Houses Stand Empty, 1973, by David Hoffman.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

“Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries.” | Current Affairs www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

I don't think philanthropist is a term that should exist. It is never applied to middle or even high-income working people who donate portions of their salary to good causes. It only exists to launder billionaire reputations and their tax write-offs.

well worth the read

if you "can't afford" to maintain your investment property you can't afford to be a landlord

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

The WA premier campaigned hard against a 25% tax on gas exports. You'd think he'd look at his state's own Budget Papers and see how little gas royalties the WA govt gets and how fast it is dropping thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

The massive cuts to the NDIS won't fix the systemic fraud and inflated costs. Instead, some of the most vulnerable members of the community will pay the price. @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

Can someone pls explain how allowing the older wealthy types to keep their existing negative gearing and CGT arrangements, while not allowing anyone else to have the same, is addressing generational inquality?? The headlines are utterly ridiculous.

Hakea season has started. My favourite genus of Australian plants! Western Australia has 3/4 of all the Hakea species and most of the well known horticultural cultivars.

Banner painting

Guy who has never used the federal government of Australia to run a populist campaign on behalf of a right-wing newspaper to institute an almost-entirely fake 'teen social media ban' policy

A 'populist campaign' unlike the under 16 social media ban that was driven by a media outlet, and the bans on phrases driven by the Zionist lobby, which you were very quick to support. OK fuckwit

CMEWA were the organisation that, when South Australia suffered a state-wide blackout in 2016, immediately paid for fake social media posts www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefan...

A reminder that gas is not a vital industry to Australia. As Polly Hemming explains, if anything, it costs the Australian economy. Some more gas myths debunked here: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

The only film about Michael Jackson you need is the one his estate is hiding from you.

"Defend Wildlife, Destroy Capitalism" Seen in Sydney

The ABC's piece was straight out of Morrison's "Labor want to take away your weekend away" campaign and John does a great dissection of it.

You're hearing it more and more... it's time to tax gas exports! More than 50 community organisations, including ACOSS and Oxfam, are calling for a 25% export tax. Australians are fed up with the gas industry not paying its fair share. ✍ Sign the petition: https://theaus.in/41IwWTa

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city

"under the existing laws, our analysis shows that the expected growth in data centers would lead to $118 billion in climate damages and $1.6 billion in health damages by 2050 due to air pollution and emissions from fossil fuel power plants in Michigan" blog.ucs.org/lee-shaver/a...

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I'm in a chat with a bunch of wind and solar industry insiders and they're telling me they expect the price of sun and wind to climb to at least $0 per babbrel in the coming weeks

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

I often find Arendt’s more pithy observations more relevant than her more well-known works.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

been laughing about your for days. fr

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent. “What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.” defector.com/its-time-to-...

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you" Seen in Rochester, New York

If the govt had brought in a 25% tax on gas exports when it came to power in 2022 it would have raised $68bn by now and the missed revenue is growing every second. Check out our gas tracker gas.australiainstitute.org.au

This is why fossil fuel companies always presented their "targets" linked to the caveat that they can only act as fast as society moves: so that when they successfully lobby for fossil lock-in, they can pretend they're just passively going along with trends www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Federal government's ban on Iranians to block 7,200 Visitor visa holders from Australia. First time since the White Australia Policy that an entire country of people banned. People from Ukraine/ Israel were permitted to enter Australia on visitors visas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."

I genuinely think it should be illegal to use hostile architecture at a designated public transit spot. Put in benches, you cowards. If you don't want people sleeping on them, push for UBI and better services for unhoused folks.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Tired: Gender is a social construct Wired: Crime is a social construct Inspired: A country is a social construct

Wild what you can get away with in articles about cycling. This is objectively false! A city with less driving and more biking is far safer for pedestrians. Hate cyclists all you want but that’s an empirical fact

Also a fair whack of the media has been pushing Islamophobia hard for years. Now they can say "see, these views are reflected in public opinion and that's why ON is on the rise" without ever reflecting that they've been behind this "public opinion" & many Islamphobes have never even met a Muslim.

This was very clearly not what he was being heckled about.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war.

UK government 0 Kneecap 3 www.bbc.com/news/article...

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground. War profiteering used to be a bad thing… www.afr.com/companies/en...

because the rest are cowards

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!