Nick Evershed!?
@nickevershed.bsky.social
Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus
dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc
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dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc
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‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest
‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest
The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife
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November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest
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Wrote about the teen social media ban, specifically Reddit www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
From AusLegal to AmItheAsshole: why I’m downvoting the social media ban on Reddit | Deirdre Fidge
We know young people are dancing on Tik Tok, and doing whatever the hell is happening on Kick, but my sympathies are with those about to be booted off Reddit
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November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Wrote about the teen social media ban, specifically Reddit www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
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Citation standards should no longer ask that you say the date a website was accessed - primarily because it's kind of embarrassing to have to say you looked at a website 3 days before a proposal was due.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Citation standards should no longer ask that you say the date a website was accessed - primarily because it's kind of embarrassing to have to say you looked at a website 3 days before a proposal was due.
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A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) at Isleta Lakes on November 10, 2025.
#nature #naturephotography #birds
#nature #naturephotography #birds
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) at Isleta Lakes on November 10, 2025.
#nature #naturephotography #birds
#nature #naturephotography #birds
try doing this in a sydney council tho
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
try doing this in a sydney council tho
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
deep cut
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
deep cut
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SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
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Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
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latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
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The Albanese Government is asking the High Court to create a new defence to false imprisonment to escape $10s of millions it is liable to pay 356 people it was forced to release from immigration detention.
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High Court immigration test case could result in payouts of millions
More than 350 non-citizens released from immigration detention have claims worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The Albanese Government is asking the High Court to create a new defence to false imprisonment to escape $10s of millions it is liable to pay 356 people it was forced to release from immigration detention.
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‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians
Consumer advocates raise significant concerns as union says contractors use lower-paid staff to boost profit
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November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
‘Set up to fail’: ATO outsourcing to private call centres focused on boosting profit not helping Australians www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
Google to build data centre on Christmas Island
The search engine giant signed a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year to build the facility, whose details remain secret, on Christmas Island.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Behind the scenes - I am deep in the Content Mines
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Behind the scenes - I am deep in the Content Mines
I fucking love this... this is what the internet was meant for neal.fun/space-elevat...
Space Elevator
Take a trip to space!
neal.fun
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I fucking love this... this is what the internet was meant for neal.fun/space-elevat...
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Another entry to the *nightmare-coins-that-really-shouldn't-feature-teeth* series. This one of Benedict XVI.
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Another entry to the *nightmare-coins-that-really-shouldn't-feature-teeth* series. This one of Benedict XVI.
there will 100% be Some Guy* who abuses the shit out of this scheme so much by like setting up a backyard aluminium smelter out of stuff they bought at Aldi and ruins it for everyone else
*me
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*me
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November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
there will 100% be Some Guy* who abuses the shit out of this scheme so much by like setting up a backyard aluminium smelter out of stuff they bought at Aldi and ruins it for everyone else
*me
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*me
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when making a new graph/chart/whatever you really have to ask yourself these two questions imo
1) is this chart/map better than a table
2) is this chart/map better than a bar chart
1) is this chart/map better than a table
2) is this chart/map better than a bar chart
the unfortunate truth re: data visualisation is that you really do gotta hand it to bar charts
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
when making a new graph/chart/whatever you really have to ask yourself these two questions imo
1) is this chart/map better than a table
2) is this chart/map better than a bar chart
1) is this chart/map better than a table
2) is this chart/map better than a bar chart
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Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Indiana-Jones-It-Belongs-In-a-Museum.gif
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Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.
the Coalition dumping net zero and going harder on immigration to chase One Nation votes is not likely to help them if they ever want to win enough seats to form government again - and this (complicated) chart shows one reason why!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
the Coalition dumping net zero and going harder on immigration to chase One Nation votes is not likely to help them if they ever want to win enough seats to form government again - and this (complicated) chart shows one reason why!
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ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... cc. @maximumwelfare.bsky.social @jeremypoxon.bsky.social
ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients
The tax office’s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog
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November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... cc. @maximumwelfare.bsky.social @jeremypoxon.bsky.social
tbh this already happened in the 90s, there was a laser tag in Gosford of all places (it fucken ruled)
After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
tbh this already happened in the 90s, there was a laser tag in Gosford of all places (it fucken ruled)
oh I had just assumed these were a front for something, like the american candy stores
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Australian cities are awash with luxury laundromats: ‘They’re popping up left, right and centre’
The beautiful laundrettes offer free wifi, upbeat music and a faster way to wash your clothes. And many offer contactless payment - ‘a lot different to pulling out 13 coins’
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October 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
oh I had just assumed these were a front for something, like the american candy stores
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