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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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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 · 7m

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

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 34m

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

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1h

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 · 5h

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 · 3h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

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

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

(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.)

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

This.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 2h

...At the behest of the Rockefellers, the Kochs/Musks of the era, who had significant interests there, including in a massive copper-gold deposit that became the Grasberg Mine.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 12h

Indeed. Which leaves you wondering why the Menzies Government was so sanguine about (supportive of?) the Indonesian takeover of Dutch New Guinea in 1961/62 ... aided by the USSR for heaven sake -- 'Operation Trikora'.

Hugh does not enlighten us, but seems likely that was on CIA instructions.

Operation Trikora - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 12h

"...Control of PNG’s territory would provide an aggressor with the best possible access ... It did not take Japan’s devastating intrusion in 1942 to tell us that. It was clear long before, indeed from the very dawn of modern Australia’s strategic thinking.

The illusion of the PNG treaty

ANALYSIS: Australia’s new treaty appears to seal a commitment to a close strategic relationship with PNG and to its defence, but that’s not what the deal will deliver.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Politozi-Global @politozi.bsky.social · 12h

🇮🇱 #BOYCOTTIsrael

🇵🇸 #StateOfPalestine
🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
🇵🇸 #SavePalestine

#IsraeliWarCrimes
#BenjaminNetanyahu #Netanyahu #Genocide #IsraeliGenocide #IDF #USpol #UKpol #AUSpol #CDNpoli #ICC #UN #EU #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

@senatorwong.bsky.social 🇦🇺 @davidpocock.bsky.social

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 14h

This is how the Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City now looks like after the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 14h

They're a strange group. They support the farthest right party of any significance in Australian politics, yet many apparently aren't all that right wing. Suggests they are very successfully misled.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe the same 25% that gave their ultimate preference to Labor, just 6 months ago: results.aec.gov.au/31496/Websit...

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 1d

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 16h

Parenting...

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 16h

Yum?

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 19h

Recently I published a report that explored how we might ‘translate’ Ukraine lessons for application in the Pacific region.

You can download the full report at this link: researchcentre.army.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 18h

'Battle'.

BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 19h

Record beach patrols in South Australia this summer as life savers help battle algal bloom

https://www.byteseu.com/1442662/

As South Australia’s nearly 3,000 surf life savers return to the beaches for the season, they have an additional challenge on their hands — inspecting for foam and …

Record beach patrols in South Australia this summer as life savers help battle algal bloom - Bytes Europe

As South Australia's nearly 3,000 surf life savers return to the beaches for the season, they have an additional challenge on their hands — inspecting for

www.byteseu.com

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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 19h

Zionists being tricky and splitting hairs so their accusations fit the antisemitic narrative.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/cardiol...

Cardiologist Peter MacDonald Can’t Save Lives as the Zionist Lobby Has Seen Him Suspended

Renowned Sydney cardiologist Peter MacDonald has been suspended over making a remark about Mossad potentially being behind two local arson attacks.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 19h

"Mr Netanyahu said" does not cover it off. AI will ace that bit.

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