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Hydrogeologist, geochemist, sailor, gardener, curator of architectural, automotive and marine antiquities. Science is neither left nor right. It’s just science.

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06.03.2026 10:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I say let them go for it. Darwinian economics. It’ll probably make a good point break ( or some such surfing thing) when it falls into the sea.

03.03.2026 08:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He’s probably just blacked out somewhere after a few too many square bears.

20.02.2026 09:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Improved precision does not necessarily equal improved accuracy” or “Nothing will ruin your calibration as much as more data”.

08.02.2026 10:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What’s the difference between an Aga stove and a climate changed denialist?

One is an oil-fired cooker and one is brand of stove.

02.02.2026 01:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The inside or the outside?

27.01.2026 03:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shitposting? Praxis.

21.01.2026 09:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry I was too hyped up to alt text properly. The Aurora Australis was not only bright enough to see clearly, but was flashing and flailing about like lightning! I have never seen anything like it.

20.01.2026 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aurora going OFF!

Aurora going OFF!

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!!!!

20.01.2026 12:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Oil isn’t actually made from dinosaurs” = “Nobody talks to me at parties.”

14.01.2026 11:36 👍 65 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Graph of annual average of daily maximum temperature and climate stripes for Hobart. The graph shows a gradual decline from 1888 until around 1950, after which there is a direct upward trend, which becomes steeper after 2000. It is now around 1.5 degrees C above the pre-1960 average.

Graph of annual average of daily maximum temperature and climate stripes for Hobart. The graph shows a gradual decline from 1888 until around 1950, after which there is a direct upward trend, which becomes steeper after 2000. It is now around 1.5 degrees C above the pre-1960 average.

Here’s Hobart, Tasmania.

14.01.2026 11:32 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Careful! They’ll claim someone was weaponising those shopping trolleys and shopping baskets.

13.01.2026 09:50 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“ I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has
been received, and that consequently this country is a feud’n with Germany.”

12.01.2026 10:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A graph showing gradually decreasing temperature from 1888, sharply increasing after 1960. Below the graph are coloured “climate stripes” showing the change from blue and white (at or below average ) to red (above average) with all red since 2006.

A graph showing gradually decreasing temperature from 1888, sharply increasing after 1960. Below the graph are coloured “climate stripes” showing the change from blue and white (at or below average ) to red (above average) with all red since 2006.

Hobart, Tasmania has daily temperature records from 1888. Here is the updated plot of annual mean maximum temperature. Notice anything?

07.01.2026 10:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No way! Has anyone thought of plotting the curves of supply and demand, maybe as price vs quantity? Wait until economists hear about this!

07.01.2026 10:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

17 July 1912 Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...

06.01.2026 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That garden supplies club is getting out of hand.

26.12.2025 02:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sydney to Hobart time. The annual Oz tradition where people who’ll sit through days of cricket & tennis complain about an event that takes up about 1 hr on Boxing Day and a few 2 min spots at the end of the news for a few days, & search out Facebook articles to comment that they don’t care about it.

26.12.2025 01:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And why no alarm bells rang when father and son went to a month-long paramilitary training camp (if the stories are to be believed - so many dodgy stories around at the moment).

16.12.2025 08:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Denialist works for all of them.

25.11.2025 21:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With a side order of E4?

20.11.2025 11:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is that A1 on the tea towel?

20.11.2025 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That stadium’s not going to pay for itself, you know . No, wait I mean it will absolutely pay for itself in no time. (Phew that was close. I think I got away with it.

17.11.2025 10:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not defending anyone over this debacle, but that makes about as much sense as saying you helped develop powered flight. They are very distant relatives. Not to mention the fact that Peter and Una Rockliff sold Petuna in 2020.

17.11.2025 09:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In their defence, the bridge was there first. The designers didn’t meet the design criteria for manoeuvrability under the bridge. Not Tas gov’t fault (in that particular case). On the other hand, sacrificing local, sustainable cray fisheries for foreign-owned factory fish farms is extremely dodgy.

17.11.2025 09:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Continuing the proud tradition of hosting COP in fossil fuel-owned states.

16.11.2025 10:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is she going back for one of Bruce’s hats?

29.10.2025 06:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I believe Northern Ireland is still part of the UK. Either way, not my problem since I live in Australia.

27.10.2025 08:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also, Scotland and Ireland probably want a word.

27.10.2025 07:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What have the Normans ever done for us?

27.10.2025 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0