Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
@infinite8horizon2.bsky.social
Alter-ego of @infinite8horizon.com (the nice one, with pictures). This account for politics & biting social commentary (rants).
Bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d
Longform essays at https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com
Bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d
Longform essays at https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com
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Hi, and welcome!
I have two BlueSky accounts.
This one is for politics and not-so-nice things.
The other account, @infinite8horizon.com, is for my photos (and others') and other nice things.
Choose wisely, and check the auto-complete.
Bio is the same (it's me!), link in profile.
Enjoy.
I have two BlueSky accounts.
This one is for politics and not-so-nice things.
The other account, @infinite8horizon.com, is for my photos (and others') and other nice things.
Choose wisely, and check the auto-complete.
Bio is the same (it's me!), link in profile.
Enjoy.
Welcome to the 21st Century
STILL no flying cars, but your doorbell in the UK stops working because of a DNS misconfiguration in Virginia, USA.
Now THAT'S progress, right there.
Still working on hunger, disease, poverty, you know, that boring stuff.
STILL no flying cars, but your doorbell in the UK stops working because of a DNS misconfiguration in Virginia, USA.
Now THAT'S progress, right there.
Still working on hunger, disease, poverty, you know, that boring stuff.
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Welcome to the 21st Century
STILL no flying cars, but your doorbell in the UK stops working because of a DNS misconfiguration in Virginia, USA.
Now THAT'S progress, right there.
Still working on hunger, disease, poverty, you know, that boring stuff.
STILL no flying cars, but your doorbell in the UK stops working because of a DNS misconfiguration in Virginia, USA.
Now THAT'S progress, right there.
Still working on hunger, disease, poverty, you know, that boring stuff.
Grand Theft Accounting
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Grand Theft Accounting
I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Grand Theft Accounting
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
Narcissism and wilful blindness in one headline...
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Narcissism and wilful blindness in one headline...
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
I know this is news ("news") to nobody but I am moved to register my continuing disgust at State Media (sorry, the ABC) "reporting" on the atrocity that is Gaza.
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
August 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I know this is news ("news") to nobody but I am moved to register my continuing disgust at State Media (sorry, the ABC) "reporting" on the atrocity that is Gaza.
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
What's the atomic weight of Hopium, again?
This research on plant metabolic pathways is fascinating, until talk turns to using it to sequester Carbon.
Let's do some *arithmetic* shall we?
Headline:
Planting 1.1 BILLION trees ≡ 0.000003% reduction in current emissions🙄
🧵
phys.org/news/2025-07...
This research on plant metabolic pathways is fascinating, until talk turns to using it to sequester Carbon.
Let's do some *arithmetic* shall we?
Headline:
Planting 1.1 BILLION trees ≡ 0.000003% reduction in current emissions🙄
🧵
phys.org/news/2025-07...
Fig trees convert atmospheric CO₂ to stone, research reveals
Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientist...
phys.org
July 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
What's the atomic weight of Hopium, again?
This research on plant metabolic pathways is fascinating, until talk turns to using it to sequester Carbon.
Let's do some *arithmetic* shall we?
Headline:
Planting 1.1 BILLION trees ≡ 0.000003% reduction in current emissions🙄
🧵
phys.org/news/2025-07...
This research on plant metabolic pathways is fascinating, until talk turns to using it to sequester Carbon.
Let's do some *arithmetic* shall we?
Headline:
Planting 1.1 BILLION trees ≡ 0.000003% reduction in current emissions🙄
🧵
phys.org/news/2025-07...
Folks, I commend to you "The Night Piano", three jazz piano compositions by Natasha Moszenin, good friend of mine for many years.
I don't usually do recommendations, but if you like lyrical jazz piano, you'll like these.
(Also, full disclosure, some photos by me ☺️)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCj...
I don't usually do recommendations, but if you like lyrical jazz piano, you'll like these.
(Also, full disclosure, some photos by me ☺️)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCj...
The Night Piano - music and images for dreaming and drifting through time and space.
YouTube video by Natasha Moszenin Music
www.youtube.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Folks, I commend to you "The Night Piano", three jazz piano compositions by Natasha Moszenin, good friend of mine for many years.
I don't usually do recommendations, but if you like lyrical jazz piano, you'll like these.
(Also, full disclosure, some photos by me ☺️)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCj...
I don't usually do recommendations, but if you like lyrical jazz piano, you'll like these.
(Also, full disclosure, some photos by me ☺️)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCj...
Reposted by Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
So: how the hell is @bsky.app choosing to dish out verification ticks?
There are several thousand climate scientists, major scientific institutions, climate journalists etc who haven't been verified, but Bsky actively chose to verify a performance-fatalism casino tricks vlogger........
There are several thousand climate scientists, major scientific institutions, climate journalists etc who haven't been verified, but Bsky actively chose to verify a performance-fatalism casino tricks vlogger........
July 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
So: how the hell is @bsky.app choosing to dish out verification ticks?
There are several thousand climate scientists, major scientific institutions, climate journalists etc who haven't been verified, but Bsky actively chose to verify a performance-fatalism casino tricks vlogger........
There are several thousand climate scientists, major scientific institutions, climate journalists etc who haven't been verified, but Bsky actively chose to verify a performance-fatalism casino tricks vlogger........
Reposted by Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
Reposted by Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
Compelling article on what should be our defence priorities by ever-excellent #HughWhite in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Such clarity & strategy so absent from ‘political debate’…
Such clarity & strategy so absent from ‘political debate’…
June 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Compelling article on what should be our defence priorities by ever-excellent #HughWhite in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Such clarity & strategy so absent from ‘political debate’…
Such clarity & strategy so absent from ‘political debate’…
I'm picking this post at random, so the comment isn't aimed at it specifically, or the poster, specifically.
It's just this: when bad-faith chaos agents start to destroy your social fabric from the inside, facts & logic mean as little to them, or to people who STILL support them, as your existence
It's just this: when bad-faith chaos agents start to destroy your social fabric from the inside, facts & logic mean as little to them, or to people who STILL support them, as your existence
June 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm picking this post at random, so the comment isn't aimed at it specifically, or the poster, specifically.
It's just this: when bad-faith chaos agents start to destroy your social fabric from the inside, facts & logic mean as little to them, or to people who STILL support them, as your existence
It's just this: when bad-faith chaos agents start to destroy your social fabric from the inside, facts & logic mean as little to them, or to people who STILL support them, as your existence
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Unfortunately the only juxtapositions influencing the new government are its arse and ministerial leather, and lobbyists and their credit cards.
#auspol
#auspol
Juxtaposition of these two headlines ought to give @albomp.bsky.social pause. This existential problem will only get worse.
May 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Unfortunately the only juxtapositions influencing the new government are its arse and ministerial leather, and lobbyists and their credit cards.
#auspol
#auspol
Our government, with an unassailable majority, continues to ship arms and voice “concerns”.
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
May 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Our government, with an unassailable majority, continues to ship arms and voice “concerns”.
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
The Decline and Fall of the House of Walmarticus
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
The Decline and Fall of the House of Walmarticus
(A little programming note.
open.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The Decline and Fall of the House of Walmarticus
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
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It’s pretty straightforward, isn’t it… When parents fear for their children’s health, education, even shelter they’re not going to have time let alone the audacity to fight their employers over $7.50/hour for 15 hours a week.
well, yes, but of course we won't need so many doctors after everybody dies off from preventable diseases
They really are having a war on education.
This also guts healthcare because doctors need to borrow to cover the cost of medical school. And doctors aren't going to be flocking to the US you know.
This also guts healthcare because doctors need to borrow to cover the cost of medical school. And doctors aren't going to be flocking to the US you know.
April 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It’s pretty straightforward, isn’t it… When parents fear for their children’s health, education, even shelter they’re not going to have time let alone the audacity to fight their employers over $7.50/hour for 15 hours a week.
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The first of what I hope will be many deep (and deepening) dives into Australia's single most significant climate policy - also somehow the most widely ignored and memory-holed.
For @crikey.com.au - new data shows Safeguard is worse than we expected -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/e...
For @crikey.com.au - new data shows Safeguard is worse than we expected -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/e...
April 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The first of what I hope will be many deep (and deepening) dives into Australia's single most significant climate policy - also somehow the most widely ignored and memory-holed.
For @crikey.com.au - new data shows Safeguard is worse than we expected -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/e...
For @crikey.com.au - new data shows Safeguard is worse than we expected -->>
www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/e...
No doubt many political candidates are grubs, but isn't it wonderful the collective amnesia of the political press once someone's elected?
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
April 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No doubt many political candidates are grubs, but isn't it wonderful the collective amnesia of the political press once someone's elected?
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
Reposted by Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
Reposted by Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
Dear @lintonbesser.bsky.social
ABC News' Insta during the election period: Some good posts explaining how-to-vote & preferential voting. No posts providing a politician's bio for anyone but Dutton. And only a "Why Should Gen Z vote Liberal?" video. None for any other party. 🤔 #auspol #AusVotes25
ABC News' Insta during the election period: Some good posts explaining how-to-vote & preferential voting. No posts providing a politician's bio for anyone but Dutton. And only a "Why Should Gen Z vote Liberal?" video. None for any other party. 🤔 #auspol #AusVotes25
April 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Dear @lintonbesser.bsky.social
ABC News' Insta during the election period: Some good posts explaining how-to-vote & preferential voting. No posts providing a politician's bio for anyone but Dutton. And only a "Why Should Gen Z vote Liberal?" video. None for any other party. 🤔 #auspol #AusVotes25
ABC News' Insta during the election period: Some good posts explaining how-to-vote & preferential voting. No posts providing a politician's bio for anyone but Dutton. And only a "Why Should Gen Z vote Liberal?" video. None for any other party. 🤔 #auspol #AusVotes25
#auspol #ClimateCrisis
Not everybody has voted.
Not everybody has made up their minds.
Please spread it around, just in case...
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/chi...
Not everybody has voted.
Not everybody has made up their minds.
Please spread it around, just in case...
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/chi...
This ad is making waves in battleground independent seats | Climate 200
Help get this ad on air – donations doubled
www.climate200.com.au
April 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#auspol #ClimateCrisis
Not everybody has voted.
Not everybody has made up their minds.
Please spread it around, just in case...
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/chi...
Not everybody has voted.
Not everybody has made up their minds.
Please spread it around, just in case...
www.climate200.com.au/campaign/chi...
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Francesca Albanese—
"Is Gaza an extermination camp? Yes of course. How else to call a place absolutely closed, sealed, where no means of livelihood can enter, where everything has been destroyed, where refugee camps are bombed and people, adults and children, are burned alive."
#FreePalestine
"Is Gaza an extermination camp? Yes of course. How else to call a place absolutely closed, sealed, where no means of livelihood can enter, where everything has been destroyed, where refugee camps are bombed and people, adults and children, are burned alive."
#FreePalestine
April 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Francesca Albanese—
"Is Gaza an extermination camp? Yes of course. How else to call a place absolutely closed, sealed, where no means of livelihood can enter, where everything has been destroyed, where refugee camps are bombed and people, adults and children, are burned alive."
#FreePalestine
"Is Gaza an extermination camp? Yes of course. How else to call a place absolutely closed, sealed, where no means of livelihood can enter, where everything has been destroyed, where refugee camps are bombed and people, adults and children, are burned alive."
#FreePalestine
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Used @hf.co's new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers
Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours
Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)
New post - on how big tech is trying to recreate the plastics crisis in the world of software
www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...
Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours
Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)
New post - on how big tech is trying to recreate the plastics crisis in the world of software
www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...
April 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Used @hf.co's new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers
Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours
Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)
New post - on how big tech is trying to recreate the plastics crisis in the world of software
www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...
Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours
Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)
New post - on how big tech is trying to recreate the plastics crisis in the world of software
www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...
Reposted by Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
Fuckity bye
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Fuckity bye
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It was not a natural death.
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Fuckity bye
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...