Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social say that part again about climate action not being economical? "It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability."

The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.

Me on the PM’s speech: wonderful, just completely devoid of any reason why AI or these data centres are needed or will be of benefit.

I mean - gas turbines are getting expensive **because they're being deployed so much**. That isn't something to celebrate. Data centres are "helping" batteries here thanks to a country-sized carbon cost. Remember why we're doing this: to stop fossil fuels. reneweconomy.com.au/chart-of-the...

I guess we’re all Spain fans now.

No offence under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 committed here. That's only for pensioners protesting a genoicde in Gaza, or for rappers allegedly waving flags on stage.

It's worth stressing that the *magnitude* by which some of these records are being broken is nothing short of astonishing

5.7km/h!!! I never again want to hear about the dangers of legal Ebikes

Germany’s hottest weekend on record followed by an electrical storm now ripping through Berlin. I’m becoming used to climate change summers in 🇦🇺 but it’s weirdly more confronting experiencing it in Europe. Media here reporting on it without linking it to climate change discussion - just like home 🇦🇺

‘At present, Andy Burnham is a retail product: someone who appears relaxed around ordinary people and on camera, and although he has spent plenty of time in Westminster, hasn’t (yet) become reassociated with that much loathed place.’ @will-davies.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How come all the NIMBY weirdos who never shut up about wind turbines 5km off the coast have nothing to say about these gargantuan noisy data centres that are springing up in the middle of suburbs, contaminating water, destroying liveability and property prices? It's weird.

How might H5N1 (bird flu)—now in at least two Australian states—affect native wildlife and ecosystems, and compound Australia's extinction crisis? Some thoughts from me 👉 theconversation.com/bird-flu-has...

Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before. #AI #Climateemergency

As heat warnings are issued for England and Wales, please remember that there is no sound empirical basis for claiming that more people die of cold worldwide than of heat. Just because something is recited like a mantra doesn't make it true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mistaking Suffragists for Suffragettes. Not that I don't also admire the Suffragists. Millicent Fawcett was a terrific campaigner. But Suffragette Annie Kenney grinning as she's arrested time after time should be unforgettable inews.co.uk/light-relief...

The CoA Palestine Action judgment is just dripping with disdain and throwing shade at every opportunity. Art 10 and 11 don't actually say "law abiding individuals"; they say "EVERYONE".

The British government acted lawfully when it banned the pro-Palestinian protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, the Court of Appeal in London said on Monday, overturning a lower-court ruling that found the ban had breached free speech rights.

"The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's rare that you get to say "told you so", and rarer still that you get to say it about something positive In 2015, some laughed at Greenpeace projections of how much solar power there would be by 2025 10 years later... Greenpeace: on the money 🎯 International Energy Agency: way, WAY off

Australia's state-owned broadcaster did a story on AI and this is one of the guys they chose to interview for it Honestly, the number of academics and experts who work on *actual* real risks who never get interviewed, and the platform goes to guys like this:

Excellent investigation here in the Guardian into the weapons being rolled out in Australian protests - increasingly dangerous and increasingly used www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures

The UK food imports most at risk from El Nino heat stress this summer UK food imports are under pressure as climate driven heat stress leaves farmers in poorer nations unable to work, threatening staples like rice, coffee and chocolate. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...

“Published research from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now establishes that human activity has pushed the planet's rotation into territory unlike anything in 3.6 million years — and the engineers who keep GPS working are already watching the numbers.” www.techtimes.com/articles/317...

“Ordinarily all this would be none of my business but these methods are being advocated for in Australia. This has made it my business and it has made it your business as custodians of the law; we are all interested in this, whether we like it or not.” 👏👏 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

This is something the Victorians understood: that democracy is dangerously vulnerable to plutocracy, and that it needs to build defences against that. Our defences are in tatters. Rebuilding them is one of the most urgent tasks facing our politics.

For the Australians, but also others interested in this issue: Australia's emissions data just saw its *biggest ever* land-use data revision. Except this time, it's UPWARDS: the same amount as power sector GHGs fell 2018->2026 (!!!!!) A thread on that + other updates from the data!

“We either will need to massively increase our use of renewables and batteries or datacentres will effectively destroy our ability to reduce emissions to net zero.” www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

"How we manage, discipline and organise fossil and electricity capital in the next decade will define the rest of the century. Energy transitions of the past were characterised by upheaval... We should expect the transition from fossil fuels to electricity to be no different" ht Gareth Fearn

‘I thought I didn’t use ChatGPT because I was too clever. I thought that not using ChatGPT made me cleverer. It turns out, though, that it made me very bad at spotting when a text was written by or with the assistance of AI.’ Malin Hay on AI detection, new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together | Binairfer Nowrojee

Hey @markbutlermp.bsky.social - I am giving you an open invitation to come see my daughter with Down Syndrome and then you can tell me to my face that it will be good to cut her social, economic and community participation funding by 25% (heck the explanatory memorandum gives an eg of 50%).

We need people all over this.... hope people are organising, documenting membership, talking about Samuel Griffiths Society, publicising. Aotearoa-NZ a cautionary tale... smashing Te Tiriti O Waitangi, breaking all manner of constitutional, judicial, parliamentary and democratic norms.

#AtlasNetwork's Heritage Foundation wrote Trump's policy program, and the Federalist Society has stacked and subverted the US courts all the way up to SCOTUS. The Samuel Griffiths Society is working on it here in Australia, for the same hidden billionaire/fossil fuel funders. #Auspol #FossilFascism

“Mining giant BHP quietly shelved billions of dollars of green projects despite promising the public it was committed to cutting emissions, and telling its board climate action was "urgent" and any delays would "risk" its reputation.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

FYI ABC news has started posting here.

Right now the media, politicians and content creators are all locked in a room without internet or phones. The question is, do we have to let them out?

New Zealand government will amend its Climate Change Response Act to stop tort claims being brought against businesses or itself for climate change: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war

“…the biggest oil shock in decades – has shown that fossil fuels are neither economically nor environmentally sustainable. The subsidies should therefore go towards extending renewable energy. But the CDU-led government is doing the exact opposite.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The poll also found the fuel crisis is seeing more voters keen to shift to renewable energy rather than stick with fossil fuels.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There are 60 something countries are currently meeting in Santa, Marta, Colombia to discuss phasing-out fossil fuels. Chris Bowen isn't attending and meanwhile his government is announcing we'll allow companies to search for more gas to extract. reneweconomy.com.au/australias-b...

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Waiting for The Australian to run with glowing headlines on how unemployed can get about income rules to claim more Jobseeker and avoid mutual obligations...

"Governments &industry must have a laser-like focus on the risks ahead &how to mitigate them. This means nothing less than aggressively cutting emissions &helping communities to become resilient to the impending shocks. To wait &scrub the atmosphere later is to court disaster for people &the planet"

Batteries move energy across time, they don't generate it. Whether they help reduce emissions depends on how they're built and run Data centres are capturing the resources of the energy transition and redirecting them towards helping fossil fuels www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A comprehensive, devastating description of Israel’s deliberate annihilation of the conditions of life in Gaza

So many terrible things happening in the world right now, but this might be the biggest news in terms of long term catastrophic consequences. This current stops Western Europe turning into Siberia in winter and feeds millions of people on multiple continents www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a remarkable judgment - but also to be expected when the legislature is pushing the courts in remarkable ways. The Court struck the legislation down because the purpose of the law was to stop protest, which is incompatible with Aus system of democracy www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d...

Laws introduced to restrict protest in the wake of the Bondi terror attack found to be unconstitutional - they impermissibly burden freedom of political communication www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...?