Ben Lever
@benleverau.bsky.social
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Transport and climate activist from Victoria, Australia
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Asher Wolf
about 20 hours ago
Christian Brothers sold real estate worth millions for $1. Now it claims in court it lacks money to pay abuse survivors
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Christian Brothers sold real estate worth millions for $1. Now it claims in court it lacks money to pay abuse survivors
Exclusive: Guardian Australia investigation reveals transfer of assets for nominal sums despite Catholic order telling court it is broke and seeking a halt to victimsâ civil claims
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/27/christian-brothers-real-estate-sales-catholic-group-failed-to-pay-abuse-survivors-ntwnfb
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Ketan Joshi
1 day ago
YOUR DAILY REMINDER PREVENTING POLLUTION PREVENTS HARM AND DEATH NONE OF THIS IS INEVITABLE
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Siobhan Thompson
2 days ago
Sure Europe should normalize AC, but you know what else they need? Bug screens. Incredible invention. Means you can open your windows. At night. When thereâs a heat wave. Without sharing your room with a hundred large moths
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Asher Wolf
3 days ago
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Australia flags strengthening of social media ban
Australia will strengthen its social media ban for young people as a priority amid concerns the powers behind the world-first laws are not strong enough.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/australia-will-strengthen-social-media-ban-children-safety/106842724
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Another level crossing gone, this time with the road being closed - 11 years after it was agreed to, and 6 years after a new road with a bridge was built right next to it.
www.thecourier.com.au/story/918365...
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Sanho Tree
3 days ago
Technically, theyâre Remains now.
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Michael Bell
3 days ago
BSKY often delivers the most amazing content, but this crossover of energy/climate and transport/urbanism, a connection made by 2 of the worldâs best advocates, made me very happy today.
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Gordon Little
3 days ago
Got a new Dell Laptop at work & it comes with a COPILOT KEY next to the right Alt button. I thought OK, I can surely disable this key or remap it to Ctrl. Oh my friends, no. I was foolish. Searching for help came across this, Dell agents aren't even allowed to discuss remapping the copilot key.
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Greg Jericho
4 days ago
Absolutely superb work by
@skyelark.bsky.social
: Hanson's massive non-English speaking figure includes 100,000 babies. Yes, really.
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
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Factcheck: Hanson's massive non-English speaking figure includes 100,000 babies. Yes, really.
On the face of it, Hanson is right that the 2021 census reported 872,000 people spoke English either ânot wellâ or ânot at allâ. But that number hides details that make Hansonâs claim highly misleadin...
https://thepoint.com.au/factchecks/260623-factcheck-hansons-massive-non-english-speaking-figure-includes-100000-babies-yes-really
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Asher Wolf
4 days ago
So I volunteer at an organisation where I do some referral work and basically none of the people I speak to realise theyâre eligible for the Victorian Utilities Relief Scheme. If you have a concession card, please apply
services.dffh.vic.gov.au/utility-reli...
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https://services.dffh.vic.gov.au/utility-relief-grant-scheme
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Andrew Lawrence
4 days ago
And now mom says ice cream isnât dinner. Whatâs going on? What does this mean? Dinner is food and last time I checked, ice cream is food. So whatâs this really all about? The answer is simple: power
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Sam Albuquerque
4 days ago
They fired the wrong guy. Should have fired the designer instead. Marketing's job is try to sell whatever shit you give them. He did his job. Everyone is talking about how shit it is. đ€·ââïž
electrek.co/2026/06/23/f...
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Ferrari replaces marketing chief after Luce EV launch backlash
Ferrari replaced longtime marketing chief Enrico Galliera with ex-BMW Italy boss Di Silvestre days after its Luce EV launch sent the stock down 8%.
https://electrek.co/2026/06/23/ferrari-replaces-marketing-chief-luce-ev-backlash/
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Adam
5 days ago
I'm old enough to have seen the interview with Hanson v1.0 where she said she would fix the economy by printing more money. She was ridiculed into oblivion for it at the time. The press does not do that anymore. I wonder why?
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Kym Chapple
5 days ago
About time someone came for the babies and their disastrous impact on social cohesion
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Royce Kurmelovs
5 days ago
Hydrogen is out, data centres are in. The Premier says don't worry about it, it'll be fine, you'll love 'em.
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'We need data centres': Malinauskas all in on 'AI revolution' - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
The Premier has unveiled plans to seize AI opportunities in South Australia, dismissing fears about the water used by data centres.
https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/06/23/we-need-data-centres-government-all-in-on-ai-revolution
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Senator David Shoebridge
5 days ago
ICYMI WA Police want to scan the faces of EVERYONE walking past in real time, with no consent and no choice. It's an Australian first and a warning to the whole country that our privacy laws aren't enough to protect us from a surveillance state!
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Zeteo UK
5 days ago
â[Keir Starmer] arrived in Downing Street carried not by a wave of enthusiasm but by a tide going out everywhere else.â Shehab Khan writes about how Keir Starmerâs landslide win in 2024 contained seeds of his downfall from the start. Read:
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Sian Berry MP
6 days ago
The answer is we MUST hold the next general election under PR. Never again can a man with such little vision be handed so much power to squander. The peopleâs voice should always be the loudest voice in the rooms of Government.
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fesshole đ§»
5 days ago
Once I went to KFC and said "Zing me up, baby" and immediately regretted it.
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Scott Bryan
6 days ago
the most stable figure in british politics in the last decade is the man who sets up the lectern the PMs resign from
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Ketan Joshi
6 days ago
Please don't do this
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends
6 days ago
This small regional town in Victoria went DIY renewable energy and hasnât looked back. Love this story (and not just cause it features one of our own!)
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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The 'secret sauce' behind the tiny town that's cracked Australia's energy problem
This town isn't waiting for the energy transition â it's powering it.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/victorian-town-yackandandah-renewable-energy-transition/cq4fcwqnr
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ABC News Australia
6 days ago
Metro buses revealed as alternative to axed stage-four light rail
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Plan to use buses for southern Gold Coast stage-four light rail
The Queensland government has released the plan nine months after controversially scrapping stage-four light rail amid community pushback.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-22/metro-buses-alternative-to-axed-stage-four-light-rail-gold-coast/106825972?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky_news.abc.net.au
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Faisal ÙÙŰ”Ù
7 days ago
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
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Faine Greenwood
6 days ago
Unfortunately, the war on good journalism - or at least, even minimally funding it - is very much a global phenomenon.
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Bruno J. Navarro
6 days ago
funny how that works
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Kees van der Leun
6 days ago
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says. OK then: climate goals, please.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EUâs AI goals.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
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Brent Toderian
7 days ago
âThe world is not going to be saved by big electric SUVs,â says Renaultâs chief design officerâŠâThe world is going to be saved by small electric cars. We need them to become as popular as other cars.â More small electric cars, but also fewer cars overall, driven much less thanks to more choices.
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How Europeâs EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs
Smaller, cheaper cars built for narrow city streets are becoming more stylish â but require careful design decisions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/21/europe-ev-shrank-challenge-suv-smaller-china
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Dare Obasanjo
7 days ago
̶L̶e̶a̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶ Learn to build data centers.
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JackTatt đšđŠ
10 days ago
An oft missed point
@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social
makes is how trans can stitch multiple alignments together in a way other stricter modes cannot. A great example is the Sydney L1 (shown in the video) which combined a disused freight railway (with stops added) with tram mall, and station forecourt.
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I was surprised by this so I did a little fact-checking. It doesn't mean chargers are 50km apart, as I initially misread, and there are some gaps right at the Ceduna end - but from Port Augusta to Port Douglas you're genuinely never more than ~50km from a fast charger! (1/2)
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Patrick Galey
8 days ago
Posted this over a year ago. Yesterday the industryâs supervillain lobby confirmed:
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Pat Simons
9 days ago
The Coalition once again wants to bring back strict anti-renewables setback distances to Victoria. This cost the state close to $900 million in renewable energy investment when they were last in power. It failed then, and its a zombie policy now.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Coalition's renewable energy buffer zones risks projects, report says
Energy experts have mixed views on what the Victorian Coalition's proposed renewable energy buffer zone policy could mean for the state's energy transition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/report-says-coalition-renewable-buffer-zone-risks-projects/106802794
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Daniel Bowen
8 days ago
So in summary, slow cars down, give pedestrians more space, and it save lives. Technically easy - but in Australia, sadly often politically fraught.
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This city hasnât had a road death since 2017 â can Australia follow suit?
As road deaths continue to surge, this city hasn't had a road fatality since 2017. Can we follow? According to experts, we're on the way.
https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/hoboken-usa-hasnt-had-a-road-death-since-2017-can-australia-follow-suit/
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Public Transport Users Association
8 days ago
"The (State Government) did not meet the 2022 deadline for tram stop compliance legislated by the DSAPT. Based on current plans, the department will also miss the 2032 compliance deadline for low-floor trams." - Auditor General
www.audit.vic.gov.au/report/acces...
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Accessibility of Tram Services: Follow-up
In this review we assessed if the Department of Transport and Planning implemented the action plan it developed to respond to the 10 recommendations in our 2020 audit Accessibility of Tram Services an...
https://www.audit.vic.gov.au/report/accessibility-tram-services-follow
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Public Transport Users Association
8 days ago
What year will we have a fully accessible tram network that everyone can use? 2027? 2032? 2038? 2105?!
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Ketan Joshi
9 days ago
Just resharing this because it's clearly needed: Australia's data centre hotspots have nearly twice the grid emissions intensity as America's data centre hotspots.
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Kate Mackenzie
9 days ago
This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios Iâve seen. You can hardly see âactualâ for gas
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George Monbiot
11 days ago
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+đ§”
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now â and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with âtwo-tier policingâ. This is indeed a two-tier government â but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/17/belfast-riots-palestine-action-protests-terrorism
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Pat Simons
10 days ago
AI Data Centres risk derailing the shift to renewable energy at a moment when the climate crisis is only getting worse. Despite this, there are no guardrails for this extractive industry. That's why FoE Australia is joining the call for a moratorium on new data centres.
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Moratorium on all data centre developments now
Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...
https://www.foe.org.au/ai_moratorium
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Robert Reich
10 days ago
Elon Muskâs DOGE cut the federal governmentâs screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
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Coleen Murphy
10 days ago
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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Railmaps
10 days ago
#RailNatter
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@garethdennis.uk
does an interesting segment on the political origins and implications of the O-Bahn.
youtu.be/MAl83iB10Uc?...
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The hidden history of Adelaide's weird transport | #Railnatter 309
YouTube video by Gareth Dennis
https://youtu.be/MAl83iB10Uc?si=yC-JeV8uGBSo_mUZ
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The evidence shows that a real names requirement would not reduce abuse, but the rest of this list is pretty good. The one I'd add: any content the user pays to amplify (boosted posts or ads) should also trigger the platform's responsibility as a publisher. Easy to implement and high impact.
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Stephanie Convery
10 days ago
The National Media Sector of
@withmeaa.bsky.social
put this statement together yesterday in the wake of Sarah being attacked by Hanson at the press club. We need to call out attacks on press freedom when we see them. It's journalists standing together against this stuff that is going to stop it.
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Audrey Cetois đ”đž
10 days ago
Dear ABC, the bike involved in this tragedy was an e-moto, not an e-bike. Not the same, even in Qld regs. It is like saying electric golf carts and EVs are as dangerous. E-bikes donât cause more accidents than bicycles and very much get people to ride so they make us all safer. Words matter
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Father of 17yo killed in e-bike crash speaks after teen driver sentenced
A Gold Coast father whose son died in an electric bike crash has spoken out after the driver was sentenced, saying the devices need better regulation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/fatal-e-bike-crash-tallebudgera-sentence/106807948
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Public Transport Users Association
10 days ago
Most people in Melbourne's middle and outer suburbs have no access to high quality public transport, and as a result, have to drive almost everywhere. It's even worse in regional Victoria. More services = more choices Source: Vic Auditor General "Improving Bus Services" report
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Michael
10 days ago
Wilcox
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rahaeli
11 days ago
Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done
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The evidence shows that a real names requirement would not reduce abuse, but the rest of this list is pretty good. The one I'd add: any content the user pays to amplify (boosted posts or ads) should also trigger the platform's responsibility as a publisher. Easy to implement and high impact.
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