Tim Baxter

I'm really glad that people found so much good in this piece. As I said in the thread, I was pretty nervous about it. If you enjoyed it or learned something from it: Thank you! 💛

I know this is a privileged position to be in under this economy, but the lender on our mortgage has been eaten by a bigger fish. The first payment under the new arrangements was supposed to happen yesterday, and didn't. I am way too fucken busy this week to chase people to take away all my money.

How tall are the AI datacentre power poles that sparked a community backlash in Melbourne and tanked nextDC's share price? here I compare the concrete masts with their timber predecessors and other things seen on suburban streets

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

The best bit about digging this fucking hole is that I just put down a layer of cardboard then immediately filled it back in. Next weekend I get to continue the hole around the corner. And after that I get to do the other six sevenths of the lawn that I haven't started yet.

"can't even sell it to an Australian" is a devastating burn

I struggle to hold the right wing media and LNP in lower regard - and I have no doubt that Albanese's office did in fact keep a dirt sheet of a kind on Dr Haines - but the attempt to turn the current situation into a partisan attack point is simultaneously both appalling and fucking stupid.

Australians took $892m out of their super to access dental care in 2025-26. More than 39,000 people. Source: the Australian Dental Association

This was more than 15 years ago, but also: This is super intense. Old mate fell 10-storeys at Yallourn coal power station and lived to tell the tale... ... because he landed in a hopper of hot coal ash. 😫

On another platform, I saw Australian femicide researcher Sherele Moody (here, but not here, at @sherelemoody.bsky.social) link the attack to men's violence against women, and I'll admit that the instinctive response in my head was "ok. sure. but not like *that*!" It is, in fact, exactly like that.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Weak and broken men always put women's bodies on the line.

The world is "right direction, on track" for renewable capacity - but wildly, badly off track for coal phase-out. A nice reminder: you can't assume fast renewable growth = climate problem solved, dw about it

"Fanulena imitatrix, or the Norfolk Island hairy snail, is only found on one small reserve on the island. The unusual species has a fine hair-like covering on its shell... The hairy snails are funky little dudes and look nothing like garden snails. They look a lot like tiny little pom poms”

Fossil fuels out of schools! One of our interns has just joined AYCC to take the message to Canberra. Coal, oil and gas companies must be banned from; 🏫sponsoring schools and children's programs 👩‍💻writing lessons 👩‍🎓training teachers (yes, all those things are currently happening)

That's a shame

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Women in Australia continue to pay the price for the instability of men in their orbit. Whether it’s clinical mental health issues or because their team lost the grand final, men consistently choose to vent their anger on women’s bodies.

Oh god. This is getting increasingly awful. The family of the man who attacked Helen Haines' were long-term friends of the MP with a relationship that substantially predates her time in politics. ☹️

I am terrified by what yesterday's extraordinary and unacceptable attack on Helen Haines will be used to justify. Helen Haines was and is one of the most extraordinary Australians. This attack is beyond the pale - and must be responded to - but Australia's political leadership only knows one thing.

Some quick thoughts on Helen Haines —

This sinkhole is so big it would take Victoria's brown coal power stations 2.2 days to flood it with pure carbon dioxide.

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Oh my god, this is awful

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Bsky posting this while its staff publicly fawn over the AI slop products made by those billionaires 🫤🫠

Love to see the Minister caught in either incompetence or a lie by work I put out last month. No, Minister King: Your government hasn't even come close to implementing the Pepper Inquiry's recommendations on Beetaloo. You don't get to claim completion when you're less than 5% of the way there.

Amazing sea surface temperature map, with a very distinct East Australian Current pushing down the east coast. Water temperatures around 23C offshore of Sydney, and much warmer waters off eastern Tasmania (around 18°C) than in Port Phillip Bay (15°C)! www.bom.gov.au/oceanography...

Liner trimmed and stuck down. Habitat rocks installed around the edges. Trenches dug the full length of the yard in both directions for overflow. Pretty happy with how this is going to look. I just need a bit more groundcover now.