A cow moves past a burning car that, according to fire officials, caught fire by an electrical short circuit after it was stuck in a water-logged road following heavy rains in Ahmedabad, India in July 2022 (Amit Dave/Reuters)

A firefighter sits on a swing next to a building destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv, Ukraine in April 2022 (Emilio Morenatti/AP)

erin patterson's husband (after being hospitalised twice following eating mushroom risotto): could go a mushroom risotto

if you went to an Optus store this morning expecting the casual sales assistant to solve the nationwide outage you should be given a custodial sentence because you need to be separated from the rest of society

This is the most mindblowing thing I've read this year. Largest such study ever. > 1 in 6 Australian men reports sexual feelings towards children > 1 in 10 have sexually offended against children (including tech facilitated and offline abuse) smh.com.au/national/the-s…

Remarkable and high-quality Swedish study: If men win the lottery, they marry and have children. If women win the lottery, their fertility does not rise. (Indeed, low-income women get divorced.) You might think more resources means more kids. Yes with men, not with women.

Migrants walk on the banks of the Rio Grande river to find a way to enter the United States as golfers play on the other side of the shipping container fence in Eagle Pass, Texas in March 2024 (Go Nakamura/Reuters)

“Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.” Sounds like they have a pretty good read on the situation in that case

‘We’re all a war criminals too’ is a bold messaging strategy

A lot of focus on how bad it is to kill children but I also do not think it’s ok to kill adults. It would not be better if the people killed in Gaza were all adults.

Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency vessel approaches in waters off Indonesia in March 2024 (Zahlul Akbar/AFP)

A man walks across the cracked bed of a dried-up pond in Vietnam's Ben Tre province in March 2024. A blazing month-long heatwave has caused drought in the region, with climate change causing an average of 26 more days of extreme heat globally over the last year (Nhac Nguyen/AFP)

Ukrainian civilian women practice with weapons as they attend training focused on the use of weapons and combat medical kit in Kyiv in March 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Roman Pilipey/AFP)

You’ve simply got to respect this

A member of the Belgian Armed Forces pays tribute to the 10 Belgian peacekeepers murdered in the first hours of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Kigali on 8 April 2024, as part of the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide (Luis Tato/AFP)

People in small boats collect recyclable plastics from the heavily polluted Citarum River in Batujajar Village in Bandung, Indonesia on 12 June 2024 (Timur Matahari/AFP)

democracy was never made to withstand this combination of money and disinformation.