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Following the new energy revolution. Navigating the Climate Change apocalypse. Helping to forecast future weather events. Probably an anarchist. Still dealing with long COVID. Also at mastodon : @fluids_guru@kolektiva.social

"If you're a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you're not really a journalist, you're a courtier." Frankie Boyle
A picture of Homer Simmons riding a donkey backwards holding the USA flag into a large ceremonial cake with the title 'Local Man Ruins Everything'
It is an oddity of human character that the West's pro-fossil backlash should peak just as the scientific facts on the ground become so evident, the costs so clear, and the alternative technologies so easily and cheaply available.
Jack Johnson vs John Jackson from Futurama
"Fascism is the rejection of the very principle of rational debate. You cannot have a fair and constructive debate with a Nazi." - David Graeber
David Graeber The Utopia of Rules On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
It will be tragically ironic if a bunch of Nazis take down a law that was designed to keep them in the ground. Blaming them (or the court) will miss the point that we are being extremely poorly served by our parliament, which has ample power to protect us but is too lazy and incompetent to do the job properly.
"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, it has already been observed, into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit. These are the three great, original, and constituent orders of every givil-ized society, from whose revenue that of every other order is ultimately derived. The interest of the first of those three great orders, it appears from what has been just now said, is strictly and inseparably connected with the general interest of the society. Whatever.."
Erich Kästner at the end of World War Two in Germany: "Depression is turning into irritability. Everyone is making someone else responsible, everyone is blaming everyone else, and everyone is excluding just one person from that blame; themselves. Why are people irritable? Because they are surprised? But how can they be surprised? Did they actually believe the deception? Did they really confuse the outrageous rhetoric with facts? No one can be that stupid. You can only pretend to be. Now they are pretending to be surprised. In other words, they are playing dumb again. They would rather be thought of as a complete idiot than as a scoundrel."
Ed Husic comments on an AFR story about impending job losses in the Australian Public Service: "Isn't it funny that whenever there are public sector jobs targeted for trimming two departments always seem to sneak from view: Treasury and Finance (also why are they not merged already? Most other Depts have been forced to consolidate, except these"
Article about discounted land taxes to Phillip Island residents whose properties are losing value due to sea level rise.
Anything we can actually do, we can afford. John Maynard Keynes, 1942
The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, it has already been observed, into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit. These are the three great, original, and constituent orders of every civil. ized society, trom whose revenue that of every other order is ultimately derived. The interest of the first of those three great orders, it appears from what has been just now said, is strictly and inseparably connected with the general interest of the society. Whatever...
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Fredric Jameson
John Kudelka’s classic
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Hannah Arendt
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." Hannah Arendt German historian and philosopher (1906 - 1975)
The wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes : "ISN'T IT SAD HOW SOME PEOPLES GRIP ON THEIR LIVES IS SO PRECARIOUS THAT THEY'LL EMBRACE ANY PREPOSTEROUS DELUSION RATHER THAN FACE AN OCCASIONAL BLEAK TRUTH?"
Calvin laments to Hobbes : "ISNT IT SAD HOW SOME PEOPLES GRIP ON THEIR LIVES IS SO PRECARIOUS THAT THEY'LL EMBRACE ANY PREPOSTEROUS DELUSION RATHER THAN FACE AN OCCASIONAL BLEAK TRUTH?"
Greg Sheridan's loving eulogy to George Pell.
Calvin and Hobbes : "ISN'T IT SAD HOW SOME PEOPLES GRIP ON THEIR LIVES IS SO PRECARIOUS THAT THEY'LL EMBRACE ANY PREPOSTEROUS DELUSION RATHER THAN FACE AN OCCASIONAL BLEAK TRUTH??'
Bookshop display titled 'Epstein Island Guest list' featuring books by Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Elon Musk's autobiography.
Ross river virus detected in a southern Australian coastal town at 38 degrees south
Jon's dinosaurs complaining the Asteroid Mitigation Program will cost a fortune
Jon Kudelka’s seminal cartoon of a scientist standing behind an IPCC lectern at every AR cycle waiting for the world to listen. Published in 2013.
Peter Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid”
Released this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' labor share of income for Q3 2025 is the lowest on record. That value is an index. As a percent it is 53.8% in Q3, down from 56.5% in 2019 and 63.1% in 2000.
Some comments on collective punishment and the innocence of civilians Israeli President Issac Herzog - October 11th 2023 "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true. "They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup 'd état. Osama Bin Laden - October 14th 2002 "It is a fundamental principle of any democracy that the people choose their leaders, and as such, approve and are party to the actions of their elected leaders... By electing these leaders, the American people have given their consent to the incarceration of the Palestinian people, the demolition of Palestinian homes and the slaughter of the children of Iraq. This is why the American people are not innocent. The American people are active members in all these crimes." "Statement From Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, May God Protect Him, and Al Qaeda Organization, " Al Qal'ah (Internet),
Labour Government in Australia The parliamentary elections took place in Australia recently. The Labour Party, which had the majority in the Lower House, having forty-four seats out of seventy-five, suffered defeat. Now it only has thirty-six seats out of seventy-five. The majority has passed to the Liberals, but this majority is very unstable, because in the Upper House, thirty out of the thirty-six seats are occupied by Labour. What a peculiar capitalist country is this in which Labour 1 predominates in the Upper House and recently predominated in the Lower House and yet the capitalist system does not suffer any danger! An English correspondent of a German Labour newspaper recently explained this circumstance, which is very often misrepresented by bourgeois writers. The Australian Labour Party does not even claim to be a Socialist Party. As a matter of fact it is a liberal-bourgeois party, and the so-called Liberals in Australia are really Conservatives.
CUT GOT ANT TAPE NEAR YOUR COMPUTER 03 TYI BREAKING NEWS CONSUMER'S HANDBOOK 1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don't trust anonymous sources. 3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There's almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language the media uses. • "We are getting reports"... could mean anything. • "We are seeking confirmation"... means they don't have it. • "[News outlet] has learned"... means it has a scoop or is going out on
JOURNALISM 101: "If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true"
- "We've had a decade of drift in climate policy. We've had policies proposed and then abandoned. We've had science acknowledged and then ignored, and we've created a situation where more and more assets and more and more Australian lives are at risk from climate change than ever needed to be. I mean, to me, this is the single most irresponsible act that I've ever seen by governments." Dr Martin Parkinson Secretary for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2022
- "We've had a decade of drift in climate policy. We've had policies proposed and then abandoned. We've had science acknowledged and then ignored, and we've created a situation where more and more assets and more and more Australian lives are at risk from climate change than ever needed to be. I mean, to me, this is the single most irresponsible act that I've ever seen by governments." Dr Martin Parkinson Secretary for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2022
- "We've had a decade of drift in climate policy. We've had policies proposed and then abandoned. We've had science acknowledged and then ignored, and we've created a situation where more and more assets and more and more Australian lives are at risk from climate change than ever needed to be. I mean, to me, this is the single most irresponsible act that I've ever seen by governments." Dr Martin Parkinson Secretary for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2022
Some comments on collective punishment and the innocence of civilians Israeli President Issac Herzog - October 11th 2023 "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true. "They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup 'd état. Osama Bin Laden - October 14th 2002 "It is a fundamental principle of any democracy that the people choose their leaders, and as such, approve and are party to the actions of their elected leaders... By electing these leaders, the American people have given their consent to the incarceration of the Palestinian people, the demolition of Palestinian homes and the slaughter of the children of Iraq. This is why the American people are not innocent. The American people are active members in all these crimes." "Statement From Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, May God Protect Him, and Al Qaeda Organization," Al Qal ah (Internet),
Some comments on collective punishment and the innocence of civilians Israeli President Issac Herzog - October 11th 2023 "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true. "They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup 'd état. Osama Bin Laden - October 14th 2002 "It is a fundamental principle of any democracy that the people choose their leaders, and as such, approve and are party to the actions of their elected leaders... By electing these leaders, the American people have given their consent to the incarceration of the Palestinian people, the demolition of Palestinian homes and the slaughter of the children of Iraq. This is why the American people are not innocent. The American people are active members in all these crimes." "Statement From Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, May God Protect Him, and Al Qaeda Organization, " Al Qal'ah (Internet),
Some comments on collective punishment and the innocence of civilians Israeli President Issac Herzog - October 11th 2023 "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true. "They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup 'd état. Osama Bin Laden - October 14th 2002 "It is a fundamental principle of any democracy that the people choose their leaders, and as such, approve and are party to the actions of their elected leaders... By electing these leaders, the American people have given their consent to the incarceration of the Palestinian people, the demolition of Palestinian homes and the slaughter of the children of Iraq. This is why the American people are not innocent. The American people are active members in all these crimes." "Statement From Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, May God Protect Him, and Al Qaeda Organization," Al Qal ah (Internet),
Initially, aerial shooting demonstrates the highest population reduction of all methods reviewed here with more than two studies and produces a substantially higher average capture per unit of effort (34.04 pigs hour-1), more than 456 times the capture rate efficiency than ground shooting (hunting). However, as control programs progress and densities decline from pre-control levels, the effort required to remove further pigs increases exponentially (Choquenot et al., 1999). As such, other control tools may demonstrate greater efficiencies during these and other program-specific circumstances, and therefore should be considered. Trapping produced the second highest population reduction with an average of 63.1%, but at a considerably higher effort (0.01 pigs hour-1) than aerial shooting (34.04 pigs hour-1). However, actual labour effort (intermittent for trapping vs continuous for aerial shooting) and other data (i.e. number of traps, distances travelled, labour used) to support a direct comparison are lacking. Despite this, trapping may have greater success than aerial shooting after the initial cull period and could capture pigs surviving aerial shooting programs, or those who have developed avoidance response. Aerial baiting and ground baiting are also recommended control tools, with ground baiting with grain baits resulting in higher average population reductions than aerial baiting with either substrate (49.7% and 39.4% respectively)
Ground-based shooting is commonly used to try and reduce the impacts or abundance of over-abundant animal populations in many parts of the world. It encompasses a wide range of activities carried out by many different types of people driven by a variety of interacting motivations. Given this contextual complexity, it is unsurprising that results of ground shooting operations for pest animal control range from counter-productive to highly effective. This review systematically examines a sample of published papers that report on the efficacy of ground-based shooting operations in Australasia, North America, Europe and Japan. Although the sample was small and the literature surveyed included many flaws and inconsistencies, several key themes that contribute to effectiveness were identified. These included: 1) the use of tools or methods that enhance efficiency; 2) a manageable geographic area of operations; and 3) the use of highly skilled and committed shooters. Factors repeatedly shown to detract from efficacy included: 1) the inability of harvest-oriented shooters to sustain effort as target populations declined; 2) insufficient spatial or temporal coverage to counter immigration; and 3) the presence of refugia within treatment areas. It is clear that ground shooting can make important contributions to the management of pest or over-abundant species, but shooting alone is often insufficient or prohibitively inefficient to achieve desired outcomes. Managers planning to use ground shooting as part of a population management strategy should: 1) carefully examine the options to determine what type of shooting operation is likely to be most useful; 2) establish and monitor meaningful objectives; 3) ensure that operations are sufficiently resourced to meet and maintain those objectives; and 4) integrate ground shooting with other control methods wherever possible. Operations that are poorly-planned, resourced, integrated and executed are unlikely to deliver useful outcome…