I keep thinking about how taxpayers forked out $6m for this trial and yet they struggled to answer basic questions about the methodology like "how was this number calculated"

I have a gazillion photos of the yellow-footed rock-wallabies at Boolcoomatta. Here's one to start with. It was amazing to spend time with them. I love their stripey tails.

what an incredibly kind feature from @theguardian.com thank you to writer @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social i appreciate these thoughtful words about the tingleverse www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I need a filter for bluesky that removes americans/US content (no offence but you guys and your crises are constantly overwhelming my feeds)

Unlike other herons and bitterns, instead of wading in water, Least Bitterns prefer to cling to cattails while hunting small fish and frogs.

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

I was pleased to chat with @australia.theguardian.com team who actually looked at the Age Assurance trial data, finding racial & other biases of concern before the trial are still very evident in the trial's actual data (downplayed in the official summaries): www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

The government says from 2035 to 2050, the biggest absolute cuts in emissions across all sectors will come from transport. But gov stats show that from 2005, transport emissions have just continued to grow. How's this going to work?

Social media ban trial data reveals racial bias in age checking software www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

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...

Nice analysis of the data in the age assurance trial report from the folks at The Guardian. The data is dodgy. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

A Guardian analysis of age assurance technology trial data, which will underpin the government’s teen social media ban, shows the impact of introducing age checks will fall hardest on already-marginalised groups www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Though a few weeks old, this FT article on ICE deportation flights makes excellent use of maps (both on desktop and mobile) #dataviz #maps ig.ft.com/us-deportati...

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

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

upgraded my lil race-off interactive to use the 10m split times! I should probably make some generic little guys too, instead of hand drawing each one

new android update made the UI and fonts gross and ugly

HiPOD: Frosty Sand Dunes of Mars A field of sand dunes occupies this frosty 5-kilometer diameter crater in the high-latitudes of the northern plains of Mars. Some dunes appear to be climbing up the crater slope along a gully-like form. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_06... #Mars #science #NASA

A lot of understandable despair today - but vital to note the huge, huge difference between 2 and 3 degrees. A shitload of lives depend on it.

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

Oh shit that's a deep cut

what do all these tech companies think will be left for their machines once they gut the open web? www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

Goose meme www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

i have had this tab open. for days www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

losing it at the head of services australia citing what appears to be a process on the level of a SQL query in this piece about AI and red tape

interesting chart from the microplastic study - previous studies found lower microplastic concentration estimates (except one), which the authors reckon is due to particle size detection limits of the methods involved journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

amateur numbers, I can do 80k on a good day

not much what's uptalk with you

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The chance of a >140 m asteroid hitting the Earth (hello 🦕) is more likely than you being trampled by an elephant, but much less likely than you being struck by a car. doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

If the government is really concerned about automated FOI spam there are other ways to address it beyond charging an application fee for an FOI that will inevitably be rejected anyway

I genuinely don't understand why neo-nazi groups aren't added to the list of proscribed terror organisations when they pop up. Like, there are a bunch on there already, but since neo-nazi orgs advocate violence by definition surely each new org should go onto the list?

Judbarra-Gregory NP, east Kimberley, NT, burn animation over August. 612,916ha 🔥 so far this year, most of that over the last couple of weeks. This 🔥is showing no sign of slowing down in this magnificent but very remote national park. 4th largest national Park in Australia. getting little attention

Beaches littered with dead bodies, from shellfish, through rays and octopuses, to a three-metre white shark. This reads like a disaster novel, but it's just the result of a change in the environment that's too big and slow for us to see until it really hits us. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

drew hey hey it's Saturday from memory for work-related reasons (don't ask)

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The trump WH is flooding the zone with propaganda articles that are swamping top results on Google and rewriting reality in the absence of contradictory journalism or Democratic counteroffensive.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

sam altman made a device where anyone around the world can press a button and he loses money

it should be the law that the CEO of microsoft is wired up to a device that gives him an electric shock every time a new button is added to notepad

The ONLY reason people hate on cargo shorts is they are jealous of the unprecedented storage efficiency. Shorts you can store a whole meal in. Impossible to argue against in good faith

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

(1/9) Sharing some thoughts on the recent age assurance regulation discussions across the world…