Nelli Stevenson

The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis, is fighting for climate justice at the world’s highest court.

A profound and moving essay by Julian Aguon of Blue Ocean Law on the deep spiritual impact of the climate crisis on communities across the Pacific.

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The immediate boldness of the hard right in stepping into pure fascism within an hour of Trump’s inauguration is stunning.

The term you’re looking for is “sieg heil” and it has no fucking place in 2025.

I’m curious about your “fell for it” comment. Is there something fraudulent or was it just general disdain that they reported on it?

It’s still there for me?

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

This is why faith in democracy is absolutely crumbling.

Until political parties can no longer accept donations from the very people in the business of destroying the planet it won’t change.

We need to overhaul political donation and lobbying laws like our lives depend on it - because they do.

If only someone had been the president for four years and had the opportunity to do something about this problem 🤔

Good lord

California: it’s always “too early to talk about climate change” until you do.

We didn’t talk about climate change during bushfires in Australia until our sky turned orange for three months and a billion animals died.

This is climate change, and this is the time to start talking about it.

Truck set alight in attack Islamic council fears is 'hate crime' A man says his truck displaying the Palestinian flag was burned outside his inner-Melbourne home,  as also investigate a separate incident involving an anti-Semitic sign that was displayed outside sta...

A truck displaying Palestinian flags was set alight outside a Melbourne home in an incident the Islamic Council of Victoria fears was "an Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian hate crime". www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

I wouldn’t mind it as much if he sneezed somewhere other than into my eyeballs

Who is it?

Culture clash as Nine board splits over Hugh Marks’s sex scandal Nine Entertainment chairman, Peter Costello, is under pressure over chief executive Hugh Marks’s sexual relationship with a subordinate.

Sorry, am just busy reading all those columns about how the #metoo movement was destroying male CEO careeers…

I’ve been wondering recently about the way pop up email sign ups and AI “assistants” are tolerated these days. I’m old enough to remember when those were phased out as best practise because it was a poor UX and people left the site faster.

After a coup by head of ads Prabhakar Raghavan in 2019, Google intentionally made search results worse as a means of increasing the amount of times that people would search for something on the site. Ever wonder why your workplace uses Sharepoint and other horrible Microsoft apps? That’s because Microsoft’s massive software monopoly meant that it was cheaper for your boss to buy all of it in one place, and thus its incentive is to make it good enough to convince your boss to sign up for all of their stuff rather than an app that makes your life easier or better. Why does every website feel different, and why do some crash randomly or make your phone burn your hand? It’s because every publisher has pumped their sites full of as much ad tracking software as possible as a means of monetizing every single user in as many ways as possible, helping ads follow you across the entire internet. And why does everybody need your email? Because your inbox is one of the few places that advertisers haven’t found a consistent way to penetrate. It’s digital tinnitus. It’s the pop-up from a shopping app that you downloaded to make one purchase, or the deceptive notification from Instagram that you have “new views” that doesn’t actually lead anywhere. It is the autoplaying video advertisement on your film review website. It is the repeated request for you to log back into a newspaper website that you logged into yesterday because everyone must pay and nothing must get through. It is the hundredth Black Friday sale you got from a company that you swear you unsubscribed from eight times, and perhaps even did, but there’s no real way to keep track. It’s the third time this year you’ve had to make a new password because another data breach happened and the company didn’t bother to encrypt it.

The Rot Economy's digital tinnitus has ruined everything you love about tech - Search, mobile browsing, and social media to name a few. When growth is all that matters, the user experience only exists to promote growth, even if the experience sucks.

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Clipping that reads ... But in an exclusive interview with the Australian, Mr Miller said Mr Albanese's criticism of News Corp was "wrong"

lol - congrats to the News Corp journo who secured an interview with the boss of News Corp so that he could deny they were working to elect Dutton

Almost half of SA youth detainees prescribed sleep supplement melatonin Nearly one in two incarcerated children in South Australia have been prescribed a supplement to help them fall asleep, amid concerns about "unusual" night-time behaviours.

I think a more concerning proposition is why are so many Australian children in prison in the first place.

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this is fine

Absolutely. She’s been one of my favourite Australian journalists for a long time. To hear her speak so freely and with such calm clarity on an issue that must cause immense distress and frustration felt like receiving the most generous gift. I ended up just sitting in the car park listening.

Honestly the best public speaking I’ve heard in a really long time.

This was a breathtaking lecture. The Australian media is lucky to have Nour Haydar. Even if, as evidenced in this lecture, it hasn’t done much to deserve her.

cool and normal

Will this be recorded? I’m in Australia and this will be 12:30am but I would love a recording if possible!

You’re so right. I frequently look my husband dead in the eye and tell him that women are still viewed as second class citizens. Just yesterday 95 became 97 in one day and a man that ran over his wife in a car was let off on a far lesser charge. How anyone can refute that is beyond me.

L: Coalition politicians describing Islamophobia as “fictitious” and “not equally prevalent” to anti-Semitism

R: figures from the 2024 Scanlon Social Cohesion study

I have a headache just watching

Ted O’Brien has brought CSIRO into every answer so far, instead of actually answering the questions. #auspol

I’m exhausted for Sarah Ferguson just watching this. #auspol

On what planet does a wildly expensive, unproven, slow build energy source help lower energy prices? Ted O’Brien is talking absolute nonsense.