Escaping the rain

Train sketching. The guy left before it was done :(

Extreme weather is making life harder for Vietnam’s delivery riders https://restofworld.org/2024/gig-worker-rising-video-vietnam

‘Not safe to run in the dark’: how inadequate lighting in public spaces is creating barriers for women www.theguardian.com/australia…

It rose!

New favourite thing on the internet is the South China Morning Post’s Panda tracker https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/article/3275641/panda-tracker

Trying to get back into live drawing

A watched Xbox game never downloads

Haven’t been posting many scribbles. Am practicing drawing people again

‘The wells are salty’: how the invading ocean is contaminating Vanuatu’s water www.theguardian.com/environme…

The link between local news coverage and Americans’ perceptions of crime www.pewresearch.org/short-rea…

How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni…

Wow. The damage to Tesla’s brand in Australia since Musk bought Twitter www.abc.net.au/news/scie…

Also why is it so hard to buy a belt that isn’t either leather or elastic

Increasingly clear the only reason people have hands and feet is to mess with me when I’m drawing

“Her research shows at least one in four residential car parks in Melbourne’s CBD are always vacant, with overseas studies coming to similar conclusions….” www.abc.net.au/news/2024…

Had to fix my rss scrapers for the ABC because of the new redesign. Is it just me or are the stories on author/tag pages no longer in chronological order? @simon@bne.social

In Ukraine-controlled Sudzha, stranded Russian civilians question what’s next www.washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Powerful interactive from the my colleagues, showing the Israel-Gaza war through the lens of WhatsApp messages between friends www.theguardian.com/world/ng-…

Satellite imagery shows how deadly landslides swept through settlements and washed away hundreds of buildings in India www.reuters.com/graphics/…

Finally getting warm enough to do some city scribbling before work

Gaza Reduced to 42 Million Tonnes of Rubble. What Will It Take to Rebuild? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/…

I don’t even understand how Github can go down

“nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood” www.theguardian.com/world/art…

“Australians have lost so much faith in government that just being heard feels like special treatment” www.theguardian.com/australia…