The Romanian navy blowing up a huge rock to redirect water to a nuclear power plant to help cool it down during a fossil-fuelled heatwave

‘Burnt out architect’ on Instagram with some pithy truth telling… @studioalternativi

Badminton shuttlecock prices surge 30% in Japan on China's feather shortage As avian flu takes toll, Yonex and other producers look to synthetic alternatives trib.al/lcRp3bA

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

“For a city so determined to project confidence, Sydney remains remarkably startled by contemporary culture and provocative self-expression. A culturally confident city expects difficult art. An insecure city expects decoration.”

Queer art and the moral panic over Divine Playhouse

With the shuttering of a new queer theatre in a former church, Sydney is suffering yet another moral panic.

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Sobering stuff…a RC should explore these issues along the entire eastern seaboard

Where will Victoria’s royal commission lead?

In the week of Jacinta Allan's ousting as Victorian premier, Labor insiders reveal what they expect out of the royal commission into the construction sector.

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Congrats to @meganjherbert.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social and me for being nominated for cartoons in the Kennedy Awards!

In my brief experience…this was applicable to all of LinkedIn…

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 7d ago

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

Thinking for yourself the new elitism.

Australia has skills shortages, yet almost half of skilled migrants are working below their qualification level. A clogged recognition system is wasting teachers, nurses, engineers and tradespeople already here, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Migration #Skills

Australia is wasting the skills migrants bring

Almost half of skilled migrants are working below their qualification level, while Australia’s complex recognition system leaves urgently needed teachers, nurses, engineers and tradespeople underused.

pearlsandirritations.com

Burning. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Is there anything that more exemplifies the anti-intellectualism of the current age? AI companies like Anthropic are buying rare books, breaking the spine to allow for fast scanning, then shredding them... even if they're the last copies on the planet. (Tweet 27/7/24. Full text in ALT)

We need an alternative to the sovereignty destroying, secretive, wasteful ,warmongering AUKUS fiasco. Labor must focus on cost of living, climate change, housing, health and education. Threatening Rex Patrick with costs in order to hide plans for a nuclear waste dump stinks!

Another abysmal decision by the Federal Labor government - unrecognisable from the values it held and defended in past times.

Anger at Labor as Rex Patrick faces potential six-figure legal fee if he loses Aukus documents battle

Australian government insists legal costs should be paid by former senator as FoI fight escalates

theguardian.com

Two way street. My @smh cartoon.

Me…at the Odyssey the other night…

Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · last wk.

Me out loud: “I love the communal experience of going to the cinema” Me in my head: “Every single person in this cinema needs to fuck off.”

The younger generation will never know the struggle of having to whittle our televisions straight out of the tree.

David Speers asserts some Labor members are “anti American”. Surely he understands the difference between being anti American and opposing US warmongering, hegemony, imperialism and committing war crimes. #Insiders

Didn't end up doing this one for the Guardian today but here's my cartoon on Pauline's DV comments

If the ALP started thinking and sounding more like Husic and less like Albanese - there might be a reason to start listening again…for me at any rate…

Albanese’s iron grip has delivered unity, but the harder battle lies ahead

How can a governing party maintain discipline without losing the ability to listen, debate and persuade? It is a question Labor has been grappling with as it confronts One Nation.

smh.com.au

A dwelling deprived individual's art:

Agamemnon definitely had the best outfit of the Odyssey. When they opened the gates of Troy and he was standing - resplendent - I thought is this the siege of Troy or Eurovision?

Not new…but devastatingly succinct and frightening…

The case against AUKUS

As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

I don't need a life coach. I need someone to follow me around and yell "that's a terrible idea" while threatening me with a spray bottle at the appropriate times

Jetzt übertreibt er es aber... 🤭😂😂

Sit down.

Addendum: the Seven Sisters songline is shared by most First Nations people across Australia. Similar stories were told by other ancient peoples in other countries, and may describe the ‘disappearance’ of one of the visible stars 100,000 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_S...

Seven Sisters songline - Wikipedia

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