Waking up to Vaughan Williams - what a way to start the day #abcclassic100

Hansel’s Messiah #5 Truly wonderful work. I’ve heard it so often I’m tempted to sing along. But I won’t …today. 😎 Promise. 😅. I did one Christmas season in a stately uptown cathedral when I lived in NYC. Quite an experience to be swimming in that sea of voices. #abcclassic100

Top 10 countdown ramps it up.

@rhysam.bsky.social Half-time: WTF! And, there are two Waverley OBs out there!

#crosswordsinthepub on our regular Friday gig ft. @dontattempt.bsky.social Good, clean fun, mate. Thank you. 18a might garner some letters to the editor… 😂 **SPOILERS**

Possible mocktails: Tequila shammer Bucks Fizzer Blank Russian Krusty Nail Kmartini Nojito Mai Try Faiquiri Pseudcar Robbed Roy Moscow Mute Hardly Wallbanger

@dontattempt.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social

Opinion | “ANU staff and students are fighting to retake our autonomy from a self-serving executive class that has controlled us for decades. And we’ve never been so close to winning." www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/28/a...

So, Lachie, literally, the rocket surgeon from USyd, ‘waltzed in to the party, like he was walking onto a yacht’. One look: MARIMBA; followed by ‘You flaccid reproductive organed ones’. He won’t make it out alive.

#crosswordsinthepub on a Friday in Fern Rouge - despite entertaining a coterie of kibitzers - still a couple short. Much hilarity ensued. Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social

@lrlr.bsky.social @silentknightsk.bsky.social @dontattempt.bsky.social @merriam-webster.com

Imagine if Iran had returned Australians to us, tortured and sexually assaulted - there would have been international outrage. But it was the state of Israel that did it ..so the media caravan moves on. The latest”Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ Apple & Spotify🍎 Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol

Excuse me, crazy lady. Is there a drought or something? Chop chop.

A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten on camera by their captors - Israel Jillian Segal, the most prominent Israel advocate in Australia, has so far said *nothing* about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens, nor condemned Israel's brutal actions .

Brereton is gorn from the NACC. A few people here played a role in letting us know of NACC shenanigans. Social media plays a role when our media fails. @jommytee.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social #AusPol

If you're wondering how the recently resigned #NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, spent his time in his $800,000 p.a job, at least some of it was dedicated to writing to the Inspector General about some individual called, Ronni Salt's, twitter activities. Seriously - I kid you not #auspol

Just fricking unbelievable that a man in his position, presiding over a $110million a year national organisation and overseeing more than 600 staff, is sitting in his office dobbing in some twitter posts like a kid in the schoolyard who saw Jason nick the lunch-orders

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

"We finally found someone who can stand near Angus Taylor and make him look somewhat impressive." chaser.com.au/national/lib...

Poor Mr Brereton really didn’t appreciate what @ronnisalt.bsky.social did at all. Imagine the audacity of telling common Australians that there was a complaint mechanism they could utilise regarding the NACC

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

I love this…. #BlueSky

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

‘Where’s Tommy?’ David Stickley, Age/SMH compiler on Wednesdays, hides ‘Tommy’ in all his Omegas. (Homage to his favourite muso, Tommy Emmanuel). Always fun tracking him down…! @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social @lrlr.bsky.social @dontattempt.bsky.social @silentknightsk.bsky.social

#crosswordsinthepub on a Friday, tackling DA of the Age/SMH @dontattempt.bsky.social Barely a pass-mark - one hour, several short. Either not enough, or too much, thinking juice… **SPOILERS**

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

Trump Unwittingly Breaks Chinese Taboo Against Napping Facedown In Soup Bowl

Always love the irony that it's always these people who are the ones demanding a discriminatory immigration policy based on the theory that "there's no way to tell which is the good one" (actual Pauline Hanson quote, about Muslims).

There were recent changes to legislation covering Air BnB’s in Tasmania recently. There’s an extra 9000 properties available for rent now.

I've just been stopped by a copper. He gave me the verdigris.

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

I have to say, they really do go well with the second floor.

Some lowlife stole my thesaurus. I feel sad. Really sad. Sad all over

I've got two pianos, four grand pianos, and eight great grand pianos.

From radio listeners: that pang you feel on seeing the far better meal another diner has ordered: dishappointment ordermourn plage (plate-rage) cravicide menvy dishmay bitespite gastrogore

Stagflation

Donald Trump received some honest feedback via a fortune cookie yesterday, at a special banquet held in his honour in China. Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/05/15/trump-opens-brutally-honest-fortune-cookie-at-chinese-state-banquet/

#crosswordsinthepub with DA from the SMH/Age @dontattempt.bsky.social One hour, neat - need to be on the tools, today - four short, four ? I’ll need to visit the outstanding DA Blog by @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social for parsing & missing. **SPOILERS**

#PGA ⛳️

Don't let the door (of your office overlooking Perth's Swan River, famously near Canberra) hit you on the way out

#crosswordsintgepub Friday edition by @dontattempt.bsky.social in the SMH/Age, coming to you from the outstanding Glengarry Castle. One hour commitment, several short. I’ll need to visit the excellent DA blog by @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social to see where I went phut. **SPOILERS**

@zinzan-xwd.bsky.social @silentknightsk.bsky.social @lrlr.bsky.social @dontattempt.bsky.social

More proof that Trump is a fucking imbecile.

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#crosswordsinthepub Coming to you from Australia’s third oldest white settlement, and oldest watering-hole on the mainland. Hour, twenty - several short, @dontattempt.bsky.social **SPOILERS**

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Great Uncle Jacky. Killed in Darwin, 1942, aged 21. Lest We Forget.