Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 02/09/2026Reading just the executive summary of the new UNEP report on Overshoot is depressing. The almost delusional levels of optimism baked into graphs stressing "if we ACT NOW we can prevent the worst, most irreversible damage to the planet" feels almost deranged. Where does this will to act come from? 162
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 27/08/2026@mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Hey since when did you become a predatory journal editor??? looooool 110
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 06/08/2026This is a really good piece, and the way of describing the production consequences of decisions in gamedev is great, but also worth noting that it is *obviously* an AI written text. That in itself is not an argument against its validity or content, but it is funny, and notable. 440
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 21/07/2026Air conditioning rates around the world, per the IEA. 120
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 15/07/2026Lately I keep finding myself returning to this sentiment from an old Alexander Cockburn piece... and finding it still resonates all these years later. "Alex, is your hate pure?" "Yes, Jim, my hate is pure." 030
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 04/07/2026Everyone should watch Bunny it’s one of the best, most bizarrely uplifting films I’ve seen in ages. 030
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 02/07/2026The plastic burden *is real* though - from 2000-2018 the number of game console discs sold produced a stack of plastic discs 9km tall. That doesn’t make Sony’s choice “good” but it does highlight the tradeoffs. 010
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 24/06/2026Advocate for whatever you want but heat is killing vulnerable Europeans *right now* and poo-pooing the idea of private AC is literally insane. 100
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 05/05/2026Ahhh it seems like it’s all just steam price manipulation via discounts and bundles - maybe less money laundering than I thought. 010
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 10/04/2026The slightly simpler alternative is that it's just pure achievement hunter spam garbage – one reviewer describes one of the games like this: "as a curiosity or for a quick dose of achievements, it's adequate." 100
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 10/04/2026Just some very normal Steam pricing right here. The games are also barely even finished. Trailers that are 14 seconds long. Asset store assets. Bunch of default project looking graphics... the only thing I think might explain it is........ money laundering? 110
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 29/03/2026Too many terrifying indicators in this piece on the AI bubble - but the collapsing price of *rented* compute on current gen flagship AI chips is… errr… yet another worrying indicator open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/t... 010
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 22/03/2026There really is a certain clarity in humour!!! Very funny stuff if you can stomach it. 053
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 18/03/2026Still, they can't avoid the rev share question, though they leave it to the end, and note that "more and more games from developers big and small have reached [the] new higher revenue share". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 010
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 18/03/2026This year, it's hardware & improvements to the platform through better "Shopping and Discoverability", plus better "tools" to understand users and market data. 110
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 16/03/2026Single–origin copper, coming soon to a smelter near you. Ea-nāṣir is rubbing his hands together in glee. 010
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 09/03/2026Pretty unimpressed by German urban air quality tbh. Don’t see this talked about much, but so much for the fabled European emissions standards. P much every time I’ve opened the weather app in Berlin or Frankfurt it’s been this sea of red 220
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 20/02/2026Yeaaaah Ik ben nu in Nederland. (I’m in the Netherlands) 110
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 18/02/2026Made it to Paris. Spotted a TGV in its natural habitat and a wet Sacré-Cœur after a billion stairs. I miss Japan where the trains work 😅 140
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 15/01/2026Post a game you remember playing that (probably) nobody else remembers 010
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 26/12/2025@bonerman-inc.bsky.social found this spot on my ride 2day 171
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 14/12/2025It's cool that every few years in Aus we're just going to be doing this again. Guess no one has any new ideas about how to support a creative industry in this country that isn't "make another co-working space" 040
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 01/12/2025My takeaway from this chart, which shows CO2 emissions *growth* even in the AI base case by 2030 (let alone the Lift-Off high take-up scenario) is that data centres are making it harder to achieve the reductions we need. Being a smaller increase than others is no comfort when it all has to go down. 050
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 24/11/2025"...as households' perceived probability of attaining homeownership falls, they systematically shift their behavior: they consume more relative to their wealth, reduce work effort, and take on riskier investments." This new paper seems very pertinent papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 313539
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 13/11/2025Marvelling at this flyer for solar panels from 2013, via FB memories 161
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 05/11/2025Rewiring Australia reckons the cheaper home batteries program has installed the equiv. of "one of the ten biggest gas power stations in the country." Sick to see the power of distributed networks play out like this. Someone could write a book on this in the vein of the early internet stuff. 130
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 29/10/2025Omg my favourite calendar app added a travel time option for CYCLING! YES! This is the update I never knew I needed. 030
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 26/10/2025Oh yeah this was yesterday - third and final day of Big Rides. 120
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 24/10/2025Here’s a cool flyover though! This is neat - but still doesn’t convey the climbs very well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 220
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 24/10/2025Rode too far - again! Too many hills! Too steep! It’s also missing about 18 kms in the middle for battery/charging reasons 110
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 23/10/2025I rode too much today. Too far. Doing it again tomorrow, like some kind of lunatic 3100
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 14/10/2025Last one for today, cannot promise I won’t post more tomorrow!!! 240