Futures Traders: "Quants come quick! We have to work out a model to estimate how fun L'Orange would find it to bomb a 2 million barrel per day oil terminal. ...... No we can't send him a survey with Likert Scales for a conjoint analysis!"

Defence spends the most public money on projects, by a long shot. They waste 10s of billions. A Govt controlled committee has ordered the Auditor-General to stop auditing Defence major projects. Politically good for @albomp.bsky.social but very bad for taxpayers. #auspol

In case you missed the news, the Gulf of Mexico is currently at a record daily high sea surface temperature, about 1.80°C above the 1982-2011 baseline. Here are the daily color stripes for the Gulf of Mexico from 1982 to March 13, 2026:

When a government helps consumers by reducing the cost of fuel, THAT IS A SUBSIDY. Some of my taxes are being used to support disgusting fossil fuel companies so you can burn it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

We could learn so much about urban housing models from places like Iran. The urban courtyard type virtually nonexistent in #auscities, yet so appealing as type to increase density with amenity

Yeah well I regret you and almost everybody else in state and federal parliaments has done sweet fuck-all in recent decades to electrify the national rail network so that we don't need reserves of imported fuel and can rely on our own resources to power our main freight and passenger corridors

Has the oil shock ruined your weekend? How Morrison’s scare campaign backfired on Australia LNP refused to put clean cars on our roads Instead, we're pumping dirty fuel into our tanks Even worse result in New Zealand, too thedriven.io/2026/03/15/r... @thedriven.io

"Mobility Freedom Comes From Mobility Choices" @urbantruth.bsky.social #UrbanTruth #wheelchair

Interestingly, the phenomenon of bending and twisting rail transit alignments to try to serve as many places as possible with a single line is common in medium-sized French cities with small tram networks (1-2 lines), because there is a political demand to serve as many places as possible.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

David & Goliath. Today’s Age cartoon

"This is Colossus: a data center that Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, xAI, is using as a training ground for Grok... if run at full strength for a year, Colossus would use as much electricity as 200,000 American homes" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Good news! The global strategic oil reserve is being released. That’s 400 million barrels. How much oil does the world use? 100 million barrels. A day. So that’s…Sunday to Thursday covered.

it’s so cool that the only new cars that can successfully make it to market in America anymore are required to look like they’re purpose built for fascist abduction duty

Unsurprisingly, stockpiling petrol at home is not a good idea.

Insiders a political commentary show is followed by Offsiders a sports commentary show and uses exactly the same format and approach treating politics as a league and the week as a game - as such, Offsiders is informative and Insiders is not.

In "The Australian" owned by the American Murdoch, Kenny ask of the Australian Broadcast Corporation: 'why promote our enemies’ interests?' Perhaps because the ABC belongs to all the people of Australia, even the poor & brown ones, and those are the ones Murdoch considers his "enemies"?

The Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group includes the America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli, the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships USS New Orleans and USS San Diego Tripoli ARG, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is currently en route from the Philippine Sea/Japan

Australia relies on jet fuel imports. China declares halt to jet fuel export. ALP government decides not to prepare for a shortage with actions to control demand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFU... Bowen sums up his government "If necessary, we'll act; but not before it's necessary." 🤦

Tonight from 6pm at Pennant Hills Community Centre: AUKUS At What Cost? During a time when we must urgently reconsider our relationship with the US, come and join a panel of experts to discuss the cost of AUKUS on our communities and our country. events.humanitix.com/aukus-public...

FWIW Journalist: Buying petrol / diesel before an expected price rise is not panic buying it is ECONOMICALLY RATIONAL for the INDIVIDUAL.

It's extremely windy today and if I only owned an acoustic bike, today's errands would have been in a car. Our Ebikes remove the barriers. They neutralize winds, flatten hills, shrink distances, and make up for lack of energy. E-bikes don't replace bikes, they replace cars.

If Trump or Netanyahu blows up Karaj Island so Iran cannot export oil, then Iran loses their reason NOT TO MINE OR BLOCK THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. ATM Iran wants the strait open to export oil. If Iran can't make money, they may as well blow up every "Western" economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avr9...

I'll be switching to an ev after I've done some travel in Aus. Many women in my demographic (60+,single) are living in cars,tents, campers and couch surfing due to unavailability and unaffordability. If prices on campers come down it at least will give them more options for a roof over their heads.

Robodebt was the worst failure of public administration in Australian history. It raised est. $1.73 bn of illegitimate debts from over 430,000 vulnerable Australians and plunged thousands of families into distress and grief. And still no real consequences. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese, Marles, and Wong are definitely "not protagonists” - in world politics at the moment they are definitely NPCs .....

There is a concerted global campaign to demonize queer people to distract locals usually funded primarily by Americans, Arabians, Russians, or the Vatican so the foreign and local billionaires can colonise and loot the lands and impoverish and enslave the people -- the old Divide and Rule.

An Aboriginal corporation will receive $450,000 from the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) convicted on Friday for the 2020 illegal felling of six giant trees and three hollow bearing trees in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, west of Coffs Harbour. nit.com.au/13-03-2026/2...

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Monday's cartoon for @trouw.nl is on the front page of @lemonde.fr de today! 🤩 #TrickleDown #poverty #wealth #inequality

Israel blows up some of Iran's oil infrastructure, USA threatens Iran's oil infrastructure & strikes around Iran's oil export terminal, Iran warns of retaliation. FFS American boys who won't back down, playing chicken with a lion _currently_ showing restraint www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ghandi Congress decided not to use the start of WW2 as an opportunity to overthrow their violent colonisers. 87,000 Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis died as soldier under Churchill's command. Churchill repaid their help in 1943, by taking their food causing the Bengal famine that killed 3,000,000

Today I learned there are many species of PURPLE crabs .... - featuredcreature.com/purple-power... - www.popsci.com/environment/... - www.aquariumsource.com/vampire-crab/

Cycling side-by-side isn’t bad behaviour—it’s human behaviour. It’s how parents talk to their kids. How friends catch up. How communities form. If bicycle infrastructure is too narrow for people to ride and talk together, the problem isn’t the people. It’s the infrastructure. Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

Mate, High Speed Rail isn't real, it's just a myth! Otherwise we'd have fast trains and Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Poland Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, Morocco, & Indonesia would be envious.

Defending street parking for commerce ignores that a 2-meter tall SUV completely hides the business behind it. Car bloat creates physical barriers. Human-scale transit keeps sightlines clear and storefronts inviting.

Judge rules Trump administration to continue funding Gateway | Eyewitness News ABC7NY #transit #newyork #newjersey Jaysha Patel has the latest on the Portal Bridge and Gateway Tunnel construction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHko... What a stupid country.

Surface markings are a low-cost but often highly effective traffic-engineering tool. They clarify priority, increase the visibility of crossing movements and reduce ambiguity at conflict points. Good to see fresh paint where my commute bike lane intersects a busy path to a local school.

Welcome to Queensland - the Censor State - where you can face up to two years’ imprisonment for a simple phrase.

David Pope in Canberra Times

It’s a great day for biking!

Jet fuel costs are up 81% since the start of the war & account for approximately 30% of airline operating costs. #Econ #EconSky realeconomy.rsmus.com/market-minut...

Victoria Pass & Great Western Hwy closed for 3 mths | 7 NEWS Crews discovered cracks & geological movement. Affects thousands of residents in the Blue Mountains & Central West, shutting down critical freight corridor. Motorists are being diverted along Bells Line www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9YO...

That's actually a good idea - make the car to bike lane gap a bike overtaking lane.

When I started riding this 8th Ave bike lane 13 years ago it was along the curb and pedestrians spilled off the sidewalk into it from penn station to the port authority building during rush hour. Now there is appropriate pedestrian space (on the west side of the street).

Sydney apartments ditch car parks as costs soar | 7NEWS Australia As more apartments around train and metro stations pop up in Sydney, it's not quite the same with carparks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGOW...

SUV drivers could face extra charges for driving in London