John Pollock
@karlcotton.bsky.social
Old lefty,Always learning from history and science. Traumatised adoptee and needs a haircut. In happy and long term relationship. No DMs please 🙏🏽 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Living on Gumbaynggirr country. Protect Gaia Born 317.73 Now 421.55
🌏 #auspol
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Dune is looking more and more like prophecy than fiction.
Our next environmental challenge.
The #extinction continues but at least we can use these data centres to see how long we have got left.
#madness
#savetheenvironment
#auspol
The #extinction continues but at least we can use these data centres to see how long we have got left.
#madness
#savetheenvironment
#auspol
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Dune is looking more and more like prophecy than fiction.
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An excellent article.
#Auspol
#Auspol
Australia’s immigration ‘debate’ is rhetoric, not policy https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12/the-great-australian-immigration-non-debate #auspol
Australia’s immigration 'debate' is rhetoric, not policy
Australia is awash with immigration rhetoric, but little of it is grounded in evidence, clear definitions or serious policy alternatives. Rather than an informed public debate, Australians are being offered slogans, blame and ambiguity.
johnmenadue.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
An excellent article.
#Auspol
#Auspol
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Australia's mainstream media is obsessed with the colour and movement of conflict.
As 'both sides' support #AUKUS, they have failed to investigate whether it might be a huge, wasteful and dangerous dud 'deal'.
Our media rarely 'speak truth to power'.
They parrot power's talking points.
#auspol
As 'both sides' support #AUKUS, they have failed to investigate whether it might be a huge, wasteful and dangerous dud 'deal'.
Our media rarely 'speak truth to power'.
They parrot power's talking points.
#auspol
Can the media reporting on news that the US agrees it is “worth continuing” with AUKUS, stop pretending that it’s some sort of big surprise that Trump agrees it’s worth taking our billions of taxpayer dollars for second rate submarines they don’t even have to provide?🙄
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Thank you for the detailed report 🙏
Are there measures other than industry-devised ones that measure & characterise water & energy use of data centres? Could a future article tackle this?
Are there measures other than industry-devised ones that measure & characterise water & energy use of data centres? Could a future article tackle this?
"Amazon is also engineering industry standards to downplay its water use and avert scrutiny, said Nathan Wangusi, a former water sustainability manager at the company.
...
“They spend a lot of time creating methodologies that are used to obfuscate the water footprint,” Wangusi said"
...
“They spend a lot of time creating methodologies that are used to obfuscate the water footprint,” Wangusi said"
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Thank you for the detailed report 🙏
Are there measures other than industry-devised ones that measure & characterise water & energy use of data centres? Could a future article tackle this?
Are there measures other than industry-devised ones that measure & characterise water & energy use of data centres? Could a future article tackle this?
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"...Israeli military carried out four drone-strikes targeting the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, inflicting injuries, adding that Israeli forces continue to demolish buildings in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City."
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"...Israeli military carried out four drone-strikes targeting the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, inflicting injuries, adding that Israeli forces continue to demolish buildings in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City."
Our next environmental challenge.
The #extinction continues but at least we can use these data centres to see how long we have got left.
#madness
#savetheenvironment
#auspol
The #extinction continues but at least we can use these data centres to see how long we have got left.
#madness
#savetheenvironment
#auspol
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Our next environmental challenge.
The #extinction continues but at least we can use these data centres to see how long we have got left.
#madness
#savetheenvironment
#auspol
The #extinction continues but at least we can use these data centres to see how long we have got left.
#madness
#savetheenvironment
#auspol
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Stop global warming, fix the Costello/Howard invented CGT and Neg Gearing crisis, raise the rate and make tertiary education cheap or free, and maybe ppl might consider having babies. DkHed! #auspol #FkOffCostello
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Stop global warming, fix the Costello/Howard invented CGT and Neg Gearing crisis, raise the rate and make tertiary education cheap or free, and maybe ppl might consider having babies. DkHed! #auspol #FkOffCostello
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ABC article talks of Hong Kong's fear "that lives can be reduced to collateral in a system that no longer listens". Unlike here in Australia, where the government would never announce a major change in autism support without first having consulted a range of autistic people and groups.
#auspol
#auspol
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
ABC article talks of Hong Kong's fear "that lives can be reduced to collateral in a system that no longer listens". Unlike here in Australia, where the government would never announce a major change in autism support without first having consulted a range of autistic people and groups.
#auspol
#auspol
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ABC article talks of Hong Kong's fear "that lives can be reduced to collateral in a system that no longer listens". Unlike here in Australia, where the lives of Indigenous people are _definitely_ not reduced to collateral in a system of extractive colonialism.
#auspol
#auspol
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
ABC article talks of Hong Kong's fear "that lives can be reduced to collateral in a system that no longer listens". Unlike here in Australia, where the lives of Indigenous people are _definitely_ not reduced to collateral in a system of extractive colonialism.
#auspol
#auspol
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I swear if anyone seriously tries to claim that the ALP are progressive or even leftist by this point, they need to STFU.
Vic people need to stop voting in these authoritarian, neo-liberal corporate stooges.
#AusPol
Vic people need to stop voting in these authoritarian, neo-liberal corporate stooges.
#AusPol
Victoria police would get power to search children on the spot in proposed crackdown on protests
Human rights lawyer says the government’s bill seeking to expand search powers in designated areas is ‘incredibly concerning’
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I swear if anyone seriously tries to claim that the ALP are progressive or even leftist by this point, they need to STFU.
Vic people need to stop voting in these authoritarian, neo-liberal corporate stooges.
#AusPol
Vic people need to stop voting in these authoritarian, neo-liberal corporate stooges.
#AusPol
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Ummmm hells no!!! WTAF?! @auspol.info @albomp.bsky.social this is unacceptable on so many levels and would set a precedent #victorianpolitics #auspol #abuseofpower
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Ummmm hells no!!! WTAF?! @auspol.info @albomp.bsky.social this is unacceptable on so many levels and would set a precedent #victorianpolitics #auspol #abuseofpower
Well that’s nice then…
What a disgusting world we live in.
#fuckcapitalism
#endarmssales
#usbasesoutnow
#auspol
What a disgusting world we live in.
#fuckcapitalism
#endarmssales
#usbasesoutnow
#auspol
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Well that’s nice then…
What a disgusting world we live in.
#fuckcapitalism
#endarmssales
#usbasesoutnow
#auspol
What a disgusting world we live in.
#fuckcapitalism
#endarmssales
#usbasesoutnow
#auspol
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The Govt is shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic. This bureaucratic shuffle will be used by @albomp.bsky.social and Richard Marles to dodge responsibility for procurement problems for the rest of this parliamentary term, and probably the next as well. #JustAboutPolitics #auspol
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Govt is shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic. This bureaucratic shuffle will be used by @albomp.bsky.social and Richard Marles to dodge responsibility for procurement problems for the rest of this parliamentary term, and probably the next as well. #JustAboutPolitics #auspol
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The Australian government's "inaction in the face of the ICJ ruling is the ultimate politicisation, sending a clear message that the protection of humanitarian personnel depends on the identity of the perpetrator." #GazaGenocide #WestBank #hypocrisy #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Australia’s selective justice on international law is indefensible
Australia has pledged to uphold humanitarian law and protect aid workers. But in the face of an ICJ ruling on Gaza, its own anti-terror and accountability laws remain selectively unenforced.
johnmenadue.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Australian government's "inaction in the face of the ICJ ruling is the ultimate politicisation, sending a clear message that the protection of humanitarian personnel depends on the identity of the perpetrator." #GazaGenocide #WestBank #hypocrisy #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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The Govt bought the land for between $4M and $10M and then sold it back to the seller for $1.27M. It refuses to tell the public (via #FOI) or the Senate (via questions on notice) the purchase price. Maladministration, or something more sinister? #auspol
Follow the money. A radioactive farce of failed land purchases - Michael West
The Federal Government is refusing to release any details of the land purchase for radioactive waste management.
michaelwest.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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PREACH
Fossil-fuel companies didn’t just respond to demand they spent decades creating it. They pushed governments to build highways, pipelines, gas systems, and car-dependent cities, locking society into fossil use. Through lobbying they secured subsidies, blocked clean-energy policies,
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
PREACH
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"They come here by boat to make me sound like I don't have actual policies" chaser.com.au/national/pau...
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"They come here by boat to make me sound like I don't have actual policies" chaser.com.au/national/pau...
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“In 1944, Kriegsmarine Captain Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered the shooting of shipwrecked survivors at sea after his U-boat sank SS Peleus.
In 1945, he was charged with war crimes at the extension of the Nuremberg trials in Hamburg.
He was found guilty and executed by firing squad.”
- 🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
In 1945, he was charged with war crimes at the extension of the Nuremberg trials in Hamburg.
He was found guilty and executed by firing squad.”
- 🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“In 1944, Kriegsmarine Captain Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered the shooting of shipwrecked survivors at sea after his U-boat sank SS Peleus.
In 1945, he was charged with war crimes at the extension of the Nuremberg trials in Hamburg.
He was found guilty and executed by firing squad.”
- 🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
In 1945, he was charged with war crimes at the extension of the Nuremberg trials in Hamburg.
He was found guilty and executed by firing squad.”
- 🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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“everything is on the table” says Richard Marles.
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: Labor to announce major defence shake-up in bid to stop cost blowouts; ‘unusually prolonged flu season’ in NSW
Follow live
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“everything is on the table” says Richard Marles.
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Everything except what really matters;
the outrageous spending on the dangerous and deluded #AUKUS deal. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sulaeman - Gendu [Indonesia, Folk/Hindustani] (1975) Recorded for cultural preservation with aid from University of Jakarta. Very relaxing!
https://redd.it/ggpl5x
https://youtu.be/V7n9ilu_ACU
https://redd.it/ggpl5x
https://youtu.be/V7n9ilu_ACU
Sulaeman - Gendu [Indonesia, Folk/Hindustani] (1975) Recorded for cultural preservation with aid from University of Jakarta. Very relaxing!
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Sulaeman - Gendu [Indonesia, Folk/Hindustani] (1975) Recorded for cultural preservation with aid from University of Jakarta. Very relaxing!
https://redd.it/ggpl5x
https://youtu.be/V7n9ilu_ACU
https://redd.it/ggpl5x
https://youtu.be/V7n9ilu_ACU