Josh Nicholas
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Scribbler and data journalist.
https://joshnicholas.com
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I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed
When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/22/tourists-watercolours-and-the-sad-still-star-sketching-the-route-35-tram-showed-me-a-melbourne-i-had-never-really-noticed
10 months ago
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The guy who is going to come in at 9 for Australia has 13 FC hundreds?
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Guardian Australia
2 days ago
âTen more yearsâ: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourneâs Brunswick Street
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âTen more yearsâ: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourneâs Brunswick Street
Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery âą More summer essentials Once a week you can find Helen Wilding and friends sitting on the side of the road, pens in hand. This time sheâs perched on a tiny folding stool between a couple of pot plants, focusing intently on a plant nursery. It appears to be shut. Wilding has been sketching this same street in inner Melbourne for seven years. Stretching for a couple of kilometres through Fitzroy, one of Melbourneâs oldest suburbs, Brunswick Street has everything â cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/04/helen-wilding-artist-sketching-whole-melbourne-brunswick-street?CMP=aus_bsky
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Chris Hayes
about 5 hours ago
One of my core beliefs is that, in the era of AI reporting will become more and more important than it's ever been. Hopefully, the market, institutions, consumers all recognize that.
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Ben Welsh
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đ Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters.
https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/
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Malachy Browne
about 15 hours ago
How TikTok decides what you see.
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Are you in TikTokâs cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.
We re-created TikTokâs algorithm based on 1,100 usersâ feeds. Explore which topics are in your feed and see what the algorithm is least likely to show you.
https://wapo.st/4qD9C3x
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I wrote a story about an incredible artist drawing an entire street in Melbourne - she's already been going for years!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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âTen more yearsâ: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourneâs Brunswick Street
Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/04/helen-wilding-artist-sketching-whole-melbourne-brunswick-street
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Ted Underwood
2 days ago
~everyone I know agrees about this; weâre not being loud about it yet, but I can feel that coming
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First couple of daya of the summer it feels like I'm watching actual test cricket and it's the final test
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I wrote a story about an incredible artist drawing an entire street in Melbourne - she's already been going for years!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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âTen more yearsâ: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourneâs Brunswick Street
Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/04/helen-wilding-artist-sketching-whole-melbourne-brunswick-street
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We should only give England 2 match series from now on until they can prove theyre up to test match cricket
2 days ago
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Guardian Australia
4 days ago
Usman Khawajaâs retirement farewell shows how cricket can be an expression of character | Gideon Haigh
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Usman Khawajaâs retirement farewell shows how cricket can be an expression of character | Gideon Haigh
Touching on his relationship with God, his family and racism, the Australian articulates how he became a better cricketer as he became a better man There is no gainsaying Usman Khawajaâs significance as an Australian Test cricketer; an additional mark of his stature is that he almost made you take him for granted. Think on it for a moment, and run your eye up and down the palely conventional list of Australiaâs highest Test scorers, where he ranks 15th, between Mike Hussey and Neil Harvey â so various in methods yet so similar in origins. There was a recognition through the 1990s and into the 21st century that the face of Australia was being changed by immigration, while the face of Australian cricket remained eerily unaltered. Then, all of a sudden, 15 years ago, Khawajaâs darkly slim figure emerged from the shadows of the Sydney Cricket Ground to pull his first Test delivery for four, and the axis of the game tilted ever so slightly. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2026/jan/02/usman-khawaja-retirement-tributes-australia-cricket?CMP=aus_bsky
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The split between ENG vs Aus/IND and ENG vs everyone else is kinda nuts
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Chris Marsden
4 days ago
Uzzie
#Ashes
#SCG
âIâm a proud Muslim coloured boy from Pakistan who was told that he would never play for the Australian cricket team. Look at me now. And you can do the same. As I walk off for the last time, I do so with gratitude and peace. Or as we say, salam"
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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Usman Khawaja announces retirement from international cricket
Australian 39-year-old veteran will bat in fifth Ashes Test in Sydney after an impressive career of 87 Tests, scoring 6,207 runs to date
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/02/usman-khawaja-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket
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Joao Pedro Azevedo
6 days ago
đ Announcing unicefData â open-source access to 700+ child welfare indicators from UNICEFâs SDMX API One syntax across Python, R, and Stata. No API expertise needed. đ
github.com/unicef-drp/unicefData
#OpenData
#SDGs
#RStats
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GitHub - unicef-drp/unicefData: unicefData is an open data and analytics platform led by UNICEFâs Office of the Chief Statistician, providing reproducible, standards-based tools for accessing and usin...
unicefData is an open data and analytics platform led by UNICEFâs Office of the Chief Statistician, providing reproducible, standards-based tools for accessing and using official child-related stat...
https://github.com/unicef-drp/unicefData
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Ridiculous place to live.
4 days ago
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Patrick English
6 days ago
Our
@yougov.co.uk
data journalism extraordinaire Matt Smith has compiled all news tracker results from 2025 into this stunning graphic This tells us so much about what 'cuts through', how news cycles evolve, and what grabs attention re: flash moments vs ongoing stories
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Lenore Taylor
5 days ago
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My favourite story today..
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Cecilia GimĂ©nezâs botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones
The restorer, who died on Monday, brought unwanted attention to herself â and her small Spanish town. Then, slowly, a small miracle took place, says Sam Jones, the Guardianâs Madrid correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/01/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-woman-restorer-spain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Nick Feik
6 days ago
Yikes. Yes, read this.
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Sydney and Sydney
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Going to end 2025 by (re)sharing one of my favourite stories I worked on this year
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Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed
When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/22/tourists-watercolours-and-the-sad-still-star-sketching-the-route-35-tram-showed-me-a-melbourne-i-had-never-really-noticed
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Washington Post readers share their wins of the year. This is a really lovely story
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/in...
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What did you accomplish in 2025? Readers tell us their wins.
From losing 100 pounds to publishing a book and learning to ride a bike, readers shared with us what they were most proud of this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/interactive/2025/reader-accomplishments-wins-2025/
6 days ago
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wtf it was colder in Melbourne on christmas eve?
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Julian Fell
6 days ago
The licences aren't worth the (virtual) paper they're written on, and they're likely to be raking in tens of millions of dollars a year in fees. My latest for ABC News.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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How illegitimate regulators operate in the name of a tiny African island
An ABC investigation has identified several individuals involved in a network of illegitimate corporate regulators and service firms.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-31/fake-gambling-licenses-anjouan-casinos/106158766
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Albert Pinto
6 days ago
âbiggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.â
[email protected]
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& I call this Chinaâs Solar hockey stick of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
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Rian Johnson
7 days ago
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Stephen Turner
9 days ago
I wrote a short essay on what I'm calling the AI Attribution Error.
doi.org/10.59350/c3g...
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John Hollinger
2 months ago
The dream is over for Chicago. Bulls can still finish 81-1, but season feels hollow now.
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I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed
When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/22/tourists-watercolours-and-the-sad-still-star-sketching-the-route-35-tram-showed-me-a-melbourne-i-had-never-really-noticed
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I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed
When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/22/tourists-watercolours-and-the-sad-still-star-sketching-the-route-35-tram-showed-me-a-melbourne-i-had-never-really-noticed
10 months ago
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