Andrea Leong

This is how you know you’ve made it!

It was a coincidence that I saw it, I was visiting a relative who had the latest issue on the coffee table, and I:

I do hope data centres don’t hoover up all the new nuclear power 😬

I think the government made a decision here: if they had restrictions on subsidies only for companies with interoperable systems, they wouldn't have had the shiny numbers and social posts.

If they *had*, the climate and consumer outcomes would've been better in the long term....

Findings now featured in the @newscientist.com quiz (24 January 2026)!

MAJOR WIN FOR CLIMATE ACTION!

We've halted the demolition of Tihange's cooling towers!

Why it matters:
✅ Prevents irreversible destruction of billions in clean energy infrastructure
✅ Keeps the door open for restarting Tihange 1 & 2
✅ Protects Belgium's energy security & climate goals

Nearly half (48 per cent) of people either strongly or tended to support increased residential density in their own neighbourhood, up from 46 per cent last year and 44 per cent in 2024. About 17 per cent of people were strongly opposed to the idea, while 18 per cent were ambivalent. Matt Levinson, the committee’s head of corporate affairs, said: “We’ve seen [support for increased density in people’s own suburbs] gradually moving up year on year, and the number of people who oppose it gradually declining. Two-thirds of the city now see it as OK in their own neighbourhood.

This is what winning looks like.

Universal Nuclear Weapon Disarmament WePlanet Australia members vote to adopt a policy of advocating for Universal Nuclear Weapon Disarmament.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between Russia and the US expires this week.

Germany, Japan and South Korea are among a number of nations considering obtaining nuclear weapons for self-defence as US defence partnership becomes uncertain.

Our call for universal nuclear disarmament 👇

The Exceptional Hatred and Terror of Colonialism Photo of Uncle Herbert Bropho, Wadjuk Noongar elder. As I write this, it is Wednesday January 28t 2026. Two days ago, at an Invasion Day rally in Perth, a white man threw a bomb-an improvised explosive device covered with nails and metal ball bearings-onto the stage of a rally while Uncle Herbet Bropho spoke. It is pure luck that the device did not explode. 2,500 people were in attendance.

In case you missed it: a white man threw a bomb at an indigenous Elder on Invasion Day. He has not been charged with terrorism.

Isn’t it wild how we knew the names of the terrorists who attacked Bondi on the very same day? Pretty sure there were cameras outside their house by nightfall and a Domain article on the value of the house, complete with descriptions of the layout, by the next day.

Graphic showing what's coming to Concord West

1300 homes next to Concord West station are up for consultation. Make a submission in favour by Monday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projec...

Build wind and solar where it can displace some fossil fuels, but it can only go so far, so get started building nuclear too, so we're not sad in 15 years about our stalled progress.

Unfortunately, that was the advice for 15 years ago.

Installing wind turbines and solar panels is cool and necessary for the energy transition, but not sufficient.

We’ve had delays with the large spinning masses that provide system strength, so we can’t turn Eraring off.

The best time to build nuclear was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

The internet really came through on this one (but now you need 11 more likes).

I want to like this but you have 25 likes. I'll like if we get ten other pledges to like it.

Ten years!

A warm compress over the eyes could help. Have you come across Meibomian glands while reading about dry eye? They secrete a layer of oil that slows the evaporation of tears, but can get clogged. I promise this is accurate, I'm a microbiologist but shared an office with optometrists who work on this.

That fountain should have been going full bore!

Glad to see it disambiguated in another thread that you're talking about The Bone Temple, because The Choral has just been released in Aus.

I hadn't seen that one, cheers!

Gonna try bleeting more

I think it was quite a cutting remark on Wong's part.

And, the point (as I lean on my lede-burying shovel):

The slow-moving Black Swan event that made the housing crisis a reality was all governments since the turn of the millennium leaning into rising home prices.

… upstanding citizens who’d not been “seduced” by collectivist thinking.

There’s also some very funny* historical comments about the White Australia policy (not referring to it as such, because it was just immigration policy at the time).

*funny-peculiar AND funny-ha-ha

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Black Swans 2 | Why Nobody Predicted the Housing Crisis | If You're Listening

When people call apartments “communist” I feel it’s hyperbolic, but until now I thought it was at least original. A fascinating clip in this episode of @mattbevan.bsky.social’s Black Swans series reveals (to me, you probably knew) that the ¼-acre block was thought to attract… youtu.be/qr7oj5_o5x8

That should be Council *for* Civil Liberties. Mortifying.

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) 'Undermining our civil liberties': NSW considers extending protest ban | ABC NEWS

Tim Roberts of NSW Council of Civil Liberties on the right to protest, currently resting on the whim of an unelected person. "Disingenuous" to draw some kind of link between suppressing protest and public safety. Unfathomably based NSWCCL.
youtu.be/oFwm5Qy9NuU

We should both provide support for new technologies that avoid using CCS like direct electrification, hydrogen (which is cheapest to produce without emissions using CCS), thermal batteries, etc and support CCS

Because for everyone emission from cement and ammonia today, we need even more...

Meat can’t have the monopoly on the words “sausage” and “burger”. Those words belong to things squashed into certain shapes.

Everything is chemicals. Big fan of chemicals.

oh goddammit