The best thing to do about this is to reduce our dependence until we can say to the big fossil firms: "no thank you, we do not want or need what you are selling", and walk (or cycle, take an electric bus or drive an electric car) away.

Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

This is why I didn't fill in the school entrant health questionnaire for our kids. To paraphrase @metlstorm.risky.biz from this week's podcast with @patrick.risky.biz, education departments are the same as all other corporate networks (and that's not a good thing)..

The equivalent of AUD180/MWh for offshore wind in the UK, or more than triple the Vic wholesale price so far this financial year ($55.71/MWh avg price per AEMO). I really can't see how offshore wind in Vic is feasible when onshore wind is so much cheaper.. 🔌💡

The Metro Tunnel timetables have been published... it's a big boost for some stations, trains doubling in frequency in some cases. This is a good start at providing a frequent network across more of #Melbourne. State govt needs to keep the upgrades coming. Read more: danielbowen.com/2026...

Just did my personal year in review including C02 emissions, interesting to see how petrol dominates but also how much more emissions intensive per $ electricity is. Mainly because Vic still burns brown coal (lignite) for >50% power needs. $2.8k on petrol - 3,578kg CO2 $435 on elec - 1,949kg CO2 🔌💡

Despite looking like they were trying to snag defeat from the jaws of victory with their running between wickets, it's looking like Australia is going to win this test.. #ashes 🏏

And a reminder that BlueSky has great moderation capabilities that we as users manage for our own feeds for those times when there's information overload, and you want a temporary break. Especially for those of us not in the US..

Via @thedriven.io, BYD takes 5 of the top 10 selling EV models in December. Only 2 'traditional' car companies make the top 10, Kia and Toyota sneaking in at 9 & 10 respectively.. thedriven.io/2026/01/06/a...

Not looking forward to the end of the holiday on Friday, currently 35°C upstairs back in Melbourne per my remote reporting. At the beach it's a beautiful 23°C at the moment. Think the indoor plants might be in need of some love on my return...

Good thread on where to shelter from the expected 42°C heat in Melbourne on Wednesday. If you're renting, portable evaporative coolers are much better than nothing on hot low humidity days like Wed. We had one die the night before Black Saturday, luckily managed to get a new one that morning..

Loved going to the beach today and seeing they'd fenced off 6 car parks for bike parking with 50+ bikes parked! Great to see active transport encouraged like this, should happen in our cities more...

I think this video from Aunty Donna deserves a re-plug. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGm2...

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Doing my service to regional sanity by deleting sky news from the holiday house tv. Probably should do it for the uncle at Christmas who espoused BS on how they've changed the way they measure temperature and there's no global warming and he knows a guy up xxx....

I too found the notion that Africa handed some power to China annoying in this article. Chinese companies are just selling good products to African customers, who use them. (Solar manufacturing is a bad business to be in, generally. Viciously competitive).

This type of wireless charging makes zero sense. If a 10km stretch of road was a charging system, then if a vehicle was travelling at a slow 60km/h, at 190kW the battery would be charged 31kWh which is enough for a truck to travel about 40km. Just have charging points at both ends.. 🔌💡

Good piece, but be it SA or Australia, why would you want to build panels in country? The industrial benefit is cheaper reliable power, not a subsidised solar industry. Why would you want a capitally intensive, low labour input, -ve profit margin business like manufacturing solar panels? 🔌💡

It's actually hard to view this data online so I spun up a webapp to filter the vic gov data. For 2025 here's the stats: Bus x2 Med SUV x2 Large SUV Truck x2 Sm Sedan Med Sedan x2 Van x2 Ute Tram Note that the data is only until April, and some of these are suicide by vehicle.. spin-fox.exe.xyz

ICC pitch ratings for the Ashes Boxing day tests at the MCG: 2017 - Poor 2021 - Average 2025 - ?? My guess is it will be rated Average again but could go lower, wonder if they will learn their lesson? #ashes 🏏

Feeling sorry for everyone who bought day 3 tickets.. #ashes 🏏

Late reminder, if giving games to partner/kids install the updates the night before to prevent Christmas day angst.. Alternatively, use this opportunity to teach some lessons in delayed gratification? #merrychristmas

This take may have been a touch premature.. #ashes 🏏

The tail wags (or both top orders are batting like shit).. AUS 1st five wickets 185 2nd five wickets. 186 ENG 1st five wickets 127 2nd five wickets 159 #ashes 🏏

Tallawong is the perfect case study on how park-and-rides can never scale up to meet the capacity of a metro line but will consume the prime land around the station trying to do so. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Good day for a couple of Aussies in the NBA. Josh Giddey with the triple double (23/11/11), and Landale with a 20/10 double double. More importantly they both got wins against higher rated opponents.. Olympics looking promising, but who's going to be our outside shooter?

I'm back to looking at the 2025 Federal election result, this time explaining the Victorian results. At the start of the campaign Victoria was where Labor could lose the election, but in the end the state delivered Labor a record result. More detail here. antonygreen.com.au/fed2025-hous...

Hydrogen demand forecast in the draft 2026 AEMO ISP dropped from 55TWh to 34TWh. IMO, it's still too high...

idk seems reasonable to me

First time I've seen someone subtweeting a funeral on here..

I am as guilty of it as everyone but it's kinda funny we're all quoting a content mill account that doesn't cite its sources to be mad about AI slop

Now it makes sense why I saw this on another site - 6 packs of tim tams at CostCo in the US for the equivalent of AUD15. Meanwhile, $6 per pack at Woolies..

Interesting thread and article, but there's an offhand reference to an "Australian horse and kangaroo meat scandal of 1981" that made me look twice. So apparently we had a massive issue 45 years ago with exported beed (sometimes horse/roo) and it led to a Royal Commission and big changes..

FML..

What an over of bowling! 2 wickets and one of the easiest dropped catch you'll see... #ashes

Other EV data is now out in the linked article, and 2025 already has more EV sales (92,885) with one month to go than in 2024 (91,293). It's not growing fast enough but at 8% y/o/y growth it's definitely not going backwards like some of the haters think..

Took a slight detour on the way into the office today and wandered through Town Hall station. Looks great! #metrotunnel

Looking forward to summer starting tomorrow! Melbourne - beautiful one day, perfect the next...

it's the classic programmer trap: just because something works in our domain doesn't mean it will work in other domains! "how hard could it be, it's only rocket science" etc the sheer hubris to think that a robot that is 80% right will be good enough for other, less fault-tolerant domains.

🙃 @theshovel.bsky.social

Move over Accenture there's a new f***ed consulting group in Canberra.

Just discovered Anne Twomey has a YouTube channel explaining constitutional issues. Funnily she mentions that YTs analytics say she zero <18yo subscribers, but the comments say otherwise. Hot tip kids, sign up as an adult and then watch law vids and you won't get booted! youtu.be/7aC_Ka8_7u4?...

I feel like I need an AU version of the Moderated Content podcast from @evelyndouek.bsky.social to understand the background to this case. I seem to know more about Netchoice v Paxton and Reno v someone than our local laws in Oz. Maybe Evelyn can get together with Anne Twomey for a pod?

Wtf? Vic police have declared the entire CBD a designated area for a period of 6 months. Definitely an overreach... #VicPol www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notic...

Scientific error-checking, difficulty: easy Find the problems in this table of results from an RCT. Two main things I've noticed so far.

Good piece on why the CIS from @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social should be considered a failure so far, given little wind is getting built and we're not going to hit anywhere near 82% renewable by 2030. Interested to hear Chris' response when he's next on the podcast..

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Banger of a goal from Ellie Carpenter for Chelsea versus Barcelona.. youtu.be/q32j1rqll_g?...

Interesting account, great project, and pics are 🔥 #followfriday