did you know that the English words druid, trust, truth, betroth, and truce all share a root word with “tree”? this reflects the longstanding spiritual and symbolic significance of trees in many European cultures

The people of Clacton and Count Binface have the chance to do something unbelievably funny here.

We're seeing a head-to-head race heating up between the joke candidate and Count Binface. chaser.com.au/world/aussie...

No institution should be able to move assets beyond survivors' reach and call it good governance. I've referred these Christian Brothers asset transfers to the AFP and ACNC for investigation. Survivors have waited long enough.

There's a petition floating around trying to protect Neil the Seal from euthanasia. Last I heard, nobody is suggesting euthanasia. In fact, I heard an official in Tassie say in an interview that it simply has not been considered. Authorities are doing their best to protect Neil.

Already required by ANCAP, of dubious value. You can turn off the alerting but it has to reset every time you start up again.

I remember being absolutely gobsmacked when I found out they'd shifted, like you had an airgap WHY would you change that!?

“I tried to prove that ABC jerk wrong about EVs. It didn’t go to plan…” by @birmo.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/08/e...

In WA, they use their own packet-radio (nothing wrong with the 15-year-old system). No service interruption here that I'm aware of. Payment processing is a different question; passengers just ride-for-free! Who cares.

Two papers pin the introduction of smallpox on British colonists and suggest that Australia held far more people than previously believed. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3R2lLmf

'Of the 37 rich nations tracked by the [OECD], only New Zealanders have suffered a steeper fall in their after-inflation wages than Australians over the same period. By contrast, British real wages have increased by almost 8 per cent.' www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

“It also highlights a growing trend of tech companies realizing that replacing human workers with AI is vastly more difficult than anticipated” Bunch of absolute colossal twats

Oh dear ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

In today’s episode of No Shit Sherlock.

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

I spoke to Mitch McConnell today for 20 minutes and he is doing well! Oddly, I had to fight my way past a giant 3-headed dog in order to see him.

Having a read of the Morgan Stanley #SpaceX financial report this morning and …. It’s a real piece of work lmao. This report is what happens when you throw in confirmation bias + financial greed + not speaking to scientists + a hype propaganda machine fuelled by the world’s first trillionaire.

The headline alone tells you whose side the Grabbers' Gazette is one. "Olive branch" my arse. www.afr.com/technology/a...

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre

The thing about poverty is it forces you to stay where you are. Theres no money for new bonds, two weeks rent, moving vans… To evict people in a homeless camp is to take away rge only form of shelter they could access

From AMY McQUIRE in 'Black Witness' "ONE NATION is NOT NEW or UNPRECEDENTED. It's a PRODUCT of QLD's SPECIFIC BRAND of ANTI-INDIGENOUS RACISM." Even weeds need specific conditions to grow & it just so happens that ON thrives particularly well in the blood-soaked soil of Qld substack.com/@amymcquire

Every Australian state agrees that new data centres need to invest in & draw their own power from renewable energy except for, you guessed it, Queensland under the Crisafulli government. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No shit Sherlock. If you want safe streets, you aren't going to get it with a carceral State that turns prisons into crime universities with a 90% graduation rate.

The Australia Institute research found 116 new coal, oil and gas projects - including Browse - sitting in the pipeline, which, if they all proceed, would add 1.4 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere annually by 2030. #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/267...

The faster we open the box the sooner it will all be over

I am always suspicious of stories that are crammed full of plausible technobabble, even when I lack the expertise to call them out. www.space.com/technology/a...

>Everybody use AI or you're fired >Wait stop it's too expensive >Don't use it for menial tasks >Only use it for important work stuff >If you're going to use it for important stuff make sure it's correct >Let me know if you have any questions!

Queensland mental health services at risk from 'huge' funding shortfall

I guess the part of this that baffles me is that studios have NO control of AI as an intellectual property. You’re gonna make a Tilly Norwood film? Well so am I, and it’s going to be hardcore bestiality so good luck when people try to Google your movie.

The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.

I would rather watch an art piece about someone who collected her scabs for 25 years and made a portrait of Nixon from it than whatever this shit is supposed to be *exaggerated handjob motion*

Charlie is not excited about Masterchef ...

Some providers were forcing a $38 service charge on residents for choosing which meals they ate

It's not that a Humanities education turns all its graduates into good people, it's that it arms good people with the skills and knowledge they need to understand and advocate for themselves, others, and society.

Fifty years of NAIDOC is fifty years of a people who were told to disappear, and instead kept dancing, kept singing, kept turning up. Survival is not passive. It is the loudest form of defiance we have. #NAIDOC

Never believe a recipe instruction that claims potato will be done in five minutes.

Siemens just revised its projections for its annual sales of fossil fuel power for data centres upwards by a huge amount. So now, the annual emissions from yearly additions of new gas are about equivalent to adding one new Pakistan to the world each year. www.spglobal.com/energy/en/ne...

The correct answer since the advent of FM radio breakfast programs 40 years ago has always been "The office of the Prime Minister can't answer that question, are you insane?"

"Double-edged sword" my foot. The sexist game is more like a blunt instrument. There's no subtlety involved here, for a PM the word "shag" on its own is a beacon.

ICYMI- yesterday's #AI cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again, as Xinuos argues IBM owes it big bucks

"Big tech is falsely linking the gutting of our copyright with the building of AI centres here. That’s a total furphy." (And anyway the DCs are an environmental disaster.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don't see any role for the US Studies Centre in this debate: theconversation.com/should-austr...

Calls for a blanket ban. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

Schroedinger's Mitch McConnell

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

Lab Notes: Is space junk destroying the ozone layer? Jonathan Webb launches into this issue with Dr Alice Gorman (AKA Dr Space Junk), taking stock of just how many satellites are burning up and what can be done to solve the problem. 🧪 🔭 🛰️