Dana Bergstrom

Evidence based decision making if for wooses. One should embrace the Aussie ethos of sports gambling and gamble of the State’s future.

Evidenced based decision making? Listening to excerpts - phftt! - who needs that🤷🏻‍♀️

Government on a feel and a wish

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Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

👇🏽Corporation profit, communities cover the externalise costs. It’s BS economics

A disaster levy is the least we could do.

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion.

As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act.

The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage.

Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Screenshot of figures from the paper: Above a graph showing wiggly lines depicting the cumulative mass budget of Antarctica: a dark line swoops and wiggles downwards before stabilising at the end, colourful dashed lines (depicting snow fall) wiggle along constantly before sloping upwards at the same tme stabilisation occurs. Below 6 maps of Antarctica in blues and red depicting the mass change in different basins.

🚨 New @oceaniceeu.bsky.social preprint🚨 why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass, in spite of increased discharge?
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.

Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

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Screenshot showing the 12 most recent podcasts listed on Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory

Great Australian Pods front page showing recently added podcasts including work from: @noiseatunsw.com @craigafoster.bsky.social

Supported by lenny.fm

www.greataustralianpods.com

#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia

pov “Atlantic current at risk of collapse”- true- a potential is a risk
“plunging UK into “ even more… shit weather - true
tho’ “most of UK” would be better
“never-ending winter”- not true
But if you replaced “never-ending” with frozen/ icy
/Arctic it would accurate, better with uncertainty.

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True - it's not completely accurate, 'tho the sense is the there - you have to admit, having winter sea ice around most of the UK would be a shock to most UK residents - great map BTW.

Devastating climate risk assessment shows fossil fuel exports must end Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating conseque...

Read more about the devastating revelations in the Climate Risk Assessment ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/devasta...

It’s impressive

Ps -I absolutely love this song

Absolutely!

#DailyGlimmer Challenge - seek out the harvest moon tonight while listening , and preferably slow dancing, to Neil Young’s Harvest Moon 🌖

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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Santos Limited has racked up its tenth straight year of paying ZERO corporate tax, despite posting $48 billion in sales. We need a new export levy so these energy giants pay their fair share.
#australia
#fuckcapitalism

Morals can be culturally specific but ethics are universal. The ethics of reciprocity, or the Golden Rule is universal. Kidnapping & torture of Greta & others, people seeking to help a displaced and starving population, is immediately identifiable as repugnant, universally.

The Israeli government denies mistreating Greta Thunberg. Then Police Min Itamar Ben Gvir goes on TV to gleefully announcing that she was indeed tortured. He says he's proud of the fact. It's a great demonstration of how the Israeli government under Netanyahu works, unable to coordinate its lies

A brush tail possum with a baby on her back looks down from a tree. Mumma is cat sized with pink ears, cute nose and brown and red fur

#Dailyglimmer Took my barker outside for her evening pee and heard some serious complaints from neighbours.

The neighbours…

For Nth Hemisphere peeps these are cute possums not opossums

A cartoon of a man in a tattered suit, telling stories to 3 children sitting around a camp fire. He says “"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Hmmm

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

Stolen views, shipping containers and ‘shame signs’: do Australia’s tree wars need a new solution? Conservationists and councils have called for bigger fines, a national database about illegal tree removals and even jail time to deter tree killers

Possibly and a link too☺️

Homes should not be a wealth creation asset - the heat could be taken out with appropriate policy on negative gearing and capital gains. Levers used towards gear investment towards creating / making / manufacturing than housing

Australia’s leading integrity, human rights and media freedom organisations have united to denounce the Government’s Freedom of Information Amendment Bill, warning the reforms will lead to greater government secrecy and less accountability.

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#auspol

JOINT STATEMENT CALLING FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE FOI AMENDMENT BILL As voters, the Australian people must know what governments are doing. Without transparency, corruption remains hidden and public interest journalism goes unreported.

Read the press release in full here

publicintegrity.org.au/joint-statem...

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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳