Millennial jams #scribble

More public art pls www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

My grandparents couldn't imagine this: meat less per kilo than spuds... www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/18/p...

They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

‘I’d rather be bored than in danger’: Muslim women change how they behave in public because of racist attacks in Australia www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

For this week's #TidyTuesday, pasta carbs and fat. Inspired by @cborstell.bsky.social's plot bsky.app/profile/cbor... Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

Matcha has been getting more popular for a good few years now but this summer it really took off - with sales doubling in UK cafes vs 2024. 4% of drinks sales are now matcha-based, according to Square payments data🍵

Quick test #scribble

Just extrapolating this out a few decades in my head theconversation.com/fewer-friend...

People kept requesting Taylor swift covers and now I have them stuck in my head. #scribble

Also in the article: a psychologist who used to administer the test says he’s not been able to pass it himself, and nor have his colleagues. This isn’t just a test that culturally insensitive; it’s a test that almost nobody can pass.

In Denmark, if you’re pregnant and the government thinks you will be a bad parent because you were abused as a child, they can give you a test asking “what’s glass made of?” and “what’s the big staircase in Rome called?”If you fail they take your baby after birth. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

"A thousand people working in digital product development." I thought this part was interesting. Meredith Kopit Levien, chief executive officer of the New York Times Company, in an interview with Puck.News

The thing is, this is it. For all the ink spilled about why the govt is unpopular, it really is first and foremost the cost of living. Any analysis that ignores it is wrong. By far the biggest commonality across *all* groups of Labour defectors is a belief they aren't delivering on cost of living.

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

P.S. LLMs will make it even easier to hide our ignorance about what we’re actually doing and what claims we can actually make.

Estelle Ishigo: Scenes from a Japanese Internment Camp #linklog illustratedjournalism.substack.com/p/estelle-is...

every covid shot still feels like a goddamn miracle

The data the age assurance technology trial released doesn't really match the report.... story by @joshnicholas.com and @nickevershed.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

How vulnerable are Australia’s cities to extreme heat? Explore our maps: Exclusive: Residents of western Sydney and outer suburbs of Melbourne are at particular risk of high temperatures, data shows Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here A...

we used four decades of Landsat imagery, from 1985-2025, to identify newly developed areas in the West Bank. our analysis shows that since Oct. 7, Israeli controlled areas have grown 5 times faster compared to the past two decades. read more 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

amid the noise and news, this piece was beautiful today www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s that investigation. Thoughts with all the families affected by these senseless deaths and particularly callous racism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In 2023, I spent a few months investigating why so many Aboriginal pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the NT. There was a lingering sense that racism played a part in this over representation, and that some drivers were dehumanising Aboriginal people. And lo: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

NOM in MarchQ25 was 110,062. Significantly lower than the 190,000+ it needed to be to support media & think tank assertions NOM was rising not falling. NOM for 12 months to March25 was 315,924.

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

My next course, Whimsical Animations, launches in “Early Access” in 1 week from today! 🎉 The most important thing to know is that registration will only be open for 7 days. You’ll be able to register from Sept 24th to Sept 30th. Otherwise, you’ll need to wait for the full launch, sometime in 2026.

Completely ridiculous place to live

‘I’m from where you learn to run before you can walk’: the comic strip artist telling the story of DRC’s conflict www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A good little chart from the Parliamentary Library showing how almost all social spending by the Commonwealth is already means-tested #auspol

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The start of (a lot of) beautiful bird content - because its Bird of the Year time!!

I just published a new installment of A Gentle Introduction to GDAL. It’s about visualizing time series data & automating tedious processing chains with shell scripting. No experience needed. #cartography #maps #dataviz medium.com/@robsimmon/a...

Which country has the highest number of patent applications per million people worldwide? Do you think you can solve it? Have a try at chartle.cc

workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/855/ I was delighted to announce this week that @tommcilroy.bsky.social has been appointed as @australia.theguardian.com political editor, That means we are looking for a chief political correspondent to join our Canberra team.

Fifty years ago, Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia. The speech Gough Whitlam delivered on that day reminds us both of Australia's history as an empire, and how thoroughly the nation has forgotten its colonial past and the responsibilities which grow from it.

If you’re interested in understanding why Mondo is just so good then have a look at this. I thought it was a really good use of scrollytelling, particularly the section about his technique.

Climate policy is economic policy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths could soar, landmark climate report warns www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Exclusive: Complaint letter emerges after the Royal Children’s Hospital decided to cancel a ‘children and war’ panel, angering staff www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One of the bleakest charts in the report: "At +3.0°C of global warming, heat-related mortality is projected to increase by 444% in Sydney, 259% in Melbourne, 335% in Townsville, 312% in Perth, 146% in Launceston and 423% in Darwin compared to current conditions"

Front row seats and corporate boxes My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Where Will Everyone in Gaza City Go? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

India v Australia First ODI Report Card, featuring disrespect, lacklustre running and things in sleeves #INDvAUS 🏏 newsletter.danliebke.com/p/india-v-au...

This is really nicely done www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

"RSS feed comeback" is very literally something that more and more people are saying