So, you've decided to write a terrible EV piece. An early column, because I'm away this Friday.

My head assploded and harsh words came out after reading the ABCs stupidest ever 730 report on EVs

1Lib1Ref 2026 Imagine a world where every librarian added just one more reference to Wikipedia.

📚 Save the date, librarians! From 15 May–5 June, WMAU and Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ are teaming up for #1Lib1Ref 2026.
One librarian. One reference. A more reliable Wikipedia.
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In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that lobsters feel pain, with the crustaceans seemingly responding to electrical shocks with emotional distress.

New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive www.livescience.com/animals/new-...

"The commentariat keeps attributing chess to someone playing slot machines."

What I also get out of this is that Ampol has received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to complete an upgrade that was originally due by the end of 2024, yet it hasn't delivered.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

"leader of the free world"?

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

The story of his prime ministership.

Only Israelis could bomb neighboring populations every single day for years and then go “NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF AIRSTRIKES”

The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.

Not hearing "leader of the free world" much these days.

Make Primary School a lot more interesting — Sports Bet Junior!

“They Looked Iranian”: Security Footage Shows Trump Negotiating With White House Patio Umbrellas for Six Hours — The Shovel Donald Trump’s supposed ‘talks’ with Iranian officials were actually with a bunch of patio umbrellas in a White House courtyard, it has emerged.

Trump said he used the talks to demand that Iran should never be able to build a nuclear weapon, a proposal he claimed the umbrellas did not oppose.

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Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

Trump Demands Allies Do Their Fair Share To Fuck Up The World WASHINGTON—Declaring that the United States would no longer bear the full burden of screwing the pooch on a global level, President Donald Trump issued a statement Monday demanding U.S. allies do thei...

“The United States contributes far more to worldwide suffering than any of our so-called ‘allies’ in NATO, and it’s high time these other countries started stepping up to the plate,” said the commander-in-chief

you might almost stand in it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely

March, 19-21: God is a comedian A stiff drink is recommended

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation.

I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment.

This summary is just fantastic.

Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

Nuclear armageddon! Is this it for real? Really?! | First Dog on the Moon The last time I was genuinely worried about nuclear war was more than 30 years ago. It’s nowhere near as fun now

Nuclear armageddon! Is this it for real? Really?! | First Dog on the Moon
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

Iran is trolling Trump again. Hard. This is what happens when global politics becomes reality TV.

Four frames. Title: “The rules”. Albo and Penny Wong at a lectern. 1. Albo: “Some of you have asked if rules still apply, so we’d like to clear things up.” Wong: “Obviously we shouldn’t kill!” 2. Albo: “However, if you hurt or kill someone and enough people agree they were bad, then the rules aren’t up to us.” Wong: “It’s a ‘matter for them’” 3. Albo : “Also, if you get someone else to do the killing for you and someone accuses you of it, that’s ‘a conspiracy’” Wong: “Against the rules!” 4. Plus, if thousands of innocent people get killed when you kill the bad person, you must focus on the six people you saved.” Wong: “That’s the rule!”

The rules.
My @smh cartoon.

It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment

The words of a real leader. A leader of courage and conviction. A leader who puts peace before craven compliance and subjugation of his nation to an illegal war and an autocratic warmongering US President.
Well done Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez!

Albo has clarified that the three Australians onboard the US submarine that torpedoed the Iranian ship were in the loo at the time which is a well-recognised defence under international law to the charge of waging aggressive war