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Joshua Lyons

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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Dutton ignored the rising tide, and it took him whole.
Peter Dutton laughing about climate change induced rising sea levels lapping at the doors of Pacific Islanders alongside Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison.
Peter lost his seat, and the election. Huzzah!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing.” “1/4 of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians— & their businesses— in the city.” Paris innovation isn’t just about people-places & bike-lanes.
nytimes.com
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (Published 2024)
One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thought this was appropriate to finally read while without power following tropical cyclone alfred having ventured to make landfall very, very far south of the tropics. Hopefully not a recurring feat.
Photo looking down on the slayed cover of Royce Kurmelovs' book 'Slick' with a can of beer beside the book.
Recommend both the book and the beer.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Spent today and yesterday making our place safe and helping out around town to prepare for a !!tropical cyclone!! on the Gold Coast. Biggest concern was the carport which now has roofing screws (not just nails) holding the sheets down and some structural reinforcement to keep it upright. Stay safe!
Raked carport roof from above showing temporary ratchet straps to prevent roof sheets flying off in the coming cyclone.
Straps will stay on for the time being though new screws to compliment the nails probably fixed there in the 60's certainly reduce my concern the straps would be needed.
Trees and house in the background.Me giving the thumbs up to my handy work with car port roof behind me.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm sorry but why is the ABC sending notifications asking "Does the PM deserve to keep his job?" We have an excess of commentary on the personalities of politics and a dearth of meaningful policy examination. It's not a race, it's the future of our country. Can we please treat it like it matters?
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Essentially we should trait AI like that over confident student who happens to be prone to plagiarism, oversimplification and occasionally outright fabrication.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Why is meta sending me recommendations to follow far right extremist politicians?
Facebook Notification recommending that I follow the account of Morgan C Jones.Morgan C Jonas' Facebook profile disclosing that he is the president of the Freedom Party.
Further down the page he promotes DOGE, MAGA, and a raft of far right conspiracies.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 03/02/2025
Dutton’s latest claim that the Coalition’s #nuclear policy will cut electricity bills by 44% has been slammed as “either dangerously ill-informed” or a lie – and new modelling shows why
reneweconomy.com.au
Lies, damned lies and Coalition energy economics: Dutton’s latest nuclear claim slammed
Dutton’s latest claim that the Coalition’s nuclear policy will cut electricity bills by 44% has been slammed as “either dangerously ill-informed” or a lie – and new modellin…
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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The biggest risk to energy prices and reliability is ageing, unreliable coal fired power stations breaking down The quicker we build new renewable energy and storage the better
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Again, sounds just like the LNP who rejected free lunches for school kids as socialism but support making long lunches a tax write off for business.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Again, we don't need to look to the US to see Trumpian plans unfolding. The LNP in Queensland have stopped wind approvals, cut renewables investment, and poured billions into coal power in the 3 months since being elected. They're not only delaying climate action but risk sending industry offshore.
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Amy Sargeant 🏳️‍⚧️ @amysargeant.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
TOMORROW MORNING: Join parents of trans kids to stand against unprecedented attacks on our healthcare. Bring noise making tools, flags and signs. 9:30am Wed 29th Jan Tim Nicholl’s Office 1/729 Sandgate Rd, Clayfield QLD 4011
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We don't have to look to the US to find sickos fixated on young people's gender. Queenslands LNP are full of them, and they're gleefully sacrificing a small marginalised group to press on with their culture wars. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
abc.net.au
Queensland government halts hormone treatment for new trans patients under 18
Health Minister Tim Nicholls unveiled the pause on Tuesday as he also announced a review into the evidence for stage one and two hormone therapies for children with gender dysphoria.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Outside feels dank at 25 and humid. Down from 36 today (car said 41 while driving the M1).
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
For the uptick in accounts proclaiming that 0.04% of something in the atmosphere can't possibly cause any meaningful effect on the climate.
Photo of coffee cup from above with imag3 of earth on the coffees surface
Text reads
"Can you tell the difference between caffeinated coffee and decaf?
If so, you have detected a concentration of 400 parts per million (ppm). There's more than 400 ppm of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Small amounts of powerful substances have big effects."

Source:
CLIMATE.NASA.GOV
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The amazing thing about Peter Dutton's claim here is that while he make it sound like a difficult task, this would actually be a slower roll-out than what was likely achieved in Australia 2024. A quick thread with numbers:
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The big failure of this moment will be progressives not capitalising on this to gain support for massive electrification. Vic prem set out an ambitious household electrification program. Fed MPs should be backing them in with more $$$ and vocal support.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It is remarkable how bent the tech bros are. Tic toc essentially fabricated its ban then salvation by Trump, so he can be painted a free speech hero to young users. How do we combat that level of fasc orchestration? Certainly not by relying on corruptable online spaces. Meet your neighbours folks.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 18/12/2024
This is a moral obscenity. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
abc.net.au
Queensland council bans pets for rough sleepers amid homeless crackdown
The City of Moreton Bay issues a blanket ban forbidding homeless people from keeping pets or publicly sleeping in vans.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is indeed diabolical. Offsets for fossil fuel expansion are about one thing; greenwashing and prolonging fossil fuel use and expansion.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Imagine what $87m invested in active transport connections, bike parking, and bike/scooter subsidies! I'm certain there are less expensive ways to get half a train load of passengers to the station.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"If practicable" Perfect for rendering any target, objective, commitment, plan, or other such notion to improve or do better worthless.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
While Kevin notes it's normal for govts to fall behind, what concerns me is how far right the electorate has gone if the L-NP vote is at 38 given what Dutton represents.
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Toronto artist creates Loser Lane an unwinnable video game to protest bike lane removal. momentummag.com/toronto-arti...
momentummag.com
Toronto artist creates Loser Lane an unwinnable video game to protest bike lane removal
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan's game, called Loser Lane, is simple but tough. Impossibly tough, actually. And that's the whole idea.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here we can see meta rolling out Duttons vision for Australia. Nuclear is a distraction, it is a promise he will never deliver and given the time it would take do deliver, he can never be held account for not delivering it. Duttons nuclear plan is a plan for a coal fired climate catastrophe.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is an absurd position to be in and will result in expensive investment in gas infrastructure that will prolong its use and delay climate action. Political opposition to available alternatives leaves Victorians stuck with increasingly expensive gas appliance.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The wind turbines on Thursday Island have been operating since 1997, that's 27 years! With their refurbishment completed earlier this year, they're good for another 15. 42 years from old school tech that provides 75% of the islands power needs, saving 220,000 litres of diesel every year.
ergon.com.au
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Jane Gardner @janeclimate.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Every time I have the audacity to talk about how nuclear is a batshit crazy idea for Australia on socials, I get a pile on from condescending nukebros tripping over themselves to mansplain and YouTube clips me to death. 💀 I wonder if BlueSky will be the same? 🤔
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
River is looking mighty after the latest deluge with the crossing still under. Reckon kid in the red tee has caught a snag.
Nerang River looking downstream from the bridge. The pedestrian and bike crossing is covered with water overlooking it.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Solidarity with striking woolworths DC employees who are fighting against the company adopting Amazon type tracking of their every move, underpayment through dodgy outsourcing, and dehumanising conditions. @unitedworkers.org.au www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Treating workers like robots’: Woolworths blamed for empty supermarket shelves as warehouse strikes continue
Stores in New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT affected as industrial action by up to 1,500 employees stretches into second week
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Queenslands Energy Minister has today announced the new LNP government will spend $1.4 Billion to keep the state's coal fleet running. Don't bother trying to ask the state's Climate Minister how this will affect emissions reduction, they don't have one.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And so state capture in WA wins.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One of the most impressive things Qld did during the last government was to increase royalties on coal so that we could fund the transition to renewables. Despite a $40m campaign against the Labor government by the QRC, the government stood firm and raised $10billion in 2 years.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"6GW of coal-fired power station capacity remains unavailable" A quarter of the nation's coal capacity is offline. We need to replace this aging, unreliable "baseload" with flexible, reliable batteries & PHES. Clearly, it's a liability to be dependent on a handful of unreliable outdated coal boilers
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 25/11/2024
The are now 450 accounts on this list. You can pin it to create an and ever-growing feed of people doing cool stuff! If you're an energy, ecology, environment or climate researcher or advocate from Australia and I don't follow you - or you have tips for people I might have missed - let me know!
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Step by step guide !!!with images!!! On what to do when you encounter a MAGA troll on Bluesky Step one: Block 🚫 That's all. Carry on.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Yes! The answer to the ascendent American oligarchy is another white dude podcast. 🤩
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Trains in: Japan: Brisbane: Good WiFi Power points Comfy seats Little window blinds Cup holders Foot rests Reclining seats There are so many of them and sometimes lots all at once Often very fast Shiny Clean Some even have bidets on board Not 50c 50c
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
50c fares genuinely slaps.
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Remember 2021 when our government took gaslighting to the global stage at COP26 to promote scomo's gas lit recovery? www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
google.com
Australia puts fossil fuel company front and centre at Cop26
Criticism of Santos pavilion display comes as Coalition confirms it will not join global pledge to cut methane
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Remarkable, even Glencore are calling BS on the Aus's anti climate propaganda. Would be great if they took heed of their own words and turned them into action. Hard to feel this intervention via guardian is anything other than pr management (greenwashing) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘The transition should NOT be slowed down’: energy story in The Australian wrongfooted by mining giant
Exclusive: Glencore says it did not call on federal government to slow shift from coal to renewables, contradicting News Corp paper’s front-page quotation
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
With Queensland's new conservative government scraping 120GWh zero emissions long duration firming, South Australia is pumping up fossil gas. It's alarming states are opting for less hydro, less batteries, and more gas when we know the former are cheaper more secure and critically, emissions free.
reneweconomy.com.au
Gas lobby hoorays South Australia capacity payment plan as clean energy industry fears backward step
Gas lobby hoorays the proposed South Australia capacity scheme that would include existing gas generators, but renewables industry laments a backward step, and lack of demand side action.
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Bill Hare @billhare.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In whose interest is the conversation about whether #1o5C is lost? 🧵
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Joshua Lyons @joshlyfry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is why we need to be absolute in rejecting politicians who want us to wait for nuclear to save us (it won't), and those who say we can keep burning coal indefinitely (we can't) We will lose the reef, and so much more it they succeed. amp.abc.net.au/article/1046...
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Parts of Great Barrier Reef record worst coral loss in 39 years, early AIMS survey results show - ABC News
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Greater Brisbane 🏗️ @greaterbrisbane.org · 17/11/2024
Brisbane’s housing crisis is getting worse and will only get worse all the way to the Olympics at this rate. And Council’s answer isn’t to follow Sydney and Melbourne in bold planning reform and social housing investment — but to destroy the homes of people sleeping rough. Horrific.
abc.net.au
Concerns about parks 'becoming no-go zones' spark crack down on homeless camps
Brisbane City Council has teamed up with police to investigate "anti-social behaviour" at the city's homeless camps after an increasing number of complaints.
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 17/11/2024
Love this as another tool in the road diet/de-paving toolbox.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Great bike parking doesn't take a ton of money, just some basic accommodating design and thoughtful placement.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/11/2024
The OPEC-branded oil drum at #COP29 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
a dark blue oil drum with opec's logo painted onto it
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