Well there’s probably a million of them starting a new life in central Moonee Ponds now so good luck to all the gardens there.

It’s wild! I honestly thought “surely this is somehow dog hair that’s gotten stuck to a stick leaf” but it’s so clearly coming from the eggs so I was grappling with reality.

Amazing! Thankyou! Liz to the rescue :)

Photo of a leaf covered in thick white hairs.

Close up of hairs seemingly coming out of lots of tiny white ring-like seeds or eggs on the leaf.

What on earth am I looking at here.

I've been avoiding mentioning this in any of my recaps, cuz I don't want to be a 24 hour AI scold, but the amount of AI slop at BIFF this year is disgusting.

The intro film that plays before every movie is the shoddiest, ugliest slop that converts the festival logo into gibberish.

I specifically just logged on here to see if others hated this poster as much as I do.

I remember the Great Magnitisation of 2005, it’s almost hard to remember how different life was before then.

This sounds so dire

China’s comeback as the Kingdom of Bicycles is happening at a momentous scale.

In Beijing, 3200 km of infrastructure has been built, with 200 km added each year.

It is a spectacular course correction—an admission that cities with more people cycling work better for everybody.

youtu.be/gQS97woWcq0

Beautiful!

What a ride, Ryan! I’m glad she’s doing better. I know from my own family’s journey, sometimes comfort and therapy can come from very unexpected places.

Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional. A spokesperson for Ontario's transportation minister said the government will appeal.

HUGE news out of Toronto: Ontario Court deems Premier Doug Ford’s plan to remove city’s bike lanes unsafe, and unconstitutional: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

20mph is a massive public safety and health win.
This is also a huge reduction in NHs and emergency service resources and money saver too.

It should be the default in built up areas with exceptions. right across the country

This was such an amazing and unique experience! Mine is the third photo. Thanks so much, Chris! A really nice memory.

I was very impressed with this

Can sharing car trips deliver meaningful emissions savings? The case of Great Britain Car and taxi use accounts for 13 % of total UK emissions, with 404 billion vehicle-km travelled in 2023. Yet, much of this car use is inefficient with…

Interesting study on potential role of car sharing in cutting emissions in GB.

64 % of journeys are made by a lone driver.

⬆️ average occupancy was a target in the UK’s transport decarb plan (although no policies were put in place to actually achieve it).

Our graphic novel, SONS OF COMTEC · Cover illustration and process YouTube video by Patrick Alexander’s World of Content

So, if you'd like to know, I've been doing YouTube videos and finishing a big collaborative comic with my friend Ben Hutchings. Here is both of those.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyE...

No backbone or desire to do anything meaningful. They will now take this as a “mandate” to be as vanilla/bland as possible. I think only real pressure from other parties can challenge them.

I honestly think when he had a (sad) laugh with the panel it actually released his tension and he was able to move from defensive to conceding

Simpsons’ Mayor Quimby meme about flames added electronically

Actual photo of James.

He’s been fantastic entertainment though!

A deer in headlights

It’s been a very entertainly bad night for this guy. #auspol

Shoplifters is also great, a relatively well known and beautiful Japanese film, and just about anything by Hirokazu Koreeda also fits the bill.

I want to say Glengarry Glen Ross, I hope Gen Z is still watching this.

Absolutely STBY and Parasite.

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

Beautiful!

He said there are now cheaper EVs available in more categories – including utes – and they can save people about $3,000 a year on fuel and maintenance. Prior to the NVES, Gaur said, Australia had “the worst standards, right next to Russia” but now companies are flocking to sell EVs here. At the Everything Electric show in Sydney earlier this month, Gaur said, there were 36 brands on offer, while “three years ago, there were three”. The Coalition opposed the bill even after the government watered it down, reducing the targets and carving out popular SUVs, including the Toyota LandCruiser and the Nissan Patrol. Australian cars are, according to the government’s analysis in the lead-up to the creation of the standard, inefficient compared with other countries and responsible for megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, making up 11.4% of Australia’s total emissions. That analysis found “manufacturers supply cars to the Australian market that aren’t as fuel efficient as the cars they supply to other markets”. It found manufacturers do not offer the same range of electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrid electric (PHEVs), hybrid electric (HEVs) and electric, because of the lack of a mandatory standard.

Labor intentionally designed the NVES so it didn't tackle the root cause of climbing transport pollution (big cars), and the Coalition is still opposing it because it's 'too strict on big cars'.

May as well just actually do real climate policy folks

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Blast from the past! A lovely memory, thanks for sharing!

The national gallery censored parts of an artwork about silencing Indigenous and oppressed peoples | First Dog on the Moon How did people who appear not to know what art is for get put in charge of art?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet

HOT RESEARCH NEWS!

Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...

Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

Wow.