Your 'doom quote' for today: "But no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient. We’re losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don’t care." orionmagazine.org/article/beyo...

And if not, why not?

Your 'moment of doom' for May 26, 2026 ~ Half life. "A surge in malnutrition-related mortality has cut the eastern North Pacific population of gray whales in half, to about 13,000 last year from about 27,000 in 2016, while reducing calf births by 95%." insideclimatenews.org/news/2405202...

"“Going forward, Santos will be laser focused on investment in major oil and LNG production across three regions as we develop tier-1 basins in Alaska and Papua New Guinea and fully appraise Australia’s Beetaloo and Bedout basins..."

Why isn't Australia doing this? #renewables #auspol

#Vicpol #Springst #CommunityIndependents #auspol

#FascistFluffers of #auspol #Australia #LNP

Plant trees on politicians win/win #australia #auspol #easy #keepitsimple

#RealHeroes Vs #Dickheads of #auspol. #Australia

Catching up on #Estimates I'm reminded that @barbarapocock.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social & @davidshoebridge.bsky.social are model Senators. Thank you for your work, intelligence and persistence. (Today they had to deal with more than usual in the entitled arrogance dept.) #AusPol

Remember that Tony Abbott who spoke to the (anti LGBTQIA, anti abortion hate group) Alliance Defending Freedom’s NY events over two years before our marriage equality legislation… Liberal. Party. President. #Auspol

China restricts overseas travel for top AI talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4vaiSOD

Tonight Commissioner Brereton acknowledged that he was "sorry for the delay his involvement caused in the Robodebt referral", while dismissing broader harm to victims. Families who lost loved ones to Robodebt deserved a genuine reckoning from the nation's integrity commission. They didn't get one.

Mass farming salmon has failed. Aquaculture was never meant to be done like this. It's a failure in every way. God only knows what you are actually eating. Gross grey spraypainted flesh full of antibiotics and pus.

That's not the face of someone who cared about a "trust deficit" That's the face of someone who was hired to do a job, who met his objectives and has no regrets He wasn't working for any Australian voter He was working to spec for the Duopoly

As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.

If anyone was in any doubt about what a disastrous choice Brereton was as inaugural #NACC Commissioner, his #Estimates performance confirmed it. #auspol

1/ The rhetoric of absolutes used by our political leaders with regard to the "Isis Bride" group is so disappointing. They can't be seen to give a soundbite of weakness hence their group vilification. Zero nuance from seemingly intelligent people. #auspol #isisbrides

Canadian bank profits to grow, but face rising insolvencies and weak housing market reut.rs/4u13kvD

Someone needs to "please explain" to Pauline that Liddle has been closed since 2023 - it wasn't "productive". "Over the past 18 months, the site has been cleaned out and disconnected"

How Trump's bank regulators are paring back supervision reut.rs/43wdWrE

More accurate headline: President Herzog ramps up his PR role by pretending to condemn long-standing Israeli policies of brutality towards Palestinians and ethnic cleansing of the #WestBank.

Exclusive: India cancels soymeal export deals, turns to African soybean imports, sources say reut.rs/4vamn7Z

Tetchy, ill-tempered performance from Paul Brereton So this is what ruling elites are like when subjected to scrutiny...

NACC needs more than a change of leadership, New legislation is needed, but unlikely to happen

This is the point of the 🛢️⛽🪨🔥 funded #AtlasNetwork campaign in Victoria & Farrer via the IPA, Advance, StopLabor'sTowers, a host of other astroturfed orgs to block the VNI West power lines from joining Adelaide & Sydney. Now of course it's Vic LNP & PHON policy: reneweconomy.com.au/wind-industr...

I asked the outgoing NACC Commissioner whether he accepts responsibility for keeping his own CEO in the dark about his ongoing defence work. His answer was that his CEO had no business knowing what he was doing on the side 🤯🤯🤯 They just don't think the rules apply to them!

I've seen this referenced a few times and folks: you have no idea what an ugly look it is to snicker and titter at this OF COURSE it's hard to detect the differences here: the models are TRAINED ON HUMAN WORK and are very effective copying tools! THAT IS EXACT PROBLEM NOT SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF

Do you knit or solve puzzles for fun? Research suggests hobbies such as these could help keep your brain healthy, particularly in older age.

Australia must free itself from the clutches of the Epstein class in the USA , Israel and Europe.

"It matters in its own right: millions of tonnes of additional heat-trapping pollution will go into the atmosphere, adding to climate harm and making Australia’s climate targets that much harder to reach."

Seven die in France from causes related to heatwave reut.rs/42URKYc

🎧 In our latest episode, Michael Dove, of the @censusnotreligious.bsky.social campaign, speaks about the flawed religion question that will feature in this year's Census, and the effort to help deliver more accurate data. Listen on major podcast apps or here: rationalist.com.au/podcasts/ #auspol

Punters nails BHP slapp suit against coal miner & journo. Coverage also by Dan Ilic @ARationalFear and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social (coming) - no sign yet of mainstream media @punterspolitics.bsky.social youtu.be/_a0RGAtOVvo?...

Thirteen hundred of you took the time to complain to the NACC about their appalling mismanagement of the Robodebt referral. This is how the Commissioner talks about those complaints. How utterly shameful.

The UK govt has by & large been run by and for Shell & BP's interests since c. 1914, & since 1979, via the neoliberal policies & propaganda pumped out by Shell/BP sponsored #AtlasNetwork prototype the Institute of Economic Affairs, and its endless clones. Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 shows us HOW you do independence:

#israel #zionism #gaza #palestine

Germans wary of VAT rise to fund income tax cuts, survey shows reut.rs/4uslEit

PURPLE!! Large-flowered butterwort is in flower all over the farm at the moment, adding such strong splashes of colour. The plant is insectivorous, and one of our Lusitanian species, with a natural distribution mainly in southern Europe, but also parts of Ireland.

“The dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth, or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk, and what @brenttoderian.bsky.social calls competent failure.” @momentummag.bsky.social profiles us. momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

The most important words here: "And this is only the beginning."

Chris Bowen says unlike former Energy Minister Angus Taylor, he won’t be intervening to change the law to hide energy prices “Something one of my predecessors has done”💥 “There was no need.” “We have price reduction in every jurisdiction” - thanks to Renewables.✅ #auspol

Fast *and* fair - this is the only way that we do deep emissions cuts over the next few decades, no matter how interest ebbs and flows from institutions like media and government. This is v v important work from Tom and Debasish on how Australian household battery deployment should be fairer:

We need an urgent show of political courage to decouple #BHP and its peers from the firehose of #diesel cash they have clamped themselves to at the expense of people and the planet.. https://reneweconomy.com.au/up-is-not-down-bhp-in-spotlight-as-epic-decarbonisation-walk-back-revealed/

A warning to critical minerals buyers: avoid butter mountains, aluminium floods reut.rs/49kNOn0

#zionism #racism #israel #palestine #UN