Just leaving this here

"an inconvenient year" is the perfect phrase for this phenomena, and a great title for a book about it honestly.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... Was the kangaroo alright?

This submission by David Brophy is hilarious and demonstrates how poorly drafted the hate speech bill is

“I’ll see you in helvetica!” - damning with font praise

At the psychiatrist I think I'm Donald Trump.

Sorry not sorry… www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

"Josh Frydenberg said he opposed Bell’s appointment, without specifying reasons." What a grub.

Christmas is lovely but, like sex or massages, it is even better when it stops. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

if you own a house and you buy an electric heat pump water heater they subsidise it by a big dollar mount, it takes half an hour to apply, most of which is trying to save a pdf via mygov, and it’s approved instantaneously. Wild how middle class welfare has a crazy low administrative burden

reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight

managing collapse aeon.co/essays/the-g...

@greenj.bsky.social what are you doing back in your old seat at Radio National? Didn’t you retire?

Scream it from the rooftops: Iran offered to return to the Obama nuclear deal that verifiably prevents Iran from even coming close to nukes. Trump & Netanyahu refuse to. They are LYING to you when they say this is about Iran’s nuclear program. It’s about making Iran submit to Israeli dominance.

Congratulations to @ABCReligion and Ethics Report for doing the job vacated by the ABC Health Report when it comes to reporting on the lack of medical evidence for treating gender dysphoria with lifelong drugs n surgeries. 👏👏👏 www.abc.net.au/religion/cat...

Eat your heart out, Martin Crieff #cabinpressure

Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin

Just sitting with this petty little act of cruelty for a bit to really add some depth and definition to the day's crossness

Now on @lnlonrn, @latingle and Nicki Savva with the filters off describing the election results and its consequences.

Good piece insidestory.org.au/are-the-libe...

Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare

We just got the trifecta.

If it were held in two weeks, when the empty ships show up in the empty shops in the US, the results would be worse. But most of this the Libs did to themselves by not responding to the last election results. They went in the opposite direction. There’s only idiots left. #ausvotes #binnight

“Walloping”

“A thumping” #ausvotes

This is a great line: “Beckham always looks as if he’s wearing the thing that originally cost a million quid, then got 70% knocked off it because no one else would be seen dead in it.”

Independent candidate Alex Dyson is leading senior Liberal incumbent Dan Tehan in the Victorian seat of Wannon A new poll from YouGov – which looked at 12 regional seats between 17-24 April (6% MoE) – shows Dyson with 57% of the two-candidate-preferred vote to Tehan’s 43%

…because no good arguments for transubstantiation by means of lip gloss existed.

Now playing: Steve'n'Seagulls, “Born To Be Wild” www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wq...

Happy Friday.

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

This is a thread of my favourite ever literal translations, starting with this one… In Greek, the word for a protest, εύπιστος, translates literally to “anger parade”

Jesus Christ. When was the last time you heard anyone say something like this?

Blimey, the Mail. Morning.

Exciting job news! Following the resignation of the previous post-holder, after a long tenure, there is now a rare vacancy for the post of LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. Please send one page covering letter and CV to anyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law.

This is a global loss. Across the world, BBC drama is accessible on radio and anywhere there is an internet connection. Britain is throwing away its reach. #BBC Radio Drama. ⁦‪@BBCRadio4 ⁦‪@BBCRadio3‬⁩

Australia, this is your regular reminder to check your electoral enrollment is up-to-date. There's only seven days to change it once writs are issued for the election. You can check here: check.aec.gov.au And update here: www.aec.gov.au/enrol/update... Tell your friends!

Reupping this because it is so good. I cannot remember whose post led me to it - apologies for not crediting you, whoever you are. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

#MangoMussolini meets #DickTater

This clip is illegal in Victoria now youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg...

People have been taught that being working class is something one strives to get out of. If being working class were seen as a source of strength, solidarity and decency corporations, billionaires and fascists would lose their power.

What an indictment of the Left’s misogyny, that Trump was able to execute an order stating the bloody obvious like this.

“I have always paid my nanny via PAYE, and have never attempted to have sex with her. I recommend it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This excellent piece @overlandjournal.bsky.social piece by Emmy Rakete discusses exactly the sort of exploitation I was talking about below. overland.org.au/2025/01/neil...

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Because the last match was so good, watching India flounder is all the more enjoyable. #cricket #AUSVIND