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Here's the updated daily color stripes for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly, now based on the 1991-2020 baseline and with a color bar going past black (3.0°C) into pink and beyond.

"Hey have you heard about the German dying on Ama Dablam doing the same thing as we did?" "Yeah but we didn't die." 👉 Don't do what Wolfgang did. Put you crampons on if you need to go for a wee. #mountaineering #nepal #amadablam

About ten years ago I put out a geocache in the middle of the Australian bush. Now the kids saw the picture and insist on an adventure to check whether it's still there. I'll keep you posted.

We do need to end #aukus before it costs us even more but highlighting alternatives would give the demand more weight. ... and it's also incredibly dangerous to throw Ukraine under the bus. It alienates our allies in a time where we NEED to look for better and more reliable partners. #auspol

A pipe under the Taiwan Strait outlasts the politics above it | Leonie Spangenberg

Ooops 😳 One thing about #AUKUS which went over my head is that Australian subs won't be able to dock in New Zealand. That's a pretty substantial operational constraint for such an expensive asset. But hey: Since nobody talks about it, it can't be a big deal, right? #auspol

How I imagine a conversation between Frank Sauer and Carlo Masala in the office.

The Diesel Deal is just a despicable manoeuvre so Trump can blame Ukraine for high fuel prices before the Midterms. • russia imports Diesel from Belarus. The can’t deliver anyway. • The amount is negligible and can’t make a difference. • russia provided data to Iran to attack US troops. #auspol

Righty-o #auspol. At which point do we decide that this security subscription we have with the 🇺🇸 is probably not that secure?

If @mattbevan.bsky.social wants to know why Dr. Gaub is promoting his podcast on Insta, tell him it was me. I told her to listen to this episode 🤣

How I arrived on Bluesky

The talent pool of the Australian Greens for foreign relations and national security is VERY shallow. What a disappointment. They should take some private lessons from the 🇩🇪 Greens. They got high calibres like @agnieszka-brugger.de or @hofreiter.bsky.social #auspol

Me when @rikefranke.bsky.social mentions the future Australia episode. (cc @sicherheitspod.de )

And the winner is: Chairman Mow

Kannonen. Spatzen. Ihr wisst schon ...

In Australien kannste jetzt einen BYD Atto 1 für umgerechnet 12500 € beim Händler abholen. Ich bin mir sicher dazu gibt's ein passendes Habeckzitat ...

Apple has chartered three full air freight flights to bring the new iPhone due to Australia. They sell for $3500 to $5900 🤯 The other iPhone 18s will take up something like 20 planes worth lower deck cargo - just for the launch. #supplychain #logistics

Auch 2027 wird wieder ein deutsches Kontingent an Talisman Sabre teilnehmen. Frankreich, die Niederlande, Großbritannien, Spanien und Norwegen sind weitere Europäische Teilnehmer.

The German Embassy Australia also shared this clip of a ballistic missile test. They really want to make sure that everyone including russia sees that, don't they? #auspol

Ich nehm' ab sofort Vorschläge an um dem Igelschredder* einen anständigen Namen zu verpassen 👇 * hier gibt's keine Igel. Die sind also alle sicher.

Kenn ich jemanden die/der bei Rheinmetall arbeitet? Ich überleg gerade mal ob das ein guter Tapetenwechsel wäre ... DM ist offen

Within the next four weeks the 365-day average global mean surface temperature anomaly (vs preindustrial 1850–1900) will cross +1.5°C. You'll need to ask Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net about the probability of it dropping below ever again.

Hier um die Ecke wollen sie eine 290 MW / 1160 MWh Anlage bauen. Das ist im Australischen Vergleich nichts besonderes. Mir war gar nicht so klar wie weit Deutschland beim Thema BESS hinterherhinkt.

I wrote about the state of German politics for WPR. If you want to know what to expect this autumn, have a read.

Kann jemand mal der Gaskathi diese Grafik zeigen? Danke.

From where? ... and WHY?!?!? #adfail

What. The. Actual. Fuck. 🫢 Meanwhile some NIMBYs want to stop a BESS in our backyard because "green wedge". JFC ...

"Hitze ist vor allem für ältere und alte Menschen gefährlich. Mit rund 6300 wurden laut RKI die meisten Todesfälle in der Altersgruppe von 85 Jahren oder älter verzeichnet." Vielleicht sieht Merz das als Teillösung für die Probleme Rente & Pflege? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Weiss man nie …

This drone attack should be a wake-up call, but who are we kidding? Australia remains totally blank on drone defense and hybrid warfare. Turns out our politicians’ national security expertise is just like our power projection 👉 all talk, no range. #auspol

#FunFact On Wednesday the Daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST 60°S–60°N) reached 21.2°C. If you want to find a day (!) with a higher value in the past, you have to go back to the Last Interglacial / Eemian Period about 125,000 years ago. #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire

Germany has an equally disturbed relationship with ACs as Australia has with proper building standards. In this episode Matzig tries to make the point that ACs are unnecessary for residential dwellings. JFC - they're just heatpumps running in reverse and when 🇩🇪 needs them it's normally very sunny.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 In a new ASPI explainer, ‘From the old world to the new: Why German rearmament matters for Australia’, Carl Janz examines Germany's ambitious rearmament and its implications for Australia's security interests. 🔖 Read it here: bit.ly/4fEujYW

Australia is putting two helicopters into C-17s and flying them to France. That's how bad the wildfires are.

Over the past 115.000 years the global mean surface temperature has gone above 17 °C only during these three years: 2023, 2024 and this year. #climate #climatechange #thefuckingplanetisonfire

Mapping out interdependencies and planning for potential disruptions is probably something Australia doesn't do. But it should. #auspol

Merz wird wegen seiner Personalentscheidungen immer mehr zur Belastung für die Union aber aus anderen Gründen auch für den Zusammenhalt in der Gesellschaft. Er mäandert zwischen markigem Altherrengetue und väterlicher Fürsorge auf eine Art und Weise hin und her, die verstörend wirkt. 1/x

Vor vier Wochen erschien unser AfD-Gutachten. Drei Erkenntnisse, die noch viel zu wenig durchgedrungen sind: 1. Es gibt keine gemäßigte Strömung mehr in der AfD. Die Partei richtet sich als Ganzes gegen unsere Grundordnung. Die Vorstellung, ohne Höcke & Co. wäre alles gut, ist falsch.

Just said „Is mir egal“ to my son. His reply: „Roboter mit Senf“ 🥺 RIP Kazim

Übrigens ☝️🥸 Falls ihr heute @drfranksauer.bsky.social über den Weg laufen solltet, erwähnt bloß nicht Saudi-Arabien > Verkneift's euch einfach.

Moin. Falls jemand @luftwaffe.bundeswehr.de gucken will:

2 days ago #PitchBlack 2026 kicked off in Darwin and @luftwaffe.bundeswehr.de rocked up with some Typhoons and an A400M www.airforce.gov.au/our-work/exe...

0.022% or roughly 1 in 5000 That's the probability of this happening. If we were to randomly re-live 2026 for 5,000 times and we'd compare each of the 2026 temperatures to the 1991-2020 numbers, we'd only experience this 1 time. You get the point. #auspol #climatechange

Sie gibt dann auch gleich die Antwort auf Joergs Frage: "Es geht vielen in der Politik, in der katholischen Kirche und in Teilen der Unionsfraktion hier leider gar nicht um Vernunft und Sachargumente, sondern vor allem um die eigene Ideologie."

Falls ihr Euch wundert wer der Australier im MoMa vor zwei Wochen war ... It was me 😎 (Und wer sich's nochmal antun will: ARD Mediathek - Morgenmagazin - 12 Euro für den Dom – darf das sein?)

"China does not need to strike Bandiana directly to disrupt the value of a Bandiana stockpile." No 💩 Sherlock - China doesn't need to strike Australia at all to massively disrupt the whole country. If the USMC wants to store some stuff in Albury >> and pay for it << let them. #auspol

"The level of global oil inventories is now much closer to a 'tipping point' compared to a few months ago, there is less room to absorb a sustained loss of oil flows without prices rising sharply." Fun times ahead! #SCM #logistics

Calling @drfranksauer.bsky.social Calling Dr Frank Sauer Doktor Sauer bitte. ( @mattbevan.bsky.social Frank would be great interview partner about nuclear proliferation in general … just saying)

Klimawandel ... so'n Quatsch. Wir bringen hier einfach nur das Wetter aus Australien mit! So sieht's nämlich aus meine Freund!