Getting to the point in the ~holiday season~ where my body starts crying out for vegetables and I have to calmly smother it, like going down to the basement to beat up the hostages who are tied up down there.

This key principle of Liam Hogan Thought is simple and obvious enough for even the most simple dotard to appreciate

🇩🇰 🇺🇸 🇬🇱 Denmark says it will summon the US ambassador after President Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland who immediately vowed to make the Danish autonomous territory "a part of the US". ➡️ u.afp.com/S8ph

Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.

A Russian general was reportedly killed early today when a bomb detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/1...

Narrator: His critics can't be satisfied. The criticism is the ends, not the means, where ghouls compete to see who can climb atop a pile of dead bodies to shout the loudest.

What kind of insane world are we creating here?

Dear writer: No, Mary Shelley was not influenced by Charles Darwin while writing Frankenstein. Charles was born in 1809. She started writing it during the House Party From Hell in 1816, and published in 1818, when he was 9. Please ensure your editor fixes this laughable error you all made.

Is YOUR city the kind that encourages this kind of energy, whether it’s art, or just surprising, unexpected fun? I think every city should — it’s what I call a #CityOfSmiles (click on the hashtag to see other examples from around the world, and share your own!)

What do we want? - "Social cohesion!" When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!" That one might need a bit more work.

Giant kelp restoration increases primary production far beyond Ecklonia reefs. New modelling using Tasmanian field data shows ~40× higher production, increasing energy flow to abalone, reef fish and lobsters. Paper: Predicting the Impact of Giant Kelp Restoration on Food Webs & Fisheries Production.

Your tax dollars at work.

Recalling the pump action shotgun loophole controversy? Probably, like me, you thought it had been rationally resolved? No. Same loophole was used to obtain two of the guns used at Bondi -- rapid-fire Stoeger Straight Pull M3000 M3K shotguns, imported from Türkiye: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WSf....

Previous ABC reporting had 1.4 per cent of all of Bhutan getting Australian visas in a single year. It's a staggering transfer of community

This is going to be 'fun'.

yeah I think influencer culture *inherently* is just poisonous, even more so than the regular cult of celebrity was because it's so purely self-centered and pervasive.

I love how ancient metal artifacts sometimes mirror in their designs the functional patterns of the organic materials used in pottery or woven pieces more common in their day.

What could be more Christmas-y than a tube worm? Meet Spirobranchus giganteus, the Christmas Tree Worm. It burrows into corals in tropical waters, adding to the protection offered by its calcareous tube. The "Christmas trees" are mouth structures serving both feeding and respiration.

The only examples of the inevitable return of colonial violence to the metropole I truly appreciate are Ashes tests

Happy Gravy Day #gravyday

Looks like Ming Revanchism is back on the menu, boys!!

Winter/summer #Solstice in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres 🌎 🌏 🌍 Artworks by Sarah Evans, Dawn Stacey Wawiriya Burton and Beatriz Milhazes #WomensArt

These naked little flesh sack gang gangs are so great lol

And I say that as someone who often struggles with self-doubt and despair, frustration and the old "beat head against wall until something gives way." But still, when it goes, there is nothing better than the feeling of that intangible interaction between creation, mind, spirit, and skill.

Feel sorry for the English? Thank you for the suggestion but I must decline - unless you're offering a flavour of schadenfreude

Guns, violence and hate-speech.

Updated Storm Warning #MelbWeather They are forecast to affect Craigieburn, Geelong City, Melton, St Albans, Sunbury, Werribee and Footscray by 2:20 pm and Dandenong, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Greensborough, Melbourne City, Preston, Rosebud, Caulfield and Ringwood by 2:50 pm.

A male and female Hooded Parrot 'Psephotellus dissimilis' seen yesterday in Pine Creek. This is a species found in Australia's northern savannah and open woodland and is one of two extant species in its genus that nest in termite mounds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildoz

'The village used to be on a hill north of this place,' says Kakabai Baimedov of the Turkmen village of Bokurdak, which has in recent years been forced to move by encroaching desert sands. Scientists warn that climate change and other human activities are speeding Central Asia's desertification 🇹🇲

Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver

The haunting call of the Bush Stone-curlew. During the night when it is most often heard, it seems even more eerie... (Burhinus grallarius) Kingscliff, New South Wales #birds #birdwatching #birding #ausgeo #birdphotography #australianbirds #Curlew #WildOz

SCANLON: For many young people, “education has become a liability. .. Early career roles have eroded.” Homeownership “hasn’t budged.” “.. prediction markets, sports betting and cryptocurrency start to look like some of the only levers they have left.” @kyla.bsky.social www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

A great morning for reading British cricket columnists.

Same as what is happening in our mountain forests: climate change influenced fire seasons, drought stress, damage to water stressed trees by beetles. These 'are not local anomalies, but symptoms of a broader ecological shift.'

Did a guy with a black square for a face write this

🚨THE ATOMIC ENSEMBLE TIME SCALE AT THE NIST BOULDER CAMPUS HAS FAILED🚨 THE HYDROGEN MASER CLOCKS ARE APPROACHING THEIR BACKUP LIMIT! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (now w/alt text) Trump take standards.

Bigotry and false confidence in their own intelligence, the staples of the Greco-Roman statue profile picture on the internet.

No matter how much America might think the rest of the world is pointing and laughing at them, I can guarantee it's more.

Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Ukraine says it hit Russian oil rig, patrol ship in Caspian Sea reut.rs/4pGTo9o

There's a contemporary alternative to the reverse ferret where the press suddenly realises they're way out of sync with the public, but instead of pivoting they start arguing with the public

The sun and the rain bring the miracle 🌈

Dangerous time to be a 5th Day of an Ashes Test.

The English cricket team spent this morning visiting the Adelaide Children's Hospital. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with absolutely no hope" said Timmy aged 7 #Ashes #AusVsEng

Note to self to resist the (totally non existent) urge to listen to Scott Stephens and Waleed Aly on The Minefield any time soon

I’m totally convinced that the US collectively failed a cognitive test at least twice

So many reasons to pity Americans but surely at the top has to be their incestous refusal to embrace the world of cricket

A slap in the face and a good stern talking to is what it needs