The problem for Pauline Hanson is not being interrupted by a descending banner, it’s that the message on the banner is factually correct. #auspol #npc

It's important for us to recognize that if we lived in a just society, Donald Trump would be in prison right now.

I am following a lot of horror writers. I'm not a fan of horror stories. I don't read horror. I don't know how this happened I'm happy to follow them, but where are they leading me? (cue ominous music...)

I'm not understanding this story. The stores are closing so staff can receive sensitivity training because management stuffed up an advertising campaign so badly it led to riots in the stores. I'm pretty sure it's not the staff that need sensitivity training www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The Greens have referred KPMG to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for suspected corruption breaches, in the wake of recent multiple scandals, including allegations of misusing confidential client information to get more audit work & mistreating a whistleblower.

I'll always share a good bird

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

Even if I'd guessed that The Reflecting Pool would be a metaphor for his entire presidency, I didn't expect it to be this obvious so quickly.

Nothing to add.

I've just finished reading a book I really enjoyed, except in a "first person" chapter a character mentions timeline information for a character she hasn't met yet. I read that page days ago, and it's basically the first thing I think of when I think about the book.

Why would files showing total exoneration need secret meetings and trump relying on friends to "solve" the epstein-trump pedo crisis? C'mon maga why would that be?

Probably AI. Treat it as a cartoon. #GreatLeader

Sometimes you must open the door.

I genuinely hope nothing happens to Trump at today's game in New York, because I've just blocked one team's name from my feed and I might never get the news.

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

Project Invisibility. Racism, but quietly, hoping we don't notice. Crisafulli needs to explain. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

1. No they won't 2. Obviously a grift to siphon money from the US Government 3. Alaskans are gonna hate this 4. WTF is the point of a Golden Dome if there's a tunnel below it 5. The Golden Dome probably won't get built either 6. The Golden Done is also a grift to siphon money from the US Government.

Bizarre news even for this unbelievable administration. A tunnel from Siberia to Alaska. I can't fathom the need for that. I don't know at all about trade between the USA and Russia, if there's sufficient potential trade to justify this expense.

A motorcyclist who was trapped under a car was rescued when bystanders lifted the car off him. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Reposting with alt text. And yes, I will donate.

Ooh, look. It's at my library. Now I've placed a hold request.

Giving minimum wage earners (about 100,000 people) a 6% wage increase to match inflation, and the 3m or so workers who have awards tied to it a 4.75% is not going to cause a wage price spiral. It means they can buy what they are already buying. Like bread AND milk and maybe some biscuits and fuel

When national rents have risen 2.5x faster than wages over the past 5yrs, households fall further behind through no fault of their own. Australians are fed up with big banks & billionaires profiting from a housing crisis while wages aren’t keeping up & workers are going backwards

After half a century of episodic TV in the US for primetime tv, this century has seen the rise of long form, serialized TV. But heaven forbid an episode be a self-contained story that sheds light on characterization. Instead folk complain it's "filler". It didn't advance the overarching plot.

An excellent point. I'm still in favor of burying him under the dance floor in his ballroom, but we can certainly do both.

This is the third day that this bird, a noisy miner, has woken me up like this.

Very clever.

It's been so long since I've been in George Street, I hadn't known that the Dendy has been switched out for a Hillsong. Changes aren't for the better. #Brisbane

Yo, Vegans. I could get behind this.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

In Australia, candidates can raise money, but after the election, if they received 4% or more of the vote, they also receive government money, currently about $2.90 per vote, to compensate for costs. One politician was jailed for fraud over this (then acquitted on a technicality)

la MAGA nostra

As a reader, I enjoy being guided to the understanding that the character has a different world view than expected. Sometimes it takes a hundred pages to understand that they're not even the same species as me. (Fantasy, usually) And by that stage, I'm invested. Yeah, don't dumb it down for us.

Is "better than the cafe across the road" an acceptable google review? Because it is. I live within 10 minutes walk of a dozen cafes, but the best ones are at that 10 minute limit. The two for casual coffee are 2 minutes walk. One has overboiled the coffee every time I've gone. The other hasn't.

Could be worse. The family solicitor who'd done our wills and EPOA and conveyancing has just proudly announced herself as the president of the local One Nation branch. I'm looking for another solicitor.

Block trolls, don't engage. Complete agreement from me.

Look who followed me!* Guess who got blocked without a second thought. * Answer: some anonymous dickhead who thinks I'm stupid.

I don’t know how many rooftops I have to shout from to get this through to everyone. What’s happening to America is going to happen here. No one thinks it will. But we are America light and I watch American politics for this very reason.

"Robbing Peter to Pay Paul" What rubbish. As a small "peter" in this conversation, I have firsthand knowledge that the Peters have been subsidised by the struggling Pauls for decades. I'm a landlord who fully supports the proposed changes. (Negative gearing is useful, but not "the point")

Does anyone remember Turkmanbashi? Looking forward to January getting renamed Trump.

Some ISIS brides have returned to Australia and have been arrested and charged with serious terrorism & human rights offences. The LNP are saying this should not have been allowed. Why do the LNP think these women should have been permitted to live out their lives overseas and never face justice?

What a fine girl.

Thinking of the Ruben Bolling cartoon where the rich guy is being taxed so he comes up with investments to minimize it, so that gets taxed, so he offshores it, so that gets taxed, so he makes up dummy companies, which get taxed, before finally complaining that the tax system is 'too complicated'.

Ok Bluesky hive mind - please tell me what this figure represents. On the ceiling of one of the galleries in the Doria Pamphilij in Rome c C18th. At first glance I thought it was a musical instrument. Maybe architecture?

Slightly diminish a book. To Scorn a Mockingbird

Almost all. This is a sports-free repost.