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TheMoonDuster

@themoonduster.bsky.social
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A thousand miles of Moonlight later… Musician, Over Thinker, NueroSparkly. Meanjn/Brisbane (He/Him/They) Gotta draw the line at fascism in all its shithouse forms.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6h
40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...
Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h
I've been trying to find a way to demonstrate that even if AI is fully 'green' or 'frugal' it's still rife with serious ethical and moral failures having my corporate accountability analyses machine-plagiarised by a company selling sustainable AI services has kind of done it for me
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 23h
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Digital specialists: Anyone able to actually measure, quantify or document a drop in pro-One Nation bot traffic and correlate it with the Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's Yandex bot farm/data centres? Similar reports re: climate denial-fossil-fascists parties incl. AfD (Germany) and MAGA (US).
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yandex - Anyone got some coffee whitener? We seem to have run out. Zelenskyy - Nope but gave NIMBY a triple shot espresso
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am so deeply annoyed at the half hour I spent reading about the AI pain study. Also annoyed that writing about AI seems to more frequently contain writing I very much suspect was generated or edited by AI than other writing. Anyway, here's what that was:
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Too many people judge the disabled for what we do to survive. The truth is you can’t fathom what it’s like to live in a body that’s betrayed you. To exist in legislated poverty with no reliable help or care. To be left by the wayside to die and abandoned by almost everyone. 🧵
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you keep living and keep fighting and keep waking up in the morning you will live long enough to see the dawn break and I think we're seeing the first rays of it right now Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if AI can't improve productivity of coding, then all other claims about productivity improvements are essentially horseshit. Coding was the one thing everyone was like "well yeah of course it will be able to do that faster"
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I'm very poorly today, very stupid & hate everybody & everything @voxexsinister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As a long time coder (started in the late 70s) that claim was obvious bullshit. What LLM-based "AI" is actually good for is generating convincing sounding marketing bullshit, hence its appeal to Business-dipshits.
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Luis Alis・ルイス @luisalisferrer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At some point this scam has to end so we can get on with the world's real problems. We're sick of funneling money so techbros can build a third lunar escape pod for their fourth nuclear shelter under their sixth luxury mansion.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026
We have published now two full reports both debunking this claim and shining a new light on the climate impacts of companies like NVIDIA and others who insist on this without evidence. Public control won't fix this problem - not at all. ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
a graphic showing the difference bw energy consumption and climate benefit claimsthe rising energy consumption of hyperscalers an increase in greenhouse gas emissions
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fascism the movie. Someone deliberately blames a weaker person for their own fart. Someone else doesn’t say anything because they.. (montage) ..cut to the last throat of the last human alive, a fascist, being slit by themselves in a shitcave (the bunker became a big uncapped ‘tube of feces paste’)
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 01/10/2026
We’re celebrating 70 years of New Scientist! ⁠ ⁠ Over the past seven decades, science has delivered some extraordinary breakthroughs. To mark the occasion, we asked our staff to look ahead: what scientific breakthrough are they most excited to see in the next 70 years?⁠
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Rosie* is in her 30s” and seems very switched on. Little way down the article. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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What everyday Australians want political leaders to hear
For the past eight weeks, ABC teams have been talking to thousands of people across the country about what matters to them, and there is a consistent message.
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Very sad, and yeah it would be the worst smell www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Fear of mass seal deaths triggers Australian withdrawal from remote island
The Australian Antarctic Division will launch a mission to extract personnel from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean due to the psychological risk posed by a potential outbreak of bird flu at the ...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question? Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable. Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in five European nations, survey finds
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes
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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Celebrating our anniversary by getting fucked up at an Applebee's, cheers to us (& you all)!
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Anyone ever make anything from this book? Corks, ping pong balls, pegs and empty boxes of matches. #favouritechildhoodbooks
Book cover ‘365 Games to make and play’. Large book A4 sized, yellow background with an outline of a bottle of glue being used as a window showing 2 children playing with some toys they made form
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The supposed autism “epidemic” is due to diagnosis and awareness - “autism arises from genetic perturbations affecting the processes of neural development, especially at fetal stages” - great piece here 👇
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Picked some cherry tomatoes, put them in my pocket. Forgot. Later, I put my hand in my pocket to get my keys only to discover both wet mush and an unwanted affiliation with Stalin’s tomato pants antics.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 03/08/2026
This is not a story of journalists talking and writing about journalists. It is a story about the functioning of Australian democracy.
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One Nation’s banning of the ABC and abuse of journalists is shameful. It’s time other media took a stand
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Been a generation at least now of knowing how much child labour is still in this industry. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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'Behind that treat is human suffering': The chocolate industry's 'dirty secret'
For decades, major chocolate companies have pledged to eradicate child labour. Four Corners discovered that in Ghana, the promises don't always match the reality.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/08/2026
A data-driven picture of our rapidly changing planet - updated through June 2026... Download the graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Heat map-style graphic showing monthly mean global surface air temperature anomalies from January 1850 to June 2026. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. Annotations are shown for the year of each warmest respective month. All of these records have occurred within the 2023 to 2025 period in this dataset. Anomalies here are calculated relative to a 1850-1900 baseline. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp 6.1.0.
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
As good as The Odyssey might be, it still doesn’t hold a candle to the greatest sword and sandal classic of all time. 1981’s Clash of the Titans. No offence but fuck the 2010 version.
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Clash of the Titans (1981): Medusa's Petrifying Gaze
Alt: Clash of the Titans (1981): Medusa's Petrifying Gaze. Snakes for hair, camera zooms in as the eyes turn fluro green
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you are bored and want something random to follow for 3.5 mins, this might be something for you! youtu.be/uwXGaR4ql0M?...
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Fierce Slits - TheMoonDuster
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TheMoonDuster @themoonduster.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Some sort of 2 1/2 minute weird slightly funky psychedelic wonderland with hazy invasive species along a creek. youtu.be/DDZpf6zlft8?...
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Little Tilt - TheMoonDuster
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Windhorse @windhorse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You can trade on what rotten tomatoes score you think The Odyssey will have. Capitalism at its finest - utterly pointless, creating nothing of value but wealth based on bet on a measure that has no value either. Burn it all to the fricken ground.
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The Odyssey: Rotten Tomatoes score
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You can speak ill of the dead when, while alive, they spoke and caused ill, of so many others. You don’t have to mourn monsters.
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This post has prompted an amazing amount of discussion. I hope it prompts some book sales too… 😅
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/06/2026
Great to see so much information out there around how to cope with heat, but there is one vulnerable group that has been badly left out. Here's a PSA on how to care for climate deniers during fossil-fuelled heatwaves
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ak has a sale on right now, and my book is $17.25, which is less than a drink in some fancy places! (If you're struggling and this is a reach, please hold onto your money and ask your library to order one or share one with friends) www.akpress.org/against-the-...
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Against the State
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Hugely important story from Queensland where Indigenous people are being dropped from any positions of influence. This is just the start. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Qld minister tight-lipped about 'Project Invisibility' Indigenous sackings
Under the direction of Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, eight Indigenous directors have disappeared from the boards of south-east Queensland's cultural institutions.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Don't believe the gas lobby lies. Solar generation grew 17x faster than gas in 2025 - globally. #whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/gas-lobby-de...
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Gas lobby desperation as global demand plummets - Michael West
While gas lobby continues to cry crocodile tears about taxation hindering new investment, the global market for gas tells a different story.
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My book TOGETHERNESS is published TODAY! I spoke all about it with @marklynas.bsky.social 👇
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 08/06/2026
An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet
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New Scientist recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life
An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet
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‪Mana Toyestrial 🛸 [Streaming Soon] @manatoyestrial.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I hate living in a time where I can't express my joy of something without first having to do extensive research on it to make sure it's not created by someone/something awful. This crap sucks...
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Short King🎃Scream Queen @curiah.city · 04/06/2026
Art is such a funny thing because yes, you can do things that are "technically" correct, but that doesn't matter if it's not the artist's intention to -be- technically correct. This is why I rarely offer art advice unless it's asked for. You can't assume the artist wants to be "correct."
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/05/2026
Terribly, terribly sad news even given his very advanced age. What a legacy he leaves though.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/05/2026
Sonny Rollins, R.I.P. One of the greats. He was the last living jazz musician pictured in this famous 1958 photo (a copy of which I have on the wall of my office), "A Great Day in Harlem." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great...
The black and white photo "A Great Day in Harlem" picturing a large collection of people on a stoop in Harlem in 1958.
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. 📽: NASA Goddard
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.
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Snake Man Mark @snakemanmark.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 29/04/2026
When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.
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