www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... > "Several of us also tried to approach the state heritage bodies to see if we could try to get a stay of the demolition, but at the end it was all futile" Oh no all "several of you"? ...

This Canterbury Bankstown council is rather "interesting". A councilor is saying all houses will be wiped out in all of Campsie under the council's Campsie centre plan.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... >Up to 140,000 new homes would be built across Sydney and Melbourne if rules on residential car parking were overhauled, according to research that shows the cost of building a unit is being pushed up by tens of thousands of dollars spent on parking spots

Buying a new device & I was trying to figure out if home assistant supports it. The maker helpfully has a screenshot that shows the app looking like a skinned tuya app amongst other similarities. Love to see it.

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

Um, what the fuck ?

This is my dad. Without revealing his age, he's proof that 8-80 infrastructure is life-changing. He lives in a car-dependent Memphis suburb. Last fall, the city extended the Greenline within 0.5 miles of his house. Now he rides 5 miles every day and could get all the way into midtown without a car.

Yesssss Dan Andrews Colossus. Astride the heads of port phillip bay, staring out to bass strait with an expression of cold determination. North Face can pay half. Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus. [bashing clipboard] Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus.

> However, investors in newly built homes will still be able to choose to apply the 50 per cent discount on capital gains tax. Interesting.

In Europe, where they've slowed cars and invested in safe bike infrastructure, e-bike trips increased by 72 percent in 2025 and injuries per million trips fell by 18 percent. The safety problem is not e-bikes. The problem is US roads are unsafe for everyone, particularly people walking and biking.

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform's trending list impersonated OpenAI's "Privacy Filter" project to deliver information-stealing malware to Windows users.

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I am begging “environmentalists” to understand that building dense infill housing is one of the most environmentally friendly policies possible

How could that dangerous building crash into that innocent car ? /s

Stowaway baby rabbits found on North Sea drilling rig

Why is mythos getting so much media attention when bug bounties already exist. Send post.

So much of our language reflects the common “car first” bias around our streets, & we should never forget that much of that language was the result of deliberate campaigns to specifically re-write our perspective of streets as “for cars only.” This is one of the more subtle, but important, examples.

We've added a JSON API making it easier for services to permit GrapheneOS in addition to Google-certified operating systems: grapheneos.org/attestation.... grapheneos.org/attestation.... The verifiedBootKeys array lists GrapheneOS key fingerprints to permit via Android hardware attestation.

Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO, naming John Termus as replacement

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term. it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

:Re the "new" Dragon Ball Super Beerus trailer. gizmodo.com/what-is-the-...

Oil & gas started the war but batteries are going to be the victors.

'Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city' The enormous cost of doing nothing: share.google/5RAPDWU5q57E...

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

From @fictilli.us on X > Sydney Metro has added three new trains to boost services from Monday 13th April. > Peak service frequency increase from every 4 mins to every 3.5 mins > Weekend service frequency will increase from every 10 mins to every 7 mins. t.co/sQsa3P0NBm

Ideal outcome was always: 🚗 Decreased car use; 🚴🚶Noticeable increase in active transport: 🚂 Small, manageable increase in PT use without massive jump from existing PT users making more PT journeys they otherwise wouldn't've. And that's what has happened in Sydney. It's beautiful to see.

#CatPics #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #CatsOnBlueSky #Feline #Felines #Furbabies #Pets #PetSky #AnimalPics #Animals #Caturday #Photography #Images #Pics *** Happy Caturday! ***

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump admin tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/...

For First Nations communities, energy insecurity is not new. But the shift to renewables is more urgent than ever reneweconomy.com.au/for-first-na...

Now we’re cooking something

Iran told mediators it would limit the number of ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz to around a dozen a day and charge tolls under the cease-fire struck by President Trump.

i panic everywhere, not just at the disco

> Where did daylight saving come from? Who invented time zones?

My politics is whatever this is:

Last Sunday (29 March 2026), after activation of the new signaling system, the first CRRC Q-Train started operating on the HK MTR Tsuen Wan Line. Picking up the first (excited) passengers waiting in the terminus of the TWL, Tsuen Wan Station, at 10:57 am. Video by 三多塘.

Wrote this in 2022 kotaku.com/jojos-bizarr...

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/i... 👀 > The U.K. government on Tuesday introduced new rules requiring all new homes in England to be installed with heat pumps and solar panels.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?... Toilet gods around the world, and the rituals used to appease them

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Yet ANOTHER pedestrian saved by your friends at the #WorldBollardAssociation

Trump is buying back Total's offshore wind leases dollar-for-dollar under an agreement that Total will reinvest the money in oil and gas. www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

The main theme of the Steel Ball Run anime, "Dance with STEEL BALL RUN", will be out on streaming platforms tomorrow on March 20, 2026. nex-tone.link/A00212972

This year's Turing Award was given to two scientists who in the 1980s invented quantum cryptography, an impregnable form of encryption technology.

Experiments show that current LLM-based coding agents can generate working code in the short term, but struggle to maintain code quality across many iterations and evolving requirements. #aicoding #agenticengineering 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823

Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow. Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!

“Why stop at IVF? If we’re serious about boosting the birth rate, we should be looking at coal-fired wombs as well." theshovel.com.au/2026/03/13/m...

Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much. But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.