Agreed, and then Spiderbait's Calypso! Flag back to Homebake on the Sydney Uni ovals.

I cleared my diary to be at home all today and so far that is a good call.

Watching it now. Love, love, love that you've explained settler colonialism and what it can look like.

Adding this to my list of resources as we engage with truth telling in this very southern colony settlement. Since Australian practices were learned from American ones.
#alwayswasalwayswillbe

If you are worried about climate change, but still have a gas cooktop and you have the means to replace it - do it!

I did it 3 years ago. I love cooking, and happy to report induction cooking rocks.

Bonus - extra temporary bench space from the flat surface

#cooking #climateaction

Also, this quote:

“Relying on fossil fuel gas is bad for the planet, bad for our finances and bad for our health,” said Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore. "Ensuring all-electric buildings into the future is simply a logical next step to take."

@albomp.bsky.social as a fellow Inner Westy, don't take us into this repeat of 2003. Be the values you espoused in your election victory speech. Stand up for the rules-based order, as you and Penny Wong recently did with the sanctioning of Israeli Ministers.

In short, don't be Howard.
#auspol

If we're looking for a bird-brain alternative, then yeah, maybe "as dopey as a koala"

Three minutes is a short pop song. It's three minutes to pause and look at the twilit sky creating a beautiful contrast with one of the best cities in the world. It's three minutes to look at the diversity of people around you and how they are enjoying the space.

Dr Tim Low described them as having the same intelligence and filling the same niches as monkeys on other continents. So true. The actual winged monkeys of Oz 😀

In his book "Where song began" if you're interested.

Read that guardian article on the way to work this morning. Wow, it's something.

I viscerally remember the multitude of insects we had growing up. Now, the world feels empty.

I had assumed pesticides, but this article explained the other factors. Time to buckle in for the Fafocene, lucky us.

Or, the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was supposed to be impregnable, and yet the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II did "the impossible" and conquered it. Europe responded by militarising and trying to find new trade routes, leading to colonisation of the rest of the world.

Going long here: whichever event/decision turned the East India Company into "well, I guess we're an Empire now".

Fafocene! Great way of framing it.

Did you coin thev term, or is it from someone else?

That's a good lens, tucking it away for future conversations with my carbon offset peeps.

Related, do you know if anyone has produced a fossil fuel subsidy decrease plan? Options ramp them down in a predictable and policy stable way (acknowledging the lack of policy stability as a barrier)

Congrats and those of us in other countries watching this schemozzle play out thank your (collective) efforts. No-one wants that precedent to be set, anywhere.