The airship ‘La France’ was the first fully controllable flying machine. In 1884, it travelled 8 kilometres in twenty-three minutes, the world's first closed-circuit flight. Measuring 52 metres in length, the balloon, which was powered by electricity, contained a 435 kg battery.

Australia’s roads are filling up with ever-larger SUVs and utes. Bigger vehicles increase the risks for pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers – and may also change how people drive, writes Milad Haghani. #RoadSafety #SUVs #TransportPolicy #Australia

Christ this is just gallery bullshit: "Much has been said of Albanese's inability to assume the natural role of a prime minister as "national mourner in chief" in the wake of a crisis" Much has been said by us in the gallery, therefore it must be important.

After seeing Ley’s atrocious rant today, it is as well to remember this is the party John Howard destroyed projecting internal division out into the world. It’s ugly and dangerous, aided and abetted by an equally broken media, but it isn’t winning them any friends.

2025 is the first year ever that Australia has recorded more pedestrian fatalities than vehicle passenger fatalities. Super-sized vehicles seemingly doing a great job at protecting their occupants at the expense of everyone else. www.drive.com.au/news/pedestr...

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

Can we all agree now that conservative politics and most of our political media are filled with grubs? Putting the dead bodies of a terrorist attach through a mincer to make political and clickbait sausages. Sorry - your editors, leaders and advisors told you to? That just makes you a coward on top.

Very sadly my party (the ALP if you are new here) will have to do the work of trying to keep the nation on a half sensible road without any cover or support from the right. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

federal shadow education spokesman Julian Leeser thumping his fists and shouting “this is the most shameful act in the history of this country”, a lie. Source: YouTube share.google/JWp0VxFfms6n...

coalition politicians dialling up the griefsploitation to 11 is a shockingly bad - as well as disgusting - comms strategy imo. How exactly is this shouty tub thumping meant to win back voters who deserted them under Morrison and Dutton. bsky.app/profile/stra...

surprisingly, Minns has done the courtesy of warning us about the high likelihood of increased violence by armed agents of the colonial state. Link in alt text.

This is what the LNP's Sussan Ley & co are fueling www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

the opposite of the dumb email text box field that looks at the space after the characters for your email address lol

The company allegedly took payments through Centrepay over six years from over 3,400 customers who had closed their accounts and owed no money, including one customer who paid $11,000. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Julian Leeser "We demand the Prime Minister bring the Parliament back today to do what Chris Minns is doing, to listen to Sussan Ley, to extend the hand of bipartisanship and for once in his life" Bipartisanship, FMD, these hypocrites need another election drubbing

The ombo's damning report about job agencies reveals the bumbling cruelty of our welfare surveillance state Because of the intentional, institutionally constructed, lack of info about punishment decisions, government doesn't know whether they're lawful www.themandarin.com.au/305305-ombud...

we have a system has outright acknowledged that it needs a percentage of the population to be unemployed at any given time and then we squid games them at every chance as "incentive" to find a job that doesn't exist

Bridget McKenzie: "To hate Israel is to hate Jews. It is that simple." tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.

"Equating the hundreds of thousands of people who have protested for a stronger stand against a genocide...with supporting a massacre is just as insane as using the massacre for political point-scoring & to set up a fight about migration" @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...

What do we want? - "Social cohesion!" When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!" That one might need a bit more work.

I've only just noticed SkyNewsOz aren't in Top20. After 2mths out of the Top20, they returned in October rankings with a huge +620k readers to hit No15 with 3.37m. In the November rankings the lowest audience figure is 2.7m, meaning SkyNewsOz have to have lost a minimum 670k readers to drop out.

Sussan Ley is clearly so far out of her depth that she deserves to be sacked by her party, purely for her own good. This is perhaps the most contemptible thing any political leader has ever said in this country. The sooner she f*cks off to obscurity the better for Australia.

absolute psycho response from Sussan Ley from this question "Penny Wong has again this morning said she'd like to see Australians take the temperature down, do you agree with that statement?" yelling about "I haven’t seen Penny Wong in the streets of Bondi ... not shedding a single tear" wtf???

I used to talk about the 99% problem for AVs. Looks like the 99% problem just struck bsky.app/profile/miss...

When we most need clear thinking abt threats (ISIS, gun availability, racist & lethal ideologies), & elevation of acts of courage, & care for all communities hurting, Minns, unforgivably, serves up inflammatory conflation of anti-genocide rallies w the terror attack Feel 🤢 abt what 2026 will bring

imagine letting this fucking garbage in your city

If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race... www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

AI haters 🤝 AI enjoyers wishing the google AI summary didn’t exist

Some much-needed good news, including • renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally • new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty • landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown • indigenous wins at COP 🌱❣️🌊 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

My neighbor told me pro boxers keep pummeling his douchebag influencers so I asked how many influencers he has and he said he just goes to the internet and gets a new influencer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding influencers to boxers and then everyone's daughter started cheering.

Its nothing short of a relief to see the feds not leaning into the culture war bullshit some of their opponents are embracing. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Tom McIllroy: Albanese said former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson would lead a review of the agencies. 4 month review examine whether federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies have right powers, structures, processes, sharing arrangements. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.

“Palestine has been held up as the litmus test in certain sections of the progressive world. You have to accept the prescribed, progressive position on Palestine or you’re a Zionist and you’re cast out.” What’s a ‘moderate position’ on genocide Chip Le Grand? 😡😡 www.smh.com.au/national/lab...

the absolute yell that I just made how close that first delivery from Starc was to Jofra nicking it 🫣

#auspol We are in a very dark place when our "liberal" media write this sort of guff. Chip le Grand Has form but this is a new low. Imagine how Zionist enablers are going to attack others; anyone pointing out that state sponsored genocide is not acceptable. www.theage.com.au/national/lab...

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I used to not rinse. converted after my dishwasher literally flooded because it was clogged 😭 do not recommend

"The point is obvious: to give Israel a free hand to violate Palestinians’ rights."

He has cronies buy scrip off-market before debt is re-financed to juice the valuation and stay above the waterline. He gets one firm to buy an unrelated firm's inventory. This isn't genius it's some Florida car-dealer empire leveraging the municipal contract financial-engineering, albeit at scale.

“Never has there been a time where politics has been played so blatantly, so openly at the expense of a terrified, traumatised community and the wider nation at large.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

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Oh go on then. I have a decent bottle of Port handy.

Getting a bunch of hate merchants on TV to say “stand up to hate” is the most Australian response possible.

would you like to read about these cars that got bricked when the manufacturer went into bankruptcy and now is fundamentally and forever undrivable? doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

the people who made the Epstein gmail simulator did it again, but this time with the photos www.jmail.world/photos