DavidC (he/him)

Does something still count as satire if all you've done is change the names to protect the guilty?

Big polluters are using loopholes in Australia’s key climate policy to cause major environmental damage revealed by new analysis from the Australia Institute.

“This is actually helping fossil fuel companies pollute. It’s giving them money.

- Ketan Joshi

@ketanjoshi.co #auspol

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of

"What we know from research is, if you don’t have compulsory voting, the people least likely to vote are poorer people, people from new migrant groups, and often the young," says an Australian scholar on what it means that Australia requires voting.

boltsmag.org/compuls...

Wow. CVE database is in serious trouble, in two days.

The cyber industry as a whole is in trouble also really, it’s the elephant in the room - the collapse of the White House’s support for cybersecurity is obvious and pronounced due to widespread cutbacks.

Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market | CNN Business An island with a renovated fort in Wales, United Kingdom, has recently gone on sale for $4 million.

This would make a fantastic writers' retreat. Can anyone lend me £3m?

us.cnn.com/2025/08/08/b...

Murujuga, a 1.000 km² property in Western Australia that holds the world’s densest concentration of rock art, has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. Australia now has two Indigenous sites listed as outstanding universal value to all humanity. buff.ly/Zb1GxQb
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had

Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had theonion.com/man-who...

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

A Wall Street Journal headline, astounding in its credulous stupidity, reading, "Putin Tells U.S. He’ll Halt War in Exchange for Eastern Ukraine President Trump said he would meet with Putin next week in Alaska to discuss ending the war."

Hitler tells Neville Chamberlain he'll halt war in exchange for the Sudetenland.

And the rest of Czechoslovakia. And Danzig. And the rest of Poland. And Denmark. And the Low Countries. And Northern France. And...

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.

www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...

Got it in one.

America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

Graph shows the two-party preferred for Labor and the Coalition since 1946, and which party was in government.

Four interesting graphs breaking down past election results from Mark the Ballot.

The first shows how the Albanese Govt made history with a swing towards them after their first term.

A new Jobs & Skills Australia Report has confirmed that men out-earn women in 98% of the 688 occupations they analysed.

Surprise! The gender pay gap is real and not just because we’re working less paid hours or don’t want to get our hands dirty.

OMG. 😍

Just like you should not be on Twitter, you should not be on Substack. There are viable alternatives that aren’t The Nazi Bar.

Hong Kong has been pummeled by record-breaking levels of torrential rain, shutting schools, disrupting hospitals, and flooding roads. August 5 saw the highest recorded daily rainfall in the city in August since records began in 1884.

That is a big part of why the last main sequence Laundry novel is coming out in January—my satire can't keep up with a for-real dystopian societal collapse!

photo of a fox sleeping on a Skylight

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

“At the moment Australia literally gives half the gas we export away for free. Zero royalties, no PRRT paid on half the gas we export.”

Executive Director Richard Denniss chats with 3AW about how Australia is giving away most of our gas for free.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social

#auspol

News Corp’s local papers bleed subscribers The Herald Sun, The Courier Mail and The Advertiser suffered paid-subscriber losses in the 2025 financial year.

News Corp's papers have fewer than 900,000 subscribers (print and online) across the country.

It's a complete joke how much every institution from the ABC, to government, to arts institutions, to universities completely melt-down whenever they write a story.

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

There is a working vaccine for Lyme disease but there wasn't enough uptake to make it financially feasible so production stopped.

A new one is in human testing, if it doesn't get killed by this administration.

My *horse* gets a Lyme vaccine every year.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.

Did you know this was a thing?

A sustained majority of people now back electoral reform, and the rising trend doesn't show any sign of stopping.

This isn't just a by-product of more people now supporting challenger parties, e.g. Reform. It's supported by a majority of voters across all parties.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Classic blunders
-Getting involved in land wars in Asia
-Going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
-Trying to contact researchers in Europe during August