Reposted by kim mcfaydenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb... 17674433103
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 12/06/2025Australians pay; Japan and Woodside profit. #climateemergency next-themonthly-www/zali-steggal... Code of resilience | The Monthly 030
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 20/05/2025It’s not feasible for a political party to win in Australia without a credible commitment to reducing carbon emissions, and that is only likely to become more so as the planet warms and life becomes less tolerable and more expensive through higher insurance premiums 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...?abc.net.auThe Liberals will have to choose between the Nationals and the climateIt does not look feasible for a political party to succeed in Australia without a credible commitment to reducing carbon emissions. 030
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 30/04/2025Louis Theroux deploying his usual charming candour and eliciting the most chilling of answers has (naturally) earned him the anti semitism badge. Well worth a watch. #thesettlers youtu.be/tC8l09ut418?...youtu.beLouis Theroux’s The Settlers (2025)YouTube video by Fardan Khan 020
Reposted by kim mcfaydenAlan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It's rather remarkable and quite illuminating that Louis Theroux is being accused of antisemitism by simply broadcasting the words of Zionists. 23502149
Reposted by kim mcfaydenProf. West Wing Chicken Fried Shack @garystark.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I want a well hung parliament and a very cross bench. Very fucking cross. 392
Reposted by kim mcfaydenSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order." - from the 4th Circuit's ruling on the Abrego-Garcia case. The US judiciary is still holding the line. 062
Reposted by kim mcfaydenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... 868259729785
Reposted by kim mcfaydenDavid S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I'm old enough to remember JD Vance saying in the debate in October: "The most sacred right under the United States democracy is the First Amendment. . . . Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy." 16419
Reposted by kim mcfaydenCrikey @crikey.com.au · 27/03/2025If the Atlantic journo that got added to Trump’s war-planning Signal chat was Australian, he could’ve copped two years in prison just for being added. How? @daanysaeed.bsky.social explains.crikey.com.auTo leave or not to leave the Trump war planning group chat? That is the questionThe US government is in hot water after top officials added a reporter to a group chat about bombing Yemen. We asked three eminent Australian journalists what they would have done if it were them. 1115
Reposted by kim mcfaydenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all? 1133377937311
Reposted by kim mcfaydenEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The PERKINS COIE law firm spits hot fire in its suit against Trump’s executive order aimed at punishing the firm. Strongly recommend reading the first 10 paragraphs of the “WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT” section. (h/t @mikescarcella.bsky.social) fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... 411556401
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 09/03/2025“The populist right is powered by scarcity. When there is not enough to go around, we look with suspicion on anyone who might take what we have. This is the fuel of Trump’s politics. Scarcity — or the perception of it — is the precondition to his success.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...nytimes.com 000
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 08/03/2025Agree wholeheartedly. The universities producing scholarly articles are funded by governments so I don’t understand why they are hidden behind paywalls. 020
Reposted by kim mcfaydenDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Women and girls are on the frontline of climate change, but their stories are seldom heard. A vital piece by my dear friend @sanammahoozi.bsky.social, who recently received her PhD!🥳theconversation.comWomen and girls are on the frontline of climate change – but their stories are seldom heardThe media must do more to amplify women in climate and environmental reporting. 14213
Reposted by kim mcfaydenTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted. 573335855847
Reposted by kim mcfaydenTerry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025In case you’re wondering why home insurance is costing more and more, Australia’s 3rd largest city is about to experience a rare Cyclone - fuelled by rising sea temperatures. 18628
Reposted by kim mcfaydenZach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 03/03/2025If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now. 37575313810633
Reposted by kim mcfaydenNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025We should have a Royal State Visit for Zelenskyy instead, on a grander scale than anything the Queen put on from Trump last time round. 34993161
Reposted by kim mcfaydenDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/02/2025At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer: Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will. 18571116
Reposted by kim mcfaydenAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off. 21792942176
Reposted by kim mcfaydenDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/02/2025No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s... 17881327
Reposted by kim mcfaydenNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide. 9756972379
Reposted by kim mcfaydeneve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing 565380006155
Reposted by kim mcfaydenJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025For the visual learners... 651351158368
Reposted by kim mcfaydenProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Grace Tame doesn’t miss in her piece. What a massive disappointment Albo and much of the political class are. www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/g...crikey.com.auWhy is my t-shirt more offensive to our prime minister than a 50-year assault on democracy?The boy who lived in public housing comes to die on a corporately owned hill. 37019
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 19/01/2025Climate change became politically polarised when it “moved from a comfortably future issue to an issue that we had to do something about now” . . . people rejected the science to avoid the need for action. #climatesky #greensky #climatechange #climatepolitics 152
Reposted by kim mcfaydenKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise) 30499002275
Reposted by kim mcfaydenProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I wonder what our so-called political leaders really think & feel when they approve yet more fossil fuel projects while fires rage & lives & livelihoods are destroyed? You can't defeat fundamental laws of physics & chemistry, & scientific evidence, with political spin. Climate criminals. 1616346
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 12/01/2025Great article on why Zuckerberg is cosying up to Trump www.ft.com/content/917c...ft.comThe coming battle between social media and the stateBehind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength 000
Reposted by kim mcfaydenEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10/01/2025Well done humanity. For it is us who have caused this rapid warming of the planet, and the devastating consequences for people and ecosystems that are so visible today and every day. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...theconversation.comMy new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yetThese ‘warming stripes’, adopted around the world as a symbol of climate awareness, action and ambition, now include another dark red stripe for 2024. 917385
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 11/01/2025accumulation of wildfire fuel in that is primed to burn under hot and dry conditions 👇 #climatechange #climatesky #greensky www.theguardian.com/environment/201… (2/2) 000
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 11/01/2025Climate change is not the only factor at play in the #lafires but it is a threat multiplier. Rapid expansion of housing adjacent to wild lands + land management geared to preserving timber stocks has resulted in a deficit of low-intensity and forest-regenerating natural fires allowing an (1/2) 111
Reposted by kim mcfaydenEarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 09/01/2025this is what the world is like at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) - we're on track for a significantly hotter planet, where we've passed dangerous tipping points, this is only the beginning 06915
Reposted by kim mcfaydenEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/01/2025The mistake being made about Meta is to say they're just doing this to make conservatives happy. They've been doing that a decade+. Removing fact checkers and bringing back political content means there will be more stuff that gets more people mad which creates more engagement. Growth at all costs. 402170466
Reposted by kim mcfaydenDr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 07/01/2025In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter 381157511
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 07/01/2025The most comprehensive scientific article I’ve read on the climate impact of beef. #climatesky #greensky #climatechange 0236
Reposted by kim mcfaydenJacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 29/12/2024"If humans are to have any chance of avoiding the collapse that is now so powerfully indicated, then it is only by the individual citizens of the Earth..despite the corruption of rulers, the ignorance of oligarchs, and the self-interest of corporations" #ClimateSky cribb.substack.com/p/2024-a-dir...cribb.substack.com2024 – a dire year for Human SurvivalIn 2024, humanity - as a whole - took a purposeful stride towards engineering the collapse of modern civilisation. 37135
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 23/12/2024I also had spidy senses about him that transcended character. Almost stopped watching. 140
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 22/12/2024Wild how many women in particular saying they don’t like Blake or hate her and focussing on the female PR agents rather than the males involved. A sad reflection of our society in 2024. 020
kim mcfayden @ecoshack.com · 18/12/202472 days to stop a climate disaster - let Tanya Plibersek and the govenment know you oppose any more climate wrecking approvals by them 👇 #climateemergency #climateaction nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...nb.australiainstitute.org.auSIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT! 110
Reposted by kim mcfaydenDavid Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Scott Reef’s a rare, unspoiled gem home to endangered sea snakes, turtles & manta rays. But Woodside’s mammoth Browse gas project threatens it all. The Environment Minister must act to protect this natural wonder, not to allow further damage to our climate. www.smh.com.au/environment/...smh.com.auRare glimpse at stunning reef near Woodside’s gas plansScott Reef is, in the words of author Tim Winton, the last “unspoiled” clear-water coral reef in Australia. 9331151
Reposted by kim mcfaydenRenew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 09/12/2024Latest CSIRO GenCost report confirms integrated #renewables – including storage and transmission – easily the cheapest option for Australiareneweconomy.com.auCSIRO GenCost: Falling costs of solar and batteries confirm integrated renewables are cheapest optionLatest CSIRO GenCost report confirms integrated renewables – including storage and transmission – easily the cheapest option for Australia. 11812