www.vic.gov.au/2026-Victori... If you want to support people, organisations and communities affected by the January 2026 Victorian Bushfires, you can donate safely here. Donations over $2 are tax deductible. #VicFires

Multiple new fire starts from dry lightening as well as the very serious fires around Longwood and Walwa. Stay informed and safe everyone and follow the directions of emergency services

List of closed parks www.parks.vic.gov.au/coc-listing #VicFires

@lukefoley.me In case you haven’t seen it, SW Victoria now added to the areas with a catastrophic fire danger rating tomorrow. All public land closed. Take care mate

Make sure you have the VicEmergency App and have set your watch zone to where you will be tomorrow. A battery operated digital radio is also recommended as a second information source.

Public land across these four regions, as well as the Dandenong Ranges Park and potentially parks in additional regions, will all be closed tomorrow.

SW Victoria added to the areas expecting catastrophic fire danger tomorrow. People living or holidaying in bushland in SW, Wimmera, Nthn Country and Nth Central regions are asked to leave today, and by 7am Friday at the latest. Fires will be “unpredictable and uncontrollable”.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... Victoria now expecting catastrophic fire danger in Wimmera, Nthn Country and Nth Central regions on Fri. People living or holidaying in bushland to consider leaving, by Fri morning at latest. “Catastrophic fire danger means fires are unpredictable and uncontrollable”

Walwa fire in NE now escalated to emergency warning

Two going fires in Victoria now, including an emergency warning to leave immediately WSW of Bendigo

Reposting this heat advice. It is detailed and useful and still current. Have a read and take care everyone

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... It’s going to be very hot in Victoria for the next 3 days. Prepare now. Be aware of the risk of heat-related health problems and plan ahead to keep yourself and others safe. Take care everyone

Multiple bushfires threaten homes north and south of Perth, triggering power outages www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Prof Yoshia Benjio on 7:30 talking about scenarios where AI won’t let us shut it down and will influence people to do bad things 😳

Three fires in regional Victoria. Stay safe everyone

@lukefoley.me this is especially for you tough people in SW Victoria. Hope you’re having a lovely time up north

As someone who has struggled with low grade anxiety my whole life, this is fascinating and encouraging

Fong's in Bentleigh (VIC) have been producing their quality dim sims for decades, and now they're available through Dimmies Direct!

We're seeing more and more weather disasters, and climate change has barely got started yet. What's our new "normal" going to be by 2030? How many lives will be lost? The human, environmental and financial costs are enormous.

Loving the new-ish Marlon Williams record Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Sung entirely in Te Reo Māori. Stunning.

Went for a sticky at the new Metro rail tunnel today. This is the new State Library station. Very cool

Over 80 dead as cyclonic storm leaves 'unprecedented' trail of destruction in Sri Lanka

“I read faster on screen” ≠ “I learn better on screen” Study shows: more screen, less comprehension. #edtech #assessment #EduSky 3starlearningexperiences.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/t...

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

And I don't believe in the existence of angels But looking at you I wonder if that's true But if I did, I would summon them together And ask them to watch over you

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

Insomnia is an absolute bitch. Any solutions anyone?

Melbourne metro peeps let’s support a new local business and the delightful Dave Hooper

www.expression.com.au/news/express... This is a seriously excellent development - provides 3 million Australians in the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing community with 24/7, 365-day access to Triple Zero (000)

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it

Love your paper. Especially the quote "When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."

A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 countries in South America, Asia and the Pacific region.

New The Bernard Lakes album is very good, if a bit lairy to look at. Self described as Montreal’s psych rockers 🇨🇦

Like many storms in recent years, Hurricane Melissa went through a rapid intensification due to persistently warm waters. This will likely continue.

Having tried to navigate Melbourne’s storms on the new site today, can confirm it is shite. The new radar is particularly awful.

Imported cut flowers are one of the main ways pests get into Australia. Huge risk to our biosecurity. Country of origin labelling would help us all buy Australian

Looking a bit untidy down your way @lukefoley.me. Hope you’re going ok

Fascinating.... theconversation.com/how-do-austr...

Severe weather warning for coastal areas of Victoria

A serious post. Tomorrow in Vic there’ll be big wind storms so if you suffer from asthma,COPD or other forms of respiratory diseases please stay home. These storms can kill,so If you have to go out tomorrow wear a mask. Ian

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Buckle up Victoria! Damaging winds across the state tomorrow. SW tomorrow morning, Melbourne 2-4pm, then moving through Gippy. Worst along the coast. Charge your devices tonight in case power goes out and bring in or tie down loose items outside

“the entire Generative AI industry, its funding, development and adoption, is based on copper-bottomed, chateau-bottled lies. I’m not talking about exaggerated claims of usefulness and necessity . . . I am saying that every single basis premise used to position Generative AI as inevitable is false”

That’ll fix it 🙄😳

Raw and rowdy Irish American bluegrass band DUG at The Curtin tonight with @mark-h.bluesky.social. Great band and great pub.

I’m sorry what?

What was the ‘high risk weather season’ is now the ‘higher risk weather season’ and in Victoria we have prepared for an October start. Gotta wonder how much longer we can designate a season . . .

Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas. In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October. Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C

The Black Summer bushfires cost Australians over $50 billion. As we enter another high-risk bushfire season, we shouldn't wait for the next disaster to act. The Government could put a climate disaster levy on gas & coal exports to help pay for the damage. Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

In recent years in Victoria around three quarters of natural disaster related insurance payouts are for flood damage

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