Historic vote against major parties in by-election for Newcastle mayor https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1452/news/historic-vote-against-major-parties-election-newcastle-mayor #auspol

But, the continued deployment of renewables & storage met all new power demand in the electrical sector, in 2025 resulting in a decrease in fossil fuel use for power generation. That should result in reducing emissions in 2026 from the power sector. ember-energy.org/latest-insig... 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

Global emissions continue to rise, but the deployment of renewable technologies is slowing the rise substantially. Source: www.iea.org/reports/glob... 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

Is Trump actually helping? Message from the Editor https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/is-trump-actually-helping-message-from-the-editor/ #auspol

you just lost my respect my guy #antiai

I feel this in my soul

Poorly designed campaign finance laws weaken our democracy https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/poorly-designed-campaign-finance-laws-weaken-our-democracy #auspol

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested! (Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!) www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions. By @alexcuadros.bsky.social

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

For at least 7 years, a well funded goal of the Zionist area of Jewish and Hebrew studies at Sydney Uni has been to silence staff and students who see Israel as a occupier and BDS supporters -

And it doesn't even protect children.

Art will make your big brain big big bigger

I don’t typically share dailymail links but this one has a poll you might want to vote on. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Hey @australianlabor.bsky.social when do we follow? #auspol

A conservative Idaho legislature just voted unanimously to protect wildlife corridors. Why? Because deer-car collisions cost the state $150M/year. When protecting nature saves money, politics stops mattering.🦌 #WildlifeCrossings #EcoEconomy www.pew.org/en/resea... www.eastidahonews.co...

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

I started out frustrated with people in this app repeating misinformation that Indigenous People receive reparations, only to discover google search has literally nothing but blatantly AI written articles peddling racist hallucinations. Folks, Native Nations do not receive reparations.

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

i'm not researchers but i confidently predict ppl who offload onto ai are going to get early onset dementia

Behind the coal miner v BHP – 20,000 miners and a bunch of giant mining corporations https://michaelwest.com.au/behind-the-lone-coal-miner-v-bhp-20000-miners-and-a-bunch-of-giant-mining-corporations/ #auspol

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Australia’s 000 failures: Why your phone may fail to call Triple Zero https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/australias-000-failures-why-your-phone-may-fail-to-call-triple-zero,20923?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol

For Australia’s Christo-fascists and Orban fans, no more “jolly holidays by the Danube working for some of the global Right’s worst ‘intellectuals’.” 💥🎯😆 #auspol

I love that this week has been proof that private security forces, bodyguards, security infrastructure, and proofing against worker sabotage are highly expensive… But fire remains cheap.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

EXTREMELY CORRECT and why I'm celebrating

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

- The last pope - Orbán’s political career Whom will JD Vance help next? And a huge congratulations to the people of Hungary.

Voters in Festus MO, a Republican stronghold, just ousted every incumbent council member in response to a data center approval. "Data center opposition is on the rise in every nook and cranny of the country — and it may have a massive influence on more than just local elections this November."

Look out for interviews, articles with Molly Crabapple this week. This artist has just written a book about the history of the Jewish Bund. Very moving in its detail about these stalwart supporters of Jewish/labour rights & anti zio. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo... zeteo.com/p/radical-hi...

Hi. "DEI" practices are not "illegal". Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Anyway, while we're talking about bird names, please support efforts to rename birds that are named for horrible people. (6/6) www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/birdwat...

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

I know everything is on fire right now but we have to call about this, we’re already calling about everything else, just add it to the pile. The grief I feel rn is indescribable but to them it’s just any given weekday.

It Never Ends #Art by Tommy Devoid

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OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

Remember, discord is -still- planning to do this in around a month or two. Cancel your nitro, but ALSO call your reps and tell them that online Id/ age verification policy is an unsafe invasion of privacy www.congress.gov/members/find...

Yup! Paywalls, anti-adblocker popups, and (most recently) drowning entire sites with banners and videos that force auto-refreshing. All these have made "mainstream" news sites completely inaccessible. But guess what sites don't have any of these? You guessed it, disinformation warehouses!

Happy international asexuality day!!! 🖤💜🤍

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

cannot stress enough how much this tweet is not only my guiding star for character writing but also the only thing that enables me to write conversations at all

I’m Also Praying For The Best Possible Outcome.