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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · Mar 21

I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed

When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist

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Shaun Ratcliff @shaunratcliff.bsky.social · 51m

Join us for a free webinar hosted by Macquarie University where researchers will present the fascinating insights they have drawn from data collected by Accent Research at the 2025 federal election showing how voters' demographics, backgrounds and economic interests shape housing politics

Ben Spies-Butcher @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social · 1d

How did #Housing shape the 2025 #auspol Election? Come to our free webinar.

We analyse new data to see how generation, tenure and voting shape housing politics

With @emmabaker.bsky.social @shaunratcliff.bsky.social and @everybodyshome.bsky.social Maiy Azize

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Housing and the 2025 Federal Election: Between Crisis and Inertia

Join our free webinar for key insights into housing and politics—ideal for researchers, students, and policymakers tackling Australia's housing crisis.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 50m

My weather dashboard of only Melbourne weather 😇 joshnicholas.com/weather

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1h

the other concern is kids going to less mainstream, non-age checking platforms that put less resources to online safety.

when the UK instituted age check requirements for porn sites in July (like Australia will in a few months), non-compliant websites saw a big boost in traffic.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 1h

gonna be bloody hot in Melbs today 😬

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Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social · 2h

AIHW's Australia's Welfare 2025 report and data is out: www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data...

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Bittersweet.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Three pairs of hands reaching from the left towards three pairs of hands reaching from the right. But on the left, two pairs of hands are dotted outlines.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 1d

These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight theconversation.com/these-austra...

These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 1d

50 Cent adjusted for inflation 50centadjustedforinflation.com

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 1d

Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale

Funding is a silver lining in a tumultuous year for the Lebanese-Australian artist from western Sydney

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

Last bollard standing at Spencer and Collins Street wongm.com/2025/10/last...

Last bollard standing at Spencer and Collins Street - Waking up in Geelong

This post is dedicated to the memory of the bollards that once stood guard valiantly protecting pedestrians at the corner of Spencer and Collins Street, until one by one they were picked off by motori...

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

Make a zine!

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 5d

great newsletter this week imho! charts on:

- far-right Facebook groups
- pay in the WNBA
- record-breaking ocean heat
- how the amount of ingredients is shrinking in some foods
- and a chart on who marries whom.

And birds of course!

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The Crunch: far-right Facebook groups; underpaid WNBA players; and making your own origami bird

Our colleagues in the UK spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

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The App Store Was Always Authoritarian infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...

The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted

Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend it...

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · 4d

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 4d

Why the Green Cheese Turned White www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Why the Green Cheese Turned White

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d

This is a wildly creative set of customizations for Claude Code, using the new plugin system they just released. There are SO many fascinating ideas in this! Strongly recommend reading it and then spending some time exploring the accompanying repo github.com/obra/superpo...