17/ So the key thing to ask the public isn't "what should we do about <problem X>". It's "what problems do you have"? How do people want their lives to be different? What can city policy and infrastructure actually do to help them?
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Just a reminder, while international humanitarian law is mainly invoked around the protection of journalists, journalists are not immune from war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity prosecutions for incitement, including to commit violence against civilians.
Rare but see: Nuremberg, Rwanda
It was absurd to open the window and feel cool air flow past, but never into the apartment, while the building radiated the day’s heat into our home.
All the windows are on one side. We had the front door (into the stairwell) open. Neighbours walked by. Air just couldn’t find a way through. Stupid.
It was enlightening to take part in this project as one of the 50 NSW renters tracking temperature and humidity in our homes.
That 40-degree day was horrifically funny. The cool change came through early in the evening and it was 20C outside by 11pm, but it was 30C *and rising* in our apartment.
“Dan Murphy opening hours” energy, except that was extremely relatable.
#BREAKING Albanese Gov is refusing to grant asylum to Iranians here on student visas, with 100s on visas due to expire in next few months The Australian newspaper has reported. Telling them to try applying for skilled or family visas. After Tiananmen Square massacre Bob Hawke provided asylum
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I wish there was a way the Abrahamic religions could have their holy wars without us
Surely it hardly matters when the front is covered by a photo of someone in a very bad way, or their post-mortem blackened organs, but I appreciate that attention to detail.
Plain packaging, or “plain packaging” like we have for cigarettes in Australia?
I thought that with the coordinated scare campaign over, support and opposition for nuclear energy would go back to pre-election numbers—I didn’t expect that opposition would have collapsed. And I didn’t expect so many young people were keen to turn LAB/GRN if those parties were to support nuclear.
A paragraph from the ABC article: “In the past six years, less than 500 residential dwellings have been approved to be built there, in contrast to more than 5,200 student rooms during the same period.”
Imagine looking at these numbers and thinking the bigger one is the problem
That looks like a jar of the Forged by Vow cell-cultured quail spread on the table... The future is here and it is evenly distributed across a water cracker
Hell. Yeah.
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But we don't. We just add this rubbery thing that we call "the mother" and let it do the work. It's not classified as a "UPF" as long the process is so complex that we can't (efficiently) replicate it with machines.
The stress about ultra-processed foods is wild. The conversation is so confusing that people worry about *which brands of kombucha are UPFs*.
If we made kombucha with industrially-produced enzymes instead of microbes, we'd recognise all of it as highly processed.
New rules coming in in China: not everything can be computer any more! www.reddit.com/r/electricve...
You are single-handedly documenting Australian community music! That performance was after my time, I moved to Sydney in 2011. I don't think my stint with the VCO was as early as 2006, per this FB post from them, but this is the trio of singers I played with.
Hold up a minute, I reckon I played there with the Victorian Concert Orchestra around 2010! We played with a few opera singers on a day that looked much like that one. I don’t suppose there are any other extremely distinctive shells like that one within 10 minutes of Leongatha? 😂
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Imagine wanting to try something other than dairy and finding no soy milk or almond milk, only "legume water" or whatever the bureaucrats allow.
As for labelling changes being for farmers' benefit, pretty sure soybeans are grown by farmers, and the last thing they need is a forced labelling change.
No one is confused by names like "soy milk", which has been made fun of my whole life, only possible because people understand it's not dairy.
Would I swap back to dairy if the name changed? No, I don't like dairy milk. But it's not about me, it's about people who are thinking about alternatives.
The EU's impending #veggieburgerban will do nothing to support farmers!
The European Commissionand MEPs like Celine Imart are pushing this through under the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), but it's a distraction from the real issues farmers are facing.
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One suspects the 32% has a lot of crossover with "never Labor" voters.
There are considerable advantages to party registration. Critics already call them a "party", so what would be the downside... They'd have no trouble maintaining the minimum membership, but would they lose volunteer enthusiasm if the candidate didn't feel so local?
A spread of vegan pizza probably doesn’t hurt when it comes to getting students along of an evening 😅
@weplanetaus.bsky.social welcomed Sabrina to speak at its 2025 conference for a panel discussion: The Future of Food is Brewed, Not Slaughtered! youtu.be/O3d8vsN-GYI
Obviously legumes rule, but what are plant-based meat substitutes like for the environment?
Impossible Beef’s environmental effects compared to slaughtered beef: - 69% less water (nice)
- 88% less GHG emissions
- 95% less land
Let’s make “alternative” proteins no longer alternative!
