Chance for a fresh start in patching up the Commonwealth Public Service https://pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/2026-05-21/468042/ #auspol

The worst thing this government can do is deliver more of the same www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

WATCH this video to understand better why positive and badly needed change in cities can be so HARD AND CONTROVERSIAL, at least INITIALLY when proposed (spoiler — quite often that change becomes popular, or just not noticed much at all, after implementation and once the “status quo bias” wears off."

you know how sometimes people that weren't exposed to religion as children sometimes convert and get really weird about it as adults (eg: the extremely online california tradcaths) and because they were never socialized in a religion they speedrun committing every medieval heresy? rationalism is […]

This is REALLY important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature/green in cities ISN’T the density of buildings or the density of people — it's the density of CARS. And the better designed your density of people and buildings is, the fewer cars you need or want. #UrbanTruth

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

LOST: Missing Middle Housing. Please help. Last seen 50+ years ago in cities everywhere. Please contact your elected officials to help find this housing. 555-456-CITY #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle

The ARDC Community Data Lab has released a draft project plan on the 'HASS Geospatial Capability Project' for comment: https://ardc.edu.au/project/ardc-community-data-lab/#geospatial-co-design

One of the most terrifying images in history: Gaza transformed from life into death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026 💔

Awesome news (at least for me): Digital Humanities Quarterly (#dhq ) now provides #doi s for their articles!! #digitalhumanities

Ibram prorroga inscrições para a 24ª Semana Nacional de Museus até 13 de maio Prorrogação amplia a oportunidade para que museus de todo o país integrem a programação oficial da 24ª SNM sob o tema “Museus: unindo um mundo dividido” […]

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285 We love to see it <3

"The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar..."

Renewables cut European power prices by 24% on average. Wind and solar expansion reduced wholesale electricity prices by an average 24.2% across 19 European countries between 2023 and 2025, weakening the link between power costs and volatile gas markets. Solar alone has saved countries in the […]

"Imagine if I were to come to you … and put this proposition to you: I'll sell your house and I'll give you 30% and I'll keep the other 70%, and you should be happy with that because I've just converted an asset into cash. None of you would be stupid enough to do that." […]

Are you around Metro Vancouver and interested in how to actually get more “Missing Middle” housing (or as I called it, #GentleDensity) built? There’s a full day conference on it happening this Friday, and I’ll be speaking on this panel at it. Use code MMC25 for a 25% discount. www.themmc.ca

Now THIS is GREAT! Our #UrbanTruth work is inspiring some of you to create your OWN new content. Check these out by @owgf.bsky.social on Mastodon building on our 1-Hour City Campaign. “Where would you rather live? “Which looks like freedom to you?” And which like dependency? #1HourCityConspiracy

We are now on the Winter side of the Equinox, Samhain the halfway point between the equinox & the solstice has now passed. We return to ourselves, we mourn all that is lost & prepare for the dark & ready ourselves for the next awakening. #blessedbe

Interesting read by the people behind @TheWarOnCars - I just borrowed it from the library. Lots of good for thought re tackling the automotive scourge. #thewaroncars

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

Vale David Malouf. Another great contributor to our understanding of ourselves is gone.

Vale James. 💔

Vale James Valentine. Too soon. You brought such joy to so many. #fuckcancer

Australia has the highest per capita solar generation in the world 🍾 Australia also has the highest per capita coal generation the world 😱

I've just stumbled across this incredibly useful explanatory chart on mansplaining. Petition for this to be prominently displayed in every workplace. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chart

I’ve read, commmissioned or been part of many studies like this one, and the results are ALWAYS the same — low density suburban development is incredibly expensive for everyone, and doesn’t come close to paying its own way. It needs to be heavily subsidized by denser, mixed-use areas. Sound fair?

Huge proliferation in Australia of AI slop vibe-coded "fuel dashboards" spreading disinformation, usually for right-wing pro-fossil blog sites and PR outfits like News Corp www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“Rather than celebrating speed, endurance, or adventure, the film positions the bicycle within a far more consequential framework: as a tool of economic independence and a means of reclaiming agency in a system defined by debt & consumption.” @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/the-bicycle-...

I've created a new @zotero translator for the State Library of Victoria. It captures metadata from the main catalogue, and metadata and digital files (PDFs & images) from the SLV's digital file viewer. I've submitted it for review & inclusion in the main Z repo, but in the meantime you can test […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@RanaldClouston/116382691711447237 Wow just how awful this saga is continuing to be.

I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical. I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some […]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to everyone who deserves a glamorous spotlight for embracing a better future for themselves 🕯️ and separately, happy abadidea day of visibility to me (it’s my birthday)(and to everyone’s perpetual confusion, I’m not trans) 🎂

It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see […]

At a pivotal moment—when AI agents are rediscovering and reinforcing the enduring value of Linked Open Data (LOD) and the principles of Linked Data—we are taking another step forward for the community. We will soon release a new open-source edition of Virtuoso that introduces a feature […]

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address… This points to the safety and […]

Germany makes Open Document Format mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure (along with PDF/UA - accessible PDF) https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/

Virtually attending the 11th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is free, but you need to register by this Friday (3/27): msuglobaldh.org Full program is up (I'm giving a quick talk on supporting multilingual DH while monolingual, & why multilingual letterpress+lasercutting belong in our DH center):

Or: Grok's climate impact is about 20 Pornhubs (I should make this a standard metric)

The total annual emissions from the gas-fired power stations *just to run Grok* will, once operational, be greater than the total global GHG footprint of all global streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ (208bn hours) 🧐 ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m... greenly.earth/en-gb/leaf-m...

ICYMI - the in-house climate denier at Bari Weiss' The Free Press took part in an effort to claim the final report into Spain's blackout was released on March 15th, and claimed renewables were the cause... ..........but the report was released on March 20, and does not say that 🍾

The journey of the sun has today reached the vernal equinox. For the next half of the year we experience the darker part of the year. This is, as always a moment to reflect on our experience of darkness & how we still have opportunities to grow. We have to find balance within ourselves & within […]

Nagi, of Recipe Tin Eats, posting on FB to answer some questions about Recipe Tin Meals, her meal donation program that costs her a million dollars a year to run. Casually explaining she’d rather spend that money for a good purpose than on conspicuous consumption […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

One of the dumbest things about most of the lies about “15-minute cities” is that they’re actually lies about UK “low traffic neighbourhoods” (LTN), which are a DIFFERENT thing that’s specifically about stopping constant cut-through traffic. Here’s the TRUTH about LTNs via @streetfilms.bsky.social.

New life goal of just wanting to outsell Tony Abbott's history of Australia. Seems doable.

Does anyone know if https://youtube.com/@electricviking?si=gWJ5ZdBYnqLLuLci across his stuff? Ping @decryption @evcricket

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is." It’s not wrong. #UrbanTruth

“…persons living in walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods have higher levels of social capital compared with those living in car-oriented suburbs. Respondents living in walkable neighborhoods were more likely to know their neighbors, participate politically, trust others, and be socially engaged.”

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.