Fantastic communication, Asha. Congratulations.

What is oversharing online, and what are the risks? | ABC NEWS YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

How much personal information do you share on Social Media?

Home Affairs research has found that 64% of Australians leave their private information open to cybercriminals. I spoke to ABC News this evening, about how this happens and steps we could take to secure our privacy.
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My late afternoon distraction.

Scientist Irritated by Lab Colleague Accused in Poisoning Attempt The scientist, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had built up grievances against his co-worker after five years of working together, court documents said.

A scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had simmered for years with such resentment and jealousy over a colleague that he poisoned the man’s water with chloroform, a common and toxic chemical that's accessible in the lab where both men worked, local authorities said.

bright red bowl like cup fungi in the dull leaf litter

Bright red little cup fungi in the leaf litter! 🍄 🌿
#fungifriends

Exactly!

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days Exclusive: The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

Homelessness should be a lot harder to ignore. A really sad but necessary investigation from Christopher Knaus
@caitkelly.bsky.social @gauravpokharel.bsky.social

States on edge about NDIS cuts as Chalmers flags they will be ‘easily the most important’ part of budget savings Government sources in multiple states say they are worried about the breadth of the changes and possible costs * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The states are increasingly on edge about Labor’s efforts to cut NDIS spending in next month’s budget, with officials asking the health minister, Mark Butler, to explain planned savings before a major speech this week. It comes as the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, flagged on Monday morning that cuts to the NDIS will be “easily the most important part of the savings package that we will present on budget night”. Continue reading...

States on edge about NDIS cuts as Chalmers flags they will be ‘easily the most important’ part of budget savings

Plans emerge for 1 gigawatt AI data centre in the Kimberley A huge artificial intelligence data centre capable of training models like ChatGPT is planned for WA's remote north at a cost of billons of dollars.

A huge artificial intelligence data centre capable of training models like ChatGPT is planned for WA's remote north at a cost of billons of dollars.

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

There's a special pleasure in checking your work email when you're on leave 🤫

Before Ruth died, we agreed on her ‘ghost’ sign. Experts say it’s a powerful tool for working through grief I don’t believe in ghosts. But for the bereaved, receiving ‘messages’ from beyond the grave can help us feel connected to the departed We all have ridiculous conversations with our mates, but negotiating a ghost pact with my friend as she lay on her deathbed was, without question, my most surreal. The pact itself was simple. After my friend Ruth Francis departed this world, she was to give me a sign from beyond the grave. Continue reading...

Before Ruth died, we agreed on her ‘ghost’ sign. Experts say it’s a powerful tool for working through grief

I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An “independent, community-driven association” that ran anti-Labor adverts during the last federal election was entirely funded by a coal industry lobby group, the Guardian can reveal. Energy for Australians accepted more than $1m from Coal Australia – a group advocating for coal whose members include major miners Yancoal, Peabody, New Hope and Whitehaven. Continue reading...

‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby

It's one I can't even envisage, but it's just so beautiful

Government advisory group urges delay of NDIS 'robo' changes The federal government has been urged by its own NDIS advisory group to delay the rollout of a controversial new way of determining support plans for participants.

Instead of submitting evidence of their disability from doctors, participants will be interviewed by an assessor, who then feeds their findings into a computer program.

That algorithm will then spit out a budget to be approved or rejected by an NDIS employee www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Finally done!
I think I will most likely only wear it on the coloured side.
I love how the patterns mimics branding at centre front.
Zoom in to have a look.
And I had been sad that the centre front pattern would be lost with the binding, but it has actually been enhanced!

Absolutely beautiful!!!!

Protest is not a flaw in democracy and fear cannot be made law. The NSW supreme court ruling upholds these truths | Shamikh Badra Closing public space does not produce ‘social cohesion’. Instead it produces accumulated tension The New South Wales supreme court’s ruling is not merely the invalidation of a law. It draws a clear constitutional line: the state cannot suppress protest under broad justifications such as “social cohesion”. In a decisive judgment, the court struck down protest laws introduced by the government of Chris Minns after the Bondi attack, placing a firm limit on state power. This is not a technical ruling. It is a direct rejection of a political logic that sought to redefine protest from a democratic right into a risk to be managed. Continue reading...

Protest is not a flaw in democracy and fear cannot be made law. The NSW supreme court ruling upholds these truths | Shamikh Badra

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

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Losing faith in the system: distrust, AI, and the turn to alternative beliefs Etsy witches, AI, & young people quietly returning to the Catholic Church might look unrelated, but they all signal a crisis of trust in institutions.

Losing faith in the system: distrust, AI, and the turn to alternative beliefs
Etsy witches, AI, & young people quietly returning to the Catholic Church might look unrelated, but they all signal a crisis of trust in institutions.
katecarruthers.com/losing-faith...

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay

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Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Grace Tame.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
Brittany Higgins.
Antoinette Lattouf.
Jacinda Ardern.

In Opposition, Anthony Albanese offered the Nation a Royal Commission into the Australian media. Now that Albanese is in power, maybe it's all become too

difficult.
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I'm afraid my memoir would simply read as 'another scared, damaged, AuDHD idealist wanders through life perplexed and thwarted by systems and unwritten rules she has no idea how to navigate'...

A fungus photo a day: These guys are right outside the door to my apartment! Not positive what they are, maybe scurfy twiglets. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography