Arno Schaaf
@aussiearnie.bsky.social
Renewable energy and electrification nerd living on the NSW south coast
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I just learned that this exists. Bloody marvellous. The Japanese seem to do whimsy very charmingly.
RESTAURANT OF MISTAKEN ORDERS
This is a slightly unusual restaurant that was created to promote understanding of dementia and to spread kindness all over the world.
www.mistakenorders.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I just learned that this exists. Bloody marvellous. The Japanese seem to do whimsy very charmingly.
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Nesting offences.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nesting offences.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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“A European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials...inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the US had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
“A European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials...inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the US had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”
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Australia’s mystifying each-way bet on social harm
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Australia’s mystifying each-way bet on social harm
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My periodic plea to @bsky.app.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My periodic plea to @bsky.app.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
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I agree with @doctorvive.bsky.social
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
People Love to Say “We” Are Causing Climate Change. But Who Is We?
Everyone is not equally complicit here.
slate.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I agree with @doctorvive.bsky.social
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
getup.to/EEWZvCKCNW9hL
Time to stop the ridiculous right wing attacks on the ABC. We need an independent broadcaster, not another Murdoch clone.
Time to stop the ridiculous right wing attacks on the ABC. We need an independent broadcaster, not another Murdoch clone.
Defend our ABC!
Our ABC is under attack by far-right wreckers – we're fighting back.
getup.to
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
getup.to/EEWZvCKCNW9hL
Time to stop the ridiculous right wing attacks on the ABC. We need an independent broadcaster, not another Murdoch clone.
Time to stop the ridiculous right wing attacks on the ABC. We need an independent broadcaster, not another Murdoch clone.
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
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“Trump’s family has deals to build luxury resorts and hotels in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. And their crypto firm will be used by the UAE to make a $2B deal— netting the Trumps hundreds of millions of dollars. His ‘diplomatic trips’ are blatant self-enrichment opportunities.” @rbreich.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Trump’s family has deals to build luxury resorts and hotels in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. And their crypto firm will be used by the UAE to make a $2B deal— netting the Trumps hundreds of millions of dollars. His ‘diplomatic trips’ are blatant self-enrichment opportunities.” @rbreich.bsky.social
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We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
Despite Australia signing the Belem declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields
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The Albanese government is being urged to explain how it will drive a fossil fuel phase-out, after it joined dozens of countries at a UN climate summit to back a declaration that the world should quickly wean off coal, gas and oil.
Australia signed up to the declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels at a side event at the Cop30 conference in the Brazilian city of Belem, which finished on Saturday night local time, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
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‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge #Climate
‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
Despite Australia signing the Belem declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge #Climate
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VIVA Guy Pearce ✊️
Where are all the other celebrities on the holocaust of our times????? Crickets!! #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FinalSolution #auspol #IsraelIsATerroristState
Where are all the other celebrities on the holocaust of our times????? Crickets!! #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FinalSolution #auspol #IsraelIsATerroristState
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
VIVA Guy Pearce ✊️
Where are all the other celebrities on the holocaust of our times????? Crickets!! #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FinalSolution #auspol #IsraelIsATerroristState
Where are all the other celebrities on the holocaust of our times????? Crickets!! #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FinalSolution #auspol #IsraelIsATerroristState
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
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It's not a peace proposal.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It's not a peace proposal.
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Editorial: On Linda Reynolds and Janet Albrechtsen
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22134/...
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22134/...
On Linda Reynolds and Janet Albrechtsen
A little over a week ago, Linda Reynolds gave her first interview since winning her defamation case against Brittany Higgins. She gave it to Janet Albrechtsen, the right-wing columnist whose texts and...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Editorial: On Linda Reynolds and Janet Albrechtsen
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22134/...
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22134/...
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‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I'm loving Ed Unleashed
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‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
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Former Labor premier calls out the gas industry for using tobacco industry tactics to delay climate action. Thanks Mike Rann for telling it like it is
thepoint.com.au/news/251116-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251116-...
Gas lobby using tobacco tactics, former SA Premier warns
The fossil fuel sector is using “tobacco industry tactics” to maintain a bipartisan commitment to supporting gas expansion in Australia, former South Ausralian Labor Premier Mike Rann has said.
thepoint.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Former Labor premier calls out the gas industry for using tobacco industry tactics to delay climate action. Thanks Mike Rann for telling it like it is
thepoint.com.au/news/251116-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251116-...
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This is so Libs #solibs - a couple of days after they abandon net zero and declare they are subsidising coal, our 3rd largest mega-customer declares they are phasing the stuff out
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
Libs to subsidise coal, now South Korea wants out. What's the scam? - Michael West
While the LNP decides that subsidising coal mining is a good idea, our third-largest coal customer decides to stop burning coal altogether.
michaelwest.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is so Libs #solibs - a couple of days after they abandon net zero and declare they are subsidising coal, our 3rd largest mega-customer declares they are phasing the stuff out
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/libs-to-subs...
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The NSW Net Zero Commission recently advised the NSW Government that export emissions and local climate harms must be considered in proposed coal expansions.
The science and the law is clear - business as usual is no longer an option.
The science and the law is clear - business as usual is no longer an option.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The NSW Net Zero Commission recently advised the NSW Government that export emissions and local climate harms must be considered in proposed coal expansions.
The science and the law is clear - business as usual is no longer an option.
The science and the law is clear - business as usual is no longer an option.
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#ClimateChange is jeopardising our health and wellbeing.
Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients.
Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30
Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients.
Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#ClimateChange is jeopardising our health and wellbeing.
Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients.
Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30
Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients.
Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30