A civilisation is defined by its greatest thinkers.

People say AI is slop...look at this hyper realistic thumbnail it generated for a video about the SEQ hail storms earlier this week.

Feeling a really profound sense of childhood nostalgia. Outside my house I can hear the distinctive call of the Eastern Koel - or storm bird as we call them. It's triggered vivid memories of lying in my childhood bed listening to the birds in the morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LhO...

Suddenly the $12.5 million secured by @markbaileymp.bsky.social for the Moggill Road cycleway has been reduced to $2.35 million for detailed design TMR won't make public. More cuts to active transport under this State Government. www.tmr.qld.gov.au/projects/mog...

In the Netherlands, over 40% of rail passengers arrive by bike. Since 2012 the country has invested €400m+ to add 200,000 new bike parking spaces at stations. The result? More rail use, fewer car trips, lower congestion and emissions, better public health - and far more efficient use of urban space.

Self driving vehicles will SoLvE TrAfFiC

Man that’s really going! Look at em’ go

It’s been over 2 years since the late Peta Murphy’s inquiry into online gambling advertising & how it affects problem gamblers. Since then, Australians have lost $60 billion to gambling. Australians need a government with the will and the courage to protect them from gambling harms.

It would be very Brisbane Heat to have the Stars 6/49 and lose #WBBL11

The Barmy Army spending longer in a plane to watch the first test than they did actually watching the first test will never not be funny

Travis Head has to have ADHD. This interview has me stressed out 🤣 #Ashes

Toyota must be reconsidering sponsoring England. Cruising along and then breaking down and dying isn't the best association for a car company.

As fun as Travis was, Starc has to be player of the match. #Ashes

I'm a big fan of 2 day Tests #Ashes

I'm an expert lip reader. Smith: What's the situation? Marnus: They're bowling orthodox shit. Just tonk them. #Ashes

Now, if it was England batting you would say the door was now open... well batted Trav. #Ashes

I feel really sorry for Perth people who bought day 3 tickets wanting a Sunday of Test cricket. Brendon McCullum should perform a 7 hour one man show for the crowd tomorrow. He owes them #Ashes

England bowlers are a joke 🤣 #Ashes

Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)

Drop Khawaja. Head open. Green 5. Webster 6. Just. Fucking. Do it. #Ashes

So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.

Fuck Bazball. It's Headball baby! #Ashes

Archer is done. He had his good spell for the year in the first innings. Absolute fraud #Ashes

Cricket is much more fun to watch when Australia is playing well #Ashes

Nice, Marn #Ashes

A captain with a haircut like Stokes shouldn't be winning anything. Disgraceful mullet my 16yo would be embarrassed about #Ashes

I think Khawaja's played his last Test #Ashes

Now getting a first Test 1990-91 vibe #Ashes

On ya Jack! First Test runs #Ashes

Who decided the best tactic against tail enders was to put the field back and bowl pissweak half trackers? Is there any evidence this pays off over "you miss, i hit" attacking the stumps? I think Australia just gifted England 50 runs they won't chase down #Ashes

That was Warner's fault. "This is like the Marnus of old". #Ashes

Come on Australia. Just hang in there. 4 overs and Archer will break down and be out for the game. #Ashes

Konstas wouldn't have done that. #Ashes

My goodness that's dumb batting from Jamie Smith. #Ashes

(Starc bowls) Crawley: Oliver Twist #Ashes 🏏

I think we're seeing that Scott Boland isn't much of a new ball bowler. #Ashes

Jonny Bairstow wouldn't have got back... #Ashes

England batting first. So if Starc doesn't get a wicket in the first over, then they will win the #Ashes. Is that correct?

Hot take: oil, gas and coal companies are not, and will never be part of the solution for climate change. youtu.be/HUeC39CZO44?...

Good bye GoPro, hello DJI Osmo Action. GoPro served me ok for a decade, but my old Hero 7 has been loved to death, and the competition has since overtaken them. Plus they're a US company so I actively avoid that at the moment (blame Cheetoh Pedo).

A very good question @alexhorne.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-are-scre...

Committed neoliberal PM has economic degree. Treasurer has political science PhD. Finance minister has political science degree. Who all think, erroneously, that budget surpluses and deficit reduction is a vote winner. Patently, the @albomp.bsky.social Govt is out of touch with society #auspol

Easiest way for the Australian government to be able to make policy changes that ignore scientific advice is to castrate the agency that produces scientific research that informs that advice. Job done.

‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at the CSIRO

What we can say right now is the 50% budget for 1.5°C is nearly gone while emissions are at all-time high. Warming will soon exceed 1.5°C & then some. Any prospect for warming around 2°C needs immediate start of fossil fuel phase out. Much of the 'analysis' beyond this point is speculation & bull💩

Amidst all the obfuscation, the misplaced hope and the delusional thinking around COP30, there are still people who distill reality into a pithy nugget of truth. Like James does here:

How dare these foreigners come here and try to disrupt our way of life??!!😂😂😂 Good riddance, you white-supremacist incel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

COALition bots going around saying "when are our energy prices going to drop, Albo". Neatly forgetting that Tony Abbott promised we'd all save $550 a year on energy prices when he "axed the carbon tax". Spoilers: We didn't.