Random News Stories

[think positive]

^Yeah, I noticed that article on food and livestock monopolies. More owned policy.

Here's a top little story about a clever Aussie environmental innovation to save the green and golden bell frog, one of Oz's coolest amphibians:

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment ... isease-aoe

One of my fave creatures on the planet.

Aww so cute

I can never spot them!

[think positive]

This is really random, I considered putting it in the WTF thread.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-a ... 5jw7n.html

What we don't need, are coked up sharks.

The Meg on ….. coke!

[stui magpie]

@think positive , I suppose it could be worse, the sharks could be on Weed and get a massive dose of the munchies.

[think positive]

Hehehehe!

Imagine amethyst head shark! No teeth!

[pietillidie]

^TP, please keep looking! Green and golden bell frogs would be awesome photography subjects.

[think positive]

^TP, please keep looking! Green and golden bell frogs would be awesome photography subjects.

looks like they are getting very hard to find sadly

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au ... bell-frog/

but ill keep an ear and eye out! cheers

[Culprit]

I came home from Canada and decided I needed another break and a quick trip to Bali. I read and loved the news that the Hire E Scooters are being removed from the CBD. I love it as they are just dumped everywhere and riding these on the footpath is dangerous. Only addressing part of the problem as those with their own e scooters simply ride them down the footpath anyway.

[pietillidie]

^You'll have to give us a post-mortem of the trip (unless I've missed a post in another thread).

[Culprit]

^You'll have to give us a post-mortem of the trip (unless I've missed a post in another thread).

I haven't done one yet. I may start a Holiday Post mortem thread lol

[stui magpie]

Apparently Guy Rundle has been sacked from Crikey

[David]

I let my subscription lapse and haven't been keeping up with him lately. They seemed to be moving in different directions for a while – I wonder what the final straw was.

Edit: This was it: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ult-ntwnfb

He's not fundamentally wrong – one of the big problems with assessing apparent statistical increases in crimes like sexual assault is indeed that the definition has expanded, and any journalist who doesn't acknowledge that in discussion (instead merely taking for granted that we're in the midst of a sexual assault epidemic) is failing in their basic duties. The problem here of course is that Rundle's comment is being interpreted as implying that groping shouldn't be considered sexual assault – and, whether or not that's what he meant, unfortunately having some form in this area in terms of how he's written on these subjects probably doesn't help his cause.

Anyhow, as much as the editors at Crikey won't miss the headaches he gave them, they're also ensuring that they'll now be in charge of a much more boring and less insightful publication. Hopefully Rundle lands somewhere that more fully appreciates his iconoclastic approach.

On a broader note: this might be a somewhat old-fashioned view, but isn't it possible to publish a columnist who holds some opinions you don't approve of? As an editor, you get final say in what gets published, and if you want to set up certain no-go zones ahead of time and the columnist is willing to agree to that, then what's the problem? Publication doesn't equate endorsement of every single thing a person believes; it's merely signalling that you think they have something interesting to say on a given subject – as, indeed, most people do. Unfortunately, it seems like a judgement of personal virtue has once again triumphed over a commitment to exploring ideas.

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... harvesting