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People seem upset but I think shutting down the United States sounds like a pretty good idea given what it's been up to. What are we replacing it with?

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

The world hasn’t actually abandoned green energy, with global renewable rollout still accelerating and investment doubling over the last five years. But climate politics is in undeniable withdrawal, and far from ushering in a new era of cooperative global solidarity, Paris has given way to something much more old-fashioned: an atavistic age of competition, renewed rivalry and the increasingly naked logic of national self-interest, on energy and warming as with everything else. In the wake of America’s presidential election, Alex Trembath of the Breakthrough Institute declared that “the era of the climate hawk is over.” Perhaps, at least for now, the age of climate statesmen, too.

In the end, Democrats would have been better off if they had simply sustained the climate and energy politics that prevailed at the dawn of the age of the climate hawk. Just consider the relative fortunes of Barack Obama, who prioritized health care and Wall Street regulation over climate change while bragging about domestic oil and gas production, versus Joe Biden, who prioritized climate change above all else while bragging about how much he spent on it. The pace of decarbonization achieved by their respective Administrations was strikingly similar, and while the former remains probably the most popular Democratic politician of the last fifty years, the latter…well, you know. Fortunately, the path of the pragmatist is still available. But to follow it would mean making some sharp breaks with the way of the climate hawk: elevating deregulatory policy that clears technological and institutional bottlenecks over regulatory policy that asserts ever-more precise control over the energy system; abandoning arbitrary emissions targets and catastrophist rhetoric; and reforging bipartisan cooperation and energy policy development. Climate mitigation can and should be a co-benefit of these pursuits, but not the point of them. Notably, there is a role for many of climate hawks’ favorite policy instruments on this path, including subsidies, standards, fees, and technology targets. But there is no role for the climate hawk itself. The organizing principle that placed climate change at the heart of politics, and of political identity, must fade away. Reconstituting a political center that can sustain the politics and policies necessary to make progress on climate change over many decades, and across inevitable shifts in political power, requires decentering climate change. Decadence is dead, and the climate hawk will die with it. What takes its place in the coming years will be determined one step at a time along this new, uncharted path. But the first step for climate hawks,…

It is, I argue, now the era of the Climate Vulture: the grinning, glib dudebro breezily diverting the infrastructure of climate action to feed AI slop, carbon removal scams, geoengineering soon-to-be-scams etc.

It's dinner time for the Climate Vultures.

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Bloody hell. For context, that is 10x the high-end estimate of Soviet fatalities in the 1979-89 Afghanistan war.

It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine Panthers and Storm boots, stamping on a human face forever

I know intellectually this is one of the youngest squads in the league, Canberra were expected to finish near the bottom this year, and the core of the team is locked up for several years of serious contention, but man this is a fucken hard pair of games to take.

Rugby league is a sport where fascism inevitably triumphs

Two things here that are simply unbelievable: (1) that our own Prime Minister, who spent months maligning the Palestine protests, told the nation that there were "good people" at the Nazi rally, (2) our antisemitism envoy still won't comment on the Hilter Glorification Parade.

Still thinking about this.

The purring only gets louder!

I fully believe many cats get violent over belly rubs but maybe I'm just built different - I've had 3 cats and they all either like or ignore belly rubs

Colin Wright @SwipeWright X.com Convincing my left-wing former close friends on Facebook that Charlie Kirk wasn't a Nazi or a fascist is completely futile because I can't even convince them that I'M not a Nazi or a fascist, and many have known me since early grade school. 1:20 PM • 9/15/25 • 850K Views

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

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Hey so what happened to "no one’s above the law" hey Tony Burke

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

There's a world class twat fade on this article

Hey what's the go with twisties

It's so fucken windy out on the Hume that I can feel it buffeting my poor little Micra off its straight line

Promotors who run the local beer and food stuff at Henson Park with a pretty rad poster for the Swans games

Made a new friend called Jacob at my brother in law's house

Going to see the Aunty of Broden Kelly, the football podcaster, or something of this nature

'That could be me': How ex-teammate inspired new Swan to take the leap Darcy Moloney drew inspiration from Laura Gardiner in making the tough decision to move to Sydney from Geelong

Darcy Moloney will play her fourth game for the Swans on Sunday - the 50th of her career - and it was watching Laura Gardiner excel in the harbour city that made her think "that could be me" #AFLW

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I'm not a doctor but clearly the humours in his body are all out of whack due to moral derangement and loose living, and he's rotting from the inside as they putrify

I miss the days when rugby league was simpler. There was no bunker, no Sportsbet ads and apparently the Balmain Tigers were sponsored by the concept of “computers”

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

For actual serious: have any journalists managed to get *anything* from Segal about the neonazi rallies yesterday? Absolutely anything?

Read table on page 11 in the link in the post.

Digging in a bit more on the report today. Interesting that Yoti, which is arguably the most mature of the age assurance companies, had a false positive rate (i.e. thinking someone was 16) of 34% for 14yos and 57% for 15yos. ageassurance.com.au/wp-content/u...