Because of course it did.

We're being manipulated.

With 45 km of dedicated cycleways, and two-in-three residents owning a bike (while one-in-three own a car), Kyoto is a front-runner in the Japanese cycling context. Numbers show biking is on the rise for all ages especially 65-plus, with the cycling to school rate one of the highest in the country.🧵

Here's me. "The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us)"

Calling environmental regulations 'red tape' kind of ignores why those regulations exist in the first place. And it doesn't matter how strong our environment laws are if our governments aren't willing to actually enforce them. 🔊 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

The performative mourning driven by social media, was from blueprints sitting there in large conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, waiting to be deployed The alleged outrage was at its core, manufactured recreational grief-bait My latest in The Shot theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

The slower growth in GST revenue means that states and territories have $26 billion less to spend in 2025-26. Read our report: australiainstitute.org.au/post/if-the-...

The Trump-Albanese non-meeting is a classic case of media demanding it happen purely because the media think it matters. Not one journo covering the US visit could explain what good they would expect to come of the meeting. But they just assume it must be done.

There is no clear evidence that paracetamol has any harmful effects on an unborn baby.

I shouldn't have to say it, but Tylenol does NOT cause Autism. Autism is a brain difference that has a combination of genetic and environmental factors. It is NOT a disease. It is just a different way of thinking.

Outdoor dining should be a tranquil experience, not a front row seat to a sea of parking.

two misters

Good call.

Whenever I see someone posting on social media "that road is too dangerous for cyclists", I wonder if they've ever thought about what it is that makes the road dangerous?

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

God knows the democrats are trying

The thing that I have wanted the most for the last 15 years would be that the USA would do something (anything) to stop all the senseless violence. No one deserves to live or die like this.

”Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the real-world impact of cycle lanes, found businesses on streets with separated bike routes grew on average more quickly than those without.” Remember, bike-lanes mean business. 10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... In which @peterlewisemc.bsky.social thoroughly skewers the tech bro's AI demands

That criticism of a proudly white supremacist has been so condemned over the past few days really does not do much for those arguing we are not a racist society

Your regular reminder that the LNP is irrelevant and the ALP has no excuse for not doing everything on its platform.

This is America

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When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

When Musk invokes Orwell at a far-right march, it’s more than ironic; it’s Orwellian: twisting language and truth so that oppression sounds like freedom and hate sounds like duty. To give Musk credit, he must know this.

Drivers do this every day for hours on end

If we transported 2025 Charlie Kirk back to 2012 he would have been widely considered the most vile and contemptible human being in politics, worse even than Limbaugh. That he wasn't in 2025 is a testament to how much of a permission structure for gutter racism the right has built.

Above all else, Charlie Kirk's "mission" was white supremacy and Christian nationalism. Any reporting or platforming that does not provide that context is simply amplifying Kirk's hateful message.

“Bike-lanes take up too much space & make streets dangerous!” (They actually make streets safer for everyone. Data doesn’t lie. On streets with protected bike-lanes, crash rates typically drop—for drivers, cyclists, & pedestrians.) See @momentummag.bsky.social for more comebacks to common myths.

Labor has just blown any enviro credentials they may've had by approving final step in the biggest new fossil fuel project in the Southern Hemisphere. A betrayal & disastrous for the future of our 🌎. We can't protect our planet while we are digging and burning new fossil fuels.

How the fuck do we live in a world where this man presumes to speak for all of us about a violent fascist arsehole but has never publicly done the same for a single slaughtered and innocent Palestinian child? #NewsCorpse #CharlieKirk

Admitting that Charlie Kirk was a bad person who made our politics worse and endangered the lives of marginalized people is not the same as condoning his murder. I don't get why he's getting such hagiographic treatment. He was a piece of shit.

Memo to public officials: if you didn’t make a statement condemning the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, then I have no interest in anything you have to say about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Tampa was one of the defining moments of his prime ministership as someone who came of voting age when he was turfed. I also never forgot his no GST lie, a regressive sales tax that harms the poor more than the rich.

Dear Apple. I have zero interest in a foldable phone. There are good reasons why those went the way of the dodo. Don’t treat tech innovation like superficial retro fashion. Also, I don’t want even thinner, I want more battery life. Thinner just feels more flimsy. Mostly, stop sucking up to Trump.

He came into power at a time when Australia was moving in a direction to become more of what we *could* be as a nation. Howard deliberately changed that direction to make Australia become a country that only did things he wasn't scared of. He was a man scared of many, many things.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

ABC spending a lot of time talking about Kirk and his 'willingness to debate' with literally nothing about the kinds of views he is actually pushing is certainly a choice

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

at this point i can barely muster the strength to be disgusted at trump for this shit, but the hatred of a thousand suns goes out to the media thats just going to pretend this is normal and let it slide

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

Flat-out false reporting: "$16b in annual fuel excise that other motorists [pay] to fund road construction & maintenance". Excise hasn't paid for roads in 30+ years; it goes to consolidated revenue. Council ratepayers pay for 3/4 roads. #auspol #EV www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/fed...

A making-of of how a father and son recreated a perfect version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" 🤯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw7twrFqFw0

Alice Springs (yes, Alice Springs) 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒐𝒓. Locals trading up from former councillor Jacinta Price. Kudos.

“US Open broadcasters have been asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to Donald Trump at Sunday’s men’s final.” Good luck with that. #BooTrump

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

because polio is freedom

"Deport New Zealand born immigrant Thomas Sewell" LOL www.change.org/p/deport-new...