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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24158944

What a world :) Literally plumes of superheated toxic "shitwater" coming from the ground.

I wonder why it's so hot /s

https://archive.md/qmqsm

Interesting read about an interesting woman, couple of excerpts..

The trailblazing public health activist reflects on childhood dreams, hard-won lessons and why healthcare starts long before anyone gets sick

during her early days as a junior doctor at Princess Margaret hospital in Perth. “There was an Aboriginal boy, maybe four or five, who’d come in from a remote community,” she says. “He had severe diarrhoea and dehydration. And he died in my arms.” She pauses. “I was 25. And I remember thinking, I don’t know if I can keep doing clinical work. I need to understand how we prevent this.”

She recalls one trip to Narrogin – “one of the most racist towns in WA” – where a local doctor had refused to treat an Aboriginal child without upfront payment. “The mother raced the kid to Katanning and it died on the way,” she says. “So Eric and I got that doctor struck off the register.”

She’s outspoken about the dangers of the North West Shelf extension, describing climate change as “the biggest threat to human health”. Her disappointment over the failed voice to parliament referendum is equally fierce. “

In the mid-2000s, the energy imbalance was about 0.6 watts per square metre (W/m2) on average. In recent years, the average was about 1.3 W/m2. **This means the rate at which energy is accumulating near the planet’s surface has doubled. **

FAaFO , we're in the find out phase.

If this trend continues, we will reach a point of no return in two or three decades. Once the dry season extends to six months, there is no way to avoid self-degradation. We are perilously close to a point of no return. In some areas, it may have already been passed.

Original post https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/i-worked-at-an-escort-agency-this-is-how-it-changed-my-attitude-to-sex-20250606-p5m5im.html

I began to see the sheer breadth of people seeking connection — and the assumptions I’d internalised about desire, age, ability, and worth started to unravel. I spoke to clients in their 20s and clients in their 80s. One elderly gentleman in a wheelchair had his adult daughter arrange the booking for him. Another, a middle-aged man with motor neurone disease, needed help with logistics, but still sought intimacy. A respected psychiatrist would ask for “absolutely no talking”. A retiree just wanted to be cuddled and told that everything was going to be okay. Some requested elaborate fantasies. Others asked for nothing more than to feel normal – seen, desired, held.

It was, frankly, beautiful. And confronting. Because it shattered something I’d long believed: that only certain people get to be sexual. That desire is reserved for the abled, the attractive, the young. That illness cancels it out.

We have recently revised the temperature threshold. Up to 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the tipping point for coral reefs would occur when warming is between 1.5C and 2C above preindustrial levels. But in 2023, we revised that to between 1C and 1.5C. The world is already close to that upper limit and it will certainly come within the next 10 or 20 years as a result of committed climate change – which comes from cumulative emissions that have already gone into the atmosphere. So have we already gone past the tipping point for coral reefs in global terms? Perhaps.

Well, nice one humans /s

More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads to 66,000 early deaths a year and many cases of heart disease, diabetes and depression.

The report is based on data reported by EEA countries on transport noise, which is the most widespread and significant type of noise pollution.

Tasmania has a complicated relationship with its natural beauty. Australia’s smallest state is marketed for its “clean and green” environment and produce, and the government runs tourism campaigns with the tagline “come down for air” that lean heavily on its stunning landscapes, coastlines and wildlife.

But it also has a reputation for backing environmentally damaging industries that grab national, and sometimes international, attention:

As somone who lives in Tassie, the state is a shitshow of environmental degredation. So this next bit of the article is not surprising

It says something about the debate that this even needs saying, but: environment laws should protect the environment.

On Saturday, the Tasmanian Labor leader, Dean Winter, rolled out the line out as he launched an equally remarkable policy before the state election on 19 July: that the state’s industries should not have to answer to Australia’s environment laws.

A 2021 five-yearly state of the environment report found that wasn’t happening – that nature was in poor and deteriorating health, in part because forest and other vegetation has continued to be knocked down without proper oversight.

Two 'sovereign citizens' have been sentenced to a month in jail, with a judge warning their "extremely dangerous" ideas would not be tolerated.

The cohort are becoming an increasing burden on the Australian courts, a New South Wales Magistrate told the ABC.

In this case, Mr and Ms Martin argued that the court is a "corporate entity" and "cannot instruct the living being".

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23550010

But if you look at this year's update, things are all moving in the wrong direction."

But if you look at this year's update, things are all moving in the wrong direction."

Ms Robinson said the laptop was an 18-month old AppleMac Pro and it had started to lose charge more often in the lead up to the fire.

"It seemed to be going flat a lot, which can identify a faulty battery," Ms Robinson.

Fire Rescue Victoria commander Craig Houlahan attended the blaze.

"It was clear the fire had actually started from the bed," he said.

"It was quite obvious with the development of the fire that it was the laptop, because of the battery."