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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 6h

In other words, he approves of foreign electoral interference.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 7h

Re: can we afford the NHS?

"Anything we can actually do, we can afford."

John Maynard Keynes, 1942

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 12h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 8h

Opinion | The demand for broad-scale disinformation is widely underconsidered. When angry, disenfranchised people go hunting for validation, it's disinformation they often find.

Reducing the demand for disinformation starts with working out why people believe bullshit so readily

www.crikey.com.au

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Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social · 1d

Victorian agronomist, Tony Rinaudo, has been awarded an international peace prize for a farming technique that has revolutionised farms in Niger.

Australian wins peace prize for farming idea feeding millions in Africa

A Victorian scientist whose farming technique has revolutionised agriculture in Niger is awarded an international peace prize.

www.abc.net.au

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 11h

An egotistical, sociopathic grifter?

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 13h

Defund consultants www.afr.com/politics/fed...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

www.afr.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 13h

Ian is always worth a read.

We really are living in the worst timeline. In actual petrostates, they actually get revenue from their gas exports and get nice things, like free uni, or low income taxes.

In our corrupt colonial petrostate, we get nothing....

..except marine heatwaves

Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 1d

AU. Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs. By chief business correspondent Ian Verrender
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 14h

Never mind. Found them. e.g.

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Access Restricted

www.telegraph.co.uk

fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 14h

Source?

Would be on-brand for Hamas.

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 15h

There is no universe where space based solar will ever be cost competitive with ground based solar plus storage.

Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 18h

Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/10/04/e...

Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power - CleanTechnica

From microwave beams to megaton rockets, China’s space solar project highlights the gap between imagination and economic gravity.

cleantechnica.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

The “get em while they’re young” plan worked for Big Tobacco and… other institutions

Matt Round @mattround.com · 20h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

I’m increasingly convinced by the argument China’s decade-long investment to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and particularly imports, is not only creating a new electrified model that other South countries can benefit from, but is leaving the West behind because it can’t ditch fossil fuels.

Graph showing a series of industrial revolutions, suggesting a sixth wave is ongoing defined by China called the Renewable Age

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 21h

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 21h

And bsky.app/profile/nick...

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

lol

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

A good summary

Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lots of talk about Tesla securities fraudster and serial con man Elon Musk using his private ventures (along with the usual fraudulent narratives) to help keep $TSLA afloat.

Let’s go through some of the schemes fraudsters use to pull this off: (1/19)

$TSLAQ 🧵 ht & by @TeslaFraud

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

You sure you’re not talking about the Australian Labor Party?

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

David's speech can be viewed here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4xN...

Improving human well-being on a resource-limited planet - can we do it? Professor Sir David King

YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science

www.youtube.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

Who could have predicted this?

Back in 2013 Sir David King (ex-UK chief scientist) addressed The Australian Academy of Sciences and spoke about 'managed retreat', the need to relocate vulnerable communities as there were limits to adaptation.

Now it's 2025. How is that adaptation going?

Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 1d

"New analysis from the insurance industry [is] warning that large swathes of housing and commercial property in densely populated areas will be at greater risk."

"Every constituency in [GB] is projected to have increased flood risk in future."

www.theguardian.com/...

#ClimteCrisis

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social.

We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!

How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

The only Australian hardware on board the legendary telescope is starting to fulfil its duties.

theconversation.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"In Australia...we are not immune to anti-democratic ideas that have flourished around the globe.

We can see this in the rise in support for parties such as One Nation, and anti-immigration rallies around the country.

In Melbourne, Nazis felt empowered to walk the streets."

We need to act now.

Gabrielle Jackson @gabriellecj.bsky.social · 1d

Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions, by @milespherbert.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions | Miles Herbert

I never again want to have to look back and wonder, could I have done more?

www.theguardian.com

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