So thrilled and honoured to be chatting to these brilliant authors @gleebooks.bsky.social next week, thanks to @copyright.com.au and Perpetual! Hope to see you there! #booksky #auslit #MFLA #MilesFranklin

Is it really so hard to give a little wave after I let you in? I'll be chatting to @Brigitte Duclos on ABC Melbourne at 12:30pm today about my petty road gripes in @australia.theguardian.com. Call on 1300 222 774 & share your road rage! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Who else is watching #Conclave tonight? Boss move by Pope Francis to not only die after rebuking #MascaraMan JD Vance but on Easter. Still, a more interesting election than #auspol, that’s for sure. #AustraliaVotes25 #VaticanVotes25

did jd vance kill the pope?

In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami

I came out as unemployed today. Luckily I didn’t have to “survive” on #Jobseeker or bear the pointless cruelties of “mutual obligation” but it was still hard. We talk about mental illness. So why is it still so hard to talk about being unemployed? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I fully endorse this. I gorge on Shepards March to May. Hasses are terrible. Always rot fast, mushy, bitter. Sheps are sweet, creamy, last forever. Love them. I’ll die on this green hill. I shall never want. www.smh.com.au/culture/come...

Funny and sad to think any of these ragers still alive are in their 70s and 80s. And they look like they’re having the kind of times you had when you didn’t have to worry about “virality” #goodtimes #studio54 #yolo

When @ginachick.bsky.social discovered her grandmother's identity, she went in search of her. She'll be talking to her mum Suzanne in a special event @gleebooks.bsky.social this Friday about their Search for Charmian. Selling fast! gleebooks.com.au/event/suzann... @simonandschuster.bsky.social

I’ve been reading Walton Goggins’ Indian travel blog. It’s a magic carpet ride. With lotuses. Some white. hindutoyoutoo.blogspot.com/2009/03/peop...

I'm #TeamOctopus. 🐙 Octopus latches onto a snorkeller, sprays blinding ink in his face and tries to choke him after after he pokes at its home.

Never thought I’d say “thank you Indian police” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

I've had a busy past few weeks chatting to some fabulously intelligent & entertaining people - none more so than sunilbadami.bsky.social the events manager+podcast host at @gleebooks.bsky.social Sunil is a human encyclopedia & so warm & funny Please enjoy our chat👇🏽 soundcloud.com/gleetalksbyg...

We’ve hosted some of the world’s best authors over the years, and now, we’d like to share some of them with you in our new podcast #Gleetalks! Check out our first yarn with the inimitable @ronnisalt.bsky.social 🧂about her ripper new novel #Gunnewah hot off the presses! gleebooks.com.au/gleetalks/

It still astonishes me that more people in politics and our media pretend to be concerned about kids having missed school than kids having been killed or sickened by Covid.

Australia is leading the way by banning access to the covid vaccine for kids under 18. Only exception is if they have risk factors/severely immunocompromised - and in that case, good luck finding it because almost everywhere stopped stocking kids’ doses years ago due to lack of eligibility.

I never cared for Bros when they were famous but this interview is wild. The last three quotes alone worth the price of admission. Like Spinal Tap swallowed too much Crème Brûlée. Surely subs must have considered the headline “When he was, he was once famous.” 🎶 www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...

The coffee Doritos were not as bad as they sound. And they actually tasted like coffee with one sugar! Not sure if they woke me up, though, and I can’t work out what they’d go with other than chocolate flavoured Doritos.

What happened when a Canadian city stopped evicting homeless camps

Love this.

I first met the irrepressible Eileen Kramer in 2014, just after she'd returned to Australia after 60 years dancing across the globe. She hadn't yet turned 100, and I hadn't yet started broadcasting my show Sunday Takeaway on ABC Radio.

The gap between the promise of the planning application … & the dismal disappointment of delivery (view in same position) Aust we have huge problems on the design, construction, environmental performance & cost of our housing. Beyond planning, just not building well or enough

Jake Paul fight RFK Jr. next

🚨NACC has "systemic issues" far beyond Robodebt, Inspector finds. A NACC official was offered a bribe - but boss Brereton took no action, claiming it was doubtful briber "knew the NACC officer's position". NACC actions "inadequate and flawed". Explosive👇 theklaxon.com.au/v662

Tyson was never going to knock out Jake Paul. He was never meant to. Netflix paid too much money. They’ll want another and another fight because they know the Pauls pill incels and crypto bros. Next up, Mayweather to throw it for $50 mill. #tysonpaul #itwasanetfix

Ah, Bluesky, the place where refugees are welcomed, not sent back from where they came 😏

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: Sex shop retail assistant Pub manager Financial planner Telemarketer Admin assistant/receptionist Clown Waiter Short order cook Journalist Radio presenter & producer TV presenter & producer Copywriter Academic & researcher

“Surround yourself with people that will fight for you in rooms you aren’t in” Always. For my friends and family. Occasionally I am still surprised.

PLUG: My friends* at Meanjin have released a new book, “Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today” www.mup.com.au/books/essays... Second image is the list of essays, also in a text file at drive.google.com/file/d/1K6Jf... * Well, clients.

Meanjin is also having a subscriber drive this week, with a bunch of specials and prizes and stuff. meanjin.com.au/latest/meanj...

My pet hate. People not leashing their dogs on busy streets. Seriously. An accident waiting to happen. No matter how great a dog handler you think you are or how well trained your dog may be, it only takes a second. #leashyourdog

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

I never wanted to live in interesting times.

If you see this, post a concert pic you took

Welcome to everyone new to Bluesky! Here's a short (illustrated) primer that explains how Feeds work and offers a few steps you can take to get the content you want, when you want it, on your terms. There are sports feeds, Gift Link feeds, community feeds, and more! A 🧵

Today’s Hobart Mercury cartoon

Companies trying to roll back work from home policy

I hate how streaming has changed most of TV into a thing where you find something you like and it either gets canceled after two seasons or it takes so long for them to do new episodes that you forget it was on in the first place

APTAGRAMS evil - vile notes - tones brush - shrub actors - costar canoe - ocean silent - listen trifling - flirting admirer - married entirety - eternity angered - enraged stressed - desserts discounted - deductions prenatal - parental - paternal

it's been (only) two years since i drew this

so far the only explanation i've seen that doesn't smack of "if only she'd listen to me she would have won" is "global discontent with incumbents because of inflation and post-pandemic malaise + toxic information environments"

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My kids 15: hows that going to work? You never tell them how old you are i am 21 on every site 12: i am 32

I have second-guessed so many of my own US politics-themed cartoon ideas as “too melodramatic” or “too partisan” and now I realise that I have not been anywhere near exaggerating the seriousness of it. Gaslighted by the normalising “cost of living” talk, as if that’s a fair price for a dictator.

X has a disproportionate influence over the stories the media covers and our political debate

By supporting Trump - Murdoch wants American women to lose their reproductive rights. They’ll do the same here in Australia. Never forget #auspol