James Clark

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

And the Tories looked back along the beach and asked why sometimes there were only one set of prints, and the Labor Party replied, "That was when I carried you."

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws Tom Rabe WA political correspondent Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Or is it climate collapse?

Am I getting older or is it a recession indicator?

I've been near just one US 1000 pound bomb explosion in my lifetime. We were about half a kilometre away. The noise, and pure gut-moving energy of the thing are deeply etched. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to have Israel rain US bombs on you, day after day, for weeks, months, years.

Hello nerds. I have an iPod Classic 6th Gen that I’ve heard you can mod to upgrade with a larger SSD and even a Bluetooth transmitter. I do not have the time or skills to do this but would pay a fair price to have it done. Recommendations? Pitfalls? Advice?

Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

Honestly, this is the simple truth underpinning politics across the world. The fossil fuel industry is funding the rise of fascism to prevent democratic action to stop climate change heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Police failed to monitor neo-Nazis at March for Australia protests: legal observers Reviews of police conduct during right-wing rallies found "serious" failings

Important reporting. Police regularly deploy violence against peaceful left-wing demonstrations while facilitating right wing violence. There is never any accountability and they do it with the continued support of both Labor and Liberal govts www.deepcutnews.com/p/police-fai...

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

remarkably bleak stuff

Ausgrid slashes safety inspectors after report finds cheaper to pay permanent disability injury compensation Secret report from CutlerMerz finds yearly cost of inspections – $520,219 – is more than cost of paying compensation – $28,375 a year * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Ausgrid cut safety inspector numbers by more than half after receiving a secret report that said it was cheaper for the company to pay compensation for a permanent disability injury than to continue paying for the inspections. The secret report, conducted by consultancy CutlerMerz and seen by Guardian Australia, recommended Ausgrid slash the inspections it was doing by as much as 55%, saying the cost – $520,219 per year – was “grossly disproportionate to the cost of the consequence being managed”. Continue reading...

Ausgrid slashes safety inspectors after report finds cheaper to pay permanent disability injury compensation

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

North West Shelf final approval a climate, economic and energy security disaster Australia Institute analysis shows today's final approval of the 45-year expansion of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export terminal is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

For more info ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/north-w...

Shoutouts to Annabel Crabb and Kitchen Cabinet

My dude, your government keeps approving new coal and gas extraction which is *the cause* of global warming so maybe stop doing that???????

I am begging journalists to stop writing puff pieces like this while Labor gives the fossil fuel industry everything they want

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

Labor really didn't want to release this, and you can see why. It makes an absolute mockery of their rhetoric while they approve new coal and gas projects. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The fkg hypocrisy is galling. They extend Woodside by 50 years, open more mines and today they sombrely declare ‘we have to be honest with the Australian ppl’. Mfg, your govt has ensured our demise with your support for the mining industry 😡😡😡

I think a lifetime of working on climate where every tiny gain or concession feels like trying to pull teeth from the Loch Ness monster gives me a particular brand of insane here. Oh, renewables are unproven but we must shove AI into absolutely everything before the end of the financial year.

Politicians hoping AI can fix Australia’s housing crisis are risking another Robodebt | Ehsan Nabavi The technology will be used to ‘simplify and speed up assessments and approvals’. But planning is more than just paperwork waiting to be automated

Honestly feel like I am going insane watching our governments rush to embrace "AI" technology. Shoving it into everywhere just because some US tech company told them they should. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Threat No One Wants to Talk About As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer

"Our political class have enabled one of the greatest wealth transfers of all-time by allowing these tech fascists to consolidate resources and power in order to allow them to create a “new economy” built on our suffering." jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...

A building with the sign: Laundromat & Dry Cleaning. Environmentally fresh alternative.

What does that even mean?

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Screenshot of a facebook comment: "Can we send all the inner city people to live there instead?"

News Corp commentators would nuke Fitzroy if they could

The comments are very much picking up what News Corp are putting down.

Screenshot of a facebook post from News.com.au. Caption: Imagine a car-free, zero-emission metropolis where workers are treated like slaves in the name of trillion-dollar ambition. It’s real. Image: An satellite photo of NEOM port with the text "21,000 DEAD: CITY'S $13 TRILLION NIGHTMARE"

Ah, News Corp running a story about NEOM to dog whistle about 15 minute city conspiracy theories and promote the idea that reducing car use and cutting emissions is somehow tied to slavery. Cool and normal.

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

"ethics watchdog warns of lobbying "risks""

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...

So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.

When at UniSA, MUP chair Warren Bebbington earned over $1 mil. These dudes don’t really go backwards in salary do they? And UniMelb Vice Chancellor is on $1.5 mil. But $200k for a literary magazine, that received funding, is too much? Sure sure. Nothing to do with what was being published.