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Husband. Dad. If just one of us helps someone and that someone helps someone else... a chain begins #Humanity I was lucky to be born on Larrakia Land. My down time is spent playing #WoW with great mates!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026
If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...
Anthropic’s $32b Queensland data centre to run on coal and gas power until renewables are built
I frontier lab Anthropic’s first Australian data centre at Zerra DC’s proposed $32 billion project in regional Queensland will be powered by coal and gas as a bridge until renewables to support the facility are built.

Wambo Cattle Company managing director Max Winders, the owner of the land Zerra plans to build on, told Capital Brief he expects fossil fuels to power the massive project for the foreseeable future.

“I think we’ll be using fossil fuels for quite a long time in Queensland, anyhow, certainly enough to be able to get the power to drive the data centres,” he said.

Winders said that he believed that the concessions Queensland Premier David Crisafulli negotiated “at National Cabinet was critical” for ensuring the Western Downs development has the best chance of being built.

“In all likelihood, they’ll just link up to the grid, sign a contract with the state energy provider, and then, likely draw the power from the coal plants that are already there.”
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 11/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 07/10/2026
Under-pressure families suffering cutbacks to their disability supports are being referred to child protection services if they complain.
canberratimes.com.au
Complaining NDIS families face child protection threats
The national disability agency is referring families that complain about support levels to child protection services, an autism...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Barely any media reporting on this. Instead it's one big tech weirdo after another talking about how their god machines want to kill us all so they need all of earth's resources immediately
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The US needs to be building 2.3 subs per year to deliver us #AUKUS subs. They're only at 1.1. And they're struggling to keep built subs at sea. USS Connecticut damaged in 2021. Repairs started in 23 for a finish in 25, now 27. Deactivation in 2031. #auspol
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Damaged Nuclear Sub Dashes US Navy Hopes For A 2026 Return To Service - SlashGear
Although the U.S. Navy was hoping to get the USS Connecticut back into service this year, that seems not to be on the table as the timeline gets extended.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Media Watch had a crack at us last night over #flydubai. We gently remind them of their own epic fail #auspol michaelwest.com.au/flying-high-...
michaelwest.com.au
Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch - Michael West
ABC Media Watch has accused this reporter of "perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories" online. We say the ABC has failed
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026
There are early signs that the fire season in Victoria and Tasmania could be bad. This seasonal outlook for rain (left) and temperature (right) over the next three months is not friendly. There is lots of time to pass until fire season down here - and things will shift! - but this is a bad start.
Map showing the chance that rainfall will be low in Victoria and Tasmania. In the southern half of Victoria, there is an above average (1.5x-2x higher than normal) chance that rainfall will be low. In most of Tasmania there is much higher than normal (2x-3.5x higher than normal) change rainfall will be low.Map showing the chance that temperatures will be high in Victoria and Tasmania. Across both state, virtually all of the state has a much, much higher than normal (4x+ times higher than normal) change temperatures will be high.
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any thoughts Jillian Segal? Any thoughts to those politicians wanting us arrested for opposing genocide by saying words ????? #auspol #freepalestine
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year	Total income	Company Tax
2014-15	$3,389,399,798	$0
2015-16	$3,476,002,729	$0
2016-17	$3,715,263,715	$0
2017-18	$3,498,043,596	$0
2018-19	$4,360,612,850	$0
2019-20	$5,013,931,702	$0
2020-21	$4,070,327,153	$0
2021-22	$4,746,037,784	$0
2022-23	$6,257,384,778	$0
2023-24	$8,210,276,022	$0
2024-25	$5,117,008,013	$0
Total	$51,854,288,140	$0
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia: "millions of working class people have to suffer because some rich fucks got a bit greedy again x"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Very common story across the world: construction of homes hitting a wall where data centres are sucking up resources. Also see: Australia www.brokernews.com.au/news/breakin... Anyway, great work abundance / yimby folks, you're doing a good job
brokernews.com.au
Data centre boom threatens to squeeze residential builders
CreditorWatch warns residential builders face rising risk as data centres compete for trades
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zakmckrakken.bsky.social @zakmckrakken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel sad for his family. He was a bit dark and troubled the last few years, but still brought us joy back in the day. RIP
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, he is a fire-breathing dragon. And, yes, he has amassed a gigantic treasure mound of gemstones, gold and jewelry in his cave. But does he have to be so Smaug about it?
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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Middle aged white guy killed by shark minding his own business in his own home : Kill the shark Three women killed by men minding their own business in their own home: Kill the shark #YeahYouCanAllFuckAllTheWayOff #auspol
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Please note @albomp.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social We have not solved either the #economic or #energy issues with data scraping. Meantime #human creativity and #community based care appears to be a big additional cost. #auspol
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George's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who does the economy work for ? Govt says it can't afford to Raise The Rate yet is throwing money to large corporations. The RBA say we need to keep 700K people unemployed to keep inflation down. ALP/LNP/ON telling you its immigrants that are the problem. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
theguardian.com
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
God. Read this
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why does this micronation, the third smallest country in the world, with no tourism and fewer residents than Horsham, have an international commercial airline – let alone one with seven Boeing 737s? How our immigration politics corrupts everything:
thepoint.com.au
Why is Australia propping up Nauru Airlines to keep offshore detention alive?
Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When the Paris Agreement goals was negotiated in 2016, targets were set based on what was feasible at the time. A stark takeaway from today's UNEP 'overshoot' report is that we fucked it up. We didn't do the things we needed to do. We wasted a decade and the consequences are coming.
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Wyvernsrose #RaiseTheRate @wyvernsrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now? dlvr.it/TVHGZG
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.” 💜
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Shot has the right to "self-defence"
The Shot has the right to “self-defence”

In Crikey, Sami Shah stated that The Shot is anti-Semitic, describing our masthead as “an attempt at a satirical site for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated” and our work as “Practically demonstrations of antisemitism". Embarrassingly, in the same week, The Australian more accurately described us as “left-wing” and “probing the limits of law and language”.  
 
Sami singled out two article headlines, The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths and Updates from the royal commission into the selective outrage of Zionists, which he clearly didn’t read before accusing us of sloppy “media criticism”. The headlines were mine, the body copy written by Joel Jenkins. They were no-bullshit, reality based tear downs of the fascistic assaults on our democracy, which all of us can see so plainly with our own eyes. Even liberal Zionist cowards like Shah. 

During a mass slaughter that our government is supporting materially and diplomatically, it's not good enough to have segments of the indie media community trying to un-stretch the Overton Window back inside the borders set by decades of hasbara, horrifically biased and supremacist mass media, and the whims of the genocidal psychopaths. We don’t know how many Australians love milquetoast fence-sitting during atrocity, but Pew research shows that 80% of us despise Israeli atrocity and fascistic overreach into our democracies.

Description continued on next slide As a credo, I try to treat people with the same level of respect I am shown. We have done more serious analysis and investigative reporting on this depravity than Crikey has, a much larger outlet with more staff and resources. Over the years, The Sunday Shot has also platformed many Crikey writers. Needless to say, that moment has passed us by.

To make such petty remarks at some of the few unvarnished truth-tellers in Australian journalism on this subject, in this moment of abject moral failure, of cowardice and of complicity, speaks to the hollow pettiness of Shah’s analysis. Focus on what really matters, please. 

There is enough genocide apologia in the corporate press already. It's pathetic to see it in the indie space, too. Do better, Crikey, your readers expect more. 

Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.
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zakmckrakken.bsky.social @zakmckrakken.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live Mumford and Sons Tori Amos Phil Collins Shortcut to Mushrooms Midge Ure Chris de Burgh Sonia Dada Thompson Twins The Killers Tim Minchin ❤️
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JustDavo @justdavo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bill Shorten lost the 2019 unlosable election because he proposed cuts to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions, and that 50% of new cars be EVs by 2030. Tax changes are now law, and the 50% EV target could be achieved before 2030. Voters owe Bill a huge apology. Voters fell for the BS.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
most people want government to ban gambling ads, oppose genocide, tax fossil fuel billionaires, and stop approving slop machines. Instead we get expanded state surveillance powers serving white supremacist and foreign interests. www.deepcutnews.com/p/dave-hughe...
deepcutnews.com
Dave Hughes’s ‘common sense’ is just another rich person whining – Amy Remeikis
We hear too often about the concerns of the rich, and not enough about the concerns of Australia’s silenced majority
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
UN rapporteur calls for international protection force in Gaza, West Bank Francesca Albanese says deployment is 'absolutely urgent' and calls on states to act on International Court of Justice ruling
aa.com.tr
UN rapporteur calls for international protection force in Gaza, West Bank
Francesca Albanese says deployment is 'absolutely urgent' and calls on states to act on International Court of Justice ruling | Anadolu
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Care package. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Kitchen scene, table with teapot and cups of tea in front of middle-aged woman holding phone, talking to frail elderly woman in mauve dressing gown and slippers. First woman says, “They say once we get our AUKUS subs, they’ll have a better idea of how much they have left to spend on your aged care package…”
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pinconp.bsky.social @pinconp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So. NDIS will be ‘sustainable’. But AUKUS is full steam ahead 3 gambling ads an hour - good for punters. Right. Got it. Mr Albanese: Can you IMAGINE how much I dislike your ‘centrist’ policies. I Used to be an ALP member! Disgusting #auspol
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
💥 Israel just blew up the public water reservoir in Mansouri, South Lebanon — cutting off the town’s water supply. Not a military target. A water reservoir. Essential civilian infrastructure. This is a war crime. This is an act of genocide. 8/18 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/08/2026
Folks: here's a meaty long read for you on how Australia's data centre industry lobbied (successfully) to kill regulations that would force them to cover their new demand with renewables And how (this is spicy) the desire within some climate/energy spaces to see data centres as 'cleantech' helped
ketanjoshi.co
How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to to freely pollute
Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry’s hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
An Israeli spy company has been sneaking it's way into various government agencies, giving access to peoples phones without any authorization or oversight. Be aware of Cellebrite.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Australian Federal Senator David Shoebridge 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"In the first of an IA two-part series, Dr Evan Jones examines the Australian Special Envoy for Antisemitism's 'Understanding Antisemitism in Australia' report and describes the handbook as a dangerous farce. "
independentaustralia.net
Jillian Segal's 'Understanding Antisemitism in Australia': A lesson in propaganda
Jillian Segal's Understanding Antisemitism in Australia Report is an embarrassment, writes Dr Evan Jones.
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zakmckrakken.bsky.social @zakmckrakken.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@albomp.bsky.social you're never getting any submarines
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The world that $6,700,000,000,000 in annual fossil fuel subsidies has bought us.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
All of the AI nerds keep insisting that the water issues are fake while the companies keep pointing machine guns at authorities and demanding more water
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thriveability.bsky.social @thriveability.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Let's go deeper.
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Great post! Excellent summary. Time for parents and grandparents to speed up change by #voting and #lobbying to build them a survivable future. #auspol
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It’s that time again, friends. Time to share the greatest eclipse explainer ever.
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Brian Jones @darthspoog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Voice of Kiki @voiceofkiki.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I used to play a game with SCA newbies who got too starry-eyed about the past. The game: "Given your personal history, what age would you have died in the Middle Ages?" People stop romanticizing it when you point out that weird fever at age 2 would have been it for them.
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akayea.bsky.social @akayea.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why is the savings so low? Because two thirds of NDIS spending goes to families with zero taxable income -- because they're on DSP
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
European summers aren't what they used to be! Grey curve is the climate of 1950-90. Every coloured line is a summer since 1991. Every one since 2005 sits beyond the 95th percentile of the curve. This isn't a shifting #climate. It's already a new one! 🤯🥵 Plot inspired by Barriopedro et al. 2011
Distribution of European summer temperature anomalies, June to August, over 25°W-40°E, 35-70°N, land only, the region used by Barriopedro et al., relative to 1961-1990, from ERA5. Grey bars show the 41 summers from 1950 to 1990, with a normal curve fitted through them, centred near zero. Coloured vertical lines show every summer from 1991 to 2025, shaded yellow through dark red by year, and almost all of them fall to the right of the grey distribution. The ten warmest are labelled, with 2024 furthest right at 2.74°C and 2022 next at 2.54°C. A dotted line marks the 95th percentile of the 1950-1990 distribution at 0.76°C.

Both run long, which is fine, since alt text has no practical limit and screen reader users benefit from the detail.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/08/2026
A data centre in Australia is already free to build and use as much as gas it wants with no climate limits. If it were to be covered by the Safeguard Mechanism they could buy and use as many CCS offsets as they want, to falsely claim "compliance".
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Leaked video from an ICE camp details people suffering from tuberculosis, a never ending “flu” & conjunctivitis. ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event. These are concentration camps. They’re a breeding ground for disease which will lead to preventable suffering, disability and death.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/08/2026
You have definitely heard this at some point: "data centres are driving clean energy growth" The reality is most often they just pretend to be doing this using some offset-style moral trickery. Here's an explainer (using Australia's data centre lobby as a prime example)
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