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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 6h

She even disappeared from bluesky. Did they block her?

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

In case you missed it ...
The largest number of foreign doctors working in the German health sector are now Syrians who came to Germany as refugees 10 years ago.

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 7h

Brisbane is taking another approach to swimmable cities as legacy from the Olympics.
We are going for unaffordable housing in flood plains. A swimming city, I guess

Oh and also a stadium in lieu of an award winning urban forest
So much to look forward to

Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent news! 🏊🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 18h

Thanks to our bold policies, we’ve made great progress in cleaning up London’s air. I’m committed to doing the same with our rivers.

Our Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will set out our priorities to reduce pollution, restore biodiversity and improve access to rivers over the next 10 years.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 9h

As someone who greatly respects and has greatly benefited from Professor Farhana Sultana's critical & generous public scholarship on the interrelations between water governance, climate change, colonialism & capitalism, I have signed this Letter of Support

Please consider signing it too

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

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Barbara Pedersen @barbie4science.bsky.social · 8h

No new coal is the global norm.

#ffdeathwatch
#Auspol

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16h

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING

65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction

China is an outlier - but maybe not for long

@e3g.bsky.social

www.e3g.org/publications...

No New Coal is now a global norm for the vast majority of countries
164 countries – covering more than two-thirds of the global economy – either have no planned coal in their project pipeline and/or have made a No New Coal commitment.
The global pipeline of planned coal-fired power plant projects has collapsed by 65%, and 74% when excluding China, in the decade following the ratification of the Paris agreement. The shift is made possible by the growth of renewables. Solar and wind accounted for 87% of new capacity additions in 2024, while coal made up just 3%.
Just 11 countries now account for 96% of new planned coal power. The remaining 4% is spread across 18 countries. This total of 29 countries still planning new coal is down from 65 a decade ago. In almost all of the countries still planning coal power, solar and wind capacity additions are exceeding coal and gas.
Momentum on No New Coal continued in 2025 NDCs: Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Mauritius, Morocco, Singapore and the UK reiterated or made commitments to no new coal (see our NDC energy commitments tracker); Thailand cancelled its last planned coal plant; and Honduras committed to stop permitting new coal plants through new membership of the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA).
Approximately 4 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions have been avoided every year of the last decade thanks to the collapse of planned coal capacity – equivalent to nearly one-third of China’s annual CO2 emissions.

Planned coal levelling off outside the OECD; China remains an outlier
Outside the OECD (excluding China), the number of planned coal projects has largely levelled off, with many shifting investments towards renewables. A few countries, such as India, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe, continue to expand their coal pipelines.
Realising President Prabowo’s clean energy vision for Indonesia – based on announcements to close Indonesia’s coal fleet within 15 years, achieve 100% renewable energy by 2035, and install 100 GW of solar power – requires a clear signal that only new renewables capacity is going to be prioritised going forward. Committing to No New Coal provides such a signal. Pakistan’s solar boom presents a clear opportunity to end the country’s reliance on new coal power and fulfil the former Prime Minister’s 2020 announcement that Pakistan would “not have any more power based on coal”. As the incoming ASEAN chair, the Philippines can also use a firmer No New Coal commitment to enable regional planning on coal-to-clean transitions.
African leaders’ call for a rise in the continent’s share of global renewable energy investments from just 2% today to at least 20% by 2030, must be met to ensure there is no pursuit of coal in Africa.
China remains a global outlier: responsible for 62% of the world’s planned coal capacity. However, the country is also the world leader in the rollout of both wind and solar, with 1,215 GW of prospective capacity and a commitment to increase this pipeline to over 3,600 GW by 2035. There is no need for new coal: in the first half of 2025, generation from clean energy exceeded domestic demand growth. Going beyond its insufficient NDC, China now has a clear opportunity to implement plans to end new coal construction in its next Five Year Plan in 2026.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel has continued since then to demolish hundreds of homes and critical civilian infrastructure in what residents see as an effort to not just prevent their return but erase their history."

Lebanon, not Gaza. Modus operandi the same.

Despite a ceasefire, Israel has demolished villages in southern Lebanon

Along Lebanon's border, Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire in the country's war with Hezbollah last year.

www.npr.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

just....enjoy this

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 1d

Private job agencies are an absolute rort and only exist to monitor and punish unemployed people. Abolish the lot. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

I decided this morning that I will now approach every online video I see as fake - and attempt to be doubly wary if it supports or illustrates my main prejudices.

Andrew Turley @aturls.bsky.social · 2d

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Why is this happening? Oklahoma has tens of thousands of abandoned, unplugged oil wells.

When oil companies dispose of wastewater by injecting into the ground, those wells provide pathways for the waste to shoot thousands of feet to the surface, contaminating drinking water sources along the way.

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s…

www.propublica.org

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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · 3d

Buried under Aussie backyards: 130,000 abandoned coal boreholes, many leaking methane.
The fossil fuel industry’s invisible legacy, and we’ll pay for the clean-up.
#ClimateCrisis #auspol

Australia’s 130,000 hidden methane boreholes raise alarm - realestate.com.au

A small hidden hole silently spewing as much toxin as 10,000 cars has sparked fears that thousands of unsuspecting Aussies could be living on top of ticking time bombs.

www.realestate.com.au

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

Hurricane #Melissa leaves 50 dead in devastation across Jamaica & Haiti, with tool expected to rise

60% of Jamaica without electricity and areas with up to 90% of roofs gone😮

Report from @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social for @aljazeera.com

Melissa leaves 50 dead, toll expected to rise in Jamaica, Haiti

The storm has left 60 percent of Jamaica without electricity and some areas with up to 90 percent of roofs gone.

www.aljazeera.com

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 3d

Of course that does not solve the water problem or all the issues of data centres themselves...

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 3d

I really really love this.
Any energy intensive industry could do this! In Australia gains would so big.

That's community benefits. Particularly if they prioritise equity! The social licence!

If they could add thermal envelope upgrades too, we so desperately need good shading, insulation etc...

Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 4d

I'm a sucker for cool ideas. If we *need* data centers (questionable), Rewiring America has a cool idea: the data centers can fulfill their power needs faster and no more expensively by buying families heat pumps to replace resistance heating.
www.rewiringamerica.org/research/hom...

New report: Household upgrades could offset all new projected data center energy demand | Rewiring America

Our report, Homegrown Energy, finds household upgrades are the best, fastest solution for increasing energy demand.

www.rewiringamerica.org

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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 4d

Rewatching Andor with my girlfriend and they really need to make a spinoff series focusing on the part of the Bureau of Standards that sets building code and energy efficiency requirements

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5d

93% of the Gaza Strip has been rendered unusable by Israel

(Euro-Med)

During the more than 24 months of genocide, Israeli forces intentionally targeted Palestinian farmers working in the few agricultural areas that had not yet been destroyed in #Gaza, using airstrikes, direct gunfire, and repeated shelling. This turned farmlands into high-risk zones where the simple act of trying to secure food became a deadly gamble.

Ongoing bombings and ground incursions also prevented farmers from accessing lands that survived earlier destruction, while other areas remained unusable due to the lack of irrigation caused by power outages, the destruction of water wells, and severe fuel shortages needed to operate irrigation systems.

Available data reveals the enormous scale of destruction inflicted by #Israel on Gaza’s agricultural sector:

▪️1,218 agricultural wells were destroyed and rendered completely inoperative.
▪️Planted vegetable areas shrank from 93,000 dunams to around 4,000 dunams only.
▪️Over 85% of greenhouses were destroyed.
This amounts to the total collapse of Gaza’s food production system.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 4d

Halloween from
Down Under

I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣

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Djoran Keil @djorankeil.bsky.social · 4d

Geezus these people are petty, vindictive, controlling fucks. I don't even think the LNP believe any of the lies they try to sell to the general public. They're just hateful bigots who fundamentally don't care about people and only care about enforcing their agendas on everyone else.

#Auspol

Snap new Queensland ban on puberty blockers for transgender adolescents

The Queensland health minister has issued a new directive to ban public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to youths six hours after a Supreme Court overturned the January freeze.

www.abc.net.au

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 4d

I know you are all sick of the doomerism and while we can't roll back time, we can stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. We really really DO NOT NEED THEM.
But we really really need to stop using them .

Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉 @wolftickler2000.bsky.social · 4d

There is no time left for incremental change.

We live on a planet on the brink of disaster

This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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RiseUp @riseup.wiki · 4d

An American describes an Israeli tank running over a pregnant Palestinian woman in Gaza—calling it "pure evil." He questions self-defense claims as 50,000+ pregnant women & 68,000 breastfeeding mums face starvation, destroyed hospitals & mass detentions. #Riseup #FreePalestine

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting. The source is tough to navigate, but the author appears to have some standing.

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 4d

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it
The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it

The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.

mikemales.substack.com

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 4d

It does seem like yet another moral panic, meanwhile age verification is looming and corporations and governments cannot wait to collect even better data on us and ruin our privacy further. When has indiscriminate surveillance been a good thing ever?

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 4d

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it
The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it

The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.

mikemales.substack.com

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Audrey Cetois 🇵🇸 @audreycetois.bsky.social · 4d

I believe that's what they mean by failing upwards.
No shame anywhere

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

ABC executive who sacked Antoinette Lattouf paid $836,000 for eight-month employment, annual report shows

Chris Oliver-Taylor’s remuneration exceeded by former managing director David Anderson’s $1.2m package, broadcaster says The ABC executive who sacked Antoinette Lattouf left the public broadcaster in February with a $342,436 termination payment, taking his pay to $836,098 for eight months as chief content officer, according to the ABC annual report. Chris Oliver-Taylor resigned after his role was substantially downgraded by the ABC chair, Kim Williams and weeks before he was to give evidence in the high profile court case brought by Lattouf. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Steph Hodgins-May @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social · 5d

1) Healthcare and childcare CEOs and top execs are getting rich by failing us.

They rake in millions in bonuses even as their companies rack up fines for misconduct or face safety breaches.

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