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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm not the only one who uses BlueSky to bookmark movies I've *really* gotta see, right?

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Aaron Sorkin talks with Nicolle Wallace. The new movie is "The Social Reckoning" youtu.be/ti_nCwHhiGc?...

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Nicolle and Aaron Sorkin: This is Trump’s “ultimate mind f**”

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Because Trump has so consistently supported Ukraine, right?

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Democracy is something that only exists if you really want it"; Whereas: "democracy exists because it's the 'default of history'; well, you're going to lose your democracy if you think that" —Dr Tim Snyder www.youtube.com/live/3J6Nihp...

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Steve Schmidt & Timothy Snyder: Restoring Rule of Law and Cleaning Up Post-Hegseth Pentagon Decay

YouTube video by Timothy Snyder

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

4 reasons the Trump administration is attacking science. 🧵 This is still one of the most common questions I hear from people - but why!? Isn't science good for everyone?! So, here is my current thinking on why...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The party of business and sound financial management? Give me a break Badenoch pamphlet seems to have made this ridiculous claim about net zero delivery by copying am erroneous spreadsheet from one of the right-wing junktanks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If they get something that wrong it's because somebody is paying them to.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"These extreme weather events aren't happening in far-away places that we can't connect to … they're happening closer now … the large proportion are made more likely—significantly more likely—because of climate change"—Laura Tobin with @drgilbz.bsky.social #GlobalHeating youtu.be/NUpPVXTgkEE?...

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It's not JUST weather.

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson talks oceans, climate, clean energy with Chris Hayes youtu.be/VEUBTWm0cek?...

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How to Save Humanity with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

YouTube video by MS NOW

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From 6-9 October 2026, experts, scientists, policymakers and investors will meet at the #GlobalHeatForum in Bangkok to tackle the growing risks of extreme heat to health, livelihoods, environment and economies. Join WMO, @heathealth.info and partners 🔗 www.heathealth.info/globalheatforum

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, seems it's radiodonts all the way down; here's an Ordovician one from PBS Eons: youtu.be/G0oKBPZODhM?...

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How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Your favourite Cambrian period Radiodont? I'm going with Echidnacaris… youtu.be/5Ymbdfzdto8?...

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Every Anomalocaridid-grade Radiodont, explained.

YouTube video by Factor Trace

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Climate tragedy = climate reality And this is the reality we face…unless we act. Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes

With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Mediterranean is getting warmer, and marine heatwaves are a defining feature of that change. In 2024, it recorded its highest number of MHW days in two decades. Mean SSTs reached 1.23°C above the 1982–2024 baseline, rising at 0.32 ± 0.01°C per decade. eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Sea ice is a critical part of the Antarctic climate system...", so what effect SAM and the 2026 super El Niño? @drgilbz.bsky.social and @paulbeckwith.bsky.social youtu.be/j8pOLNWWkgc?...

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El Niño is reaching Antarctica, but not how you think

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sounds like America-dot-gov would make a better #POTUS than the current fool. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI "an electricity-eating monster," according to Trump "He loves fossil fuels and this would help his favourite industry."

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"It's very Biblical … but there's a twist, because they're not just building the ark; they're also causing the flood."—Naomi Klein (@naomiaklein.bsky.social) talks to Matt Frei about #EndTimesFascism youtu.be/2BB21sYLK7k?...

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‘There’s a real possibility of a backlash’ - Trump, AI and ‘end times fascism’

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NSW Labor probably won't like it either, given its chosen role rubber-stamping new / expanded fossil carbon extraction. I'll bring this up at the branch meeting; maybe somebody up the chain will get the message.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dictators can get what they want out of this guy; they don't have to give anythig. "Putin stiffed him in Anchorage, Xi stiffed him in Washington"—Jake Sullivan youtu.be/fvF2L2GWkD8?...

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki Weekly Highlights | Sept. 22-25

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The bogong moth is back in Camberra and I'm so over the moon about it 🥹🥹🥹🥹 It's been 10 YEARS!!! #Bogong #Canberra

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 26/09/2026

Energy nerd Christmas was yesterday, with the release of the Australia's official energy data for 2024–25. I think the share of Australia's gas being sent offshore hit a new all-time record high for the year, which is neat unless you are running an Aussie business or home that uses energy.

Australian gas production and use in the 2024–25 financial year
As with every other year in the past decade, Australia produced far more gas than it used in 2024-25.

76.5% of all the gas produced in Australia shipped overseas via one of Australia's 10 liquefied gas terminals. Another 8.3% of all the gas produced in Australia was burned by those gas export terminals and their supporting infrastructure to produce, process and compress that gas for export.

Well under one-fifth of the gas produced in Australia went to Australian users of the fuel. Gas exporters burn more of their own product preparing gas for export than any sector of Australia's domestic economy.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#ElNino: "We've never had one like this" And half a million excess deaths projected in the S. hemisphere alone #ClimateCrisis youtu.be/KxNHlkNuqG0?...

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This El Niño Is About To Cause a Global Catastrophe

YouTube video by The World, The Universe And Us

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Excellent! But we still export coal and fossil gas on a massive scale; we should be seriously thinking about that.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CCS for the mop-up once we've zeroed emmissions; fine. But to promote it as an alternative to actually reducing the amount of CO2 being belched out sounds increasinly like criminal malfessanve. And Chevron has been trialing carbon capture here in Aus; it's been a fiasco.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh, they can detach politicans from their fossil carbon extraction funders?

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Rubin / Vera C. Rubin Observatory "initial results and amazing promise", with Prof. Chris Lintott. Excellent.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Russian proverb: "The only free cheese is in a mousetrap", via Cris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social ) Don Jnr's swanky Russia-funded wedding. #TrumpRussia #TrumpCorruption youtube.com/shorts/-gboN...

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Hayes: Don Jr. is 2-for-2 on benefactors bankrolling his love life

YouTube video by MS NOW

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026

When a team of ProPublica reporters first heard that a Putin-linked oligarch named Umar Kremlev attended Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, they couldn’t believe it. Then they found the proof in an Instagram group photo. Listen to this excerpt from our “Paper Trail” podcast:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

There's really no complicated explanation for this, or any kind of grand theory. It's just Econ 101 and he flat out does not understand it because he's an idiot.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now we stand around for the next 200+ years and criticise them for not being good parents, not being invested ...

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My personal take on the #FirstNations situation in Aus: Say someone fired a SAM at a capacity-booked A380 passenger plane; maybe 30 traumatised people struggle out of the wreakage ...

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And Synnie? Asking for a friend.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On the logarithmic Conflict of Interest Richter Scale this might be a 5.5, but it's just the tip of the Trump corruption iceberg. Yeah, sorry for the mixed metaphors.

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Brendan Carton @brendancarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The findings highlight the scale of demographic catastrophe experienced by Indigenous Australians due to colonisation … the implications being a heightened understanding of intergenerational trauma and to inform future policy”—Prof. Lynette Russell #FirstNations www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation

Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought

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