I skimmed the senate inquiry report on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy and it was nowhere near as entertaining as Penny's🧵 you should read her take & buy her books

Lots of people reckon a lack of information around energy project developments makes mis/disinformation worse. We all abhor a vacuum (but I personally will not stop eating crackers on the carpet without a plate).

Chap 4: Impact of climate obstruction campaigns. Quote from @ketanjoshi.co "When an anti-wind group finds...widespread local support, it is usually because that group provided a framework and terminology to allow a community to express the deep hurt of injustice in language that sounds justifiable."

Identifying what's a grassroots movement vs astroturf (pretending to be community-led but put up by outsiders) is tricky. Coal Australia, accused of astroturfing, responded "we didn't even & anyway Sunrise is worse so yell at them." No-one thinks Mums for Nuclear had any roots though

Chapter 3: Submissions said there are groups trying to obstruct climate action; fossil fuel companies, trade associations, think tanks. It's not inherently bad to try to influence government policy, but it is inherently bad to kill billions of people through climate change.

Funny bit: Rainforest Reserves Australia's submissions to the inquiry (and others) was AI generated and contained reference to a non-existent windfarm, defunct govt departments & citations to articles that either didn't exist or didn't say the thing cited. Bit of healthy free speech and debate

Chapter 2: There's lots of debate on what is mis/disinformation and whether specific examples are bad or just people debating ideas and free speeching. One man's horse is another man's rabbit (the first man is selling rabbits with saddles.)

Rec 10 is for strong oversight and disclosure of corporate engagements in schools with policies to regulate philanthropic or corporate relationships that may interfere with educational integrity. I'd like a total ban on fossil fuel advertising in schools, but it's a start.

The internet is asking why it takes three Coalition politicians to pump fuel. Let me explain … Angus is the leader, so he has to prove he can pull the trigger. Bridget is trying to figure how much she can skim off the top of her travel claim, and Matt doesn’t trust either out of his sight. #auspol

This is quite absurd: POLITICO's Michael Kruse cited the March 27, 2008 edition of the Ellsworth American in this feature article of Graham Platner, but somehow omitted the parts where he defended Marines burning the corpses of Iraqi insurgents, which is generally considered a war crime:

Cuba is in desperate need of our solidarity and it’s time for us to return it to Cuba, who has been offering solidarity with countries all around the world since the revolution started. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1450/an...

Delighted that the cat I provided a reference for is doing so well in her campus engagement career 🎉 😻

A reminder that gas is NOT a vital industry to Australia – if anything, it COSTS the Australian economy. Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could solve the gas crisis – and raise $17 billion every year. ✍ Sign the petition: https://theaus.in/4uTyGWX

Is Australia's reformed EPBC Act shaping up to be as broken as the old EPBC Act❓ Final drafts of National Environmental Standards on: 1️⃣Matters of National Environment Significance & 2️⃣Environmental Offsets will be out for public comment in Apr Example Standards "full of vague, non-binding language"

Japan hates surprises? New Gas tax will reduce the shock of surprise gas export profits 🎉 If Japan can find a bigger patsy than Australia, they're welcome to take their investment and walk

44% of WA's gas production out of action. "Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project near Onslow, Santos' Varanus Island domestic gas plant, and Woodside's North West Shelf plant near Karratha are all not producing liquefied natural gas for export or gas for the domestic market." - @petemilne.bsky.social

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

Just checking in again on how Woodside and Santos are going

"It’s not as if there’s a Strait of Hormuz between us and the sun." My good friend Dave announcing a community solar farm in Goulburn, set up by his dad and part owned by his children. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Today is a good day to follow Generative AI Slop-Free news outlets bsky.app/starter-pack...

Federal government's ban on Iranians to block 7,200 Visitor visa holders from Australia. First time since the White Australia Policy that an entire country of people banned. People from Ukraine/ Israel were permitted to enter Australia on visitors visas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

volunteer editors with zero budget just drew a harder line on AI quality than every company charging enterprise rates for it. the citation nerds were right all along, who knew

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Lovely chunky brown girl this morning.

This is why I increasingly believe that librarians should use our limited time and resources to lobby for proper regulation and governance and not on developing 'literacy' or 'ethical use' policies after adoption, when it's far too late. It's like teaching victims of crime to be more 'ethical'.

When I was growing up, I remember my parents scraping together $5 for fuel to make it to work. We couldn't go to friend's houses because we couldn't spare the fuel, and every trip needed to be accounted and planned for. If the petrol price went up, we stayed home. (No public transport) (cont)

Great info from a LinkedIn post on AU gas demand destruction: Check this out. "But gas-fired power generation is the biggest change. Last year, AEMO forecast gas demand for electricity would climb 60%. Now they're seeing a 9% decline. That's 110 PJ disappeared from the forecast."

Thoughts with all ABC staff who took the difficult, necessary decision to go on strike, only to see senior ABC personalities such as Sabra Lane and Leigh Sales not just cross the picket, but enthusiastically strike-break. Speaking from experience, it's miserable to see senior colleagues do this.

Lol, lmao even. Once more Indigenous nations shutting this shit down.

Leigh Sales crossing the picket line after months of not writing any articles with a piece on the Kyle and Jackie O show is an example of someone scabbing for the love of the game

Why aren't you holding pressers, issuing statements & inspecting the damage on camera over a number of days to ensure saturation reporting, @albomp.bsky.social? There was a singed door at a Melbourne synagogue & you were barking AnTiSeMiTiSm & there in the blink of an eye. #auspol #hypocrisy #racism

The Greens sometimes cop flak for saying there's no meaningful difference between Labor and the Libs. Well here they are voting - together- against lifting welfare payments above the poverty line and abolishing the parental and partner income tests. Maybe we're onto something?

If you are in West Oz and don't know where to look for up to date local info on Cyclone Narelle. Alerts. www.emergency.wa.gov.au

Sovereignty overboard

When he first got the gig as ABC MD, Hugh Marks had no experience in public broadcasting or dealing with a unionized workforce. And it shows. At the time, Denis Muller asked whether he was right for the job. The answer is now clear. theconversation.com/hugh-marks-i...

Woodside's North West Shelf gas export project - Australia's largest - is without power after Cyclone Narelle travelled along WA's Pilbara coast. >>>>> BREAKING NEWS <<<<< www.boilingcold.com.au/cyclone-clos...

Members of Contract Faculty United, a @uaw.org local at NYU, have won a tentative deal for their first contract that includes— ✅ 95% of members will get >$100,000 ✅ Lowest-ranked faculty will get $91,000 ✅ Every member will get a raise of ≥$14,000 starting the next academic year #ShareGoodNewsToo

Please sign.

Japan hates surprises? New Gas tax will reduce the shock of surprise gas export profits 🎉 If Japan can find a bigger patsy than Australia, they're welcome to take their investment and walk

Sharing for the striking workers, not the low quality journalism's I don't want to save David Speers or Pat K. Or any of the other Sky abc crew.

Sunrise on intensifying Cyclone Narelle, soon to make its fourth landfall in Australia. Max wind speeds estimated by BoM and JTWC are 85kt (155km/h, 10-min sustained) and 105kt (195km/h, 1-min sust), respectively. Very similar minimum pressure estimates (954 vs 955mb).

"Swapping the car for a bike and seeing loved ones less: how the fuel crisis is affecting Australians" hey it me www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

The Albanese Government banned Iranians with valid Australian visas from entering the country, to stop them claiming asylum because of the war their Government supports. Up to 7,200 people with visas had the door slammed shut when they most needed our help. It's a dog act.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

Fossil fuel grifters swinging into action overseas—inoculate against the fossil fuel peddlers ramping up their rhetoric @desmog.com with the story of Canada's 'Gas Wizard' gas-bagging against climate action

MFW construction noise wakes me up six days a week 😣 Squirrel of the Day for March 25, 2026 #sqrlpix

Journalist Rania Khalek completely destroys the Western narrative. She reminds the world that Israel has invaded Lebanon SEVEN times since 1978. Hezbollah only exists because Israel occupied their land first. Resistance is the natural response to brutal military occupation.

Why does the Australian Government prioritise foreign owned gas corporations over Australians? Japanese gas giant INPEX: - exports more gas than NSW, Vic and SA use combined - pays no royalties or petroleum tax - pays virtually no corporate tax australiainstitute.org.au/report/big-g...