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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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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 17h

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...

Jesse Vincent @s.ly · 1d

I wrote up my "How I'm using coding agents in October 2025" post.

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Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

I used to write more

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 19h

Birds. Vote. 25 left.

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Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 1d

Even if you did need thousands of dollars to do it, the combined base pay of 200 MPs is like 40 million dollars?

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Latest edition of The Crunch is out. Perfect for any loved ones who don't have enough #datavis in their life www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

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 · 1d

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 2d

If they just let them all fight she would emerge victorious

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

This is one of the many problems of the Substack model - editors are good and we've forgotten that

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

Cassowary is getting dangerously close to getting knocked out! Need everyone to go vote for the absolute unit www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States doesn’t seem to know what habeas corpus is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

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Chart showing that in most surveyed countries, supports of the governing party view their economy more positively

Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

Third narco sub found in Solomon Islands, as cocaine and meth trafficking comes to the Pacific www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Made in Colombia' narco sub found floating in Solomon Islands

Cousins Reubenson and Martin Fugui found a 'Made in Colombia' narco sub in Solomon Islands over the weekend — the third such vessel found in the country's waters over the past year.

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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 2d

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

You can also search for things but I've found it works better for larger sites like the BBC. Its also pretty good at finding different feeds if you just paste in a url

Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 2d

My rss reader (Feedbin.com) subscription is about to renew. Would totally recommend. Getting my news/other reading material from sources I choose rather than whatever is being pushed by an algo I don't control is some of the best money I spend. I even use it for Youtube and newsletters

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 3d

This is fantastic www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-...

The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 3d

Selling off the BBL would unlock capital to pay bigger salaries immediately, but has anyone made the case why/how private ownership is more likely to generate higher ongoing revenues to sustain those salaries? What can private owners do that CA can't? www.theage.com.au/sport/cricke...

Cummins, Head offered $10 million each to quit Australian cricket for T20 circuit

The money the Australian pair earn playing cricket for their country pales in comparison with the sums they were offered to become full-timers on the T20 franchise circuit.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3d

"It was not until Othniel Antwi had finished his masters and was looking for work that he realised his degree was not accredited."
This is horrendous from public unis - *I sold you this great car for your commute, but oopsie you can't drive it on a public road, sorry.* www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 4d

This past week has marked several important dates that inspired chart- and map-makers around the world. The latest Dispatch covers ongoing conflicts, reunification, government shutdown, and much more. 📅 📊

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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 3d

A little story about our local tawny frogmouth family for @australia.theguardian.com’s Bird of the Year

Tawny frogmouths take patience to appreciate. They will reward you with insights into their remarkable lives | Stephanie Convery

Spotting tawnies is a bit like completing a crossword: it’s easier once you are familiar with the patterns, but you can always get stumped

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 4d

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 4d

8️⃣ How will AI change the news?

As with last year, many assume AI will make news cheaper to produce (+39 point net difference) and more up to date (+22), but less transparent (−8) and less trustworthy (−19). People in Japan and Argentina are more positive and people in the UK more negative

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 4d

Am currently using a prera!

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 4d

Ah yeah fair enough. I need waterproof for drawing! But this is also why I like my cheap pilots

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