Ukraine's drone war is isolating Crimea

In #Pride Month, here’s the Emperor Hadrian and his boyfriend, Antinous. The young man died in mysterious circumstances on a cruise on the Nile in 130AD. Hadrian, devastated by his death, deified him and then founded a city at his death site which became a cult centre. 🏛️BM 📷 mine

Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation in history - and it is still accelerating Batteries are faster reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-alr... @reneweconomy.com.au

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.

On this day in 1980, Bob Marley & The Wailers released the LP “Uprising” (June 10) It was to be the final studio release of Bob Marley’s life as he passed away the following year, but the Rastafarian themed album contained some of his finest work. youtu.be/6lYdVwtIMCg?...

Two things are going to happen in Australia's main grid in the next few years - Renewables are going to overtake coal - Battery discharge is going to overtake gas 🥰

A horrible story of genuine bastardry

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Happy birthday to Anoushka Shankar! “…George Harrison, whom Anoushka refers to as ‘Uncle George.’ ‘He says he’s the president of my fan club,’ Anoushka giggles.” - Associated Press (1998) More at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8189602....

Don't believe the gas lobby lies. Solar generation grew 17x faster than gas in 2025 - globally. #whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/gas-lobby-de...

This map shows annual truck traffic on European main roads, colored by route distance. The map gives a sense of on which corridors the long distance traffic travels and how far the infrastructure interdependencies within the network road reach. Source: buff.ly/TyeZr2D HT Jakob Rogstadius

On the other place, Hugh Laurie just delivered a Death of Expertise smackdown for the ages

"China replaced an entire bus network — 16,000 diesel buses in one city — with electric ones in under three years. Shenzhen, China's technology manufacturing hub across the border from Hong Kong, completed the world's first fully electric public bus fleet in 2018. #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

Wild emus in the Australian Alps: the national bird that thrives in snow and extreme cold

The package includes a new Open Source Strategy, updated chip legislation, and a Cloud and AI Development Act. The goal is clear: reduce structural dependency on Big Tech and build sovereign, interoperable, open infrastructure.

New terminal file manager in town! 🚓 📁 elio — A batteries-included file manager with rich previews 💯 Inline images, fuzzy search, zoxide integration, trash support,shell integration & beautiful themes 🦀 Written in Rust & built w/ @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/elio-fm/elio #rustlang #ratatui

infographic! if you remember this simple recipe, you can print in bold, italic, color… to the terminal:

Iraq's World Cup star Aymen Hussein was detained and questioned for nearly seven hours after arriving at Chicago O'Hare Airport with the national team. Hussein was eventually allowed into the United States, but team photographer Talal Salah was denied entry after being held for more than 10 hours.

The latest KPMG scandals show the Big 4 firms are again making a mockery of parliament. CEO has resigned & COO has stepped down but the rot remains. The government still has KPMG contracts. Labor needs to put an end to their special treatment & regulate them like other Australian businesses.

The world's entire economy right now is a wealthy few rigging systems to get more wealthy, draining all the wealth from everywhere. Then the world has to "borrow" it back to keep going. This is where corruption always leads. It has to collapse and the world will have to take that wealth back.

There's already a lot of misinformation about this year's forecast El Niño, and particularly the prospects of associated drought. This is an excellent correction from @climatefreund.bsky.social who knows more about ENSO and rainfall than just about anyone. TLDR: Hot and dry aren't the same thing!

just going to say if you enjoyed the remake of Shogun, which had much more Japanese input than the first series, which, was quite good for its time, but were keen a similar more authentic period piece film from Tokugawa or Edo period, take a swing at 13 Assassins on SBS :)

Today marks 20 YEARS since Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker was posted to @newgrounds.com.

Do you know that 90% of all large predatory fish (like tuna, swordfish, sharks, and cod) are gone from the world's oceans. If humans continue overfishing at the current rate, the planet will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic consequences www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The European Parliament is ditching Google as its default search engine in favor of French service Qwant. (That’s the one I use too!)

How they vote #Auspol #Australia

Lord Eight Earthquake, Zapotec urn was found in the House of the Altars of ​​Atzompa, Oaxaca. A young individual seated with his legs crossed and his hands on his knees. His lizard headdress incorporates elements representing a butterfly, which would indicate a metamorphic nature for the figure.

A milestone achieved on Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM. Energy discharged from utility batteries over the last 12 months now exceeds generation from peaking (OCGT) gas turbines. Those who thought batteries would only provide ancillary services now looking foolish.

This is amazing! Everyone talks about the future of transportation as if it will be invented in Silicon Valley, China, or Europe. But Africa may end up leading the next mobility revolution. REMEMBER THIS NAME: “Spiro” isn’t just selling electric motorcycles. 🧵

BYD says it will assume full financial liability for at-fault accidents that happen while its “God’s Eye” urban driving system is active in China — with no cap on the payout. It’s a commitment Tesla has never made for FSD and it flips the industry’s standard liability model on its head. /1

The extraordinary rise of batteries in Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Australia, and of course you can access it anywhere, there's a website for cooking called recipetineats.com the woman who runs it is Nagi, born in Japan, raised in Sydney, and she just does the most amazing stuff, sometimes a bit unconventional but always a total wonder and idiot proof :)

A 1,096-year-old Javanese inscription from 930 AD reveals the menu of a royal feast: fermented drinks, beef jerky, coconut and more https://sinapti.ca/post/en/a-1096-year-old-javanese-inscription-reveals-what-was-eaten--2b7hl1ap

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

An Andean condor observing the vastness of Patagonia from the heights of a mountain.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in July 1968 and officially ratified it as a non-nuclear-weapon state in March 1970. Under Obama’s deal, it allowed weapons inspectors to enter the country on a whim. Israel has never signed and refused inspections, somehow Iran are a threat.

If you look closely at this Barred Owl's wing feathers, you will see that one side of the feather is fringed. This fringe helps with the owl's silent flight by reducing aerodynamic noise.

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

In honor of Sonny Rollins who died yesterday at 95-- a true legend of jazz music. Here's his own composition, Alfie's Theme, from 1966 🎹

David Bowie, Los Angeles, 1987, by Herb Ritts.

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Wales is on track to be the first country in the world to kick out politicians for deliberately lying. The Welsh Govt has passed legislation that would allow an independent process to disqualify election candidates and parliament members guilty of intentional deception. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This photo was posted in a group called "View from your window". I couldn't resist posting this photo from Finland photographed by Helena Tarpeinen. The colors are outstanding.