Kim Baublys
@kimbaublys.bsky.social
#MassSpec person. #StableIsotopes #Geochemistry. No serious stuff here, only light isotopes, some methane & maybe some #groundwater. PhD She/her. Turrbal Country, Meanjin, Australia
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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There is growing interest in having control of your computing and your data. Many people have been posting their stories of moving off Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon software platforms. This is a wide ranging discussion about the why and how of doing that.👇
#NZPOL #DigitalSovereignty
#NZPOL #DigitalSovereignty
Recorded Webinar: Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office.
I was invited by my friend @Karaitiana Taiuru to do this webinar on sovereign computing. It is for a general audience who are interested in shifting away from multinational IT companies for their co...
te-ara-paerangi.community
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
There is growing interest in having control of your computing and your data. Many people have been posting their stories of moving off Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon software platforms. This is a wide ranging discussion about the why and how of doing that.👇
#NZPOL #DigitalSovereignty
#NZPOL #DigitalSovereignty
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www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08... Not in Australia.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08... Not in Australia.
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The NSW Police could have stopped it. They didn't want to. Someone should ask them why.
It's no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all
The existing law in NSW is more than adequate to have avoided the images of Nazis outside state parliament over the weekend.
www.crikey.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The NSW Police could have stopped it. They didn't want to. Someone should ask them why.
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H1N1 survived for 8 weeks during cheese making, with 2.6, 2.75, and 4.0 log 🔻 on cheddar, washed rind firm cheese, semisoft brie-like cheese. Below limit of detection within 2 weeks of cream cheese. Pasteurisation before cheese making important.
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
H1N1 survived for 8 weeks during cheese making, with 2.6, 2.75, and 4.0 log 🔻 on cheddar, washed rind firm cheese, semisoft brie-like cheese. Below limit of detection within 2 weeks of cream cheese. Pasteurisation before cheese making important.
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
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File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.'
Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
grist.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
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Australian Environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou’s blunt message to climate deniers
“Just because you don’t understand the science doesn’t mean it’s not real. It just means that you’re personally confused.”🎯
“Just because you don’t understand the science doesn’t mean it’s not real. It just means that you’re personally confused.”🎯
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Australian Environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou’s blunt message to climate deniers
“Just because you don’t understand the science doesn’t mean it’s not real. It just means that you’re personally confused.”🎯
“Just because you don’t understand the science doesn’t mean it’s not real. It just means that you’re personally confused.”🎯
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This corrupted, neoliberal idea of government…
Swarming with lobbyists & drowning in corporate money.
Serving shareholder profit instead of people & planet.
It’s a cancer that belongs to the bin fire of history.
And more & more people are waking up to this.
Swarming with lobbyists & drowning in corporate money.
Serving shareholder profit instead of people & planet.
It’s a cancer that belongs to the bin fire of history.
And more & more people are waking up to this.
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This corrupted, neoliberal idea of government…
Swarming with lobbyists & drowning in corporate money.
Serving shareholder profit instead of people & planet.
It’s a cancer that belongs to the bin fire of history.
And more & more people are waking up to this.
Swarming with lobbyists & drowning in corporate money.
Serving shareholder profit instead of people & planet.
It’s a cancer that belongs to the bin fire of history.
And more & more people are waking up to this.
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Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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“Euphoria, it turns out, was but fleeting,” Robert S. Nussbaum writes in a letter to The Times. “The Democrats, it seems, are splintering, their resolve dissolving in the face of the continuing calamity inflicted by the Trump administration.”
Opinion | Democrats Didn’t Compromise on the Shutdown. They Collapsed.
Readers respond to the Democratic defection that may help end the shutdown. Also: The proposed Trump coin; seniors who downsize.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
“Euphoria, it turns out, was but fleeting,” Robert S. Nussbaum writes in a letter to The Times. “The Democrats, it seems, are splintering, their resolve dissolving in the face of the continuing calamity inflicted by the Trump administration.”
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The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Special Envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal has a fully staffed office in Parliament to speak truth to power.
Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, doesn't appear to have his own dedicated office with staff there.
& First People of Australia have no voice & no office.
Why?
Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, doesn't appear to have his own dedicated office with staff there.
& First People of Australia have no voice & no office.
Why?
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Special Envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal has a fully staffed office in Parliament to speak truth to power.
Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, doesn't appear to have his own dedicated office with staff there.
& First People of Australia have no voice & no office.
Why?
Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, doesn't appear to have his own dedicated office with staff there.
& First People of Australia have no voice & no office.
Why?
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Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party governs through fear, secrecy and compliance, just ask Payman and Husic. It’s not good enough in a supposed democracy. Gambling destroys families and lives. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Fear rules on gambling in Albanese government
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party governs through fear, secrecy and compliance, just ask Payman and Husic. It’s not good enough in a supposed democracy. Gambling destroys families and lives. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
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In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
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For those saying James Watson's intellectual brilliance made his bigotry an acceptable trade-off, might I point out (Exhibit A below 👇) that one brain ought to be easily big enough to be a genius AND a decent human being. We don't call bigotry 'small mindedness' for nothing.
"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
For those saying James Watson's intellectual brilliance made his bigotry an acceptable trade-off, might I point out (Exhibit A below 👇) that one brain ought to be easily big enough to be a genius AND a decent human being. We don't call bigotry 'small mindedness' for nothing.
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
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It's that time of year again: The Puyas are flowering at the Botanic Gardens in Mt Tomah!
The Wattlebirds (Red and Little) have bright orange faces from all the pollen, while the Bowerbirds are eating the bulbs themselves, creating small pollen explosions.
#birds
The Wattlebirds (Red and Little) have bright orange faces from all the pollen, while the Bowerbirds are eating the bulbs themselves, creating small pollen explosions.
#birds
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It's that time of year again: The Puyas are flowering at the Botanic Gardens in Mt Tomah!
The Wattlebirds (Red and Little) have bright orange faces from all the pollen, while the Bowerbirds are eating the bulbs themselves, creating small pollen explosions.
#birds
The Wattlebirds (Red and Little) have bright orange faces from all the pollen, while the Bowerbirds are eating the bulbs themselves, creating small pollen explosions.
#birds
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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AI is killing people. We don't have to let companies hawking these products embed them in everything. If you work at a college, your students are already struggling with mental health, and you want to give them this?
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
AI is killing people. We don't have to let companies hawking these products embed them in everything. If you work at a college, your students are already struggling with mental health, and you want to give them this?
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...