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Tim Baxter

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Climate action, human rights, etc. Burgeoning neo-luddite. To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.

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I'm currently standing in a warm bath while I wait for feeling to return to my feet from the winter cold in our shitty fucking house, and I just heard my 16-year-old tell my 10-year-old to fuck off. The 10-year-old didn't even lose track of his sentence, because who would? This is real Australia.

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I'm so, so happy to see the Tories slaughtered and Nigel Farage's mob miss out on seats, but this is the sign of a deeply broken electoral system. UK Labour has roughly double the number of seats that it deserves based on its share of the vote. Australia is only a little better, but ick.

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Well yes. There's that too!

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In fairness, there's only a ten degree range in Melbourne today. The issue is more that it's the wrong ten degrees, IMHO.

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In the long term, I reckon it'd be great if state owned operators had an obligation to use their market power to bring prices down. 😕 Their power is only going to grow if/when Snowy Hydro 2.0 starts up.

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Hydro price spikes were in the mix too, I think. Alison, did you ever see a good answer for why government-owned hydro corporations put their prices up at the same time everything else was going up? From memory hydro prices went up by more than even coal and gas.

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(Forecasting energy prices has always been a mug's game, but it's crazy how much crueller that game has become in the last few years.)

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I dunno man. I think you're being too kind. She made this comment three days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Personally I think she should have predicted what would happen - including the need for AEMO to suspend the NEM - as a result. This one deserves a shunning, I reckon. 😛

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I've said it before, but I reckon the beaches around Port Phillip Bay are stiffed by the fact that Australia has so many S tier beaches. There are so many really nice beaches in this city. They don't beat the most elite ones that you'd find elsewhere in the country, but they're bloody nice anyway.

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Melbourne is so fucking cold tonight. Holy shit! 🥶

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Oh man! I just noticed this in the youtube video description, which is a cute little touch. "Purchase *her* 'Samurai here" 🙂

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Lupe Fiasco's new album is so fucking cool. The conceit of the album is that he tried to make the rap album Amy Winehouse said she wanted to make, and never had the opportunity to.

It's such an ambitious idea and the music is crazy good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qpI...

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For the life of me I can't qwhite figure out why all our politicians look and think the same. "We won't expel you from the party for crossing the floor because that'll make us look like shit. We'll just pressure you to quit behind closed doors."

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Genuine question: Do we know who authored the line "Israel has a right to defend itself"? It's obviously not factually true under international law, but its propagation across the leaders of Western nations - or at least across the colonies - was truly remarkable. Let's do that with climate.

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It shipped out of Queensland and was here in five days, too! I wasn't expecting that!

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(Because not every follower I have is Australian: Leo is 16, so can't vote in any elections. He is also Australian so can't vote in the US election. He has told versions of this joke so many times that it stopped being funny, then started being funny again, and is now legitimate social commentary.)

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If there's one thing I've missed about twitter, it is Leo Puglisi running this joke into the fucking ground like he's piloting a ruptured hot air balloon. The fact that he manages to get bites on the one bad joke he's told eleventy million times is a real indictment of our species, and still funny.

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I would love to be as handsome as David Tennant, but sadly no.

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I'm a bit hairier me, but I'm pretty happy with this one! Thanks to David for the tip!

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[whimpers] it’s the Paris Agreement not the Accords

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Adding nuclear power into Australia’s energy mix would only reduce our need for solar power capacity by 7% and wind power capacity by 12% – and it would be “far more expensive”, finds new analysis by @BloombergNEF www.afr.com/companies/en...

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Hey there, I'm back - and it seems #GreenSky is back too, for those who were using it 🙏🏽

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NEW: Agriculture Minister Todd McClay said the methane targets will be changed to align with the "no addition warming" principle, which the Climate Commission has warned will lead to “higher emissions and an increased amount of warming than the current target”.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/27/g...

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The sentence is somehow even worse in context! I know the authors of the only research being cited to support these claims personally and this is an outrageous misrepresentation of their work.

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And yeah: fuck Katestone and all who prop up fossil fuel development with bullshit.

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That's not to disrespect your important work which is valuable on its own terms, but we have the consensus of the scientific community in the IPCC's sixth assessment report demonstrating that 1.5C is possible, and 2C is also. It then becomes a question of whether we choose to create those realities.

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Without seeing your research, I suspect there may be two confounding factors. First is you are working with policy experts - not publishing scientists - who will be more remote from the state of the science. Second is the foresight problem: It seems impossible because we haven't done it.

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Say what you will about 1.5C - personally I think that goal is difficult af, but it is technically possible and a goal that is worth aiming for regardless given lives, likelihoods and the places we love are on the line - but 2C is very, very much in play.

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What's missing from this story is that Katestone - the consultancy falsely arguing that it is "generally accepted" that limiting warming to 2C is impossible here - makes its living selling bad arguments to the Australian coal industry to support its further expansion during the climate crisis.

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I have intentionally quit twitter, and only very occasionally repost content highlighting the Palestinian genocide to my 10k followers, but: Can confirm.

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This post led me to a Wikipedia scroll that gave me a much greater appreciation of Danny Glover. Thank you!

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We'll have to co-ordinate where we're planning to be. Ordinarily, I'd joke that it would be embarrassing if we showed up in the same place wearing the same thing, but with this one it'll be fucking legendary. 💪

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Six weeks on, the physio has given me the all clear! I'm going to freeze my knackers off going out on the bay in June, but damned if you won't find me on the water on Sunday! 🎉🚣‍♂️🎉🚣‍♂️🎉🚣‍♂️🎉🚣‍♂️🎉🚣‍♂️🎉

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I finally got around to watching this video Adam made about methane, which is more-or-less my day job lately. I'd say "ten out of ten. no notes", but I sent him one small note. I'm an obstreperous bugger. That said, this is the best lay explainer on methane I've seen. You should watch it. 👇

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That makes it sound like I'm accusing her of laziness for not cooking for everyone while she had Alzheimer's. There is a decent gap of time in the middle there. 🤦‍♂️

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Back in the late 80s and early 90s - before her Alzheimer's got *really* bad - my grandma was a big fan of these. I think it was in part because she was a super lazy cook (like I am today) and had previously burned down her kitchen cooking Sarah Lea. You can't burn shit down with an ice cream.

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Yup. The team at C200 is pretty open that they nicked big parts of their campaign strategy from the successful campaigns Cathy McGowan - and subsequently Helen Haines - ran. I reckon there are meaningful differences between how teal (urban) and orange (peri-urban to regional) campaigns work though.

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Yesterday those tone policing Just Stop Oil's tactics were suddenly experts in the lichens of Stonehenge. It'll be great to watch the pearl clutching at the idea that someone might have (temporarily!) painted Tay-Tay's private jet orange.

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Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton's week: SUNDAY: The government ignored concerns from the community about offshore windfarms THURSDAY: We would override local concerns about putting nuclear reactors in their community.

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We need to stop burning stuff. Air pollution killed 8 million people in 2021.

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I don't think Simon is on here much, no. Off the top of my head, most of the sites are in very safe Nationals seats. This was undoubtedly part of the rationale for choosing them. I suspect C200 would be looking very hard at backing orange campaigns (i.e. like McGowan/Haines) in those places.

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