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Following the new energy revolution. Navigating the Climate Change apocalypse. Helping to forecast future weather events. Probably an anarchist. Still dealing with long COVID. Also at mastodon : @fluids_guru@kolektiva.social

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fluids_guru@fluidsguru· 20d

Reminds me of this Rupert Murdoch quote from 2010, speaking in Australia.

This country is sailing forth. It is a wonderful land of opportunity, with the right leadership, the right government, the right bureaucrats and so on.

Whatever you do, don't let the bloody Greens mess it up.

I can assure you that in a very few years it will be possible to have all the energy we want from economic and cheap and small nuclear plants -- which is anathema to a lot of people. But it would be safe. There would not be an energy waste problem. We don't have to rush into a lot of mad schemes, fouling up the country with windmills and other crackpot ideas which are very, very expensive.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· 20d

An article written by a wildfire fighter, interviewing wildfire fighters and discussing the roles of suppression, prevention and ‘re-wilding’. Lessons of the past will not help us in the pyrocene.

Another friend, also a firefighter, sent him a text from near the fire: "José, everything we learned, everything we knew, everything that we have been learning for 25 years, means nothing.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jul 22

Another similar, great, quote.

"If you're a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you're not really a journalist, you're a courtier."
Frankie Boyle

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jul 20

Re : Trump at the World Cup final. #WorldCup #FIFA #Trump

A picture of Homer Simmons riding a donkey backwards holding the USA flag into a large ceremonial cake with the title 'Local Man Ruins Everything'

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jul 6

Never gets old

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jul 4

Perhaps it’s not ‘odd’, rather an orchestrated campaign to make as much $$$ before the fossil fuel music stops.

It is an oddity of human character that the West's pro-fossil backlash should peak just as the scientific facts on the ground become so evident, the costs so clear, and the alternative technologies so easily and cheaply available.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jun 26

Is it just me?

Jack Johnson vs John Jackson from Futurama

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jun 13

Charlie is, of course, naive and wrong.

"Fascism is the rejection of the very principle of rational debate. You cannot have a fair and constructive debate with a
Nazi."
- David Graeber

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jun 9

It was David Graeber's experience with the US health care system that prompted him to write 'The Utopia of Rules' theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...

David Graeber
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Jun 7

In September 2024 @aoc.bsky.social labelled Jill Stien's political party a 'predatory' movement. The same logic can be applied exactly to Pauline Hanson's One Nation #auspol www.newsweek.com/alexandria-o...

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 21

#AusPol

It will be tragically ironic if a bunch of Nazis take down a law that was designed to keep them in the ground. Blaming them (or the court) will miss the point that we are being extremely poorly served by our parliament, which has ample power to protect us but is too lazy and incompetent to do the job properly.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 17

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 13

I always think of this

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 10

Imagine what we could if we didn’t spend the vast majority of our adult lives selling our labour to purchase the means of our existence

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 10

Landlords are amongst the greatest whiners in society. Adam Smith wrote about this in Wealth of Nations.

"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, it has already been observed, into three parts; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people; to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit. These are the three great, original, and constituent orders of every givil-ized society, from whose revenue that of every other order is ultimately derived.

The interest of the first of those three great orders, it appears from what has been just now said, is strictly and inseparably connected with the general interest of the society. Whatever.."

"either promotes or obstructs the one, necesarily promotes or obstructs the other. When the public deliberates concerning any regulation of commerce or police, the proprietors of land never can mislead it, with a view to promote the interest of their own particular order; at least, if they have any tolerable knowledge of that interest. They are, indeed, too often defective in this tolerable knowledge. They are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labour nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own. That indolence, which is the natural effect of the case and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequences of any public regulation."

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 8

Reminds me of this

Erich Kästner at the end of World War Two in Germany:
"Depression is turning into irritability. Everyone is making someone else responsible, everyone is blaming everyone else, and everyone is excluding just one person from that blame; themselves. Why are people irritable? Because they are surprised? But how can they be surprised? Did they actually believe the deception? Did they really confuse the outrageous rhetoric with facts? No one can be that stupid. You can only pretend to be. Now they are pretending to be surprised. In other words, they are playing dumb again. They would rather be thought of as a complete idiot than as a scoundrel."

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 7

Or our choice not to tax the fossil fuel industry.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 5

Signs that we live in a neo-liberal government that knows the cost of everything, and the value of nothing #AusPol h/t @edhusicmp.bsky.social

Ed Husic comments on an AFR story about impending job losses in the Australian Public Service:

"Isn't it funny that whenever there are public sector jobs targeted for trimming two departments always seem to sneak from view: Treasury and Finance (also why are they not merged already? Most other Depts have been forced to consolidate, except these"

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· May 5

The costs of climate adaption on the front page of the Melbourne bougie property gazette. #AusPol

Article about discounted land taxes to Phillip Island residents whose properties are losing value due to sea level rise.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Apr 28

e.g.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Apr 22

When 'hard choices' only affect poor people, rather than corporate donors, you know you're dealing with neoliberal ghouls and stooges. We have to play @punterspolitics.bsky.social's submission to the gas inquiry on repeat until the next election. And just remember

Anything we can actually do, we can afford.

John Maynard Keynes, 1942

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Apr 21

Good. BTW here is a banger of a landlord smackdown from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations".

either promotes or obstructs the one, necessarily promotes or obstructs the other. When the public deliberates concerning any regulation of commerce or police, the proprietors of land never can mislead it, with a view to promote the interest of their own particular order; at least, if they have any tolerable knowledge of that interest. They are, indeed, too often defective in this tolerable knowledge. They are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labour nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own. That indolence, which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequences of any public regulation.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Apr 17

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Fredric Jameson

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Apr 14

If you like that I have more.

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fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Mar 25

Cyclone Seroja in 2022 had the following trajectory and caused about $AUD 200 million in damage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone...

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Mar 25

If the storms tracks further south, it could get close to the edge of the Australian Building codes for cyclone proofing.

fluids_guru@fluidsguru· Mar 25

Some thoughts on Tropical Cyclone Narelle. Here is the current official Bureau track forecast, with the latest ECMWF raw ensemble analysis. BoM forecast a potential CAT 4 fly-by off Carnavon, before landfalling as a CAT 2 north of Kalbarri