Feeling very thankful for the roof over my head and no need to go out in the wind and rain today Also thankful for good friends that respect my need to not get blown over in public and have coffee earlier in the week Coffee and study today 👋☕️🇦🇺

Just saw this on YouTube: Guard The Leaf, who did a Canadian response to this very Australian essay If you’re in the US, please read This is how I feel as an Australian towards the current US too. Though I wasn’t as enamoured as IFLA, I totally get the sentiment: substack.com/@ifloz/note/...

Today’s coffee with a people watching view in Lambton NSW. Double espresso. No sugar or milk was thought of during this delicious well made Australian coffee 👋☕️🇦🇺

How wonderful and deeply thoughtful was the opening of Eurovision 2026 Semi-Final 1? 🥰🥹 I’ll be up at 5am for Semi-Final 2 to see our Delta give her best 🇪🇺👋🇦🇺

Today, May the Fourth, Star Wars Day, is my birthday… and my friends took me out for a coffee so early this morning that I actually got a Vegemite and cheese pastry! Day made 🇦🇺 How freaking awesome is all that! 👋☕️

Major happies here… My Helen has a motor. As amazing as The Fellow is, it’s a matter of Stoic justice that I don’t make him give up his life to push Helen and me up hills I never thought I would buy a junk car, but I have bought a good wheelchair power assist Go Helen Wheels! 👋☕️🇦🇺

ICE has detained the only Texas licenced court interpreter for Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi languages despite all her correct paperwork. Doug Sharpe below states it plainly, but there are other reliable sources as well This is so ridiculous it hurts me as a Linguist: youtube.com/shorts/esPMp...

Too much admin and adulting done before 10am… So this is what you get from me right now… It’s AI, I can’t draw, but the double espresso and little cake were delicious 👋☕️🇦🇺

On a train station concourse with Helen Wheels and this very cool little kid launches into this incredible spinning rave dance right in front of me He was burning off energy before what I assumed was a long train trip But he was a great dancer and I was glad I wasn’t on the train with him!

Feeling a bit happy emotional… Paid off the wheelchair in full yesterday (Helen Wheels) and she’s been keeping me wound free for over two months now Yesterday was also coincidently my late mother’s birthday, she didn’t care for herself or me so it’s good to remember 14 Apr in a better care way 🧑‍🦽‍➡️🎉

Watching the Artemis ll splash down from Sydney, Saturday morning 🧑‍🚀👋🇦🇺

If I get a Segway scooter for under my manual wheelchair how many laws will I be breaking where you live? 🧑‍🦽‍➡️🇦🇺😎

After he goes, people aren’t going to take drugs anymore. They will visit his library to trip balls.

John Lyon’s (on the ABC) analysis of the Orange Turd’s address is like a palate cleanser. He’s pretty much calling out all the lies & BS. Thank you John!!! #AusPol

Shhh… Orange fart man is spluttering on camera.

So welcome to my wheelchair’s official naming ceremony… I haven’t had any wounds for two months now! 🎉 So my chair’s name is… Helen… Helen Wheels Helen, The Fellow and I are celebrating with a coffee and bakery treats, come and join us - thanks for all your support 🎉👋☕️🇦🇺🧑‍🦽‍➡️❤️

You have no idea how much I’m getting from a daily Stoic practice - deliberately sitting, reading and thinking about values Doing something about the things I can control versus the things I can’t, has really uncluttered my head And there’s no threat of eternal punishment if I slightly disagree

For a timeline cleanse I thought I’d share a picture from Threads. And I’m going to tell you that a lot of us are waiting for the ‘Raptor’ on the 22 March It’s Threads. It was a typo. It’s now a Threads wide joke This is my new friend Rory who I hope will visit again during the Second Coming👋☕️🇦🇺🦖

One month anniversary of my wheelchair - and still no foot wounds. This means no more early morning nursing visits, a lot fewer medical appointments, no trips to hospital. More coffee with friends without serious foot consequences and I can walk around the house comfortably… Great investment 🎉🧑‍🦽‍➡️

For an economy that works for all, we also need universal basic income. That is the only way to share 50 years of productivity increases with EVERYONE. scottsantens.substack.com/p/universal-...

Wow. Absolutely stellar presentation.

Sometimes I have coffee near a big railway station. Just to watch the bags people choose to travel with. While I can’t photograph them, I also think some of these bags are being used to within an inch of their last breath. Imagine a bag holding a roll of heavy duty tape together.

Currently happening in a cafe I’m in, in a fortunate place, writing a 5 minute comedy set that’s going to be awesome one day 👋☕️🇦🇺

Quiet and delicious wandering to the cafe today to meet a friend… Latte on oat and Vegemite and cheese scroll 👋☕️🇦🇺🐨

So after galavanting around the neighbourhood for the last week my body has decided that I will not be physically doing anything today. This is a step up from needing to call community nurses in for wound care after toddling around the house for a day. I like this progress 👋☕️🇦🇺

Took myself out for the night. Lasted longer than I thought I would, now happily exhausted at home. Great new venue 👋☕️🇦🇺 (Photos before crowd flooded in)

Anthony Albanese has become the first Commonwealth leader to confirm support for removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession The PM told Keir Starmer that the allegations against Andrew are "grave" and "Australians take them seriously"

Had a wonderful, very ordinary day. That’s worth celebrating in my book 👋☕️🇦🇺

Hot new wheelchair Day One: Got a physical workout coming to the cafe (good) No wounds starting (yay!) and… Not completely mentally exhausted from trying to work out where to put my feet one after the other, like I was doing advanced calculus (double bonus) Got here in record time too (for me!)

I bought a carriage… Well at least this is easier to park. I walk at home unaided but this will make things a lot easier when I go out. (Feet are wound free now) This is my choice and it’s a good thing. I was well over all the wounds after each day out with friends. Open to nickname suggestions:

Wheelchair shopping is wild ♿️ This one I’m looking at online: “When using the wheelchair, ALWAYS follow the Highway Code…’ No, I’d prefer to fight the traffic and break ALL the laws and possibly several bones /s Sheesh 😎👋🇦🇺

To be completely honest I’m a little embarrassed that the Australian opposition conservative party (Liberals) are so entertaining. Happy Spill Day (again) 🥸🇦🇺

Just got discharged from the in-home wound care nursing service… After six months I finally have no foot wounds! Of course my feet are still deformed, but next week I have podiatry and I’m hoping for a lighter visiting schedule there too. Plus awesome wheelchair hunting! So freaking happy 👋☕️🇦🇺🧑‍🦽‍➡️

Can I recommend this video essay on Stephen Miller from the Australian Broadcasting Corp’s ‘If You’re Listening’? 20 mins well spent. It really helped me understand who he is, his background, and why he might be messing with the US… 👋☕️🇦🇺 youtu.be/60psYSeQoK8?...

Reason #4736 of why I love being Australian 👋☕️🇦🇺: youtube.com/shorts/dpFNP...

This is difficult to watch, but necessary. I’m Australian and am well aware of bias in reporting. Full respect to @propublica.org for getting there and hearing first hand accounts from people who are directly affected by the drop in USAID funding. We need more of this: youtube.com/watch?v=G7Te...

The #SundayShot returns this weekend! Please join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me on Sunday morning plus our expert panellists @emmashortis.bsky.social and @marquelawyers.com.au and Dave interviews The What & The Why's Nick Hanna. It will be good to be back!

Just because. What’s your coffee order? 👋☕️🇦🇺 This is a latte on oat with ham and cheese croissant.

Hey US tourism, what’s with the non-US ad spend? We’re not coming. No pretty pictures of mountains nor pithy slogans is going to negate the news we wake up to each morning. We see what’s happening. Miss you USA 🌏💔🇺🇸

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has slammed Donald Trump after the US president claimed allied soldiers "stayed a little back" from the frontlines in Afghanistan "This is a massive slur...President Trump, by dumping on allied troops, has shown neither mutual respect or restraint"

So I’m ‘graduating’ into a wheelchair, so my feet don’t muck up so much. It’s going to take a bit, but right now I’m looking at Bunnings for wheelchairs I’m looking for a wheelchair at Bluey’s ‘Hammerbarn’. 😎🤔🇦🇺 (Bunnings has now suggested I might like a Cordless Line Trimmer with my gloves. No.)

Can I just shout out the incredible people at The John Hunter Hospital (Newcastle 🇦🇺) who are looking after these puppies? My feet infections are easing and let’s face it they look pretty badass at the moment These staff are professional, kind and patient. So grateful to be Australian 👋☕️🇦🇺

There’s a context here but this can stand on its own There’s no such thing as ‘proper grammar and spelling’ There’s Standard grammars and spellings, and there’s appropriate grammars and spellings, but not ‘proper’ ones 1/2

Developer of small #wind project in #Victoria only wanted to put up five #turbines, but has been allowed just two after a planning permit cut.

6 News is looking for young Australians who are keen to create graphics, edit videos, and help improve our social media presence 👀 Interested? Click here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

So I’ve trained my YouTube algo to serve me up some needed brain chill: Thought it was worth a share - They have a whole channel of this glorious anarchy. I present cats versus trains… youtu.be/7wEOkT9-AeQ?...

#BREAKING 🚨 Victorian premier Jacinta Allan has warned that “if the forecasts are right, tomorrow will be catastrophic” A statewide Total Fire Ban has been declared, with the fire danger now the worst across Victoria since Black Summer Latest updates: VicEmergency

Emergency Warning issued for Berringama, Bungil, Burrowye, Colac Colac, Cudgewa, Cudgewa North, Guys Forest, Koetong, Mount Alfred, Mount Alfred Gap, Pine Mountain, Shelley, Thologolong, Tintaldra, Walwa at 7:38pm emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/w...

If you need a break from adults and the English language… 👋☕️🇦🇺❤️🇯🇵 youtu.be/Q5tSqY01FFk?...

I was sharing his photo on another site, on a Teddy Bear Parade Post… So I though you might enjoy his friendly face too… G’day! This is Edgar Downes 👋🧸🇦🇺