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Glen

@gergyl.bsky.social

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Australian snow and snow weather, hydrology, climate ... other stuff. I reciprocal follow, and block abusive posters.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 4d

Thirty years of concentrated international effort and cooperation has now had this much effect on "the great moral, economic and social challenge of our time" (Rudd, 2007):

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 45m

I suppose it suits Israeli PR that there are still occasional reports like this, below. One might even suspect that...

It surely also suits whatever is left of HAMAS, which is not reliably knowable, but is clearly not nothing.

www.counterfire.org/article/goin...

Going underground: the Gaza insurgency two years on

Although Western media ignore it, other sources make clear that armed resistance in Gaza continues, and is exacting a toll on Israel, explains Robert Dale Have you ever wondered why the Israeli for...

www.counterfire.org

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 55m

The first thing that happens does not affect congestion much. Instead, it affects trip generation ('the traffic will be shit, do I really need to?') and trip timing, via so-called peak spreading. But in inner suburban Brisbane, the peak has already spread to most of the day; nowhere left to go.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Building new commuter rail is no bad thing, of course. Did occur to me this week looking at daytime ('off-peak', haha) Brisbane motor traffic that much of it is operating within maybe 10% of saturation flow. What happens when rampant (yes, rampant) east coast population growth takes that up?

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

That's the definition of (small-c) conservative. This is not a Labor party.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4h

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 21h

My last-election preferences aggregate post Resolve 55.8 to ALP (-0.1)

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

Quality Scots.

Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 1h

From a 1967 documentary "Easy Come, Easy Go" filmed in Australia & the UK featuring The Easybeats. "Loch Lomond" was one of the first songs we learned on the recorder when I went to school in Cambridge, UK when I was 9. it's a traditional Highland folk ballad. 🙂 #MusicSky
youtu.be/vuYAEnNv0Ek?...

The Easybeats - Loch Domond - IN COLOR

YouTube video by Lost

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

'Swifties' Field'.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

Respectful? Well, no, silly.

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

Much duscussed I know, but 75,000 nearly-all-white Yanks packed into Mr Travis Kelce's 'Arrowhead' Stadium, busy chanting what they imagine is a Native American war cry, while pretending to hack the white invaders with their tomahawks, is seriously weird stuff.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

The Associated Press...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

BREAKING: Hamas releases a list of the 20 living hostages it will release as part of the Israel-Hamas war ceasefire. The list comes as hostages and Palestinians prisoners were expected to be released Monday.

Israel prepares to welcome the last living hostages from Gaza as a ceasefire holds

Hamas has released a list of the 20 living hostages it will release as part of the Israel-Hamas war ceasefire.

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 5h

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3h

Leo Puglisi from @6newsau.bsky.social gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry on the social media age ban - I asked him about the real impacts on young people. This isn't about protection, it's about control. You can't lock kids out of news and social connection and call it safety.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

"We will fight, for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo, or die..."

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 2h

The Government’s new strategy on agricultural emissions has been hailed a “major win” for Mid-South Canterbury by the minister for the South Island and farming leaders.

‘A major win’: Emissions tax scrapped, new targets set

The Government’s new strategy on agricultural emissions has been hailed a “major win” for Mid-South Canterbury by the minister for the South Island and farming leaders.

dlvr.it

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 4h

“40 per cent tax rate for earnings on balances above $10 million”

obviously they can’t pay the top marginal tax rate, poverty would ensue

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · Apr 22

Destroyed were bulldozers and vehicles used to lift rubble to recover injured bodies. The vehicles included 9 from Egypt. The IDF said they hit 40 "engineering vehicles" used for "terrorist actions", including on Oct 7"

Hamas used 1 bulldozer 18 months ago
www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-n...

Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been suppl…

www.mychamplainvalley.com

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 7h

(Merauke is much bigger than TI, just btw ... for no intended purpose.)

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 7h

Thought I'd heard the EU is about to regulate this?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8h

this is a nice rendering by @nickevershed.bsky.social but, er, it definitely shows coal power output remaining persistently high even as renewable energy grows, which feels like a problem

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

a hand-drawn chart showing renewable energy griwing but coal output remaining stagnat for the past three entire years because demand itself has been growing oddly fast

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 12h

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 8h

(No it doesn't generate, but it might as well be a generating unit, when you're compiling the instantaneous stack of units needed to meet peak demand. They're all needed, and all do the same thing.)

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 8h

At 850 MW, this is now the largest 'generating unit' connected to the Australian grid, of any type: reneweconomy.com.au/australias-m....

reneweconomy.com.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 8h

This.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 16h

A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 8h

Well there”s an achievement to be ashamed of
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 8h

It's 240 km from the nearest part of Indonesian Papua to the Australian mainland; 305 km from the nearest substantial Indonesian town, Merauke, to the region centre of Thursday Island.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 9h

World's media today will be full of emotive stories about the release of ~20 Israeli hostages held by HAMAS for 2 years. There will be no similar stories about the ~2000 Palestinian hostages to be released by Israel, many imprisoned for much longer.

Racist, much? That's x100 racist.

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