert & six overt attempts at regime change during the Cold War. #usa #uspol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

An example of interpersonal non-violent communication to emulate #politics #gaza archive.md/cZrro www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Why "ask", rather than "compel"?

AI is gross and should not be used at all

Data centres in Ireland guzzle 1/5 of the country’s electricity & are projected to devour nearly 1/3 of it within a few years. Most AI use is obscene waste of resources #water #environment #pollution www.theguardian.com/technology/2... archive.md/ZlW0n

Outing them. Mug shots for this article. #politics #democracy #australia #auspol Hoping people are starting to cotton on www.afr.com/world/north-... archive.md/2FCAo

“Saying you don't care about data privacy cos you've got nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you've got nothing to say today” - Edward Snowden #technology #ai #politics #media You didn’t know. But now you do. 🙏 Carole Cadwalladr youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE

Thankful for ethical journalists #media #climatechange www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“he said there was hope, including from…advances in the understanding of mycelium: the thread-like network that forms the bulk of a fungus, which can be grown into building materials & clean up contaminated environments.” #nature #climatechange #plants Maybe. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!

via @ozeng on Mastadon open source EV battery re-use tech BUT s/he also gave reasons why decided against home use. 1 car batteries more volatile 2 home insurers would reject any fire related claim 3 HOME batteries must be on approved list to connect to the grid github.com/dalathegreat...

Car bloat. Obscene resource waste. Ugly. Dangerous. #cars #travel #pollution #environment www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Sadly still relevant #nature #protest #australia

This is great. Why can’t we use repurposed car batteries to power our houses? #australia #energy www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/26/c...

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

So many reasons to have an EV #cars #russia #ukraine ##australia #climatechange www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

The rape of Wombat State Park, designated National Park is ongoing since the govt. announced the ‘end of native forest logging’. Names just changed. Salvage, fire mitigation, storm recovery. Logging by stealth, ecology destroying #nature #forest #environment #auspol www.smh.com.au/environment/...

heads up on folks you might encounter in the climate space (who I decided not to follow a long time ago) both active on (& even directing traffic back to) X

Re concentration camps, in the past only some people knew at the time how horrific they are. Now we all can see (if we choose). My grandfather was a partisan fighter in WW2 Poland. When he saw how humans were treating other humans he committed suicide rather than live in a world where this exists.

a frank look at forest protection in #victoria #australia #nature #trees #forest www.geco.org.au/three_times_...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Rupert Read: re “the net”/ “the web” he remarks “These things are designed to trap prey.” one of those lines that catches in the throat Re danger from AI: think disinformation squared, energy use through the roof, human relationships devalued #book #ai #internet substack.com/home/post/p-...

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Minerals Council of Australia, ad claiming mining industry paid $59 billion in tax in 2023-24 is a lie. #australia #disinformation It paid $32 billion in tax and $27 billion in royalties. Royalties are not tax, they are the purchase price that mining companies pay to buy publicly-owned minerals.

Impartiality is frequently interpreted as "balanced." If one side is more frequently lying, impartiality implies giving equal voice to the lie without pointing it out (as that is interpreted as partiality.)

full debunk thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2... If you see the misinformation please let the Australia Institute know: [email protected]

Good to see two independents launching a legal challenge to appalling new federal election laws. #auspol #politics #democracy There’s a legal challenge to the new Victorian electoral laws underway too. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...