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Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!

✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today

A tweet from Acyn (@Acyn) reads: “Ingraham: Does that mean the h-1b visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Trump: You have to bring in talent Ingraham: We have plenty of talent Trump: No, you don’t Ingraham: We don’t have talented people here?” Below is a screenshot from Fox News showing Donald Trump speaking on The Ingraham Angle. The chyron reads, “TRUMP: REPUBLICANS HAVE TO TALK ABOUT LOWER PRICES.”

This is gonna make some “America First” folks hopping mad.

Michigan regulators move to protect Consumers Energy customers from some data center costs The Michigan Public Service Commission approves rules to shield Consumers Energy ratepayers from data center costs, while environmentalists seek stronger protections.

Good news: The Michigan Public Service Commission agreed with us that Consumers Energy needs to better protect customers from the high costs of serving data centers. We demonstrated that without further protections, serving data centers could raise household electricity rates by more than 9%.

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

Australia Institute research shows the gas industry pays ZERO royalties on more than half the gas exported from Australia.

"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social

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Trump Bluntly Fact-Checked After Claiming That Going From 30-Year To 50-Year Mortgages Isn't A 'Big Deal'

The swindler-in-chief.

'Whinge and win': We mustn't mistake loudest voices for a majority Whinge and win is how the bullies, the incompetent and the just plain annoying seem to always get their way.

Whinge and win is exhausting, but can be ignored

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Amazon's cheap delivery comes at a cost to the drivers, who are hired as contractors with fewer protections.

"When we let the market play out, we know what happens. Customers get worse service, workers are, in a sense, screwed over."

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

YouTube video by New Scientist The World's Climate Future Hinges On This Meeting

#COP30 starts TODAY. Here's New Scientist's preview of the meeting, with @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and
@rupertread.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m_Q...

It sounds conspiracy theorist to say the COP process was *designed* to fail, but we know that (e.g. through Don Pearlman) fossil fuel interests changed and weakened the UNFCCC... perhaps better to say the COP process was hijacked from the start

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Own goal: why the Nationals’ retreat on net zero would be bad economics In abandoning net zero, Nationals leaders claimed Australia is cutting emissions twice as fast as other rich countries. That’s not the case

Own goal: why the Nationals’ retreat on net zero would be bad economics
theconversation.com/own-goal-why...

Montana hunters fend off grizzly bears while trying to retrieve deer kill Grizzly bear encounter appears to have involved deer carcass.

This is why there should be a 100 mile no hunting buffer zone around all of our national parks within Grizzly territory.

When bears hear a gunshot, it's like ringing the dinner bell.

And hunters aren't generally very bear aware.

news.yahoo.com/articles/mon...

The Murray Fletcher Award About the award 

Presenting at the AES Conference? You could be in the running for the Murray Fletcher Award: $300 + certificate for the best presentation or poster advocating for the value of entomological collections in science, diagnostics, or education. No entry required: all eligible talks & posters considered!

"President announces widespread availability of weight loss drugs while food stamps are being cut off" sounds like the most on-the-nose hack bullshit way to modernize the whole apocryphal Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake" thing.

Home - Australian Entomological Society 56th Annual Conference - Marie Reay Teaching Centre | ANU We are excited to have you join us in Canberra for the 5th Combined Australian and New Zealand Entomological Societies Conference, a gathering of entomologists, researchers, educators, and insect…

Less than a month to go until the Societies Conference – 1–4 December!
Have you…
✈️ Booked flights & accommodation?
🖱️ Checked out the program, tours, photography competition and workshops on the website?
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See you there!
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It's been a year since Trump was re-elected, so what's happening in the US?

🛑Longest federal government shutdown in American history

↗️Sweeping victories for Democrats in multiple elections

@emmashortis.bsky.social

AOC Reveals Why She Thinks MTG Is Actually On A 'Revenge Tour' Against Her Fellow Republicans

It's certainly a compelling theory.

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Spoke to the lovely people at 7am Podcast about why nothing shill save Sussan Ley’s leadership and why the Coalition’s ongoing climate mess sucks for us all

(Support independent media where you can) 🩷

7ampodcast.com.au

Liberal strife is really about winning – but not elections One of the hardest things for people to understand with this latest Liberal Party implosion is that it’s not rational.

This has never been about common sense:
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Australia's the second-largest LNG exporter in the world, but Australians have to pay through the nose for their own gas!

And on top of that, we're giving half of our exported gas away for free!

📺Stephen Long, Senior Fellow & Contributing Editor
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social #auspol

The Government is seeking a deal with the Coalition to pass changes to our environment laws….

Which means those changes will need the support of climate sceptics like Matt Canavan, who recently called for renewable projects to be replaced by new coal plants.

📺 @ebonybennett.bsky.social

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“Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire with billions in fossil fuel subsidies, it’s time the government taxed the fossil fuel industry to create a National Climate Disaster Fund."

- Senior Economist @jack-thrower.bsky.social quoted in @thepointau.bsky.social
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4 people stand holding a green report titled Public's Case for Curators in front of a screen that reads Welcome!

Thanks for a great session on Restoring Confidence in Science to our panelists, who discussed #PublicGoodCuration, the principles that underlie it, why it matters and how society relies on librarians, journalists, publishers, researchers & integrity officers for reliable information.#chsconf25

‘With the Coalition in disarray and a third term almost guaranteed, Labor is proposing to weaken environment laws even further, and that is not the Greens or Coalition’s fault.’

- Richard Denniss, co-Chief Executive Officer

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Blue States Are Taking A Page Out Of Trump's Playbook With Alerts About SNAP Benefits

Well done 👏🏼

Wish they’d stop pushing the misleading claim that it was only (lol) a $4.1m upgrade.

New Australia Institute polling shows most Australians, regardless of who they vote for, think cash-for access payments represent corrupt conduct.

“Politicians could improve public faith in democracy by ruling out taking money in a way that most view as corrupt.’

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol