Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people): “i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers. Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share. And here's the source link: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The Weight of Grief by Celeste Roberge. A sculpture of a crouched figure made from steel and filled with stones, visually embodying the crushing weight of sorrow. The texture and posture evoke a sense of deep mourning and resilience.

You 👏 can't 👏 go 👏 backwards 👏 and 👏 comply 👏 with 👏 Paris Literally cannot. It's literally in the treaty and pretty much the whole point of it.

Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline? Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.

Sussan, were you taking the piss in 2021, or now (or both)?

The fastest way to bring down energy costs is to put limits on excessive gas exports.

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

One of the main reasons the UN climate talks process is so cooked is there is no voting mechanism. Saudis blocked it on advice from US denial interests. This article is an excellent overview of the issue, its history, how to fix it, and how much it can really fix. grist.org/cop30/un-cli...

The number of 14 year olds whose behaviour this will change is approximately zero. Until they spend decades in prison. Then it is likely to increase criminal behaviour. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Getting rid of net zero means leaving Paris. Trump is the only other leader to have done this. Paris explicitly says you can't backslide and net zero by 2050 was a Paris pledge first made by a Liberal National government.

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

My year 8 teacher had me write an essay about the CIA / US covert interests and the Dismissal. "Conspiracies do happen" she said. What do we know about it? A few things I recall from the chapter in Brian Toohey's excellent book "Secret"

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Canberra Liberals trying their hardest to never be elected again.

John Laws is dead, so as well as remembering him for outrageous on-air statements and the cash-for-comment affair, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that in 1976 he released an album of country music covers called You've Never Been Trucked Like This Before It reached 69 on the charts

Australia has a dumber economy - overall - than Indonesia, Vietnam and basically all of the major countries in our region.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

In 2025 Labor's vote was higher in the Senate than the House. In 14 Coalition v Independent seats, Labor had 250,000 more Senate votes, but just 31,000 fewer in the other 136 seats. It all points to deliberate Labor strategic voting to elect Independents. antonygreen.com.au/fed2025-evid...

Shocking post by #walksydney - 5 pedestrians killed last week. Look at the types of big vehicles involved Shrink sizes, slow speeds

Thanks Grog, let me save y'all a click or two:

AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.

The government has finally stopped drip feeding EPBC details and provided them to everyone! www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/... One of many howlers "The proposed changes will also allow certain biodiversity certificates issued under the Nature Repair Market to be used for environmental offsetting."

X% of Canadians want Y, why don’t politicians just do that? Because issue polling is shit and if you flip the script and poll on the *effects* of Y, often the level of support drops massively. People love the causes but hate the effects.

The last time I posted about the WA GST bribe, I had a Westralian in so many words threaten civil war. They are fabulously wealthy. They should tax their mining industry properly. The rest of the country should not subsidise them for not doing this.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Bodies representing remote Indigenous Australians have warned that communities are becoming uninhabitable, as they push the federal government to strengthen proposed environmental reforms.

This is the protest march that an Australian court just ruled 'inoffensive' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Things that did not kill all homo sapiens sapiens and therefore not a big deal. - the world wars - the black plague - the volcanic eruption 75k years ago that shows up in the genetic history as a bottleneck of a few thousand people www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

the deep cut biographies on wtf happened to albo and penny are going to be so good

Our federal government continues to prioritise the gas industry over regional towns that are being devastated by climate disasters. Australia’s environmental laws need to stop the approval of new coal and gas projects. @markogge.bsky.social #auspol

Gas exports always push out coal, not renewables, but coal exports never push out gas, only other coal. God it's so dumb.

Thom Yorke to leave Europe, all of which is within 5000 miles of Israel.

"Australia is also the first nation to surpass 1 GWh of utility battery capacity per million people, launching it into a league of its own, far ahead of China and the United States, each with less than 400 MWh per 1 million people."

More bike lanes more local business.

If my house had one whole side down as part of a reno I would be fully focused on getting it done. But I'm not the leader of the free world.

Good morning with good news: Solar & wind will skyrocket to 37% of China's electricity in 2030 from 18% in 2024. Add 13% from hydro and China is 50% renewable in 2030. Add ~5% nuclear and China is ~55% non-fossil fuel electricity in 2030. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/76ad6... #energysky

God damn, Zohran just destroyed Cuomo regarding his sexual harassment of women.

Believing In The Science but approving coal and gas expansion anyway is morally worse than sincerely denying the science (which the LNP has never formally done anyway) Take a guess why the Labor party doesn't do videos about climate obstruction and delay tactics 😎

New 'state of climate action' report gives you a much better picture than daily headlines about contextless solar panel or EV sales - Most things are going in the right direction - Most things are badly off track to the pace of change required systemschangelab.org/state-climat...

Labor's EPBC reforms: 👎removed Minister's powers to revoke prev decisions (EPBC Reconsiderations bill) 👎NO climate trigger 👎NO fully independent EPA decision maker 👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states (bad idea) 👎allowing pay-to-destroy enviro offsets Revamp IS worse than status quo

Some of the world’s biggest pension funds have thrown their weight behind a Market Forces resolution to force APA Group to justify how building new gas pipelines aligns with its #climate goals.

How good is the USA I love those guys

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

"we ask that no large items are attempted to be flushed down the toilet". Go murrays

The big gas and oil companies have been having it their way for too long. We are calling for a 25% tax on gas exports. This would have raised $17.1 billion in the 2023-2024 financial year. Enough to build 50,000 new homes.

Riding around Canberra on a beautiful sunny spring weekday listening to tunes. 😗😙😚👌👌👌