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Peta
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Mum. Brisbaneite. Nerd. Gamer. Progressive. Politics. Wear a mask. Listen to Starset. She/her
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"What's unusual about Cyclone Alfred, and is climate change affecting how it moves towards the coast?"

#Alfred
What's so weird about Tropical Cyclone Alfred?
As south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales prepare for Tropical Cyclone Alfred to cross the coast, an Australian researcher explains what makes this system so unusual.
www.abc.net.au
March 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Brisbane is not built for cyclones. I mean that literally, the cyclone building code only applies north of Hervey Bay (where K’gari is in the image). Cyclone Alfred could be pretty fucking bad
March 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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For just one-fifth of the Coalition’s nuclear price tag, the government could install rooftop solar on every house in the country that doesn’t already have it: ACF. www.acf.org.au/nuclear-pric...
Coalition’s eye-watering nuclear price tag could buy solar for every Australian home that doesn’t have it (five times over)
For just a fraction of what the Coalition says its nuclear ideas will cost, the government could pay for the installation of rooftop solar on every house in Australia, saving households money and gene...
www.acf.org.au
December 12, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Truth.
If you truly love something, never read what people have to say about it on the Internet.
December 5, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Brilliant.
According to woolworths the strikes have cost them $50 million so far
December 3, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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No matter the content of the legislation, the Senate dealing with 32 bills in one day is a sad abrogation of the proper scrutiny role of the upper house and an approach that can only erode public confidence in the Parliament. 1/2 #auspol
Labor passes migration and social media ban bills after marathon Senate sitting
More than 30 pieces of legislation pass the upper house amid a flurry of deals with the Coalition and Greens
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:28 PM
New paper in @science.org finds across 8 studies & multiple platforms, time periods, & definitions of misinformation that (a) misinfo evokes more outrage than trustworthy news & (b) people are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinfo without clicking on it

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 28, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Not sure why but I snort-laughed at this #auspol
Murray Watt is reading a Christmas poem about the Senate's last sitting day right now. James McGrath raises a point of order that "This is cringe" but it was shot down.
November 28, 2024 at 4:45 AM
And this is how you know it's a bad idea (apart from all the other very obvious reasons) #auspol
News Corp basically going all in.
November 26, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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A great piece from @theshufflediary.bsky.social on two bans: one supported by evidence (gambling ads), the other a news corp panic attack (teen social media) www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/26/g...
Gambling advertising reform takes time and expertise. The social media ban? Not so much
The delay on gambling advertising reform is apparently in the service of 'good policy design'. What does that tell us about the teen social media ban?
www.crikey.com.au
November 26, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Repeat after me, "They must make you hate other people so you don't hate them."

That is what is happening all day, every day.
November 25, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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If you paid any tax in 2022-23, you paid more than all of these multinational gas corporations did on $36 BILLION income, exporting Australian gas from QLD.

Really makes you think. #auspol
November 26, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Queensland whooping cough vaccine numbers down in pregnant women amid huge surge in cases.

"The sunshine state has recorded more than 12,500 cases of whooping cough cases so far this year, compared with 549 at this stage in 2023 and 48 cases in 2022."

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Queensland whooping cough cases are skyrocketing as vaccination rate for pregnant women dips
Data shows 37 babies under six months have been admitted to Queensland hospitals with whooping cough in 2024, compared to just 14 in all of 2023.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2024 at 1:02 AM
So this thread isn't frustrating at all ... 😔 #auspol #nacc
Brereton is doing a great job of filibustering this NACC oversight committee hearing which has just 90 minutes for questions from senators. Almost half an hour gone now and he's still in his opening statement. Mostly rehash of his speech from last week so far.
November 22, 2024 at 5:41 AM
👏🏼👏🏼

"Any illusions of Western morality, or even the benevolence and effectiveness of our political systems, should be well and truly out the fucking window by now. Hold it all in contempt, you do not need to cheer for any of these people."

#auspol #icc
November 22, 2024 at 5:08 AM
How dare you make sense #auspol
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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Expanding ‘the Blue’ on Bluesky! United Nations agencies, programs and colleagues are joining the platform in growing numbers - so we created this starter pack to help us all connect: go.bsky.app/7payMrA
November 19, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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"The government has introduced a bill on social media minimum age requirements, but no one, including the Minister responsible, knows yet how it is going to work" is not the behaviour of fully functioning adults.
November 21, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Sweden has announced a zero waste rate, and is importing #recycling from other countries. Here in Australia, we can’t even get #Coles and #Woolworths to coordinate the recycling of soft plastics. We are woefully behind, with no plan. #auspol

www.trtworld.com/europe/swedi...
Swedish recycling so successful it is importing rubbish
As the result of an astonishing ‘recycling revolution’, Sweden has nearly reached ‘zero waste’ levels and imports at least two million tonnes of rubbish from other European countries.
www.trtworld.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
Coca-Cola’s newest Christmas commercial was made using AI.
November 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Nope. Nope. Nope.

If it was DAO Warden & Hawke I would have alt-f4'd DAI & never played it again 😂
"Here Lies the Abyss" in DAI was about as good as it gets, and even that was a far cry from how I originally pictured it (hello last-minute insert of Stroud when a DAO Warden import got cut).

The Old God Baby was one of the main choices from DAO -- Morrigan has a baby? With the Archdemon's soul?!
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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This era is strange because it is both socially/culturally regressive, yet technologically accelerationist.

Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal.

I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
November 21, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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How does BSky deal with misinfo?

@ascottreid.bsky.social has been diving into it.
November 20, 2024 at 3:27 PM
"—We could have adopted Europe’s world-class system that was already built, tested, & de-bugged, a system of which all the development costs have already been paid in full. We could have used the work our local experts have already done & the government has already paid for. But we decided not to."
The social media ban for kids exists in a much bigger landscape of both policy and technical infrastructure: your digital identity.

Here, have some actual facts. As written by me.

tldr in next post.

www.themandarin.com.au/281972-digit...
Digital ID policy fails you, your kids, and the country
Radically secure digital identity infrastructure is up and running in Europe right now. But not here, in Australia.
www.themandarin.com.au
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM