Mac Thompson

Entrepreneur, traveller, father and rugby player living in Sydney.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Insane video of Ukrainian forces targeting a massive Russian military fuel convoy heading out of Crimea with drones.

[Andy Hunder @AndyHunder]

I’m standing in a downpour in the middle of a golden wheat field in Ukraine.
Right now, Ukrainian farmers are gathering the 2026 harvest: 80 million tons of grain and oilseeds.
That’s roughly 10 kilograms of food for every single person on Earth.
But that food might never reach the world's table.
Russia is systematically bombing Odesa’s ports and civilian cargo ships—deliberately targeting international vessels and American commercial interests.
This is a direct attack on global food security. It fuels inflation in every grocery store worldwide.
Protecting Ukraine’s port infrastructure isn’t charity.
It is defending global economic stability—and keeping the world fed.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Turns out Russia hates tap water

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Good night, sleep well and see you tomorrow!

[Eytan Lenko @eytanlenko]

Renewables being deflationary again https://t.co/EZ97qGtbZx

[Olena_Wave🇺🇦 @OlenaWave]

Gorokhovsky also recommended Pete Hegseth for the post of US Secretary of Defense , who has problems with alcohol and is generally not strong in knowledge for this position. To explain this gently.

[Mac Thompson @mac_thompson]

@Peter_Fitz Totally agree but the Liberals will need to do a mea culpa on renewables and that will be almost impossible with Matt Canavan as the Nationals leader. They would then need to join with the Teals. Do we really think Angus Taylor has enough substance to even question the Nationals?

[Urban Wronski @UrbanWronski]

The gas companies say Australia is uninvestable. They are still here. They extracted $67 billion in LNG exports. They paid $1.4 billion in federal resource rent tax. The government gave you 32 cents a litre. Clarke and Dawe couldn't have written it better. So we did. #PRRT #auspol #gas #uninvestable
Uninvestable, A Clarke and Dawe tribute sketch https://t.co/IGVrLCC3uV via @UrbanWronski

[Gregory Andrews @LyrebirdDream]

The EV battery apocalypse was supposed to have happened by now. But modern EVs have been on roads for 15+ years.

The naysayers got the reliability story backwards.👇🏽 https://t.co/BHbUlNrTHl

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

This is oil wealth funding its own disruption. And the trend is crystal clear.

Ranked 5th globally, Al Dhafra Solar Farm PV in the UAE proves scale alone isn’t the story. ~4.2 TWh per year and ~24% capacity factor, the highest in the top 10. Performance matters. Location matters. Technology matters.

Built in peak irradiance using bifacial panels, it extracts more from every ray of sunlight. Lower losses, higher yield. This is what modern solar looks like when everything lines up.

And here’s the shift… funded by a century of oil.

The very system that defined the last 100 years is now financing the one replacing it. Not ideology. Not policy alone. Economics.

In a country of just 10M people, the UAE has built two of the world’s largest solar farms. That’s not symbolic. That’s strategic positioning for what comes next.

Capital is moving. Infrastructure is following. The energy system is rewiring in real time.

Not all gigawatts are equal. Follow the money. ☀️⚡

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15%

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

‼️ ZELENSKYY: For the first time in the war, an enemy position was captured entirely by ground robotic systems and drones - without any infantry. A robot entered the most dangerous zones instead of a soldier and took the positions.

«The future is here, on the battlefield, and Ukraine is creating it. These are our ground robotic systems. For the first time in this war's history, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned GRS platforms and drones. The occupiers surrendered, and this operation was completed without infantry involvement and without losses on our side. Ratel, Termite, Ardal, Lynx, Zmiy, Protector, Volya and other GRS completed over 22 000 missions at the front in just 3 months. In other words, over 22 000 times lives were saved. A robot went into the most dangerous zones instead of a soldier» - Zelenskyy’s address to the workers of Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex. April 13th, 2026.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Virtually the entirety of the Hungarian nation took to the polls today to put an end to the 16 year long rule of the kleptocrat that Donald Trump, JD Vance and Russia did everything in their power to endorse.

Cheers from the European Union!🇪🇺

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Mac Thompson @mac_thompson]

From Caretakers to Combatants. https://t.co/dMFR1mnqf0

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

In Australia right now, a diesel prime mover sits at A$200k–$250k. The Windrose BEV E700 lands at A$450k–$500k.

“Twice the price.” That’s the headline. That’s where most people stop.

Layer in Tesla. The Semi is arriving at US$260k–$300k (~A$400k–$460k).

And BYD? In a different league entirely—scaling heavy-duty electrics in China at aggressive prices through full vertical integration.

Yes, electric still carries the upfront premium.

But that’s the wrong comparison.

You’re not choosing between A$250k and A$450k.

You’re choosing between:

• Diesel: A$250k + ~A$2 million in volatile fuel over 10 years
• Electric: higher capex, then structurally far cheaper to run

The Windrose isn’t a compromise. ~700 km loaded range. ~700 kWh LFP pack. ~1,400 hp. ~870 kW charging. ~68-tonne capability.

That’s diesel performance—without the fuel dependency.

Tesla’s Semi is already proving materially lower real-world cost per kilometre in fleet deployments. BYD is industrialising faster, quieter, and cheaper.

Here’s what actually matters.

The visible gap (purchase price) is shrinking fast.
The invisible gap (operating cost) is widening faster.

Those two curves are converging hard.

That’s the squeeze.

Once they cross, adoption doesn’t crawl—it flips. Freight doesn’t care about narratives. It cares about cost per kilometre.

And the loop is now running in electric’s favour.

Oil shocks used to reinforce oil.
Now they accelerate its replacement.

Every diesel price spike forces fleets to run the numbers. Every electric truck on the road kills future diesel demand. That weakens supply investment. Which makes the next spike worse.

We’re sitting in diesel’s last comfort zone on sticker price.

The real shift isn’t happening on the invoice. It’s happening in the system underneath.

And when that system flips? Diesel doesn’t compete. It gets exposed. ⚡🔋 #Bettrification

[Mac Thompson @mac_thompson]

A bit of an Aussie take

[Urban Wronski @UrbanWronski]

Kharg Island — 8km long, 25km off the Iranian coast — handles 90% of Iran’s oil exports.

Trump has wanted it for 38 years. (“I’d go in and take it.” — The Guardian, 1988.)

Independent military historians are calling it Gallipoli. One analyst calls it “a suicide mission.”

The Marines are still moving. My latest article.

Iwo Jima, They Said: Marines Move on Iran as Tel Aviv Burns and the Alliance Dissolves https://t.co/3JZNeL7dnw via @UrbanWronski

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

This is so funny. The first time I saw it, I was taken by complete surprise 🤣

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Israelis no longer receiving proper warnings of Iranian strikes.

Iran has wiped out the entire US THAAD and Patriot radar system in the Gulf using $50k drones. It will cost billions and take a decade to replace.

I pieced together all the satellite photos of the strikes & bases.