Once people believe that anything good could be a clandestine plan for evil, it must make them fear everything that’s new. The ironic truth is the most prominent evil is as old as the hills: greedy oligarchs collecting all the wealth through exploited labour and poisoning the world for everyone.

Liam Hogan@liamhogan.id.au · 19h ago

The 15 minute city conspiracy theory is very weird to me because it’s just a straight description of urban spaces that are good. Why would you be against proximity to services and infrastructure

In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate

Finn Peacock of SolarQuotes said something that stuck with me: The highest value kWh in your battery is the first one. Every one you add after that will get less and less utilisation, meaning its ROI is lower.

“We must protect political debate by stopping any protesters and media who present things that make us look bad.” chaser.com.au/national/pol...

For a local comparison, Australia's corporate tax rates: 1987: 49% 1990: 39% 2025: 30% That's a whole lot of corporate income that is going to corporations and not to citizens. Source: statbase.org/data/aus-cor...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

“Big AI is sitting back and laughing as governments fall over themselves in a race to the bottom to accommodate its every whim. Australia must present a united front in the face of this new extractive industry.” The State of New York has imposed a one-year moratorium. Australia should too. #auspol

The Point@thepointau.bsky.social · 2d ago

The party says a pause would give Canberra time to establish rules about issues such as energy use, water consumption, emissions and community impacts before any more large-scale projects get the green light. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260803-g...

"The only thing stopping Australia from introducing new taxes on the gas industry is the insecurity of our elected leaders." Read an excerpt from co-CEO Richard Denniss' latest Vantage Point essay 'More Fool Me: How the gas industry tricked Australia', in Crikey! #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

I don’t remember this scene from Alien vs. Predator.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump having a normal one today

[Caption this photo] “Where are we at on the deal to get this guy’s hand enlargement tech?”

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump having a normal one today

Do they not remember Finding Dory’s Hank?! Creating a farm of these super-intelligent crafty sea creatures sounds like a premise for a nature’s revenge suspense movie. 🏃🏻🔫🐙

Robb Edwards 🌱@robedwards1.bsky.social · 4d ago

A historic win for #octopuses! Plans for the world’s first octopus farm have been stopped, but the fight isn’t over. Join the movement to protect these intelligent animals! #StopOctopusFarming bit.ly/4yV0zQy

I should say, though, I can no longer stomach fiction where the premise is a near-future apocalypse, because that’s just too much like non-fiction. 😰🌏💚

In my 30s I switched my bedtime reading from non-fiction (technology and business stuff) to fiction. Feels so much better to empty the world out of my head just before sleeping than to start thinking about ways I could fix it.

John Birmingham@birmo.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you’re trying to rediscover your love of reading, you should probably start by reading something you’re going to love. It doesn’t have to be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, just something you will enjoy.

Pro Tip: If you don’t want people offering advice about your problems, don’t start a public conversation about them on social media.

12/ Refusing a licence is a public act anyone can check, unlike a target for 2050 that lands on someone else's watch. Each refusal makes the next one easier, which is how "no new fossil fuel projects" becomes a norm rather than a slogan.

6/ So why does refusing a licence feel like it achieves nothing? Because a country's inventory only counts emissions inside its borders. The barrel you leave down there cuts global emissions and earns you no credit at all, so no government has any reason to do it.

You’ve gotta be a pretty terrible LNP leader to have Samantha Maiden run a fact check takedown of your speech that lets Labor be the voice of reason. 🤯 #auspol

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 5d ago

Kind of stunning how someone can actually be worse at the job than Dutton. www.news.com.au/national/pol...

This photo! It's the whole story in one snapshot. 10/10 🧑‍🍳💋 Lukas Coch #auspol

Tony Cartledge@decentral21.bsky.social · 5d ago

Extreme? PHONy? Noooooo. Really? #Auspol "Political insiders ... say he is growing increasingly frustrated and uncomfortable as he’s forced to confront One Nation’s more extreme elements, including the conspiratorial views of Qld senator Malcolm Roberts." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

🌍 GOOD CLIMATE NEWS | JULY 2026 Here's your monthly reminder that while the climate challenge is real, so is the progress being made.

In fifteen years, the UK has deleted coal power from their power system, halved fossil gas use, replaced most of that with wind and solar, and the country has not suffered the hellish blackout apocalypse conservatives and media outlets promised would happen. ember-energy.org/data/electri...

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.

“It is not radical to say we are entitled to better. It is not a threat to progress to stand up to a system that facilitated Hanson’s success. We need more voices offering evidence-based, community-informed policies. [Our] democracy will be better for it.” 👏👏👏 @hannahferguson.bsky.social ! #auspol

Tony Cartledge@decentral21.bsky.social · last wk.

Excellent. Even if she loses she's bound to amass a shitload of votes to put the wind up Albo. And if she wins? It will revolutionise the Indie movement. Go, Hannah! #Auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS

Narrator: it was, in fact, exactly what scientists warned about

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.

The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

Get ALL corporations out of politics. Democracy is for the PEOPLE!!

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last wk.

We need to get to 100% renewable energy, and the only way we're going to do that is by taking the Chevrons and the Exxons of the world out of our politics.