This heatwave has marked a historic turning point in the Australian energy grid - we used to have blackouts as everyone turned their AC's on, with pundits telling us that 'renewables aren't the answer'. No blackouts this time, and silence from the nay-sayers. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

I hope the Yarck pub will be ok otherwise 95% of tradies in Melbourne won't have their legally required bumper sticker from there on their new utes

Hell of a day forecast for Fire weather in Victoria. FFS download and use the “VIC emergency” app for latest info. Don’t rely on social media in an emergency.

If they can get away with it once...

That's just fully evil. Trying to justify the blatant murder of an unarmed citizen complying with orders given by untrained and unqualified agents

@gailsimone.bsky.social Gail, it's 2026. Shouldn't they be GenZ-Men by now?

Be more like Chiitan. Maybe without the random destruction, but you do you people.

Updated Fire Danger Ratings 4:03pm 8/1/26 Central went from Extreme 78 to Extreme 99! This is now a Black Saturday type scenario. Hold on to your hats folks, it is going to get messy tomorrow. Also stay inside where your hat won't blow off would be a better solution. #Bushfires #Victoria

There is a lot of small fires started through Gippsland and the Alps. This is even before tomorrow's catastrophic conditions. Hoo boy.

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s response:

This is a rather big deal. For anyone in one of the Catastrophic Rating areas tomorrow If your bushfire survival plan involved a V/line train or bus tomorrow, your plan did not survive contact with the enemy. www.vline.com.au/Service-Chan... #Bushfires #Victoria

Sheans Creek Strathbogie Strathbogie North Strathbogie South Tallangallook Too-rour Woodfield The bushfire is travelling from Longwood in a easterly direction towards Strathbogie State Forest and Bonnie Doon 2/2

Massive eastern extension to Longwood Watch and Act Leave Now 15:54 local Ancona Barjarg Boho South Bonnie Doon Creek Junction Dry Creek Euroa Gobur Gooram Kanumbra Kelvin View Kithbrook Lima East Lima South Maindample Marraweeney Merton (List continues next post and in image) 1/2

I know many lives and properties are at risk from the bushfire, but I really hope it doesn't head towards Mount Wombat as well

Who voted Frydenberg their spokesman? Certainly wasn't the constituents from Kooyong

What a day it will be.

The locals are good at photobombing.

What's kinda ridiculous is this LLM/AI revolution would be perfect if it came alongside the disassembly of the current form of capitalism and a shift to UBI. AI doing simple work that keeps society running, and opportunities for individuals to pursue their dreams free from economic shackles

Happy New Year to all the Tifosi who are sure this year will be their year

@mrfrightful.bsky.social as mentioned…

Apple thief!!! 🦜🍏🤣 #KingParrot

Dear sadistic food packaging designers who choose to print cooking instructions in white, size 8 font, on a pale yellow background, Get fucked! Truly! From Everyone.

I will eternally be irritated by a company that provides a DNA matching/origin service paywalling DNA matches they get from the data you paid to have analysed in the first place. Fuck you, Ancestry.

77% of workers experienced burnout in 2024. That's not a personal failing—that's a systemic problem with how we've designed work. #BurnoutStatistics #SystemicIssue

Looks like there’s another BambuLabs A1 recall, but only for Australians and for the exact same thing as the last one. I think it’s a formal government recall this time. www.productsafety.gov.au/search-consu...

The episode has been taken down from YouTube (due to copyright lulz) so get it here

Must be Albo's fault

Narrator: His critics can't be satisfied. The criticism is the ends, not the means, where ghouls compete to see who can climb atop a pile of dead bodies to shout the loudest.

Little men have had a busy day.

Well I'm fucked... You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Season one of YA tv series: fresh faced kids in their first acting job Season two: 30 year olds pretending to be 15

There is no gun "debate". There are not two equal sides. It is almost everyone vs almost no one. 70% of Australians wanted tougher gun laws *before* Bondi. More below, full results here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/polli...

I'm not planning on getting another tattoo, but if I was...

Why did this remind me of @bogwitch.bsky.social ? Hmm, no reason...

This is what happens when you snort oil shale

Sure do love spending an hour trying to diagnose random arcane Linux networking issues before I can actually do some basic stuff >< Don't get me wrong, I like Linux a lot, it's just niggling problems that crop up like that far too frequently

Why has every day this week felt like Friday?

I got a near little detachable camera mount in the black friday deals, but the mount point to my camera was always a bit loose. Cleaning up yesterday I went to toss the box the mount came in - inside were tools to help mount the camera. I should check "empty" packaging more often

Day 9️⃣ of gifting coming in 🔥

As Pauline Hanson uses this appalling attack to score political points through her usual disgusting, divisive, racist, comments, remember, this is who One Nation really is. They do not care about Australians.

I thought Helmut Marko was a shoe in for the job

Another chat with an American 3D printer person who can't understand that not everywhere in the world has access to everything they do, and prices can wildly fluctuate. Great you can get your resin for 15 freedom bucks, it's over AUD30 here, if available.

I'm no literary expert but I really do believe that... Fantasy is not a genre. Sci-Fi is not a genre. Both are settings. You can have various genres in those settings (thriller, action, romance (or romantasy if you prefer)) but they're where those genres take place, not a whole genre itself

Rob Reiner, the legendary director and actor who rose to prominence in 'All in the Family' and went on to direct classics 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me,' and 'The Princess Bride,' was found dead in his home alongside his wife. Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

This is awful www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...

If 2026 could stop with the body punches that would be really fucking great

Heartening to hear that #Canberra blood banks are filling up with donors today. I'm sure the same is happening in Sydney and all across the country. Australia at its best.

@danietreg.bsky.social random D-Treg sighting on the Red site ;)