✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

So SMOL.

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #kangaroo #australia #animal #smol #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

Bat hostel

Rescued baby flying foxes rest, wrapped up, after being injured by giant hailstones (some as large as a cricket ball) in #Queensland storms, #Australia. Almost 120 fruit bats (as they are also known) were injured, some critically, before being rescued by volunteers and admitted to the RSPCA wildlife hospital.

Photograph: RSPCA Queensland

#photography
#AnimalRescue
#bats
#ClimateDiary

🚨 AI is a billion dollar bet. And Big Tech wants YOU to pay for it. Now Microsoft got sued for tricking users to pay 45% more for its AI. 🚨

👉🏼 Australia’s competition regulator says Microsoft misled around 2.7 million users into paying more for Microsoft 365 when offering its AI Copilot.

Find out more: tuta.com/blog/microsoft-price-…

#Microsoft #AI #Microsoft356 #Australia

*Sinking Boats Off Venezuela, Colombia. What Could Go Wrong?*

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...the #Philippines, #SouthKorea, #Japan, #Australia—sounds like you guys are now on your own, and we’re going to retrench from the #Pacific.
.. "
"Well, the threat #Hegseth identifies in #LatinAmerica is what he calls “narco-terrorism.”

"Calling these guys narco-terrorists is clearly perverting the definitions of #terrorism and #NarcoTrafficking to get around legal restrictions. These traffickers are criminals. They’re...

Trailblazing female mining engineer remembered as pioneering transgender woman

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-25/tra…

Wow Rebecca! What bravery!

#News #Australia #Trans #History #LGBTQIA #Mining #Engineer

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^{Alice Walker (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)}

This is more than concerning; it is, or it should, downright alarming.

Australia's tropical rainforests have switched from Carbon sink to Carbon source — they now release more CO2 than they absorb. We're the first, likely because our rainforests exist in drier climes than most in the world.

If other forests follow suit, all climate models will need rethinking and the temperature predictions will be woefully inadequate.

> "We thought the forest would be able to store more carbon because [CO2] is increasing. But looking at these long term empirical datasets, we find that is not the case – it allows us to confront the theory with reality and better understand how these systems work.”

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#Climate #ClimateChange #Australia #DataOverDogma

EDIT: This data also puts the lie to the climate change deniers' claim that "More CO2 is good for the trees."

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

^{Petra Stock (The Guardian)}