Stark. Brutal. Deadly. This is the temp map forecast for France for 5pm this afternoon.

Literally doing the "are we the baddies?" sketch while fantasising about killing hobbits.

"Had the major parties met their constituents’ material needs, addressed the fury around price-gouging, fixed housing, and stopped legislating for sectional interests against the national interest, the door would have been closed"

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

An excellent announcement today: 'The VIC Energy Jobs Plan will deliver 68,000 energy jobs with 37 per cent in regional Victoria. These jobs will be critical as Victoria works towards 95% renewable energy generation by 2035'. www.premier.vic.gov.au/our-18-billi...

The burning of fossil fuels in the past should have been prevented The burning of fossil fuels in the future is still preventable We can stop making the same mistake Help us do that

not sure how common this is across London but look at this amazing tree cover / shading on old street. This type of stuff saves lives during extreme heat events like we're experiencing this week

#DataCenters You know what to do.

This hurts my heart. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Fed Govt is seeking to open up new areas of ocean between Tas and Vic for the oil and gas companies. This priceless natural environment is already under threat from the twin climate and extinction crises. We should end this madness now. #auspol #politas

A couple of dead seabirds have been found on an SA beach and will be tested. We'll be hearing about every dead/sick bird now. But better that than ignoring what's coming. Also, we'll have the migratory birds returning from the arctic regions soon (around Sept). It's terrifying.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

We used to be a proper country

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The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

funny how that works

Friends of the Earth Australia + Independent MP Sophie Scamps join the call for a moratorium on data centre developments in Australia to allow for rational, community focused, climate-first policy -->>> www.foe.org.au/ai_moratorium

Mona Khalil dedicated decades of her life to protecting the sea turtles and coastline of Mansouri, southern Lebanon. This month, Israeli strikes killed her. Her loss is not only a loss for her family and community, but for the environmental movement in Lebanon, the region and beyond. 💔

Hugely important story from Queensland where Indigenous people are being dropped from any positions of influence. This is just the start. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This is incredible. What the hell is going on?!

Snowgums are stunning trees. The Fires have done huge damage to them and their traditional understory environment. Losing them is like losing Gliders or Koalas.

Press Gallery Go An Hour Without Embarrassing Themselves Challenge

Our campaign launch is happening tomorrow night - we are working to get federal listing for snow gums due to threats from fire & dieback. www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_cam...

What if we just believed young people when they say it’s because of climate change and being broke?

Juliet Lamont was raped and tortured by Israeli soldiers. this is her story, told by Andrew Brown. #gaza #flotilla #auspol #IDF michaelwest.com.au/israeli-sold...

Why tho?

Past 24hrs: Penny Wong sanctioned West Bank Israeli settlers & entities for horrific violence against Palestinians. Charlie Pickering also gave an interview to a DV offender/former IDF soldier scolding Grace Tame's new ABC autism podcast. Guess which story got dozens of writeups & which barely any?

Did a AI write this?

one more ceo sleepout will turn this around. one more cost of living tax cut. just one more foodbank drive, I swear www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Americans finding novel, more expensive and less convenient ways to invent the bus.

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

Man who pays so much less tax from the CGT 50%discount that spending on a billboard $17,500 is no big deal

"one of the main proponents of the social media campaign, startup founder Frank Greeff, admitted that it favoured attention over accuracy." Always incredible how the rich/business/conservatives are allowed to lie and the media writes it up as a minor point www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Labor needs to respond immediately to the reports CSIRO will tomorrow sack a THIRD of the team working on Australia’s national climate model. Australia’s climate science capability is globally significant & locally irreplaceable. A shameful way to treat our scientists.

Pre-Collapse America determined to do its finest impression of the last days of the Ancien Regime for some reason

Won't somebody think of the founders???

In the Yarra Ranges LGA there are 1,088 listings on the Airbnb platform alone but only 90 long term rentals. Most of these places are empty for almost the entire year. Fuck short-stay accomodation off x

If Chalmers' staffers don't have a framed version of this up in his office by tomorrow they aren't doing their jobs right.

The Oz managed to find a bloke on Struggle Street willing to stand in front of his Porsche and complain about being hard done by. Actual quote: "as he approaches his 80th year, Mr Conkey is contemplating adding another investment property to his portfolio.”

AI proponents love making the point that it is a sociotechnological leap on par with the industrial revolution, without acknowledging the extraordinary mortality rate of the early industrial era before safety guardrails were forced upon rapacious industries.

Tl;dr: Banks are packaging up massive amounts of AI data centre debt and selling it to institutional investors to offload the risk. I know comparing the AI bubble to the housing bubble is a cliche, but we're One Weird Trick away from redoing the subprime mortgage securities crisis.

Living in a rural area and working with populations facing socioeconomic disadvantage you’d never witness in the city, it doesn’t feel hard to understand why people would outright refuse to vote for either Labor or Liberals

Home prices in Victoria rose just 2 per cent in the two-and-a-half years since property tax changes were announced in May 2023. Meanwhile, investor-friendly markets like Perth are still experiencing 20 per cent yearly housing price growth. satpa.pe/OtAJgNN

The very rich don't make money the same way everyone else does - they seek income that is easier to avoid paying tax on (and use the tax system that is set up to ensure richer people can avoid paying tax) www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The ALP report from the Senate Gas Tax inquiry said our submission "criticised the relatively low level of tax paid by gas companies under the PRRT regime over carefully selected time periods." Our carefully selected time periods...

We’re not angry enough. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

The article was updated five hours after publication to add information identifying the report as self-interested lobbying propaganda, and some actual content from the report. This means the ABC initially published an industry lobby press release largely unmolested. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

This is such a ridiculous way to frame the topic, bordering on outright disingenuous. The report this headline is based on includes employer provided sick leave as "income support". The "more than 8 million Australians on income support" includes 7.5 million people who took any sick leave.

This is the report they're basing this story on can someone tell the ABC that sick leave isn't an income support payment?

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