Tim Fisher

@mrbenjaminlaw I have small kids, and what helps me make my peace with the decision is knowing I can't opt out. Kids mean you've committed yourself to being part of the solution. The alternative isn't worth contemplating.

Voters didn't have a choice in most of the down ballot GOP races to even vote for a Dem candidate. The Dem party left 65% of down-ballot races uncontested. That's part of what happened. They focused on POTUS. Have been doing this since the early 2000s when they ousted Howard Dean and gave up on the 50-state strategy. They left more than 20,000 seats down ballot in the hands fo the GOP with no contest and abandoned poorer states, defunding state parties. It's not that voters voted for a lot of these people in state legislators, etc. It's that they had no one on the ballot to vote for. GOP down the ticket. No challenge. I am SURE that also impacted Harris' turnout. It has been a bad calculation I've been blowing the whistle on for months and no body was listening. These states didn't "go red." They were abandoned, and their state parties defunded, by the Dem National. Also, the Dems raised $14 BILLION, only gave states $2.5 million to divey among 25 states, and bragged like that was a "50-state-strategy. 1/

@GrogsGamut If you don't choose your fights, everyone who hates you will choose them for you. How modern parties on the left still don't understand this is astonishing.

Is it time yet to revisit all the early heralding of the internet's pure democracy, of the idea of "citizen journalists," of each and every voice being able to be heard being a good thing for our ability to find truth and govern ourselves? Because having spent a previous career in newsrooms, as part of the cold, organized monolith that was our gatekeeping mainstream media, I know that we were often too herd-like and centrist, sometimes misled and sometimes capable of publishing horseshit on incomplete or contradictory data. Sometimes we got it dead wrong. But every day, I remember that the editors read the copy and tried to verify what they could and avoid what they could not. And no one could pay us a fucking dime to say what we didn't think was the story we thought we had. Fact is, I once tried to sneak a piece of celery through some ranch dip at some politician's fundraiser because the guy was late showing up to make a speech and I was starving. Another reporter smacked it out of my hand: "That's Harry McGuirk's celery." We had an ethic. We believed in our role, however flawed and vulnerable to error our work product might at times be. So fuck the influencers, fuck the pimps who bought them, fuck their rancid whoredom, and fuck a media culture that has bypassed the gatekeepers at least trying to hold to a core ethos. The marginalization and eventual death of old-fashioned journalism and what has ensued is going to be what ends our republic. And everyone who championed some purist vision of a post-mainstream media future is now and forever, officially, a rube.

Donations are a problem in politics full stop, for all the major parties. That said, this is a very interesting story from @MarkDiStef afr.com/rear-window/gi…

In news that will surprise no one, ex PM Scott Morrison has signed on with a deep-sea mining fund which has invested millions in experimental deep-sea mining projects. Deep sea mining will be the new asbestos - dangerous, damaging & expensive. theage.com.au/national/the-e…

@TennantReed Absolutely.

@timmyfish Indeed; but also it’s hard to see how antinatalism could deliver anything on a timescale relevant to limiting climate change (if it would even help, which I doubt)

OUT NOW: the Let Me Sum Up podcast considers a paper arguing that energy transition won’t solve the crisis of overshoot, and that an emergency marketing campaign promoting degrowth and antinatalism will. Wait, what? Gape in astonishment here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/let…

@binnsie9779 What a great question.

Attn: @timmyfish

@FeathersMcGee I appreciate that Antony Green has taken the time to engage in outright nonsense being propagated by someone who calls themselves Jet Ski Bandit.

How’s these absolute morons arguing with the great Antony Green 😂 some huge cognitive dissonance going on in the heads of some No voters who believed that Indigenous Australians didn’t want to vote yes.

"Fossil fuel power plants kill 35 times more birds per GWh of electricity produced than wind turbines. But even this figure understates the true harm caused by fossil fuels." How about that. Great reporting from @curious_founder distilled.earth/p/fossil-fuel-…

People sometimes ask me how I can remain optimistic that we can address the climate crisis. This is why: 👇

Absurd early-spring heat is about to hit #Sydney. The city is forecast to see 5 consecutive days >28°C. This has never been recorded in September before, with records dating back to 1859!

@mrcjohnston Chris did you see David Byrne here in 2018?

re-rubbed in 4K. LP reissue too - booklets and new versions and whatnot. iconic! life changing! snuck out of school age 17 to see this live in 84

"The IMF calculated just over $7 trillion in subsidies to fossil fuels last year. Since the IMF’s report expresses all figures in 2021 dollars, inflation cannot explain away the increase. The world has never spent this much to subsidize fossil fuels." #msdynttrid=TKSMcFegE2-1HdexrGftTgmjdqCMUP46er7V30YZJXM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mining.com/web/the-bigges…

A very good piece from @emorwee on exactly how vested the fossil fuel industry's interests are in (US) politics (e.g. nothing at all like here in Australia).

@JoeyLightbulb Ha, this is great. Like hearing stories from nurse friends talking about how Boxing Day emergency departments are full of middle-aged men who gave their kids skateboards for Christmas, then had a go, forgetting they are no longer 16.

What makes me feel happy? Falling flat on my face off a skate ramp | Skateboarding | The Guardian theguardian.com/culture/commen…