1) Labor gets reelected in landslide.
2) Nationals increase their primary vote
3) Farmers most likely to be impacted by climate change
4) Matt Canavan calls for Net Zero to be scrapped.

Farmers must learn that the Nats don’t act in their best interests.
#Auspol #ClimateChange

Are the immigrants driving over in Rams and Rangers?

A pie chart that has the following percentage of household wealth Amount Home 65% Other property 21% Superannuation 87% Equities 31% Bank accounts 99% Business 10% Vehicles 92% Other assets 28%

The ABC committing some truly magnificent graph crimes

Spotted in Canada…

Peter Dutton be like
#CycloneAlfred

The mega-consultancies are all pushing AI in education like you would totally believe. A short thread if you can cope...

There’s a trio of Brush Turkeys including a babby and it fills my heart.

The Australian government rushed through legislation to ban under 16s from using social media - a measure widely criticised by experts.

But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts.

🤷‍♀️

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

The new Oracle Live SQL is here. This is essentially a SQL Fiddle to learn. This ground up rewrite around SQL Developer web and Oracle REST Data Services.
It comes with an increase in schema life from 8 hours to 90 days! Check it out with the Try V2 link on the home page. livesql.oracle.com

Hanging around.
A musk lorikeet enjoying a pistachio tree in the Clare Valley.
🪶 #birds

Meme with side by side pictures of Marco Rubio and RFK, Jr, labeled “Marco” and “Polio.”

Who made this? Ahahaha

New normal.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

What a way to open the account…
#WorldBollardAssociation

Meet the Cops Running the NYPD’s 86-Member PR Team DCPI has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.

You want libraries or an ever growing flood of copaganda?

nysfocus.com/2024/05/14/n...

Rushed bill forcing hundreds of non-citizens to facilitate own deportation passes lower house Human Rights Law Centre says bill ‘deliberately separates families’ and risks non-compliance with obligations under refugee convention

Every little sinister right-wing vibe I got from Labor stans while the Coalition was in power - it all just blooms into full, racist, White Australia display when their people are in government

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Coalition to vote against fuel efficiency standard despite not seeing bill – as it happened This blog is now closed. Rushed bill forcing hundreds of non-citizens to facilitate own deportation passes lower house Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Renewed push to scrap activity level requirements for childcare subsidies There was a lot of disappointment last budget when the government did not scrap the activity test as a way of making early child education more accessible and universal. Zoe Daniel MP, Member for Goldstein Georgie Dent, the CEO of the Parenthood Sam Page, the CEO of Early Childhood Australia Kate Carnell, the former Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman and former ACT chief minister Natalie Walker, the deputy chair of Goodstart Early Learning Sue Morphett, a businesswoman and the former president of Chief Executive Women Continue reading...

Coalition to vote against fuel efficiency standard despite not seeing bill – as it happened

IT'S FISH DOORBELL SEASON!!!

The time of the year has arrived once again where we have to help the fish of Utrecht get through the lock by opening the door for them when you spot them on the camera.

visdeurbel.nl/en/the-fish-...

Australia’s chief scientist takes on the journal publishers gatekeeping knowledge Under Dr Cathy Foley’s world-first open access model, all Australians would have access to research papers for free

Australia’s chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley is moving to make science completely open-access to all Australians, by challenging the 'gate-keeping by journals' through a a centralised digital library of publications for all Australians.

Lots of polarised opinions on this. I think it's good.

🧪

"baldurs gate is gonna make bad dnd players! they're gonna wanna fuck the monsters 😭"

buddy, my guy, brethren,, wait till you find out about current dnd players

How long till WebAuthn is a thing outside of Apple and the ultra nerds?

If we learned nothing else from the pandemic it should have been that going to work while virally ill is bad. You might be able to ‘battle through’ but those you infect might not be so lucky. Sick days are not lazy nor a luxury, they are necessary for public health.

We worked hard to educate people on how to make the internet accessible to everyone, but now social media is making everyone backslide.

What alt text is for: A meaningful description of an image, for visually impaired folks, and people on devices that can’t display images.

What alt text is NOT for: explaining the joke. Extra punchlines. “Secret” content. Attribution or other metadata. The backstory behind the image.

And they're right, too - Brother printers rock.
www.theverge.com/23642073/bes...

So Starfield might have fixed the “bucket on the head” trick, but I can waltz in to an office, close the blinds, Hoover up everything not nailed down, and moonwalk out no worries

Bah. I should have saved some choice bits of packaging from the last furniture haul, for costume purposes

Why did Google pick plus codes over 3 words? Have they tried to use one over the phone?

Plus codes arguably less Anglo centric, but you still need to know the English alphabet.