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Tim Baxter
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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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If anyone ever had any doubt at all that the Liberal Party are the biggest pack of losers and weirdos you might ever have the misfortune to meet - convinced of nothing more than their right to fail - now is the time to abandon that idea.
Liberal Party formally agrees to dump net zero target By Paul Sakkal The Liberal Party has formally agreed to dump the 2050 net zero target but will remain open to a carbon-neutral future as a “welcome outcome”. A shadow ministerial meeting has just wrapped up after yesterday’s party room meeting decided to dump net zero.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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We don't use it often, so I haven't noticed this before but I have some questions for the manufacturers of our pasta maker.
A piece of translucent white plastic. The plastic piece is a circle, with a smaller circle cut out of the middle. Lines coming out of the centre create the shape of a Nazi swastika. Cartoon face of a goose squinting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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And while land defenders in Palestine and Brazil, Black abolitionists in the U.S., farmers in India, and migrant workers under threat of deportation fight without protection, SMA offers stipends to young elites so they can intellectualize injustice from the safety of fellowships and strategy workshops. It turns other people’s survival into elite self-development, converting lived struggle into curriculum. It sanitizes empire. It rebrands capitalism. It turns revolution into resume building and makes injustice feel aspirational. It cloaks structural violence in the language of ambition, coaching elites to reflect while doing nothing that risks their position. What we are witnessing is not disruption. It’s containment. SMA is not about power redistribution. It’s about moral insulation. It doesn’t build movements. It builds brands. It doesn’t empower the marginalized. It platforms the already powerful and teaches them how to look benevolent while protecting their dominance. This is how empire survives critique.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Did I share this a few months ago when I first read it? I forget, and I still love it.

The whole thing is sparkly with righteous anger - and there are many WHAT THE FUCK moments throughout but I quite like this early one.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...
But Bregman’s bite has always stopped short of the bone. While he gained praise for allegedly challenging elites, he never seriously threatened their position. His criticisms—always strategic, never structural—served to elevate his brand, not to disrupt the systems he claimed to question. One of the more laughable moments in this spectacle came when actor Russell Crowe compared Bregman to Socrates. Rather than reject the absurdity, Bregman leaned into it. He even used it to market his work. But Socrates was executed for challenging the moral foundations of his society. Bregman has been embraced, groomed, and funded by those foundations. To liken a media-trained, TED-stage liberal to a historical threat to empire is not just exaggeration—it’s a distortion. Socrates was feared by power. Bregman is a safe investment.
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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I met a friend by the Birrarung today.

Her name is Mathilde.
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Headline from The Guardian: The Witcher season four review – Liam Hemsworth is as charismatic as a bollard in a wig
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Sorry but you appear to be selectively ignoring the fact that she voted against it in 2008 and 2010, and directly argued against same sex marriage in public through that era.

Something she herself admits to.
Headline from Sydney Morning Herald: "Wong on Payman: She should vote with us, like I had to on gay marriage"
November 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong made Time's list of 100 influential climate leaders in the "Defenders" category.

And I just...

I just...

What.
Stylised black and white portrait of Penny Wong,
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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A nice spot to sit and take a break today on Gunaikurnai Country.

This is 9 or 10 km up the Tanjil River from Willow Grove. Obviously I didn't make it much further than this given the pace of the water, despite best efforts.
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Oh God. How could it possibly get worse. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Ley launches extraordinary attack on PM for ‘profound failure of judgment’ over Joy Division T-shirt Josh Butler Sussan Ley, who said the very spelling of her own name was due to her “punk phase”, has criticised Anthony Albanese for wearing the T-shirt of celebrated post-punk band Joy Division. Referencing a T-shirt Albanese wore five days ago when departing his plane on arrival in Sydney, Ley claimed it was a “profound failure of judgment” which “fails the basic tests of leadership”. She pointed out that Joy Division – the acclaimed and influential British band behind Love Will Tear Us Apart – had been named after “a wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery”. “At a time when Jewish Australians are facing a rise in antisemitism, when families are asking for reassurance and unity, the prime minister chose to parade an image derived from hatred and suffering,” Ley told parliament on Tuesday afternoon. Her office later distributed a transcript of the remarks to journalists. Ley’s statement pointed out that Albanese discussed the band in a podcast in 2022, and said he wasn’t aware at the time of the origin of the name. The Sky News host Sharri Markson ran a segment on her TV show about Albanese’s T-shirt on Monday night, with Ley’s comments making similar points about the band and Albanese’s knowledge of the name’s origin. The origin of Joy Division’s name is well known. The band dissolved after the death of its frontman, Ian Curtis, and its remaining members formed New Order. Ley went on to claim Albanese “should apologise immediately and explain why he thought this was acceptable”. Her comments come days after she briefly called for Kevin Rudd to be sacked as US ambassador – an overreach that several of her colleagues did not endorse, and which Ley later walked back after Liberal senator Jane Hume called it “churlish”.
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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I've gone peak Dad-mode on the ducted heater control panel.

It's gas, so I'm kind of hoping that it is never turned on again after this. Hopefully, I will have saved up the $6k I need for an electric replacement before next winter.
A white piece of paper is taped over a wall-mounted control panel with bright blue painters tape. In two simple capital letters the paper reads "NO".
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This little shot and chaser is a thing of beauty.
Tim Graham, a board member of the Property Investors Council of Australia says this should be “a warning to other states that if you want to discourage investment and have less rental properties, you’re going to have a much bigger rental crisis on your hands”. Yet investor exit from Victoria to other states has coincided with relatively slower rental price growth, up 33% since the start of 2021 compared to 40% or more in the other major capitals.
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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My new "Did I tell you I fixed our ducted vacuum cleaner *myself*?!": Our old dryer has been making house-shaking levels of noise for years.

I opened it up. Noticed the idler pulley was loose causing the fan belt to vibrate slightly, turning the drum into musical instrument. Replaced it.

Sorted.
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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This is not true. Reckless driving in an F150 is much more dangerous than reckless driving in a small car.

I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea that it is good journalism to repeat such bullshit without any effort at qualification. "He falsely claimed" would have fit a word count.
"I'm not going to tell them what sort of car they can buy, " he said. Mr Whitby said he was instead focused on driver behaviour. "Far too many people don't take responsibility," he said. "You can be in a huge F150 and a little Hyundai, and you can represent the same danger to other people on the road through reckless behaviour."
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Cam Wilson is now the living embodiment of that dril post.
Screenshot of a post from the twitter account @dril: go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up" at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Mounting IKEA shelves to the wall is a pain in the fucking arse - and I had to do ten of the bastards - but at least my study is starting to look a whole lot less like a cupboard.
Bearded guy in glasses and a black t-shirt standing in front of a set of wall mounted cube shelves of different sizes and colours.
September 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The world is pretty awful right now, but we had some lovely visitors yesterday evening.
A male king parrot standing on top of a red rail. Trees and a rooftop are visible in the background. A female king parrot standing on the back of an outdoor chair, which is itself sitting on an upstairs deck.
September 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I've had a really long week, and I was just having a quick look on Facebook marketplace for a few things we need at the new house before I go to sleep.

Anyway, I found an "Antique 'Two faced cat'" and unexpectedly it gets a lot worse if you zoom in.
Facebook marketplace ad for a straw-filled stuffed cat for $40. I am sorry but I simply can't describe it in a way that does it justice. I just can't do it.
September 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Ummmm... Whut?

Who asked for this from realestate.com.au?
Article on real-estate.com.au: "Charlie Kirk's fortune and real estate wealth revealed" dated today, after his assassination.
September 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Moving house has been huge, physically and emotionally, and even though I knew kayaking had worked wonders on my chronic pain, I didn't really understand how much until the pain started again after I had gone two months without a paddle.

I made it out onto GunaiKurnai country this afternoon.
September 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Apropos of nothing, I just discovered a photo of the world's most content lizard.

This dude made the plan, executed the plan, and is now reaping the rewards.
Image of a very content looking sheltopusik.
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The final silkpost...

(doo-doo doo dooo)
A post on r/silksong with the title "IT'S OFFICIALLY OUT THEY RELEASED IT EARLY"
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Ummmm...!
An Xbox homescreen showing that Hollowknoght: Silksong is installing!
September 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I never thought I'd love to see the day that this would appear on the family calendar.
"SILKSONG" written in shaky all-caps on a weekly planner whiteboard.
August 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A talking point doesn't stop being bullshit if you repeat it. A low-end RCAC will beat a high-end gas heater in Victoria *today*, even in a home without solar and even ignoring that grid emissions intensity will continue to fall.

Here's the maths with the dice loaded *massively* in favour of gas.
Image showing a table that steps through the necessary calculations required to compare the emissions impact of using a low-end reverse cycle air conditioner and a high-end ducted gas to heat a home. For the purpose of the calculation, the reverse cycle unit has its coefficient of performance set at 3.6, which is very low for a new reverse cycle unit. Some units have a COP as high as 6. It is compared to a gas heater with 95% efficiency, which is about as high as it is possible to go with gas. Most gas heaters are around 80% efficient, with some as low as 60%. Nonetheless, using Victorian grid-supplied electricity and Victorian piped gas, the cheap reverse cycle air conditioner is still less emissions intensive than the high end ducted gas heater.
August 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM