Filleastuta
@filleastuta.bsky.social
Public policy and politics. Emergency management. Music, art and design. Wannabe cat owner. Naarm.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
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Love your paper. Especially the quote "When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
November 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Love your paper. Especially the quote "When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
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A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 countries in South America, Asia and the Pacific region.
Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples
“My children died. My mother died. My husband died. My brothers, my sisters, my aunts and uncles. I saw the bones sticking out of their rotting corpses inside the longhouse. We were too weak to bury…
news.mongabay.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 countries in South America, Asia and the Pacific region.
New The Bernard Lakes album is very good, if a bit lairy to look at. Self described as Montreal’s psych rockers 🇨🇦
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New The Bernard Lakes album is very good, if a bit lairy to look at. Self described as Montreal’s psych rockers 🇨🇦
Like many storms in recent years, Hurricane Melissa went through a rapid intensification due to persistently warm waters. This will likely continue.
NEW: Sunrise over Hurricane Melissa.
For too many Jamaicans, this will be a life-changing event.
Melissa has now surpassed Hurricane Katrina in strength. It is the 8th strongest hurricane in recorded history.
For too many Jamaicans, this will be a life-changing event.
Melissa has now surpassed Hurricane Katrina in strength. It is the 8th strongest hurricane in recorded history.
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Like many storms in recent years, Hurricane Melissa went through a rapid intensification due to persistently warm waters. This will likely continue.
Having tried to navigate Melbourne’s storms on the new site today, can confirm it is shite. The new radar is particularly awful.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The old site was concise, logical, informative and easily navigated. The new one wallows in white-space and unnecessary sub-menus. Too many clicks required to get to too little information. Whilst the former site needed updating this is not what is required.
The old site was concise, logical, informative and easily navigated. The new one wallows in white-space and unnecessary sub-menus. Too many clicks required to get to too little information. Whilst the former site needed updating this is not what is required.
‘Your new website sucks’: Bureau of Meteorology redesign is lightning rod for heated criticism
It was designed to be clean and clear, but upset users are calling the national weather forecaster’s new site confusing, clunky and ‘really bad’
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Having tried to navigate Melbourne’s storms on the new site today, can confirm it is shite. The new radar is particularly awful.
Imported cut flowers are one of the main ways pests get into Australia. Huge risk to our biosecurity. Country of origin labelling would help us all buy Australian
About half of Australia's cut flowers are imported, but there is no requirement to add a label informing consumers of their origin.
Flower growers want imported blooms to carry country-of-origin labels
About half of Australia's cut flowers are imported, but there is no requirement to add a label informing consumers of their origin.
www.abc.net.au
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Imported cut flowers are one of the main ways pests get into Australia. Huge risk to our biosecurity. Country of origin labelling would help us all buy Australian
Looking a bit untidy down your way @lukefoley.me. Hope you’re going ok
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Looking a bit untidy down your way @lukefoley.me. Hope you’re going ok
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Fascinating....
theconversation.com/how-do-austr...
theconversation.com/how-do-austr...
How do Australians feel about their lives? It depends on where they live
New research surveying more than 10,000 Australians has found people feel better about the nation than in years prior, but strong divides remain.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Fascinating....
theconversation.com/how-do-austr...
theconversation.com/how-do-austr...
Severe weather warning for coastal areas of Victoria
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Severe weather warning for coastal areas of Victoria
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A serious post. Tomorrow in Vic there’ll be big wind storms so if you suffer from asthma,COPD or other forms of respiratory diseases please stay home. These storms can kill,so If you have to go out tomorrow wear a mask. Ian
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A serious post. Tomorrow in Vic there’ll be big wind storms so if you suffer from asthma,COPD or other forms of respiratory diseases please stay home. These storms can kill,so If you have to go out tomorrow wear a mask. Ian
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Buckle up Victoria! Damaging winds across the state tomorrow. SW tomorrow morning, Melbourne 2-4pm, then moving through Gippy. Worst along the coast. Charge your devices tonight in case power goes out and bring in or tie down loose items outside
36 hours of record heat, winds, storms predicted for south-east Australia
From record October heat to dangerous thunderstorms and gale force winds, the next 36 hours could bring extreme weather across south-east Australia.
www.abc.net.au
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Buckle up Victoria! Damaging winds across the state tomorrow. SW tomorrow morning, Melbourne 2-4pm, then moving through Gippy. Worst along the coast. Charge your devices tonight in case power goes out and bring in or tie down loose items outside
“the entire Generative AI industry, its funding, development and adoption, is based on copper-bottomed, chateau-bottled lies. I’m not talking about exaggerated claims of usefulness and necessity . . . I am saying that every single basis premise used to position Generative AI as inevitable is false”
With Forbes warning the Gen AI bubble bursting will wipe $40 trillion off global markets, I wrote about the foundational lies the industry tells about the usefulness, durability, accuracy and - yes - intelligence of its products
All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
medium.com/@patchgaley/...
All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
medium.com/@patchgaley/...
The Secret Lies of AI
I recently listened to an excellent podcast from the team at QAA, investigating a phenomenon that is both at once very new and extremely…
medium.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“the entire Generative AI industry, its funding, development and adoption, is based on copper-bottomed, chateau-bottled lies. I’m not talking about exaggerated claims of usefulness and necessity . . . I am saying that every single basis premise used to position Generative AI as inevitable is false”
That’ll fix it 🙄😳
Federal regulators have rescinded a requirement that the nation’s largest financial institutions factor climate risks into their long-term planning, a policy dating from the Biden administration.
Fed Rescinds Mandate That Banks Plan for Climate Risks
Financial regulators said the Biden-era policy was superfluous. Democrats said it protected financial stability in an era of unpredictable weather.
nyti.ms
October 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
That’ll fix it 🙄😳
Raw and rowdy Irish American bluegrass band DUG at The Curtin tonight with @mark-h.bluesky.social. Great band and great pub.
October 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Raw and rowdy Irish American bluegrass band DUG at The Curtin tonight with @mark-h.bluesky.social. Great band and great pub.
I’m sorry what?
📢 You can go for decades working hard to accumulate wealth, only to finally get there, and not really know what to do with all the money. Here are some tips.
I’m 55 with no kids. How should I spend all my money before I die?
www.theage.com.au
October 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I’m sorry what?
What was the ‘high risk weather season’ is now the ‘higher risk weather season’ and in Victoria we have prepared for an October start. Gotta wonder how much longer we can designate a season . . .
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
What was the ‘high risk weather season’ is now the ‘higher risk weather season’ and in Victoria we have prepared for an October start. Gotta wonder how much longer we can designate a season . . .
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Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
October 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
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The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.
As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.
The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.
Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.
The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.
Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year.
Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...
theaus.in
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.
As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.
The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.
Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.
The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.
Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
In recent years in Victoria around three quarters of natural disaster related insurance payouts are for flood damage
The ABC reports that extreme weather costs Australians more each decade and, as a country, we have some of the highest per capita economic and insurance losses in the world.
This is why we need a climate compensation levy on fossil fuel exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
This is why we need a climate compensation levy on fossil fuel exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...
Betting on the weather emerges as a solution as insurance costs skyrocket
Amid more extreme weather events, parametric insurance — described as a bet on the weather —is on the rise. It is now being touted as a possible solution for Australians, who have some of the highest ...
www.abc.net.au
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In recent years in Victoria around three quarters of natural disaster related insurance payouts are for flood damage
This is indeed exciting. If you haven’t already, register for updates!
Had a call earlier which might really assist with my new business. This bloke runs several adjacent businesses and we're in talks now to work much closer together, including him supplying his yet to be introduced dim sims to us for 6 months exclusively! Exciting! Go register! dimmies.direct
Premium Dim Sims Delivered Australia Wide | Dimmies Direct
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dimmies.direct
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is indeed exciting. If you haven’t already, register for updates!
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
"Hobart is a tinderbox." I remember well evacuating our Geeveston home in January 2019. A very scary time. The town literally ringed by fire. Thanks to fire-fighters and a fortuitous wind change the town survived. It could have been a lot worse.
"Hobart is a tinderbox." I remember well evacuating our Geeveston home in January 2019. A very scary time. The town literally ringed by fire. Thanks to fire-fighters and a fortuitous wind change the town survived. It could have been a lot worse.
Australia's south coast 'very, very high risk' for bushfires, modelling shows
New Australian research shows, globally, major bushfire events are becoming more frequent, fatal and economically damaging.
www.abc.net.au
October 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
"Hobart is a tinderbox." I remember well evacuating our Geeveston home in January 2019. A very scary time. The town literally ringed by fire. Thanks to fire-fighters and a fortuitous wind change the town survived. It could have been a lot worse.
"Hobart is a tinderbox." I remember well evacuating our Geeveston home in January 2019. A very scary time. The town literally ringed by fire. Thanks to fire-fighters and a fortuitous wind change the town survived. It could have been a lot worse.
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Why experts are 'rewriting' Australia's #bushfire risk this summer
Unusual weather patterns and climate change are raising concerns for parts of #Australia, as well as popular travel destinations
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Unusual weather patterns and climate change are raising concerns for parts of #Australia, as well as popular travel destinations
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Why experts are 'rewriting' Australia's bushfire risk this summer
Unusual weather patterns and climate change are raising concerns for parts of Australia, as well as popular travel destinations.
www.sbs.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Why experts are 'rewriting' Australia's #bushfire risk this summer
Unusual weather patterns and climate change are raising concerns for parts of #Australia, as well as popular travel destinations
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Unusual weather patterns and climate change are raising concerns for parts of #Australia, as well as popular travel destinations
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
It’s that time again where we vote for our favourite bird so get to it! #birdoftheyear
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“These aren’t just bigger fires, they’re fires occurring under increasingly extreme weather conditions that make them unstoppable.”
Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable
Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable
Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade
Wildfires tore through central Chile last year, killing 133 people. In California, 18,000 buildings were destroyed in 2018 causing US$16bn (A$24bn, £12bn) in damage. Portugal, Greece, Algeria and Australia have all felt the grief and the economic pain in recent years.
As the headlines, the death tolls and the billion dollar losses from wildfires have stacked up around the world, so too have the rising temperatures – fuelled by the climate crisis – that create tinderbox conditions. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“These aren’t just bigger fires, they’re fires occurring under increasingly extreme weather conditions that make them unstoppable.”