If you live in WA and ride a motorcycle, the lane splitting legalization bills are up for consideration again. Please write to your state representatives and senator and let them know you support the bills, especially if they're on the Transportation Committee.
Something missing in the coverage of the WA OSOS hiring an outside firm to monitor public social media posts for threats and the WA GOP hyperbolic reaction was that the monitoring came up with three actual physical threats.
Watch your school board races! I mean it! We have a couple of moms4liberty cult chapters and they're doing what they always do, running fascists in stealth mode, so pay attention! We can have bullshittery here too, and weird amounts of money are being dumped in. (Forex, the City of Kenmore council race. wtf is up with that?)
@doomscroller
“Sometimes it looks like ownership of the government by Woodside…. They’re defending the company but they’re not defending the rest of us from climate change.”
The entire ALP nationally is owned by a loose conglomerate of corporate donors. Has been for years.
“The rooftop solar record wasn’t the only one to fall on the weekend.
“According to GPE NEMLog2, other records to fall included record instantaneous battery charge in South Australia (334.7 MW earlier on Saturday at 10.30am), Victoria battery charge (390 MW), and record NEM-wide battery charge of 594.8 MW at 2.50pm (AEST) on Saturday.
“In NSW, battery discharge hit a record 174.5 MW at 6.30pm on Saturday.
“Other records included instantaneous wind output in Queensland (842MW), at the same time as a record amount of wind curtailment (854.7MW), and a record wind share (15.9 per cent).
“Also in NSW, black coal output hit a record low of 2,073.0 MW at 13:55 hrs on Saturday, and coal and gas together hit a new record low of 2,073.2 MW at the same time.”
@FerdiMagellan
We are spending 368 billion (blank cheque) on something and it's not for 11 submarines we could could get for nearly 300 billion less and the US could keep the first 3 and do the same thing for our defence. The nuclear industry is moving in whether we like it or not. ALP has no intention of powering us on renewables. LNP can't wait to get back in and get their hands on the blank cheque for the nuclear and military industry. @johnquiggin
@FerdiMagellan
This will, of course be as society is buckling from climate disasters no one is doing anything about anyway in any meaningful way. Nuclear energy is the parasite at the end of our world, a vortex sucking in resources to maintain and stealing from other areas. @johnquiggin
So just imagine we let one man, and his company, buy most of the papers in our regional cities and small towns.
And that man was named Rupert Murdoch.
And that man decided to shut down the print editions, and instead put those papers behind the paywalls of his big right-wing metropolitan tabloids.
Want to read the local newspaper in Lismore? It's now behind the Daily Telegraph paywall.
And then that man gutted the editorial team for each online newspaper to just one person.
And then used generative AI to centrally churn out 3000 local news articles per week across all his local publications, overseen by four human journalists.
@fixatedpersonsunit@ajsadauskas@australia My local Murdoch rag has sacked most of their photographers so many local stories are ‘illustrated’ with whatever Google Street View provides given whatever location info they have for the story
The Moms4Liberty cult are bringing anti-LGBT initiatives back to Washington State, starting with R-101, a bill to overturn protections for LGBT youth.
They are naturally - and like every previous iteration of this kind of hate group - lying viciously and continuously about everything, lying in particular that the laws allow the state to kidnap children out of your homes. This kind of lie is what they do, and what they have always done.
There is a Decline to Sign campaign underway. The best way to defeat these initiatives - and stop months of anti-LGBT hate campaign in advance - is to keep them from getting enough signatures to put it on the ballot at all.
Okay, well, we're fully back to the 1990s again - it's time to rev up Decline to Sign for an anti-LGBT initiative courtesy of the Moms 4 Liberty cult! This one attacks parts of our sanctuary state status - they're probing for weaknesses.
The referendum is R-101, and they're lying about it en masse, just like the same people lied about everything in the 1990s. You can get deets here: