A classic.

Sydney has just recorded its hottest June since records began in 1859.
This is not "nice winter weather". It's another climate warning flashing in neon. Every new heat record is another reminder that burning coal, oil and gas has consequences.
The fossil fuel lobby keeps telling us not to worry. Physics keeps proving them wrong.

#climatechange #globalwarming #australia #nsw #renewables #climatecrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/04/sydney-records-hottest-june-since-1859-as-expert-warns-new-high-a-signature-of-global-warming

In case you missed it: getting the #shingles #vaccine lowers your risk of dementia later in life by 20% and even slows the progress of the disease for people already suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Shingles itself is awful: painful and even mentally debilitating. So please consider getting the vaccine.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

How to write rain better: stop describing how it looks and start describing how it sounds. Rain on a tin roof is cozy. Rain on a coffin is grief. Rain on an umbrella built for one is loneliness. Same weather, completely different scenes, all from one sense. Sound carries emotion in ways sight cannot, so let your reader hear the storm. Writing tip of the day. ☺️

#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #writingtips #creativewriting #writersofmastodon

"You cannot play the movies you've purchased, but hey, play has no limits. Thank you for your money."

US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit

Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A blocked CDC study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has been published in JAMA Network Open, a well-established medical journal. The study found the COVID-19 vaccination cut winter emergency department visits and hospitalisations by around 50%.

Source: https://www.phillyvoice.com/cdc-covid-19-vaccine-study-jama/

Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2850668?resultClick=3

#Google ordered to put clearer #links in #AI search and let UK publishers opt out - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/google-ordered-to-put-clearer-links-in-ai-search-and-let-uk-publishers-opt-out/ " Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don’t want “lots of sources.” yes we do, you lying bully

Buying a firewall in this industry is like asking “do you want herpes or hepatitis?”

Vaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to...

I have very conflicting feelings about this :D

#electronics #repair #righttorepair

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

Idiocracy

Well done Labor. What a gift for the RWNJs.

#AusPol #Australia #Politics #VoteGreen

The Israeli dispossession of Palestinian property in 1948 did not only include homes and lands. Many also lost access to bank accounts and other wealth. Today that stolen property is estimated to be worth over one hundred billion dollars.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/israel-used-the-nakba-not-only-to-steal-land-but-palestinians-financial-wealth-too/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza