Dr Matthew Parnell

Pollution been an issue for so long in New Delhi that the city’s famous Red Fort is turning black, an outward sign of a growing health and political crisis that’s now bringing angry residents onto the streets. https://cnn.it/4oiebPc

A screenshot that the author has captioned "A look at (most of) the products I've helped brief, design, prototype, engineer, strategize, and bring to market." There are 15 barbecue-associated cooking devices and about a hundred children's pull-carts and scooters.

A designer posted this and all I can see is the pile of short-life things people put on the kerb on household bulky waste clean-up day. A career in landfill.

Shat in, for me! Makes a lot more sense!

Should’ve acted earlier (say, 3 decades).

Gary Bartz at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival #MIJF last night - what a wonderful evening of joyous-and at times, transcendent- music! Supported brilliantly by local musicians led by Barney McCall!

Gary Bartz at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival #MIJF last night - what a wonderful evening of joyous-and at times, transcendent- music! Supported brilliantly by local musicians led by Barney McCall!

Surely they are joking!???
Closing down Institutes or Centres like this almost never works.

Same here. Handed to external consultants - patronising, trite, tin-eared, irrelevant + mostly useless. I feel for those at UTS going through this, given its unlikely many academics involved will ever get a permanent full-time job in the sector again.

Wear those undies on the outside as protest!

Mobile phones in 1923. Well, they got that completely wrong 🤔

Well, well, whoda thunk it?

ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN FINLAND

81 STATIONS BETWEEN 30c and 33c
Dozens of tropical nights with Min 20/23C
Records by swathes.
Most long standing record heat wave ever recorded anywhere in Europe

Summer in Finland started grey,cold,a no-summer and look at what it turned out to be:the tropics !

Recycled bricks as an expression of a socio-technical system The unintended consequences of prioritizing aesthetics in recycled material choice.

My latest piece on Second Nature - this time I have a go at emerging issues in use of recycled materials in building construction, using a socio-technical systems lens.

drmatthewparnell.substack.com/p/recycled-b...

#circulareconomy #sustainablebuilding #recycledmaterials

I spotted this “conference of the pelicans” on my morning bike ride around the Williamstown foreshore on Boonwurrung country in Melbourne. Always a pleasure, pelicans! #birds

I spotted this “conference of the pelicans” on my morning bike ride around the Williamstown foreshore on Boonwurrung country in Melbourne. Always a pleasure, pelicans!
#birds

And a tragic last minute (literally last minute) loss for the Wallabies in front of 90000 at the MCG. A fantastic game nevertheless!

Eagerly awaiting the start of the Wallabies vs British and Irish Lions at the MCG! Woo! Carn the Wobblies!

Eagerly awaiting the start of the Wallabies vs British and Irish Lions at the MCG! Woo! Carn the Wobblies!

Yes!! Someone else that was there that day!

That opening scene is etched in the memory!

Not when 7 years old!

Maybe not. It was the pioneer years of TV - and it was a miracle that this appeared in Australia at all. And a greater miracle that it took off!

Also, I should say that the videos on You Tube have a dubbed in American accent. Whereas what we saw in the 60s sounded like a Japanese person speaking English with a Japanese cadence - along with the grunts and hmms. The American version takes away some of the magic.

Especially so, since the memories of WW2 still lived large in my father's generation.

Scanlens made packets of chewing gum accompanied by collector cards, usually sports (hence the Rugby League reference), but I'm referring to the set featuring scenes from Samurai episodes. Every Samurai fan collected these cards.

And we can't forget the Scanlens cards - pride of place with my Scanlens Manly Sea-Eagles c 1965/66 cards.

I used to jump off the front deck a lot, and made starknives using tin can tops and can opener, until mum found out and the school banned them!

Yep, having coffee as we speak!

"A gun is our last resort - always remember, we are Phantom Agents!" And never forget the Phantom Agents outfits - such style!

I saw Shintaro live at the old Sydney Stadium as a 7yo, with my mother + my school mates! They performed in the boxing ring. The ninjas entered the stage from flying foxes - they were Aussie actors in full ninja suits! Even in that setting, Shintaro was heroic! One of the greatest days of my life!

This the greatest TV program in history, bar none!

Native title win for Millewa-Mallee First Nations peoples in Victoria after decades-long fight Historic decision in Australia’s federal court gives traditional owners in state’s north-west the right to control access to their country

This is very good news!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And if they plant crops between and underneath the solar arrays, they can yield more - using the image in the post as an example, they'll also control the dust as well as loss of soil moisture and topsoil. #agrivoltaics

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Read + weep. Academia is now deep in the enshittification zone: the drive to publish to stay alive in academia; the need to be highly cited; the greed of academic publishers; the increasing use of LLM AIs; and peer reviewers who can't spot the bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...