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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This was our reaction to the VIC parliament report into last summer's fires. The recommendations are really solid & we need to implement as many as possible before the start of fire season. www.melbournefoe.org.au/response_to_...

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FoE reaction to the VIC bushfire inquiry report

Mobilise! Resist! Transform!

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... The government is paying drug dealers to push controlled substances to veterans. Once upon a time we used to pay public servants to look after veterans. Now we pay looters, grifters and frauds. #AusPol

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Defenceless

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last night's 4Corners was a classic example.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

What reporter hero will, on camera, congratulate an econ prize winner on their "Bank of Sweden Award in Economic Sciences in Honor of Alfred Nobel"? "Bank of Sweden laureatte" has a real ring to it!

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What's the go with Albo? Is he doomed and does anyone care anymore? These questions are not answered by this cartoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon

How could this happen?

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Vote for the Left. For them!" Poster for the Front d'Esquerres (name of the Popular Front in Catalonia) for the February 1936 Spanish general election. By Cristóbal Arteche.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 05/10/2026

None of the recommendations of the disability royal commission have been fully implemented, an independent progress report has found. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/05/d...

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The disability royal commission laid bare violence, abuse and neglect. Three years on, what’s changed?

Three years on, none of the disability royal commission recommendations has been fully implemented.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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Two things easily missed while we were distracted by trivia

In Australia, we’re too busy looking at the next carriage on the political sushi train to realise the track itself is broken.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suppose the sensible centre includes genocide and ecocide. Sensible!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

X is arguably the single most effective promoter of Nazism and yet remains the platform of choice for so many government institutions and officials

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is about climate change

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot tip for my northern hemisphere friends. I'd suggest equipping your fire services with proper protective gear. #Pyrocene

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 04/10/2026

I have been in a legal battle with someone driven by conspiratorial thinking for almost 10 years. This person recently started using ChatGPT as their lawyer and it has made their (copy/pasted) communications more rational than ever before. It is very strange.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Cable Street battle, Jewish London East End #OnThisDay 4 Oct 1936 with their banner explicitly adapting the antifascist slogan of the defence of Madrid "NO PASARÁN." They shall not pass. Many that day who fought against police who allowed the fascist march then came to Spain

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Ben Eltham @handle.invalid · 03/10/2026

The neocloud bubble is wild. Aussie startup Firmus has an IPO next week forecast at $30b. Its plans include 2 data centres that will suck 15% of the electricity in Tasmania, the main customer is OpenAI, it has no audited financials, and its co-founder is a criminal www.reuters.com/business/5-b...

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$5 billion Firmus IPO divides investors after valuation triples in two months

As Australian data centre operator Firmus prepares to launch a $5 billion initial public offering, the country's second-largest ever, prospective investors are questioning the firm's surging valuatio...

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

To the surprise of no one who has been watching the spread of EVs over the last 10+ years...

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Been thinking about this article all day. All the old logging industry talking points get a run. Anyway, here's a helpful reminder: 'forest improvement and fire prevention' = logging 'selective harvesting model' = logging with some token trees left standing www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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One Nation makes election promise to revive Victoria's timber sector

One Nation has promised to resume native timber logging in Victoria if it wins the state election, but the party would not say if it has costed the policy.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🤔 Wonder if the world is heading towards a 1968/69 moment...? This would fit with our analysis that the billionaires and their pet monkey govts have overplayed their hand and people - especially young people - are just not going to put up with it any more as they can see nothing but a shit future...

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Is nothing thrown away in your time?" "Thrown away where? The world is round." Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shanty homes,Montjuïc, Barcelona with Palau Nacional (MNAC) behind Barracas as called in Spanish covered huge area of hill until late 60s housing 30,000 desperately poor who'd left even poorer rural. Realities of Francoist city. Screenshot from 1967 film "Mañana será otra día"

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Since we're doing glaciers, here's the last 10 years at Tasman Glacier, South Island, New Zealand -- by far the largest in our region: browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=12&lat=.... In my youth there was no terminal lake -- we walked across there to a swing bridge over the Murchison River.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This failure to act in Australians’ best interests is inexcusable. If the Albanese Government doesn’t immediately address oil and gas super-profits, it has to be held to account for this massive policy failure at the next federal election.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the time it takes to read the article above, Australia will have missed out on $175k in gas tax revenue. We’re giving up about $50m a day because Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers won't stand up to gas companies paying next to nothing in corporate tax & PRRT.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While Australians struggle with yet another rate rise in a seemingly endless cost-of-living crisis, our government is *still* not getting a fair return on our gas exports—while the gas giants get a $23 billion windfall www.smh.com.au/business/the...

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The Iran war is making Australia’s gas industry richer

Soaring LNG prices are set to reverse a forecast revenue slump, delivering an unexpected $23 billion boost to the nation’s biggest gas exporters.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People hate driving these days. Young men don't buy sports cars to enhance the driving experience. They buy big trucks to distance themselves form it as much as possible.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Imagine how bicycle riders feel! I used to enjoy cars and driving. Now I generally loath them. As an example - I spotted this 1980's classic in my neighbourhood last weekend. This used to be considered a large family car. It's now the size of a 21st Century compact.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When #batteries penetrate the national grid, power prices plummet. Talk of 'going back' to coal and gas from right-wing parties is just fantasy (like all of their other policies). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Australia’s ‘postcard from the future’ of big batteries

Grid storage projects have been reducing power prices and emissions — but ‘cannibalising’ their own revenues in the process

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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ette Media, in partnership with mathematician and data analyst Dr Richard Bean, reviewed and analysed 42 interviews from ABC's 7.30 programme between mid-2022, when Sarah Ferguson began her stint as host, until the end of August 2026. We've made this article free to access. Read the deep dive below:

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War of words: How ABC 7.30’s interview approach differs widely by conflict

An exclusive data analysis of interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welp, that’s the end of the US Military.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 01/10/2026

You would be forgiven for having little sympathy for the flailing stock price of a luxury ski resort company. But thanks to global warming, its doom is our doom, too. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/v...

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The stock price of Vail Resorts looks like a ski slope. But their doom is our doom, too

They could build a chair lift on a slope like that.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TIL that it's 70 years since the first commercial hard drive shipped. It stored 3.75 Mb of data, and was two metres high. 70 years! Today there's > 200 zetabytes of stored data, nearly a billion billion times more. Has anyone found the Marie Kondo of data? www.computerhistory.org/storageengin...

Picture of a stack of 50 black disks and the equipment to read the data around it. Also this text: "In 1954 Reynold Johnson assembled a team at the IBM R&D Laboratory at 99 Notre Dame Ave., San Jose, California charged with developing fast mass storage systems to replace punched cards and magnetic tape in accounting and inventory control applications. Informed by Jacob Rabinow’s ideas at NBS, IBM developed and shipped the first commercial Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the Model 350 disk storage unit, to Zellerbach Paper, San Francisco in June 1956 as part of the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) system. "

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0

Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes"

rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia's

Spreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data

KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0

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Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cars and trucks regularly dropping these on the road cannot be good. I hit this with a car tonight (heard it smack the underside) and then found it on the road. For bike riders it could be and has been lethal.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoebridge is right - don’t reform Labor, replace it..

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Larissa Waters tried accommodation and was rewarded with the bastardry of the “offset for koalas” deal. It’s time to admit that Labor, LNP and One Nation are all on the same side, and that we need a pro-planet, pro-humanity, anti-Trump alternative.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve always favoured the idea of an informal Labor-Greens coalition. But at least with Albanese in charge, that’s not going to happen. He’d much rather deal with the LNP (or, if push comes to shove, One Nation). Adam Bandt tried bargaining hard, and was successfully demonised.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, the NSW Independent Planning Commission approved the largest coal project in the state's history, in a move Lock The Gate called "catastrophic system failure". That's the context in which @davidshoebridge.bsky.social takes on the leadership of the Australian Greens. Some thoughts here