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...

YOUR DAILY REMINDER PREVENTING POLLUTION PREVENTS HARM AND DEATH NONE OF THIS IS INEVITABLE www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 there’s a heat wave. Without sharing your room with a hundred large moths

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...

Technically, they’re Remains now.

BSKY often delivers the most amazing content, but this crossover of energy/climate and transport/urbanism, a connection made by 2 of the world’s best advocates, made me very happy today.

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.

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...

So I volunteer at an organisation where I do some referral work and basically none of the people I speak to realise they’re eligible for the Victorian Utilities Relief Scheme. If you have a concession card, please apply services.dffh.vic.gov.au/utility-reli...

And now mom says ice cream isn’t dinner. What’s going on? What does this mean? Dinner is food and last time I checked, ice cream is food. So what’s this really all about? The answer is simple: power

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. 🤷‍♂️ electrek.co/2026/06/23/f...

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?

About time someone came for the babies and their disastrous impact on social cohesion

Hydrogen is out, data centres are in. The Premier says don't worry about it, it'll be fine, you'll love 'em.

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!

“[Keir Starmer] arrived in Downing Street carried not by a wave of enthusiasm but by a tide going out everywhere else.” Shehab Khan writes about how Keir Starmer’s landslide win in 2024 contained seeds of his downfall from the start. Read: zeteo.uk/p/keir-starm...

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 people’s voice should always be the loudest voice in the rooms of Government.

Once I went to KFC and said "Zing me up, baby" and immediately regretted it.

the most stable figure in british politics in the last decade is the man who sets up the lectern the PMs resign from

Please don't do this www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

This small regional town in Victoria went DIY renewable energy and hasn’t looked back. Love this story (and not just cause it features one of our own!) www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Metro buses revealed as alternative to axed stage-four light rail

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.

Unfortunately, the war on good journalism - or at least, even minimally funding it - is very much a global phenomenon.

funny how that works

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says. OK then: climate goals, please. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

“The world is not going to be saved by big electric SUVs,” says Renault’s chief design officer…”The world is going to be saved by small electric cars. We need them to become as popular as other cars.” More small electric cars, but also fewer cars overall, driven much less thanks to more choices.

̶L̶e̶a̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶ Learn to build data centers.

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.

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)

Posted this over a year ago. Yesterday the industry’s supervillain lobby confirmed:

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...

So in summary, slow cars down, give pedestrians more space, and it save lives. Technically easy - but in Australia, sadly often politically fraught.

"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...

What year will we have a fully accessible tram network that everyone can use? 2027? 2032? 2038? 2105?!

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.

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

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.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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. www.foe.org.au/ai_moratorium

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s 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.

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

#RailNatter is back! And it's another Australian episode, this time taking a look at Adelaide. There's train, tram and bus footage from moi, and @garethdennis.uk does an interesting segment on the political origins and implications of the O-Bahn. youtu.be/MAl83iB10Uc?...

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.

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.

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 don’t cause more accidents than bicycles and very much get people to ride so they make us all safer. Words matter

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

Wilcox

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

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.