Important day today: with her mum (my niece) as home base sitting on the pool steps, her Gran (my sister) and I in the pool to bob around with her; and her GiGi (my mum) watching from poolside, my great-niece had her first swim at 6 months. The intergenerational love took my breath away.

Honestly thought this was an artwork. Instead it’s spectacular documentation of vitally important things.

me: ok, it’s time to go to sleep. goodnight, everyone my brain: SALAGADOOLA MENCHICKA BOOLA BIBBIDI-BOBBIDI-BOO

Had a little Moment. Made a browned butter blueberry (in honour of our Australian blueberries, as lionised by @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social at his recent Melbourne gig) cake with lemon drizzle icing. Feeling better now. Is please to enjoy photo of glazed and glistening ring. Cake. Ring cake.

Lynda Carter posted this on her Instagram today. She is an American hero. #WonderWoman

This newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire

does it ever make you crazy?

Romantic rebellion piratecore you say?? youtube.com/shorts/zLnfc...

40% of Bluesky have been contestants on Jeopardy making us a very smart website but all of them came in third so its not like that impressive

Having what I used to call a Bad Heart Day. I am Pollyannaing that shit, because (A) have not had one in many moons; (B) it has taken four (4) 41+ degrees C days to get here; (C) I’m not surprised & panicky: I know if I work on making good decisions like sleeping & drinking water, it will pass.

To: Whoever made BLUE cough syrup. There is a special level of Hell for you where you get to eat the Betty Rubble Flintstones vitamin for eternity.

I have considered it every day since I finished this in 2020. (Pattern credit: SassyXStitchDesigns on Etsy)

Timeline cleanse: the kindest town in North America is at it again.

Doing the general knowledge quiz with my maternal unit. MU: who directed Saturday Night Fever? One of the options is Leonard Nimoy? Me: he has directed but that was later, in the 80s. MU: oh yes, he was an actor! He played Spock in Star Wars! Me: …..you’re making the toxic fanboys scream, mother.

I truly marvel anyone with a nervous system can listen to Andrew Tate or whoever, and feel the toxic way that makes you feel in your own body, when feeling the way Heated Rivalry makes you feel is also an available option.

*heavy breathing intensifies* *what?* *if the trees don’t like it maybe they should shooting their tree splooge all over everything and making my asthma go bananas*

The Wound That Woke the Kraken, #OFMD fanart, one of my favourite pieces and I think the only one I've ever named 🤔 Busily working on NDA things so pardon the reposts! ❤️

😔 #ofmd

Small lives. ❤️

They just want our faces the right way up and everything is golden.

This piece on AI from @seamas.bsky.social is apt, cogent and pithy. I recommend it to you in its entirety. (I am also delighted to see another indepedent publication using @ghost.org, which @garius.bsky.social and I use for @theupfront.media — where we hold very similar views about the use of AI.)

Once again failing to find sufficiently powerful thermal bras for this weather, and once again putting forward this prototype

JFC

Still standing, Elton please advise

the worst spam text i’ve ever received

Apparently myself and a history-obsessed Sydney thespian have brain trains running on the same line. Thanks for the explainer @mandziy.bsky.social! youtube.com/shorts/OKwcF...

If you could be sick right now, would you choose to be? Then why are you going out in public without a mask on? Flu A is as high as Covid was last year, VERY HIGH. Flu vax is not well-matched to this year’s strain & flu has put people in hospital & killed kids in 🇨🇦 K/N95 masks work to prevent it 😷

someone just rang the doorbell and omg when did i stop fitting underneath the bed.

This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!

From Henry Rosoff on X, this is a VERY BASED inauguration lineup. What a way to start a new year. Our City, Our Time 😤

"Bah! Dammit, get off my lawn!", I yell at the gnomes that gather there silently in the night. They do not respond. They never do.

I hope 2026 is kind to us all

THEY. LITERALLY. DID. THE. SAMUEL. VIMES. BOOT. THEORY. WITH. ACTUAL. BOOTS. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Like “well assaulting women was just how it was back then” - and yes the necrotic ice creatures and massive dragons are also well-documented parts of medieval history. Don’t hide your bigotry behind history. You add dragons, all credibility is gone. You’re just a lazy fucking CREEP WEIRDO.

As is my own little tradition, here is a POME for the new year from one of my faves.

Yes this is a real bird. Because Australia. Anyway: *ahem*: May the Pink Robin of Surprise & Delight occasionally warble upon our railings in 2026.

Veritasium is a great channel, and this video in particular is excellent.

I kerp seeing all these WELCOME 2026! stickers with sparkly fireworks and gold things and balloons. Slow your roll, people. We don’t know 2026. We only just met her. Dud 2020-2025 (those bitches) teach us all NOTHING?

Wrong bird, wrong year, wrong country.

There exists in the law a concept called "disparate impact." It's one of the most important aspects of the kind of law I practice, and it's been under attack by the right for decades. This is a gross oversimplification, but disparate impact is something like this:

New: The House Judiciary Committee just released (on New Year’s Eve) the transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony. As I start to read the 250 page report, this Q+A in the image below jumps out: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

today is for the ladies to have fun. its new years eve not new year's steve

So APPARENTLY if, while watching the Notre Dame Yay We’re Open Again Concert, you say something like “amazing how in the 2020s billionaires still think they can buy their way into heaven”, that is definitely not the vibe.

Diabolical but yes.

This day in history. 1929. Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians first played "Auld Lang Syne" which I think translates as "We're not wearing pants."