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Leroy, customer service manager for Cocoa Raphsody, purveyors of fine, handmade chocolate at St Kilda farmer's market (the customers are more than satisfied)

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Guess who LOVES PROFIT-BOOSTING WAR & couldn't care less about deadly heatwaves, drought, fires, floods & landslides❓ "BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell & TotalEnergies will collectively earn $45 billion in net income during April-June 2026, up from $23 billion in the previous quarter"

Big Oil fuelling global heatwaves while ‘making a killing’: Oxfam calls for windfall tax to fund adaptationOxfam warns that soaring profits at BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies are fuelling deadly global heatwaves, with emissions linked to a quarter of such events since 2000. It urges a...www.downtoearth.org.in

Scored a beautiful edition of Alan Davidson's magnificent Seafood of South-East Asia at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair (free entry, ends today) This version has gorgeous colour plates by artist Tang Ying Wei & a Dedication written with Davidson's characteristic charm, wit & erudition 💙

Fri 31 Jul While Spain, France, Italy, Greece, UK, US & Canada BURN & Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chile, China, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, & Nigeria FLOOD Woodside Energy reaps $6 Billion fr last quarter thanks to war & fossil fuel-enabling govts like @albomp.bsky.social's

this self-congratulatory post from Sarina Russo, self-proclaimed 'Jobs Queen', seems like a good candidate for smashing that 'Seems like AI slop' button on LinkedIn

Google IS evil

Another year, another shameful result The gap "represents: the aggregate accumulation of disadvantage heaped on Indigenous people from colonisation, and the aggregate accumulation of advantage enjoyed by largely non-Indigenous people" Read the whole piece from A/Prof Elise Klein

Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether?New data show just four of the 19 targets are being met or are on track to be so. With such a poor track record, it’s time for a different approach.theconversation.com

Going along to Melbourne Rare Book Fair today Wretched and sickening to contemplate the mutilation and violent extractivism of using hydraulic-powered cutting machines to slice off the spines of books so pages can be scanned, then discarded And repeating the process on millions of books JFC