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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 9h

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I'd like to thank Broady for one of my all time favourite Ashes moments.

🏏Sigma Male Grindset: Mitchell Johnson vs Stuart Broad

YouTube video by The Knight Watchman

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 10h

Reframed.

Q. Are we doing what is required to survive #climatechange?

A. Doesn't look like it.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 16h

Person who openly advocated for a US military invasion of Australia* denied entry to Australia.

*Would have been smashed by emus anyway.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 22h

"we can still shape its future"

That's disturbing.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty weird how the people driving #climateChange think they'll be able to isolate themselves from the effects of it.

About 5 minutes after they enter their bunkers or set sail on their superyachts the employees are going to deal with them.

Y'know that, hey Lachlan?

Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 1d

Urban #biodiversity doesn't need a lot of encouragement.

A turtle, eel and heron, all hanging out in this fairly drab watercourse under the freeway.

Nankeen night heron perched on a rock in a waterway.

Freeway underpass with watercourse. Kinda drab.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 1d

This young fella is desperate to be an "elder statesman" of the party and it's possibly dawning on him that it may not exist within a decade.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 1d

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN EAST ASIA

Full summer conditions continue with another absurdly hot night in SOUTH KOREA

The Minimum temperature at Sogwipo was 25.5C,
HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT IN KOREAN HISTORY
Broken for the 3rd time in few days

It's above JULY average!
Just unbelievable

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 2d

Geez, when I read "catastrophic tipping point" and my first thought is "which one?"

Melting permafrost?

Antarctic seafloor methane release?

Oceanic currents?

Algal blooms?

Oh, the warming oceans and coral bleaching 😔

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 2d

Unflushable.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday to this character from my childhood.

The Dog.

From #FootrotFlats by the late Murray Ball.

Depiction of a border collie dog from the NZ cartoon strip Footrot Flats.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 2d

Is she fake crying yet?

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 3d

John Oliver has some really simple advice for dealing with these people.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 5d

My father and his mates were all raging climate change denialists, fuelled by SAD talking points.

They had Pavlovian responses to many words, including carbon tax, Gillard, Greens and Flannery.

Anyway, they're all gone now and yet the threat of #ClimateChange isn't.

A microcosm of the problem.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 6d

This guy would rather co-govern with the LNP, an otherwise irrelevant soon to be minor party, than negotiate with the Greens.

That says so much.

How's that fire-ant program, big fella?

#auspol

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 6d

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 6d

Ignition, *fuel*, oxygen.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting part for me is that he's taking instructions via that earpiece, which means someone is pulling *his* strings.

I'd always thought he was the co-president.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 7d

Nobody;

"What do the cafe owners have to say about this copper smelter?"

ABCNews;

"Glad you asked. Here you go"

Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 7d

From 7 years ago. Very prescient.

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For pity's sake go, Tony -- you're harming Australia

For nearly 25 years, Tony Abbott has done nothing in politics but destroy and oppose. His party, and Australia, desperately need him to leave.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 8d

I asked if the Government would take steps to stop Australians fighting in the IDF while it is perpetrating a genocide

The Minister says he wishes for peace. What??

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 8d

Ian, keep checking in here.

Just in case 😉

Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 8d

You know you're getting old when all the adults of your childhood are dying off.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 8d

What's with the Tawny Frogmouth vote (see reply below) at @australia.theguardian.com ??? It's not even an Owl!
The Powerful Owlets are concerned. Vote 1 Powerful Owl! Cast your vote here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 8d

Done ✅

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 9d

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/s...

Bit bloody late.

I visited the KI colony in 1998 and again in 2020.

The decline in that period was obvious and distressing.

Now this.

Plan for sea lions as toll from toxic SA algal bloom surges

A $1.4 million plan will help protect sea lions at risk from South Australia's algal bloom, as tonnes of dead sea life is collected.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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