I love that Prince Andrew had a codename email address to avoid suspicion and all the emails are like 'Had to spend the weekend at Balmoral, Mother wants me to look after the corgis, my brother's here too - not Edward, but Charles, you know the heir apparent.'

This gets us one step closer toward the final form of Tesla, where the only thing it sells is pieces of paper that say “we swear this isn’t a Ponzi scheme.”

"The main grid in Western Australia – the biggest isolated grid in the country and the world – has hit a remarkable new renewables peak of 91.1 per cent, driven entirely entirely by wind and solar, and mostly by rooftop PV." reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡

Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:   Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.   Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Well done Canada & PM @mark-carney.bsky.social. Now @albomp.bsky.social, any chance you could show some leadership & get a similar uninvite for you & us here in Australia??

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

When are the Republican courtiers going to reign in the actions of Mad King Trump? Or are they going to stay in the palace and watch it, and the country, burn down around them??

Aurora Australis from my Melbourne inner suburban balcony

I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni. Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

The South Australian Premier on ABC radio “ I absolutely made it very clear to the board that I did not think it was wise to have someone who has been accused of antisemitism at best or done it at worst , appearing at Writers’ Week”.

Just give us localised trending topics #auspol

Adelaide Festival board has retracted their statement of 8 January and have an extended an invite to Randa Abdel-Fattah for the 2027 Writers' Week

Remember all that ‘debate’ we had in Australia about section 18C. About cartoons and offensive speech and such. Anyone here old enough to remember that and who was involved in it

Overall, the 1055 US adults involved in this 1998 poll did reasonably well in forecasting what will have happened by the year 2025.

News out today shows big utes designed to cary cargo are better at killing pedestrians than smaller vehicles designed to cary people did you know the popularity of these behemoths is based on a range of subsidies? But the govt is inquiring into subsidies for EVs… thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Large SUVs and utes are 82% more likely to kill children in collisions- 44% more likely to kill adult pedestrians or cyclists. They damage our roads and add to air pollution, harming our health.

There’s twice as many utes as tradies in Australia. We need remove the luxury car tax exemption which incentivises people to buy megautes instead of safer, cleaner smaller cars and SUVs.

If I hear one more person refer to Gen Z or Gen Alpha as digital natives when the students do not know: 1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker 2. The different types of basic files 3. Interoperability 4. The issues related to uploading #EduSky #AcademicSky

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Jim Chalmers has done a good job of managing the small stuff but Australians need a treasurer thinking much bigger than “what would Sussan Ley say about that?” Our preoccupation with the size of the deficit has blinded us to the huge opportunities we face www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

“It’s sad that John Howard seems prepared to abandon the ideals of his gun reforms for the sake of a dog-whistle to help the Coalition’s short-term political prospects.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wow, this website by @davidshoebridge.bsky.social is confronting. 500+ guns in my suburb, and one single resident alone has 34 guns, wtf!! Have a look at yours: www.toomanyguns.org

The ALP need to realise they will be criticised whatever they do, so how about do things that are good? And do things to please those who voted for you not those who never will.

Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... cc #publichealth #HealthInAllPolicies

Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change. Streets for people are good for business.

Australian #NHMRC Ideas grants are out. 8.1% success rate. Lowest since the scheme began. Congrats to the successful few, as it looks like less than 200 were funded. 🧪

The CDC has put out a new statement saying that childhood vaccines do not necessarily not cause autism. Benjamin Mazer on the risks of this double-negative approach to science:

Former (sadly) MP Zoe Daniel is a journalist - a good one - and it really shows in this excellent analysis piece, some of it about her own ex-colleagues. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Honestly, I think these two articles are pretty damn close in their tenor. - The companies are barely investing anything meaningful in building new renewables, so they can extend coal and get paid to do it - The grid operator lost all interest in enhancing emissions reductions years ago

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

The medical treatment for septic uterus, eptopic pregancies and a miscarriage that the body cannot release is abortion Without the medical procedure of an abortion for these medical emergencies, women die This Far Right anti-abortion shtick has nothing to do with human rights It’s misogyny, 101

"PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts" Damning work by @skyelark.bsky.social on this govt's secrecy #OffTheCharts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince (I’ll see myself out 😅)

World’s biggest industrial heat battery, from a company backed by big name investors including Rio Tinto, begins operations.

When claims made in the public arena using agency data is “flat-out contradicted by the statistical evidence", intervening to correct it upholds integrity "you’re trying to take the side of truth [.. ]to take the side of explaining what the statistics say and what they don’t say" #IStandWithABS

Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme...

Even in a digital era, the choices editors make about the Sunday front page say a great deal about their priorities

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

Oh no, here we go again. Are we heading for another (rushed) agreement to solidify our role as the world’s quarry? We should export processed minerals, not raw! #ValueAddHere. 1/2 #auspol

#auspol #vicpol #housing

Australia Post says it has beaten its emissions reduction site, reached 100 pct renewables at its operational sites, and rolled out thousands of EVs.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven