I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Just when the US is cutting back on spending and we might have an opportunity to snap up some cutting edge researchers... Albo & co decide yeah naaah don't want none of that #auspol

who leaked my last performance review

If we switched to #renewableenergy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because they're just carrying coal & oil & gas!! buff.ly/dpTrSpO We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Looks like success to me. Interesting article. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is the richest man in the world. If you ever had impostor syndrome, this should cure it immediately.

The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens. Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies. This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.

Did a new one

Remember, the New York Times wrote that the AI video of Trump dumping shit on Americans was “apparently” AI generated. As if they had some difficulty confirming President Trump flew a plane to dump shit on people. The press cannot call a spade a spade because of this phenomenon.

Surprising pretty much no one I'm sure

“Balance in journalism can be good, but you don’t balance truth with lies.” - Chris Hedges #SundayShot

I was very much an edge case as a brown kid liking this band.

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas. Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

It's in the face of deadassed shit like this that the message @richarddenniss.bsky.social has been banging his head against the wall for so long for - broadly, that we get to choose an economy that values the things we value - becomes most vital.

Timeline cleanse.

Cleaning up broken links on my site as I move to a new domain and new platform, and I find this one still works: dontbeafuckingidiot.com Kudos to this guy for keeping this domain and site up for 12 years now. And even more so, keeping it static and not updating it for each election we've had since

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Oh hooray, my favourite bit of A Song of Ice & Fire is getting a series! (Please be good please) youtu.be/UPFRItMOgPo?...

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years. All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Clearly the problem with Napster wasn't well funded enough to buy lobbyists like this

this belongs in @theonion.com hall of fame headlines

Offsets don't lower emissions.

How's that strategy of exporting coal and gas gonna work out for Australia when China & India are making serious inroads to renewables #auspol

I look at this and immediately flash back to organic chemistry lessons where it seemed like utter magic that molecules could do things at an atomic level

Might be time for our pissweak leader to grow a spine and stop sucking up to the bullies.

In Paris, porcelain plates inside 18 meter pool filled with water create random sound symphony without human interference..pretty cool 😎

I've paid well over $500k in income tax over the last 10 years, so clearly I'm doing something wrong. How the fuck do I get in on Santos' scam here.

🧵 Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful." — #JaneGoodall, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025 #ForeverInspiring #LegacyOfHope 🧪

Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.

people were worried about a behind the scenes loyalty test and once again they get around outrage by just doing the thing right out in the open

Selling shovels in a gold rush is where the true money is.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

That feeling as a writer when you see a line that just has you going "Damn, I wish I had written that" "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

The government needs to understand that if Australia and many other countries continue to support fossil fuels, there won’t be any renewable energy superpowers. #auspol #renewables #fossilfuels

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The web of funding for AI boggles the mind

India has broken my graph. 30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024. robbieandrew.github.io/india

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

(comic) 5 year plan

David Pope in Canberra Times

my bluesky

I will never apologize for a post

Read it here: www.rossgittins.com/2025/09/if-a...