Amy Gray

We cannot heal as a nation until we work out why 4G coverage is so shit in QV.

You will be visited by three spirits

Nothing but respect for my president.

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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?

It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade

Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.

Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Albo ban Letterboxd for gen x

Anyone who doesn’t love Willie the Pimp will be first against the wall when my imaginary and entirely arbitrary revolution comes.

Bonding with son by forcing him to listen to Captain Beefheart.

Recoiling from son while he insists I listen to Steely Dan’s Bad Sneakers.

I am reading The Worst Novel Ever and I can’t stop reading it Because I am The Worst Person ever but also need source material for my whining.

I remember reading it 4 years ago (that little?) and yelling a full on “UMAHHHHHH” when the smoking was revealed.

You should say that more often.

A classic

This is delightfully and may stop me from buying antique ciggie dispensers on Etsy that can never accomodate modern cig dimensions.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with talent or intellect. Honestly, you’re always 5 years ahead of everyone else on a bad day.

God, I remember this. So good.

8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...

It really does. What a treasure.

BRING BACK UDO KIER RIGHT NOW. THAT'S ENOUGH SILLINESS.

He remains the worst.

This is rude of you - I can still buy hexes on Etsy, you know.

I don’t mean to shock you but I wasn’t smoking at the time (had given my pack to someone).

Today in Awkward Amy news, a woman I didn’t know came up to me on the street and gave me a bouquet of flowers only for me to blurt out “are you ok?”

FUCK YES ‘BOUT TIME

SPOOK! I literally deleted in my last reply how I spent a good part of yesterday screaming at the child about Australian tv/film and class yesterday because I referenced films we had discussed before and thought I was being repetitive.

a slop generated baby hippo swimming in water

In 2021, every active Meta user cost around one kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e—a way of measuring greenhouse gases—in terms of direct and unadjusted power grid emissions. By 2024, that had risen to 1.8 kilograms of CO2e. Similarly, every $1 million of revenue caused about 26 tonnes of CO2e in 2021. That’s now 36 tonnes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Meta’s push to force-feed advertising slop into every single corner of the massive digital space it controls could not have worse timing. The country it’s headquartered in is pouring cash into resuscitating coal and accelerating gas. The United States just saw the first two half-year periods with an increase in coal generation for at least half a decade (probably longer), as the Trump administration sets about pouring millions into keeping coal on life support.

meta's emissions rising fast

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

newrepublic.com/article/2028...

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s perfect bloody timing though. I only just got back onto Tubi last week.

Omg sold

In case anyone wonders how The Discourse ™️ is going, I’m currently watching a YouTube video entitled “what a week as a Hobbit taught me about capitalism”.

It’s actually very sweet.