Graduation, a succulent Chinese lunch and the Raiders come back from 0-20 down to win - what a day.

Oof, some brutal cuts in this list.

The hard reality of promotions…

I graduated with my law degree today, from UTS Faculty of Law.
I started it in 2019, which is like an entire century ago, but I fucking finished it, and looking forward to reading for fun again.

Buddy Hield has picked an impeccable game to get hot.

Which public servant has been sitting on these reports, waiting for the right moment to raise the issue of the committee recommendation about when the Gillard era carbon price should switch to a floating price...
aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…

These recommendations are like a decade old, and past any sense of relevance.

Respect to Maxey…but damn…I’m clearly getting too old for this shit…

SNY sources: Sixers coach Nick Nurse injured his finger when he slammed his hand in frustration on a call during Sixers’ Game 5 win at MSG. Unclear if it is a break or sprain. Nurse couldn’t draw plays up in the second half because he couldn’t grip a marker.

Tyrese Maxey is very good at basketball.

General reminder - politicians are not your friends and should be held to account and criticised when they fall short. Doing so is not an endorsement of anyone else or another party. You should want your politicians to learn, to be better and work towards solutions.

The 76ers and Knicks shooting a combined 2 from 20 - and Tobias Harris being the only one to make a shot, has to be one of the most unlikely ways this game could have started.

“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Oh wow, this event looks more awkward than I had even imagined it could be.

To stabalise temperature requires the same outcome: net zero CO2 emissions.

The longer it takes to get to net zero CO2 emissions, the higher the temperature outcome.

(Remaining Carbon Budgets from AR6 WGI, updated with emissions since 2020)

A situation where a state government could pay a coal generator as much as $150 million a year to remain open is a symptom of a decade of bad energy policy at a federal level.
This could have been avoided had we not lost that period between 2013 and 2022.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

2035 is very late, but this includes Australia’s largest fossil fuel customer in Japan.
reuters.com/sustainability…