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@Techaltar
Is the new Affinity Software going to give Adobe a run for its money?

Fugitive Australian Journalist Shane Dowling celebrates 4 years on the run https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/10/30/fugitive-australian-journalist-shane-dowling-celebrates-4-years-on-the-run/ #Auspol

@owiecc @TheWarOnCars @volts.wtf
I love it when my favorite podcasts come together.

My favourite podcasts @TheWarOnCars and Volts by @volts.wtf made a crossover episode. Both podcasts handle the biggest issues I see in the world currently.

The War on Cars https://thewaroncars.org is about our over-reliance on personal cars.

Volts https://www.volts.wtf is all about energy. How […]

CATL stand at exhibition showing off their very latest battery products.

#China is leading the low carbon energy revolution at All Energy Australia exhibition in #Melbourne Some truly impressive products and demonstrations.

X's Grokipedia is online after it briefly crashed out Elon Musk's attempt to take on Wikipedia got off to a somewhat rocky start.

#grokipedia
Replacing #Facts with #Fascism https://www.engadget.com/social-media/xs-grokipedia-is-online-after-it-briefly-crashed-out-231108836.html?src=rss

@nini Oh yeh! I didn't spot that.

We've been collecting and storing energy for millennia Image of oil, wood and LNG These are just a next step. image of Wind solar and batteries

Excellent Point!
#ClimateChange #Renewables

The Robot Revolution is not going to happen anytime soon. #AI #technology #robotics #robots
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy If Zuckerberg deliberately enables advertisers to microtarget weight-insecure girls with content that will push them to suicide, then we are living in an unprecedented dystopia ruled by the sickest of minds.

#Capitalism is Fucked Up!
https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/why-the-bad-guys-keep-winning-a-500

Empire rebranded: The new architecture of violence Colonial power may have changed its language, but it still decides who lives, who dies and who is forgotten.

Empire rebranded: The new architecture of violence https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/empire-rebranded-the-new-architecture-of-violence,20298?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #Auspol

I still think serchability is the main thing holding back #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
Is any progress being made on this?

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. Elon Musk The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. Hannah Arendt

One of the main ways wealth corrupts is through the erosion of empathy.
When a person achieves fabulous wealth they no longer have to care about what other people say or think because they are insulated from everyone due to their wealth, so their empathy dies.
And […]

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Manufacturing Ignorance.
#climatechange #politics #denial
https://youtu.be/X72Xwy1lgNQ

Industrial heat accounts for a quarter of global final energy use, and a variety of industries ranging from chemicals to cement relying on high-temperature heat, the importance of clean and renewable sources of industrial heat has never been more important […]

So many different rain sounds in my garden.
The sound of rain on bamboo leaves, rain trickling down multiple drains, rain dripping inside the greenhouse, rain on the shed roof, rain hitting a watering can and an old steel bath.
Precious #rain before the storm.
#Naarm #Melbourne

Me with an inflatable axolotl

Maj with an inflatable axolotl

@maj we also got selfies with an inflatable axolotl.

If we don't stand against genocide, what do we stand for?

GWM says "BE MORE TANK" in Tank 500 Plug-in Hybrid launch campaign via Thinkerbell GWM has launched the Tank 500 Plug-in Hybrid under the rallying cry ‘BE MORE TANK’, in new work via Thinkerbell. The work builds into the GWM brand promise, Go With More, and is the latest in a stream of new model launches for GWM this year. The launch arms Australians and New Zealanders with

Be More Tank: https://campaignbrief.com/gwm-says-be-more-tank-in-tank-500-plug-in-hybrid-launch-campaign-via-thinkerbell/ Creative agency: Thinkerbell. Maybe we can start naming and shaming ad agencies for anti-social behaviour?

Hey #Fediverse #Mastodon
What do we think about #wafrn ?

@philip looking forward to taking a ride at Xmas.

New video out today from me on the latest for Melbourne's Metro Tunnel!

Includes a bonus tour of State Library Station. Check it out below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLP4DJpspYI

#MelbourneTrains #Melbourne #transit #PublicTransport #Australia #trains

@dalereardon
Perhaps he should pay more taxes as a better more sustainable plan.

Michael Martin
@Michael38548127
ICE in Portland
Oct 11

Tesla's Robyn Denholm is an awkward choice to lead Australia's R&D review Perhaps Industry Minister Ed Husic is more interested in cosying up to tech elites than driving reform to make Australia more prosperous.

Robyn Denholm works for Elon Musk a well know White Supremacist.
This is not good for #Australia
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/04/tesla-robyn-denholm-awkward-choice-australias-research-development-review/

@FullyAutomatedRPG
Yeh gotta be careful. I got caught out recently posting something AI.
I was so excited by the content I forgot to check 😀

Two panels: In 1982, three men are sat round a table. An older man, who looks like Rupert Murdoch and has a large pile of cookies in front of him, warns a construction worker, with one cookie on a plate in front of him, that "foreigner" sat opposite him wants his cookie. In 2025, Murdoch has a much much larger pile of cookies, repeating the same warning.

#Auspol #Inequality #SocialJustice #Capitalism #Communism

More details are emerging on what happened at last week's Department of Homeland Security raid of an apartment building in South Shore, Chicago. "Masked agents made people line up outside the building, where they asked each resident their name and country of origin before lifting their shirt to […]

Dr Jane Goodall's final message.
#ClimateChange #Fascism #Environment #SolarPunk

RE: https://aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon/115310218488752488

Nice to read this via #fediverse where I feel slightly removed from this #Dystopia