The world is getting happier. Western teenagers are not. Social media isn’t the root cause. Light use is fine. Heavy use hurts, but only as an amplifier. The real issue is a loss of real-world belonging. Feeling part of a school or community matters far more than screen time. buff.ly/TNpG5wA

Elizabeth Lopatto: The tech bros are not okay www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱

Incredible @jack-thrower.bsky.social chart here for @thepointau.bsky.social - the # of utes FAR exceeds the number of tradies and farmers in Aus These are land-based luxury private jets, fossil-fuelled,heavily subsidised by the gov't and justified on flimsy pretence thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

So when someone offers a breezy “glass half full” take on a prolonged Hormuz closure, what they’re really saying is: the people who can’t afford to bid for fuel can just go without. That’s not optimism. That’s moral detachment. The unlucky 7 Billion have names and families.

“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Chinese Taipei valiant to the end but simply dominated and out-classed. DPR Korea qualifying for FIFA Womens World Cup in Brazil. #TPEvPRK #WAC2026

Unreal ball skills and coordination from DPR Korea players! Going to be a long tough night for Taiwan team. #WAC2026 #TPEvPRK

Fantastic goal by Angie Beard for Philippines in #WAC2026 play-off game 1. #UZBvPHI

It's easy to hide what this means behind words. But the President of the United States is threatening (over one million) lives to secure minerals. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Terrific game between China and Bangladesh at Women’s Asian Cup!! Group B looks like 🔥🔥 (and love that China away strip) #CHNvBAN #WAC2026

I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I'm loving these preview pods from @thefarpostpod.bsky.social team to get ready for AFC Women's Asian Cup Football tournament. Matildas play Philippines in opening game on Sunday.

some big (and pleasant!) surprises in the #Matildas squad for the Women’s Asian Cup 👀 we’re recording a reaction pod later today @thefarpostpod.bsky.social - send us your thoughts and questions!!!!

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

A few years ago we crossed some invisible line where it became cheaper to generate electricity from the sun and wind than from burning fossil fuels. www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

I don't think you have to be perfect to want everything to be better, but it does exasperate me a bit that, while many forms of climate action (wind farms, bike lanes, etc) need high-level coordination, others do depend on people not getting what they're used to having.

Ideally at the country level, not the individual level. But governments won't do it if individuals won't! (I always see the high polling numbers for climate action and they're great, but how many people in favour of climate action still want to fly off regularly on holiday?)

The best thing to do about this is to reduce our dependence until we can say to the big fossil firms: "no thank you, we do not want or need what you are selling", and walk (or cycle, take an electric bus or drive an electric car) away.

These lines; give the speech writer a raise! “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” “Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

I found this discussion really interesting (and validating of some of the thoughts I’ve been having about certain aspects of politics for a while).

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

This is excellent! "New manners for a post-smartphone society" by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change What happens next? That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next Listen to the trailer👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world." ~Adrienne Rich from fly sheet of "All we can save" Ed @ayanaeliza.bsky.social & @kkwilkinson.bsky.social

Highly recommend spending half an hour on this talk by @chrissimon.au on the bulshit that LLMs produce. Yup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_... #AI #LLM #ChatGPT

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

Federal Court Justice Wigney is beginning his summary of his decision in Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth with a sketch of the changes to the Torres Strait islands. He is describing profound changes to the landscape. /n

Some people are suddenly very opposed to cloud seeding and all forms of weather modification. Boy, are those people going to be upset when they realize how fossil fuel burning has been changing the composition of the atmosphere and modifying the weather for everyone.

Just realised that from today (July 2) it’s now closer to the year 2050 then it is to 2000.

apropos of nothing, this is my holiday reading this week.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Next week it is time to #ShowYourStripes again. We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June. www.ShowYourStripes.info Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.

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If you watch only one video today, let it be this one. Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America. His words could not be more on point and timely. Please pass it on.

Another ABC article about the cost of climate change that forgot to mention either climate change or the resulting sea level rise. 'It doesn't look like it's going to stop'. Genius. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

It's joenly the beginning www.espn.com.au/football/sto...

“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...

Rrrright on schedule—KOMO posted the first broadcast of Dave Crockett’s footage. He survived. It’s okay to watch. But if you’ve never seen it before, fair warning: it’s disorienting.

Respect to NASA for somehow fixing the thrusters on their Voyager spacecraft which broke 20+ years ago and is currently 48 years from earth. ✌️ #DIY #nasa #voyager

Kinda cool to see myself quoted on the wall at @bellmuseum.bsky.social last week!

thinking about the some sheep/no sheep map again