Josh's micro blog

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…

Parents are waiting more than 30 years for an Australian visa. The new home affairs minister needs to act theconversation.com/parents-a…

Llama Parse gives you 1k free pages a day…. or 7k pages a week if you pay 🤔

“The first international cricket match on record was between the United States and Canada, and the first overseas tour by a British team was to North America.” daily.jstor.org/endangere…

“The Olympics' host loses scrillions of dollarydoos” you say. But it’s worth it for this alone.

This is a great blog given we are once against discussing the english language skills of international students - “How do universities decide whose English needs to be tested for admission?” www.languageonthemove.com/how-do-un…

Australia needs permanent supportive housing to end homelessness – and it will pay for itself theconversation.com/australia…

Just got a text with a coupon for a Sydney pizza place… a city I have not lived in for two years. Please will someone just stop the spam.

Just amazing Reuters visuals on the ancient Olympics www.reuters.com/graphics/…

The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals www.theguardian.com/global-de…

Great piece by ABC story lab on the Big Mac index and what’s driving the cost of burgers 📊 www.abc.net.au/news/2024…

Back to normal

“12 percent of Americans now identify as multiracial” 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2024/08/0…

Flicking through my journals and realised I forgot to post this coffee shop scribble from the last day in Ho Chi Minh. Had a coffee and pineapple cocktail. You’d think it wouldn’t work but it was great

How Tahiti’s location and seafloor help create one of the world’s best spots to surf www.reuters.com/graphics/…

Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers www.theguardian.com/world/art…

Finally landed back in Melbourne…. THIS CITY IS TOO COLD WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES