“It’s really been driven by speculation,” said Andrew Yip, an organizer with SVG Progressive Action. “Right now, you know, the faster your data center can process information, the more money can make. So that’s why we’re seeing larger data centers with more processing capabilities, meaning more energy use, more pollution, more water use. And so when we saw that come into Monterey Park, you know, just hearing all the horror stories from across the country. Yeah, we had to fight back.” Monterey Park may be the first city in California to ban data centers (and not just pause them); if the voters give them the thumbs down in June, it will be the first time American citizens directly vote to ban them.

"Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits""

Extremely clean and elegant quote here. This is pretty much it folks:

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/monterey-p...

Has any gas corporation apologist rolled out the ‘sovereign risk’ argument yet?

Why would anyone think we have to barter with these corporations who are ripping us off? FFS

Sarah Ferguson asks if we should ‘give something back’ to gas giants in exchange for a tax.
David Pocock “why we bargain with them?”
“I don’t think we need to give anything back. We just want a return for our gas!” 🔥 #auspol

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

iTunes where you can assign one of 3,000 colours to a track and sort them by colour and create playlists based on colour themes

But 6 of them at least are Scott Morrison

Mad Men pitch meme

There’s a long line of people who would happily volunteer to torment Tucker Carlson

Woolworths engaged in ‘marketing magic’ to trick customers, consumer watchdog tells court The trial between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the supermarket giant began in the federal court in Sydney on Tuesday

This fake ‘on special’ pricing yo-yo bullshit by supermarkets needs to be stopped.
If the can sell it at the ‘on special’ they can sell at that price all the time

Woolworths engaged in ‘marketing magic’ to trick customers, consumer watchdog tells court www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Larissa Waters asks former Treasury chief Ken Henry if it’s too simplistic to say wartime gas profits from the war on Iran can either go to Australians, or to overseas investors & shareholders.
Henry “That’s not simplistic, that’s how it is!” “It is as simple as that.” 💥 #auspol

The pickles in Big Mac are actually slices of raccoon penises. RFK Jr is gathering the evidence but will probably be assassinated before everything is revealed

BREAKING
Kash Patel tops FBI’s Most Wasted List

Within 5 years time somebody in an inner urban area is going to open a cafe where you can book a table and an EV charger at the same time. Probably at converted petrol station

Is there an equivalent of the BOM in France that people check obsessively?
Le BOM?

Shouldn’t they call him iLeader 3

Geese harassing Age writer 'How does she attract the spotlight?'

Did Koren speak to the monoger?

BREAKING
Kash Patel tops FBI’s Most Wasted List

Too bad Australia ignores this requirement

There’s not 20,000 LNP and Labor MPs and staffers surely

Seems to me like Trump is desperately begging Iran to sign a replica of the Obama JCPOA he tore up. All for the low low price of thousands dead, global instability, high energy prices, and a toll on ships through the once-free strait of Hormuz.

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources | 21/04/2026 YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

. @richarddenniss.bsky.social opens by pointing out that the Japanese govt actually raises more revenue from Australian gas than does the Australian govt!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVp...

The Onion has successfully acquired Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars’ after 17 months of legal battles and has debuted its new logo.

It will be turned into a parody of itself, with the support of the Sandy Hook families.

NEW: Clive Palmer's United Australia Party won't face any penalties for a data breach that exposed every document and email it held because of the Privacy Act's exemption for political parties... despite it not being registered as a political party at the time.

www.crikey.com.au/20...

I always notice this about Sydney when I go there. The clumps of towers in places like Macquarie Park, Rhodes, Wooli Creek.
I’d hate to live in a skybox looking at other skybox towers

There are two diminutive old Italian women in my neighbourhood who wear padded hooded parkas even in mild weather, that I encounter on walks with Daisy.
Until you get close you can’t tell if it’s “Friendly Kenny” or “Sour Kenny”

#auspol

Australia put a social media ban on teens, yet did nothing at all about X being a literal csam production and distribution website

This is ethnic cleansing and genocide in southern Lebanon.

Yet still, @albomp.bsky.social does nothing.