BBBruce @Didaho@qoto.org

So, as I said earlier in this thread, let's call a spade a spade: influencers who are generating original content for Twitter are the *only* reason that place is still around. They are literally enabling the hate and vitriol that they *claim* they are fighting against. Those claims are performative bullshit. The data makes it abundantly clear that they're doing abso-fucking-lutely nothing but keeping El** from bankruptcy, and selling out human rights in the process. That's it.

Ukraine installed Solar panels on a hospital as part of its plans to ensure key infrastructure can get power even when its grid is down. These, generators and battery storage systems is what ScoMo should have srnt not Coal. Coal can not be used when power plants are bombed #auspol #auspol22

And 20 years of bad government policy on renewables — and climate change more broadly — is coming back to bite Australia.

Once again, Australia has the technology, skills, and raw materials to be a world leader in an emerging technology. And once again, we'll end up being a quarry that sells the rocks for cents on the dollar while the value adding is done elsewhere.

"Australia currently supplies 60 per cent of the world's lithium and boasts bountiful deposits of almost every raw material needed to create lithium-ion batteries.

"But the majority of those materials are destined for International markets."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-28/calls-government-support-lithium-battery-renewable-energy/101793740

#auspol #renewables #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #economics #WApol

Thank you for another year of Honest Government Ads! Here's some bloopers and behind the scenes goodies I collected for you over the course of the year. Catch you in 2023 💛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_f61YsiZeY

Thanks very much gas industry for going off in a huff and putting gas expansion plans on the backburner. Best Xmas gift ever to an overheating planet. Hurrah.
#NoNewGas #ClimateEmergency
@vanbadham

I would really like to quote-tweet this, adding my 2 cents and amplifying Taylor's words.

But I can't. And that's unfortunate.

Critics say Elon Musk has been asleep at the wheel lately with Tesla, but he said not to worry because it's a completely safe, self-driving company.

Climate strike week 227. The climate crisis doesn’t go on holiday. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #PeopleNotProfit

Repetition changes brains.
Repetition changes brains.
Repetition changes brains.

I’m struggling to know in what moral universe gas companies that are reaping obscene margins from a war using this nation’s common wealth have a case to gouge the Australian people for the privilege and then to fleece them all over again by not paying taxes on their profits.

.@HonTonyAbbott@twitter.com is a gross hypocrite. He says “It’s wrong when woke CEOs start playing politics through their businesses.”, but is stone-cold silent when those same CEOs play politics undermining government tax and environmental policy. #auspol https://www.hcamag.com/au/specialisation/benefits/tony-abbott-hits-out-at-woke-ceos-over-australia-day-controversy/431363?

It is amazing how often the all-guns-blazing, ideological reporting by some journalists manages to undermine their own story, to miss the forest for the trees. The two "big name" journalists who had carriage of the "Twitter Files" are put to shame (in reporting terms) by this more measured piece about shit that happened in the Twitter moderation mines. Worth a read.

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/

Ginni Thomas got $200K from someone who had a brief before SCOTUS & $680K from the Heritage Foundation

Barrett got $2 million for a book deal

Jesse Barrett’s job is a conflict of interest

Kavanaugh’s credit card debt & country club fees vanished

Release their damn tax returns

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ

Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/