📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

📢 NSW Taxpayers have footed the recovery bill on a multi-million dollar problem across Australia.

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Water, the enemy of engineers everywhere!

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

The Floating African Photo-Safari Hotel That Creates More Energy Than It Uses?! by Everything Electric on Youtube youtu.be/gf0lDwe5Au8?... with some lovely wildlife photography. Slow spinning large blade area propellers chosen for higher power with lower noise but they needed electric motors.

What a dim-witted idea. Shouldn't be encouraging driving. #climatechange https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/premier-calls-on-toll-road-companies-to-make-roads-free-this-summer-20251009-p5n17l.html

If one is not included in the station as built, there is a 110% probability that a new platform 0 will be added afterwards at additional cost. Just do it now. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

How does Australia fix the housing affordability crisis when ‘O’Neil’s [Housing Australia] agency…[is] an “incompetent hellhole”’? The rich and connected are so busy looking after themselves they’re not at all interested in fixing the nation’s problems! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

I’ve said it many times & I’m gonna say it again: putting wealthy folks in charge of complex problems they have no inner knowledge of is bad for everyone, especially those navigating the very problem the wealthy are tasked to fix. We get dumb policies. It’s veneer, nothing else.

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

The study looked at the 200 most destructive fires from 1980 to 2023 — fires with the highest financial costs relative to a nation's GDP — and found their frequency had increased sharply since 2015. #climatechange #wildfires

I just can't get over the differences in scale between Ballard Link's Westlake Station as proposed and the original Westlake Station, off to the left.

Renewable energy sources surpassed coal as the primary source of global electricity generation for the first time in the first half of this year, according to a study by Ember, a global energy think tank. www.dw.com/en/renewable...

“The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government-ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.” www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

ICE Lineup #ICE #DHS #Immigration #IllegalAliens #LadyJustice #MassDeportations

Girl trouble

David Pope in Canberra Times

This footage will terrify American Conservatives more than an actual riot.....

Those who don't learn from history.... or old cartoon cliches.... www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

Enforcing the law? Beat the algorithms. Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Biofuel blended ethanol mandates are Idiotic in every country -- including the National's Manildra mandate in Oz. www.manildra.com.au/product/etha...

BYD says its best-selling and smallest electric car will make its way to Australia this year, and will be the lowest cost EV on the market "by some margin."

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

I forgot that part of Casino Royale where the Americans shoot at a fuel tanker with machine guns.

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

For 15 years Caltrans has known that widening SR 37 at sea level is foolish and yet their $500M project marches forward. amp.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

AMD: Terrific. That will be $78 billion. How would you like to pay? OpenAI: Well, we were thinking that we would announce the deal, and that would add $78 billion to the value of your company, which should cover it. AMD: … OpenAI: …

Bay Area is fighting right now for a $750M *loan* to keep transit barely operating, meanwhile Caltrans is here with a $11B climate bomb

You could electrify 4.5 Caltrains for the cost of this $11B eight lane highway through the wetlands that is currently a two lane road

Much recommended ‘lecture’ on urban mobility and its companion, land use planning. Love how Brent several times stress the need to call out status quo bias, eg by highlighting that people calling for ‘balance’ in really just want status quo. Which is not fair, but just what we have gotten used to.

The AI has already started making its presence felt on the executive team, sending out a 500-word email about “leveraging holistic verticals for client-centric uplift” that no one has fully read but everyone agreed “sounded important.” theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

Canaries. My @smh cartoon.

Ways to resist fascism

"I'm puzzled when people say the Swiss have good transportation b/c they're rich. It has nothing to do with that. They're still using trams from 1970. They restore them every 7 years. Making do is part of the culture. If you're using trams for 50 years, that's a hell of a savings." —Norman Garrick 🧵

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

The saddest thing about NSW's New Regional Fleet High Speed Testing Commenced - First Daytime Sydney Western Line Trials is that there is probably nowhere on the NSW regional network where the trains could get up to 130km/h www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajYx...

From the Portland neighborhood that every right wing grifter uses for their propaganda. So dangerous that families are walking with their kids! And commuters are heading home from work! Scary stuff!

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF. Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

It appears to me from the outside that the manual review process (which the Australian government has said it wants for the under 16s ban) led to ID docs being kept longer than needed.

Capitol Hill Commuters Hold Séance to Summon Next Bus: tinyurl.com/2s39kexw