Two books on table, "Country" and Health" in the First Knowledges series from National Museum Australia and Thames & Hudson.
First round of Xmas holiday reading sorted thanks to #Gosford library. Such a cool new space to explore on #CentralCoastNSW
- good spot to chill during a predicted heat wave Xmas day.
Yep. It's not a good situation there. 12 houses lost so far. If you're local, hope you're keeping an eye on hazardsnear.me
Interesting. Has work been done on differentiating synthetic vs true voices in online discourse? Seeing a lot of problematic bot account #astroturfing interference active in trying to derail community protest movements like @risingtideaus.bsky.social over w/e.
Been on a similar quest recently after cancelling #Spotify family subs, also worth checking out @subvert.fm in addition to Tidal - peers have dug into the Tidal business model and its not all rosy. subvert.fm
If you're also fed up with #Spotify and seeking alternatives that do a better job of honouring #musician rights, efforts, maybe check out subvert.fm - building on the bitter sellout lessons of #Bandcamp Subvert is owned by its membership base of artists, labels, supporters, and workers.
It's been a refreshing change of narrative and commentary - look forward to seeing #PointLive get more traction and help to cut through some of the #auspol spin, smokescreens.
Awesome to see Greg the Stop sign in there from #TISM and some #MidnightOil - disappointingly few repping #TimMinchin as one of our polymath musical talents. Kudos for the pic and repping #AusMusic support though. ausmusictshirtday.org.au
T-shirt for AusMusic day showing "Tim Minchin Songs the world will never hear" text and a walking ape carrying a flower
Today is #SupportAct #AusMusic t-shirt day - celebrate your favourite artist or donate to the great work done by this mob via ausmusictshirtday.org.au
Support Act provides short-term financial relief for music workers in crisis and more.
My tribute - @timminchin.bsky.social tee:
Whilst this is a useful step in #ebike regulation, it's not going to do a thing to those wanting to retrofit high powered hub motors to a MTB frame: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #emobility #transportpolicy
NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1
What they are not telling you is our water tables are all connected. Pollute one, destroy another.
On the driest inhabited continent on the planet.
It's been a very long time since I would refer to X and others these as neutral infrastructure, but this is a long overdue level of insight into the methods used by bad faith actors to poison the well of public discourse.
Stoked to have a screening of #FutureCouncil today at @nararaecovillage.bsky.social via cen.org.au/event/before...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLPQ...
Going beyond thermodynamics, worth also looking at the leakiness of energy systems - and the health/climate impacts of those leaks. @txsharon.bsky.social doing great work in this space with @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social for tracking #methane
Has been amazing to see the findings of @txsharon.bsky.social imaging of #methane leakage across the US - so much invisible pollution, visible with the right imaging equipment. Amplify her work! Need more optical gas imaging thermographers + gear to bear witness.
Pfft. Wait till the #cicadas kick in. Then report back..
We’re about to hit the phase of the S-curve where the world goes from “fast” to “holy shit.” Solar’s doubling on a 24-month cycle — but the real elephant in the room is #BESS. As storage scales, the grid stops being a bottleneck and starts becoming a battery-backed solar engine. #EnergyTransition
I'm frankly more inclined to listen to the farmers speaking with the Clean Energy Council. Less ideologues and vested interests, more on-the-ground economic impacts and viable futures voices. So frustrating to see the poison-the-well tactics impacting farmers diversification prospects.
@senatorsurfer.bsky.social - highly relevant to todays Senate Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.
This is useful space for @timothyjgraham.bsky.social to also comment given the work he's done at @qutdmrc.bsky.social on how misinformation players weaponise the information space, create polarisation. The #southerlyten example of pre/post polarisation in Gippsland vs Hunter = useful.
Find out just how organised and deliberate groups are - which push climate disinformation to us through the Senate's live public hearings into climate disinformation - here right now #auspol > www.youtube.com/live/hK5-rDw...
ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
If you're an #ebikesafety advocate, interested in meeting kids #emobility needs for school transport, this program is worth checking out - digital license, online safety course required, #ebike plated: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIek... More at ebikesafetyaustralia.com.au/e-bike-schoo...
Encouraging to see the approach of plated, licensed #ebike riders as a school level initiative, after meeting with and hearing from local principals who would also benefit from this: ebikesafetyaustralia.com.au/e-bike-schoo... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIek...
With #eMotos sitting outside the industry sales reporting patterns for #EVcouncil #BEV and #FCAI its very hard to know how many of them are sold, based on models, speed capacity. Would be good to close this gap @aevanational.bsky.social Thoughts? @bridieev.bsky.social @thedriven.io
Would love to see the FCAI also able to take account of the sales of #eMotos but requires retailers to then become registered Motor Vehicle Dealerships, helps track size of the problem of legal vs illegal products. @aevanational.bsky.social
For an 8yo to be riding an #eMoto capable of 35km/h, when it hits another bike going opposite direction at ~50-80km/h, the consequences are deadly. Collision risk increases with every bike added to the problem. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... @aevanational.bsky.social
Now that the #emoto genie is out of the bottle, we're starting to see the inevitable conclusion from arguments with physics by young minds with poor risk insight in urban spaces. Regulation is coming, sorely needed. #electricdirtbike #riderlife www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
This is a must read, all the way to the end, from @timhollo.bsky.social. The best analysis I’ve seen of the bad faith tactic of the major parties of presenting pro fossil mining environmental policy and then bullying the cross bench into supporting it:
“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There’s no ‘patch’ for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.” — @michaelemann.bsky.social