Great to see www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/...

Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?

New blessing just dropped today! 😭 🙏🏽 github.blog/changelog/20...

GitHub Copilot is changing app modernization for Azure: ✅ Legacy code refactoring ✅ .NET upgrades ✅ Automated Azure migrations ✅ IaC + CI/CD generation Modernize with confidence. #Azure #dotNET Read more: msft.it/63326sW4JC

"Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has taken the unorthodox step of writing to United States Republicans to reassure the Congress members that a Coalition government would withdraw recognition of a Palestinian state." (Article from a few days ago) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Australia’s horrifying climate future in four charts – and how we can avoid the worst

This is punchy, and if they overshoot like they did on peaking emissions it's going to *radically* change the global carbon picture. *CHINA PLEDGES TO CUT EMISSIONS 7%-10% BY 2035 FROM PEAK LEVELS

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher in Australia without renewables, analysis shows

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Massive sink hole appeared in Bangkok www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Sensible? My @smh @theage cartoon.

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

When the worms in his skull decided that Tylenol/ paracetamol causes autism, does that count as peer review?

Very happy Coober Pedy Experience Motel was able to fit us in for an extra night, so a bit of underground luxury after two nights in Hotel Polestar! Found the RAA charger at visitor centre, charged from 33 to 70, enough to get around town for next couple of days. Also sticker for charging board.

Woohoo! We made it to Coober Pedy!! Mission accomplished, well sort of, still need to spend a night underground. Fantastic drive up from Glendambo through the desert country, although so many dead red kangaroos with wedgies and crows feasting. Let's go and charge and find somewhere to stay!

Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

1) 🧵The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's $19B USD bid to take over Aussie fossil fuel giant Santos unexpectedly fell apart last week. But you might've missed this exclusive story that I wrote, which explains exactly how it happened & how it will impact Australia's climate goals... #Greensky

Australia’s main grid hits new renewable record share of 77.9 per cent, driven by rooftop PV reneweconomy.com.au/australias-m...

"We now cross live to our reporters for the press conference at the Four Seasons... 🎙️"

Nepo baby Hugo Lennon cosplays as a “concerned centrist” online, but when he wanted to know which version of Mein Kampf to buy there was only one group he turned to. Today we reveal Auspill’s neo-Nazi connections. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

Oh god the clinking sounds in the background from my eldest child making breakfast 🤦‍♂️ Timezones are hard folks :)

I keep coming back to this "[...] Rebecca Parsons, has been saying for a long time that hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful." via martinfowler.com/articles/202...

I’m picky about my dev workflow, so adopting new tools takes time. But I’ve used git worktrees exclusively for the past year and have loved it. 🌟 They’ve been game-changing as my engineering impact/scope has grown. More details on my setup: blog.safia.rocks/2025/09/03/g...

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...

There is no organisation called antifa, it's an idea. What Trump is doing is trying to criminalise *anyone* who opposes fascist regimes, like his. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Victoria’s Parliament is asking: How do we make EVs work with the grid? How do we charge smarter, not harder? How do we reuse old batteries and build better infrastructure? #EV Submissions are open. If you’ve got ideas, now’s the time to speak up. www.parliament.vic.gov.au/electricvehi...

One of the largest delivery firms in Australia will add 55 electric vans and trucks to its fleet in a move the company says will appeal to environmentally conscious companies and consumers.

Discounts for Iranian oil widen in China on record stocks, even as sanctions curb shipments reut.rs/4nGjS9P

Jim Chalmers says he respects the ABC following Trump’s spineless response to legitimate questions by ABC journalist John Lyons, & that as far as he can tell, John Lyons was “just doing his job” Says unlike Trump, he doesn’t “second guess questions asked by journalists”🔥 #abc

The recall is targeted at Powerwall 2 units sold in Australia. These batteries used the NMC chemistry. PW3 uses LFP batteries. Recall notice on the ACCC website www.productsafety.gov.au/search-consu...

-Style Pizza xkcd.com/3142/

The reporter who asked the question identified themselves as being from the ABC Four Corners program en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Co...

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution

📢 Australia is facing severe impacts from climate change, with increasing deaths from heatwaves and millions to be affected by coastal erosion in coming decades. That's the finding of the nation's first Climate Risk Assessment which warns the threats will span the country and cost hundreds of…

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Hooray, huzzah, happy days - it’s @australia.theguardian.com Bird of the Year poll time. Nominations open, voting following soon. As always I am on #teamganggang - nominate your favourite Australian bird now.

@mattparlmer.bsky.social: "Absolutely gargantuan fuckup, Hyundai now saying that spinup of that battery plant will not restart until 2026 at the absolute earliest"

🚋🎳🏆🤩World Tram Driver Championship coming to Melbourne in 2027! A chance to exchange ideas, learn from other cities, and a home ground advantage - what's not to like?!

Melbourne is going to host the 2027 edition of the World Tram driver championship! It was just mentioned on the live stream. www.tramwm.com

Yayyyy

Bowling found yayy

This is the livestream www.youtube.com/live/smp0voL...

These regular Metro Tunnel update videos are great. Here's a new one. www.youtube.com/watc... #Melbourne

“Birdwatching online: 5 bird livestreams,” all of them in Australia. birdlife.org.au/news/birdwat...

The next Pokémon looks a bit like Minecraft

“Lovely pictures, surprising and interesting facts, AND I'm improving my Cymraeg at the same time? Yes, please." Expand your Welsh vocabulary with Adar yr Ardd, an illustrated ebook for intermediate learners, just £1.99 from seidrpress.com #DysguCymraeg