‘Apparently’.

There’s another answer to what the rise is ‘largely because’ of.

Any guesses?

Go on, give it a crack. The obvious answer. What do you think that might be?

Who specifically is concerned? ‘There is concern’ is a God-tier use of the passive voice.

Magpie outside a kitchen window

I do not feed this magpie. This is a wild magpie.

The magpie disagrees on both counts.

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses

Have to hand it to the Australian government, the personal responsibility/nudge approach is the only one that is guaranteed to make social cohesion worse. Well done for literally telling people that turning on their neighbours is absolutely the way to go.

Donella Meadows :)

In my house we are cackling loudly, masterful work @soozuk.bsky.social

Choose your own choice! Systems theory is real though, make your choice based on that.

(If you’re thinking ‘wait but actually there’s no such thing as a closed system?’ Congratulations and welcome to the cult. Now you know 100% why people find it hard to describe)

TLDR cybernetics = the study of responsive systems as opposed to non-responsive ones

Fun for nerds: one of the big symbolic reasons for the USSR’s participation in, and almost total (until the moon) domination of, the space race was connected to proving that closed systems (such as a centrally controlled economy) were both real and superior to lassaiz faire.

The classic in this field is Donella Meadows’ book ‘thinking in systems’.

The ship can change what happens in the ship. In an open system (cybernetic) we see the result of feedback loops: external factors shape the system all the time. So my vegetable garden is cybernetic because it is affected by rainfall, sun, all sorts

Hey hey - There is a technical answer? Cybernetics is based on the idea that there are basically two kinds of systems: open and closed.

In a closed system the only thing that changes the system is already inside the system. So, for example, a manned space flight - nothing that isn’t already in

Work with me here:

Product Hail Mary

The fuck I did

Be not beholden to any of the laws of my kind, return to your own folk and be free, there is no covenant between us, go from this place with my blessing

F…

Fae…

Faece

The cultural distinction between ‘fairies’ and ‘faeries’ (inc. ‘the Fae’) is class gatekeeping

You’re all horny for fairies, own it

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching.

Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher.

That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Well we got there in the end.

Took too long, but, we got there.

Happy Easter to you. He is risen indeed.

Nothing.

Zealots who commit to sexual and sex homogeneity struggle with the Bible because it has almost nothing to say about either. The absence is a presence.

Jesus was adamant that nothing, not one single thing about a person’s body could make them unclean or unworthy.

Nothing.

Not one single thing.

If he has total understanding of what it is to be me, and he does, he must have total understanding of what it is to be what I am, which is a woman. He’s a flesh and blood man who knows what it is to be every flesh and blood person there is. And what it is to surpass flesh and blood.

I’m not messing with you, trans theology is solid. Not a retrofit. Yes all religions that thrive thrive because they help communities thrive, and communities change, fine, yes, but also Jesus was a person and God, and he knows what it is to be us, and that’s everyone

Well we sure as shit prayed for trans day of visibility at my church on Easter Sunday

Also gang it’s a bit iykyk but every young person currently choosing to go to church on purpose in Australia is queer, genderqueer, or trans

Trans theology is very, very real, and it’s good theology too.

Here in Canberra there’s a standard: no heaters before Anzac Day (25 April)

I have solar

I turn on my heater WHENEVER I WANT HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Yep I get you

TLDR we are underestimating the potential rise of left wing populism in Australia (we have preferential voting so this matters more here than in the uk)

This is brilliant (research based) analysis everyone, do read it

By @kossamaras.bsky.social