Reposted by Paul BNick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 7hWhen you realise how history will judge you 820766
Reposted by Paul BJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 7257472430
Reposted by Paul BSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h"The last of the free western Democratic Nations- SUPPORT THE ICC & THE RULE OF LAW" I wish we could say the same about the Australian government. But our PM and foreign minister view international law as expendable to their main game: being a doormat for the Trump regime and Israel. #auspol 02118
Reposted by Paul BPacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2: www.bmj.com/content/390/...bmj.comWhy scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco... 15119
Reposted by Paul BDavid Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 5hIt's been over 2 weeks since the government dumped hundreds of reports on a Friday. Amongst them the news 91 children known to Queensland child protection died last financial year. Silence from Premier David Crisafulli & zero follow up. #qldpol 24026
Paul B @paulbr4.bsky.social · 14hm.youtube.com/watch?v=CqDG...m.youtube.comEddie Hazel - California Dreamin'YouTube video by OzzySer Music 000
Paul B @paulbr4.bsky.social · 16hWhy is it that when I'm drunk I spill less coffee dosing the moka pot? m.youtube.com/watch?v=57F5...m.youtube.comThe Paradise Motel - Bad LightYouTube video by TheParadiseMotel 100
Reposted by Paul BThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026thepoint.com.au/new/261009-k...thepoint.com.auKudelka Climate Cartoon Award announces 2026 longlistThe annual Stanley Awards, Australia’s premier awards for cartoonists, has announced its long list for best climate cartoon honours. Born out of a boycott of fossil fuel sponsorship, from this year th... 58630
Reposted by Paul BThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour! 17519131
Reposted by Paul B🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026this is so fucking sad 882117171422
Reposted by Paul BGnome De Plume (Sista Cate Ruth) ♿🎃👻💀🧛🏽♂️ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ok. I'm confused. Andrew Hastie says, in order to avoid becoming a "supplicant state", Australia needs its own AI industry. But he goes on to say that aligning with AUKUS provides for ally-backed AI in Australia. How does that protect our sovereignty, exactly? 🤔 It's US AI, not Australian. 163
Reposted by Paul BTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 07/10/2026If One Nation's immigration cuts had any chance of lowering rents, Phil Coorey and the entire better-than-you political class would be screaming bloody murder on behalf of property investors and landlords. Instead he acts as if One Nation's in-house economics team (me neither!) has credibility. 45116
Paul B @paulbr4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lock It Glory Box Because the Night Lots of other great songs there 020
Reposted by Paul BNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026I am so bloody tired of government by electoral attack strategy. You WON, now get off your collectively irresponsible arse and govern for survival, happiness and prosperity, not the fantasies of billionaire US tech-and-sex-party magnates. 513525
Reposted by Paul BSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Australia’s media has made the shift that Labor is at one end of that discourse and One Nation is at the other – which makes anything in the middle, the acceptable centre." @amyremeikis.bsky.social The 'sensible centre' is increasingly toxic. #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...thenewdaily.com.auAustralia's 'sensible centre' is shifting radically to the rightAustralia has a new political centre, but just because it falls in the middle of two policies, that doesn’t make it good policy. 52412
Reposted by Paul BAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 7931191843
Reposted by Paul BAustralian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There came a time when we understood that asbestos was a product that when you used it as intended would cause harm. That's now the case with coal and gas. We don't mine and export asbestos anymore. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auHigh Court's coalmine emissions ruling says 'the quiet part out loud'Activists, politicians and the resources sector are fired up about a High Court ruling over a planning statute. 26123
Reposted by Paul BThe Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"COPping it, Australian style" a new cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social See this afternoon's cartoon on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261008-cop… 29335
Reposted by Paul BKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026The finns are justifiably very pissed about Google razing a forest to erect a chatbot building lnkd.in/p/eKFXmtE9 29582215
Reposted by Paul BThe DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Dad: we need to get lobbyists out of politics, end Aukus and the US alliance and start doing something about fossil fuels Me: so you need to vote Greens Dad: no i can’t vote Greens Me: if you genuinely want those things you have to vote Green because none of the others agree with you. Dad: Me: 57819
Reposted by Paul BABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 08/10/2026What a High Court decision on a NSW coal mine could mean for WA gas projectsabc.net.auWA's oil and gas industry watches impact of High Court ruling closelyWA's energy sector is sounding the alarm over a landmark High Court ruling that overseas emissions from a proposed NSW coal mine were required to be considered when approving the project. 0134
Reposted by Paul BMatt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The High Court has found that under NSW planning law, miners must also account for “scope three” emissions – the pollution created when the coal is burnt by their overseas customers www.theage.com.au/environment/... 819768
Reposted by Paul BAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Oh no, poor landlords are only able to charge $700 per week in rental income when median net income around $1155 per week”. How tf is anyone meant to pay rent, bills and still eat? 1130296
Reposted by Paul BHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m... 21389151
Reposted by Paul BPup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Now mines may have to work out how to reduce emissions from their export customers,” said the CEO of the Minerals Council. So sad that these companies might have to have some corporate responsibility thrust upon the poor dears 😢 🎻 412328
Reposted by Paul BStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857801249
Reposted by Paul BPup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 07/10/2026But no doubt the Labor government will use shitloads of our money to appeal the decision basically forever, just like they are doing to Rex Patrick over his FOI win. Sorry but I can’t celebrate until actual policy changes 1152
Reposted by Paul BPaul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Mates, cronies, party donors, lobbyists and insiders work to the disadvantage of the interests of the constituencies he has pretended to champion. Albanese knows this but thinks he can get away with it." Jack Waterford johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...johnmenadue.comGreens can hope to pick up the mess Labor and Albanese have madeLabor’s shift to the right has opened political space on its left. If the Greens seriously want to become an alternative party of government, they must take votes from Labor, professionalise and build... 073
Reposted by Paul BSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I know Tony and Wendy well. They're good friends and long-time Greens, and they've spent decades fighting to protect the Hunter Valley they love. Today they took on the fossil fuel giants and got an important win. 10477128
Paul B @paulbr4.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They'll blame the people that warned them this would happen 010
Reposted by Paul BKon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To every Australian banging on this morning on talkback radio about wanting ZERO migration, I concede. You can have it. As long as you are ok with the high chance of ZERO emergency medical care when you’re sick. ZERO aged care when you’re old. ZERO fresh food when you’re hungry. 42687161
Paul B @paulbr4.bsky.social · 07/10/2026'While banks were "lucky" to have physical branches, Buxton anticipated acting against these threats would be a problem for many organisations, in a future where the only trustworthy communications would be "in-person".' Doesn't help that the banks are closing their branches as fast as they can 010
Reposted by Paul BTim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026HUGE news Kind of shocking that it's up to the High Court to make decisions democratic governments are proving incapable of making. And kind of shocking that it was a split decision. But massive congrats to everyone who made this happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmineRuling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says 110837
Reposted by Paul BDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7069921911
Reposted by Paul BMichael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ALL these political parties scapegoat migrants & foreign students when we know the biggest problems are wealthy non-tax/paying multi-homeowners, & neo-con policies that stopped building social housing & sold off older social housing stocks to investors. Try going to a hospital… without OS workers. 2218
Reposted by Paul BPeggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026VIC Labor Premier just announced he will not form minority govt with Greens. Following same pattern as Tasmanian Labor Party refusal to form minority govt with Greens, instead letting LNP take Governnent. Will VIC Labor hand govt over to LNP/ON rather than form minority govt with Greens? 464
Reposted by Paul BEddy Jokovich @eddyjokovich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something about the #FlyDubai story doesn't add up. Conflicting accounts, extraordinary claims, unanswered questions – and an extraordinarily convenient political narrative. Why didn’t journalists check the stories? The Weekly Brief from New Politics: www.newpolitics.com.au/p/why-the-fl...newpolitics.com.auWhy the FlyDubai story doesn’t add up, a Greens left turn and Australia’s politics of powerThe FlyDubai narrative deserves more scrutiny, Shoebridge pushes the Greens towards the populist left; One Nation gets closer to Rinehart; Big tech and AI; and Labor pushes another massive coalmine. 45514
Reposted by Paul BGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of those "oh things are improving... wait, WTUF, the gap is that big?" graphs 1118969
Reposted by Paul BHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026But did he use an ai agent to book the rescue? Missed opportunity there.gizmodo.comTeen Left Stranded on a Cliff After Letting AI Plan HikeA 16-year-old hiker had to be rescued after using AI to plan his route. 1015324
Reposted by Paul BGraham Readfearn @readfearn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A month of broken records for temperatures around Australia. Hottest September ever for minimums across the continent, scores of places setting records for warmest September. A snow depth gauge in the NSW alps fell to zero - a first for any September since it was deployed in 1954.theguardian.comAustralia experiences second hottest September on record as El Niño and climate crisis combineAlpine areas also experience record-breaking heat with snow depth recorded at zero in Kosciuszko national park 12021
Reposted by Paul BGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026theonion.com/trump-drops-...theonion.comTrump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against HimWASHINGTON—During an address to the nation Tuesday in which he claimed to have obtained definitive proof that the election was stolen, President Donald Trump presented bombshell evidence showing his o... 34210
Reposted by Paul BSteve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Australia playing a leadership role at COP31 while approving new coal and gas projects - massive ones - at home, to be exported and burned abroad, is the height of hypocrisy. Packaged up with a patronising visit to Fiji. 0118
Reposted by Paul BGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My latest for @deepcutnews.bsky.social on the we need less govt spending folk who pay no tax. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...open.substack.comNews Corp, Santos, Kogan paid $0 in tax. But sure, let’s blame ‘government spending’ - Greg JerichoThe Coalition want to cut already-underfunded social and health services, while staying silent on the corporations paying nothing 111652
Reposted by Paul BRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...aljazeera.com‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine ActionMargaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera. 8254991549
Reposted by Paul BGekko @gekko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Greens under new leadership have made the decision to be a government-in-waiting and many Australians are energised by that Its not only a mess made by Albanese and Labor, its a dysfunctional mess created by major parties in our body politic that serves no-one johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...johnmenadue.comGreens can hope to pick up the mess Labor and Albanese have madeLabor’s shift to the right has opened political space on its left. If the Greens seriously want to become an alternative party of government, they must take votes from Labor, professionalise and build... 58934
Reposted by Paul BSandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A white-browed woodswallow at Gluepot Reserve, South Australia. #birdsseenin2026 424726
Reposted by Paul BSydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026HVO coal mine expansion was approved to continue for 19 more years and more news from the Nannas. knittingnannas.org/2026/10/06/n...knittingnannas.orgNanna News 6 Oct 2026It was a shocking week for Knitting Nannas and the movement to protect our climate, land, water and natural environment. The Hunter Valley Operation coal mine expansion was approved. 1155
Reposted by Paul BJo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Isn't that sweet? One Rinehart subsidiary purchases a building for the use of another Rinehart subsidary. 32336106
Reposted by Paul BKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/10/2026It feels like a real tactic to apply "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" to someone just trying to the absolute bog standard bare minimum of climate action (like: 'reduce fossil fuel usage') Just keep shifting the flag of 'reasonable middle ground' further towards pro-fossil positions 68613
