Kangaroos!

I remember a student saying she got the "best Christmas present ever". We wondered... A pony perhaps? Nope. Her mum got to rent a one-room grannyflat & they all moved in together. She & all her siblings. They had been living in a tent in a national park for over a year. She was so happy! One room.

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Great Aussie Movies Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, Babe, Crocodile Dundee, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Man from Snowy River ... #Aus

Incredible temperatures this week. Stay safe, find shelter, drink plenty of water, put water out for yhe birds and lizards, check on your friends and family.

Good god they shut the riad through the Nullarbor. You know it's serious when...

They’re afraid of the guillotine, so they’re erecting the gallows.

Take care, drink lots of water, stay out of the U.V., everyone. Remember you will still burn under clouds. And no open flames!! Today is our reprieve. Tomorrow will be a furnace.

Two kangaroos bound across the bike race, and one looks like it gets terribly injured. No info on how it is doing, you'd think they would at least interview a WIREs expert.

Adelaide Botanic Garden is livestreaming their corpse flower. It's a beauty, lovely big tall one. Apparently it smells like cheese, but I'm too far away to travel down to see it. #smellanie #adelaide #botany www.youtube.com/live/Jh8BPg5...

Flat cat due to heat. Thessa alternates between complaining about the heat and going back out to lie in the sun, putting her whiter patches of fur out in the sun as much as possible. #calicocats #catsofbluesky

A goodly number of amusing stories in this article, including the "Poms on Pushbikes admitted free" sign.

Greenland? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

We have entered a time of esoteric #iphone #app symbols again. Can anyone tell me what these ikons are meant to be pictures of? Am I wrong? Am I right? I know what apps they open, it is the images that I am questioning here. More info in the alt text. #liquidglass #lunacy

Persephone watching from the bed. #void #cat

Crazy heavy final #sumo match there today, with that poor bleeding sod being asked to fight again with a head wound. #hatsubasho good show!

I have been pointing out the look of unbridled joy ShiShi gets every time he is actually wrestling. There is a man who is enjoying the sport. Doing well, too. #hatsubasho #sumo

Thessa climbed the olive tree thismorning. From that high up she can see the kids playing handball in the back lane, and the lorikeets in the fruit trees next door! It is a delightfully exciting place to be. #catsofbluesky #calicocats

Adelaide Writers Week Festival could have thought about this one. Bit late now, of course.

Just so that more Zionists can get upset RT Zionist lobby groups: If we give an Indigenous Voice to Parliament it will be divisive. If we don't give a Zionist voice to Parliament it will be antisemitic. #auspol

Me too, Spikes art is great. I can't tell her that directly, as I'm not on the whitelist, but I suspect there are heaps of people who are as interested as us too in seeing more of Spikes art, and willing to wait for as long as good art can sometimes take to be complete.

#hatsubasho hair grab foul; At least it wasn't shishi this time, though! Shishi is up next.

Hatsu Basho been good so far, and I wandered around on #sumo Bluesky and am very disappointed with myself for not noticing this post sooner!

Thessa asleep on the back of the couch. #catsofbluesky #calicocats #sleepsies

Important fact about "Chaucer Doth Tweet" in case you were on the fence. Excellent insights, and not coincidental agglomerations.

Adorables!

Stay safe, everyone. And drink water!

There are no excuses for this behaviour. Israel is evil.

Happy new year, everyone! Foggy first day of the year here, very pretty.

First half of summer (the dry bit) is progressing beautifully. Sitting in the shade by the river today, daydreaming and reading a book.

When my father refloored the verandah a few months ago, he left one plank out long with no explanation. We didn't ask, it's his verandah, after all. Harmless. We just found out why. #dragon #lizard Today:

Voight-Kampff test. And yeah, sometimes wonder if that's why only the scum of humanity, or the brainless, ever promote LLMs and so-called A.I.; They can't tell the difference between it and themselves.

This is why #Israel uses the Anti semitism card when people protest against the #Genocide and Lebensraum ( land and property theft ) in Gaza and the West Bank

Happy Christmas everyone! It has been a brilliant day, Christmas dinner worked well, the traditional midday swim was delightful, we are now settling down to a game of Settlers of Catan for the evening. I hope you all have had as pleasant a day as we have.

As an Aussie in (a non-wet) summer, this is hitting me hard. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/1...

There's a reason I only wear mens clothes these days, and it isn't because gender. Pockets are a human right.

Final day of school today. Then five weeks without air conditioning Honestly looking forward to the holidays, but still. Gonna be warm.

Dear @mozilla.org , I have loved and promoted your browsers for 25 years or more. I will not use your browsers if you make your modern, useful browser into an A.I. browser, because that is not modern, it is useless rubbish. The reason we use #Firefox is because it isn't rubbish.

Well, this certainly was a long time coming. #girlgenius #webcomic www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?da... It's about bloody time! Also, props to Gil for behaving so perfectly.

We have a name for the Bondi hero, although the ABC still seem to be reluctant to tell us, and it is Ahmed el Ahmed! He is a true blue Aussie hero folks!

It should be seating the trainers, not the architects, as architects were not balanced on the I-beam in the original artwork, the workers were. It's a mistake all the way along...

The absent teacher left work made by A.I. for the students I am teaching today & it is wavering between wrong & VERY wrong. It asks questions about characters who aren't even in the novel they are reading. It would be so simple to use a real textbook. #AIeducation

Stay safe folks, it is already bloody warm.

Excellent story about the power of theatre.

Head teacher just walked into my classroom. "Hi. Everything going okay?" "Yep." "Need anything?" "Yeah, actually, do you have spare grid paper?" "Oh. No. Why do you need it?" "So that people can draw these similar figures on grids." "Oh. Nope we don't have that." Head teacher walks out of my room.

When I started teaching, a decade and a half ago, I was told we would eventually have a smartboard, or at very least a projector, in every room, even a whole computer in every room. I have to admit, haven't taught in a room without a smartboard this year. I live in the future.

I admit, I don't know why I found this announcement by a fellow teacher so funny, but its arrival in my inbox caused me to laugh, and still has me giggling when I see it. I guess it does sort of show the exasperation we experience when trying to move yr12 out of their yr11 mindset? Or something?

Finally watched K-pop Demon Hunters. No idea why people didn't tell me that it's just Charlies Angels, animated. The Bosby character is sodding adorable, the ending is utterly disappointing (I was hoping for something interesting to happen) and the sound design is a bit sloppy, but not bad all up.

XKCD appropriate for today: xkcd.com/2347/ Remarkable what will bring down all the infrastructure so simply.

I loved Roadtown when I read it as a teenager, and it's on Project Gutenburg, so I would like to promote to everyone an old favourite piece of speculative engineering science fiction that has gained new magic due to recent events: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58964