Marsh Robinson
@melaleuca1000.bsky.social
Retired music teacher. Grandparent. Compassion rather than competition. Detest LNP. Right Wing=me, me, me; Left Wing=we, we, we. Science is the process of discovering truth. On unceded Butchulla land.
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“This study really finds that we can keep the grid stable w more & more renewables,” said Mark Z Jacobson... “Every major renewable — geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind — is lower cost than fossil fuels” on average, globally.”
“This study really finds that we can keep the grid stable w more & more renewables,” said Mark Z Jacobson... “Every major renewable — geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind — is lower cost than fossil fuels” on average, globally.”
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy » Yale Climate Connections
The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/cali...
“This study really finds that we can keep the grid stable w more & more renewables,” said Mark Z Jacobson... “Every major renewable — geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind — is lower cost than fossil fuels” on average, globally.”
“This study really finds that we can keep the grid stable w more & more renewables,” said Mark Z Jacobson... “Every major renewable — geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind — is lower cost than fossil fuels” on average, globally.”
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Family Has Strict No Smartphone Rule While Eating Dinner In Front Of TV
https://theonion.com/family-has-strict-no-smartphone-rule-while-eating-dinne-1819577215/
https://theonion.com/family-has-strict-no-smartphone-rule-while-eating-dinne-1819577215/
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Family Has Strict No Smartphone Rule While Eating Dinner In Front Of TV
https://theonion.com/family-has-strict-no-smartphone-rule-while-eating-dinne-1819577215/
https://theonion.com/family-has-strict-no-smartphone-rule-while-eating-dinne-1819577215/
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This is why we have unions in Australia.
Make sure the job is done safely and everyone is paid fairly. We've been saying it since before the 1891 Shearer's Strike here in Queensland.
Strikers imprisoned & released in 1893. Qld Parliament in background. #qldpol
Make sure the job is done safely and everyone is paid fairly. We've been saying it since before the 1891 Shearer's Strike here in Queensland.
Strikers imprisoned & released in 1893. Qld Parliament in background. #qldpol
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is why we have unions in Australia.
Make sure the job is done safely and everyone is paid fairly. We've been saying it since before the 1891 Shearer's Strike here in Queensland.
Strikers imprisoned & released in 1893. Qld Parliament in background. #qldpol
Make sure the job is done safely and everyone is paid fairly. We've been saying it since before the 1891 Shearer's Strike here in Queensland.
Strikers imprisoned & released in 1893. Qld Parliament in background. #qldpol
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If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.
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Cooper Labor MP Jonty Bush is a sexual assault victim. She lost her sister & father to violence.
In 2023 she addressed Qld Parliament on her own government's approach to youth justice.
In 2024 she was returned on an increased margin of 11.2%. #qldpol
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
In 2023 she addressed Qld Parliament on her own government's approach to youth justice.
In 2024 she was returned on an increased margin of 11.2%. #qldpol
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
‘Find a better way’: Labor MP speaks out on youth held in watch houses
The long-term crime victim advocate also used her speech on a contentious bill in parliament to say the government’s first priority had to be supporting victims.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Cooper Labor MP Jonty Bush is a sexual assault victim. She lost her sister & father to violence.
In 2023 she addressed Qld Parliament on her own government's approach to youth justice.
In 2024 she was returned on an increased margin of 11.2%. #qldpol
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
In 2023 she addressed Qld Parliament on her own government's approach to youth justice.
In 2024 she was returned on an increased margin of 11.2%. #qldpol
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
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This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
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Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost
Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost
As Liberals join Nationals in abandoning a 2050 emissions target, we unpick some of the opposition’s talking points
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Are you trying to make sense of some of the big claims made by Liberal and National party MPs for abandoning their support for Australia reaching net zero emissions by 2050?
We’re here to help. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost
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Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths
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Scout* barely realised that something round and hard, with smoke coming from it, had landed in front of them before it exploded.
Pain suddenly shot through their leg and arm. Scout fell to their knees, before someone nearby helped them rush out of the area. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
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November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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What most women think and rarely say out loud...
"A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms, and especially have economic freedoms that make them less dependent."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms, and especially have economic freedoms that make them less dependent."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Anne Summers: ‘A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms’
Fifty years after writing a book which would change how Australians view their history and culture, the author and journalist isn’t slowing down
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What most women think and rarely say out loud...
"A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms, and especially have economic freedoms that make them less dependent."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms, and especially have economic freedoms that make them less dependent."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
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Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
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Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
Yanis Varoufakis on X: "Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails..." / X
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
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“Sussan Ley told the media that “the Liberal Party will remove a net zero target from our policy, & if elected, we will remove the 43% 2030 target & its net zero by 2050 target from Climate Change Act.” The Liberal Party’s policy is effectively that if emissions go down, fine; if not, who cares.”
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So the Libs are irrelevant? Great we knew that. But an OECD report released overnight put the focus on the actual govt and the Safeguard Mechanism which is quite the dud
My column for @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
My column for @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
OECD report shows LNP climate irrelevance, while Safeguard Mechanism among least effective emissions reduction schemes in world
The report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.
thepoint.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“Sussan Ley told the media that “the Liberal Party will remove a net zero target from our policy, & if elected, we will remove the 43% 2030 target & its net zero by 2050 target from Climate Change Act.” The Liberal Party’s policy is effectively that if emissions go down, fine; if not, who cares.”
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Albo has a history of capitulating to internal heavyweights in order to maintain calm - and then Marles plays the bastard card after the election win…Albo was piss weak..
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Albo has a history of capitulating to internal heavyweights in order to maintain calm - and then Marles plays the bastard card after the election win…Albo was piss weak..
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#renewbles offer us a future.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/cali...
“This study really finds that we can keep the grid stable w more & more renewables,” said Mark Z Jacobson... “Every major renewable — geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind — is lower cost than fossil fuels” on average, globally.”
“This study really finds that we can keep the grid stable w more & more renewables,” said Mark Z Jacobson... “Every major renewable — geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind — is lower cost than fossil fuels” on average, globally.”
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy » Yale Climate Connections
The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#renewbles offer us a future.
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I cannot really see how their 'data centre watch' project can be separate from the company, given how one of their advertised services is essentially creating reports on local oppo against data centres for the companies that are building them
archive.ph/RBPxF
archive.ph/RBPxF
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I cannot really see how their 'data centre watch' project can be separate from the company, given how one of their advertised services is essentially creating reports on local oppo against data centres for the companies that are building them
archive.ph/RBPxF
archive.ph/RBPxF
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Are you going to publicly sack your populist appointee to the cushy antisemetism envoy position @albomp.bsky.social
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
Probably time to ‘advance’ your decision
#auspol #DueDiligenceFailure
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
Probably time to ‘advance’ your decision
#auspol #DueDiligenceFailure
This is the outfit the antisemitism envoy’s squeeze donated money into…surprise, surprise
#auspol
#auspol
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Are you going to publicly sack your populist appointee to the cushy antisemetism envoy position @albomp.bsky.social
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
Probably time to ‘advance’ your decision
#auspol #DueDiligenceFailure
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
Probably time to ‘advance’ your decision
#auspol #DueDiligenceFailure
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One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Just the hugest congrats to @greenpeace.no - who've had their historic win against three massive oil fields confirmed in a court of appeal y'day
100,000 will die early if the fossil fuels in these fields are dug up and burned -->>
www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyhet...
100,000 will die early if the fossil fuels in these fields are dug up and burned -->>
www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyhet...
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Just the hugest congrats to @greenpeace.no - who've had their historic win against three massive oil fields confirmed in a court of appeal y'day
100,000 will die early if the fossil fuels in these fields are dug up and burned -->>
www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyhet...
100,000 will die early if the fossil fuels in these fields are dug up and burned -->>
www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyhet...
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I often wonder how much better managed & executed systems we could have had in telecommunications & power networks had short sighted fools, adhering to Thatcher/Reagan economic theory, not sold off the fucking farm
Now, instead of innovation & a huge return on every $, we make the 1% richer
Now, instead of innovation & a huge return on every $, we make the 1% richer
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM