Tim Baxter

Tim Baxter

@timinclimate.bsky.social

Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. More anarchist with each passing disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy. To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.

10,733 Followers 1,246 Following 4,642 Posts Joined Jun 2023
8 hours ago
graph showing huge increase in LNG exports while Biden was president.

Why is the public so confused on energy issues? Propaganda from the financial press. From today's WSJ editorial section.

"The biggest threat to this plan was always the Biden administration, which halted liquefied natural-gas exports..."

This is a not true. See graph below.

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8 hours ago

The temptation to make a gross joke is very high, but they are too cute and innocent for it.

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10 hours ago

To *shit* I mean.

I sure hope that none of you steal my 7661982 USDT($).

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10 hours ago
daballhawk

@daballhawk

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Yesterday 8:16 pm

For years, I've carried a heavy burden, living a lonely life. This world has exhausted me, and depression has tormented me. Even so, you've always been the person I care about most. But I don't want to trouble you or disturb your life.

I've left you a gift, hoping it will be the destiny that allows us to meet again in the next life.

Now, I'm preparing to leave this world. Please keep this message safe.

www.fnw.cc

Username: stg335

Password: efg489

Balance: 7661982 USDT($)

You know the world is really going to shoot when even the scan messages on tiktok are getting this dark.

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10 hours ago
In nature living beings have two ways of surviving and of making life more pleasant. One is by individual struggle against the elements and against other individuals of the same or other species; the other is by mutual aid, by cooperation, which could also be described as association for the struggle against all natural factors antagonistic to the existence, the development and wellbeing of the associates.

Apart from considerations of space, there is no need to examine in the pages that follow the relative role in the evolution of the organic world played by these two principles: of struggle and of cooperation. It will suffice to state that so far as Man is concerned, cooperation (voluntary or compulsory) has become the only means towards progress, advancement and security; and that struggle — a relic of our ancestors — has not only proved useless in ensuring individual wellbeing, but also is harmful to everybody, victors and vanquished alike.

More Malatesta

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15 hours ago
Copy of letter sent by United Mineworkers Federation of Australia on climate change, page 1. Copy of letter sent by United Mineworkers Federation of Australia on climate change, page 2. Copy of letter sent by United Mineworkers Federation of Australia on climate change, page 2.

Had a couple new bundles of documents come in today. One includes this letter from the United Mineworkers' Federation of Australia saying it represented 30,000 coal workers attacking early efforts to introduce emissions reductions targets to address climate change.

Much of this will be familiar.

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11 hours ago
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The difficult truth Writing exclusively for Crikey, Grace Tame reflects on the prime minister calling her 'difficult', the media storm following her pro-Palestine chant, and which social causes do and don't ignite public...

“The tide of public consciousness has turned in Australia as well. This is the real danger for Anthony Albanese. The disconnect between the values of everyday voters and the desires of influential powerbrokers is irreconcilable.”

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/g...

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1 day ago

In keeping with my recent trend towards vagueposting (will this become a vaguepost only account? probably not but maybe):

This week has been quite a fucking year.

But I am so proud of myself. 💛

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1 day ago

You forgot the closing bracket.

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1 day ago

Or chuck it on a plane. That way you wouldn't even need to refuel. The plane could just run on the oil in its cargo hold.

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1 day ago

There are some excellent pickup spots just south of where the clipart boat is in Yemen.

We should be able to drive the trucks down there for pickup no worries.

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1 day ago

Folks I’m about to go on the radio with @jessmcguire.bsky.social to talk uncool car names. Tune in, stream, forget to keep an eye on a strategically important and very narrow body of water.

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1 day ago

hell yeah, dog. Lets fucken gooooooooo

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1 day ago
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US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners

We’ll continue to trust US intelligence though.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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1 day ago

Whether the future update enables them to work together seamlessly is unknowable at this stage, and we have no date on when it will be rolled out. Tesla has a long history of big promises that never arrive, and others that take a very, very long time to arrive.

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1 day ago

The update from your installer is not quite true, I don't think.

Last I heard (and this is still the case according to Tesla's website that I checked just now) there is an update planned, but it hasn't yet been deployed.

At the time I wrote this thread, that update was not announced.

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1 day ago
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'One, two, three, punch': Three banks tip double-dose of interest rate pain Aussie borrowers have been warned to brace for a double-dose of interest rate pain as market instability fu...

This year, mainstream macroeconomic dogma is going to cause unspeakable harm to so many Australians if we let it.

Rather than tackle the root causes of inflation and inequality, we will tighten on the victims again and again.

It's a sickness.

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1 day ago
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Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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1 day ago

Yeah. My own intense frustrations aside, you can get a better product cheaper from elsewhere.

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2 days ago
Not all of this will go ahead, particularly given the notable shortage in gas turbine supply. But the point isn’t for all of this to get built. These people are throwing wet noodles at the wall and hoping a few of them stick. Even a fraction of these data centre fossil plants getting built would cause a material rise in America’s economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions (as has already started to happen). But another report released yesterday suggests a good chunk of America’s planned fossil data centre capacity will actually go ahead (the report also includes the finding that OpenAI’s fossil-gas fuelled Stargate project will emit 14 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, wiping out 20 years of emissions reductions in New Mexico). It also highlights the intense desperation behind turbine sourcing: reusing aircraft jet engines and buying turbines from a cruise ship company.

This is a win-win for companies, politicians and the fossil gas industry. Skyrocketing electricity bills in the US linked to data centre grid connections can be eased by bolting filthy, oversized off-grid fossil power plants onto facilities. That soothes political angst and creates a guaranteed demand sink for fossil fuels. This is “petrotech” — a brand new variety of fossil-fuelled overproduction.

Data centres have been around for some time. But they’ve never been dipped into a near-religious frenzy of global hype as we’ve seen around AI. This creates a mode of data centre development insatiably hungry for energy, with zero consideration of externalities like “does this cause humanity’s life support systems to collapse?” Fossil-fuelled data centre development is the rule, not the exception, induced by the nutty cultural and political conditions in which this growth is occurring. Inevitably, it has come to Australia.

New @crikey.com.au piece- Australia's latest fossil-fuelled data centre carbon bomb would undo one year's worth of emissions cuts for the state of New South Wales if it were to go ahead at its proposed scale

This is #Petrotech at work - and it's going to get worse

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/f...

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2 days ago

I saw, but also: bsky.app/profile/timi...

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2 days ago
camping with bill shorten - an ev plugged into a generator

What Australia's current opposition leader Angus Taylor was posting in 2019. What if there hadn't been a concerted effort to kill off vehicle efficiency standards in the election that year? How much money would be saved by Australians today, if Taylor had decided *not* to be a total turnip?

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3 days ago

Needs Matt Canavan just off camera.

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3 days ago

NO SHE MARE-D

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3 days ago

IT DID NOT STOP

IT MORE-D

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3 days ago
Social media post from The Guardian, with the headline "David Littleproud has resigned as leader of the National party".

A photo of David Littleproud giving sad side eye is beneath the post.

Whichever subbie picked this photo deserves a Walkley.

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3 days ago

I'm not going to rush to disagree with you on that, but instead inviting folks to be consistent in their treatment of vain petrostates prone to cause war and misery at home and abroad.

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4 days ago

Not just oil anymore, either. They are now the world's largest LNG supplier too. 🪇

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4 days ago

"... In fact I often make tea and dinner for the women I love in my life."

I have never heard someone describe making a meal in a way that so clearly revealed that they wear suits of human skin more often than they cook.

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4 days ago

Ooooft.

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