Jay
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What in the hell is this? In Murdoch news website this morning (news dot come dot au). Disgusting dog whistling and justifies Khawaja’s points IMHO.
January 6, 2026 at 11:21 PM
What in the hell is this? In Murdoch news website this morning (news dot come dot au). Disgusting dog whistling and justifies Khawaja’s points IMHO.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
The media and political environment in Australia has been disgraceful this week.
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The media and political environment in Australia has been disgraceful this week.
The new #Myki readers being rolled out to trams in #Melbourne seem like a huge improvement. But often mounted way too low to view the screen. I and several others had to stoop to see the display. There is a lip above the screen that hampers viewing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The new #Myki readers being rolled out to trams in #Melbourne seem like a huge improvement. But often mounted way too low to view the screen. I and several others had to stoop to see the display. There is a lip above the screen that hampers viewing.
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Long. Good. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Long. Good. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
Uber at Melbourne airport should be enough to convince us all that airport rail should be built already! #ubersucksnow
August 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Uber at Melbourne airport should be enough to convince us all that airport rail should be built already! #ubersucksnow
Huh. How about that. It’s exactly what you’d expect.
June 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Huh. How about that. It’s exactly what you’d expect.
Jacinta Price should become opposition leader. They’d do just great /s
She is odious.
She is odious.
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Jacinta Price should become opposition leader. They’d do just great /s
She is odious.
She is odious.
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Many folks assume global heating means continuity, but with a few more weather disasters.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
Weather is getting more variable, creating unpredictable energy demands, and challenges for agriculture and health. Over 60% of the globe has "experienced more frequent, intense, and rapid flips since 1961, and this trend will expand to most areas in the future."
Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature Communications
Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbask...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Many folks assume global heating means continuity, but with a few more weather disasters.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
It doesn't. Heating means unpatterning.
Wild weather fraying ancient ecological connections, breaking previously stable cycles, scrambling the calendar, pushing critical systems past their operating limits.
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The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
April 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
I hope Americans realise that regular people in the rest of the world - of ALL backgrounds & ethnicities - are openly discussing rethinking travel plans and using burner devices if they go to the USA.
April 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I hope Americans realise that regular people in the rest of the world - of ALL backgrounds & ethnicities - are openly discussing rethinking travel plans and using burner devices if they go to the USA.
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If you're an American, your *personal* exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now.
This will not end pretty.
This will not end pretty.
Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
This executive order confirms that. They are attacking all "state laws" that address climate change, ESG, environmental justice and/or greenhouse gases.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
If you're an American, your *personal* exposure to climate risk (and its economic fallout) is skyrocketing right now.
This will not end pretty.
This will not end pretty.
I never ever want to hear that the Republicans are better for the economy.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I never ever want to hear that the Republicans are better for the economy.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
If 40 years of history and evidence is not enough. Perhaps this glaringly obvious self own wouldn’t be either. But we can hope.
Republicans and any party motivated by spite and ignorance will always be a net bad.
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"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
US apps updating: “Embrace the spring season with a new seasonal theme…”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
April 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
US apps updating: “Embrace the spring season with a new seasonal theme…”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
Australians: “… um .. what.. no”
This list… Norfolk Island is an Australian territory and has no independent economy or ability to levy tariffs.
April 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This list… Norfolk Island is an Australian territory and has no independent economy or ability to levy tariffs.
It’s a stupid as you think.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s a stupid as you think.
I can understand that people just want confirmation in their cliques. It just won’t be effective in expanding the space and will lead to more toxicity
March 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I can understand that people just want confirmation in their cliques. It just won’t be effective in expanding the space and will lead to more toxicity
Some of the worst of Twitter is seeping into the debate here. Pointless and overly focussed on personal vs the issues we all face.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some of the worst of Twitter is seeping into the debate here. Pointless and overly focussed on personal vs the issues we all face.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
Gentle disagreement is fine folks.
No need to get this defensive. This is the worst of Twitter coming here.
March 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
No need to get this defensive. This is the worst of Twitter coming here.
I’m merely pointing out that the critique of cover art seems hollow.
Come on
Come on
March 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I’m merely pointing out that the critique of cover art seems hollow.
Come on
Come on
This thread does include some critique. I’d be interested to see if Klein addresses some of these 👀
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The "abundance" movement is a provocation of the progressive left designed to foment a centrist technocracy fixated on pro-capital/Big Tech deregulation.
Societal benefits (to climate, people, ecosystems) are presumed, weakly IMO, to trickle down from that approach.
Societal benefits (to climate, people, ecosystems) are presumed, weakly IMO, to trickle down from that approach.
Opinion | Republicans should welcome Democrats’ turn to ‘abundance’
An emerging coalition of pro-growth conservatives and supply-side liberals could tackle major problems together.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This thread does include some critique. I’d be interested to see if Klein addresses some of these 👀
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This is not a substantive critique of any of their points. Respectfully, comparing cover art is too simplistic. Agree or disagree with Kleins position, he seems to act in good faith and often engages in critical debate.
March 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is not a substantive critique of any of their points. Respectfully, comparing cover art is too simplistic. Agree or disagree with Kleins position, he seems to act in good faith and often engages in critical debate.
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Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
www.wired.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears: