"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...?

Still safer than having supersized pick-up trucks and SUVs in our cities.

I really hope the animal advocates prevail. Both the Australian courts and legislature have been cartoonishly authoritarian in the past when it comes to cracking down on the speech rights of animal advocates.

Not sure why Sky News thinks this makes Liam Bartlett look good. Comes off as a complete clown

It's immediately clear that this clown is from Sky News Australia. This wasn't a good-faith question but rather a deliberately antagonistic fishing expedition for content Sky could package as a social-media outrage meme, which is almost entirely how Sky communicates with its audience

Human Rights Law Centre and Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom have applied to be heard as amicus in the upcoming High Court hearing re: if an abattoir can obtain an injunction to stop the publication of footage of alleged animal cruelty obtained via trespass www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

“Just as the right finds it easier to win elections through populist messaging, it is also more able to navigate this choice between conciliation and confrontation. The reason is obvious. Socialists have a programme that would upend the present social order…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Melbourne from above

National Address could have been an email

Less anticlimactic national addresses, more windfall taxing 🫰

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

France 🇫🇷 and Spain 🇪🇸 = the heroes we need

Best time of the year in Melbourne / Naarm

“The conflict cannot be separated from Gaza... Left unresolved, Gaza offers Iran and its allies a narrative for resistance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“If governments want to help households through an oil shock, support should be targeted and fiscally sustainable. The aim should be to direct help to the people under the greatest pressure, rather than simply subsidising all fuel users” theconversation.com/halving-the-...

German federal and state governments gave BMW more than a quarter of a billion euro in December to develop hydrogen cars. The obsession with H2 cars has lead directly to more people still driving petrol and diesel.

“The arrest video shows eight armed officers wearing helmets, face masks and vests entering the Ashfield home.” What is going on in NSW?!?! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

JACINTA ALLAN QUIETLY SHELVES ANIMAL CRUELTY PREVENTION LAWS ⚖️ "Labor bill recognising all animals as sentient and raising care requirements won’t be introduced before state election." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #SpringSt #VicPol #AusPol #Animals #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare #AusPol26

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

“These are the kinds of animal cruelty cases the Victorian government promised to target with new laws almost a decade ago. But Guardian Australia can reveal those reforms have been shelved indefinitely.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

even setting aside the intended effect of campus crackdowns: one difference between now and two years ago is that half or so of them are gone, having received their four year degrees, and "students" (2026) and "students" (2024) refer to two largely different populations of people

Finally the cross-party momentum for a Federal Human Rights Act we need

Every parent of a toddler recognises what’s going on here

When Malm’s book became a hit at the start of the decade, I don’t think any of us expected it would be Trump who’d take the initiative www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

An oil shock just forces a simple choice: Subsidise fuel or Subsidise getting off fuel Most governments pick the first That’s a mistake! A quick 🧵

Perfect

“The political calculus has changed. What previously would have been seen as a risky option is now seen as sensible.” www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

“A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world’s population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy.” www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Anyway, as I wrote today - the system is rigged substack.com/home/post/p-...