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An Antipodean disciple of Brandolini's Law trying not to succumb to it. It’s a pity we’re so bad at the whole ‘equitable distribution’ thing. Personal account, etc.
Looking forward to paying not to be gaffer-taped to the outside of the fuselage.
‘Just an easy cash grab’: why Jetstar is charging customers for carry-on luggage
Add-on fees such as the new overhead locker baggage charge can make it more difficult to compare air fares, experts say
theguardian.com
Just. 👏 Remove him. 👏 From office. 👏
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h agoTrump: "Nobody knows that 'dumb' doesn't have a B" (Dear reader, it has a B)
House prices have been growing three times faster than wages since 1999. If first home buyers are going to get a chance, we need a temporary drop in house prices. We need a public developer to build and sell homes people can actually afford. www.afr.com/property/res...
Top-end property prices hit hardest as housing slump deepens
Sydney led a national housing market downturn, tumbling 1.4 per cent in July alone as premium properties took the brunt of the fall with a 1.8 per cent decline.
afr.com
Ooh I know this one. Are the answers, a) Very hot, and; b) Because they’re very hot?
What are fire tornadoes and why are they so dangerous?
Fire tornadoes can rapidly change fire behaviour and make firefighting more dangerous.
euronews.com
It’s just war crimes all the way down at this point.
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 13h agoIsraeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops
His point was that teaching more words to the word-guessing program would produce consciousness, an argument I always liken to "breeding horses to run faster and faster until one of them foals a locomotive." 11/
hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... @doctorow.pluralistic.net shared this corker in his @thenerve.news column by Nikhil Suresh: enterprise AI is a mania of emperor's new clothes, only the fierce loyalist survive culls yet few can show tangible CEO claims that AI is "changing everything" when it's not
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
hermit-tech.com
The Wikimedia Foundation is acing the test. Unfortunately it's for doing the wrong thing every step of the way. medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia
How the Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook
The word “textbook” usually gets used loosely. Here it applies literally. There is an actual scholarly literature on how American employers…
medium.com
"While renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels in nearly all circumstances, fossil fuels are more profitable, because useful reserves are limited and can each be monopolised by a single corporation, while prices can suddenly take flight in times of war or chaos." -George Monbiot
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15h agoMy column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
It's difficult for words to convey just how disappointing this NSW Govt decision really is. Apparently, some kinds of hate deserve criminal punishment, while others don't. And the main difference seems to be whether faith groups are doing the hating. #nswpol #auslaw www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
NSW government rejects own inquiry’s hate speech findings after months of delay
The Minns government will ignore the key recommendation of its own inquiry into hate speech laws.
smh.com.au
Respectfully, which is the “shithole country” now, eh?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 20h agoOutbreak of Cyclospora parasite spreads even further across United States
Gimme an L Gimme an O Gimme another L
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Tmurp copying an Australian federal government policy. Again.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Palestinians in Gaza held funeral prayers on Tuesday for 112 people recovered from under the rubble of homes destroyed during Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave, Anadolu reports. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-pal...
Cute.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoMembers of the Democratic Socialists of America, the country’s largest socialist organization, recently gathered in Chicago at a moment of surging political influence. Our reporter Kellen Browning went to the DSA’s national summit to learn more about the group’s new platform. nyti.ms/4z0iFAE
Were those the “long range precision missiles” that killed 300 schoolgirls in a single strike?
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...