Morpheus Being

"Blessed are the cracked for they let the light shine in" ~ Spike Milligan.

Pronouns he/him/his. Border of Pikambul and Gamilaraay country.

In the end, all that matters is:
* how well did you live?
* how well did you love?
* how well did you learn to let go?

#SciFi #Linux #LaTeX #Reading #Photography #Art #LeatherCraft #Permaculture #SolarPower #Motorcycles #Movies

Please look at and buy leather goods to help me survive. Https://utgt.net/store

Live simply so that others may simply live.

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2025-04-10 08:03:59

#australia #auspol #tax #mwm
Who funds Australia? Who pays tax and who doesn't!
https://michaelwest.com.au/corporate-tax-avoidance-who-helps-fund-australia-and-who-doesnt/

2025-04-09 08:52:26

#auspol #Australia #Environment #NativeAnimals #MWM
As is should be. Now we need more wins like this for all of us.
https://michaelwest.com.au/tiny-marsupials-big-forest-win-in-high-court/

2025-03-28 01:26:56

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And this is senate info for #Queensland #Qld
https://www.tallyroom.com.au/aus2025/qldsen2025

2025-03-28 00:52:47

#election2025
My electorate, and current choices!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/mara?future=true

2025-03-27 08:13:48

#australia #Handmade #Leathercraft
Another truckers wallet under construction. 2 more cover panels to be carved, internal pockets to be cut and stitched, then closure fittings to be added, front and back stitched together, edges trimmed, sanded and burnished, then whole stained and sealed. Be another week or so i guess. Good to do in this wet weather.
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2025-03-27 05:20:52

#craftsmanship #Australia #LeatherCraft #Handmade
New trucker wallet under construction. Two more panels to carve yet, then cut and sew the internal card pockets, put on closure fasteners, stitch inside and outside together, stain and add top coat - several more hours over next week.
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2025-03-23 07:40:43

#auspol #Election2025 #LNP #Politics #Australia #MWM
Our country cannot afford another #LyingNastyParasitic government. Ever. They planning on sacking 36,000 public service employees, taking away productivity boosting ability to work from home, as well as other worker rights.
Put them last everywhere.
https://michaelwest.com.au/coalition-set-to-cut-public-service-labor-defends-wfh/

2025-03-20 00:31:52

#australia #LeatherCraft #LeatherWork #Handmade #Craft
Another simple card wallet completed and a happy customer.
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2025-03-10 00:47:04

#PlantIndentification #Help
I need to know what this plant is please
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2025-02-09 10:14:51

#Australia #Kimberleys #Photography #Exploring
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2024-12-10 22:36:38

#australia #Santos #Pilliga #Pipeline #EPBC #Environment #Nature #NSWpol #Auspol
If you are looking at the Pilliga Pipeline to make comment to the EPBC referral here’s another map showing the fire severity, Santos claim that the majority of the project area was severely impacted:
https://geo.seed.nsw.gov.au/vertigisstudio/web/?app=cabd04d595ec43c1aaf4298e80e83ec2
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2024-12-06 20:35:23

#Australia #Nature
More #cicadas singing this morning, hard to hear the windchime in the gentle breeze.

2024-11-30 22:55:19

#australia #Nature
Late out of bed today, new sound from the bush surrounding me - cicadas have finally woken - after the last days of rain.

2024-11-23 21:55:03

#Auspol #Politics #Australia #NACC #KCA
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2024/11/24/anthony-albanese-and-labor-are-trying-the-nacc-sucker-punch-again-with-the-kids-social-media-ban/

2024-11-13 21:19:29

#Auspol #Australia #Disinformation #SocialMedia
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024/11/13/misinformation-bill-freedom-of-speech

2024-11-12 01:48:31

#truth #division #ThinkingThings #Quotes
Seems like this quote not from Nelson Mandela but a UN representative.
Social media users have been sharing a quote about divisions in the world and misattributing it to former South African President Nelson Mandela.
This is the quote: “Our world is not divided by race, color, gender or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion.” An example of the misattribution can be seen here here .
An online search shows that the quote came from human rights activist and United Nations representative Mohamad Safa. Safa posted it on Twitter and Facebook on Aug. 6, 2020 ( here , here ).
Safa said the words were his, not Mandela’s, on his Facebook page on Sept. 6, here . Safa’s media office told Reuters it wanted “to emphasize that these words were said by Mr. Safa years ago.”
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2024-11-10 06:30:06

#Motorcycles #RidingReasons
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2024-11-09 06:42:30

#Australia #Auspol #SocialMedia #Ban
Problems in the pipeline for the propsed social media age limit.
https://michaelwest.com.au/social-media-ban-unenforceable-experts-say/

2024-11-09 06:40:29

#Australia #Bushfires #Technology #Drones #MWM
https://michaelwest.com.au/big-sky-fierce-summer-new-line-of-sight-for-firies/

2024-10-14 02:16:30

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@npub1ugh…92hc read "The Mechanics of Changing the World" by John Macgregor 2024. Provides history of democracy, the problems it has and why, and solutions very succinctly in my humble opinion. Only part way through, but verified suspicions and filled in many knowledge gaps

2024-10-11 04:37:01

#Photography #NaturePhotogtaphy #Australia #Orchid
The tree/log dwelling local orchids are beginning to flower. Only last a few days.
Samsung S10+, no filters, no editing.
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2024-09-18 13:27:52

#Australia #Nature #Photography #Wildlife
Another og the juvenile black Swan on my dam
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2024-07-21 23:10:05

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@npub1mmf…eknq I wish.

2024-07-18 09:18:20

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2024-07-11 06:10:07

#Auspol #Aupol #Socialism
What is socialism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

2024-07-01 08:07:40

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@npub1vr4…92wq What laptop?

2024-06-29 23:16:07

#Photography #NativePlants #Australia #Grevillea
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2024-06-17 05:29:59

#Flowers #Australia #Photography
Sun on my bougainvillea outside front door. No butterflies.
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2024-06-16 23:48:57

#Food #FoodPorn #Cooking #Vegetarian #Photography
Today's brunch of Thai red curry coconut vegetable soup with shitake mushrooms with rice noodles. Very, very yummy.
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2024-06-16 01:27:03

#NativePlants #Australia #Flowers #Eremophila #Photography
E. Maculata in my garden. Love them.
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2024-06-16 01:25:03

#NativePlants #Australia #Hakea #Flower #Photography
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2024-05-31 22:37:05

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@npub1k4q…4nh2 And more court cases with guilty results.

2024-05-29 23:56:23

#Photography #Nature #Australia #BloodwoodTrees
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2024-05-19 21:20:14

#Auspol #HousingCrisis #LNP #Immigration
So Peter Dutton wants to have a housing election, and his housing policy is to cut immigration to 140,000 a year and cap foreign student visas.
That’s not a housing policy, it’s just a cut in immigration.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/05/20/alan-kohler-housing-affordability

2024-04-25 02:02:01

#Australia #Vegetables #Gardening #Food
Been busy in garden, dug a patch, fertilised with organic chicken manure pellets, planted and watered seeds. These follow growing line of radishes and spinach (sowed some a bit deep). Repeat every 2-3 weeks now as hopefully i get fitter.
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2024-04-21 03:51:37

#Australia #Courts #Legal #Higgins #Lehrman
Why some fear a 'chilling effect' from the Bruce Lehrmann legal saga.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/the-reasons-why-some-are-reluctant-to-call-the-bruce-lehrmann-verdict-a-win/pywqnqohe

2024-04-17 06:34:29

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@npub1rrm…ms63 Is bad and so sad.

2024-04-13 23:06:03

#FoodPorn #Vegetarian #Cooking
Brunch is served, mushroom stroganoff with mashed potatoes.
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2024-04-10 04:10:47

#Economy #Economics #Bicycles
Shared with me elsewhere. Not sure of suitable tags.
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2024-04-09 21:01:21

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@npub1mmf…eknq woke up and watched sun rise. Pain in neck.Heard kookaburras heralding sun rise while fetching in kindling and firewood. Got fire going, cooked water for mocha, still consuming.

2024-04-08 21:49:31

Bugger of a start. Out of gas for cooking! I thought i had spare bottle next to the one hooked up. But is was an empty! Don't want to drive to town just for gas.

2024-04-06 02:27:59

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Too late.

2024-04-02 01:43:18

#Orchard #Fruits #Food
First time fruited since planting. Don't know when to pick!
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2024-03-16 20:07:52

#Australia #Photography #Sunrise #NaturePorn
Sunrise today.
Samsung S10+ no editing, no filters
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2024-03-13 23:28:21

#Auspol #Australia #ATO #Taxation #Debts #Robodebt
The ATO is reviving old tax debts totalling billions, threatening some taxpayers with bankruptcy.
Just like Robodebt. ATO being bastards as normal.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-14/ato-reignites-old-debts-individuals-businesses-struggle/103578746

2024-03-07 01:15:43

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@npub132h…f594 he is going to bugger up not only USA but the rest of the planet imho!

2024-03-02 20:06:53

#Science #Research #ClimateCrisis #Antartica #Glaciers
When he saw the 75-mile wide ice front of the remote Thwaites Glacier looming out of the Amundsen Sea for the first time in 2019, ice researcher James Kirkham felt a sense of foreboding.
“It was about four or 5 in the morning and just getting light, and then out of the gloom emerges this humongous wall of ice stretching for kilometers,” said Kirkham, who was on a research cruise aboard the United States Antarctic Program’s Nathaniel B. Palmer, collecting seafloor sediment samples from closer to the edge of the floating ice than ever before.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022024/new-research-from-antarctica-affirms-threat-of-doomsday-glacier-but-funding-is-running-out/

2024-03-02 08:27:06

#Auspol #Australia #Politicians #expenses
AS MOST AUSTRALIANS are aware, federal politicians are paid handsomely for their work, sometimes pocketing additional allowances and enjoying unlimited expenses budgets.
The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) is responsible for approving, collating and publishing parliamentarians’ expense claims. However, due to a ‘botched system upgrade’, there is still a massive backlog of claims not expected to be brought up-to-date until later this year.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/transparency-in-limbo-as-mp-expense-data-held-from-public,18382

2024-03-01 07:45:52

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@npub1g53…v0hh I never wrote games but asm and c along with cobol is what i used.

2024-02-29 01:00:47

#Auspol #Bushfires #Wombats #Scummo
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2024-02-25 22:29:03

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@npub1y3m…r6lg i doubt quick and easy solution. Some body will get enormously rich!

2024-02-25 22:12:38

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@npub1y3m…r6lg Honestly, i think its too little far too late now. We have cooked and destroyed out planet.

2024-02-25 21:49:06

#ClimateCrisis #Weather #Records
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climate/impacts/january-2024-hottest-on-record-tops-warmest-12-month-period-in-history

2024-02-25 01:14:35

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@npub1tps…9rmt I am going to borrow that if I may. I am pro-human, pro-planet as well.

2024-02-23 22:25:49

#Science #Research #Computers #DataStorage
There’s good news if you’re running out of space on your Google account. Researchers from Scientists from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology just figured out how to fit up to a petabit of data onto an optical disk by storing information in 3D. In other words, that’s 125,000 gigabytes on a single DVD-sized disk, or what experts refer to as a “big boy.”
Optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays are cheap and durable but can’t hold much data. Until now, optical disks store data in a single layer of information that’s read using a laser. Well, you can kiss those puny disks goodbye thanks to a new technique that can read and write up to 100 layers of data in the space of just 54-nanometres, as described in a new paper published in the journal Nature.
https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabi-1851272615

2024-02-18 08:09:33

#Australia #Barnaby #Beetrooter
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2024-02-16 20:43:10

#Australia #PriceGouging #MMT
Over the last few years, the RBA has been emphatically denying that price gouging from corporations with significant market power has been driving the movements in the inflation rate. They knew that if they conceded that reality then there would be no justification for the 11 interest rate hikes they have introduced since May 2022. It was obvious that firms were pushing up profit margins – that is, increasing prices beyond the increases in costs. Still, the RBA denied it and claimed that firms were facing wage pressures and excessive demand, which justified the interest rate rises, despite the evidence not being supportive. On Tuesday (February 6, 2024), a new study has found that there is massive price gouging across all sectors of Australian economy by corporations, many of them operating in sectors that were heavily privatised (for example, airlines, electricity, child care, banking).
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61559

2024-02-05 04:43:17

#Sunset #Australia #Photgraphy
Unedited, no filters on older Samsung S10+
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2024-02-04 22:22:46

#FutureOfWork #Australia
Your boss could be barred from contacting you after hours under a new bill.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/your-boss-could-be-barred-from-contacting-you-after-hours-under-a-new-bill/0qbpuo00f?cid=newsapp:socialshare:other

2024-02-01 07:29:57

#Australia #Sunset #Phtography #Storm
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2024-02-01 07:27:15

#Australia #Sunset
Yet another great outback sunset
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2024-01-29 00:13:15

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@npub15yz…nxwv Sounds too progressive and socialist for our current right wing governments.

2024-01-27 07:14:57

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@npub1q0f…rdcz @npub1mrs…fg47 Dad/Mum can you take me?

2024-01-26 02:20:23

#Australia #Frogs #Wildlife
Rescued from rain gauge! Released into grass on edge of dam.
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2024-01-20 22:39:53

#Frogs #Australia
Saved this bloke from dog water bowl
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2024-01-15 21:42:47

My day so far! Not even 0800 yet!
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2024-01-10 23:06:53

#Futurology #Simplicity #ClimateCrisis
Just received notice that the Simplicity Institute has just published a new book, called Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition. This book was authored by Emeritus Professor Paul Hoggett. A short article introducing the themes of this book has just been published on the Post Carbon Institute's website, Resilience, available here. At the link you'll find places to access the book both in ebook and paperback. It is available as an ebook on a 'pay what you can' basis (including for free, just edit the price as you see fit). Paradise Lost? is also available in paperback via most major online distributors. Again, see the link here to access the article and access/purchase options. Congratulations to Paul for this fine contribution to the literature that grapples with one of the defining issues of our time.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-01-09/facing-difficult-truths/

2024-01-08 06:25:53

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1g9k…r43u And mine. Our house garden in PNG was covered with them, I love the perfume from them. Out here, frost kills.

2024-01-06 21:12:05

#Science #Research #Health #Cancer
Most cancers become deadly by keeping a low profile, causing no symptoms until they’re too advanced to treat. Ovarian and gastroesophageal cancers are among the most notorious for this sly disease progression, often leading to late-stage diagnoses.
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/34894-new-blood-test-could-offer-earlier-detection-of-common-deadly-cancers/

2023-12-31 00:09:46

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@npub1mmf…eknq I can't. Israel government and all countries supporting them are guilty of genocide, imho.

2023-12-30 22:32:58

#Medicine #Health #Stroke #Australia
Brain-scanning helmet could allow paramedics to diagnose strokes within the critical 'golden hour'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/qld-portable-brain-scanner-uq-technology/103069708

2023-12-21 19:33:58

#Christmas #Nurses #Humour #Hospitals.
Borrowed from reddit. I thought typical expression if nurse humour. Seasons greetings to all health workers and a huge thank you for your services to us sick humans.
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2023-12-15 23:50:44

#LoudMouths #Quiteness
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2023-12-15 21:43:15

#ZenThings #ZenForLiving #ThinkingThings
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2023-12-15 21:23:38

#MorningPeople #Science #Research
People who are early to bed and early to rise may have their ancient ancestors to thank for the habit – or at least the Neanderthals with whom their forebears procreated, scientists say.
DNA inherited from our thick-browed cousins may contribute to the tendency of some people to be larks, researchers found, making them more comfortable at getting up and going to bed earlier than others.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/14/neanderthal-dna-may-explain-why-some-of-us-are-morning-people

2023-12-11 20:28:12

#Diet #ClimateCrisis #PlantBasedDiet
Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded.
The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of wildlife by 66% and water use by 54%, the study found.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-diet-cuts-environmental-damage-climate-heating-emissions-study

2023-12-08 07:45:38

#ClimateCrisis #CO2
The last time carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently matched today's human-driven levels was 14 million years ago, according to a large new study Thursday that paints a grim picture of where Earth's climate is headed.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-the-atmosphere-hasnt-been-like-this-in-14-million-years

2023-11-23 03:22:35

#UBI #Economy #Homelessness #DoughnutEconomics #RBE #AI
Cash is freedom. That has been Denver Basic Income Project founder Mark Donovan’s refrain as he led a program that provided more than 800 homeless people in the Denver area with no-strings-attached cash payments every month for the last year.
For recipients Dia Broncucia, 53, and Justin Searls, 45, those payments have been a manifestation of a different concept: hope.
The money got them off the street, played a critical role in helping Broncucia recover from Stage 3 breast cancer and was a catalyst as the couple charts a new course for their lives after getting sober following years of drug use.
https://www.denverpost.com/2023/11/20/denver-basic-income-project-cash-for-homeless-early-results/

2023-11-08 08:52:19

#Privacy #Youtube #AdBlockers
As YouTube tightens its restrictions on ad blockers, privacy advocates in the European Union are betting that government regulations can put a stop to the crackdown.
One privacy expert, Alexander Hanff, filed a complaint in October with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Hanff argues that YouTube’s ad blocker detection system is a violation of privacy — a charge Google denies — and illegal under EU law. “AdBlock detection scripts are spyware — there is no other way to describe them and as such it is not acceptable to deploy them without consent,” Hanff tells The Verge. “I consider any deployment of technology which can be used to spy on my devices is both unethical and illegal in most situations.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23950513/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-privacy-advocates-eu

2023-11-04 22:14:18

#ClimateCrisis #HeatPumps
Oyvind Solsta’s “light bulb” moment with heat pumps came upon reading that the heat they produce far exceeds the amount of electricity that goes in.
Installing a heat pump in his house in the hills of Oslo has greatly benefited the 56-year-old communications adviser for a railways company: improving his comfort, finances and climate footprint.
Norway is among the countries with the most heat pumps per capita, along with neighbouring Finland and Sweden.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/30/do-heat-pumps-work-in-winter-experts-explain-why-nordic-countries-have-installed-the-most-

2023-11-04 03:25:26

#Health #Smoking #Cancer
Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards.
Their new study, published in Science Advances, links tobacco smoking to harmful changes in DNA called 'stop-gain mutations' that tell the body to stop making certain proteins before they are fully formed
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-cancer-fighting-proteins-cancer-harder.html

2023-10-24 02:04:43

#Privacy #Security #Communications
With the governments wanting backdoors into our communications services, which in turn will allow hackers in, it is important to secure your communications. Personally, I prefer FOSS ones, not proprietary ones, so my choices are Signal (which needs your phone number) and Signal (which uses a long hash number). The latter is my preferred application, as easy to have on smartphone, computer, laptop and tablets.
Read and learn about Session on this link:
https://getsession.org/

2023-10-23 21:28:28

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@npub1q9m…zgdu Correct. Attached is the map legend for the FiresNearMe app.
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2023-10-23 05:02:17

#Bushfires #Australia #Qld
Stay safe everyone.
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2023-10-22 20:28:59

#ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy #RE
A new study by Ember, an energy think tank, has revealed that half of the world’s economies have already crossed the peak of power generation from fossil fuels. This means they have not increased their fossil fuel power output for at least five years since reaching their highest level.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/fossil-fuel-power-a-dying-trend-in-50-of-economies

2023-10-20 07:06:49

#Emus #Family
Dad out with new family.
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2023-10-17 20:12:46

#ClimateCrisis #Antartica
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30 per cent since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial "gatekeepers" between the frozen continent's massive glaciers and open ocean.
Of the continent's 162 ice shelves, 68 show significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021, while 29 grew, 62 didn't change and three lost mass but not in a way scientists can say shows a significant trend, according to a study in Thursday's Science Advances.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/antarctica-melt-1.6994249

2023-10-17 20:05:00

#ClimateCrisis #Science #Research #Extinction
The Gulf Stream is almost certainly weakening, a new study has confirmed.
The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with grave implications for the world's climate.
The ocean current starts near Florida and threads a belt of warm water along the U.S. East Coast and Canada before crossing the Atlantic to Europe. The heat it transports is essential for maintaining temperate conditions and regulating sea levels.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/gulf-stream-weakening-now-99-certain-and-ramifications-will-be-global

2023-10-16 00:55:19

Borrowed from Pinterest.
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2023-10-12 23:49:39

#Drought #Qld #ClimateCrisis
Demand for emergency rural aid is rising as farmers face a dry and unproductive summer ahead.
The latest Australian agricultural seasonal outlook forecasts farm incomes will plummet by 41% on average this financial year.
The chief executive of Rural Aid, John Warlters, said requests to the national charity for mental health support, financial counselling and emergency livestock feed had “effectively doubled” in the last month.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/11/queensland-drought-summer-farmers-emergency-rural-aid

2023-10-03 19:44:59

#ClimateCrisis #Science #Research
The Earth is heating up, and not just its atmosphere and oceans. The soil itself is getting warmer, too, leading to more extreme soil heat around the planet – along with unclear but ominous consequences for surface dwellers like us.
We have been underestimating this problem, according to a new study, focusing on rising air and water temperatures while failing to appreciate the threat of heat waves beneath our feet.
Soil temperatures have drawn relatively little attention overall in studies of human-induced climate change, the researchers say. Partly because measurement complexities make it hard to find enough reliable data on soil temperatures compared with near-surface air temperatures.
https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-overlooking-a-major-part-of-climate-change-and-its-sending-warning-signs

2023-10-01 22:31:02

#FiresNearMe
update 0830 2nd October.
Be prepared. Stay safe.
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2023-09-27 05:00:12

#Inflation #Greedflation
Inflation/greedflation rising again. Using interest rates to control it, in my opinion, is like using sledgehammer to crack a peanut shell.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-27/inflation-increases-to-5-2-per-cent-in-august-2023/102905550

2023-09-24 21:08:03

#ClimateCrisis #Antarctica #HeatWave
Researchers recently discovered that the most intense heat wave ever recorded happened last March.
And it was in the coldest region on Earth.
Eastern Antarctica saw a spike of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit above average that month, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters. The region was at 5 degrees Fahrenheit at the peak of the heat wave when it should've been near -65.2 degrees Fahrenheit, the study says.
https://www.insider.com/antarctica-most-intense-heat-wave-recorded-2023-9

2023-09-24 20:58:52

#NuclearPower #RE #RenewableEnergy
The Coalition opposition touts nuclear energy as a potential solution for Australia’s transition to net-zero emissions, but it remains too expensive and slow compared to renewables to be a viable addition to the energy mix any time soon.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2023/09/24/nuclear-energy-transition

2023-09-19 07:22:15

#FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis
The world’s biggest fossil fuel firms are quietly planning scores of “carbon bomb” oil and gas projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature limits with catastrophic global impacts, a Guardian investigation shows.
The exclusive data shows these firms are in effect placing multibillion-dollar bets against humanity halting global heating. Their huge investments in new fossil fuel production could pay off only if countries fail to rapidly slash carbon emissions, which scientists say is vital.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/may/11/fossil-fuel-carbon-bombs-climate-breakdown-oil-gas

2023-06-11 09:47:32

#Leathercraft
Another item off the list - a chrome tanned leather iphone wallet.
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