1/4 In August the Rhine at Kaub, its shallowest point, fell below 10cm. The previous record low, set in 2018, was 25cm. In June 2025 the body regulating Rhine shipping said flow would not clearly change before 2050, and deferred any decision on measures to 2027. www.ccr-zkr.org/files/infovo...

You reckon there might be a lesson in this for some other navy procurement we have going on

Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 21h ago

Pound for pound these are most expensive warships on the planet. At $9b a pop Hunter Frigates are an obscene waste of money. When I asked Defence officials if there were any more expensive warships on the planet - they mumbled something about US nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

NEW: This must one of the most violent natural disasters ever recorded. This is the immigration centre on Nepal’s border at 11am, this morning (Aug 26). That is a seven-storey building about to be obliterated in seconds. (🎥 NDTV)

Excellent piece here www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

www.ft.com/content/8158... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

We couldn't do a 25% tax of gas exports. Those gas companies are truly battling to break even. Good thing the govt is caring for them.

So good that the RBA is worried about wage growth driving up inflation...

It has the special celebratory sparks!

Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · last wk.

the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.

Is this what it will take for those in power to wake the fuck up about the need for climate action?

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 2w ago

“And now the weather…”

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

I remember when someone tried to argue with me about this on here, saying it was survivorship bias, and not my own comparisons of the same brands' material quality and stitching over the past 30+ years. Anyway, yes shit is actually more poorly made now than it used to be even a short while ago.

Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

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Australia’s government-run “carbon neutral” certification scheme is being wound up. It is good news for the climate https://reneweconomy.com.au/climate-active-is-dead-the-funeral-will-not-be-certified-carbon-neutral/

Climate Active is dead. The funeral will not be certified carbon neutral

Australia's government-run "carbon neutral" certification scheme is being wound up. It is good news for the climate.

reneweconomy.com.au

Unusually hot & dry conditions worldwide have fueled a deadly wildfire season, costing lives and destroying communities. “If these infernos don’t bring policymakers to their senses and force necessary changes to grapple with the fossil fueled climate crisis, what will?” writes UCS's Rachel Cleetus:

A World Ablaze: The Climate Future We Feared is Here - Union of Concerned Scientists

Unusually hot, dry conditions across many parts of the world—including in Algeria, Canada, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and the western United States—have set the stage for the catastrophic wildfire season underway now. Just over this weekend, rapidly spreading wildfires have exploded around Spokane, Washington, forcing nearly 65,000 people to evacuate thus far. Unrelenting hot dry weather, supercharged by climate change, is contributing to the dangerous conditions causing these fires.

blog.ucs.org

Any remaining programmer who thinks Musk is a galaxy mind genius should look into this for, like, 10 minutes and figure out this guy's as thick as two short planks.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4w ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Anthony Albanese – the great Australian sellout. From salmon to supermarkets, gas to gambling – we detected a pattern. Albanese consistently backs powerful lobbyists. www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...

Albanese keeps backing lobbyists over public opinion, our analysis shows

From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza, the PM has consistently backed those with power and wealth

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Two thirds of all the climate impacts we experience comes from fossil fuel combustion that produced energy that was NEVER USED BY PEOPLE. It was dumped as waste heat and noise, because the conversion process is so comically inefficient that is inherently funny, and fossil fuels are inherently silly

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 12mo ago

From my file on the IEA's world energy outlook. "Primary energy" = what goes in "Final energy" = what comes out a The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful. So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>

Film you've watched more than 6 times (hard mode: no franchises)

Leeloo's Multipass

Alt: A short clip from the movie The Fifth Element, showing Leeloo's Multipass

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@stemwinder@stemwinder.bsky.social · last mo.

Film you've watched more than 6 times (hard mode: no franchises)

Huh. Sure sounds like an industry of serial law breakers, pretending that actually the computer program that we designed, wrote, and ran did the crimes, not us.

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...

Has the whole place gone insane or what

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

A government official in Australia says the Northern Territory needs data centres to use lots of water so......the Earth's axis doesn't flip

This guy making half the politicians in the Anglosphere look like cowards and the other half appeasers

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

On the other hand, this is a great way to illustrate the spacial inefficiency of cars. It's good reminder that cars aren't a technology problem; they're a geometry problem. Or, as @doctorow.pluralistic.net succinctly put it, "Geometry hates cars."

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · last mo.

this shot is so bleak lmao

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Rosa Diaz's Funny Face in Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Alt: Rosa Diaz and Terry Jeffords from Brooklyn Nine-Nine making funny faces at each other

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Graham Lea@evolvable.bsky.social · last mo.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · last mo.

BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.

Oh yeah we're fucked this coming summer

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2mo ago

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

live the kind of life that has MUSEUMS posting nicely about you lmao

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Farewell to the extraordinary Sam Neill. Among his brilliant highlights, we'll remember him for his wonderful social media updates about his farm and his many brilliantly-named animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaK...

We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...

We Counted All the Errors in Jillian Segal’s Attack on the ABC and SBS

Jillian Segal wants a new body to vet journalism. If she had submitted her evidence in front of the Royal Commission as an article to a newsdesk, it wouldn’t pass fact-check.

lamestream.com.au

When the right wing exploded in ridiculous outrage over Mamdani's 78F thermostat advice, it was a smokescreen for a deeper attack on energy efficiency that serves only one constituent: the fossil fuel industry Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Energy Efficiency Is No Communist Plot

Of all the culture-war flash points that could become political wedge issues, you might think “don’t waste energy” would be toward the bottom of the list, down around “a hot dog is a sandwich” and “pu...

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