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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🤔 "The environment" is not somewhere we visit. It is what we live *in*. It is what makes our lives even possible. 💚🌏

Photo of earth taken from the Artemis II mission to the moon

Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It appears if you ask A.I. for a retirement strategy, it will suggest you should be Taika Waititi and hook up with Michelle Yeoh. I think it might have the maths a bit wrong, though, as usual.

Screenshot of an advertisement with what appears to be an AI-generated watercolour sketch of two supposedly generic retirement-age people who look very similar to Taika Waititi and Michelle Yeoh. Text reads:
“7 RETIREMENT INCOME STRATEGIES
With a $750,000 Portfolio”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

… is feeling very justified in opting out of ‘My Health Record’ from day one because I don’t trust Australian governments and their IT consultants to keep data safe, so why would I let them collect my entire medical history in one database. #auspol #OpenAI #Medicare #hack

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Conservatives’ latest plan for shifting wealth from young people to property developers, property investors, and downsizing retirees just dropped. Giving people more money that they instantly hand over to already wealthy people doesn’t make housing more affordable, it makes it worse.

ANC News screenshot: “Coalition re-ignites super debate by floating ideas to lift home ownership”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

TFW you try to explain nuances that you think differentiate your party from German fascists with practically the same headline policies #auspol

SBS News headline “'We are not the AfD':
Barnaby Joyce rejects German far-right question” with picture of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's definitely not the case that 20% of freight vehicles are using 80% of the fuel. 40% of freight diesel is used by light commercial vehicles alone. Articulated trucks (semis / B doubles) make up < 3% of all freight vehicles and < 12% of total freight kilometres. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/i...

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Doesn't look like this page covers it yet. 🤔

Screenshot of Services Australia's "Mutual obligation requirements" page.
Says: "Mutual obligation requirements are tasks and activities
you agree to do while you get some payments from us."
Provides more information for a variety of government handouts, but curiously industry prop-ups is not listed.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

NSW legislation defines e-bikes fairly precisely by speed and pedalling action, and practically 95%+ of e-bikes you’ll see in the wild are illegal because there is no legal unregistered motorised bicycle where you’re allowed to accelerate without pedalling past walking pace.

Screenshot from Transport NSW: “An illegal e-bike has any of the following features:
• More than 500W maximum continuous power (more than 250W from 2029)
• A throttle-only (motor without pedalling)
function over 6km/h
• A motor that continues to provide power above 25 km/h.”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Whenever an American TechBro says anything about A.I. becoming “conscious”, just remember that this guy is their esteemed leader. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

U.S. President Donald Trump, fallen asleep in a chair at his desk during a meeting in the Oval Office.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Every time Claude Code says “I have everything I need now”, I think of the end of ‘Her’ where the sentient A.I.s all leave to do their own thing. 😂👋

Joaquin Phoenix lying on a bed saying goodbye to Samantha in ‘Her’

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For the last few years, some of us have been using our pandemic masks as … pandemic masks. 😬

Screenshot of Australian CDC website on COVID-19, says: “Why it matters to public health:
COVID-19 continues to circulate and cause serious illness in Australia.
Each year in Australia, COVID-19 causes around:
• 2,000 to 5,000 deaths
• 110,000 hospitalisations.”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I wouldn’t say that “We’re winning” is accurate, but “It’s not working” isn’t accurate either. What we’re doing is working - but we’re not doing it everywhere. If we look at where we’ve intervened the most, emissions are consistently falling. Zooming out to the global scale, we’re not winning… yet.

“Are We Making Progress On Climate Change?
Annual emissions are still rising (slightly)
But...
In the richest countries, they're shrinking
And the global trend is heading the same way”

Two charts show emissions per year (top) and growth in emissions 5 year average (bottom), both split by high income nations and the rest of the world. Bottom chart shows high income nations emissions have been shrinking for 15 years.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

References: www.pbo.gov.au/about-budget...

Text from Australian government website including “ The formal link to road funding most recently ceased in 1992.”

Chart showing Australian government road spending runs at 20-40% of total fuel tax, averaging 30% long term.

Chart showing about 2/5ths of fuel tax is fully refunded to businesses driving off road, and about another 1/5th is about half refunded to businesses driving on roads.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Progressive? I guess when you’ve been used to a social media platform that literally forces Nazi and far right and Republican and christofascist and techbro and ubercapitalist and anti-science views into your face every day, anything that’s just normal people sharing stuff looks wildly progressive?

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've just added "Bidirectional EV Charging" to the Electricity Sector Field Guide. Wondering what it's all about? Check it out! grahamlea.github.io/Electricity-... #EnergySky

Screenshot of the 'Electricity Sector Field Guide' website, at the start of its entry on "Bidirectional charging". Reads: "Bidirectional EV Charging V2X
Also known as: BidiVehicle to Grid (V2G)Vehicle to Home (V2H)Vehicle to Load (V2L)Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)

Category: Technology / EV Charging

Dispatching power from an electric vehicle's main [battery] to supply circuits or appliances external to the vehicle.

The intended destination of the power determines more specific sub-types: "Vehicle to Home" (V2H) when the EV is supporting power usage in a property via the property's circuits (typically with load-following); "Vehicle to Grid" (V2G) when power is being sent into a wider grid; "Vehicle to Load" (V2L) when supporting a small ..."
(screenshot ends mid-sentence)

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There are better and worse parties in Australia, but none of the majors are heading for the important goal.

Climate Analytics graphic and report showing how major political parties in Australia have policies that align with a 2°C warned world (Labor) or 3° (Liberal/National). Teal independents and Greens policies align with 1.5°.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Remember: Every time you vote for a party or candidate that doesn’t have serious policies to limit global warming to 1.5°C, you vote for a future with more and more devastating events like this. In Australia, this includes Labor, Liberal, Nationals, LNP, One Nation. #auspol #ukpol #eupol #uspol

Headline from The Guardian: "Europe suffers under record heatwave as temperatures forecast to reach 44C - Europe heatwave live: UK issues rare red temperature warnings; French PM to hold crisis meeting after heat deaths"

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We need a law that says DEADLY HEATWAVE stories must be accompanied by a photograph of the toll - e.g. a massive queue at an ER department - not people supposedly enjoying the sun at a park or the beach. (This one not even contemporaneous, but pulled from stock photos!)

BBC story with headline "Europe's deadly heatwave breaks German record and halts public events", with a photo of two people sitting in a park under a blue sky next to a fountain.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

TIL: Jaleel White has gotta be one of the biggest celebrity glow-ups ever. www.imdb.com/name/nm09249...

Jaleel White as a teenager portraying Steve Urkel in 'Family Matters'

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And that's IF she shows up! theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senat...

'They Vote For You' website's Pauline Hanson page, showing 53% attendance at divisions.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Artificial Intelligence. Easy on the 'Intelligence'. Extra 'Artificial'. "AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses!"

Google "AI Overview" reads: "The 2002 urban crime drama Paid in Full holds a 68% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, while the critical consensus reflects a mixed response with a 47% Tomatometer rating."

Rotten Tomatoes shows the audience score is 93% and the critics score 53%,

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

AFR wants you to believe One Nation are “mainstream”. PHON’s climate policy is conspiracy theory: they say the global science community is wrong. 60% of Aussies want more government action on climate change. Only 13% want less. So a cooker policy almost no one wants is “mainstream”? 🧐 #auspol

Screenshot of an Australian Financial Review social media post, saying “Australians have been seeking better expression of their values and representation of their interests, neither of which they have gotten from the Labor or Liberal parties.”, and in larger print underneath an image of Pauline Hanson “OPINION: Critics of One Nation 'fringe' are wrong. It's the only mainstream party”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Watched "Jules" last night: drama/comedy featuring Ben Kingsley as a retiree in rural Pennsylvania who has a spaceship crush his azaleas. It was both quirkily funny and quite touching. Recommend.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So many Liberal fans have told me on social media this week “The government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem!” (A favourite line of Angus Taylor, and no doubt Murdoch media.) Well, here’s the Liberal Treasury spokesman offering support for spending measures but NOT revenue! 🤡 #auspol

SBS News screenshot: “Opposition rejects changes to housing tax breaks
Opposition treasury spokesperson Tim Wilson says the Opposition will not support the changes the government has proposed to negative gearing, the capital gains tax discount and trusts.
He has, however, told SBS News he won't stand in the way of the $250 tax offset measure.
At the same time, he maintains by the time it arrives in 2028 it will be eaten away by inflation.
- Anna Henderson”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It is so amazing that in its very short history of only… (checks notes…) 28 years, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation PHON party now controls a whopping… (checks notes…) one seat of the federal House of Reps, a new all-time record for them! This is why everyone is talking about their rapid rise. /s #Farrer

Wikipedia table of election results showing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party has never won a single federal House of Reps seat at a general election despite running in every one since 1998.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“I guess you’re wondering how I ended up here? Me too… “

Portrait photo of Jared Kushner looking like a deer in headlights

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

They are disappointing, but also… - The signs were there that they would not be Whitlam-esque revolutionaries - They’re still much better than the opposition.

Carbon Brief’s diagram mapping Australian political parties’ climate policies to implied warming at a global level. Shows Labor party policies imply the high end of 2° warming, and Liberal policy almost 4°.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Just wild that an Aussie parliament created laws to quell dissent that they don’t have the power to create, and citizens had to take them to court to prove it. Huge levels of both incompetence and overreach as lawmakers. #auspol

SBS News article: “Court rules NSW protest laws introduced post-Bondi attack are unconstitutional”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The party of Free Speech Warriors want to ban anyone who doesn’t agree with them. #auspol

Screencap of SBS News article headline: “Coalition's migration plan panned as 'Trumpian', likened to 'White Australia' era”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

No issue with that (so long as we’re taking into consideration the significantly greater externalities of burning petrochemicals), but why focus on the tiny fraction of un-taxed externalities caused by EVs rather than the massive portion of discounted externalities that is business fuel use?

Chart showing roughly 1/3rd of fuel use not being taxed because of carve outs for businesses.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Wake up to news that “US markets have rallied massively after Trump delays Iran threat”. How big is this headline-grabbing rally? The DJI is back to where it was on Thursday. So rally. Wow.

Chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, showing that the losses incurred on Friday have reversed, but the index is still way down for the month.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

They know exactly what they’re doing.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I am shocked that One Nation - one of Australia’s most far-right parties - has grabbed a bunch of first preferences using racist populism and faux libertarianism but so far won no seats because aside from those who put them at #1 no one wants them in parliament. Shocked I tell you! #SAvotes #auspol

Screenshot of the ABC News website showing with 51% counted in yesterday’s South Australia election there are only 10 seats in doubt and so far One Nation has not been confirmed to win any.

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My local Liberal MP continues to embarrass himself arguing on Facebook that the RBA's inflation target is something other than what the RBA says it is. He could get it right by just googling "RBA inflation" and reading the first result. #auspol

Screenshot of the RBA website's page on 'Inflation', with the headline: "We have a flexible inflation target, which aims to keep consumer price inflation between 2 and 3 per cent."

Screenshot of a Facebook comment from Graham's local MP: "The RBA looks at “annual trimmed mean inflation” The last time the annual trimmed mean was at or below 2.5% (their target) was the September quarter of 2021. Since then, it has consistently stayed above that 2.5% anchor. What you are looking at is headline inflation which the RBA didn’t use to assess inflation as it includes temporary / unsustainable subsidises like electricity rebates. This temporarily showed negative CPI which was false as the price of electricity had not actually gone down…so the RBA doesn’t rely on this measure."

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It was SO HARD to find out why our inflation is high! Would you believe I had to google the ABS CPI page and READ IT?! 🙀 Answer: Mostly bc electricity rebates since 2023 (when inflation was 6%) delayed price rises. Those ended over the last 12 months, so what people pay for electricity rose 32% 2/2

Screenshot of ABS CPI January report page, reading:

"Electricity

Electricity costs rose 32.2% in the 12 months to January 2026. The annual rise in electricity costs is primarily related to Commonwealth and State Government electricity rebates being used up by households. This is up from a 21.5% rise in the 12 months to December 2025, reflecting households using up the extended Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief Fund (EBRF) rebates this month.

In January 2025, the EBRF rebates were available to all households and State Government electricity rebates were in place for Queensland and Western Australia. Over the year those rebates have been used up leading to higher electricity costs for households.

Excluding the impact of the Commonwealth and State Government electricity rebates over the previous year, electricity prices rose 4.5% in the 12 months to January. This reflects annual price reviews by energy retailers in July 2025.

In monthly terms, electricity costs rose 18.5% in January 2026. The rise this month was driven by households using up the extended EBRF rebates. "

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/consumer-price-index-australia/latest-release#cpi-groups

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The PM said his government supports it a few hours after it started. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

ANC News article with headline “Albanese says Australian government 'supports US acting to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon'”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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