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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Apparently it takes widespread criticism to make Pauline behave in a reasonable and ethical way. Must have had a bad upbringing. #auspol […]

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@IndyMediaAus it doesn’t look too pretty in Australia either. All these regressive politicians allow people to yearn for a past the didn’t exist to create a future based on callously disenfranchising groups that they once called neighbours and friends.

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@IndyMediaAus the point made that allowing new technology to be centralised is a recipe for large players to take control, which is central to our political life. Where else do get billionaires from if there are no mega businesses? It seems that governments that were responsible for setting up […]

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

An uplifting view: “Chris Dickman, senior portfolio manager at fund manager Australian Ethical, describes the trend as the “BYD effect”, referring to the low-priced Chinese vehicles which he says are an unexpected disinflationary force. Dickman says that by helping drivers use less petrol, and […]

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu these Techbros like Zuck can’t help but play politics but ultimately they are about being paid for their political interventions too. Mercenaries.

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Best news I’ve had for a while. Apparently reserving 20% of our methane gas for domestic use will reduce investment in more drilling for methane. A great outcome! #climatechange #fossilfuels #methane […]

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Albo and Angas getting together over AI in Australia where copyright laws are an impediment doesn’t sound promising. Having worked in IT for decades, it’s pretty obvious that the location of a data centre is no guarantee of jobs in an area or even a country as the highest paid people are never […]

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Charlie McHenry @charliemchenry.connectop.us.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Could this actually be the end-game for corporate #enshittification⁉️

A cartoon depicts a plumber telling a man that a toilet has no handle and requires downloading the "FlushMe" app to operate it. The plumber is holding a tool and wearing gloves, while the man stands with his arms crossed, looking confused.

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@edfoc.bsky.social Great paper. Thanks for sharing. I'm looking at their Figure 3 and oh boy does it underscore how car addicted NZ, Australia, USA, and Canada are when compared with other countries. We're the highest in car ownership and car use per capita, and […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Graphs showing each country and its number of bikes and cars per capita each graphed against the relative use cars and bikes for transport. NZ, Australia, Canada, and USA are the highest in car ownership and car use, and, while moderate to high in bike ownership, they are near the bottom of the world rankings for bike use in transport. This is Figure 3 from Chen, W., Carstensen, T.A., Wang, R. et al. Historical patterns and sustainability implications of worldwide bicycle ownership and use. Commun Earth Environ 3, 171 (2022). https://doi-org.ezproxy.lincoln.ac.nz/10.1038/s43247-022-00497-4

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

With every outlandish claim you need to ask: What is it they don't want you to pay attention to?

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“Billionaires, “ the teacher said “were a cognitohazard of the late dirt ages. In that time it was normal to force humans to perform labour for four to five decades before being permitted a period of limited rest known as retirement. The billionaire class found ways to steal even the limited […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Ten percent off your meal just for talking to your partner. Twenty percent if you can make it through dessert without checking your phone. 😂📵 No complicated loyalty schemes, no collecting points and no downloading yet another app. Just put the phone down.

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Melbourne's Swanston Street, Town Hall Square, and St Paul's Cathedral. #Melbourne #city #photography #Victoria #Australia

The sky is purple and light blue for sunset. The focus is Swanston Street, which is the main semi-pedestrianised north-south street through the Melbourne CBD. In the bottom-left foreground, two cyclists are riding through.

Swanston Street is lined with winter trees with no leaves and street lights. It has tram tracks with overhead wiring down the middle.

In the middle of the shot is the glass canopy for the new Town Hall Metro station, a modern hotel, and a neo Gothic sandstone cathedral called St Paul's.

Along the left border of the photo is the corner of Melbourne Town Hall.

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@Unixbigot often wondered whether the ships cat was the cat-o-nine-tails as in let the cat out of the bag.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Saw a prominent tech reporter have a mea culpa and say he's going back to posting on X as it's where the tech conversations are, so I opened it up to see what I was missing and was immediately presented with an AI video of Hanson making out with a prominent right wing blogger. I'll be alright.

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/05/3 “Hey! I got news for you, sweetheart! … I am the lowest form of life on earth!”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/10/2026

"Australia is a major producer of fossil fuels. We all know fossil fuels are the primary driver of the climate crisis," [Ralph Regenvanu] said. "The very least a country like Australia should be doing is stopping future expansion, and it's not doing that." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Australia's fossil fuel expansion 'slap in the face' to Pacific nations

Having just approved a major coal mine expansion, Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji.

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@feather1952 I was pleasantly surprised that I set the clock correctly last night. Any time I woke I thought that I probably had done it wrong 😬

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026 […]

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/02/2 Although an unexplained phenomenon, there is a place on the outskirts of Mayfield, Nebraska, where the sun does not shine.

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

News like this doesn't receive enough attention. Each of these new electric ships avoids emitting a large amount of pollution. The propulsion system is a hybrid arrangement consisting of an energy storage system, and dual-fuel engines that can run on MGO and methanol […]

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Subsequently we learn that EVs in Australia have added 3 days supply to the oil reserves. Another way to look at it is that EVs have reduced the amount of oil imported which reduces the amount of money going overseas to pay for it.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.

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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@Fife4Europe “This is not a future problem. It’s a now problem.” Yep, this is climate change and the inertia preventing action is huge. Vested interests are lobbying hard to prevent any change to their revenue streams. #climatechange

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Lats (314 ppm) @lats.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@zmef42 a lot of scientists have had their work and the odd noble prize stolen by supervisors and colleagues, it has even been suggested that Einstein was not as productive once his wife left.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/09/24/4 “The fuel light’s on, Frank! We’re all going to die! … Wait, wait. … Oh, my mistake—that’s the intercom light.”

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