Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

This is an astonishing thing to delete. On what grounds was it complained about, other than being actively opposed to reconciliation and actively support of hate and bigotry?

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

“Despite the increased focus, and perhaps zealotry, around solar and storage, wind is, and is projected to be, an incredibly important part of the energy system”

Solar and storage is good and all, but so is wind! Great to see some projects getting over the line before the year is out www.afr.com/companies/en...

New poem out today in @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨ theberlinliteraryreview.com/hannah-mccan...

... Third wind farm in a week! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Extreme native NEM demand on Thu & Fri last week, hitting 38.0 GW on Thu Dec 18 at 3:25pm NEM time & 37.6 GW 1:25pm on Fri. Av. native demand in 2025 is 24.9 GW. Rooftop PV once again demonstrating that it dramatically reduces peak grid demand, peaking at 32.7 GW at 6pm on Dec 18. /1

So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine

There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I have so completely associated Waymo with 'Johnny Cabs' that I actually forgot that it _wasn't_ the name of the company in Total Recall.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Dude just here saying the quiet bit out loud: “Australian Cafe and Restaurant Association chief executive Wes Lambert said tipping helped eateries meet rising operating costs.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

When police and ministers can wholesale shut down public assemblies across an entire state, via administrative decision, without a defined or contestable risk threshold, without judicial authorisation, and keep them shut for months… truly a grim moment for liberal democracy

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

The Converesation, like most univerisities, has been a total disaster on generative AI and its impact on knowledge and information, but this is one of the worse ones I've seen in a while archive.ph/aPYN2

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

All AEMO wants for Christmas is for everyone to turn on their AC (and plug in their new toys and Christmas lights)

Someone's finally done it (..and that someone is @burkekb.bsky.social ) www.aemc.gov.au/rule-changes...

New spelling just dropped 😅

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100% RE Last 225 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)

As I understand today's discussion, we can stop an ISIS cell by policing the speaker list at writer's festivals and the BA syllabus at Unis. And by "stopping demonstrations." This is madness.

Josh Frydenberg said that Albanese should put in place a ‘more rigorous and strong immigration system. "On your watch, thousands of people have come from a terrorist hot spot without sufficient security checks.” The older terrorist came in Australia in 1998. When John Howard was PM.

..this seems like an extremely weird thing to happen

Bloke did one decent thing in 40 years in public life and comes off the recliner to say it doesn't matter. (He got complete support from all bits of the ALP on guns BTW.) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

QLD not on board with the NEM review recommendations it seems: "..Queensland did not provide in-principle agreement" www.energy.gov.au/energy-and-c...

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

..over 450 online to watch the Draft ISP 2026 webinar 😳 If we all too ~2 pages each we could just about read the whole thing.

Cannot really begin to describe how fucking heartbreaking it is. A mass shooting in my old home. I know the world sees Australia as a gun control best-case but that was a long time ago and the gun lobby has been winning its fight against those laws australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

Ahmed the Fruiterer being the everyday hero that saved multiple lives of mostly Jewish people today is the only politics worth a pinch of shit in this act of terrorism

"The success of this program can’t just be about how many new batteries are installed. It must also be about cost-effectiveness and fairness. And on that front, it’s clear there’s plenty of work to be done" theconversation.com/australias-2...

An important update on Cheaper Home Batteries. Excited to see this program continue to deliver for families across the country.

Poor wind didn't even get a label in the ABC News chart (which, remember is capacity not energy) cannot understand the instinct to just delete wind power from this conversation, even when it remains a major component of decarbonisation models and historical data www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

"Solar and battery storage will do the heavy lifting on the path of decarbonising Australia's electricity system" ....... 🧐🧐🧐

Stealworkers

I see this trend in so many system models, plans and policies around the world: oh, wind isn't doing all that well, so let's just lean on more solar and batteries. You end up with a way less optimised system and a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that could be avoided w/ more support for wind power

One day, someone will not ask if renewable energy has caused electricity prices to increase.

Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"

It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul

“If this demand eventuates, it will make our emissions objective – and our ability to close coal on schedules that align with the emissions targets – very difficult, if not impossible” @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is so disgraceful, on so many fronts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “The custodians were not aware of what they had signed, and were alarmed by the letter’s denial of their concerns about cultural heritage,” Wonderful investigative journalism by @lisacox.bsky.social, again!

@ketanjoshi.co and @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social bust the myth of ‘clean’ data centres

Spicy take from a professor of economics, suggesting that the way to get power prices down is to build more of the most expensive form of electricity

this seems like a huge waste of time, money and resources which means I'm sure someone is going to fund it www.smh.com.au/technology/t...

... this is a bit yikes theconversation.com/56-million-y...

Big day.

The Australian government claims it will meet its 2030 emissions target almost entirely due to an assumption that it will meet its renewable energy target. This is an input to the projection, not an output. It's honestly very hard to see how this will happen.

We should urgently change how we generate electricity in Australia, but the government's claim to be on track to meeting its 2030 target is based on coal and gas generation permanently dropping to a third of current levels this decade. They do not have the policies in place to make this happen.

The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues... I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever. ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science... #PlantScience