While You Were Sleeping, 60,000 Across Australia Rallied For Climate Action

Breaking Bad Got An Alternate Ending

The upcoming box set of Breaking Bad comes with a bunch of special features, but the best one is this: an alternate ending that didn’t make the final cut.

It stars Bryan Cranston in his former role as Hal, father of infamously in-the-middle Malcolm, waking up in bed next to Jane Kaczmarek. It turns out it was all a dream… OR WAS IT.

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60,000 Show Up For Climate Action

An estimated total of 60,000 rallied yesterday in every capital city and over 130 towns and regional centres around Australia, for the National Day of Climate Action hosted by GetUp!, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

There were 2000 in Canberra, addressed by Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury and the ACT secretary of the United Firefighters Union, David Livingstone.

There were 4000 in Brisbane, who heard from Greens leader Christine Milne and firefighter Dean McNulty. McNulty spoke of the massive risk that climate change poses to Australia’s landscape and his colleagues.

There were 10,000 in (an exceptionally damp, eventually rained out) Sydney, who were addressed by deputy federal opposition leader Tanya Plibersek, warning that “Australia is going backwards while the rest of the world is going forwards.”

And a massive 30,000 turned out in Melbourne, who heard from the Climate Commission’s Tim Flannery and Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt. Bandt linked global warning to super typhoons like Haiyan, which killed an estimated 4460 people in the Philippines this month.

The federal government wants a vote to repeal the carbon tax in the Senate before July. Its mandate to do so is questionable at best.

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Here’s George R.R. Martin, Live At The Sydney (Westero)Opera House

The writer of A Song Of Ice And Fire was joined by Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) and Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark), who were questioned for 90 minutes by The Chaser’s Dom Knight.

On stage for the Ideas At The House series, they talked about incest, the unintended infinity of the Game Of Thrones universe, the pressure on the books to stay ahead of the show, and, of course, Cersei and incest: “That’s what drew me to the role,” she laughed.

Also, George R.R. Martin said “Hodor”.

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BatKid Saved The Day

10,000 volunteers transformed San Francisco into Gotham City for a day over the weekend, to cheer on BatKid: a five-year-old named Miles, who lost three years of his childhood battling leukaemia.

The Make A Wish Foundation set up a spectacular, wide-reaching scenario for him, which involved defeating the Riddler and the Penguin, saving a damsel in distress who was tied to a railroad track, and rescuing the San Francisco Giants’ mascot Lou Seal.

He was presented with the key to the city, and even made the front page of the Gotham City Chronicle — a special edition of a San Franciscan daily.

Batman comic book artist (and Bane creator) Graham Nolan weighed in, too.

So did Batfleck.

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Feature image via GetUp on Twitter.