This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
This footage shows a dolphin carrying the dead body of her 2-week-old calf. Learn more about this mother, whom researchers have named Fraggle, and what scientists say about such expressions of grief in animals: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...
🇯🇵 🌡️ Tokyo delivery worker 'pushing through' sweltering heat In the heat of Japan's capital, Hiroto Uchida "keeps pushing through," delivering parcels around the city. "When I first started, I felt like I was going to collapse," says the worker with one of Japan's largest delivery companies
My 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...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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For many years, this hawthorn grew alone in an open landscape. Now a young species-rich rainforest ecosystem is building all around. Nature loss isn't inevitable: it *can* be reversed, through rewilding.
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
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I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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Is Australia even talking about the water these Data centres will consume? I take it people will be happy that the water being used for Data centres may be the water needed to protect their homes/schools/hospitals from fire #auspol
‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities
‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities
Increasingly erratic weather patterns due to climate change mean people are losing homes, crops and livestock
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Butterflies around the world are changing habitats - and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
Butterflies around the world are changing habitats - and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Butterflies, often considered a “sentinel of change”, are on the move across every continent they inhabit, shifting to survive as global heating reshapes their environment. About one in 10 species have already expanded or contracted their geographic range, or shifted in altitude, according to a global study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Continue reading...
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Europe shuts nuclear power plants due to drought. Now imagine putting nuclear power plants on the driest inhabited continent on earth 🙄
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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From me. Almost 400 native Australian bird and mammal species have been assessed as being at a high risk – or worse – from the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a federal government assessment has revealed.
Penguins and dolphins among nearly 400 Australian species under threat from bird flu as ‘true extent of disaster’ revealed
Assessment of more than 2,000 native species warns nearly one in five at high risk of deadly H5N1, including parrots, fur seals and quolls
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This is a depressing read but we all need to be aware of the terrible potential of the bird flu that has finally made its way to Australia and New Zealand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'List of doom' outlines birds facing extinction if deadly flu spreads
A list of thousands of Australian species have been ranked by threat level as the deadly H5 bird flu spreads.
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"Plug-in systems can be used by renters and people living in apartments who can’t access traditional rooftop solar. If they’re good enough for Germany and the UK, they’re good enough for us." reneweconomy.com.au/if-theyre-go...
"If they're good enough for Germany..." New Zealand set to beat Australia to legalising plug-in solar
Major NZ government review finds "no good reason" for preventing Kiwis from using plug-in solar, and may make it legal within a year. Will Australia follow?
reneweconomy.com.au
In response to being sued by Gunns, Bob Brown said he would not be deterred from taking action “even if it means losing every penny, every home comfort”. Corporations like Woodside rely on most people seeing such sacrifices as unimaginable. trib.al/bpTqaOm
How Woodside lost to this protester
For three years, the author has fought a strategic lawsuit brought by Woodside Energy. Last Thursday, she won.
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…it’s a shame it is currently so hard to make a decent living in this important public service. theconversation.com/newspaper-sp...
Newspaper space for political cartoons is shrinking – but we need these artists as much as ever
The cartooning industry is still struggling to adapt to the 21st century media business model.
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Early COVID mitigations showed us the power of collective action. The environment began to heal. People with disabilities were accommodated. An entire flu strain was eradicated. Folks reconnected with their local communities. We worked together & saved lives.
Sarah Hanson-Young left gobsmacked as ACMA admits they provide no policy advice on gambling ads, or how to tackle the harm of inducements, bcoz it’s a “matter of policy - for govt” SHY “But policy is based on advice...”💥 Not just toothless, also muzzled.
The Armadillo Lizard bites its tail in a unique defensive posture, this posture makes it more difficult for predators to swallow, and it protects their belly. [📹 reptilesofsouthafrica] Original post
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Do you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.
"Yolŋu culture is really important for this world ... if it is shared across Australia that will be for the better." www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Means so much to me': A different side of Bluey is taking centre stage
Historic Bluey episodes featured at Garma Festival have delighted viewers of all ages, with a special guest in attendance.
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My mom and grandma told me about this. It happened in Los Angeles. The last streetcar ran in 1963.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
82-year-old charity cyclist dies day after last heroic ride: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/bob-montgomery-mnd-charity-cyclist-death/106994142
82-year-old charity cyclist dies day after last heroic ride
Motor neurone disease advocate Bob Montgomery dies just one day after completing a 5,300-kilometre bicycle ride across Australia.
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