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Tim Baxter

@timinclimate.bsky.social

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Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. More anarchist with every passing climate disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy. To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm really glad that people found so much good in this piece. As I said in the thread, I was pretty nervous about it.

If you enjoyed it or learned something from it: Thank you! 💛

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Nov 30

Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.

You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?

A long article and accompanying 🧵

Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility

After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…

medium.com

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1h

Not if no-one likes it at all.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 9h

It always is. power BI makes you work for it, and then hate yourself after forever.

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 9h

"Quit while you're ahead" and a guillotine would be an appropriate alternative

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 9h

Yup. I have all of the scars (emotional and incidentally physical) necessary to prove that I learned this the hard way. It is possible to do.

But if you can do anything else at all in the universe you should.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 10h

There are some things where the only way I can get the data (e.g. quarterly Australian GHG emissions by gas and sector) is by plundering power BI, but I always, always, always hate myself after and need a shower.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 10h

If you fuck around enough, you can often get access to the json that is supporting a power BI table through the developer tab in chrome, but getting to the json and then turning into a csv it is often/always way more effort than either manually keying the data or digitising the charts.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 11h

REMEMBER THAT TIME A GUY GOT HIT BY AN AIRBORNE WHALE?

#TheMoment a whale slammed into a wing foiler

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 12h

I used to quite like tawny frogmouths. We had one visit us on our deck the other week and I was very excited. Then I heard Murray Watt is backing as his favourite and I have never hated a bird more in my life.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 1d

Please join Illawarra 🧶👵s at the Office of their local MP & NSW Minister for Planning Paul Scully tomorrow. The NSW government proposal to radically alter planning laws related to all developments will mean bets are off for protecting our environment.

Monday 13 October at 11am in Wollongong

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

It's a video essay and certainly not a documentary, but Alexander Avila's TikTok Gave Me Autism is one of the things I watched in the past few years that most substantially rewrote my perspective. Anything that does that is good by my standards.

TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis

YouTube video by Alexander Avila

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

I'm an ok painter, and the rewards for skilled application of paint to a bookshelf don't exist.

Because the previous owners white washed everything for sale, our bookshelves will suit the new house marginally better on the other side of me having painted them, but it wasn't worth it.

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

If I have offended the community,

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

One of the shelves I'm painting is this 50 year old thing my partner nicked from her dad.

It has some ripper holes in it where I guess a knot has just fallen out (?!) or something. I felt like I should do gap filling for it, but cbf given we are just going to hide any holes with books. 🤷‍♂️

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely worth the clarification!

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Niche content but painting fucking sucks. And that goes double for painting bookshelves.

In the past fortnight, I have sanded and put 12 coats of paint onto four full-sized units, with two coats of paint left to do.

Next time I'll just stick my willie into the ceiling fan for a nicer experience.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Lol lmao

Herald Sun
Steve Price
Abbott return is what Libs need

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 2d

"Communities across Queensland" = Three old white guys. They spoke to three old white guys.

Come the fuck on.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 2d

It really does say something when an article about reactions to a coal power plant continuing to operate says nothing about climate change, the existential threat it poses and the need to phase out oil, gas and coal.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

Plan to extend life of coal-fired power stations sends 'mixed messages'

Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.

www.abc.net.au

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 2d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

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

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d

I'm off work this week, so don't know who wrote this headline, but it deserves an award. Perhaps a Walkley, a Pulitzer… a Nobel Peace Prize!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely thought this headline was admonishing SolarEdge for only sending one charger for a second.

Australian Renewable Energy News @solardirectory.bsky.social · 3d

Originally unveiled in May this year, SolarEdge’s new EV charger – ONE – has arrived on our shores and is on its way to Australian distributors.

#EVs #ElectricVehicles

www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/solared...

SolarEdge's ONE EV Charger Lands In Australia

Unveiled in May this year, SolarEdge's new EV charger - ONE - has arrived on our shores and is on its way to Australian distributors.

www.solarquotes.com.au

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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) @accr.bsky.social · 3d

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Parents for Climate @parentsforclimate.bsky.social · 3d

You might think you’re the only one, but you’re not!!

Join our supportive community at parentsforclimate.org and let’s build a better future for our kids!!

#ProtectWhatYouLove

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