Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws have revealed planned water extraction from the aquifer that feeds the Northern Territory's Roper River could lead to "bad years" for its fish populations.

Surface tension for the win. Sample smelt sulfurous so I added some Cu shavings. 🧪

The Biggest Decision Yet: Is It Nutritious and Wholesome When the Snake Eats Its Oen Tail or Not? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction? theconversation.com/more-than-ha...

The former commanding general of US Army Europe General #BenHodges is stating the obvious. #Europe has understood by now that men like #Trump, #SteveWitkoff and #JaredKushner treat #Ukraine as valuable land with squatters on it. It's all just a business transaction. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it theconversation.com/how-the-inte...

Watch ATO’s Rob Heferen panic & go red in the face as Barbara Pocock questions why they pushed Michael O’Neill into a new role, after he was investigating the PwC scandal. Pocock asks if he’s made any complaints. Heferen “You mean about me?” Geezus take a breath - sounds dodgy🚩 #Estimates

A mammoth effort by community members saves five months' worth of food for a remote community, but the incident reignites the debate about the condition of WA's most remote roads.

🧪 NEW STUDY with oh-no findings: Nitrates from farm run-off (manure, synthetic fertilizers) are altered by soil microbes in ways that make them more chemically reactive and able to mobilize naturally occurring uranium out of rock and…into drinking water aquifers. 😳 www.earth.com/video/farm-r...

Congratulations to Yuhan for successful PhD defence: Shrimps and water fleas in distress - Artificial light at night disrupts freshwater ecosystems www.helsinki.fi/en/news/anim...

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Many creatives often find it difficult to promote their own art but Inspired to Write has some wise words for those struggling to promote their art. Save these quotes for the next time you’re feeling hesitating about posting your work and remember, we LOVE to see your work! 😍 ✨ #art

BREAKING: Bruce Lehrmann is a Loser again and “lost his appeal against a federal court ruling that found on the balance of probabilities he had raped his colleague Ms Higgins at Parliament House in Canberra in 2019.” #Abc #Rapist #IStandWithBrittany

“If a house is uninsurable, it is unmortgageable.” – Dr Richard Denniss Fossil fuels are making climate change worse – and ordinary Australians are paying the price. ✍️ Add your name to the call for a national climate disaster levy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

Above board? My cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What could go wrong? My @smh @theage cartoon.

David Pop in Canberra Times

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Next? #pardons

Nesting offences. My @smh @theage cartoon.

This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Stephanie Foster roasted after admitting has spoken to NACC Commissioner about her Chief of Staff’s corruption case & likely kept No record Shoebridge “You have a chat with the Commr of the NACC about a corruption investigation about your own COS & u don’t even keep a record”🔥 #Estimates

Meet two heroes of our times.

Surrender. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

😀 🏏 'There’s an exemption I’ve made for myself regarding my treatment of real estate agents and the English cricket team. The exemption is this: I will be unflinchingly contemptuous of them and will never, ever doubt the righteousness of it. Never.' www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22181/...

Another great article by @squigglyrick.bsky.social A full-on disaster from the first second Gift article 👇 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22200/...

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

Things must be dire for 30 senior academics to threaten to quit unless changes are made. ANU staff are pushing back on the undermining of teaching and research. 🧪 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22202/...

👍 www.abc.net.au/news/science...

“I find it mind boggling . . . the fact that [Australia is] giving away these natural resources”. – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist Explore how other leading thinkers are finding the courage we all need. Preorder ‘A Time for Bravery’ today: australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...

Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells. #Science 🧪

Wow. The more you know…

When America Has Your Back . Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher

Barnaby out. My @smh @theage cartoon.

It's the last day of parliament and I am all out of fucks to give: Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...

So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Doing Laundry Where oh Where Do the socks go Evergreen ⬇️

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

Climate anxiety and grief, A whole generation raised with it (From A Better World is Possible - us.macmillan.com/books/978125...)

Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts

While Pauline Hanson does obnoxious stunts, the Coalition is about to dredge up a migration 'policy' that will dog-whistle up the same racist undercurrents. And rather than naming it for the socially divisive sludge it is, most mainstream media will pretend it's one 'side' of a 'debate'. #auspol

Insult to injury. My @smh cartoon.

Exactly the same playbook as with the Voice. “Confusing”…”divisive”. Those fossil fuel lobbyists are working hard.