BBBruce @Didaho@qoto.org

The heat is being turned up on Australia’s latest legislative response to the climate crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/18/australia-cant-blow-another-decade-of-climate-action-its-now-up-to-labor-and-the-greens

I truly hope that both Labor and the Greens can find an amicable compromise so that we can finally move forward on the issue.

#climatecrisis #climatechange #auspol

"A slam dunk for families:” Pilot launched to kick gas out of homes and communities"
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-slam-dunk-for-families-pilot-launched-to-kick-gas-out-homes-and-communities/
The bid to kick fossil gas out of Australian homes, electrify everything and power it with solar is off and running in New South Wales, with the launch of an $8 million pilot to decarbonise three local communities across the state.

According to its [Rewiring Australia's] modelling, it will be cost effective for households to entirely replace conventional gas and other outdated appliances with EV, solar and efficient alternatives by the mid-2020s.

#AusPol #Renewables #Solar #Wind

Last boost - the FIFA board should reverse their decision to make Saudi Arabia a key sponsor of the women's world cup or the FIFA board should be replaced immediately

The comparisons keep getting better, lol.

Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

It took a while to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon because when the missiles were programmed to target an enormous white Chinese-owned gasbag they kept veering towards Mar-A-Lago. #ChineseSpyBalloon #Trump #Politics #BadJokes

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news

Ron DeSantis’ Florida, by Clay Jones #cartoon

Discovered during the week I was unable to access a Kindle book purchased in 2013. Reason? The order was “too old”, and refund issued to buy again. Which was pointless as the book is now more expensive than when I bought it.

Subsequently discovered 66(!!) other ebooks no longer available for download.

Currently 40 minutes in to a support chat with Amazon.

About to learn, I think, whether we purchase ebooks, or rent them…

The Auckland rain bomb is almost the perfect example of climate change. Cities - even the most modern - are built with climate infrastructure based on dealing with historical climate patterns, and cannot handle the future. Yet the 'future' is right now.

“It’s been a hell of a dark week here in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Don’t believe me? See what he’s done this last week.”
Samuel Vilchez Santiago

BREAKING NEWS: Russian Spy Balloon Spotted Over Florida
#TraitorTrump

In the U.K. the Government have announced they’re raising the retirement age to 68!

Whilst in France the population get off their arses & oppose the raising of their retirement age to 64!
What wrong with the people of the UK?
Also remember that the U.K. Pension is lowest in the developed world.
People PLEASE wake up, ignore the mendacious media, street power matters!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-retirement-age-rise-68-state-pension-2023-kprvlmzg8

Billionaires should not set climate policy.
Billionaires should not set water policy.
Billionaires should not be setting any policy.
Billionaires should not be platformed to give opinion on crises & injustices they helped create & have financial stakes in monopolizing policies on.
Billionaires should not exist.

Stop using the term, "Culture Wars". This nomenclature is overt propaganda. We're in the midst of a Democracy vs. Fascism war — nothing less.

This cartoon is funny... 😄

so why am I crying? 😢

#Extinction #ClimateCrisis

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) established its own group of experts…to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic. … The group concluded that the state did not apply the necessary precautions to protect the people, the Government’s response was too slow… and the recommendations to the public were unclear.
—Sigurd Bergmann & Martin Lindström, Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment #covid19

#DontStopTalkingAboutPalestine #Palestine #FreePalestine 🇵🇸