Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

The #AFL really does not give a shit about their women's competition. Every year the floating mens fixture screws over the womens games. The lack of respect and desire to truly grow the women's comp is infuriating

an idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

The most depressing thing about swift parrots is that this same story has been told repeatedly for the entire 16 years I’ve been working on them - same terrible conservation outcomes again and again with no changes to Tasmanian forest management www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

What happened when a rare bird found a place to nest near a logging coupe

It was late 2021 when one of Australia's rarest birds started to arrive in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had expected it but for a reacting forestry sector, it was "not sustainable".

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Tasmanian gvt signed off on logging of a crucial breeding ground of the highly endangered Swift parrot. Reminder: logging of native Tasmanian forests operates at a financial loss and leans on gvt subsidies to continue. $2.3 billion loss over two decades to 2018 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

What happened when a rare bird found a place to nest near a logging coupe

It was late 2021 when one of Australia's rarest birds started to arrive in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had expected it but for a reacting forestry sector, it was "not sustainable".

abc.net.au

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia

Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials....

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Obviously Donald Trump is not an expert in refrigerants, but you can be, and understand why these decisions can be hugely consequential for climate change, if you read this quick 🧵:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Trump: "There's nothing wrong with the refrigerant other than sometimes it makes your food too cold. Its alternative costs about twice as much and it doesn't cool your food at all. Everyone that has it practically has gone bankrupt because their food has rotted."

I honestly don't know why people aren't more pissed off about AI. They're taking everything and we get nothing.

My column today on what really is causing inflation and also how the RBA really don't have a clue www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Rising profit margins turbocharged Australia’s latest inflation figures – but something worse is just around the corner | Greg Jericho

Fuel supply shock from Iran – not too many wage rises – will be the driver of higher figures in June

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The GDP data was pretty clear on what caused the bump in inflation at the end of 2025 - profits. The RBA had access to this data, and decided, nahhhhh, it's too many people with jobs wanting big pay rises. (hope you all enjoyed that pay rise!) www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Worth reading in its entirety. Lots of implications, but one I keep coming back to is that a generational window of opportunity may be closing for shifting freight back to rail - and winning the huge pollutant, road safety, and energy efficiency benefits that come with that shift. No time to lose!

Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In Nov, I wrote about how major economic forecasters are underestimating oil demand destruction and a big reason is that they did not see the rapid adoption of electric heavy duty trucks. I also noted how until recently, I didn't either. I do now. 54% of truck sales in China in December. Wow.

Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋 Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Public owns the gas under the ground. Royalties are the fees gas companies pay to use this gas. But most gas exporters pay no royalties, and minimal tax. In the past four years, $149 billion worth of LNG was exported from Australia royalty-free. australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

Australia’s gas policy mess

Gas companies and the Australian government claim that Australia faces gas shortages, while multinational exporters are shipping record volumes of gas out of Australia. The prices that Australians pay...

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📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement. If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal: robodebtsettlement.com.au

As the tech industry increasingly turns to onsite fossil fuel power for data centers, what does this mean for nearby communities? A new study evaluates the impacts of fine particulate matter from a VA facility's onsite power system & finds $53M–$99M/yr in health damages.

Press Release: New Study Finds On-Site Power at Virginia Data Center Could Result in $53 Million–$99 Million in Annual Health Damages - The Piedmont Environmental Council

A new independent analysis finds that emissions from the Vantage Data Center’s permitted on-site power system in Loudoun County could result in $53 million–$99 million per year in health-related damag...

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Research from The Australia Institute shows that, after inflation, specialist fees have grown by a whopping 78% since 2010. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/40rxWu0

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...

New article by our PhD student investigating if Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes can be used to trace the provenance of ochres... Hint they can! ⚒️🧪🌏 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Winter sport needs snow-not fossil fuels Eni, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas corporations, is using the Winter Olympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction If you agree that polluters shouldn’t get a podium at the Games, share the video (Proudly human-made. No AI) #WinterOlympics

Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.

Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents

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Politics is about choices. This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined. While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.

Politicians (Pelosi just did it) and institutions routinely misquote MLK on health. "Health" became "health care" (shrinking a systemic indictment to a service delivery complaint) "Inhuman" became "inhumane" (a very different word) "Because it often results in physical death" just disappeared.

They've Been Misquoting King for Decades, and the Changes Are Revealing | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

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It was inevitable.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

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Here’s @jsresearchpro.bsky.social reporting on ridiculous new ARC grant time-scales (e.g. 16 months for DPs). The ARC “did not respond to questions about the reasons for the length of the delays or on how the changes will affect researchers’ planning”. I reckon they haven’t thought that far ahead.

Labor is passing laws that are more extreme than what Trump has attempted, on immigration and speech, largely at the behest of the media. But if Trump tried to do it, the same outlets would say they were bad, fascistic overreach. Insanely dumb country.

$600,000. A. Day. What the fuck.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 7mo ago

Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows

This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2

Cell - a Cell Press journal@cp-cell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now online! Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis

If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It is 2016. I am in an apartment in Balaclava, Melbourne, working on the issue of Robodebt It is 2026. I am in Tungamah, assisting a client to register for compensation in the Robodebt class settlement