Today I discovered that you can only edit a #signal message a maximum of ten times. I had been keeping a record of a series of events over a number of days and adding new info as it happened, hoping to be able to send a single message at the end, but it finally refused to commit an edit saying ten edits is the max.
Fuck the Tasmanian fire service and their claim to "protect lives and communities" by wholesale torching entire hills. There is so much research that shows that this only makes things worse.
This is over the road from my house. There is zero chance I can go outside. The inside of my house smells like smoke and I have two air purifiers going. Do we even have a clean air law in this state or what?
I m just devastated by the sheer number of creatures and plants they are killing, all in the name of protecting humans, which it isn't even doing anyway.
@mightyspaceman Hot burns completely destroy even the plants that don't burn well, and don't regenerate well after fire, so only those that burn and regenerate survive so you end up with a greater likelihood of getting a burn in less extreme weather because all the plants that burn less are gone and you are only left with those that burn readily.
Rockcliff is so fucked. He can't deal with the Greens and Lambie hates his guts. He's toast. Probably Abetz will take over and swing the party harder to the right, thus dooming any future electoral success.
@Ooze@TasDave It looks to me – but I do not have the patience to confirm – that preferences from excluded Liberals flowed less strongly to Abetz than others on that ticket. Certainly Petrusma overtook him fairly early. And similarly with Behrakis (who was being pursued by Ogilvie).
So, maybe, perhaps, possibly most Liberal voters aren’t really that keen on that wing, despite quite a few being very keen.
Keen followers will recall that a few weeks ago I posted about the wombat gate I had just built. I finally got a wildlife camera so I can see if anyone is actually using it. And they are!
Wombat goes in and then a couple of hours later goes out. Super excited.
Well this is going to be fun. Rockliff is claiming victory despite not have a majority, and neither Labor or the Libs could agree to a coalition with the Greens. I predict the first Liberal/Labor coalition government in Australia. They are so close to each other in policy that it is the only thing that either of them can do to get power.
And how the hell did Abetz get in? What the actual fuck.
Smoke from the fires up north fills the Huon Valley today. No going outdoors for me today, which is a bugger as I was hoping to get my seedlings planted.
As many as half a million households in Victoria have lost power after a major transmission line was brought down by a storm, tripping a power station and sending spot electricity prices soaring.