My parents were low income so I often just browsed game shops as a kid. Sometimes mum let me get a game. It'd cost her whole day's wage and a chunk of our rent. Dad once told me to check under the car seat and Pokemon Red was there in a bag. Ownership isn't the only thing we lose with physical media

New package on CRAN! {skymodelr} allows you to generate glorious high dynamic range skydomes in #RStats at any place and date/time! Realistic radiance, 0-15000m altitude, stars, planets, and of course, the moon: modeled with the correct phase and brightness! #rayverse GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

I know it may not feel it - because well... winter - but winter this year really have been crazy hot in the south east. Charts for Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart below. And it's only likely to get hotter from here, but for the rest of this year and for the rest of the century.

Harry Saddler@harrysaddler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There are plants flowering in my local area now, in June, that normally flower in November, and this article from the national broadcaster uses words like “enjoy” and “rejoice” to describe weather which is frankly terrifying, and doesn’t even mention climate change: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Fair to say this was written in anger, frustration and despair. The NDIS cuts, and the way they are being done, are cruel. They cannot be supported. www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-min...

Health minister wants to cut disability support by 99% without legislation - Greg Jericho

Labor's cruel NDIS cuts will make it worse for families like mine

deepcutnews.com

Today we launched a dive into the "less lethal" weapons some police are using against crowds in Australia—and about which very little is publicly known. These are projectiles that release powder designed to burn the eyes and throat. Flashbang grenades. Teargas. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about

Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds w...

theguardian.com

There's already a lot of misinformation about this year's forecast El Niño, and particularly the prospects of associated drought. This is an excellent correction from @climatefreund.bsky.social who knows more about ENSO and rainfall than just about anyone. TLDR: Hot and dry aren't the same thing!

What is Godzilla El Niño?

The odds of a ‘monster El Niño’ developing this year are now as high as 80 per cent. But that is a risk factor not a definite forecast – a big El Niño does not necessarily mean a big dry for Australia...

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

Really great to have our cool spaces map featured on the BBC (apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/) and a shout out for London's water fountains (apps.london.gov.uk/water-founta...). Both built by @halimahexe.bsky.social using our London City Data Design System (LCD-DS) and #svelte component library!

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

London’s Cool Spaces map can help you find nearby libraries, community centres, shopping centres and other public places to stop, rest and cool down. Bookmark this for hot days: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

We’re doing a *lot* of infrastructure work in Quarto 2 to enable these sorts of direct manipulation affordances in the foundations, and it’s seriously tricky work. That Emil’s extension pulls it off in Quarto 1 is bewildering. Super cool.

Emil Hvitfeldt@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm back with the biggest release of quarto-revealjs-editable to date 🙌 You no longer have to add .editable to anything, now you just click the Modify button, click on the element you want to move/edit and it becomes editable. emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto #slidecrafing

Australia Post: we should teach people how to avoid phishing scams Also Australia Post: we should save 7 characters in our texts by making a shortener with a domain from an overseas ccTLD and then not even stand a page or a redirect up on that site

@tylermw.com's skymodelr package is so rad. So incredible what we can do with just a bit of #rstats code in 2026. Made myself a lovely new macOS Dynamic Wallpaper with skymodelr and the (also great) equinoxmac.com app.

🚨Job alert🚨 The Social Research Centre do lots of interesting research and Danny would be great to work with. If you do data work and are looking for something in Melbourne, check it out! #databs www.linkedin.com/posts/dvfrye...

Now hiring! Come work with me as a Data Processing Analyst (junior) and Data Solutions Engineer (mid-level). Hybrid with 3 days per week in our Melbourne CBD office. Great fit for people wanting to… |...

Now hiring! Come work with me as a Data Processing Analyst (junior) and Data Solutions Engineer (mid-level). Hybrid with 3 days per week in our Melbourne CBD office. Great fit for people wanting to ap...

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It’s time for Australia to move on from ‘affordable’ housing. inflectionpoints.work/articles/aga...

Against ‘Affordable’ Housing | Inflection Points

It’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t.

inflectionpoints.work

if anyone in R or Python ever thought "gee I'd like to contribute to GDAL", I'm here to help you get started can guide you through good approaches, what to think about, and what's bare minimum for a bug fix or feature PR, and the python and C++ tooling you will need (speaking linux)

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

Deeply disappointed that UniSuper is furthering loosening the negative screens in its green investment options to allow more weaponry.

IT'S NOT EVEN A REAL FIGURE! THE CLAIM THAT 7.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS TOOK SICK LEAVE IN 2023/24 IS AN ASSUMPTION PLUCKED FROM FUCKEN THIN AIR! THEY TOOK THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE AND MULTIPLIED IT BY 0.8! WHERE DOES 0.8 COME FROM? IT'S A FUCKEN GUESS!

Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 3mo ago

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.

Holy shit! Someone has pledged $100k to the AYCC to match any donations that come through today! This means the impact of every dollar you donate today is doubled. 💛 Get all the way amongst it here: www.aycc.org.au/emergencyapp...

AYCC Next Generation Fund

Help build the next generation of climate justice leaders by making a donation today.

aycc.org.au

I met so many smart, kind, tough-as-fuck people through @youth4climate.bsky.social. AYCC taught me climate activism is climate hope. They desperately need a hand to light that fire for another generation. They’re a fantastic org that is deserving of your money emergencyappeal2026.raiselysite.com

AYCC Next Generation Fund

Help build the next generation of climate justice leaders by making a donation today.

emergencyappeal2026.raiselysite.com

It is simply fucking unacceptable that @youth4climate.bsky.social (aka the AYCC) might be forced to close for good after 20 years, and I will not be letting this happen. If I find out a single one of you hasn't given what you are able, I will lose my fucking mind.

AYCC Next Generation Fund

Help build the next generation of climate justice leaders by making a donation today.

emergencyappeal2026.raiselysite.com

This is a very big life update, and has been a plan I have been working on for several years. I'm pretty stoked tbh.

Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 4mo ago

So I made a bit of a thing. I hope you like it. www.naruresearch.com.au

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

I’m generally ambivalent about Liquid Glass, but if a real bubble meter sloshed around like this I would be quite frustrated

Given February is the hottest month of the year for the Coral Sea (averages 28.8°C for 1991-2020), and it’s currently at an all time record of 29.5°C, you really don’t want tropical cyclones going overhead. Warm water = Tropical Cyclone fuel www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/clim...

David Jones@ozhillbilly.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Coral Sea is currently record warm atm. The region has had its hotter year, summer and February on record, breaking record mostly set in the last two years. www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/clim...

“Tropical Cyclone Narelle has developed in the Coral Sea, and is expected to bring severe impacts to Far North Queensland.” www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

It’s kind of astonishing how good the Kobo’s @myscript.com-powered notebook experience is given these devices are like a third the price of a Remarkable. Genuinely did not think the hardware would be able to handle it

new package alert! {tidychain} is a #rstats packaged inspired by the below authors experience in showing how an excel file was changed / manipulated by looking at the underlying xml files to prove fraud in research datacolada.org/109package usrbinr.codeberg.page/tidychain/

We had some great sport entries to last year’s Closeread contest — get in for a great job opportunity here!

B. David Tyler@drbdt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1 day left to apply for Sport Data visuals journalist at The Guardian. jobs.theguardian.com/job/10032205...