Locking in because I have a manuscript to finish so here's the 2026 listening thread 🧵 Jessica is an incredible jazz trumpet player and this EP is lush and expansive (perfect for floating through space). 'Egerny' is my favourite track. jessicacarlton.bandcamp.com/album/for-ol...

Fuck yeh Ev www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

You simply can’t 'offset' strip mining the only jarrah forest on Earth Australia’s environmental laws are meant to protect the irreplaceable, not offer accounting tricks that allow their irrevocable destruction. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Introducing our inaugural readers' survey. Help us do the best by you, and go into the running to win a prize! Head here: tally.so/r/vGyqVg

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

And yet, Murray Watt allows Alcoa to continue destroying habitat. "Alcoa has been granted a temporary "national interest" exemption to continue clearing land for its bauxite operation while an assessment of its "cumulative environmental impact" is completed." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

ship customisation is very important to me

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

how to be as happy as alysa liu looks

This is such an incredible failure. We've lost 2,100 hectares of old growth jarrah forests, home to nationally protected species, and Alcoa get a $55m slap on the wrist. They won't stop.

New: Internal gov documents show how OpenAI lobbied Australia's top public servants & politicians — and how they responded, including: - Treasury pouring cold water on OpenAI's claims of AI's economic benefits - meeting with the prime minister's intelligence agency - & more www.crikey.com.au/20...

The brightest minds of my generation are figuring out how to make AI psychosis more efficient instead of building solar panels and high speed rail

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers! Screen Australia's Games grants close in 2 weeks! A reminder to get your applications in! 🫶 🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100,000 🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30,000 📆 Applications close Thu 5 Mar, 5pm (AEDT) 👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Renters in 🇦🇺 continue to get an incredibly raw deal as this AHURI research shows. Renters shouldn’t have to handover unnecessary amounts of personal data to companies often exempt from our (already inadequate) federal privacy laws. National cabinet was supposed to deal with this in 2023…🦗

I keep coming back to the fact that we pretty easily solved poverty for around 6-12 months in 2020, and a lot of rich dudes are petrified of anything like that ever happening agin.

Fiddling with distance-based posterisation for v2 of WORL, instead of applying a shader material to each mesh (by adapting this shader, bless the Godot community: godotshaders.com/shader/outli...)

Tech companies and policy-makers are currently rolling out online safety mechanisms for protecting children that directly conflict with all of the copious research and expert opinion on what they should be doing instead to prevent child harms. No one cares about the research.

Every time Albo asks to “turn the temperature down” I wonder what ghouls our political class are to have cauterised their humanity so completely that they are no longer affected by the sight of genocide

Sure would be nice to have a federally enshrined human rights framework that protects our freedom of assembly right about now

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

sculpting hands

With parts of the Murray Darlingvtivers declared critically endangered please do work from where you are to make sure they get this right.

Shout out to all the other chronic fatigue girlies: you're allowed to go back to bed

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

"The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves" Poster seen in Sydney denouncing NSW Premier Chris Minns who ordered a brutal police attack on Palestine protesters this week, justified under the totalitarian mantra of "Social Cohesion". via @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year. This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

If you have 10 minutes. Watch this. youtu.be/a6hPo1JfG9s?...

The statement from Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia. With alt text

NSN ass looking moustaches frothing at the chance to throw some punches

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

Best sign yet at the Melbourne protest against the visit of the war criminal Isaac Herzog, president of Israel:

In the worst news, the great, the amazing, the wonderful @kudelka.bsky.social has died. A great friend, and an amazing man. This is shattering.

I made a synthy spaceship game in a week called WORL: chipswoon.itch.io/worl This week's theme was MOVEMENT so I drew a lot of inspiration from classics like Skyroads and Star Fox, and rhythm games like Runner2.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

'Under the new legislation, public use of the controversial phrases "globalise the intifada" and "from the river to the sea" to cause menace, harassment or offence will be banned, with a maximum penalty of two years in prison.' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

it’s bandcamp friday! you can buy my album here to help support me :) $20aud album purchase = 6666 spotify plays 😱😱😱 montaigne.bandcamp.com/album/its-ha...

Podcast Time! In this special ep, we chat to Julian from Massive Monster about @cultofthelamb.bsky.social #woolhaven & celebrate Aussie games! You catch audio from @gateworlds.bsky.social, @walistudios.au, @spellsided.com, @busalonium.bsky.social & more! Listen Here: joy.org.au/checkpoint/2...

a man has been charged with committing a terrorist act over the attempt to bomb the Perth Invasion Day rally

Take this as a cute moment to post the interactive album we made for the release (it's playable in the browser!) fuzzyghost.itch.io/dialogue

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

An exhaustive anarchist overview and guide to various apps and tech that utilize peer-to-peer and encryption. “Anarchists were going for walks to chat long before encrypted texting existed, and they should still do so now, whenever possible." BUT… itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/u...

I love games

my God, it’s beautiful

the place I work is after a senior software engineer - good people, full remote https://assemblyfour.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/

omg it’s so sad everyone in Perth appears to be allergic to indicating rip