*One week later* All in favour of closing the stable door?

i feel like i see a lot of "mysterious new account makes big bet on insider information" news stories and not enough people-being-arrested-for-that news stories

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

If Trump can do that to Maduro, where does it stop? With who?

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Wonder how many hours it’ll take European leaders to agree a mildly-worded statement of light rebuke.

I went to a Chabad high school. People I know are affected by events at Bondi today. Please follow instructions from police and refrain from live tweeting unverified information

Out of all the social media, Bluesky is the only one asking me to prove my age (biometric face scan, credit card, or ID). It's also one of the few I use that aren't required to. Considering jumping ship.

Happy 15th birthday to a story very dear to my heart. Thank you @lynnsenpai.bsky.social for #15YearsOfRain!

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we recognise trans people who died by violence. TW murder, suicide. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from... #TDoR #TDoR2025 #Transgender #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance

Shit, it's "approximately" 70,000 users. The Australians might be literally all of them

Our resident Great Egret affectionately named Henry, preening at the bottom of my yard after fishing. 📸🪶

NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro (CLP) is doing this either out of reckless negligence toward, or with the intention of, procuring trans women inmates for the purpose of having them raped. This is what sending trans women to men's prisons does. This is all it ever does. This is what it is for.

Troy Hunt: “Court injunctions are the “thoughts and prayers” of data breach response” www.troyhunt.com/court-injunc...

Requiescat in pace, Jane Goodall www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

"My Favorite Mornings" Digital painting (CSP) I painted two different backgrounds for this as I enjoyed both skies for different reasons. A gift for my wonderful partner @eldarath.bsky.social

The "winners and losers" frame every single year pushes these outlets into publishing wild, blatantly incorrect over-simplifications and falsehoods. But they are just going to keep doing it for the rest of eternity

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

At some point, and probably soon, a lot of people are going to die in some horrific and obviously preventable way because of this miserable idiot and the opportunistic cretins who enable him.

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“Movies you’ve watched more than six times, GIFs only”

this is not universal but it is distressingly common among legacy media people. the idea that they have any duty to society or responsibility beyond getting clicks and clout is abhorrent to a sizable number of people at the top of this industry

Not ready for humans yet, but: www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Trans #Medicine #TransHealthcare #ReproductiveHealthcare

Someone needs to spend a very long time in a very small room for this. But as it affects only the poor and helpless, I imagine there will be no consequences. #AusPol #Welfare #Centrelink Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members. The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said; “trans women are women and trans men are men” with no-one speaking against it. Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.

Don't know how many people here this will effect, but since pets are family: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... #Pets #Australia

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trans girl who becomes a paladin but when her goddess doesnt transform her enters a warlock pact with a patron who does and must balance her oath and contract she doesnt know her patron is her goddess’s gray market side hustle for circumventing the post-Godswar treaty banning divine transformations

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Quetzalcoatlus in traditional Vietnamese art style #paleoart #quetzalcoatlus

This is what the people of my state voted for. #AusPol #QLDPol #TransRights www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Dearc sgiathanach, one of the largest well-preserved pterosaurs from the Jurassic, now fully analysed! The description of this toothy Scottish fella, hot off the press, hit BMC E&E. But what does it tell us about pterosaurs? 🤔 bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵

🔌NEW PAPER ⚖️ Shared ownership presents a major opportunity for communities to own part of the UK's energy transition while supporting faster, fairer rollout of clean power projects. But we need clear action from Labour to unlock this across the country. www.regen.co.uk/reinvigorati...

This is a heartbreaking story. A 16-year old was the only one wearing a mask at school to protect her immunocompromised mother. But she was bullied into unmasking and caught COVID, which infected and killed her mother.

This @theausinstitute.bsky.social survey illustrates kind of perfectly why the fossil fuel industry spends so much marketing spend talking about jobs, economics and how dependent government revenue is on fossil fuels. australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

Now that's how you cover it

Okay - I made a terrible mistake here and need to issue a correction. The net annual capture of the CTSCo plant will actually be closer to 0.34% of the coal plant's total GHGs, when you take into account the emissions of running the CCS plant Sorry!!! www.ctsco.com.au/.rest/api/v1...

3Blue1Brown's series on optics is fantastic: it starts with a visually stunning experiment (sugar water barber pole), and then goes on to explain the basics behind how light waves work including why they slow down in a medium (there are a lot of *wrong* explanations on the internet).

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Here's your daily reminder: biological and technological carbon removal both have extreme physical, economic and social limits. What it boils down to: - If we fail to reduce emissions but do carbon removal at max, we're fucked - If we fail to do carbon removal, but reduce emissions, we're okay

The new owners of a house near mine tore down the adorable little cottage and pulled out the tree that the local #butcherbirds have been nesting in for years

What's some amazing phrase-ology that you first saw on social media and now use all the time in real life? I'll go first: "Normal to want and possible to achieve"

Probably the least surprising but perhaps still the most egregious / shameless is their net zero claims being 100% "net" and 0% "zero" All these offsets come from questionable projects, too - some worse than others. ketanjoshi.co/2023/10/28/n...

"They absolutely want your extinction." Today, Elon Musk wildly increased his race-war rhetoric and promotion of white nationalism in a reply to a complaint by a white supremacist about the melting down of the Charlottesville Robert E Lee statue.