Without First Nations people, Kangaroo Island has burned widely over the past 2,000 years as the climate got drier.

Turning plastic bottles into pants is actually not a good thing. I must admit I had no idea. theconversation.com/your-recycle...

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

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The idea of not creating anything for a year is 🫠 I'd travel, go on epic hikes and read books.

Trying to figure out invisible forces constantly skewing my monitor. Must be poltergeist.

Deadloch is a masterpiece.

Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.

How lovely. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

It's that time of year when people make disparaging posts about the excellent Shepard avocados so here's something I prepared earlier. Sheps are GREAT and I LOVE them and you are wrong. theconversation.com/whats-the-di...

Hey Bluesky how do I repair the back of a cupboard that's coming loose if I can't access the wall behind it and can't take the cupboard down? There's a wall cavity behind this board. I need to fully reattach and seal the back of the cupboard because ants. 🐜

Yeah that’s cool

omg so cute

No one is going hungry tonight or dying without medical care because we're going to the moon. That shit has been happening since we went the last time and we just don't hold our politicians to account or care enough about the poor, hungry, and sick to bother doing something about it. End. Of. Story.

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

From wombat and mozzie surveillance to deciphering climate history and spotting star explosions, citizen scientists are instrumental in contributing knowledge.

Citizen science offers people something simple but powerful: a reason to step outside, pay attention, and reconnect with the living world around them.

If you're in Sydney, this is a GREAT place for a meal. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Interesting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause." Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. He was 23-years-old here.

There are simple changes you can make right now.

Standard, compliant e-bikes are perfectly safe! asdfasdfasdf theconversation.com/should-e-bik...

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

My favourite story I've worked on in a long time. theconversation.com/do-middle-ea...

Vai latviešu valodā jau ir iztulkots termins "enshittification"? Piedāvāju to tulkot uz "sūdīgošana".

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

you just KNOW before the Darkening of Valinor that whenever Fëanor showed up at a feast someone was like "ugh there's that gaudy bitch in his PRECIOUS SILMARILS again"

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

The most radical thing we can do in this AI slopocene is to pause, breathe and be moved by great art that a computer will never, ever be able to even come close to. Like this dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQXS...

what have I been SAYING?!!!!111one theconversation.com/that-e-bike-...

The conflation of road-legal ebikes and souped-up illegal motorbikes HAS TO STOP. I have a road-legal ebike. It's heavy. I still have to pedal. I can only go faster than 25km/h if I'm going downhill. Regular cyclists on sports bikes pass me all the time! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Throwback to something worth repeating.

Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ‘unmistakably male’ David. Read more: theconversation.com/the-pen...

this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing

Another totally messed-up act in colonial Australia. First Nations peoples disregarded and sidelined, again. Wongari (dingoes) murdered. Shame on all responsible. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

I'm just so fucking angry right now. About the fires. About the heatwave. About the wars. I vote. I go to protests. I boycott. I reduce, reuse, mend, recycle. I pay my taxes. I set aside a portion of my income for charities. None of this is enough. None of this is working. Fucking hell.

Israel killed three journalists, including a CBS News contributor, the latest attacks in Gaza despite a U.S.-backed ceasefire that began in October. Israel has killed about 220 journalists in Gaza since October 2023, according to Reporters Without Borders. https://wapo.st/4r5ZmRr

Tiny? The world's 15th largest economy? I come from a country whose entire population is one third the size of Melbourne alone. I understand needing perspective but Australia is not tiny by any metric.

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

help I've watched this 24,688 times and it doesn't stop being funny

If any single techbro pushing genAI had 1% of the incredible artists (incl writers, film-makers, game devs, etc) in their life that I do, they'd never ever put their talents and energy towards making machines that steal from them to spit out soulless garbage facsimiles of creativity.