Congratulations to all the volunteers and people who put together a fantastic TEDx King's Park Youth yesterday.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring event 👍
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What's the best birthday present you've ever received?
Spent the last half hour playing games on the car's screen with my youngest 😅
Having driven my EV for the last six months, I've quickly forgotten that older cars are turned on with a key instead of a Start button.
Took me 5 minutes fumbling around in a dark garage before I figured out the above.
To be fair to myself, the key was folded into the fob when I got it.
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If I could afford it, I'd pour funds into medical research to solve the scourge of Monday-itis.
Bread and CircusesThe world we’ve known all our lives is vanishing in front of our eyes.
A stable, dependable climate allowing consistently reliable agriculture, century after century of economic growth, and huge, thriving coastal cities — that is rapidly breaking down and it’s already too late to prevent some level of collapse.
No matter what we do now, at least 2°C above baseline will be upon us within the next few decades, and unless things change very quickly, 3°C or even higher is virtually guaranteed as well.
But that doesn’t mean we should give up!
Because we still have a choice, a vital choice, between (1) a world very different from our recent past, but still survivable for a smaller population of humans, living simpler lives in closer harmony with their surroundings; or (2) a world where no humans remain at all, and millions of other species perish along with us, due to the terrible decisions we allowed our “leaders” to make.
That is what we’re fighting for. The difference between a planet 2°C above the pre-industrial baseline and one 4°C or 5°C above the baseline is huge. In fact, it’s existential.
Jessica SmithVia Reddit: This is apparently a genuine proposal from 1838 as to how Australia could've been carved up into colonies. The comments over on Reddit are hysterical, too. Stuff like this comment chain on the "sweet fuck-all" that's in Nuytsland or this one that concludes, "In a weird twist of fate, Canberra is inevitable in all possible timelines."
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)My first bag of hot cross buns will be finished today.
Must be close to Easter, right?
John EnglartBreaking: Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announces on twitter final decision not to approve Clive Palmer's Central Queensland Coal mine, an open cut coal mine located just 10km from the coast and the Great Barrier reef.
This is an historic announcement, the first coal mine in Australia refused approval on environmental grounds.
Over 9,000 public submissions received in 10 days providing reasons not to approve the mine.
#Auspol #Coal #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef
https://twitter.com/tanya_plibersek/status/1623179206447484928
